we have five months until election day. now every poll that comes out we know it s me particular alsoly dissected as we all try to analyze where the momentum is. this time around we have seen trump looking strong in poll after poll. but, a few recent surveys including one from us here at fox, shows the race tighter and it triggered some wishful thinking syndrome in some corridors. big shift among independent voters could signal some new momentum for president biden. every poll suggests a tight race. this one shows a little momentum, perhaps. probably than biden has had in really months. it underscores that the biden campaign theory of the case here is which is that as people started to dial in they would find trump less and less appealing. laura: before they start making plans for the second biden inaugural, let s break this down and look at things in some context here. now, first, even with the latest polls, factored in, trump is still leading in the national rcp a
from prosecution based on their official acts in office. many legal scholars have speculated that one route the supreme court can take is they decide if there s some level of immunity, perhaps it doesn t apply to the conduct charged against donald trump in this election case brought by jack smith, and that could cause further delays in that case because it would require it to be tossed back to the judge to decide which of these things were presidential acts and which weren t. there s another case that could potentially involve the prosecution of donald trump, has to do with a charge of obstruction of an official proceeding that has been brought against many january 6th defendants, and it s also a part of that washington, d.c. election suppression, trump indictment, and the question whether that has been properly applied to the conduct at issue. and then as you said, there are many other very important decisions we re watching for including a potential gun rights case involvin
up tonight as the 2020 democratic hopefuls take the stage in their fourth debate showdown, and there s more dire headlines emerging from syria, the white house changes course on a situation that the president again-lit. is it too late? we ll dig into that in just a moment. right now a key player in the impeachment probe is being grilled by investigators behind closed doors on capitol hill. it s the latest in a parade of officials set to testify every day this week as part of the trump-ukraine impeachment probe. we ll leave that on the screen so you can see all the documents, all the depositions that are supposed to drop this week, all that coming on the heels of ten-hours of explosive testimony by the president s former top aide on europe and russia. here to help us keep track of all of it, make some sense of some of it, msnbc s garrett haake who is on capitol hill. hans nichols joins us live from
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student loan debt than ever before. the average debt loan at graduation, $30100. that s up from last year. that s not count students at for profit colleges. $300 a month. these students will pay out on average 300 bucks a month in debt payments for a decade. for ten years. for someone just starting out, that s a big bill. 68% of students will graduate with college debt. some college debt. those colleges are paying a lot more than that. as for private schools those cost families an average $26,400 a year. that s about half the median income a year. instate tuition, $14,120. that s about a quarter of median income. and two guests to the debate showdown. hillary clinton invites two