reporter: there s certainly more people out here today than we ve seen in days past, especially because today we know exactly what we will get decisions on because it s the last day. you mentioned those two big cases, of course at the end of pride month. that case that has to do with whether or not a web designer can refuse to design a wedding website for a gay couple. we could see some reaction to that. the biggest one we re watching for is on student loans, whether or not biden s student loan forgiveness program will stand. the biden administration was using a congressional act started after 9/11 in 2003. it was continued through the pandemic, even invoke bid betsy devoss under the trump administration. can student loans be forgiven in their entirety forever? this would affect about 43,000 people, sorry, we re starting to get some decisions just in now. so i m going to go listen for what those are, and i said 43,000, that s 43 million people, and i ll be back to you when
the archives. there is more that we like. we would like to have. that s january 6 committee member giving an update on the panel subpoena. we ll go why after more than a week trump has not been served and what could be next. also ahead, the new evidence that russia is getting help with drone attacks that are taking out critical infrastructure and ukraine. plus, president biden makes a stop in a battleground state and responds to questions about his support of candidates ahead of the mid terms. good morning. welcome to way too early on this friday. i m jonathan lamire. we re following new developments in the timing of the house select committee subpoena to former president donald trump. last week the panel voted unanimously to sp trump for documents and testimony relating to the january 6th attack. while the subpoena was initially expected earlier this week, the time line has slid. according to politico, trump hired a law firm that will engage with the house select com
The Biden Administration is scrambling to find a new way to provide relief to the nearly 43 million people who borrowed $430 billion in student loans. Our Education Team breaks down the.
Loans. reporter: the question now is that when folks have to start repaying their loans in october, will they blame the president, or will they blame the court who has now struck down the president s forgiveness program, ana. shaq brewster in chicago for us, thank you for that sampling of reaction from people who were hoping to have their loans forgiven. we re getting some of the quotes now from justice roberts opinion, the chief justice writing this one and saying, quote, comprehensive debt cancellation plan is not a waiver because it augments and expands existing provisions. it is not a modification because it constitutes effectively the introduction of a whole new regime. when the secretary seeks to add to existing law, the fact that he has waived certain provisions does not give him a free pass to avoid the limits inherent in the power to modify. let s go to our white house correspondent monica alba now. what s the reaction from the biden administration and the president himse
good to see you. lots of attention that the president s loan forgiveness plan is going to cost over the next deck weighed. not as of the cost for plan ba committee for responsible federal budget tuesday. they write the pause cost over 5 billion and extending 20 billion. the total cost since bring of 2020 to 257 billion. this represents about 70% of the cost of the president announced debt cancellation plan, brit, it turns out the temporary pause that s now in place not a whole lot cheaper. brit: this pause is simply a pause in the payments that were scheduled and paused now for going on, what, three years. so it seems to me pretty clear that the president is, a, concerned this the end in the legal the fight that he will not