like fox business that you demand it and you get it. the supreme court hearing arguments today the battle over forgiving students loan debt. the president says he has the authority to approve it. six republican-led states are moving to block it saying the costs will be passed to taxpayers. we have you covered with fox team coverage. shannon bream has more on where this stands legally and lydia hu on the potential impact from this financially. welcome. i m neil cavuto. this last trading day of february. more on that in a second. it was mixed. but right now, to the supreme court and shannon bream where it was loud. shannon? it was, neil. it was very busy. two hours turned into four hours for these arguments. two really big hurdles here. first is the issue of standing. you have the two sets of plaintiffs. you mentioned the states. there s some individual borrowers that say they will be negatively impacted if the plans plan goes through. so there s the first question of whether
and maybe affects potential donors? on the donor front, it important. donors have to decide who they will give to and how much. in terms of the general sort of i don t want to use a sort of bumper car analogy, but let s use a stock car analogy. at the end of the day, there s a couple of candidates that pull away from the pack and will be out front. those can be pretty assured that donald trump is going to be in at least the front of the pack. now how long, whether or not he stays there the entire team is an open question. it seems as though must republicans feel, republicans on the donor side and the candidates and strategists as well would rather have a one-on-one matchup with trump towards the home stretch as opposed to being in a four or five-car final pack. we know donald trump has a pretty high level of support within the republican party. the question is, what is the space between his floor and his ceiling. and that s really the question.
on the donor front, we ve received $80,000 from small donors. we will have at the end of the year over 16,000 small donors who gave $5 to $99 and that s a very important thing for us. 240% increase on our website in the last week. i think there s a hunger, brian, for deep, fearless journalism. what kind of journalism can we empower in this trump presidency age? some of the things we re thinking about doing and we have already started reporting to hate crimes in the alt-right because this is clearly something that people need to better understand and i think a better term than alt-right is white supremacy. we need to call it what it is. but that s important. trade is going to be a much more