inside politics i am john king in washington. high stakes at the high court, 40 million americans have 40 million dollars on the line. whether biden plans to erase student debt is constitutional. how fox put profit ahead of politics and fairness and tipping off trump campaign about joe biden s advertising buys. nine-way brawl where crime concerns could see locked out of an april runoff. supreme court hearing arguments in a case that impacts millions of americans. case involves present biden s student debt relief program. it is massive and wipe out 430 billion dollars in federal loans, estimated 40 million people qualify, forgives 10,000 for borrows that make less than 125,000 and up to 20,000 who get pel grants. today nine justices hearing two cases, one is a challenge from six republican-led state who is want to block biden s executive actions they say administration exceeded constitutional authority here. second case two individual borrowers suing because they are not eli
derailment in east palestine, ohio, that added chemicals. but now there s fear onsite, but also where the waste from all the chemicals, where that s headed. governor of indiana is pushing back against shipments of contaminated materials headed to his state. roseville, indiana is one of four designated facilities. and the only one in ohio. last week, they prompted the epa to look elsewhere. the mayor of east palestine gave this response a short time ago. i definitely think we re on a good path. there s definitely say lot of questions that still remain to be answered. as far as people from the other states, they knew the facilities were in their states. and i understand their concern, but at the same time, it s governed by the federal epa. so, therefore, you know, it should be safe for all of the citizens there. east palestine s mayor met with epa administrator michael regan who is on his third visit to the disaster zone. cnn s miguel marquez joins us from east palestine.
following all of this for us. thank you. top of a brand-new hour on cnn newsroom. good to have you. i m victor blackwell. i ll bianna golodryga. the supreme court just finished hearing oral arguments in two cases challenging president biden s student loan forgiveness plan. the decision could affect 40 million borrowers. the program, which would provide up to $20,000 of debt forgiveness has been on hold after a lower court blocked it back in november. conservatives challenging the program argue it will have widespread economic repercussions. the congressional budget office estimated it will cost $400 billion over time, but justice ketanji brown jackson argued one of the largest servicers of student loans, mohela in missouri, is not a government entity. in fact, isn t that really as you say the most important thing if economic injury is the point? yes. i understood that the injury that was being asserted here was an economic injury, but if we look at mohela and we
lot going on. we re glad you re with us. let s get started with the five things to know for this wednesday, april 5th 2023 donald trump defiant after pleading not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records during a speech last night, he vowed to fight the charges and railed against the prosecutors and the judge. i ll let that sink in. what you just said is a lot and look at that. so their celebration, at least in chicago , there s a new mayor in the windy city senior projects that progressive brandon johnson has won the runoff in chicago. he s going to join us live right here on cnn this morning, eight o clock hour 88 a. m eastern time a seat change for wisconsin cnn projects, liberals will now hold the majority on the state supreme court. that is a significant flip that could have major implications for abortion rights and future elections. also house speaker kevin mccarthy is set to meet with the president of taiwan in california. today it s a rare meeting on
after becoming a criminal defendant trump on loads going after the judge mexican rex restaurant, and as we re walking to that restaurant , i want to show you inside. but take a look at the view from above. when you look at the view from above, it s easy to notice. this is where the bulk of the destruction happened. the wind gusts peaked. at an estimated 115 mph if you look inside of this restaurant you can see insulation is on the table over to the left. there is a cooler. i can see where the pop bottles have shifted until there was a mirror or a picture hanging here . that picture is now on the ground. so me and my photo jake , he s gonna walk gingerly, make sure he is safe. we re going to sneak around to the gas station. we re told to employees were inside. they took cover before they were evacuated inside of the bathroom behind us, which you can see. the bathroom is still standing. but the wall that was once here gone broken glass. everything shattered. we ve seen crews