the first one is brought by a group of republican-led states. the other by individual borrowers who say they were unfairly excluded. bill: the two cases present a direct threat to one of the president s signature policies. the plan would wipe out more than $4 hundred billion in student debt and pay $10,000 to people making less than $125,000 a year and $20,000 to those who got pell grants for low income households. dana: the high stakes legal battle is dividing lawmakers right down the middle. those of us watching this closely are praying and hoping that they will do the right thing and say that the president cannot be the congress and the executive branch. he can t be the legislative and the executive branch. he has no authority to do what he is doing. our government is supposed to be about people. not making money out of us going to school or seeking higher education. dana: shannon bream is live outside the supreme court. good morning, shannon. there are speaker
day-to-day. all right, welcome to cross connection everyone. i am tiffany cross, and you just heard a little advice from former president barack obama. as president biden is hitting the campaign trail, trying to convince voters that the democratic party can t help. because trust me, they need more money. it does not mean more problems. people can definitely use if you are going to the bank. account inflation and the economy are at the top issues that fish voters care about. but listen, abortion rights, immigration, and protecting our democracy are all on the ballot to. so if you don t think you impact politics, believe, we politics definitely impacts. you get in that game and by all means. good morning, it. tiffany thank you for having. we every time you re on the show. we have so many things to talk, about not a lot of talk. time silica get off, you have seen a lot of the republican attack ads and i think there are some bad faith efforts out there to pin the economy on t
chinese scientists, in particular funded gain-of-function research, and they don t want that to stop and they don t want to admit they are wrong. if we were acting rationally we would prohibit all future funding for gain-of-function research and we wouldn t allow people to experiment with naturally occurring coronavirus to make them in a lab. we need accountability and how it happened to prevent a future pandemic. dana: thank you for being on the show. we ll be looking forward to a prime time hearing that you will have tonight. thank you. thank you. bill: more dramatic testimony in the alex murdaugh double murder trial may be winding down. defense has rested. we ll take you there in a moment. the head of the epa goes back to east palestine, ohio again. can he convince residents in that in community that they re safe after the toxic spill?
helium character balloons are going to take flight. there is very strict criteria whether or not these balloons can actually fly. here s what it comes down to the, jim, winds are not supposed to exceed over 23 miles per hour, tomorrow new york could see winds at a high of over 26. the wind gusts are not supposed to be over 34. we could see wind gusts as high as 40. but i have spoken to people from all over the world. as far as south africa who have come here to new york city to see the parade in person for the very first time, to see snoopy take his 40th flight, the longest running balloon, he s an astronaut this year. so people are still holding out ohio again, it will be a game day decision something i saw interesting, that 2 mile parade route, each balloon has an actual supervisor, jim, where they are wearing an earpiece, they are constantly being fed information about the weather, whether to lower the balloons, remufr them, it s incredibly
american energy. so, those just don t get attention in the news. but, we re very much promoting it. reporter: they don t get attention in the news because they are basically outnumbered. in june, independent studies said that the obama campaign, 75% of its ads were negative. so a three to one margin. for instance in the battle ground state of ohio, dayton, a i can particularly important state, city, for two weeks, in the latter part of june, all the ads that ran from the obama campaign in dayton were negative. jenna. jenna: interesting. the president is heading out to ohio again today. we talked aed a little bit about the calendar. labor day will be here before we know it, carl. what about the vice president pick? reporter: romney spent the weekend talking about vice-presidential elections with staff in new hampshire. he spent a couple weekends on it. there is buzz out there that he will make the buzz early. next two weeks before the olympics would seem highly unlikely. that would