ROMNEY — Right now, there are three Ukrainian families living in the Mountain State, seeking refuge from the destruction in their home country overseas.
mississippi. i can t wait. if you need a key grip or anything, as you head out there, i m available. carlton mccoy, thank you. catch nomad sunday at 10:00 p.m. and pacific only on cnn. president biden is warming up to a demand from many on the left to forgive student loan debt. biden says it will not be $50,000 for each borrower, as someone in his party are pressuring him to do, senator mitt romney trolling the white house for even considering debt forgiveness here, he tweeted this. desperate polls call for desperate measures. dems consider giving trillions in student loans, other bribe suggestions, forgive auto loans, credit card debt and mortgages and putting wealth tax on the super rich to pay for it all, what could possibly go wrong? joining us is cnn chief international correspondent john king. what do you think about this battle? it is very telling actually. first, a couple of points. what senator romney first came to washington, he tried to keep a low profile, wanted to
american people to pay for billions and billions more for ukraine. it is an issue and senator romney is trying to lay a marker down, old school republican democrats want to spend money. they believe it helps with their base, but they also think on the student loan thing, blanket forgiving them when president biden is not ready to go, but the republicans think it helps in the suburbs where people think gas is costing me a lot of money, groceries is costing me a lot of money, be careful, don t start throwing money around. you talked about what president biden may or may not do here. he said he won t do the $50,000 forgiveness that some progressives want. does he have to give them something? yes. but the question is what. and, john, this is a trademark example of how democrats behave differently than republicans and they always have. i ve been doing this for 40 years now. the democrats fight it out publicly. republicans try to settle most policy disputes. without that, they try to set
republican presidential nominee, an he didn t want to everyday be the republican who comes out and says, yes, i think donald trump is crazy. now that trump is gone, for now, romney is beginning to assert himself now as a national player in the senate and in republican politics. number two, words don t fall from the sky. things happen for a reason. why is i call him governor romney, senator romney, why is senator romney think this is a big issue? the deficit, government spending is a big concern to voters and the politicians are seeing it in the data. i say words don t fall from the sky. at the white house yesterday, president biden said it would be nice if the republicans would help us lower the deficit. nancy pelosi, san francisco liberal, press conference on capitol hill yesterday, said democrats with the rest of this legislative year want to do a number of things including reducing gas prices and lowering the deficit. why are the politicians talking about debt and big spending? cl
mitt romney becomes senator romney and there s new indications that might be a nightmare for trump. romney released an op-ed calling president trump thoughtless, saying he lacked honesty and integrity. causes dismay around the world and stokes the politics of anger and fear. he goes on to say trump is not risen to the mantle of the office. the romney trump relationship has been complex. you may recall that romney first came out against trump during 2016 saying he was a fraud and phony. after trump won they dined together over frog legs and talked about cabinet jobs. here was romney s response today. after he elected president, it was very much my hope that he