repercussions for the election this year and also for the future of american democracy. it is arguably the most important election case to reach the supreme court since bush v gore nearly a quarter century ago. the question before the court is pretty simple actually. does section 3 of the 14th amendment, which bars, quote, an officer of the united states who, quote, engaged in insurrection from holding public office actually apply to the man who incited the january 6th riot, who tried to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power for the first time since the civil war. the colorado state supreme court has already ruled that, yes, trump should be barred from the ballot in that state based on the insurrection that he clearly engaged in. quote, president trump is disqualified from holding the office of president under section 3 because he is disqualified it would be a wrongful act under the election code for the secretary to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot
good evening. welcome to cnn tonight. breaking news. in just the past few minutes, the house voted to pass the debt limit bill. this is a huge relief for president biden and speaker kevin mccarthy and you can argue, the global financial system. a vote could happen in the senate as soon as tomorrow. we ll take you live to capitol hill. plus, first on cnn, the justice department has an audio tape of donald trump at a meeting in the summer of 2021 acknowledging that he kept a classified pentagon document after he was out of office about a potential attack on iran. sources say he suggested he would like to share that info with a group of people at his golf club but he was aware that there were limits to his ability to declassify documents. that, of course, is the opposite of what he later claimed that he could just declassify anything by thinking about it. what does this development mean for the special counsel investigation? a lot more only in a moment. and neil de grassi is
course, and this is a picture of a guy, i m not saying the guy in the picture is himself cute, honestly, what would i, know not my area expertise. but i think just as a picture, regardless of the guy, i think as a picture this is kind of cute. just in terms of composition. in part because it s kind of got a swirl effects. like on the upper left side of the image, we ve got his eye that s looking kind of whisky, kind of head downstream, but then on the lower right side of the image he s got the biggest mark, heading straight up towards his ear so the whole thing is kind of a swirl you know? just as a picture as a mugshot in particular i think that s not bad. that person is the attorney general of the great state of texas and that is in fact his mugshot. his name is ken who s indicted in booked into the collin county jail in texas on felony securities fraud charges a few years ago, those felony charges are still pending against him, he was still under indictment on multiple fel
student loan could cost over ten years. the white house is struggling to answer who is exactly paying the tab for the millions of college students off the hook. john: you don t have todd s number on speed dial, john? i ll pass it off to you. sandra smith in new york. biden administration sticking to their line of defense that the plan is fully paid for, even comparing the handouts to covid loans, even though the pandemic assistance was intended to be foregiven. john: biden facing backlash with a growing number of democrats distancing themselves from the controversial hands outs. i think a targeted an i approach right now, people making 30, $40,000, didn t go to college, they need help as well. it does not help people who have already paid off their college debt. a band aid step, a point in time step. not yet contending with the root issue, which is the affordability crisis of higher education in our country. sandra: or bipartisan political panel is on set and read
popular president in modern american history. nobody is impressed by joe biden, and that would be including dr. jill. so this is a big problem for the biden family, obviously, but a much bigger problem for the democratic party, which joe biden leads. unpopular presidents drag their parties to the bottom in midterm elections. that s the unchanging rule of politics. you saw it famously in 1994, with republican takeover of congress after two disastrous years with bill clinton. you saw it in 2006 after hurricane katrina. you saw it in 2010 after obamacare. you saw it in 2018. in fact, it may well happen in 2022. we re certainly praying for it. to be honest, the numbers don t show that happening. not even close. in fact, all the indications we have right now suggest that despite joe biden s well-earned unpopularity, the democratic party still again, as of tonight has a strong chance of holding congress in november. the prediction markets, which many believe are more accurate t