beliefs. another day of decisions split 6-3 showing deep divisions at the nation s highest court in an opinion by chief justice john roberts the majority struck down the biden administration s plan to wipe out $430 billion until student loan debt. quote, we hold today that the act allows the education secretary to wave or modify existing statutory or regulatory provisions applicable to financial assistance programs under the education act. not to rewrite that statute from the ground up. the dissenters led by justice kagan argued the secretary did have that power. quote the statute read as written gives the secretary broad authority to relieve a national emergency s effect on borrowers abilities to repay their student loans. president biden who has repeatedly vowed to wipe out student loan debt while conceding he may not have authority blasted the court and promised to find other ways to benefit borrowers. i think the court misinterpreted the constitution. in today s oth
good day to all of you from msnbc headquarters here in new york. we begin with decision 2024. president biden will return to washington tonight to begin extensive debate prep with this white house chief of staff. he is leaving california with a record-breaking $30 million in campaign cash. at last night s fundraiser, he also took the supporters about the supreme court. the next president is likely to have two new supreme court nominees. two more. two more. he has already appointed two that have been very negative in terms of the rights of individuals. the idea that if he is re- elected he is going to appoint two more flying flags upside down is really the supreme court has never been as out of kilter as it is today. i mean, never. this is never been a court this far out of step. the biden 2024 chris murphy defended the president s remarks. i think it s a crisis on the court, in particular with justice alito and justice thomas. what justice thomas is engaged in is just
mark. great to have you all here on such a momentous legal day. we are going to pick your brains. olivia i want to start with you because also in his remarks today the president talked about the fact that republicans could not stand the middle class getting help. i mean, he really went after them and talked about how terrible they are on this issue. but if he needs them legislatively to get anything done on this front i don t know that they re going to want to work with him after that. you re starting to see the dividing lines long before the courts, you know, republicans point out that biden came in and said he wanted to be a bipartisan president and then they talk about how he s always going out attacking the maga republicans and the extremists and that s something that they re countering saying, is he really coming to the table or only because he was forced because the house flipped and now there s a divided government. that s something they ve been pushing back on is biden s reco
ability to compromise. and the normal way you do it is way wait and see who wins the election and cut the deal in favor of who won the election. it is never 50/50. so it should be a 60/40, after the last 2010 election, it should have been pro-republican, maybe 60/35, the democrats should have favored in favor of the republicans and then they would have done better. always compromise in favor of the electorate so you can win the next election. you have to compromise. and it is never 50/50. and i think that you have to fave the electorate. let the people know that voting counts, that s what i think. okay. we ll talk about the student loans issue, front and center all this weekendful we ll take something from john boehner who blasted the president for visiting the swing states to talk about the loans. yesterday he took to the floor of the house during a vote on the student loan bill and here s what he said. let s listen. people want to politicize this because it s an election year, bu