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- well, unfortunately, that would be a help. - okay. who is responsible for this craziness? - theres no name that i can find attached to who did it. nobody seems to be willing to step up and take the credit for it. - wait, wait, wait. nobody put their name to it? we dont--we dont actually know who did this? - no. its like a whisper in the wind. i dont know. - this is something that bears repeating. according to alan, everything from ballooning student debt to spiraling college costs can be trace...

This whole thing with monica lewinsky was a personal thing. and what im trying to do as president is the business of the people. he was doing the business of the american people as everybody else in the political world was focused on his personal life. - okay. pretty good headlines, right, like, "clinton signs a higher education bill." it sounds like clinton just wanted to have a nice happy press release so he could change the topic a little bit instead of talking about the problems hes having. ...

I wracked my brain for clues from all the conversations id had over the past three years. - federal loans are handed over from the treasury directly to the department of education. [echoing] education... - we met with the department of ed officials-- [echoing] department of ed-- - you know, its certainly worth seeing if theres anybody in the department of education who was around at that time. [echoing] department of education-- - my name is jamienne studley. and in 1998, i was acting general co...

In 1998, what was your position at that time? - 1998, i was chairman of the subcommittee over post-secondary education, training, and lifelong learning. - something that keeps coming up is the higher education act, particularly the reauthorization in 1998. i think its safe to say you had a pretty key part in that. and one of the offsets that we noticed in there was the provision to make student loans not dischargeable through bankruptcy. im wondering if you can recall where that policy idea orig...

I mean, nobody put their name on this one, right? so whoever was doing it at the time did not want to have center stage. and i bet--i mean, i couldnt even give you a hint. - got it. this mystery person really seemed to be hiding. - mr. speaker, i yield one minute to the distinguished gentleman from new york, mr. weiner. - one thing working in politics taught me is that politicians usually dont shy away from attention. - sit down! - [auctioneering] - but no one was taking credit for the bankruptc...

Does that sound about right? - i think thats fair representation of the time. - okay. it was now clear. we had finally found our man. - got it. so its 20 years since the 1998 higher ed reauthorization act. - yeah. - and the bankruptcy provision, in particular-- how much time have you spent reflecting on that decision that you guys made back then? - i have--i dont-- it wasnt the most dominant thing ive thought about since then. i have in many conversations, defended what i think was a reasonable ...

And im like, "oh, no, he read it, he doesnt like it." and so ijust remember he didnt want me to use him as a guide or a judge because i think he was so...had such a high bar, that everything wasnt going to be good, you know? so he didnt want to be that for me, but he came and saw me on stage in the blue room. he came to the theatre. thats a huge thing for stanley. theres a photo somewhere, i dont have it, i would love someone to find it for me, of him leaving the theatre. but its so touching to ...

It is an exaggeration to say we pray on the desires of the disenfranchised. no. we talk to average people, to real people, and let them know, we understand what youre going through, we understand what your challenges are. we are going to make those challenges easier and better for you, we are going to give you a better tomorrow. that was reagans message, that was donald trumps message in his first election. benjamin netanyahu introduced the finkelstein birnbaum duo to hungarian politician viktor...

For you, we are going to give you a better tomorrow. that was ronald reagans message, that was donald trumps message in his first election. benjamin netanyahu introduced the finkelstein birnbaum duo to hungarian politician viktor orban in 1998. then in opposition, orban and his party won the 2010 election and have stayed in power ever since, using the techniques they taught him. it is not just it is notjust a way of simplifying your own message, but identifying an enemy, one that the public is t...

Entire university, not just a medical school, is just under a billion as it compares to harvard with over 52 billion i believe, and then you look at a pipeline point of view, we send more african americans to medical school than anyone else and we also sent more african americans from our undergrad programs to stampede these. we set more in the past two decades that stand for it mighty harvard and yale the combined moment at those schools as 160 million. getting more applications is not necessar...