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You know, if your daddy ise buys the library,daddy ise you can get in. and also there is a diversity react that gives people an advantage as well. >> sean: mom, dad, and grandpa. >> and legacy. there is also a diversity racket as well that gives people unfair advantage. the american dream, as i said, is based on equal opportunity, hard work, and not on race and wealth, and those things have to be removed from the system if its going to be fair. >> why not open the admissions process, make it an ...

Completely without merit. they will look through the admissions process, they think theyre going to win. >> a lot of schools are going to be looking through the process at these institutions. i can tell you, i dont know if stanford is going to win or lose, but minorities are now looking and reflectively, saying, wait a minute, we worked hard. we thought we could get in my marriage. our mothers and fathers and relatives did not have this kind of money. and so this, while its difficult for us to u...

System and getting ahead of people who are trying to work. college is still pathway to success for many people and its very hard one for many people who have all kinds of other responsibilities and things going on. >> tucker: we could fix this instantly. people trust the outcome of sporting events because they watch them on tv. its transparent. you know what happens. you know who won rating recently know that the whole gateway to the ruling class is controlled by the ruling class and it prevents...

Like," a conversation about race in america. you note that this illegality, this breathtaking crime, is part of the leaching of merit out of the admissions process, to quote you. >> exactly. money and advantage have krup corrupted this process for a very long time. here were talking about illegal activity, but its not that far removed from what happens with parents paying money to get an edge over the less affluent kids. we need to ask how that happens and what it means. weve talked a lot politi...

But your question is right on point, its all a kind of cheating, its just that some of it is illegal and some of it is strangely legal. >> its what you said. i think you said. here. while colleges pledge fair admissions process, they dont patrol whats going on with nearly enough earnestness and energy to honor their promise. they are ripe to be gamed, because the college admissions process is a game. >> right. so one of the myths we have in this country is that when all of these kids apply to st...

Ph.d, they could have built businesses for their kids. they could have done so much more, even made a legitimate donation to these schools and probably put their kids in bett better stead just because of the way the admissions process is. these werent just crimes, i would have to say these were dumb crimes committed by parents who felt entitled and who werent just sfiatisfied with already having such status in this society as being wealthy, but wanted more for kids who apparently they didnt thin...

>> they cheated in a particularly egregious way and one that happened to run afoul of the law. but your question is right on point, its all a kind of cheating, its just that some of it is illegal and some of it is strangely legal. >> its what you said. while colleges pledge fair admissions process, they dont patrol whats going on with nearly enough earnestness and energy to honor their promise. they are ripe to be gamed, because the college admissions process is a game. >> right. so one of the m...

And they could set their children up through success with the best education money could buy. >> reporter: huffman appeared on tuesday and released on $250,000 bond. laughlin expected to turn herself in today. and more people could be charged. heather: more details getting in, who knew what? fans shocked and disappointed to see the celebrities wraps up in this scheme but heres the question. are they the first? they are just the first to get caught. the system is rigged to help the rich. >> the a...

Exist in many cases without federal subsidies either directly or federally backed stay tuned loans. why isnt the admissions process transparent? >> well, the admissions process has always had features to it that invite gaming, i think we could call it. and i think what we saw today is really just the logical extension of long standing gaming. most of which, in fact, brian the lions share entirely legal involves assisting your children in taking the standardized tests and enrolling them in enrich...

Behavior. it isnt any letsz ss unethical. >> if you can afford to have your kids tutored then great. they might do better on the test. if you cant or hire a consultant then youll have a leg up. so the entire system whether its the college boards, the admissions process is really something that will be under a lot of scrutiny. whether it is being a phony.