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People have circumstances and its tough. its a larger question of how you say it. one person comes from this neighborhood, and this person comes from this neighborhood you going punish the kid who comes from the better neighborhood so he doesnt get the slot but the kid who scores on the subjective adversity?-- >> you have to give people opportunity, laura. thats why i am on this show right here, im a civil rights attorney, public school teacher. >> laura: we got it a lot of peep from a lot of ba...

>> sean: we have similar backgrounds, grew up in the same place. a lot of my friends make their living in construction. a lot of my friends count on building buildings. and to stop that progress, what does that say to the -- >> its absurd. i know you dont like bloomberg but think about the last thing he did. he rezoned midtown manhattan so we could get taller skyscrapers and make more competition for the city. this guy is a walking disaster. but heres the problem, were in a one-party city. and h...

And lead into more situations. >> sean: we have similar backgrounds, grew up in the same place. a lot of my friends make their living in construction. a lot of my friends count building buildings. and to stop that progress, what does that say to the -- >> its absurd. the last thing he did, rezoned midtown manhattan association that we could get taller skyscrapers and make more competition for the city. this guy is a walking disaster. but heres the problem, were in a one-party city. and hes a ver...

Score. now, the organization that administers the test, the college board, says the new score is going to provide schools with a deeper framework when considering s.a.t. results. more objective data on students backgrounds. the score will be on a scale of 1 to 1ho00 and including a variy of factors including students high school and crime and poverty rates of a students neighborhood and the average score is boggoing to be 50. anything below 50 dessinginates privilege and anything above it design...

You also see in joe biden somebody that some people think is a bit of a weak front-runner, right? and so the idea is, and a lot of these candidates feel this way, that if joe biden stumbles, then there is going to be somebody that democratic voters look to. joe biden who people think can appeal to all sorts of different voters and the polling shows that. he polls well among african-americans, among white folks of all socio economic backgrounds. so the idea if youre bill de blasio, maybe you have...

Our country are without merit? because they do not have an engineering degree? >> dana: jesse, the presidents team saying that this is a common sense, balanced plan, and it should unite the republican party. >> jesse: i will use liberal comments to convince juan that it is a good idea. similar to college admissions, you are always saying, they keep on admitting all of these people with family connections, some uncle went there, some grandfather went there, thats how the kid got in. they should a...

Kathleen kavalec and bruce with allegations against the trump campaign that were sourced to christopher steele. and this matters because a month earlier october 2016, she met with christopher steele and document a political motivation. he was going to see antitrust material come to light before the election. and also kathleen kavalec found errors. made october 2016, kathleen passed on to fbi executive her concerns but the dossier used ten days later to secure surveillance force for trump campaig...

♪ >> juan: a brand-new college admissions controversy. the organization oversees the s.a.t.s, now adding what is being called and adversity score. this takes into account student social and economic backgrounds, and it will focus on three areas including neighborhood, family environment, and the quality of the high school. testtakers will not know their scores, but college is reviewing the application, they will. the college board is defending the controversial new move saying that it can igno...

Intelligent very intelligent enough to master the game of chess despite all its complexity is. a mockery out also grew up in a slum neighborhood he says plain chess from a young age gave him a new perspective on life now hes determined to do the same for other children. ugh why are is at her first regional tournaments and her coach is there to cheer her on. she will be faced. kids from more privileged backgrounds but she says hes confident of how he should think yardbirds who we do call the show...

Making his candidacy completely about trump a lot of other candidates are trying to make it about themselves their backgrounds the issues that theyre passionate about joe bidens trying to make this about trying and trying to present himself as the sort of person who can actually beat tropp yeah we have a long time to see if that will be winning formula joe johns and with the washington post and boards forming with bard college here in berlin to both of you thank you thank you well still to come ...