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Most people have done some drinking in high school and college and many people even struggle with alcoholism and binge drinking. my own dad struggled with alcoholism most of his life and he got in trouble for it and there were consequences. he is still in aa at age 90, and hes sober, and in his words he was pursued by grace, and thats how he got through this. so in your case, you have said here and other places that you never drank so much that you didnt remember what happened, but yet we have h...

Leader chuck schumer, but all ten democrats on the senate judiciary committee are calling for kavanaugh to withdraw his nomination. is he considering that at all? >> no, hes not. and its very unfortunate that its come to this today. im shocked by the allegations, extraordinary that they were just dropped on the public today and on the committee. if you read those allegations, they mean that tens and tens of men and women were involved with gang rape and binge drinking and no one reported it and ...

And let me explain a little bit why. when you remember something, you have these sensories that, you know, sensory stimuli, you see things, hear things, feel things. that immediately gets transferred into short-term memory. that part can happen really quickly and does not seem to be that impacted by alcohol. but binge drinking, with someone whos heavily intoxicated, whatever it may be, its this step over here, brooke, short-term to long-term that appears to be the most affected. this just doesnt...

Had occurred, both groups, the intoxicated and the sober, sort of remembered about the same number of details. so there wasnt a lot of memory impairment, at least in the initial stages. what seemed to change, though, was over time. if they were asked the same questions, the intoxicated group, those memories were really no longer there, or, again, if they had been binge drinking in some ways, that also seemed to affect their memory longer term. >> what about binge drinking. you know, if someone h...

>> this is interesting. we looked into it yesterday and talked to researchers. its not just the amount of alcohol but the rate at which somebody gets to the level of higher intoxication. somebody who gets to 1.8 very quickly, they can have a much more impaired memory. people can have the blackout phases, and people think blackout and pass out, the same thing. you can be functioning and talking and people may not know, but you can have complete amnesia to the event if you had been binge drinking....

Challenging, the idea of sticking the short term memories into long term memory. somebody who has had a significant amount of alcohol, its that part that becomes really difficult to incode. a lot of times investigators say we dont mind interviewing somebody, a witness, who had alcohol, but then their memory will degrade significantly. and you had long term memory for a period of time but its gone. you can have contaminated memories, meaning if somebody suggests what happened during that time, du...

You cant go back. you pine for 15 seconds. >> do you remember what your show did? do you remember when you had people -- what did they do? >> on his show? >> we will get to it on the break. >> you are senile. what is the question? >> is there an ex from high school that you would like to meet for coffee? >> i cant say. an ex-boyfriend? >> yes. a flame. >> its not healthy. >> its never good to look back. you should always look ahead. you are cheating on the people you are with now if you are look...

It is everybody else sort of watching it happen. how do you change that behavior? >> youre responsible for your actions. identifying under the law, if youre putting somebody in a situation in which there is a likelihood of serious injury, that you have -- youre participating in it. you have a responsibility to assure as part of that, you know, ritual, that somebody isnt put in a position of harm. >> even if youre not actively participating. it seems that is the issue. >> we should be on the fron...

On! >> jesse: can you have firearms when you are 12? >> dana: i think we would be better off by trusting people earlier and hopefully they would not have as much binge drinking or problems later on. >> jesse: raising the voting age to 21 would lower democrat turnout. that is something i would support. >> marie: more young people need to vote. it is not that too many young people are voting. paul lepage, this is not a serious policy discussion about how oldus you have to be to vote. he just mad t...

Firearms when you are 12? >> dana: i think we would be better off by trusting people earlier and hopefully they would not have as much binge drinking more problems later on. >> jesse: raising the voting age to 21 would lower democrat turnout. >> marie: is not that too many young people vote -- paul lepage, this is not a serious policy discussion about how old you have to be to vote. he just mad that he got overridden because people in his state and legislator dont like him because hes an embarra...