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Michael taubman is here. emily, thanks for being here. we had the superintendent of schools from parkland on a little bit ago say no to the arming of teachers and yes to bringing back more armed police officers and the such. >> i too dont believe that arming teachers is a good idea. im for increased security around the schools. there was a sequence of missed cues here. crises make for bad policy. there was too many miscues. the president proposing, the congress disposes. thats college 101. >> ha...

Drop out of college to work this dead end job. and the government wants us to get off of welfare and stop abusing and using the system, but when these jobs are only $7.25 an hour, how do you expect us to pay our bills and stay at these jobs when were not getting paid enough to go back to school. >> so andrew, this question of the government having to step in. basically what happens is a lot of workers on minimum wage end up needing food stamps and other nutritional assistance, that sort of thing...

College football. so there might be gray areas or ways that you can help these student athletes a little bit more without blowing up the system for, you know, pay the players and, you know, you have unions and trades and all sorts of whatever you would have with these pro leagues when you flat-out pay players. so i think there is a push for stipends, $2,000 a year or different conferences are pushing different things on that. >> you know, i stand really in the middle of this. i do have this sens...

Sports writer at buzzfeed, and david epstein, senior writer with "sports illustrated" and author of "the sports gene: inside the sign of extraordinary athletic performance." so nice to have you all here. let me start with you. is it reasonable to say that college athletes should either be getting a stipend, a larger stipend, or that they ought to at least have the right to profit off their own name, likeness, and image? >> its interesting, because i think this issue has obviously, in the johnny ...

In universities as whole. so a private plane with an alligator on it, how does that fit into the core missions of an institution of higher education? >> yeah, hmm, how does it? actually, those are great questions that lead us in a bit of the conversation were about to have, as were going to talk a little bit about the cost of education and the presidents plan around it. i want to say thank you to nicole and to roman and joel and david. hopefully youll come back at some point as we get into would...

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That is what we want to be doing in the world, but the administration this week sent out a new proposal for a market place-like system for institutions of higher learn. and if they failed to make the grade, they may no longer get the dollars. and the impact on historically black colleges and universities like moorhouse may be particularly acute. joining me now is lily garcia, whos vice president of the national education association and back with us, dorian warren, associate professor at columbi...

Coming in and some of them are being done a disservice in their education. >> so then does the argument become that what you just need is a minor league sports team for football, just as we have for baseball, and separate out whats going on with college. the college athletics becomes truly amateur. but those on the pro track go into paid minor leagues. >> i think that would be great, but i dont think people want that, because, obviously, there are people that have attachments to that school, but...