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>> i if you were already 18 you could drink. people watching the show are loving that togs. >> it is fascinating. >> they are hammered now. >> i dont think you can make it against the law, right? dont they remove the federal funds -- >> highway funds. you mentioned the point of lowering drinking age is to save lives. i dont think you take rights away from adults because people cant handle those. i am gonna leave now. >> thank you. >> go mets. >> spiders terrorize humans, but when we return, some...

Nationalities. >> he >> he operates an online site. >> aruba has a rich history being a colony of the dutch and about 30 years now almost. it became a commonwealth belonging to holland, but with its own government. our main income is tourism, almost 100%. >> last year, more than 1.5 million tourists visited the island where the legal drinking age is 18. when natalee arrived, she was just like any other tourist. i recently traveled back to the island with natalees mother, beth holloway. imagine t...

One of who is 21 and one is 19. this is a problem across college campuses and once you start with the drinking the heavy drinking the binge drinking, all sorts of bad things happen. so colleges and universities are sort of pretending this isnt happening. theyre ignoring the fact that everybody, all sorts of underage people drinking on their campuses and leading to all kinds of problems of sexual abuse and other misdemeanor and not misdemeanor crimes. >> certainly not to excuse the bad behavior b...

>> the university doesnt have to meet the same standard as the legal system. >> i think thats the problem. if you have paid a full tuition, over four years and you get expelled, as this person did at duke, two weeks before graduation for the accusation of a crime that was never really proved, then, you know -- >> again youre talking about one anecdote i dont know anything about. >> more broadly, clearly, this is a problem across the board. not just at duke university. it seems like almost all of...

These kids are being tested into oblivion. they spend their entire childhood with one goal getting into a good school and getting success. they have been running on the hamster trail for 15 years. how about more freedom? not less. how about we start young. lets take off the knee pads and let them skin their knee, let them make their mistakes in the teen years lower the drinking age, yeah, i said it. let them have a glass of wine with dinner and stop acting likes its a magic elixir of sin, maybe ...

Into oblivion. they spend their childhood with one goal, getting into a good school and being a so-called success. it is no wonder they want to blow off some steam. they have been running on the hamster wheel for 15 years. how about more freedom and not less? how about start young. take off the knee pads and let them skin their knee and stop sharp paw roaning their teen years and let them make the mistakes then. lower drinking age. yes i said it. let them have a glass of wine with dinner and sto...

Into oblivion. they spend their childhood with one goal, getting into a good school and being a so-called success. it is no wonder they want to blow off some steam. they have been running on the hamster wheel for 15 years. how about more freedom and not less? how about start young. take off the knee pads and let them skin their knee and stop sharp paw roaning their teen years and let them make the mistakes then. lower drinking age. yes i said it. let them have a glass of wine with dinner and sto...

What youre saying. europe has a lower drinking age and less stigmatizing of even 16 17-year-olds going in a pub. and i think there is less binge drinking on college campuses and less crazy assault, crazy sexual abuse that im aware of. i do hear this from young women, i heard it recently on campus in upstate new york that what happens with the greek system which isnt so great is for some reason that i dont fully understand men control the liquor and so fraternities have like access to alcohol and...

The drinking age. >> what do you mean by demystifying booze? how would you do that with young people? >> i think whats taken place largely because of liability concerns is that colleges across the country, theyve all clamped down on drinking underwage drinking. i recognize theyre trying to respect the law that was imposed by the feds. but what theyve done is theyve driven it underground. i lived in a house where beer was plentiful. we were constantly on tap. there was no pregaming or binge drink...

Kicked out of universities just this year losing full tuition for the semester because they were caught trying to get into bars or trying to use a fake i.d. now hes not alleged to have a fake i.d. but i do think that the interchange matters. if he goes up and hes got an i.d. that was issued a couple of years ago and his mother has since moved and youre a bouncer at a bar, use common sense. what are you going to do if youre in a college town if its st. patricks day, and your job is do make sure t...