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Whats going on. what happened here? why is he under fire? >> reporter: wolf hes under fire at party in june he was photographed, a picture posted to instagram, moving through a crowd of kids, at a party, at a beach week party for a high school in bethany beach, delaware, a party that appeared to have teenagers and their ages are unclear, but according to the baltimore sun, and some accounts that the paper published, some kid as peered to be under age drinking at this party. legal drinking age in...

In, said to my son you have two minutes to meet me outside and were going, okay, or ill make a scene. take your pick. there were parents there, apparently, chaperoning this. so as a law enforcement official, isnt it your responsibility to talk to those parents and say im giving you 15 minutes before i call the cops? >> the attorney general of maryland, this apparently was taking place in delaware so its beau bidens fault. >> the drinking age is 21, not 18. this has been a terrible rollout for hi...

Strategy. its interesting that yale is still having to hold people accountable, because a few years ago, they were the vanguard. so even with title ix, im excited about it, theres still a lag between students suing their schools and universities being held accountable. so i would like to just see this momentum really expose university culture as a place where students are really vulnerable. >> maybe this is the wrong direction to go altogether, but what if -- because ive heard this said about un...

Years, and then, of course, back towards five years -- legal drinking age was 18. >> you know what they did with that? of course? for farming. >> thats right. >> eric, favorite memories -- where -- from your middle school years or later. >> college. >> college. >> absolutely. one year, one summer i stayed in florida in orlando to play baseball, but a concert series was going on. the who, aerosmith, the rolling stone, twice and played baseball and was very single at the time. >> doing a lot of pa...

Four or five years -- the legal drinking age was 18. >> for farming. >> right. >> eric, your favorite memories -- i dont know. were they from your middle school years or later? >> college. >> college. >> one year, one summer i stayed in florida in orlando, played baseball. there was a concert series, i saw rolling stones twice, and played baseball and was very single at the time. >> you were doing a lot of partying. >> i was having a lot of fun. >> bob, how about you back in the day? >> well, as...

Back towards five years -- legal drinking age was 18. >> you know what they did with that? of course? for farming. >> thats right. >> eric, favorite memories -- where -- from your middle school years or later. >> college. >> college. >> absolutely. one year, one summer i stayed in florida in orlando to play baseball, but a concert series was going on. the who, aerosmith, the rolling stone, twice and played baseball and was very single at the time. >> doing a lot of parties. >> i was having a lot...

He was the last world war ii veteran serving in the senate. the democrat also fought to ban smoking from airline flights and helped raise the legal drinking age to 21. frank lautenberg was 89 years old. to business headlines beginning with zynga, the company behind the online games farmville and words with friends, saying its cutting 520 jobs, nearly 20% of its workforce. those cuts are expected to save them up to $80 million a year. they say the jobs have to go because fewer people are playin...

Cigarettes. in 1984 when he was a freshman senator in the minority party, he led the fight to establish a national drinking age of 21. after that they drank as young as 18. in 2000 he led the way for standards for drunk driving laws. he supported the clean up of the fight for the funding of amtrak and the family and medical leave act and the ryan white care act for aids. he is a major reason why if you are convicted of domestic violence, you have a hard time legally getting a gun in this country...

Like that aside, nobody should be able to do whatever they want on an airplane including smoking cigarett cigarettes. in 1984 when she was a freshman senator in the minority party, he led the fight to establish a national drinking age of 21. after that they drank as young as 18. in 2000 he led the way for standards for drunk driving laws. he supported the clean up of the fight for the funding of amtrak and the family and medical leave act and the ryan white care act for aids. he is a major reaso...

What will he most be remembered for? >> a lot of legislative accomplishments, jake, that actually affect peoples lives. we talk about inaction. but he was somebody who did act. lit me give our viewers some examples. when you get on a plane and theres no smoke, it is because of legislation that frank lawsuiten burke helped push. theres the reason theres no smoking on airplanes. with regard to tobacco, he was a fierce opponent to tobacco even when it was unpopular. and alcohol as well, he was main...