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Environmentalist. my point is if you drink water and are concerned with whats in the water every day. >> you go home and sleep in one of those michael jackson oxygen tanks, then youre an environmentalist. >> the fact is that its not a democratic process. >> yeah. >> people dont vote to get poi poisons. usually it happens to them, and usually it happens in a way that people find out later. >> after they have a kid who has asthma or after a kid has some sort of learning disability and they cant fi...

Years. donald trump took out full page ads calling for the death penalty. these people have not suffered the consequences. and thrived. shes a best-selling author for her work in this case. these are the consequences of the actions. shes had to resign from boards and step down from these, im sure. these are the consequences. >> she was a prosecutor. we should make the people aware of this. she was a prosecutor in new york city during that time. i want to talk about now your show. this episode ...

We should make the people aware of this. she was a prosecutor in new york city during that time. i want to talk about now your show. this episode was inspired, i should say, by the flint water crisis and as you started looking into it you found toxic communities like flint all over. lets look at a clip and then well talk. >> people dont vote to get poisoned. usually it happens to them and it happens in a way that people find out later. >> after they have a kid with asthma or after a kid has a ...

>> ezra? >> yeah. >> im worried and i think youre probably worried, too, about a student who has adhd. a student who sufficients from significant anxiety. the thing we want to do here is protect them but make sure no one is taking advantage of the system, right? thats the goal. >> yeah, i mean, the whole system for accommodation is trying to make the test more accurate. thats what it does, with kids who have a learning disability extra time. but what happens is these kids who dont need the accom...

Difference. had an iep. in fact it was the teachers who said you should wind up with extra time for the sat because of a visual problem. couldnt really see the test very well. if you are suggesting that some parents or teachers are trying to give the kid extra time and claiming they are a victim and they are not really, thats a problem. >> well now in certain -- steve: been a victim, sorry. >> have you one in four students getting extra time on this test. i dont think one in four students actual...

But we know there was one father, george kaplan, whos taped in part of the tapes that came out through the trial, and hes quoted as saying he told his daughter to be stupid while she was being essentially assessed for a fake learning disability in order to game the system, in order to have essentially -- use the legal system of accommodations to get extra advantages, things like extra time on tests, things like a separate place to take exams, with the explicit purpose of being able to get higher...

Unfortunately, you know, the next question for me is i know the law enforcement has indicated many of the kids didnt know what their parents were doing. what about the t ones who did? what about the ones who were given more time to take a test when they didnt have a learning disability? what about the ones who were given the answers to an s.a.t. test or, you know, who knew that someone else was taking the test for them. if those things did happen which, you know, the fbi has said they did, then ...

How far does this extend? unfortunately the next question for me is i know the law enforcement has indicated that many of the kids didnt know what their parents were doing, but what about the kids who did? what about the ones were given more time to take a test when they didnt have a learning disability. what about the ones who were given the answers to an s.a.t. test or who knew that someone else was taking the test for them. if those things did actually happen, which the fbi has had they did, ...

West coast and he paid at least 50 grand to have somebody take the act test for his child. on the perpetrators were explaining the scheme to him he laughed. he said, i love it. this is a gentle man, a capitalist and he holds himself out as a leading voice in silicon valley of ethical investing. he and bono just raised about $2 billion. they are only going to invest in ethical companies. give me a break! the hypocrisy is breathtaking. the prosecutors, the one you just had on talking about possibi...

Students of color does not. my kids talk about. my own experience, i had people calling my high school to see if my transcript was correct. i had people calling into my high school to see if i could get into chapel hill. people will tell you how their schools were called at different levels. >> that didnt happen to any of these kids, the assumption was you are right, you arich, it must somehow be okay. i do not believe under the circumstances some of these students didnt know what theyre parents...