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>> i tell them that i look them in the eye and tell them the truth, that im honest -- >> does that mean your primary opponents are not telling them truth when they say free college -- >> theres a lot of people making promises and im not going to make promises just to get elected. im not running for chair of the national democratic committee. im running for president of the united states and that means you bring people together and you find that common ground in our own party and there all bold p...

Quite think out all the steps about what would happen after his announcement and tossing hot potato to congress. >> you dont get sympathy. his statement last night, ill revisit it, are being contradicted by his own administration and white house talking points which said dreamers should prepare for departure for this country in six months. the idea of forcing congresss hand may seem el grant on the surface, but it runs into a thicket of problems. as lindsey graham said, if donald trump wants to ...

About educating about the hbcus and so we kind of got rushed. >> you wrote something on medium so that you could voice what you want today ta wanted to talk about. you said you were talking about raising the maximum pell grant because the purchasing power has hit a low over decade. you want it indexed for inflation. >> right. >> so this is your chance to talk about why the pel grant in your view is so important to students at dillard university and also historically black colleges and universiti...

Presidents, theres one photo causing a stir, with kellyanne conway, you look at it and your beef is something entirely different. tell us, because you had the photo op but in the end it didnt really mean that you got to exchange ideas? >> right. we had a marvelous idea to have a listening session where about 15 of us would have a chance to talk with new secretary of education, and agencies including omb to talk about the needs, my focus was to talk about the pel grant, we talked about more resou...

President-elect does. >> and the grizzly comment there, jake, she was talking about was a comment that senator enzi, of course republican from wyoming was making earlier in the hearing, talking to her about local school control and how some of his districts are rural and thing like that. but certainly in terms of gun policy with the memory of knew town and other shootings weve seen so much did not resonate very well there. but she was also pressed so hard by senator elizabeth warren, democrat of...

Government to reconfigure the pel grant and when you ask how this will be paid for, the other side of that, two years of community college tuition is a lot cheaper than a lifetime on food stamps and reality theres a couple of them. one of them is that people do not -- for a good job lasts 30 or 40 years, theres no path to the middle classanymore. straight from high school, theres only one path if you have no more education. poverty is very expensive. we have a group of young people in oregon tha...

Pay it off. no one thinks that is unfair or mean model, and so what is wrong with it? >> well, because this is not college and being someone who came from a poor family and had a pel grant and worked five jobs to get through. chris, this is not about votes, please. if it is, what is the governor thinking that if you are not on food stamps you will vote republican? many governors want to be less reliant on uncle sam and government. and they want to push the people off of the rolls. this is not th...

Year than we did last year. one of the reasons for that is you have increase in entitlements. they are mandatory, automatic. so unless and until both sides have the guts to deal with it, ese are real cuts. border agentd head start and a lot of things. you may not think its not a big deal but it is because if you keep going back to your number you include entitlements in there. if you take them out, they are real cuts. >> why not? the reason why we are here is they wouldnt include entitlements? >...

Immediately. >> i know. did you know the pel grant was thaimed after -- was named after claiborne pel, a person from rhode island? >> i did know that. i >>- q. i should have asked you instead of giving the answer. that would have been impressive. >> the grant was actually named after grant from "eight is enough." >> how did he get away with singing the theme of that song? >> i dont know. >> didnt they give the other eight of them a shot at singing the theme. >> this is something we will never kn...

Not think we welcome it. >> can you not escape into a costumed drama like i do? >> we analyze it. we analyze everything. i cant analyze honey boo boo so i watch it. >> dressing in a costumes and harassing your neighbors, not a costumes drama. >> speaking of which, greg and andy, you were speaking of rip taylor, and he is very much alive. >> excellent. >> born in 1934. >> that makes him 70 -- what, 78 this. >> he is about 50 throw. give or take. he is not younger than 53. >> he is the guy who cre...