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Mostly to members of americas aristocracy. white anglo-saxon protestants. at harvard, one man wanted to open the gates. >> really get going. >> the schools president, james brian conan asked himself, what would thomas jefferson do? jefferson had written that america should create an aristocracy of talent to replace the aristocracy of birth and wealth. >> now hes about to enter an environment more in keeping with his social position. >> most harvard men, and they were still all men, came from pre...

Other parents william mclashon headed a private equity company paid $50,000 to get his son into college. and the ceo of hercules capital bribed a tennis coach at georgetown and he is on leave as well. also heads are rolling at many of the top private prep schools from san diego to the bay area because they are implicated for knowing falsehoods on these kids applications. >> sandra: something to continue to watch the fallout. >> bill: you get the sense that some of these stories that you are just...

It is unfortunate that congresswoman based her misguided opinion on the far right wing manipulation. they are not alone. california democratic senator dianne feinstein growth other nominee about her pro-life catholicism. >> the dogma lives loudly within you. >> nucor check and brett kavanaugh faced a similar imposition from democrats and their allies, both attended catholic prep schools. it was recently skewered and a vanity fair piece, inside georgetown prep culture. that is a mafia phrase four...

This issue, this confirmation, to go and actually read the three-page declaration that my client signed under penalty of perjury, because its not just limited to this allegation of women being put through train rapes, et cetera. its a broad -- theres a broad basis of facts and evidence that are set forth relating to aggressive conduct by brett kavanaugh when he was under the influence of alcohol towards women. and, joy, were not alone. there are numerous media reports, numerous witnesses, that h...

Opens up a pandoras box, problems for brett kavanaugh not dr. ford. >> so many moments in the hearing hes able to in such crystal clear -- such a crystal clear sense remember things that occurred. a question about what he said about coming back from a red sox game? roger clemens was pitching. paid for all the tickets. continues to perplex me how he had the money to do that as a law school student. talked about the prep skellchoo. the country learned a lot about rarified prep schools and elite in...

Are going to have a vote andrea, weve been talking an awful lot about a story you covered, clarence thomas and anita hill i got to tell you, this reminds me more of what happened with john tower >> i covered that. >> yeah. a few years before but i know there were a lot of people in washington, d.c. saying wait a second youre not going to let a guy be sucked out because he drinks and he acts the way a lot of people in washington, d.c. act that was a game changer for the late 80s. but now it seems...

Under president bush the white house asked the fbi to update the background check with new allegations. donald trump declined to do so in the case of christine ford and brett kavanaugh. hill says democrats were right to insist on an fbi probe. >> the right move. >> reporter: brett kavanaugh went to georgetown, both very the washington dc area prep schools, some alumni of fords on modern have 1000 signatures that says what ford is alleging is all too consistent with stories we heard and lived, ma...

A highly unreliable narrator. he has made a brand out of how drunk he was in high school. here is his picture wearing a beret for some reason. >> yeah. >> and -- in his yearbook. we go back for bread crumbs, we go back to look for crews. the yearbook is filled with bread crumbs. so he wrote in his yearbook certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs. who says that? i remember 1983, no guy said that in my group. >> it was just high school. it was just high school. >> no, no high school g...

That putin and trump do have in common is that theyre constantly underestimated. american intelligentsia underestimated putin because he didnt go to the right prep schools, terrible table manners, and they dismissed him. putin, trump, what we fail to realize is its the harvard trained insiders dont change the world. for better or worse, outsiders change history. and, you know, putin has been dismissed as a mere kgb lieutenant colonel, hitler was a lance corporal, jesus was an itinerant rabbi. >>...

>> some one said these are not the downtroden lower class people that have been crushed by the industrial revolution. these are people namedal laster, came from soggy backgrounds, nice prep schools, that can take friday afternoon off. >> dana: the dust settling after an explosive hearing with peter strzok. this as his lover, lisa page, question bead hind closed doors, all the developments, next. ♪ its the ford summer sales event and now is the best time to buy. preparing classic campfire trout...