surrounding this issue of higher education indoctrination is making people pause. elizabeth: but we do see the fallout of students coming out of colleges. the feeling is that professors are too biased. david: i sit on the board of governors at shepard university. it s the harvard on the potomac river. we are always struggling with making sure you find value in the programs, because much of the view of republicans also centers on the fact that the debt children come out of higher ed with doesn t mean they find value in the program. you have democrats saying free college. if you have debt and he paid it back and now someone else s going to nicole: that $300,000 i paid back. elizabeth: middle class families do feel tuition gouge. the business model is a real estate model. you have a hotel-like facility for a 5-star cafeteria, a white elephant football stadium.
what are the plans for today s memorial? reporter: well, as you can see, it s a beautiful day here in the heart of west virginia, charleston, the state capitol that robert byrd has meant so much, not only for this city, but to the state of west virginia in general. you know, it s funny, i came in from the airport with the president of shepard university in the northern part of the state and i asked her, did you ever get to know robert byrd? she said as a matter of fact there s three campus buildings named after robert byrd or his wife of some 60 year s irma. we will see president barack obama, vice president biden, former president clinton, the republican and democratic leaders of the senate, we ll see house speaker nancy pelosi and a host of dignitaries, including the governor. some question about how they re going to handal senator byrd s replacement in the senate, whether they ll have a special election.