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Following the policy of the united states congress effectuated by law, not their idea, and that you were taking steps to treat them in a second class way, not give them the same equal access because you deeply opposed that policy? why wouldnt you complain to congress and not to the dutiful men and women who put their lives on the line for america every day? >> senator sessions, you are, of course, right, that the solomon is law passed by congress. we never suggested that any members of the milit...

But after the third circuit rule, 2-1, questioning the constitutionality of the statute, you immediately, the very next day, changed the policy at harvard and barred the military from the office of career services, the equal access the solomon amendment had required. is that correct? >> senator sessions, after the third circuit ruled the solomon amend unconstitutional and the third circuit was the only appellate court to have issued a decision on that question and did rule the solomon amendment ...

Time soon, if you become a teacher. and the truth is, i dont want to row majority size the job of a good teacher. teaching is hard, hard work. >> but williams says the hard work of teaching is well worth it, when you see a student like solomon turn his life around and find success. >> i never thought i would be this successful. and right now, i dont even see it as success. im still striving, and, you know, im fighting, im running, im crawling, im dragging, im flying toward success, doing it all....

Paint the picture that i can get rich. >> so after college, william went into teaching. he cared less about money and more about having an impact. >> i had a personal investment in the community as an african-american male who has benefited from all that my culture and my community and family has to offer. i think its up to me to give that back. >> giving back to students like salmon mastin, who in high school was in and out of trouble until one teacher changed the course of his life. >> this is...

Introduced myself, whats going on. and at this point, he was crying. >> before anything he could have said or done registered with me at all, he brought tears out of my eyes. thats when i knew, like, this -- this is something serious. and i must be on the verge of doing something great in life. because i dont do this mess. an instant connection, because both know the struggle of being a young black male. >> when i saw pieces of myself within him, and agreed to cultivate that. what i saw in solom...

Recruiting on campuses, is that the third circuit court struck that down, the solomon provision. then in less than a year later, they were overruled by the united states supreme court. i think the ruling was 8-0. >> it was. >> it was during that time period that she came out pretty actively and said we dont want recruiting on the campus of harvard. so then, of course, when the law went back in, she had to comply with the law and i respect her for that. >> is there anything she could say or do du...

American people react to it. i think in his world, again, his harvard law school world, kicking the military off campus is no big deal. but i think to the american people think its a big deal, and i think this is going to endanger her confirmation. >> reporter: but her defenders say even throughout the controversy, she praised the extraordinary service of men and women in uniform and as dean reached out to veterans and that the fight was never against the military, but was about a principle. ken...

But follow our policies. the federal government passed a law that said if you throw the military off campus, you lose all of your federal funding, which is hundreds of millions of dharz for a university like harvard. harvard and many other universities led by nyu challenged that law and said it was unconstitutional. kagan filed a brief saying she thought the law was wrong and the supreme court unanimously voted against her. >> in her hearings for solicitor general she backtracked and said she wo...

Suggest that there were things about the way she grew up in this world, about how she came to live her life in america, that would affect the way she thinks in her work life. now, it is obvious to anyone that the influences in our backgrounds and lives as we grow up affect the way they think. what republicans want to pretend and pretend this only now, theres some sort of legal technocrat born, i guess, to lawyers and never had any nonjudicial thought in their lifetimes. when sam alito was confir...

Exposed. this week the hill, solomon broke at another explosive story advancing trump conspiracies. will know hillary clinton and the dnc gave millions to an opposition research firm, fusion gps. then hired christopher steele to create dirt on donald trump. in order to surveilled his campaign. this day, we still have not heard why a judge would even consider signing a surveillance warrant based upon this fraudulent document. but what no one seems to be talking about, is that this same dossier is...