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Proposing debt-free college and helping us to compete with countries like germany where the cost of college is between zero and 4%. canada where the cost of college is about 7% of median income. >> but there are far few people that live in canada. people love to compare us to canada. were talking 30 million people in canada. thats not new york city. >> you know what? we used to have the top educational system, k through college on the planet earth. the world economic forum competes that. the mos...

Miralax. look for the pink cap. all right. weve got a lot to digest from this hour with our two new interviews with presidential candidates. i want to bring back former democratic congressman donna edwards and david jolly. let us start with cory booker here, the senator from new jersey. heres what he said when i asked him about where those unaccompanied children will go if we close detention facilities. >> a lot of folks seem to think that we have to have these somehow to protect ourselves. an...

Facilities under scrutiny for abysmal conditions. well go live to one of those buildings after this. and well talk about a new plan to overhaul the entire system being rolled out today by presidential candidate senator cory booker who will join me just ahead. andidate senator cory booker who will join me just ahead there are 6.5 million of them; they all need a forever home. it would mean the world to them, and they will love you forever. being rolled out today by being rolled out today by

Thank you. the situation at the border that we were just talking about, that we just showed you, one of the key issues of this 2020 election. and candidates are putting forward their plans on how to best address it. just this morning, new jersey senator cory booker released his plan that he says would drastically alter the nations detention system on his first day in office. he joins me now to talk about said plan. senator booker, good to see you, sir. thanks for your time. whats in your plan? >...

Nursing mothers, pregnant women, elderly, children being held in conditions that does, according to the governments own reports, permanent harm to these children. and so by having a system thats not of detention facilities, but finding placements for them, working on the kind of things that everybody from the american pediatric academy to the american bar association have spelled out, again, evidence-based programs that give them safe and secure housing and resources. and actually even for paren...

Evidence-base prod grams th evidence-based programs that give them safe and secure housing resources and for parents a system so that they can come back through the civil process and be evaluated for their asylum claims and if they have legitimate pathways to become citizens in this country. >> so there would be still be facilities of some sort, they just wouldnt be detention facilities, is that accurate? >> again, we -- we can do this by relying on, number one, very short-term facilities that a...

And think hes right, weve got to phase out these private for-profit detention facilities that are dangerous and are harming children. now, theres a question about what the role of the federal government should be. i dont think that he was enti clear about that, but the fact is that his policy is actually quite comprehensive when you look at dealing with the northern triangle countries and whats driving the immigration numbers upward because of the pressure that president trump is wrongly putting...