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Its super fast and you can control every device in the house. [ child offscreen ] hey! lets basement. and thanks to these xfi pods, the signal reaches down here, too. so sophie, i have an xfi password, and its "daditude". simple. easy. awesome. xfinity. the future of awesome. ♪ ♪ brian: going to give you headlines. i hold in my hands papers that have nothing to do with this, i just forgot to put them down. student activists will walk out today to pressure school administrators to declare the...

Quo, where colleges have all been on the same status ladder. theyve all been competing for the top to be harvard. and there hasnt been room for a real discussion about exactly what youre talking about, value-added. because the value of getting into harvard is that you got into harvard, and on 5% of people get to do that. >> its not what you learn there, its the fact that you have this, you are an elite. >> once you get accepted, youre like mark zuckerberg, you can leave immediately and youll be ...

Peoples priority list. but i think one thing to keep in mind about sort of the politics of this if you look at the coalition that elected and reelected obama in the role that young voters played. recent college graduates, people who are now saddled with tens of thousands of dollars of debt who are not making a lot of money. how am i going to pay this off? people who have -- who are living the reality of student loan debt every day. i think this message maybe reaches them even if it doesnt become...

On the board of walmart. i was fighting these fights. i was fighting these fights. >> theres no doubt this president can throw a punch when he wants to. the question tonight is, just how hard should it be. joining me live from hofstra university, site of tonights debate, is congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz, chairwoman of the democratic national committee. thank you for coming on the show, madame chairwoman. >> thank you, al. >> the president -- >> good to be with you. >> the president says...

Over the last number of engineers p weve seen a corresponding dramatic increase in tuition increases. we dont sign up for the addition increase that the president is proposing and apparently if were not increasing spending as much as the president proposes, thats considered a huge cut. >> is he wrong when he says this stuff? >> yes, hes wrong all the time when he says these things. were used to that. everything he says about our numbers and budgets, were used to him tell things that are dramatic...

North carolina families. thats a priority for her. but you know, last year over 40 states cut that higher education spending. these budget cuts have been among the largest factors in tuition increases of public colleges over the past decade. so were challenging states to take responsibility. we told them, if you can find new ways to bring down cost of college and make it easier for students graduate, well help you do it. i want everybody here, as youre thinking about voting, make sure you know w...

And economy that lasts and remind people around the world why america is the greatest country on earth. thank you very much, everybody. god bless you. god bless the united states of america. [applause] ♪ . jon: well the president delivering sort of a, to my ear at least a miniature version of his state of the union address, talking about the investments that he wants to make and infrastructure, challenging congress, to continue the payroll tax credit that is due to expire at the end of this mo...

Rally yesterday add uc-davis which was attended by upwards of 5,000 people shows how strongly the university community supports these students. there are policies and procedures, but the fact is there is also the right protests. and these students need to be able to act in solidarity with other people who share their beliefs. they need to be able to protest ongoing tuition increases at the university of california which are precipitous and disastrous. what we see is that when they stach stand up...

As now. he called for an investigation. this is a classic script that people in power follow when theres an instance of police brutality. they call for an investigation and put officers on paid administrative leave. these are simply transparent methods of deferring and displacing criticism. >> youve seen this movie before, professor? >> thats correct. yes. as ive been saying, theres a systemic use of police brutality on the uc campuses to terrorize students and faculty who protest tuition increa...

Chancellor burginoe at uc berkeley is doing the same thing as now. he called for an investigation. this is a classic script that people in power follow when theres an instance of police brutality. they call for an investigation and put officers on paid administrative leave. these are simply transparent methods of deferring and displacing criticism. >> youve seen this movie before, professor? >> thats correct. yes. as ive been saying, theres a systemic use of police brutality on the uc campuses t...