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This time is different. keep pointing to president obamas plan to tie the loan rate to the market and congressional democrats, i believe, are not so fond of that idea. >> what do you make of that dynamic then when you have the white house philosophically in line with the house republicans on that issue? >> i think the white house is looking at a long-term plan and i dont like the presidents plan, but i think what we really have to do now, steve, is just roll this back to the 3.4. id like to see ...

Because he took a loan on a house he couldnt afford. i was a student i came out of graduate school without owing any money because you went to a graduate school i could afford. university of missouri, great university. they gave me scholarship money. i did some work study. you want to know something, i came out of there debt free. >> neil: good for you. >> hopefully everybody is responsible for what they do, charlie. no, this administration... they are protecting kids every day. >> you know what...

Welker. shes monitoring the exchanges. what have we learned, kristen? >> reporter: good afternoon. most exchanges have to do with questions concerning increasing taxes on wealthier americans as well as cuts to sbimgentitlemen. one exchange caught our attention. this is from mandy. as a recent college grad bout wout a full time job these cuts wouldnt help me, would they? the president responds kitts without revenue equal reductions in student loans, work study and college tax credits expire. bad ...

Solve the major issues in this country. so they created a fiscal nuclear bomb. they literally stuffed everything that was important to us, the citizens, important to them -- things like funding for college, things like education, things like social security -- they stuffed it into a big nuclear bomb and said its going on blow up on december 31, unless we do something, this is where we are today, being forced to address the issue. >> i am thinking about when we were in elementary school and they ...

with news that could furtherer ratchet up the tensions. the pentagon is saying t ining s getting ready to send ships to syria. i want to go straight to the pentagon to barbara starr. i was listening to your exchange there in the pentagon briefing earlier today. you were pressing them a bit. tell me about the exchange. >> reporter: theres been a bit of confusion. theres a urth vessel that turned back to russia. it was a bit of a surprise when the pentagon announced it has information th...

My mother was able to raise two kids by herself while still going to college and getting an advanced degree because she was able to get grants and work study. thats while she was in school. michelle and i are only here today because of scholarships and student loans that gave us a good shot at a great education. and it wasnt easy to pay off these loans, but it sure wasnt as hard as it is for a lot of kids today. so my administration has tried to do our part by making sure that the student loan...

Labor bill goes against michelle obamas anti-obesity initiative. how can kids be active if they are limited by this law? so i guess chuck is saying that child labor, slave labor is the only way to be healthy. >> yeah. that doesnt ring true to me as someone who did not slave away on a farm although i did have a very active lifestyle as a child. my daughter 3 years old. i dont intend to be enrolling her in any work study programs any time soon. there are lots of ways to live a healthy lifestyle. y...

Watching. the by standers. the witnesses and also the one who is being hazed. so if you say to them, your financial aid, your work study, everything that you have thats federally allocated will be suspended if you are involved in a hazing incident, we think it will stop it. and then we want our attorney general holder to put together a task force, a commission, a national hazing task force or commission, well let him name it, to look at this whole issue of hazing and how we as americans can stop...

Teacher. its all because of the union. so i said lets keep two janitors who are adults who are professional. they do all the heavy stuff and the dangerous stuff. then lets take all the other jobs and divide them up into part-time kids. and you could probably in the average school hire 30 children. >> so we have gone from child labor laws being cut out to now lets attack the union. what do you make of this? >> its just a mishmash of just mendacity because on the one hand hes talking about giving ...

Teachers. the entry-level janitor is paid twice as much as an entry-level teacher. its all because of the union. so i said lets keep two janitors who are adults who are professional. they do all the heavy stuff and the dangerous stuff. then lets take all the other jobs and divide them up into part-time kids. and you could probably in the average school hire 30 children. >> so we have gone from child labor laws being cut out to now lets attack the union. what do you make of this? >> its just a mi...