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It did not become law. do you expect to keep fighting on the issue how will you win in the future given you didn't win in the past? >> yes, yes, and yes. it didn't pass. we are going to introduce again, next month, and this time put a slightly different proposal on the table. this one is going to be to deal with the $1.2 trillion in student loan debt that its outstanding. this is the high interest rate debt. high for undergrads. even higher for those who have graduate student loans, plus loans. the idea is we are going to propose taking all of the debt and refinancing it down to 3.86%. which i...

Shifts to avoid paying overtime. they said that companies in their study have faced lawsuit failing to pay overtime or scheduling just to avoid the overtime. it would take even longer than that 3.86 months to get what the ceo gets paid per hour. >> a 6-year-old boy from colorado has been suspended from school for sexual harassment. he kissed a female classmate on the hand and it violated their policy against unwanted touching. but the boy's mother said the girl had no problem with it and the real issue is with the district calling it sexual harassment. >> reading group. and eileened over and k...

And ted cruz and the tea party. not a straight-line, the center of power and the gop moved steadily to the right. it is now further to the right than it has ever been in modern times. cruz and the base still believe that the gop is too moderate, too mushy, the only way to win back the white house in 2016 is by becoming more conservative. let me show you something. this is last november's presidential election. almost 130 million americans voted, when all of their ballots were counted, here's what they added up to. barack obama with 51.01%. mitt romney, 47.15%. now here are the numbers for last...

Overnight jumping to 6.8% because congress couldn't get a deal done in time. if you got a new loan in the past month at that higher rate, you're due for a reduction possibly down to 3.86%. that's the new interest rate for subsidized student loans for undergrads. more than 7 million people will benefit. graduate loans will be a bit higher. 5.14%. but could save families thousands. students graduate with an average of $27,000 in loans. >> what do we think after this year? obviously a political hot potato. >> we think rates will likely go up. here's why. there's going to be pegging that to financ...

This i think is the end of it. the senate isn't expected to take it up and the white house is not on board with this. >> all right, so that's one issue. the other issue are the loans. we've been hearing this bubbling about what the senate may get done that they're trying to pass a bill they believe the house would like. what happened? >> reporter: it's done. how often can congress say all right we finished it up but it's pretty much finished because the senate passed this overwhelmingly and what you're going to see now is those rates that went up to more than 6% for students july 1st are now g...