CNN CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin July 20, 2015 19:37:00
The issue. how did donald trump avoid serving in vietnam? >> he did it in a way that was very popular at the time. first, he was a student at a university and sought and obtained student deferment. it's officially called a class 2s student deferment and then after his sophomore year he transferred to the university of pennsylvania and got another class 2-s student deferment and then he got an examination -- a medical examination by the armed forces and got what was essentially called a medical deferment. it's called a 1-y classification. when asked about it over the weekend he said -- and we'v...