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But, you know, there's been a marked decline in african american enrollment in the university of virginia. that is the background context against this taking place. what is going on there? >> it's sort of hard to know. one thing that might be happening is that in the past couple of years, universities sort of pulled back on its scholarship program for low-income and working-class students. so if you think that african american students are going to belong to those categories, pulling back is going to result in some decline. but the decline has been so sharp. and sort of just to illustrate it, ...

And the city cops. >> we saw some protesters obviously a very diverse group of protesters students black, white, latino and other, all gathering. but, you know there's been a marked decline in african american enrollment in the university of virginia. that is the background context against this taking place. what is going on there? >> it's sort of hard to know. one thing that might be happening is that in the past couple of years, universities sort of pulled back on its scholarship program for low-income and working-class students. so if you think that african american students are going to be...

And i'll try to make it as brief as possible. but this was a man that was, in fact, a cleric in iran. he was critical of the iranian regime in the late 1990s, fled to australia because he was going to be killed. obtained political asylum in australia in 2001, left behind his then wife and two children in iran whom he's never seen since as i understand it. they weren't allowed to leave iran. let's understand that background context with one could imagine all the different things he would have seen and heard about in iran under that regime. throughout the 2000s, he became sympathetic to what he ...

Possible, but this was a man that was, in fact, a cleric in iran. he was critical of the iranian regime in the late 1990s, fled to australia because he was going to be killed. obtained political asylum in australia in 2001, left behind his then wife and two children in iran whom he's never seen since as i understand it. they weren't allowed to leave iran. let's understand that background context with one could imagine all the different things he would have seen and heard about in iran under that regime. throughout the 2000s, he became sympathetic to what he perceived whether it's reality or no...

And health care providers, but will be covered for a lot more people than it was going to. >> and that's the key thing. is that the complexity of the law, it's complexity is the product of a politics it gave birth to. >> that's the problem. i can't resist saying it even though i've been defending it even though it's a lot better doing nothing. i signed up for medicare a month ago. took me ten minutes. if there had been an option, there would have been none of this uproar. that's the last thing the insurance companies wanted and they managed to kill it in the last minute. >> the other backgroun...