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>> i if you were already 18 you could drink. people watching the show are loving that togs. >> it is fascinating. >> they are hammered now. >> i don't think you can make it against the law, right? don't they remove the federal funds -- >> highway funds. you mentioned the point of lowering drinking age is to save lives. i don't think you take rights away from adults because people can't handle those. i am gonna leave now. >> thank you. >> go mets. >> spiders terrorize humans, but when we return, some chick with her own show. >> up on the next "kennedy, you know her and love her, joanne know nos...

Nationalities. >> he >> he operates an online site. >> aruba has a rich history being a colony of the dutch and about 30 years now almost. it became a commonwealth belonging to holland, but with its own government. our main income is tourism, almost 100%. >> last year, more than 1.5 million tourists visited the island where the legal drinking age is 18. when natalee arrived, she was just like any other tourist. i recently traveled back to the island with natalee's mother, beth holloway. imagine that 18 year old child of yours coming down here for what she thought was going to be her vacation. ...

One of who is 21 and one is 19. this is a problem across college campuses and once you start with the drinking the heavy drinking the binge drinking, all sorts of bad things happen. so colleges and universities are sort of pretending this isn't happening. they're ignoring the fact that everybody, all sorts of underage people drinking on their campuses and leading to all kinds of problems of sexual abuse and other misdemeanor and not misdemeanor crimes. >> certainly not to excuse the bad behavior but important to point the root cause there. what's the recommendation for what schools should do? ...

>> the university doesn't have to meet the same standard as the legal system. >> i think that's the problem. if you have paid a full tuition, over four years and you get expelled, as this person did at duke, two weeks before graduation for the accusation of a crime that was never really proved, then, you know -- >> again you're talking about one anecdote i don't know anything about. >> more broadly, clearly, this is a problem across the board. not just at duke university. it seems like almost all of these cases, the one thing that has always present is alcohol. so is that ultimately the root o...

These kids are being tested into oblivion. they spend their entire childhood with one goal getting into a good school and getting success. they have been running on the hamster trail for 15 years. how about more freedom? not less. how about we start young. let's take off the knee pads and let them skin their knee, let them make their mistakes in the teen years lower the drinking age, yeah, i said it. let them have a glass of wine with dinner and stop acting likes it's a magic elixir of sin, maybe that will take the mystery out of it and they won't feel like they have to fly to florida and drin...