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Appointees, 92% are white. when you look at this class, these are future leaders. so if you have a class that is largely absent of minority people, these are the folks who will be leaders in the next 10, 15, 20 years. you better have a diversified class to lead -- america otherwise you're going to have the same problem. you go talk to black republicans and latino republicans and expand your applicant pool is not that hard. it's not hard to find them. you have to have eyes and ears that are open to receive a diversified white house intern class. >> i would agree with you there. but also make a ...

House interns. there are some criticisms pointing to the lack of diversity there. is that a fair criticism or do you think there's more to this story, seema? what are you interpreting from this? >> it's true the intern class is less diverse than classes we saw under president obama. what did the applicant pool look like? if you look at voters, minorities were more likely to support president obama than president trump. did fewer apply? we don't know. >> we had to look at a picture and make assumptions. your thoughts on it, sabrina? if we look -- by the way, we're looking at the obama intern cl...

And not judge it on its face. of course, it's possible that there's more to this than meets the eye. you have to talk about the applicant pool certainly. what are your thoughts on this? >> my thoughts are largely that the most important thing is the confident of our character and what's in our heads and our ideas and our thought, not the color of our skin. so whether or not you have racial diversity in that intern class, i would argue probably you have a lot more diversity in terms of political viewpoints because president trump's election has stirred things up. you probably have republicans, ...

Relatively thin crust of american society that, like, wants to direct films and is mad that they can't. >> right. right now we have student debt topped over $1 trillion. we've never engaged in a social experiment like this before. people at the beginning of their professional lives are saddled with six figures of debt and then being asked to enter their working lives by working for free. those two things don't match up unless you're basically institutionalizing a structure, a privileged class who will do that and everyone else gets left out in the cold. and we have double-digit unemployment fo...