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>> i tell them that i look them in the eye and tell them the truth, that i'm honest -- >> does that mean your primary opponents are not telling them truth when they say free college -- >> there's a lot of people making promises and i'm not going to make promises just to get elected. i'm not running for chair of the national democratic committee. i'm running for president of the united states and that means you bring people together and you find that common ground in our own party and there all bold plans he. i twubt double the pel grant. that will help so many kids when you go up to 12,000 a y...

Quite think out all the steps about what would happen after his announcement and tossing hot potato to congress. >> you don't get sympathy. his statement last night, i'll revisit it, are being contradicted by his own administration and white house talking points which said dreamers should prepare for departure for this country in six months. the idea of forcing congress's hand may seem el grant on the surface, but it runs into a thicket of problems. as lindsey graham said, if donald trump wants to avoid a moral disaster on this that would haunt his conscience, he needs to lead. if he wants to ...

About educating about the hbcus and so we kind of got rushed. >> you wrote something on medium so that you could voice what you want today ta wanted to talk about. you said you were talking about raising the maximum pell grant because the purchasing power has hit a low over decade. you want it indexed for inflation. >> right. >> so this is your chance to talk about why the pel grant in your view is so important to students at dillard university and also historically black colleges and universities? >> so we're at the anniversary of president reagan, it was shifted that education is not a priva...

Presidents, there's one photo causing a stir, with kellyanne conway, you look at it and your beef is something entirely different. tell us, because you had the photo op but in the end it didn't really mean that you got to exchange ideas? >> right. we had a marvelous idea to have a listening session where about 15 of us would have a chance to talk with new secretary of education, and agencies including omb to talk about the needs, my focus was to talk about the pel grant, we talked about more resources for scholarships and for title three programs so lots of things to talk about but then it was...

President-elect does. >> and the grizzly comment there, jake, she was talking about was a comment that senator enzi, of course republican from wyoming was making earlier in the hearing, talking to her about local school control and how some of his districts are rural and thing like that. but certainly in terms of gun policy with the memory of knew town and other shootings we've seen so much did not resonate very well there. but she was also pressed so hard by senator elizabeth warren, democrat of course of massachusetts. she was one of the democratic senators who was simply saying she's not fi...