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Follow. a student's self identification should be enough and these transgender applicants very bright young women should be regarded and their application to be reviewed in the same way as the other applicants. >> a premed student with a bright future. you do a great public service by sharing your story. thanks. >> thank you. >> for this week's call to action, we want to you weigh in. tweet at smith college and urge the school to join the other top women's colleges by changing the eligibility requirements for transgender applicants. tweet at us with your thoughts. we will be sharing your respo...

And sort of biding its time. >> that are echoes what we heard and we have been in touch with the first transgender openly transgender individual at smith who said the pace of smith's progress has been glacial even after a decade of student activism that is in favor of transwomen's inclusion. it has been frustrating to see other colleges proudly announce they are welcome of all women students while smith lags far behind. should the criticism teach other colleges something? >> well i really think that at this point while smith is moving quite slowly as was stated i think that other schools have ...

They have a much more explicit policy for transgender applicants. they welcome applicant for the under graduate program from any qualified student who is female or identifies as a woman. the school lays out who can apply and who can't. everyone can apply who identifies as female. should that be the model? >>. >> i think that it's quite a progressive and useful model. smith college so far the administration has not at all been communicative with smith q&a, the on campus organizing group on campus. it's not been communicative at all with for example, media inquiries. smith college hasn't directl...

>>jonathan: we got more insight into that from an early witness, who served as bunny mellon's estate attorney. she said that later in life she had very few people she would consider close friends but she had taken a liking to john edwards and she really liked him as an individual, as described as "she wasn't interested in being named secretary of state or ambassador, it was the person that interested her." >>shepard: thank you, jonathan, from the courthouse in north carolina. and now to our legal panel, josh on the left, and criminal defense attorney on the right, randy zelin. bunny mellon cou...