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Denied for less qualified white applicants named mike. that's the story. [laughter] >> what i seem to find as the issue in this is the waste of academic funding, so this study came out of allegheny college and received funding from the college. they also just got a $500,000 grant from howard hughes under the name of to foster equity and student experience in the stem programs. i don't know, why don't we take that $500,000 and put it into the stem innovation so we can attempt to be on par with china. it's a waste of academic funds and it happens all the time. >> that's a great point. taking a s...

Thousands of dollars are pouring into Sumner County Schools to support robotics education for middle and elementary school students.

Billion infrastructure bill to address the china threat. and it's $120 billion of research institutions, of education, of advanced science, s.t.e.m. programs and also an industrial policy to build the necessary chain of manufacturing systems so that we produce in this nation the things that we need. now we'll couple that with what we've done in the house. one more piece of this puzzle that seems to be very contentious and, frankly, i don't understand our republican colleagues. education. the most important thing for the future is a well-educated workforce. that's k through 12. that is also job...

It's that anti-intellectualism simply isn't cool. and kanye west -- these issues as you stated that they're going to talk about are issues that are central issues in many african-american communities. they're very important issues. but the fact is we're not sending kanye west to the white house to talk about these issues because he can't. he doesn't have the depth to. i want to hear what kanye west wants to do when we're talking about criminal justice reform or prisoner re-entry. the fact is he cannot. he doesn't have that depth. just the other day he was talking about stem programs and how we...

Seriously, bakari, do you think trump is just using kanye as a prop to win over black voters before the midterms? >> i'm not sure he's using him as a prop per se, but what kanye west has done with donald trump is what other people have done who have gravitated into his orbit, which is just shower him with adulation. for what reason, i have no idea. but my issue with kanye west is quite simple. it's that anti-intellectualism simply isn't cool. these issues as you stated that they're going to talk about are issues that are central issues in many african-american communities. they're very importa...