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And in the next tax bracket, we've all heard those stories, but this is such an elaborate scheme and we wonder how that works. let's ask that question. tom, let me start with you, william singer, this is the guy mika was just describing at the top of the chain here, a college counselor, a for-profit company he runs. college prep gets you ready for the s.a.t., things like that. how does it work? walk us from him to the colleges themselves. >> there's a couple different tiers and couple different ways they did it. the first way, look, we have coaches we're actually bribing. a tennis coach on the...

Yale and stanford more even. it's about making places like yale and stanford effectively irrelevant by creating free, high-quality abundant public higher education that every kid can go to. and the high-quality k through 12 education that people need in order to get into those schools and thrive at those schools. >> william, thank you for your book and your contribution to our discussion. william, the book is called excellent sheep. >> how about the ultimate confidence in your kid? that's what these parents should say, i'm going to decide your outcome. >> crazy story. all right, president tr...

Georgetown and the university of southern california. they are accused of paying bribes ranging from $200,000 to upwards of hello, $6.5 million to college prep consultant william singer. according to prosecutors singer then facilitated ways -- this is where i'm stunned -- to help students cheat on entrance exams and be recruited as athletes regardless of their athletic abilities. how did the kids not know this was happening? are they being brought up to cheat. this is horrendous. they must have known in some cases. >> they are being brought up to follow their parents to some extent. in some ca...

Of paying $500,000 to have their two daughters labeled as recruits to the usc crew team. neither of those daughters ever took part in that sport. this was a wide-ranging scheme, one essentially run by a company that was run out of newport beach, california, by a man called william singer. he pleaded guilty earlier today to racketeering. we assume he has given the feds much of the evidence on which all of these charges are based. we will now have the 13 here in l.a. arraigned. we have not seen felicity huffman at this point, although she should, by all logic, be inside the courthouse already. w...

Among the 50 people charged including actresses felicity huffman and lori loughlin, both charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud. nbc justice correspondent pete williams has been covering all of this. pete, this is extraordinary, we're talking about some of the elite schools in the country. are they aware of all this or are they unwitting to it? >> it looks like they're unwitting, according to federal prosecutors. elite schools, andrea, and elite parents. people with a lot of money, paying a man in newport beach, california, who would then arrange to have somebody else take their tests fo...