and a basic promise. - a nation that rewards the effort and determination of every single american. - so the least among us shall have an equal chance to achieve the greatest things. - and the doors of higher education will be open to all. - no matter what your circumstances or where you are, you are part of the life of our great nation. - it s one thing all our presidents agree on, each in their own unique way. [patriotic music winds down] - have a good life. we will see you soon. - and to get that good life, all we had to do was follow the instruction manual on how to do the right thing. study hard, be nice to your brother. - get him! - go to college, graduate, and voila, achieve the american dream. but at some point. [clattering] - the us economy shrinking. - they re not getting married. they re not getting homes. they re not getting jobs. - we ve been looking at 40 years of flat wages. - those doors to opportunity got harder to open. [light laughter] - this is a big one
fbi s search. alexandria hoff kicks things off at the nation s capitol. the justice department mounting concerns over the nature and handling of the documents that were brought to mar-a-lago. it described in january, trump representatives turned over 15 boxes of record. by may the department of justice determined mixed in with personal and unrelated paper work were highly classified documents. 184 which had the classification markings. 25 marked top secret and others indicated they contained information on clan destine human sources or spies as one might call them. the probable cause to justify the raid of mar-a-lago, the belief that additional documents might be found along with evidence of obstruction. we still don t quite know what the specificity of the obstruction allegation was. was it in the handling of these documents and the reporting of their possession or did it go to something broader? and he suggested that answer might be found beneath the redactions, presi
and a basic promise. - a nation that rewards the effort and determination of every single american. - so the least among us shall have an equal chance to achieve the greatest things. - and the doors of higher education will be open to all. - no matter what your circumstances or where you are, you are part of the life of our great nation. - it s one thing all our presidents agree on, each in their own unique way. [patriotic music winds down] - have a good life. we will see you soon. - and to get that good life, all we had to do was follow the instruction manual on how to do the right thing. study hard, be nice to your brother. - get him! - go to college, graduate, and voila, achieve the american dream. but at some point. [clattering] - the us economy shrinking. - they re not getting married. they re not getting homes. they re not getting jobs. - we ve been looking at 40 years of flat wages. - those doors to opportunity got harder to open. [light laughter] - this is a big one
this is your family? - this is my family. yep. - were they aware of the work you were doing? your parents? - yeah. i like to think my parents instilled in me the spirit of the happy warrior. it helps me keep my chin up during some of the low times during this battle. - what would you say to this kid as you look at this younger version of yourself? - oh, that s actually my brother, believe it or not. - oh, okay. that s you? - uh, that s also my brother. - alan s devotion to this issue meant giving up a lot. - when i first started this, i had a good job in the defense industry. i had health care. i had a house. i had many things. i have none of those things today because i decided that the most useful thing that i could be doing with my life was fighting this battle. the lenders pull out all the stops against our best and brightest for the crime of going to college. this lending system has now catastrophically failed.
from student loans. - today, that old instruction manual feels like false advertising. - the system is unfair. we tell young people to go to college. they have to take out loans in order to graduate. and now they re punished for it. - for doing the right thing, borrowing money for the right reason higher education. [tense music] - this is a story about how our basic bargain was broken by greed and politics. - there was two lines slipped in under the dark of night. - it wasn t until it was all over, you look back and say, oh, my god, two lines in the bill changed the lives of millions of americans. - and my personal journey to uncover how student debt crushed the american dream. - this lending system has now catastrophically failed. - this thing has just spun out of control. - i see you ve got a whip in your hand. - this is not a whip. it s a flogger. - oh, okay. and who was secretly behind it. - we are trying to figure out where it came from. - who? - nobody put their name on this one