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Us back before the voting rights act was enacted? does that mean he wants to take us back before the civil rights act was enacted? he wants to take us back before roe v. wade was enacted? because we re not going back. we re not going back! we see a future. we see a future, and i m going to tell you not only am i a child of parents who were active in civil rights fighters and marchers, i also had a career as a prosecutor. so let me tell you a little bit about that. i know how to take on predators. i took on the big banks and won over $20 billion. i took on for profit colleges and put them out of business. i took on oil companies who were polluting our environments. i took on transnational criminal organizations who were preying
Troubling rise of for profit colleges and msnbc political analyst. i ll start you because you re sitting here. you ve been fired up about this story today in the wheelhouse of a book that you just wrote. my first book was a similar topic. what was your reaction to the story? it was so incredible. what it suggested to me was many rich people in america are no longer satisfied with the kind of generalized rigging of america for rich people, the benefits all rich people equally. white privilege, two-tier policing. schooling like beverly hills, et cetera. the problem with that is it benefits all rich people. right. something not so exclusive about it and what was revealed today was that there is this class of people who wants kind of bottle service rigging over and above the generalized
For all the talk and finger wagging in higher education, the announcement of indictments in a massive college cheating scandal may be the john steven out nation turns out money was the real affirmative action all along. family wealth that helped unqualified students get into elite universities in an alleged criminal conspiracy that is bribes, fake test takers and more. here to talk about the scheme. tressy mcmillan cotton, author of the great book lower ed the troubling rise of for profit colleges and msnbc political analyst. i ll start you because you re sitting here.
A president who s decided to make the government a money making operation for him selves and his friends and has sold off essentially every department of government to the private special interests who are supposed to be regulated by it. the department of education is over run by the for profit colleges now. the department of interior has been taken over by the mining interests and by the fracking interests and so you name the special interest which does not have the general good of the public at heart. is there any potential political fallout that you worry about for the democrats if investigations do not uncover substantive proof of these allegations of malfeasance? well, first of all, there are already lots of people going to jail as we ve seen. the president s campaign chairman paul manafort s going to jail. michael flynn, his national security advisor, went to jail despite the fact that he had been warned by the obama administration that he was