Economically. they will refinance the loans at lower rates. it makes sense. right? over the last eight years, student debt has skyrocketed to about $1.2 trillion and debt holders burden has gone up 70%. with us now on set to talk about this, columbia university professor and andrew rossi. the filmmaker behind the new documentary ivory tower. all about the rising cost of college. it has gotten outrageous. how expensive it is for middle-class americans and working-class americans to send their kids to school. it really is expensive. as these colleges look at how they can become profit centers, business models, they kind of take the lead from the other ones. andrew, we have andy on the left and andrew on the right here. andrew, why did you want to take a look at this, the ivory tower? obviously the american dream is for all of us, you know, our kids to grow up and send them off to a power-year institution.
Says the people that want to become justices don t answer questions. i think this gives republicans in particular an opportunity to hold her to what they are going to call the kagan standard, which is that they want to get some direct answers to questions from her. that should provide for very interesting and hopefully illuminating hearing. we hope. when we heard her crack the jokes. we have heard her direct talks. it should be interesting. bigger picture, what do americans want in a nominee? can we even narrow it down to specifics at this point? it is interesting. i think you have heard the president talk a lot about empathy. somebody who has real world experience. he will say that elena kagan has that kind of empathy because she has not spent a lifetime on the bench. her opponents will argue that while she hasn t been on the bench, she hasn t been on the real world because she spent a lot of her time in academia, the