zero heartbur melissa: it is friday afternoon.t doesn't mn that you can't think about how to make money on monday. keeping a close eye on the u.s. treasury bonds. investors are squawking to them for their second straight week on yields. investors are racing to the safe haven of things. almost any conversation about education ends up coming down to money. money is the reason behind the latest and largest school closures in our nations history. chicago is closing 54 schools. can you imagine? it's an effort to shore up the billion dollar budget deficit. as shocking as this sounds, cities are facing similar meesures are in your city could be one of them. could this actually be the best medicine? joining me n is the ceo of the illinois policy institute. >> and the 2010 census, 200,000 africans left and that has been a decades long time. many are declaring that the chicago public school system, which has monopoly control over educational systems is failing. they are leaving. we have these empty scols that have to be closed. melissa: it

zero heartbur melissa: now to some alarming news in syria.ts of a chemical weapons attack in the country's second largest city. it confirmed this -- if confirmed it would be a real game changer and if it crosses president obama's red line and could impact of hundreds of millions of dollars of aid we give to syria. details are still coming in. the state department has not confirmed the allegation chemical weapons were used. we have the president and founder of the arican islamic forum for democracy. always nice to have you. let me ask you, how serious is this? how big of a deal is it? >> as we've been saying for almost two years now, no conflict has been worse in the world than what is going on in syria. assad's regime will stop at nothing. i have a family in aleppo. while they're safe there are millions of aleppo and all over syria are at risk. i think this may have been a trial balloon. we talk to some of our network physicians, we were skyping, a friend of mine was skyping at the hostile that received injured. it was clear that they had inj

zero heartbur ♪ melissa: a startling report in the "wall street journal" shows 16 u.s.ompanies $166 billion overseas, 60 companies, and they are allowed to do it but it amounts to half of those companies profits and they are saving billions of taxes. the government is missing out on billions of tax revenue. a fraction of that money could cover all this years sequestered cuts for example. joing me now. this is one of those things that has washington looking and salivating. they would love to get their hands on that tax revenue. if it came back they be tax-free, to stimulate the economy, people would spend it, there may be hiring. what are the odds it would ever come back, what would have to happen to the tax laws? >> we tried that nine years ago, congress lawyer 2004, almost tax-free, 5% on tax and what subsequent studies fnd was a didn'itdidn't generate a lot of, didn't generate a lot of business in the u.s. companies mostly used it to buy shares back and pay out vidends. it is an enticing idea and maybe would work next time but didn't work the last time. melissa: are s

zero heartbur ♪ melissa: the stude loan debt in this country is nearing a trillion dollars.ave found the private sector solution to the ballooning crisis. students with older experienced professionals to agree to invest a certain amount of money toward tuition. in return the prospects of their backers a percentage of their annual income for ten years. very cool. like venture-capital for college. here now to discuss this breakthrough, honor and ceo welcome to the show. i think this was so fascinating. and just to explain basically how it works because we said it, someone is trying to raise money to go to school. they get somebody to loan the money and invest in it. a promise to pay them a percentage of their income. basically what you do is match the two sides. >> we provide a technology platform for people to come up, young people come up, their stories, sit with their passionate about and try to convince backers why they should invest in the in this competing, novel way. melissa: and the example, one of the examples i read you the 10% of their earnings for two years. you ar