especially under betsy devos. charter schools program has spent over $4 billion starting new charter schools all over the nation. what we found and are report was that a lot of the money goes to charter schools that don't even open, ghost schools. hundreds of millions of dollars also go to charter schools that open and then close, some within a matter of just a few years. some longer. so the program has been very veiled. and what we're doing is we are deep into the data. and all of the evidence we have shows about $1 billion has been billion has been wasted on charter schools that have not open or have closed. at the same time, we see a lot of fraud, we see a lot of problems with mismanagement, we see a lot of turmoil from schools that open and then close, and we see a tremendous amount of drained resources from our public schools and our community schools that need the funding the most. so what elizabeth warren and bernie sanders are advocating come is,nd the naacp hey, let's take a cause. let's take a look. our

i would like to recognize secretary steve mnuchin, secretary betsy devos, jeff rosen, as well as senators tim scott who just left it is a fantastic diane james langford. where is james? come up. did he have to go to the vote too. a lot of people are voting and some important things right now. get out and vote. we have representative doug collins, elaine lurie, lee zelman, raise your hands. come on up, even the democrat can come up with that. come on up. what a job they are doing. nice to see you all. that is great. what a lawyer. how are you? i want to bring a friend of mine up. we know him, he is a champ, a winner, his my wife myra passed away, was a big tough time for you and for milania. you have been a special friend of his real, please come on up. as usual his team is mired in the first place. at the end of second-place, you know what i would like you to do? we could all learn from bob. he is a champ. if you can say a few words about israel please. >> thank you, mister president. i am honored to be here at this time, this event because this was a bipartisan issue, and previous admini

i would like to recognize secretary steve mnuchin, secretary betsy devos, deputy attorney general jeff rosen and senators tim scott who just left, fantastic guy and james langford, where is james, come up here, will you? did he have to go for the vote too, tell him we mentioned his name. a lot of these people are voting on some very important things, get out and vote. we have representatives doug collins, john scotttime or, e ln. max roads and leaves eldon, where are they, raise your hands, are you here, come on up if you want, even a democrat can come up, come on up. what a job they are doing. nice to see you all, hi, doug, that is great, good job, what a lawyer, i would hire you any time. i also want to bring a friend of mine up, a tremendous success in so many other businesses that they only know him because he signs tom brady's check every weekend is a champ, he is a winner, his wife myra passed away a longer time ago than we think. that was a big tough time for you and for me too and for milania. you have been a special friend of israel, nobody closer than bob kraft, please come u

you look at someone like betsy devos. she's become a kind of good laugh line but let's be clear about. this her whole family, their whole business model is about trying to privatize education. you look at the way they've been selling off public lands. this administration. for drilling. you can just go down the list and so your concern is a legitimate one. on that wall, look, that wall is never getting built and mexico is certainly not paying for it. right? [applause] and you know, it's just another one of those examples of bush duh i don't doubt there would be private contractors who are benefiting, i know that there were reports about, for example, the previous chief of staff to the president who was involved with some of the private and for-profit prisons, you know. so i'm not surprised about that. and you know, doesn't -- it doesn't get a lot of attention in the news but this issue of the public trust is so important. it's so important. you knowing, you and i know, you hold these positions not for your personal power.

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just two weeks ago the taliban claimed credit for a deadly attack at america's air betsy devos base >> reporter: a 40-year-old electrical engineer now holds the record for the longest space flight by a woman. cook broke the old mark of 288 days over the weekend. her mission started on march 14th according to nasa, she will remain at the iss until february of 2020 for a total of 328 days before returning back to earth >>> in october, cook set another milestone as part of the first all-female space walking team. >> fantastic >>> all right. new york's fifth avenue has been illuminated by one of the world's largest -- i should say the world's largest menorah. it is 32 field tall, weighs 4,000 pounds it's made of metal organizers added even more lights to the display this year. they say they want to encourage participants of hanukkah to add light to the world and take a stand against hate a very important message right now. one rabbi said not only will new york city be home to the largest menorah, but the brightest. >>> "star wars" proved it is still a tour de force at the box office. >>>

and i think from a k12 perspective, what it could do, it doesn't do this under betsy devos obviously, but what it could do would be to help people on the ground learn best practices from other places and transmit them across the country. basically what the department of education is is a passthrough of money from the federal government to local communities. i do think we have an important and vital federal role and national role to make sure that the civil rights impulse of education is not lost. in other words, we need to be there to protect kids against inequities based on their skin color, based on the circumstances of their birth. we still have an important role to do, to play there. that represents the origins of the department of education. host: you have been an administrator, you are a senator. how does michael bennet make a decision? how do you structure the decision-making process in the white house? sen. bennet: first of all, when people ask me, how have you done what you've done, i say, i find people that are better at doing their job than i would ever be. and i help put t

they were saying that they wanted to give rick perry and scott pruitt and betsy devos more power, becausef you have strong chevron deference, that means agencies have more power. it is bizarre to argue, but this is not supposed to be a left-right thing. saagar: how do you think the trump administration is doing so far? peter: the interesting regulation that seems like it -- ilya: the interesting regulation iat seems like a gimmick but think has been successful is the rule that for every new regulation promulgated, to have to be withdrawn -- two have to be withdrawn. that has actually worked. we have seen a slowdown in the pages on the federal register. if you go to senator mike lee's office, on capitol hill, he has two staffs, one on legislation -- two stacks, one of legislation and one of regulations. short and then is regulations are six feet tall. it all the straits that we are not governed by congress, but by this fourth branch. judicial appointments are helping with this, not just, even more in the lower courts than the supreme court, having an effect. the problem is that the d.c. ci

what they were saying was they wanted to give rick perry, scott pruitt, betsy devos more power.f you have strong chevron deference, the agencies have more power. it is a bizarre thing to argue. this is not supposed to be a left-right thing. >> how do you think the trump administration is doing so far? >> the one interesting regulation which seems like a gimmick but actually has been successful is the rule that for every new regulation promulgated has to be withdrawn. that has worked. [applause] we have seen a slowdown in production, the pages on the federal register. if you go to senator lee's office on capitol hill, he has different stacks. one of the pages of bills passed by congress, legislation. one stack that is regulation. the legislation is short. the regulation is like six feet tall on the wall and illustrates the point we are governed not by the legislature but by this fourth branch. judicial appointments are helping with this, even more the lower courts then the supreme court, really have any effect. , which handle so many of these regulatory appeals is still very skew

we are grateful to be joined by vice president mike pence, secretary betsy devos, senators tom -- ted cruz, representative bradley byrne, ron desantis, dan patrick, pennsylvania house speaker mike turner is a, tennessee state representative and students, parents, and teachers from across the nation. some brilliant students are with us. we will be having a session. -- iesident, i am finding am fighting every day for the forgotten american. we are looking past criminal justice reform. we got that done. criminal justice reform. they could never have done it without me. it was done by us. they have been trying to get it or many years. president obama would not do it or could not get it done. maybe that means the same thing. but i got criminal justice reform done. the press was dashed the press does not want to mention that. we had a lot of help including from likely. -- from mike lee. it worked out. it is working out very well. a big step and we are proud of it. i think when you look at the african-american community in particular, they are the biggest beneficiaries of criminal justice re

. >> yes and he may not have followed this but betsy devos has just been held in contempt by a courting to Ãb which require she not collect money that was owed for students who went to for-profit college, which went bankrupt. that's a whole other terrain i just left out of this conversation entirely. you get more students graduating, fewer students dropping out and paying their bills if you expand pell grants both the amount of money uncovered not just tuition and fees but all the other expenses that students have. the students i'm talking about, they've got to hire babysitters to go to school. you know while we are sitting in a bookstore cost thousand dollars or more a semester or somebody to go to college. that isn't factored into the equation. if they are away from home they've got to get there they have room and board. none of this gets figured into the equation. the state of massachusetts is very tricky, if you look at tuition tuition looks pretty low at the public universities because fees are astronomical. that's bait and switch. i think. he want to provide Ãband you start thi

i want to give a shout out to betsy devos for being the cautiona cautiona cautionary tale.tes these candidates actually is pretty exciting. we know they each are going to talk about their separate individual priorities and what they think should be happening with public education but, they do see that we have a problem that we have been under funding education. we have been sleeping with the wheel of student loans. everything from head start preschool to graduate school is covered. there is no more compelling issue for the american public than in my neighborhood, do i have a good public school system and the answer right now is we need help. >> we are going to have robust conversations all day tomorrow and pittsburgh around this. >> my colleague, rehema ellis knows a whole lot about this. thank you for joining us lily, we look forward to joining you tomorrow. the president of the national education association. tomorrow, you will be able to watch live on msnbc and nbc news, with special coverage on msnbc throughout the day starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern. president trump has

voting against betsy devos. one of the few republicans to do that too. she does have a track record of standing by her word. the question is based on the totality of what she said, does it seem like she actually will say to mitch mcconnell, i want the trial to look this way. i want it to have these characteristics. i'm not sure she will. i think she'll say she's not concerned about that kind of rhetoric. but i'm not hearing a sense from her that the underlying is significant enough to her to remove president trump for office. she is still a republican. she still need the republican base. so like every other republican, it's a steep mountain to climb. >> one of the things you hear mitch mcconnell say is we want the same rules as applied to bill clinton. we want how it worked with the bill clinton impeachment. and you are our best guest who knew how it worked with bill clinton. they had unanimity in terms of all 100 senators agreeing on the rules before they decided on witnesses. is that how you remember it? >> well, there was a 100-0 vote at the outset th

you also had people like betsy devos pumping money to destroy the public education system.e could go on and on. remember also you can't talk about say, democrats run the city, not talk about impact of red lining in '50s, '60s, '70s. why there is no property taxes. far beyond a democrat or republican problem. what is happening in the black communities i systemic and goes far beyond party. ed: last point from james. >> what we heard was apologist for status quo. you explain to black voters, tells democrat parents they don't have the right to sell schools to schools of their choice. candidates send their kids to private schools. you explain the conditions -- i'm speaking now. >> i'm actually glad that you brought that up. you explain to me that in the city, district of columbia, a city that is made up of african-americans, public schools work and white part of the city but does not work in the african-american part of the city, same school district. same in chicago. schools work on south side and -- >> democrat friends run those cities, richard. >> this is systemic policies --

one of the most popular, not surprising, all the candidates vowing to get rid of betsy devos, the currentove away from the trump administration policies but as you heard the candidates talk about the education policy, you heard the real dividing line between the pragmatic moderate ways and some of the ambitious policies from more progressive candidates. you heard bernie sanders talk about debt relief, eliminating all student debt. when we heard former vice president joe biden get on stage, he was one of the last candidates to get here. we heard him respond to that in part, his own plan to provide free community college for two years for all americans and he emphasized this point to the audience. and i can actually get it done and i can pay for it. we also heard from michael bennett, former superintendent from colorado. he talked about the fact that these candidates on the more progressive side are making hollow promises. that's a real divide among the democrats when there's broad agreement about what needs to be done for students but it was an interesting ideological divide that was there

i'd like to recognize secretary steven mnuchin, secretary betsy devos, deputy attorney general jeff rosen, as well as ascenders tim scott, who just left and he's a fantastic guy, and james lankford. where is james? james come up here, will you? did he have to go for the vote, tell him we mention his name. a lot of these people are voting, their voting at some very important things. get out and vote, right? we have representatives doug collins, josh goss heimer, david cussed off, elaine luria, and where are you, raise your hands if you are here. come up with you if you want. even the democrats can come up. come on up. what a job they are doing. come on up. nice to see you all. hi doug, high lee. i would hire you anytime. i also want to bring a friend of mine up. he's a tremendous success and some the other businesses but the only know him because he sensed tom brady's check every week. he's a champ, he's a winner, his wife passed away a longer time ago than we think, that was a tough time for you and for me to and for maloney. i want to tell you that you have been this special friend of is

i'd like to recognize secretary steven mnuchin, secretary betsy devos, deputy attorney general jeff rosen scott who just left and he's a fantastic guy and james lang ford. where is james? come up here, will you, please, james? did he have to go for the vote too? all right tell him we mentioned his name. a lot of these people are voting it's a very important things right now. i'm saying do you know what? get out and vote, right? and we have representatives doug collins, max rose, and lee z eld en, come on up if you want, even the democrat can come up, what the heck. >> [laughter] president trump: come on up. come on up what a job they're doing. come on up. nice to see you all. hi. hi, doug. that's great. hi, lee, good job, lee, i'd hire you any time, lee. i also want to bring a friend of mine up. he's a tremendous success in so many other businesses, but they only know him because he signs tom brady's check every week. >> [laughter] president trump: he's a champ. he's a winner and his wife myra passed away a longer time ago than we think it was a tough time for you and for me too. i just w

. >> education secretary betsy devos went before the house lay between sets question about her departments student loan debt forgiveness program. it targets students who took out loans at institutions that misrepresent chances for jobs, potential sellers after graduation leaving students unable to pay back large loans. >> the meeting will come to order.

one thing i will agree with your guests, i think betsy devos should be fired.she wants to treat the symptom instead of the disease. she is trying to get privatized schools. we need to clean up the public education system and get the socialist teachers out of it. grandkids, one of the professors said what should hillary clinton do upon being elected? civics, history about the positive things in our country, critical thinking skills. coping skills. all these kids have to have crying towels and all of this other nonsense. they go out into the world and they have adult theme classes. we should have a national curriculum. host: thank you for the call. with at disagree lot of what you said. i've never considered myself a socialist. i believe in public education. i believe in coping skills. i believe in civics and i believe kids should learn these problem-solving skills. just going to talk for myself. a lot of us try not to wear our own ideology in the classroom. we try to figure out how to present both sides. it is different in college. colleges have a lot more latit

we are grateful to be joined by vice president mike pence, secretary betsy devos, senators ted cruz and mike lee of my representative bradley byrne, florida governor ron desantis, texas lieutenant governor. >> entering on the 3:00 p.m. hour on the east coast, i am shannon bream as we pick up coverage of the president's remarks, the first we are seeing him on camera responding to the horowitz report, impeachment going on as well, busy days a lot of folks to help us unpack it here. let's start with chris wallace and the more that we dig through this information regarding the horowitz report, it is clear that there were concerns, information that could have been considered exculpatory wasn't passed to the higher-ups. reports said were in having the full picture that they were essentially claiming they didn't have the full information because it hadn't been passed of them. >> there is no question that there were problems, i hate the expression mistakes are made, but people inside the fbi from did some things that were wrong particularly with the fisa warrants and seems quite extraordinary f

they've been waiting day in and day out for one person to make a decision, her name is betsy devos. she's the secretary of education. she can provide them relief from their student loans they desperately needs, but refuses to do it. after being lured with false promises, these people i'm talking about ended up in programs at for-profit colleges and universities. who are the for-profits? see if this rings a name. corinthian, i.t.t. tech, westwood, devry, university of phoenix, dream sitter. these are for-profit colleges and universities, and these student borrowers were left with mountain of debt and diplomas that employers laughed at when it was all said and done. now secretary devos refuses to provide these students with relief from the student loan debt to which they are entitled under the defense higher education act. take one student who attended corinthian. she says i'm not able to buy my children clothes or shoes. pamela, from north carolina, owes dz sdz 100 -- $100,000 after attending a for-profit school. she says i have an autistic daughter and i can't afford to pay for her

. >> if you go work for betsy devos or something like that. >> well.kers] she was right about one thing. >> she was right about a lot of title ix. there's not a rule, do think there is no rule with the rule be we warned you the rules are established and you can't violate them. or you should have known. >> this stuff is so new. i really think we have to put this in perspective. it's only been 60 years that the birth control pill has been available and it's only been 60 years since anybody had any control over their reproductive life including men. the idea that women would be in the workplace deciding when and if to have children, deciding what kinds of careers and lives they want to have come to be working alongside men of the idea that that would happen and would propel itself forward at such a rapid rate in 60 years is a marvel. the idea we could figure this out in this time is absurd. these questions are really really difficult and i think they will take a lot longer then since 2017. >> emily go with the same question in a different way, "me too", o

a former lobbyist for the defense agency is now the secretary of defense and betsy devos, secretary of education, no. the way i think about this is our democracy is broken. i get it. rich people may own own more chutes or more cars than you do or more houses than you do, but they are not supposed to own a bigger share of our democracy than you do. cheers and applause] sen. warren: we take that on. we fight that fight. we knock back the influence of money and the lobbyists and the bought and paid for experts. we can off our back foot and get on our front foot and then the whole world changes because now what is possible is that actually, you could ask the billionaires to pay a wealth tax. hello, right? [applause] sen. warren: we can beat back the big polluters and beat back the influence of the gun industry, but it's got to start with not a nibble around the edge, not a let's be polite to the rich folks but starts with big structural change. that's how we are going to get this done. i love that. [cheers and applause] >> i'm connor. the senate is biased in favor of republicans and threat

and betsy devos, secretary of education. no.eight --see it -- the way i think about this is, our democracy is broken. i get it. own more shoesy than you do, they may own more houses than you do. they're not supposed to own a bigger share of your democracy then you do. than you do. [applause] sen. warren: we take that on. we fight that fight. we knocked back the influence of money and the lobbyists and the bought and paid for expert. we disrupt it. we get off our back foot and get on our front foot. and then, the whole world changes. -- you can possible ask the billionaires to pay a two cent wealth tax. right? [applause] can beat backe the big polluters. we can beat back the influence of the gun industry. it has got to start with night nibble around the edge, not a let's be polite to the rich folks -- it starts with a big structural change. that is how we are going to get this done. thank you. [applause] >> hi, i am connor. map is increasingly biased in favor of republicans not to mention with gerrymandering. what is your plan fo

i like his education policies i like his choice for education secretary, betsy devos, a big supporterol choice vouchers big supporter of charter schools and tax credits and all the rest and she spent her professional life supporting those causes. like the fact that trump appointed her and has been vocally supportive of education choice. when people talk about where i see this country going or where i see black america had a going forward i think it's only to be coming down to getting a decent education for kids in these poor communities. it's going to be at the root of everything. i have no faith that the traditional public schools in this country can do that because i don't believe that they are acting primarily in the interest of the children these days. i think they are acting primarily in the interest of the adults that public education has become a jobs program first and foremost. not an education program. i think the best way to fix that is to give it competition. whether it's alternative public systems like public charter schools or vouchers that allow people to take the kids o

a good sign in that regard is that the education department, betsy devos is looking at proposals to ease going to move on issues like that, that would help their prospects. anna: how much do you think global wall street should care about this? look at theyou narrow lens, the markets just seem to shrug. what is the master for the markets? greg: for now, it is the same old story that in many have said for the last year, the senate will acquit. there is a new twist, significant new twist after last night, and that is pelosi may hold back. she may not send the impeachment case to the senate unless she gets assurances there will be witnesses and testimony. if that happens, this could drag on and on. tom: you have been very good reading the tea leaves. the biggest mystery is the debate over does america care. new york times" study about six days ago that was exceptionally sophisticated, that both democrats and republicans are riveted by impeachment. are they? greg: the parties are, but the average voter would tell you a 3.5% unemployment rate is more important than impeachment. tom: what is th

. >>> education secretary betsy devos testified before the house education and labor committee. the hearing focused on the department's implementation of the student loan debt for forgiveness program. it's aimed at helping highly indebted students with loans that misrepresented graduate outcomes and potential salaries. >>> meeting on education and labor will come to order. i want to welcome everyone and note decorum is present. the oversight hearing from the department of education's implementation of the barr defense rule pursuant to committee rule 7c, opening statements are limited to chair and ranking members. this allows us to hear from witnesses sooner and provides all members time to ask questions. i'd like to thank secretary betsy devos and thank her to hold enough time to allow all of the members present and have five minutes of questions pursuant to house rules. i am especially thankful pause in this chair i am exercising my prerogative to go last in the question order. so if she were to leave early, i wouldn't get to answer questions. i thank you for agreeing to stay w

. >> education secretary betsy devos went before the house lay between sets question about her departments student loan debt forgiveness program. it targets students who took out loans at institutions that misrepresent chances for jobs, potential sellers after graduation leaving students unable to pay back large loans. >> the meeting will come to order. i want to welcome everyone and note a quorum is present. we we will hear testimony from e department of education implementation of borrowed eventual. pursuant to commingle 7c statements are limited to the chair and ranking member. i want to thank secretary devos of being with us today and thank her for a green to hold enough time in the schedule all of the members present to have amendments confinements of questions pursuant to house rules. especially thankful because this cheer i'm exercise my prerogative to go last in question order so it she were to leave early i wouldn't get to ask questions. i want to thank you for agreeing to stay with us for the full-time. i recognize myself enough for the purpose of making an opening statement. we

i'd like to thank secretary betsy devos and thank her to hold enough time to allow all of the members present and have five minutes of questions pursuant to house rules. i am especially thankful pause in this chair i am exercising my prerogative to go last in the question order. so if she were to leave early, i wouldn't get to answer questions. i thank you for agreeing to stay with us the full time. i recognize the opening statement. we are here to examine the department of education's implementation of the baar defense rule. i want to thank you, madam secretary, to discuss this important issue. the bar defense rule is grounded in basic fairness. students face severe financial and emotional consequences and it is, therefore, cruel and counterproductive for the federal government to compound their misfortune by collecting on the student loans. accordingly, the higher education act, requires the secretary of education to provide debt relief. until recently, that authority was rarely needed because institutional fraud was uncommon. but in 2015, crackdown think corinthian colleges closed

secretary betsy devos has allowed more than 200,000 borrower defense applications to pile up at the department. nearly 11,000 from my own home state. but listen to this, mr. president -- secretary devos has not approved a single claim for more than a year. 200,000 applications stacking up at the department of education. not one approved. so who are some of these borrowers that are languishing? what is their story? let me tell you about do of them. -- about two of them. one is jessica from tucson, arizona. jessica attended the art institute of tucson from 2009 until 2012. it was owned by a failed for-profit education management corporation, edmc. heart breakingly, jessica says i have experienced unbelievable amounts of stress and depression due to this situation. i have been placed on antidepressants and antianxiety medication over the years and been through therapy. i have self-harmed and contemplated suicide because i felt so trapped and unable to recover and move forward. i have a general feeling of worthlessness because i feel like my potential had been squandered. she went to the art insti