kingman brewster was yale's president. famous for finally admitting women to the college.to make yale more inclusive, courting more applicants from public schools. and he slashed legacy admissions by almost half in just one year. >> disaster. immediate disaster. >> the alumni revolted. yale graduate william f. buckley jr. lamented that the son of an alumnus now has less chance of getting in from some boy from p.s. 109 somewhere. alumni contribution fell off a cliff. eventually brewster gave in and ever since, no ivy league school has dared to take on the preference for alumni's children. >> they're terrified what would happen to their fundraising if they got rid of legacy preference. >> but there are great schools out there that avoid legacy preference. and they're doing just fine. cal tech doesn't cater to alumni kids, and it has one of the largest endowments in the nation. even oxford and cambridge with their centuries of hallowed tradition refuse to favor alumni children. their endowments are well into the billions. >> we like to think that england is the land of social

i also want to ask a similar question to what you asked to pete buttigieg to you, shaquille, brewster, who is with bernie sanders's campaign. he's rolling out his own plan to reform the v.a. and help veterans and members of the military. he obviously has a different life experience as josh was talking about with pete buttigieg. a different experience with sanders moving forward. how does he connect the two? >> reporter: what we've been hearing from senator sanders is him focusing on what he did in the senate as chairman of the veteran affairs committee and we're seeing that in this new plan that he's releasing this morning. it's aed 62 billion plan that focuses on new spending to rebuild and modernize v.a. infrastructure and it also provides cutting-edge health services and it extends the benefits. and he also pledges to fill nearly 50,000 vacancies in the v.a. he was in carson city iowa last night in a conservative district in iowa and he was asked by a veteran what is he going to do to take on veterans affairs and a conservative who didn't agree. and senator sanders defended his cha

to gail loss but when it came to yellow came with a vengeance in the person the president kingman brewster who declared that he did not intend to preside over a finishing school in the long island sound. and saw it on to remake the university as an engine of merit and he called himself an indian investment maker. he was looking for that raw talent in a student's who revealed the highest returns for their education. do this he hired a new director of ms. clark. along working class from long island. he fired the entire staff and hire new people in his first year reduce the number of legacies and a off. and so the story goes denied admission to the sun of the biggest donor. by 1970 the median young student and sat that would've put them in the top 10 percent of the class of 1960. and that happened broadly throughout the american elite. and in some ways is extraordinary how competitive the elite has gotten. in the 1990s, the year in which the university of chicago submitted 71 percent of its applicants and this year it admitted 6 percent. so the american elite has become incredibly competitive

. >> reporter: for 20 years, andrew has lived at brewster place apartments in redwood city.e was planning to stay at least a decade more. >> the notice was taped like this. >> reporter: on november 1st, he got this 60-day eviction notice on his door and mailbox. he says he's being kicked out for no reason. >> i always pay one day in advance. i have for the past ver been

shaquille brewster is in des moines. big number she put out there.is it 20 trillion? she's saying 20. >> exactly. that's a big distinction. there are some folks that economic analysts that suggest this could be $36 trillion. her own team and some outside folks say that put it more at the number of $20 trillion, which she's put it in. and this is the part where elizabeth warren has come under scrutiny over these last months not from necessarily republicans but it's her own democratic contenders, including the likes of bernie sanders, who is also in support of medicare for all. the question has been how do you pay for medicare for all? bernie sanders has suggested that the reality will be that you have to increase taxes on the middle class. what elizabeth warren said yesterday that she was able to make up for that by continuing to boost taxes on corporations, investors, and essentially make up for that. >> over to you, shaq, beto now out. how's that resonating on the ground right now? and i'm also seeing the crowded field of four now is specifically in

. >> we have shaquille brewster standing by in minneapolis with that rally with ilhan omar.ring in the panel to break all of this down for us. we were kind of talking about this before. bernie sanders getting a second wind if you like to use that expression after his heart attack scare. he had a big showing here in brooklyn, new york, or i should say queens, new york, when aoc came out and endorsed him. rashida tlaib had a rally in michigan. and now ilhan omar. what do you make of this latest push? >> i think that senator sanders has absolutely had a resurgence of excitement. the problem for all of these democrats in the field is no matter how passionate their supporters may be, i mean, andrew yang's supporters are extremely passionate. bernie sanders especially so for sure. elizabeth warren. there seems to be at the moment a cap on the amount of support that any of these democrats have won. so the question is really who can build a broader tent? who can speak beyond their immediate base and welcome more democratic voters in? and that's what i am looking for. teed us off per

host: from brewster, new york, richard calling on the republican line. welcome. >> thanks to c-span, they are patriots and americans and have cameras in the house and senate. that is great. see who our representatives are and what they are saying. i heard google wants to get 90 million american medical records and then sell them off to five or six other companies. what is happening with that? thank you. patrick: great question. there is a lot of concern about that, and that question gets to the heart of some of the other issues we are seeing in this to eight about big tech, and what is being done with your privacy, and business practices these companies are engaged in. the good news is that those records are already protected by existing law. hippa covers the privacy of your medical records. we weren't having this conversation when we began wiring hospitals with the internet. and we weren't talking about how internet service providers would have access to your health care records, because we understood that these companies, because they are subcontracted

. >> reporter: for 20 years, andrew has lived at brewster place apartments in redwood city. he was planning to stay at least a decade more. >> the notice was taped like this. >> reporter: on november 1st, he got this 60-day eviction notice on his door and mailbox. he says he's being kicked out for no reason. >> i always pay one day in advance. i have for the past ver been la. >> reporter: he expects the is in suspense of the new legislation requiring land lords to have a valid reason to remove at t remove tenants. redwood city leaders took action. they passed an ordinance issue preventing tenants from being displaced. saying it's a shame that come unscrupulous land lords have chosen to exacerbate displacement and homelessness in in order to make obscene profits. >> they're disregarding the issued three days after the ordinance went into effect. he's ready to fight so he can stay home. >> the law is pretty clear. i don't think they have a leg to stand on. >> there's a new housing study that unveils bleak numbers for california. the state is home to four of the nation's most f

. >> shaquille brewster is with the sanders camp and joins me right now.nto the race? >> reporter: he has been having a lot to say about that the past couple of days. here in orange city, iowa, conservative, more rural area of the state. he has been focused on climate change. he had those events with congress kls woman alexandria ocasio-cortez. when he made those comments about mayor bloomberg entering the race, i got to ask what spurs this energy? why does he get upset with the prospect of michael bloomberg entering the race? >> i think the american people are sick and tired of billionaires continuing to have so much influence over the economic life in this country and the political life of this country. look, a lot of people would like to run for president of the united states but don't have $52 billion or they're not going to be able to buy all the media in california and all the other states. and i think that we have got to move away from a system that grants so much power to people who have money, and that's about it. >> reporter: part of the issue th

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shaquille brewster on the drake university campus in the suburb of des moines.nk you. >>> back to new hampshire now and mayor pete buttigieg who is in the middle of his four-day bus tour. bringing his case directly to voters onboard that bus, and stopping for various town halls and rallies along the way. on the bus with him and on the road with him, there are no questions we're told that are off limits. josh letterman, on the bus tour joins me. what are they telling people about those who blame his polling struggles in southern states on homophobia? >> reporter: yeah. that's right. something we've talked with buttigieg about. this issue of whether his lack of support currently from african-american voters might be related to the fact that he is one of the, the first major openly gay candidate. he pushed back on that notion in an interview we did with him earlier about a memo that came out from his campaign suggesting nats what they found in focus groups but he didn't want to keep focus on that nor talk much about mike bloomberg, the talk of the campaign trail th

joining me now from des moines is nbc's shaquille brewster. campaign hoping to gain from aoc and her presence? >> reporter: they really are just kind of tapping into that star power that she brings. she had that rally last night in council bluffs, iowa, then look at what you're seeing now. this is a climate crisis summit on the campus of drake university in des moines, iowa. you see it's nearly 1,500 -- well over 1,500 people here. we know that's how many seats were available for people here. they're having a panel discussion with national leaders and local iowa climate change leaders and advocates. and what you're really seeing is this campaign trying to tap into the energy that you see among democrats on this issue of climate change. this is an issue that democrats list as one of their top issues. and of course, the people here are not all committed to bernie sanders just yet. we talked to a lot of undecided voters here. listen to the conversation i had with two undecided voters just earlier today. >> the energy needs to be towards what we'r

kamala harris and bernie sanders are in iowa and joining me now from orange city, iowa, shaquille brewsterent, i know the senator had thoughts on michael bloomberg possibly tossing his hat into the race. what can you tell us about that? >> just making sure you can hear me. >> just give -- it's cool. give me a sense of -- >> i'll tell you -- >> and what do you think about michael bloomberg tossing his hat into the race? >> you know, senator sanders is a candidate who regularly on the campaign trail if you try to get him to draw a contrast with other candidates b, he'll deflect and talk about other things. but i think the exception is here with michael bloomberg. with him not being in the race yet. he was in coryville, iowa and listen to how he brought up michael bloomberg and what he said. listen here. >> so tonight, we say to michael bloomberg and other billionaires, sorry! you ain't going to buy this election. you're not going to get elected president by avoiding iowa. by avoiding new hampshire. south carolina and nevada. you're not going to buy this election by spending hundreds of milli

joining me from iowa, shaquille brewster and vaughn hillyard. good to see you both.'re there in des moines. i want to talk about what the 11 candidates are scheduled to do when they speak at the ncaa events today. from this latest poll -- naacp, pardon me. it is clear that elizabeth warren has made a name for herself in the state, but how about the other candidates? what are they trying to do to stand out in this still very crowded field? >> reporter: well, alex, the focus this morning has been on african-american issues, which as we know, is a wide variety of issues. so we've heard the candidates talk about education, the economy, health care reform. in all, 11 presidential candidates were here on stage today. they got pressed on their records as interactions with the moderators. beto o'rourke was supposed to be here, was scheduled to be here before he dropped out of the race yesterday. but to kick things off this morning was senator cory booker. listen to a little bit of what he had to say. >> the staggering black-white wealth gap in this country, which continues t