only one hundred billion dollars in student loan debt here discussing remington a great council for civil justice and consumer rights with public citizen remington happy new year great to have you with us again good to be here so we're talking about this but this is such a big hairy issue i mean it seems not to be getting the needed attention why do you think that is well what we're crisis where ballots from crisis to crisis we're trying to fight assault on our civil liberties and access to justice so this doesn't get the attention it deserves but people want to talk about this was a poll that came out just this week from harvard eighty seven percent of democrats sixty one percent of republicans say congress needs to take action you know it's a big deal right now remington how are students getting their their money for school is through loans student loans or their scholarships what how in the u.s. are they paying tuition majority of student loans and that's why one point five we have five trillion dollars worth of student loans forty four million of us have student loans and eight million have d