the devos administration has rolled that back and said they will issue new regulations through the formal formaltration -- regulation process. the obama administration was not formal regulation. host: issues facing colleges today. we have special minds. if you are college student or parent, you can call (202) 748-8000. if you are a college educator, you can call (202) 748-8001. all others can reach us at (202) 748-8002. fromt to play clip for you about theis week department of education's priorities. i want to to respond to this exchange between bobby scott and betsy devos. [video clip] >> a $15 billion cut in student aid, is that right? opined.e heard that i'm not sure i agree. >> do you have another number? approach to giving students more flexibility pursuing their higher education. >> a $15 billion cut? do you have another number? opined.e heard that i said i don't necessarily hear that perspective. -- share that respective. >> the debacle going on with teachers in the process of fulfilling their loan forgiveness requirements. has your department known about that? >> are you speaking

the devos administration has rolled that back and said they will issue new regulations through the formalmaltration -- regulation process. the obama administration was not formal regulation. host: issues facing colleges today. we have special minds. if you are college student or parent, you can call (202) 748-8000. if you are a college educator, you can call (202) 748-8001. all others can reach us at (202) 748-8002. fromt to play clip for you about theis week department of education's priorities. i want to to respond to this exchange between bobby scott and betsy devos. [video clip] >> a $15 billion cut in student aid, is that right? opined.e heard that i'm not sure i agree. >> do you have another number? approach to giving students more flexibility pursuing their higher education. >> a $15 billion cut? do you have another number? opined.e heard that i said i don't necessarily hear that perspective. -- share that respective. >> the debacle going on with teachers in the process of fulfilling their loan forgiveness requirements. has your department known about that? >> are you speaking of t

point which sometimes my colleagues on the other side of the aisle and the -- in the trump administration, miss devos, seems to forget. who loses money when these for-profits take advantage of kids? the federal taxpayers, because the vast, vast majority, the overwhelming percentage of funds that go to these for-profit colleges are from federal student loans. so this is a waste of taxpayer money. and somehow our republican colleagues -- not all. some -- and the jumpings are willing to have the treasury just basically in certain ways be looted. and they shrug their shoulders and let the for-profits keep doing it. it's an amazing contradiction, so i thank my colleague. now, madam president, on the issues that i came to speak about here, last -- mr. president. excuse me. you have changed. mr. president, it was reported by "the wall street journal" that the trump administration has agreed to relax sanctions on the chinese telecom giant z.t.e. and remove the ban on z.t.e. from selling components and software in the united states. instead z.t.e. will be required to pay a fine and reorganize its board. it ap

devos-orchestrated takeover of the department of education by the for-profit college industry is an embarrassment. it's an affront to students, their families, and to taxpayers. the trump administration and secretary devos are more concerned with protecting their rich buddies in the for-profit college industry than protecting america's students and their families. they don't seem to care that taxpayer dollars are being wasted as long as those dollars are going into friends' pockets. it's shameful, it's scandalous, it's become routine in u.s. department of education. i yield the floor. mr. schumer: madam president. the presiding officer: the democrat leader. mr. schumer: first, let me thank my friend from georgia for being able to go, and my friend from illinois who has been passionate, strong, and effective when it comes to these nonprofit colleges. he laid out a whole strong case, these for-profit colleges, excuse me. but let me just make one more point which sometimes my colleagues on the other side of the aisle and the -- in the trump administration, miss devos, seems to forget. who loses money when these for-profits take advantage of kids? the federal taxpayers, because the vast,

is aou saying there disagreement between the trump administration in congress as to how much money we should spend in the next year? sec. devos: i would encourage congress to think in broader terms. accurate ton: is it say the trump administration is looking out for the children and grandchildren? it is time the appropriations committee got with the program. sec. devos: i think we should become present of the future and implications. rep. grothman: don't be afraid to set up appointments with some of those appropriators and get them in line. to i very much. >> yesterday was the 20th anniversary of the school shooting in oregon where a student killed his parents and then walked into the school and killed two students and wounded 25. that community is still grieving. you said the recommendations would be out by year-and. it is only may. students say they walk into a classroom and the first thing they do is look for where they can hide and how they can escape. i am asking on behalf of all the students marching, would you please exercise the right the commission? sec. devos: we are working very hard. i have directed my department

administration. according to the new york times, department of education secretary betsy devos gutted a team at the educationsponsible for investigating for profit colleges. one target was devry university which has 55 campuses across the country. in 2016, devry agreed to pay 100-million dollars to settle a lawsuit that claimed the university misled prospective students about job placement rates. now the investigation into devry has been halted. in august secretary devos tapped a former dean at devry to oversee the investigation team. that team was created in 2016 after a scandal at corinthian colleges which ran more than 100 for profit schools in 25 states. and collected more than 1.7 billion dollars in federal student aid. corinithian colleges suddenly closed in april of 2015, leaving 16,000 students without degrees but thousands of dollars in student loans. under president obama more than 32 thousand students had their loans forgiven. in december secretary devos changed the student debt forgiveness policy making it a case-by case basis. currently college students carry nearly 1.5 trillion dollars in loans

>> you have administrator pruitt, tom price, betsy devos.you could go on and on and on about the swamp. >> bill: what about pelosi and schumer? >> all you are seeing from his cabinet is nothing but swampyness. swamp people. pruitt is the poster child for swamp. >> bill: i think you have something on your shoe there. clean it off. thank you richard and brad. >> sandra: a 30-year-old man ordered to leave his parents' home after the couple goes to a judge to get their son out of their house. why the state of new york says it is time to move on out. ♪ mama, if that's moving up, then i'm moving out ♪ ♪ >> sandra: an upstate new york couple taking drastic measures to get their 30-year-old son out of their house. they took their family dispute to the u.s. supreme court after they say they gave their son, michael. several written notices to leave the property. a state supreme court judge ordering his eviction but not before michael argued his case to stay. >> reasonable time for someone depending on persons to -- for support. >> sandra: joining me n

shooting comes one day after education secretary betsy devos let met behind closed doors with family members to lay the groundwork for the administration avenue school safety commission. jt lewis was part of the meeting, he lost his brother in sandy hook. he joined us to talk about where we go from here. thanks for joining us tonight. what is your reaction today? you have been through this numerous times since you lost your brother. you are frustrated because you think there are things we can be doing and are not doing. >> i feel so bad for all the victims, i know exactly what they are going through. the rest of your life will be spent in pain. it is unfortunate because there are things we can do to prevent these shootings. >> we hear from betsy devos, we cannot allow this trend to continue, our nation must address the underlying issues that lead to such tragic and senseless loss of life, similar language from nancy pelosi saying no other community or family must endure the unthinkable horror of gun violence. our children deserve real leadership, vote to prevent gun violence now. what in your estimation is out there? you are part of th

devos of education here, secretary pruitt here. i've been on the phone with the secretary of labor, the prior h.h. s. secretary tom price, talking about health care policy. so this administration has been tremendously accessible. they care what we think. general kelly in fact when we were at the white house in february said the first question the president asked when there's a policy question is, what do the governor think and the president has told his cabinet members he wants them out of washington, d.c. three days a week. and we've been seing that here in nebraska. host: governor pete ricketts on the c-span bus. we've got a phone line for nebraska residents if utcht to talk to your governor this morning, 202-748-8000. 001. hers, 202-748- dennis in new haven, connecticut, you're up first. caller: i think what would make america great if all the immigrants would go back because they're taking away from america and they're doing a lot of crime. america has people that doesn't even have place to stay, not jobs to have. i think all the immigrants needs to go back and rebuild their own country. host: that's dennis this morning. governor rickets? guest: we want a system of immigra

administration to just three today. current and former employees tell the paper some of the shelved probes involved institutions where devos'sres once worked. obviously that's a huge conflict of interest and an ethical problem. however, a department spokeswoman told the "times" in part,ed team of investigators lost members due to attrition. >>> records-breaking heat and the possibility of tropical weather could lead to record breaking heat. >>> 23 cities make record highs today. a lot were shattered yesterday. to the north there is a front keeping cool. it could give severe weather along the line. this is the heavy rain, the tropical stuff you talked about for florida. florida has been in a drought for a while. we will take the rain. 30% chance of that turning into anything. nonetheless, we will see inches of rainfall in places that haven't seen a lot this spring, so we will take it. i even got my garden in this weekend. it has been so nice down here. >> i'm happy for you. we have the opposite problem where i am. this cold and wet is doing really havoc to my planting boxes. i try not to make too big a deal of it but it is ri

e-mails sent to administration officials attaching a quote unquote draft backgrounder and instruction within the e-mail to remove the ge insert when sending it to others. secretary devos given mr. itell's statement about recusing himself from the gainful employment rule and these documents which i just showed in my hands which contradict his testimony are you as concerned as i am that he was not completely candid with congress? >> congressman thank you for that question. all of my team is very responsible to and responsive to the requirements and expectations of their ethics agreements and i am very confident of their following those appropriately and according to all of the rules set forth therein. .. >> the conflict has continued to take the expectations and requirements seriously. i have every confidence of that. >> you have every confidence that he is taken his particular promise not to involve himself in ge matters, despite the fact that he involved himself in ge matters, set correct? >> all my team takes the request and requirements regarding this seriously. >> thank you. i want to turn to diane jones, the official responsible for making the recommendation that

devos, how does he play into it, and george nader. their best defense here, is this best strategy in the trump administration just to make it even morefusing than it already it is. >> i think it is certainly in their best interest to keep it as interesting as possible. i think for everyone else ourselves included is to get to the larger point, which you made zerlina. all of these points, all of these ten trils come back to the same point, what was donald trump and the people around him doing for themselves, specifically for him, versus for the american people? you can come back to the pressure now being placed on the d.o.j. to either reveal the source or to demand an opening an investigation into whether there was political manipulation going on with this sourcing or the informant inside the campaign. again, trump is doing this simply for trump. he's not doing it for any other purpose. the point this investigation is to clarify all of this for the american people. that should be the load star for all of this. what is being done for the american people versus what is being done for the president himself and the people around him. >> w

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devos according to the "new york times" has lifted regulation that would investigate fraud at for profit colleges like for instance devry or, i don't know, the now defunct trump university. epa administratorpruitt who's come under fire for a series of seemingly unending ethical scandals and is now facing at least ten separate investigations, has rolled back nearly two dozen regulations over the past year. and then there's mick mulvaney, who temporarily heads up the consumer financial protection bureau, an agency he once said he wanted to, quote, get rid of. since taking the job last november, his second job in the administration, he was working two at the time, mulvaney has tried to do just that. with me now the only other person to ever have that job. richard cordray. he is now running for governor of ohio. the consumer finance protection bureau was i think envisioned as a kind of frankly progressive agency, but what happens if you make an agency of the government and you hand it over to the other party, they have a different vision of it. what do you think of your successor's job? >> it's been true throughout the federal government. the epa, hhs, cfpb, they've been against the missions

administration's policies, as she was hor by the president in a white house ceremony. mandy manning wore six politillthemed buttons as she accepted her award from trump, while billionaire education secretary betsy devos looked on. manning's buttons featured artwork from the 2017 women's march, a rainbow flag, and the slogan, "trans equality now!" she later presented trumth a stack of letters from her students, teenage refugees at joel e. ferris high school in spoke,ashington. after her protest, manning told "usa today," "i am here for refugee and immigrant students, for the kids in the gay-straight allianceanfor all the girls i've coached over the years." hawaii's kilauea volcano erupted thursday, spewing lava into a residential neighborhood and triggering dozens of earthquakes. the eruption on hawaii's big island caused levels of the dangerous gas sulphur dioxide to spike, prompting a mandatory evacuation for at least 1700 people. in india, the death toll from heavy rainfall and a major dust storm has risen to 127, as officials blamed "heat wave" conditions for extreme weather that came weeks ahead of the normal monsoeason. the deaths came days aft a unprecedented heat wave in neighboring pakistan s

more to get rid of the ness we seempin right now in the trump administration, which has to do with his appointed people. he has betsy devoswho does not believe in public education. he has scott pruitt, who does not believe in signs or the environment. host: ok. ,hat is a caller from denver colorado. betsy devos speaking today. you can see that on our website c-span.org. if you miss it, we will re-air it tonight. betsy devos before the education and workforce committee, talking about the budget, but it usually goes into talking about education. you can see that on the web today or later on c-span2. donnie in kentucky, democrats line. you are next. caller: talking about draining the swamp. i am a democrat and the republican party made me change to a democrat. talking about draining the swamp, trump has not drained the swamp. wamped up with him. it is over his head. republicans need to let donald trump know he is not the boss he thinks he is. he is the swamp. host: you think democrats would do a better job? caller: you are mighty right i do. the democrats have more sense than donald trump. mitch mcconnell and paul ryan. ever

e-mails sent to administration officials attaching a quote unquote draft backgrounder and instruction within the e-mail to remove the ge insert when sending it to others. secretary devos given mr. itell's statement about recusing himself from the gainful employment rule and these documents which i just showed in my hands which contradict his testimony are you as concerned as i am that he was not completely candid with congress? >> congressman thank you for that question. all of my team is very responsible to and responsive to the requirements and expectations of their ethics agreements and i am very confident of their following those appropriately and according to all of the rules set forth therein. .. >> the conflict has continued to take the expectations and requirements seriously. i have every confidence of that. >> you have every confidence that he is taken his particular promise not to involve himself in ge matters, despite the fact that he involved himself in ge matters, set correct? >> all my team takes the request and requirements regarding this seriously. >> thank you. i want to turn to diane jones, the official responsible for making the recommendation that

devos, representative mark meadows, and the atlanta mayor. andovering the white house congress during the trump administration this is from the annual politicalin colorado springs earlier this month, with bill kristol and fred barnes. >> thanks, steve, it's great to be with you again here. the weather has been wonderful so far. trump,nel is on donald washington, the swamp, chaos, kind of an easy way into a more weighty of policy matters later on. these are reporters who can give you an idea of what it's like to cover donald trump's washington. steve set up this panel mostly to make fred and me feel old. [laughter]

devos went up there. the students were respectful, they had a tough dialogue. but that administrationpirited and robust debate, i think everybody loses. >> spirit or robust can co-exist with respectful. >>> the final episode of "america inside out with katie couric" airs tonight on national geographic. it is worth watching the entire series. katie couric, thank you so much. >> thank you. keep talking about it. that's our hash tag, keep talking. >> i love it. that's what we do here. >> talking and talking and talking. >> never stop talking. >>> some feel we need to be protected from the steve bannons of the world. is there a remedy for that? our next guest says there is, and that's straight ahead. >>> plus, the latest fallout from michael cohen's consulting gigs with top companies. "morning joe" is coming right back. neutrogena® ultra sheer. no other sunscreen works better or feels so good. clinically proven helioplex® provides unbeatable uva/uvb protection to help prevent early skin aging and skin cancer all with a clean light feel. for unbeatable protection. it's the one. the best fo

administrators teachers and parents. ultimately the program does a great job of working with schools and homes together to achieve the best academic and career outcomes for the student. secretary devos thank you for your willingness to engage on the subject during our meeting last month and the innovative approach that shyne offers and the result that has been able to produce. think would benefit many students across the country. how can we encourage these practices from the federal level and when relevant showcase them for other potential programs and to take advantage of them? >> thank you congressman for that question your obvious advocacy for that program in your district. we did indeed talk about it and it's very inspiring to hear about the results and the impact it's having. i think the role that the department can play isn't helping encourage other districts and other communities to adopt a program such as this to ensure we have the information available to those who are looking for these kinds of tests and tried programs. we need to be able to do so on a place that's easy to access and readable and approachable. >> i want to switch gears and talk about something is very impo

devos. meeting with the president about apprenticeships. south dakota has workforce and i believe president rump's initiative in encouraging apprenticeship is a good and practical solution. i'm very pleased with the way administrationinn gaging with the states. a sident trump is certainly man of his own mind and he's ifficult to predict and sometimes i'm uncertain if i understand his motivations, but said, i'm certainly pleased with the way his administration is engaging with states and giving us a little more economic freedom and think we alism that i lacked in the prior administration. daugaard, nor according to ballot pedia, part budget comes from the federal government, a lot of that monsne hed to share r daugaard: hair has strings attached to it. that is true of a lot of federal programs the states see. 200 to 300 ll say, of federal in form gas tax money, return to the state. of the state nee because i think the federal government recognizes our large expanses are bridges between the centers ly populated around the country. as an example, i want to say two-thirds of our eavy truck traffic neither origins nor terminates in south dakota. we're not able to or we're not creating interstate system our citizens in t