. >> up to the challenge, ed stafford, might remember him for "walking the amazon."is something called "maroon" wednesdays at 10:00 p.m. eastern and pacific on discovery. >> now i'm battling a new challenge. to prove i can make it in some of the world's toughest environments. >> what is that? >> i don't know. >> bottom of his foot. >> like a bullet wound or something. >> something awful. what he eats doesn't look appetizing. >> i'm quite excited about this. should be great. seafood grill. >> that's a hermit crab. >> it's crabs. people love crab meat. hermit crab, quite different. got another clip where he's making fire. >> come on, come on. yes! >> ed stafford braves man in his five-part series. we've got ed joining us "right this minute." what was the toughest part out there by yourself in. >> the toughest thing is literally the enormity of doing it on your own, really. i get dropped off naked, left in the most weird and remote places and not only do i have to find water and food and shelter and that sort of thing, also obviously i've got to film the whole thing. th

ed programs, it just takes your breath away. $260 billion in cuts to pell, 145 billion, $41 billion on stafford, wipes out income-based repayment program and incredibly gets rid of the american opportunity tax credit that allows middle-class families to get a tax credit to pay for college. about 11 million families lost $1100 under the ryan budget. i always thought republicans were for cutting taxes. nothing seems to surprise me, i guess, in terms of the way their priorities play out. but on the stafford program. again, everybody was kind of patting themselves on the back for the fact we protected the rate increase from going into effect effective july 1. what their measure does is it eliminates the in school interest protection which is therefore subsidized stafford loan students. it is about 7 million students who, again, do not have interest accumulate while they are actually in college. the estimate from the cbo is that it adds about $3000 to the interest level of students at time of graduation use stafford. so the $1 trillion price tag of student loan debt which is stifling our economy, hindering peoples' advancement, they