you heard frank bruni talk about the terrible disappointment of high schoolers who didn't get accepted to their dream schools and in their zeal, bruni comes close to saying it doesn't matter or it doesn't matter as much as you think it does, where you go to college. academic prominence new york university centered on new york's greenwich village, and its footprint has extended around the world. welcome to "inside story", mr. president. >> wonderful to be with you ray. >> now, is that a good message for high schoolers across the country, don't worry quite so much, where you go is not who you'll be? >> i think as you stated in those words and i think as frank pu puts it in his writings, it's a good message, it's important. 100,000 people a year come on admission tours, actually come to nyu for admissions tours. over 60,000 apply. probably 50,000 of them could do well, we have space for only 5,000. when i speak to the parents, sometimes when i'm passing one of the tours, i tell them, please, guarantee your children you're going to love them no matter where they get in and protect them fro

in the new york times yesterday, frank bruni criticized "the invisible democratic debates", and wrote quote: "what a shamefully imbalanced primary season this has been... the democratic candidates have, in contrast, hidden in a closet." and a political analyst in the granite state says tomorrow night's debate should have limited impact. smith says: "i don't think the debate is going to be critical for new hampshire. first off it's the saturday before christmas - on a saturday night nobody's going to be watching this. people are going to be learning about it by reading the paper the next day rather than seeing the debate." emanuel on cam: the campaigns of sanders and former maryland governor martin o'malley have complained about the number and timing of debates - suggesting the party is protecting or hiding clinton. that might explain frustration expressed by the sanders camp today. in manchester, new hampshire, mike emanuel, fox news the democratic debate airs on a- b-c tomorrow. it starts at five p-m pacific time. lawmakers in washington - join together to pass a landmark spending pa

frank brunie wrote about it. he wrote about it in his opinion piece. we'll be joined in just a moment by brian fallen, the press secretary for hillary for america. let's take a listen. >> they keep scheduling the democratic debates at, like, 2:00 a.m. on a saturday on alaska pbs. it's almost like they don't actually want anyone to see their candidates for president. which you can understand why. but there is good news. they've announced the venue for the next democratic debate. they're holding it at leavenworth. >> all right, that was ted cruz. i want to get this man's response. joining me now, brian fallen, press secretary for hillary for america. nice to have you on. thank you, sir. >> thank you for having me. >> what say you to those like ted cruz, frank brunie, others saying the dnc has this in the bag for your candidate? >> that's a ridiculous assertion. the debate schedule is something that was worked out by the democratic national committee in conjunction with all of the campaigns. we certainly are looking forward to tonight's debate and we're g

i know you read the frank bruni piece in the "new york times" this week. let's read part of it. it says talking about tonight's debate it is on a saturday night when a political debate ranks between dialysis and a millie vanilli concert. and sought to make sure that some upstart didn't upset their plans. what do you say? >> you know, i was not in on any of those, but i do know this. that hillary clinton debates really well. in fact, at the end of all of these debates that she has been in, we all go, why don't we do a lot more of these? because she does so well. she knows the issues. she's very substantive. it's not her that is dictating any of the debate schedule. she would be willing, i'm sure, to do more debates. >> well, that has been a point of criticism from some saying, look, why aren't there more than the dem debates scheduled. i suppose that's neither here nor there, not your decision nor mine. let's talk about this. according to new university boston herald poll, what it shows is that bernie sanders and hillary clinton are locked very tightly in a battle in new hampshir

the "new york times'" frank bruni talked about the invisible democratic debates and said the democratic thanks, mike. >> putting it nicely. >> so clear about what's going on the dnc is wholly controlled by the hillary clinton campaign. this thing has been orchestrated from day one. she is being anointed, corn nateed as the nominee of the democratic party. there is not an actual democratic race. >> that's what bernie sanders has been complaining about. why are we putting these on a saturday night. you are defending hillary clinton. you are hiding her basically on saturday night when no one is going to watch. therefore, no one gets to see us either. >> exactly. >> the third of six debates. and wolf blitzer actually questioned debbie wasserman schultz on this. said do you have any plans to make any changes to this and said no we are going to have some forums. yeah, exactly. just going to be a one-on-one interviews and no real chance for that spirited debate. >> no, because they want to have an elections without voters it doesn't work that way by the way. there is going to be backlash is my