is there a value in going to an ivy league school? there's been a lot of talk about, you know, the value of college in general, much less, you know, getting into yale. is there value in that? >> i definitely think so. i think it's really the network, the people you meet at these top-tier school, you can't replace. at yale i think i learned just as much outside the classroom as i did inside the classroom. >> i've heard the same about stanford and i'll ask you about stanford in a second. let me challenge you this, and that is people are trying to get into yale, need a 4.0, yes? >> no. >> really. >> no. i mean, i went to public school in new jersey. and i had three, four bs. everyone told me i wouldn't be able to get into yale and i was the only student to get in. >> do you know how many kids are turning to their parents right now in living rooms all over the bay area going, i told you so? yes. okay. you ruined my question, but let me put this to you. now need really good grades. you need a really interesting activity, captain of the foo

the ivy league's combined endowments total more thanvy $120 billion of 2017., in a normal nonprofit foundation they are required to spend a certain percentage every year 5%.on ivy league or all university endowments can keep it growing completely tax free in perpetuity.ow meanwhile have tuitions gone down? now they have not, they have risen faster than the rate of inflation. who is benefiting fromse this? in ivy league those schools are run or attended by the connected and well-off. what you see here is a very familiar syndrome the rich are getting richer and you are paying for it. so here's an idea. a why not eliminate their indefensible tax breaks and use the savings to fund a ewall? if the price is really what you are bothered by. is billions of dollars a year to people who are already rich really a better use of taxpayer funds than protecting the country? we will let you think about it. from 2007 to 2013, the small business administration gave more than 160 million to loans to country clubs, yacht clubs and golf courses.lo that's true. the va meanwhile has

blue ivy, share her with us. >> you know a whole lot about blue ivy. on. >> we are learning details about beyonce we never knew before. >> actor michael caine who worked with beyonce in the 2002 "austin powers: gold member" told "rolling stones" her dream was to win an academy award for acting. >> she could do it one day. >> beyonce, i love you and your music. >> he told the magazine, beyonce is a very competent actress. she's beyond my world. she's so big. >> so big now. >> we love you, queen b. >>> an all around awesome person, chuck norris is hosting his own 5k run, but here's the rub. you have to dress up like chuck norris in order to participate. he's trying to set a world record for the most people in the same place dressed like chuck norris. no record has been set yet? >> really. strange. surprised more people haven't done that. >> registration starts at $30 on may 4th and includes a chuck norris t-shirt, a fake beard and a sweet belt buckle. >> cowboy boots, too, right? >> i guess. odd. >>> coming up, our "friday weekly rewind." ♪ weekly rewind

i see city college member ivy lee, thank you so much for being here, as well as members of the boardof supervisors, gordon mar and ahsha safai for an individual we know is going to do a great job on the board of education, supporting or children, supporting our teachers and doing what's necessary to close the achievement gap to make sure that no student is left behind. now let's start with the most important qualifications that brings us here today. jennie lamb is a parent, and she has two children, two beautiful children, jackson and simone -- am i saying their names right? okay. i just want to make sure i have the names right, jackson and simone, who actually are in our public schools here. in fact, jackson, this is your school, roosevelt, right? are your friends jealous? a little bit. in fact, it's critical that the board of education as we know are represented by parents serving on this body. parents are the ones who know firsthand the impacts of decisions that get made. she knows too often that parents are too busy struggling with some of the challenges that i know a lot of pare

but every ivy league study i have read shows every ivy league study i read about the topic says the samehing. most people who are here illegally overstayed their visas. building a wall at the southern border is not going to change that. it's a waste of money. >> tucker: we are just guessing that it's not going to work. maybe you are right. we'll see. chris, thank you very much. >> all right. thank you, tucker. have a good one. >> tucker: thanks. well, a new member of congress, the democrat made a sincere but a vulgar promise about her party's agenda going into the congress. lisa booth has the latest after the break. ultimate feast time it'sat red lobster.r own pick four of ten favorites to create the ultimate feast you've been dreaming of. like lobster mac & cheese. or tender snow crab. so hurry in before new create your own ultimate feast ends. >> tucker: democratting leaders down played the odds they will try to impeach the president. i will never happen. you are being paranoid! that's what they said before the election. turns out, what we knew all along is true. they may not in the en

there's time to mingle and purchase books from the ivy book shop. you can also get your book signed bocage lean and if you have -- by kathleen and if you have questions, we're here until 8:00. >> book of the recently visited the national press club's annual book fair in washington, dc. and spoke with author wil haygood but columbus, ohio. >> what is tigerland? >> guest: it is a book about columbus, ohio, east high school, 1968, it's school year starts that fall, everybody inside the high school is very hurt, full of pain because martin luther king jr. has been assassinated, robert f. kennedy has been assassinated, the school has its first black principal, the segregated school, and they want to do something special the school program tells them, everybody is watching us, so we can't show anger, we can't walk out like some other high schools are doing, so first, they win the state basketball championship, and then 55 days later, all black school, wins the state baseball championship. first time in the history of the state that the same school wins tw

he was trying to encourage us to go to college and ivy league. i was 16 at the time and in the alternative you wanted us to doda cal or stanford but he gave me this book and sold me on the virtues of going to the ivy league. so, you kids are so lucky today, when i was a kid you had to do a whole lot of research about where you were gonna go to college. you had to write and ask them to mail you stuff you can't just go online. i went to the dinner table and showed my mom and dad and discussed in the virtues of going to that nike league and i said i wanted to go to brown. so, the next day when my dad came home from work he said, i need to talk to you. i said okay. my dad says never, ever, ever tell your mother we had this conversation, do you understand? and it must have been the dumbfounded look on my face because he said ever. do you understand? i got the message. he said you cannot go to the ivy league. you cannot go to stanford. you can't even go to usc. low standard there. [ laughter ] >> that is for my friends he said, during the war, when the

this is an estimate from the ivy league researchers. does it seem like a lot?s it seem like the current border security is working? over 20 millionn people? >> it seems like a lot. it seems like a lot. 90% of those people, tucker, did not cross the southern border. >> tucker: how do you know that? speaker they overstayed her visa. they may have come here on a plane or a boat. >> tucker: you don't know that! you don't even know how many are here! how do you know how they got here? [laughs] >> i wasn't prepared for that question. >> tucker: seems like a basic question. >> buter every ivy league studyi have read shows, every ivy league study i read about the topic says the same thing. most people who are here illegally overstayed their visas. building a wall at the southern border is not going to change that. it's a waste of money. if you believe a waste of money is immoral, then it is immoral. >> tucker: we are just guessing that it's not going to work. maybech you are right. we'll see. .chris, thank you very much. >> all right. thank you, tucker. have a good one

so tonight when he invited us to an ivy football gala, we arranged a little surprise. >> we hope this pet waits some of those memories. >> you brought me to tears. here we go. there it is! >> reporter: isn't that cool? >> wow. here we go. >> reporter: a new memento for a new beginning. we'll be right back. >>> abc news "nightline," sponsored by geico. well the kids wanted a puppy, but they can be really expensive. so to save money i just found them a possum. dad, i think he's dead. probably just playin' possum. there he is. there's an easier way to save. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. take prilosec otc and take control of heartburn. so you don't have to stash antacids here.... here... or here. kick your antacid habit with prilosec otc. one pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn. (cat 1(cat 2) smell that? (cat 1) gravy! (cat 2) that's not gravy, that's extra gravy. (cat 1) whoa! (cat 2) that's friskies extra gravy! paté and chunky! (cat 1) gravy purr-adise. (cat 2) purr-adise? really? (vo) feed their fantasy. friskies. i'm missing out on o

administrators at ivy league colleges were especially preoccupied with drafting an athlete's code of honor. in february 1898 brown university hosted a conference focused on, quote, the discussion of questions arising out of intercollegiate contests and the objectionable features connected with them, end quote. which drew delegates from columbia, cornell, dartmouth, harvard, princeton and the university of pennsylvania. finish i'll just read the names of those schools again so you can get a clear sense of who it was that made the college football rulebook. >> brian fitzpatrick aside, they're not -- ryan fitzpatrick -- >> columbia, cornell, dart missouri, harvard -- dartmouth, and the university of pennsylvania, agreed on the providence rules and advanced an idea that remains among the most enduring and controversial aspects of college sports. it is obvious, they wrote in their report, that no student should be paid for his athletics. market forces prevailed, however, giving college football its first cheating scandal just one year after the brown conference gave it a rulebook. despera

ali went to college, more of an ivy league, or somewhere where she could get ahead in the boys club.d to set the record straight on her hair. it's for a scene. >> i can't touch it because the hair is supposed to be messed up and we have the perfect messed up hair right now. bed head. >> show it off. show it off one more time. >> ooh. that was some good bed ahead. >>> okay, all right. next on next on kron-4 news at eight: a deadly winter storm plows through northern california... killing six people and leaving behind a trail of damage. the impacts still being felt tonight... as p-g-and-e works to restore power to thousands. for back to back nights..an earthquake rattles the bay area awake. a seismologist weighs in on what they could mean. plus. plus the crimes seeing a significant drop in one bay area city. i'm ken wayne i'm pam moore. the news -- at eight -- is next. travel consideration provided by -- >>> there is so much that we love about jennifer garner. at the top of the list is she keeps it real. >> case in point, check out jen giving us an absolute perfect mommy moment. there

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he believes the ivy league establishment is not masculine enough. you don't have to be a historian to see nixon is projecting here a bit. nixon throughout his life dealt with -- especially during the kennedy campaign in 1960 dealt with the fact he wasn't seen as masculine enough of a character as john f. kennedy. so without going down the road to psychoanalyze nixon, this was a -- something that comes up over and over again on the tapes. this is very basic, crude sense of masculinity. he believed his administration was defined by that. and a key part of that is loyalty. loyalty is a key component of what it takes to be a man. personal loyalty, and this is where nixon it does have an important connection to the current president. where as you said donald trump is describing someone who was relatively loyal to his administration, jeff sessions, i wouldn't think we would describe jeff sessions as a revister, but because he recused himself from the russian investigation, and it shows the ideology doesn't matter what matters is loyalty. what i'm trying t

ivy, sunny and april. they've been warm and welcoming and i thank you for that. i want to wish you the best of luck. like i said, the world needs people like jane kim. although you and i haven't had a chance to work that much together and maybe we're on the opposite sides of things or come at things differently, i want you to know i admire you and wish you the best of luck in your endeavors. i know you're going to do great things for people and watching everybody come out, tells me you have a lot more to do in this world and you are a true shining light in this world and will change a lot of people's lives. >> supervisor fewer: jane kim and i are good friends. in fact, jane kim knows a lot of personal information about me. [laughter] jane actually, we had this weird relationship. i'm kind of like her west coast mom. and she is -- >> you're my teenage mom. >> supervisor fewer: my political mentor. so, yeah, i have to say, no, i was with jane kim when she ran for supervisor and you guys were not. and jane and i, we stood on corners together and we showed them and w

it was blue ivy's seventh birthday.appy birthday, blue. >> that's how i go shopping in the grocery store all the time. yeah. she isn't the only "b" making headlines. susan boyle on the first ever champions edition of "america's got talent." ♪ ♪ couldn't drag me away >> it was a triumphant comeback performance for a contestant with the voice of an angel. ♪ could make me feel better >> she earned the golden buzzer from mel b. meaning she moved on vagt to the finals. in 2009, the unemployed woman from scotland became an overnight sensation with this audition for "britain's got talent." ♪ i had a dream my life would be ♪ >> "e.t." first met susan after that and she was floored by the sudden success. >> it was blown up out of prorgs. it's just unbelievable. it's fantastic. >> she didn't win the competition. she came in second. susan went on to sell 20 million records and has received two grammy nominations. in 2013, boyle revealed she was diagnosed with asperger's syndrome which is on the autism spectr spectrum. >> i have be

and scared at the same time and learned how to do that with these grown intelligent passionate women, ivy, sunny, bobby, all of you had children while i was here. it was amazing to work with mothers. and let me tell you, it was very challenging for me to have a parent-friendly office. i did not like it at first. i did not like it when people told me they had to go home at 5:00 p.m. they couldn't go to weekend events. i remember sunny's mouth dropping when i said we had to change how we worked. but we learned how to work. and the one thing i learned -- this is a lesson -- if you want to get something done, you given it to the busiest person. and who is busier than women of color, working mothers. you guys were behind every trademark legislation that our office is known for. it wasn't me, it was all of the work that you guys did to make all of the legislation happen that we talked about here today. but actually some of the work that i'm most proud of is the work that we didn't talk about, like bringing full-time nurses to every adult homeless shelter in san francisco and expanding our medic

globe, they are making a set of distinctions on behalf of the users when the users moved from 10,000 ivy legal college students or 100,000 early adopter tech enthusiasts to the entire world. that's a hard distinction to make on a universal basis by a small set of people working in the bay area. >> is the internet in general a democracy? >> well, it's one kind of democracy. i think it got chapel beyond as democratic and that's not wrong. but it's a particular merito cratic space. and that gives power whether it's new media or traditional media. we have to ask what kind of democratic principles were at play and what can thereby now. and what can we -- what can be there now? >> mark zuckerberg said facebook is not a media company. >> the tone is changing i think in the last year or two. it matters when you are called up in front of congress, regardless of how that questioning goes. there was a powerful defense facebook could make documenting about claiming they are not a media company, they are a tech company. that was a compelling position for them to take. we had expectations of media com

light for example coming out of computer screens with high content of blue light and we know that blue ivy's if you specially efficient in kind of modulating the clock what about changing the lights in the tablet computer smart i think it's a good idea to kind of remove all these blue light which influences our clock at the wrong time because then if you read at midnight with high levels of blue light the clock things always still day can slow down a little bit and that makes you. sleep longer in the morning it doesn't efficiently wake you up so it's good to reduce this blue light that will be right back with some viewer questions and we need your questions so if you've got any send them to us. on an upcoming show we'll be looking at aging what can we do to live longer healthier lives if you have a question about this send it to in good shape at d w dot com just went into aging in the subject line we look forward to hearing from you. so medication works differently depending on the time you take it this is what we learned so far take pain medication for instance like over the counter drugs n

universities women weren't allowed to go to ivy league schools until the sixty's all of these days these are not mysteries these are knackered as they are corrected as fast as they possibly can. today america's diversity is being reflected in literature as an all of the arts like never before black writers like to call have won international acclaim nigerian author chimamanda ngozi adichie told the world how she only became black after coming to america and authors jennifer egan and donna tartt regularly feature on the bestseller lists so richard ford's right when he says there are more women there's more diversity though the book business is still largely in the hands of men and many critics still prefer to review the works of their favorite male authors nevertheless the literary world is changing. richard ford's latest work is a trip into the past published in twenty seventeen between them remembering my parents is a memoir of two people who are gone and a way of life which is disappearing america as the land of opportunity where people could find prosperity and happiness your latest b

filmmakers and blackfeet nation members ivan and ivy mcdonald have produced a documentary about the women they say have fallen through the crack. >> when a person goesng misn a reservation, whoo tribal members even contact? do we contact tribal police, we contact state dorks we contact federal? >> reporter: meantime, grieving families are left with little hope and wondering what could have been. >> because is mis her. >> reporter: steve patterson, nbc news, browning, montana. >>> tonight, surprising results from a new long-termn study early childhood education. it turns out the benefits of ch prl may last even longer than previously thought. kerry sanders has more. >> reporter: mom, amanda edwards, drivinger kids to school. 13-year-old mckenzie, an a student, now taking high school level english classes but her youngest, cole, in fir ade, struggles every day. the difference sheerks believes, mckenzie went to pre-k but it wasn't an option for cole. >> if i could go back and change things, cole would have went to pre-k. >> reporter: now researchers at duke university say it does make a diff

it's been a frustrating day for logan and ivied but they can accept defeat like good sportsman for the total losers the dummies weren't any good. it's great when we actually do kill a duck but if all we get to see is a lovely sunset then that's ok too. the gun doesn't understand all the fuss he sees himself as a conservationist not as a danger all he does is call surplus animals. our opponents refuse to understand i imagine them to be unpleasant people in general it's sheer intolerance to. look on and say that despite all the accidents they still feel confident that hunters won't have to put down their guns . well turkey is a rapidly changing society and it's interesting to note that in the middle of a major economic crisis d.m.s. the body responsible for religious affairs is seeing its budget boosted by over thirty percent while spending on science is being slashed by more than half secular turks are up in arms they see it as part of a general crackdown on only islamic activities the same tendencies that are forcing one man widely known as the rock to choose between his faith and his

the mueller investigation ivi along. now that the democrat versus subpoena power, wee find out. >>> you're saying if true, it rises to the level of obstruction of wijustice, you be calling for impeachment proceedings? >> i think there wi be an outcry for impeachment proceedings, both as a result of the muellerinvestigation, which may have this information, or the result of subpoenas and other testimony before congress. apparently there's backup information o thischarge. we'll see, and it's probably not ry far away. why suggest probably in a couple months we may know what it's all about. you would somethin support or call for? >> if this is true, absolutely. this is le impeach offense. >> i wanted to ask about the government shutdown. prident trump did not embrace a government proposal to fund ale government for three weeks, toow time for negotiations. on the other side, house speaker has called the wall immoral. is there a way forward at this point? >> absolutely. we must open up government. we have passed nine pieces of

blue ivy, daughter of beyonce and jay-z, is 7. turns a favorite here at nbc, katie ic2 today. i'm frances >>> we're looking at a national emergency because we have a national emergency. just read the papers. we have a crisis at the border of drugs, of human beings being trafficked all over the world. they're coming through. and we have an absolute crisis. and of criminals and gang members coming through. ist it is national security. it is arder wall beinghe 7 bh annual golden globes. we've got the biggest moments including the winners and jaw-dropping fashions. >>> a major auto recall. this one involving ford. this morning we'll tell you what's behind the move and what car owners can do. isinstatisti that's getting a lot of

but, ivy have a mechanism of retesting. but, joy ofjoys, the great day for the tabloids.o needs to get his groceries in the car. slightly less amusing is what is going on in zimbabwe, james. the sunday times featuring that. a lot of disturbing reports out of zimbabwe about behaviour similar to mugabe. here is a story that will run and run. this fellow is known as the crocodile, so we may be shouldn't be surprised about this unpleasant stuff whilst flying to davos in a private jet. people on the ground, christina lamb, talking to people suggesting hundreds of opposition activists are being at best locked up, at worst, killed, having dogs set on them by masked police and soldiers. and the government is closing down the internet enforcing a news blackout. there was always a fear this was a zanu—pf coup. maybe an economic but not political reformer. it is interesting christina is doing this, she is so good. here is somebody who is a name, they have their beat and follow it. it is excellent journalism. their beat and follow it. it is excellentjournalism. she their beat and fol

. >>> we ar officially four weeks into the government shutdown ivis morning. and the partisane in d.c. is only growing wider. instead of figuring out ways to struggling federal employees back to work, president trump and house speaker nancy are locked in a game of one-upmanship. in an apparent retaliation to the speaker's push to postpone his state of the union over the shutdown the president cancelede losi's military transportation for anfficial overseas trip thursday. also citing the shutdown as his reasoning. nbc learned that just hours later melania trump was allowed to tvel to mar-a-lago on a government plane. nbc's sco mcfarland joins us from d.c. with the latest. scott, good morning. >> reporter: frances, good morning to you. on a cold winter day here in washington feel the heat coming out of the capitol and the white house. no scheduled negotiations, no blic meetings with congress on the president's schedule. and as you referenced, the tensionsin are rising duo small part due to the president's decision to cancel speaker pelosi's trip with top democrat

globe they are making a set of distinctions on behalf of the user when the users have moved from 10,000 ivy league college students or 100,000 early adopter tech enthusiast to the entire world, every age, every culture every society and every politics to death so hard decision to make on a universal basis by a small set of people working in the area. >> host: is the internet in general a democracy? >> guest: well with one kind of democracy. i think it has gotten championed as democratic and that's not wrong but it's a particular meritocratic populist space and now we have seen the buildup of handful of enormous structures were a full lot of activity happens in. that gives power whether it's new meteor traditional media. maybe what we have to ask is what kind of democratic the polls were even at play and what could be there now and what can we demand of players having an outside influence on how this works. >> host: mark zuckerberg has probably said that facebook is not a media company. >> guest: the tone is changing in the last year or two. matters regardless of how the questioning goes. th

unity among gulf states that are in dispute with one another pump a is already met the crown prince of ivy dobby in the united arab emirates and he is expected to head to the saudi capital riyadh off to visit in cata saudi arabia and the u.a.e. are two of four countries that have blockaded cast off for the past eighteen months for supporting what they call terrorist groups cattery leaders deny the accusations . joins us live from the hotel here in doha weapon peo is set to meet cattles foreign minister hesham what's on the agenda today. started today the u.s. secretary is going to meet with the qatari foreign minister. and then scion memorandum of understanding of the same time we have different activities happening at the same time basically the u.s. qatari forum about the need to further expand cooperation between the united states of america and qatar in terms of trade qatar has huge investments of the united states of america and they would like to further expand that relationship political the united states of america has been seeing there it needs qatar on board to attack a regional

a fire has broken out at manchester's ivy restaurant.e as firefighters try to tackle the blaze. it is believed the fire in the three—storey building started from a patio heater on an outside terrace. the multimillion—pound restuara nt in the spinningfields area of the city centre opened in november. theresa may had a reportedly friendly phone call with the president of the european commission this afternoon on her brexit plans. it came as she prepares to try to persuade mps to back her withdrawal deal later this month. the democratic unionist party, which has an agreement to support the government, has repeated its opposition to her proposals, saying there is not any way it can back them. 0ur political correspondent chris mason gave us this update. we are going to get a resumption of a rather noisy conversation, and as things stand, that conversation is rather familiar. white, to things stand, that conversation is ratherfamiliar. white, to answer your question, because little go at very little seems to have changed, so very little seems

replaced in the eighty's and early ninety's with the new class of journalists who typically came from the ivy leagues they were not working class people and and so they have a natural animosity and hostility towards the whole idea of populism whereas the the journalist of the old school even though that wasn't a panacea either because it was you know they were all white men back in the day but. the class was you know back in the forty's and fifty's and sixty's the journalist tended to be more of a working class iconoclast that kind of a person who didn't who had more sympathy you would think through for you know a populist movement now if you open the new york times and the washington post that's it's white collar urban meritocratic you know highly educated point of view it doesn't speak on behalf of ordinary people though doesn't know how dangerous is all this because if you like washington has so disturbingly over estimated i think hillary clinton was a perfect example of that election and what happened in like wisconsin and michigan is a perfect example of this they overestimate their own

lee -- the ivy league city college. just watch while words. [speaking foreign language] >> all i want to say is anyone who works in this city or for the safety, they don't do it unless they have the support of their families. so the one thing that i really want to say about mr lee and to his family, because without their support, he could not have done all the things that he did, and nothing was too small for him to do. whether weather was to pick up trash, to paint graffiti, to go by himself to see what was happening with the homeless, he did all of that. nothing was too small. so i really want to thank his family, because they really gave us the gift of letting him be our mayor. thank you so much. [applause] [speaking foreign language] [applause] >> next we have our dipstick -- district attorney. [applause] [speaking foreign language] >> good afternoon, everyone. it's really an honor to be here today. i need to, this is not much i can say. this is a big loss to our community. it is times as such as social upheaval and there's so much hate in

despite the fact that i was in the ivy league, etc., i think community colleges are the american dream. where our most student school to school, our best hope for a lot of things in the country. anyway, it was an interesting panel of which i was probably the least interesting talking about the linkage between learning, careers and writing itself. made comments about writing. you have talked about absorption of knowledge and so on, obviously you are literate and , articulate. you spend a huge amount of your time writing. what should we be telling our young people about that? ken: this is the key, i think if the book is the greatest mechanical invention is filled with writing. with whatever modest expectations we might have but practice it. alas, we do not do that today. and we have to figure out some way distracted as we are by my , profession and by the technological world and the vastness of the internet which is a gigantic maw that swallow psyches whole. they sometimes never come back. i've been thinking. i'm going off-topic and i apologize, mr. secretary, but we spent a lot of time

amendment and recognizing the president, the vice president, and others, and also my former chief of staff, ivyhitect behind proposition w. thank the city attorneys for working tirelessly to make sure we could get this done since july, janet and john, and recognize the controller's office, ben rosenfield and his team, michelle and jayliel, will work on this in a different hat without your office and all the data and numbers we would not have been able to move forward with proposition w or the charter amendment before us. and last but not least, i want to thank the free city coalition. i have really enjoyed standing in front of this campaign but this idea came directly from the community and not from any elected official. it was again members of labor and afc2121 that brought the idea of investing in free city and said this was possible and tremendous amount of research across the country to see what what it would take to make this a successful program in san francisco, examining the tennessee promise, chicago promise, oregon promise, the strengths and pit falls of the program to make sure we wo

inarticulate and i don't know anyone like that at that level who could be like that who also goes to ivy leagues. there is so much of a burden on us to be perfect and that is exhausting. and i want to be mediocre and thrive maybe there is one or two but that is another reason why i decided to write this book because i saw people at the same level of me talking how they got seed grades in college or they were drinking the whole time. or that i had help getting in and i didn't hear that from the black students. black stude. . . . . we are looking for things to be perfect. like i need to have this type of job and environment that i am in. one of the young men that you interviewed who happens to be gay and would talk to people -- can you speak to that? >> guest: he was really fascinating and touched on something that i think we don't talk about a lot in terms of the importance of class and relationships and how crucial that is. new york is a hard place. everybody is trying to be presented in a certain way. he talked about how he felt like it he pointed to show that he made it and wanted that