Clinton And Trump Differ Greatly on College Tuition
BALDWIN: All right, so now that we can count the numbers of days left until election day on a single hand, Hillary Clinton is launching a last-minute push for one of the more challenging demographics, the millennials. Tonight, I can tell you she is in Raleigh, North Carolina, hosting event with her former rival, senator Bernie Sanders and singer Pharrell will be swinging by, a lot of Bernie backers have applauded Clinton for adopting some of his policies, some of his ideas. Among them, making college tuition more affordable, that resonates with so many young people. That the third and final debate this is how both candidates addressed that very issue.</s>HILLARY CLINTON, DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I want to make college debt free and for families making less than $125,000, you will not get a tuition bill from a public college or university if the plan that I worked on with Bernie Sanders is enacted.</s>DONALD TRUMP, REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: She can say all she wants about college tuition and I'm a big proponent. We'll do a lot of things for college tuition but the rest of the public will be paying for it.</s>BALDWIN: Let's talk more about college tuition with CNN money's Cristina Alesci. We talked about Hillary Clinton and borrowing from Bernie Sanders. What about Donald Trump?</s>CRISTINA ALESCI; CNN MONEY CORRESPONDENT: The quintessential Donald Trump answer is there's not enough specifics. Every time I cover one of these policies issues there isn't enough to go on. What we do know is he's been out there criticizing colleges for not using enough of their money to help middle or lower income defray the cost of tuition. Here's the problem, not many colleges have the kind of endowments he seems to be criticizing. How many colleges do you know have billion- dollar endowments? Probably about 100 in the U.S. You're talking about a very limited application of what he is talking about. Donald Trump says if the colleges do not take some of that money and use it to help poor to middle-income kids they'll lose their tax-exempt status. That's nice. But how many colleges have the flexibility to do that? To take that money? That's the biggest down side of his plan. For Hillary, look, you're talking about a broad swath if her plan goes through, under $125,000, if a student from a family that makes under $125,000 wants to go to a state school, they can go for free. The criticism of that has been it's expensive to pull off. $50 billion a year to pull that off and even the liberal economists and specialists that have looked at her plan say there may be a better way to use that money. To a state school, they can go for free. There may be a way to maybe target just the neediest kids.</s>BALDWIN: Those are the two plans for both candidates. Thank you. We'll want to go straight to the president. He's now speaking in Florida right now. Let's take him live.</s>OBAMA: I want to thank a couple of people -- I love you, too. I want to thank a couple people. First of all, your outstanding senior senator Bill Nelson is in the house. And your next United States senator Patrick Murphy is in the house. five days, Florida. Five days. Five days to decide the future of America. The good news is, you don't have to wait five days because if you're registered you can vote right now at any early voting location. In fact, there's just -- there's a location just ten minutes away at the southeast regional library. I will give you the address, 10599 Deerwood Park Boulevard. You can go to iwillvote.com to find other locations. If you're voting by mail, don't let your ballot sit on your coffee table, on your kitchen table, get all mixed up with all the other stuff you got up in there. Mail in your ballot so it makes it in by election day. We've got to finish what we started. And in order to do that, you have to do what? What does that say? I'm sorry? What does it say? (CROWD YELLS, VOTE EARLY) I still can't hear you! I heard you, pep band. I heard that pep band playing a little bit. (</s>CROWD YELLS, VOTE EARLY) OBAMA: I appreciate you guys. Now, as I'm traveling around college campuses I start talking about what happened eight years ago, I realize some of y'all were ten years old. Which makes me feel somewhat old. There's one right there, huh? For those of you who were more focused on Nickelodeon -- back in 2008 we were living through two long wars. We were in the early days of what would turn out to be the worst economic crisis in 80 years. But we fought back. And we put in some policies that made sense. And today --</s>BALDWIN: He mentioned Nickelodeon, he's talking to young folks, they need those millennial voters. He's in Jacksonville, Florida. This is the second Florida stop of the day and the second time he's mentioned the precise address whereof the closest early voting polling location is so he's saying vote. Five days away until election day and the scams are coming out. Now they are sending images trying to convince people that you can text your vote. By the way, that is absolutely 100% not a thing we will separate fact from fiction next.