Million Student March Organizer Interview With Fox’s Neil Cavuto Goes Off the Rails

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Fox’s Neil Cavuto had Million Student March organizer and Bernie Sanders‘ supporter Darlette Scruggs on his show Thursday afternoon. And, things, well, just totally spiraled out of control. Scruggs is an advocate of free education for all, and debt forgiveness. Cavuto pressed her over and over again about how the United States is going to pay for all that she wants. There was a lot of interrupting between the two of them, but, you’ve got to hand it to Ms. Scruggs she had her facts ready to go. She hardly let Cavuto get a word in. “Capitalism has proven itself illegitimate,” she said. Watch the three-part interview below. The interactions start getting really heated in the third clip. (Pay special attention to Cavuto’s facial expressions) “Why do we prioritize war and nuclear weapons over education and justify students going into debt,” she asked Cavuto. Cavuto pressed her on how high she would raise taxes on the one percent to pay for her plan, and whether the U.S. should start evaluating how we are spending the money instead of taxing. They continue to cut each other off for the next several minutes. At one point, Scruggs accuses Cavuto of not answering her question. “There is money there, if we can pull a trillion dollars to say oh, we need more nuclear weapons than obviously there is money lying around,” Scruggs said, “The fact that I have to get on here and argue for education is asinine!”This year’s "Million Student March" took place Wednesday on college campuses across America. ctivists called for tuition-free public college, the cancelation of all student debt, a $15 minimum wage for all campus workers and a divestment from private prisons by all colleges and universities. One of the organizers of the march, Darletta Scruggs, joined Neil Cavuto this afternoon, and things quickly got heated. Scruggs said that students are facing a crisis of debt, since the government no longer prioritizes quality, affordable education. vShe asserted that if there's money to invest in improving our country's nuclear arsenal or prison system, then there certainly is money to invest in education. Cavuto pointed out that the U.S. national debt is currently at $19 trillion, and her candidate of choice, Bernie Sanders, has admitted that these massive changes to the educational system can't be made without increasing taxes on both the wealthy and middle-class Americans. Scruggs agreed with Cavuto that it's important not to just raise taxes, but also to see how those tax dollars are being spent. "We're spending our money on wars, we're spending our money on tax breaks for big, wealthy corporations," Scruggs said. "This system of capitalism has proven itself illegitimate, and it cannot provide basic things like education, shelter, health care." She also had some choice words for Hillary Clinton, calling the former First Lady "the candidate of Walmart, Wall Street and war." Watch more of the heated back-and-forth above.