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Watch: President Obama "Slow Jams" the News

Summary: 
The President stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to pass on a message to Congress: Don't double interest rates for students

On Tuesday, President Obama stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, where he had a message for Congress: This is not the time to make school more expensive for our young people. Or, as rapper Black Thought of house band The Roots put it, "If Congress doesn't act, it's the students who pay."

President Obama Visits late Night with Jimmy Fallon

President Barack Obama talks with Jimmy Fallon during a taping of "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" at Memorial Hall on the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill campus in Chapel Hill, N.C., April 24, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)

 

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