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Many of them cant go to a school where they dont have to worry about being attacked or hurt, during the course of the day, then, you are not all that worried about conversion therapy. okay? what you are worried about is getting a good education. >> that is a nonsensical question to be asking about education secretary. when the department of education at the federal level provides 8% of the money for k-12 education, it is rather relevant that the incoming secretary of education understand that hi...

Many of them cant go to a school where they dont have to worry about being attacked or hurt, during the course of the day, then, you are not all that worried about conversion therapy. okay? what you are worried about is getting a good education. >> that is a nonsensical question to be asking about education secretary. when the department of education at the federal level provides 8% of the money for k-12 education, it is rather relevant that the incoming secretary of education understand that hi...

Than 1200 public schools in the country serving more than 1.1 million students i dont graduate even one-third of their students. that is a public education catastrophe. they are sitting there, asking her about her wealth and about conversion therapy, i mean, with all respect, if you are not good enough or smart enough, gosh darn it, people dont really like you and you talk like that. >> i would be a little careful. i mean, i think it was perfectly appropriate for senator franken, for example, to...

Pointed out that there are more than 1200 public schools in the country serving more than 1.1 million students i dont graduate even one-third of their students. that is a public education catastrophe. they are sitting there, asking her about her wealth and about conversion therapy, i mean, with all respect, if you are not good enough or smart enough, gosh darn it, people dont really like you and you talk like that. >> i would be a little careful. i mean, i think it was perfectly appropriate for ...

President and the way we treated president obamas nominees, john king, and the way we treated arne duncan and the way i was treated when i was a secretary. but im -- im applying the same rules to them, to secretary devos, or mrs. devos -- >> i think were selling our kids short by not being able to ask follow-up questions and i was kind of surprised, well, im not that surprised, that you did not know this issue. mrs. devos, your family has a long history of supporting anti-lgbt causes including d...

Mainstream medical and mental health organization as neither medically nor ethically appropriate. it has been shown to lead to depression, anxiety, drug use, homelessness, and suicide. particularly in lgbt youth. in fact, many of the leaders and founders of conversion therapy, including both religious ministries and mental health professionals, have not only publicly renounced it, but have issued formal apologies for their work and how harmful it has been to the individuals involved. mr. chairma...

>> this is against a vice president -- vice president-e lekt president-elekts, who wanted to use hiv/aids money for conversion therapy. we cant always say its about the elites or whatever. we have to look at things for their full experience. >> this is point were trying to make. you have the hollywood, the media, and political elite who looked at donald trump and his spotters a supporters as deplorable, and were racist, and zexenophobic. >> how is that what this is about? >> he prevailed because...

>> javier manos. >> don, it was against a vice president-elect who wanted to use hiv/aids money for conversion therapy. can you imagine what it is like for that man in that space? we cant say it is about the elites. we have to look at things for the full experience. >> this is what im trying to say. you have the hollywood elite, the media elite who looked at donald trump and supporters and saw the supporters deplorable. everyone who supported trump was racist, xenophobic, homophobic, and all of ...

>> first, let me say it is rich to have corey given the platform of the republican party, which does not support marriage equality, which supports conversion therapy that we -- >> focus on hillary clinton. >> if youre going to say something, lets be honest about where youre at. do i wish hillary clinton and a lot of other democrats had come to marriage equality more quickly? without a doubt. im never going to say thats not true. of course thats true. but im also going to tell you, you know, when...

Again on. mike pence voted against the matth matthew sheppard hate crime act. mike pence voted against that common sense law that had bipartisan support in this country. he called it an experiment it was outrageous and he stood alone in doing that. perhaps most outrageous of all, andrea, is mike pence supports something that is very dangerous called conversion therapy. he believes millions of lgbtq children across this country should go to state funded and federally funded conversion therapy. it...