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Jillian: a virginia judge dismissed a groups petition to recall a fairfax county school board member over pandemic shutdowns that suspended in-person learning for 12 months, despite volunteers collecting more than 5,000 signatures to oust that board member. here to react, parent and co-founder of the open of fcps coalition, that launched that petition, zia thompkins. good morning to you, zia. >> good morning, thank you for having me. carley: walk us through how you got to this point where 5,000 ...

0 not a credible ally, not someone -- steve: that is what is so. im sorry were out of time, you have summarized it. have summarized it. jillian: it is monday, august 23rd. were following two major stories this morning. first, more chaos in kabul, the biden administration defending its botched withdrawal from afghanistan while struggling to evacuate thousands of americans stuck in harms way. this as isis poses a new threat to soldiers on the ground there. we have the fallout. >> tropical depressi...

So many parents as weve seen have been verbally against what is happening in some of these schools there? >> appreciate your time today, sandra. thank you so much. you hit the nail on the head in terms of bipartisanship. open cps coalition is the largest bipartisan grassroots organization formed with thousands of parents, teachers and taxpayers who saw what was happening with their kids and decided to stand up and do something about it. were very happy to announce that after a very long campaign...