former special agent of the secret service, who served on protective details for president obama and president george w. bush. is this unusual? if the way it s being reported, yes, that is unusual. typically, that doesn t happen. a security detail will not come in and intermingle with the secret service security. but in reference to the political piece, and i ve looked at that spees. i think what they re referring to is his security people are going to either come in as an aid, which is fine, as long as they re not carrying weapons, as long as he has his head of security, he can have that as a gatekeeper. what you really don t want to see is his actual security intermingling. i can t see that happening. the only gun carriers when you say intermingling, you re referring to armed guarding of the president and the president s body? yes. it would be very, very unlikely to see that. to actually see private security doing physical security for the president of the united states.
notable, because donald trump claps back so frequently that he tried to find the nicest reading of it, he s like, i don t think we meant it, we re not going to get into it. maybe he s turning a new leaf as we head into the new political year. in clinton world, some blunt talk about why their candidate lost. politico note among others that former president bill clinton talked about this election to a small local paper right here in new york, saying, james comey cost her the election. on the topic of russia interfering, he said, you would need to have a single-digit iq not to recognize what was going on. and when asked about trump, he reportedly said, he doesn t know much. one thing he does know is how to get angry white men to vote for him. secretary clinton s former campaign manager, john podesta, basically struck a similar tone when he was talking about her loss on meet the press . a foreign adversary directly intervened into our democratic
an op-ed claiming tracy sought to personally cause our family pain and anguish. you suggested this little boy never existed. did you not? i asked for verification of the party, the family, their relationship to the boy. yes. and you don t think that was inconsiderate, obnoxious, uncalled for? i do not. reporter: legal expert kendall coffey. even the first amendment doesn t guarantee a job when someone has gone too far. here he crossed the line. tenure, no protection? tenure is no immunity. the professor has six days to respond to the university. because the school is on winter break, the decision on what happens next won t be official until january 4th. kerry sanders, nbc news, boca raton, florida. we re keeping you posted on the rush of holiday travel that s about to be gin. aaa estimates a record number of americans will be on the road. 100 million americans are
some joined him voluntarily. finally one person complained, and so the school district told him you can t do this any longer, or, we ll provide a small, private room where you can pray so nobody can see you. well, i m sorry, but the first amendment doesn t restrict the free exercise of religion to a broom closet. and you know, people say well, employers have rights over their employees. they have lots of rights. but they never have the right to violate the first amendment right of the freedom of religion, a freedom that our founders called our first and most basic freedom. you know, we ve been talking about this now for years. i mean we ve been talking about not just on football fields, it s the nativity scenes, you know, in the middle of the town square. you know, what kind of ramifications does this particular incident or situation have? do you think, will it have for high schools across the country, and other situations where you re dealing with students, you know, who are just tr
8-12. 10.3 in eighth grade. in 12th grade down to 7.5 tests per year for grades 8-12. what do you make of that? what i make of it, i think that the system of standardized test taking needs to be looked at differently. according to the story that i saw, the reason why i m here is the people are complaining that kids are suffering. i think that s a little bit of a far reach that kids are suffering from standardized tests. what i ve seen in my state of new jersey is that there s a big parental influence, like a big calling out about the tests. i fear that that is being transferred down to the kids. it s causing an anxiety that doesn t need to be happening. look at the number of overall tests. this number astounds me. 112 standardized tests. mandated tests from pre-k flew 12th. so a lot of studying focused around these tests. we ve heard of recess being removed from schools, the