the key will be what happens over the next several months. you worked with silvia matthews burwell when she was just silvia matthews in the clinton white house. tell us a little bit about her. well, she s a very fine human being. she s a first-class person and a high-octane public servant. i think she s one of the best public servants in the country. when i met sylvia, she was young, she grew up in west virginia. homeschooled, as i recall. went off to harvard. won a rhodes scholarship from west virginia. linked up with the clinton administration with bob rubin. she was his chief of staff. very highly regarded by everyone who worked with her. it was not a surprise when she landed a big job with the gates foundation. i think that, wolf, when i was when they were looking for a new person to run the gates foundation three years ago, sylvia s name was prominently mentioned but it was felt she was a little young for it still. but the next turnaround, they
neighborhood rivals. they came and shot up my house and killed my dog in the backyard. they shot out the back way. my childhood ain t normal. you got two neighborhoods warned 30 or 40 years, that would have been it for them. lil mouse s family decided he won t be going to fenger and will be home schooled. what is my count for how many kids in the building. lil mouse was among many no we only have like 2 hundred-something kids that s w shows up. we don t get more kids in this building, we re going to lose
ville. they came and shot up my house and killed my dog in the backyard. they shot out the bathroom window. going to fenger means crossing into enemy territory. now you got a neighborhood that s been at war for 30, 40 years going to school with each other. that would have been a no-go for them. little mouse s family decided he won t be going to fenger. instead he ll be home schooled. what is my count for how many kids we have in the building? little mouse was among the no-shows. and each absent kid costs about $5,000 in funding. what s your 20, gordon? we only have like 200 something kids show up. if we don t get more kids in here we re going to lose position. that s a really bad number.
was not to bully the student but to, quote, remedy someone get offering track a little. joining us now, our legal analyst, arthur aidala. shouldn t have done that. that s two teacher s salaries. did she fall down a flight of stairs? she was a sixth grader. you ve hate children. $70,000? that s an enormous amount of money. here s the punchline. she is home-schooled now. doesn t even go to school. is that true? yes, according to the upi. home-schooled now. so why i don t understand why there s a $70,000 award to her, number one. number two, i don t know i would think sixth grade the teachers could do anything they wanted. did you head children then hate children? i m not a self you think they should have said,
wear coming back after school? here on set with me is the msnbc.com national correspondent who brought us this story exclusi exclusively. toby harmon and his wife sicily, you just saw that clip there where they were in front of the school with their very young children who are home schooled. i mean, in talking to them, how much contact did you think their kids have with other children in their lives? the oldest child plays in a home school basketball league. again, abortion is their daily life. mine, they spend would days outside the clinic. starting to spend outside. when we ask about why are all these states passing these laws, this cascade of laws we are seeing, it is because there are people like the harmon who are spending their entirely liveliho livelihood, days, protests abortion. most people say they are pro-choice it the people that want to ban all abortion are very passionate and very, very committed. elephant in the room.