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Selection of guests, if you will, to -- with whom to speak of colleagues, with whom to speak about the new administration has shown already that hes quite capable of being ecumenical, of being thoughtful, of being inclusive. he is not indicating at all that hes out to polarize us. he wants to bring people together. as we can see, look, jonathan, look at his -- >> youre laughing here, jonathan. >> look at the department of education. who are at the top of the list, a couple of prominent democrats...

President elect. some question whether trumps sit downs are simply head fakes to soothe critics who say hes not reaching out. trumps team says this is the new reality. >> the president elect wants the best and the brightest. hes going meet with people who supported him. who debate support him. republican, democrat, independents. but most of all these conversations start off as just that. a conversation to discuss peoples ideas and thoughts and get their opinions. >> and erin, ab interesting elem...

Where donald trump is going. and they are quite frankly poking in the eye. >> what about the signal? hes five for five on white men here. first of all. five names. they are all white men. what signal does that send? >> look. first of all i would say i dont think anybody says you know what? i really wish we had a different attorney general or a different chief of staff. i think that at the end of the day if donald trump can turn the economy around, can make people feel better about america, more ...

I respect, former florida governor jeb bush. michelle ree of students first. bill gates, his foundation gave 170 million dollars to common core. the u.s. chamber of commerce helped pay for this video. >> as teachers, were on the front line, and we support common core. >> common core is not some washington mandate. that myth gets an f for misleading. john: maybe you just dont like change. >> well, i would argue to all of the proponents that the type of uniformity that common core or national stan...

When it comes to our educating our students, the united states is falling behind again. the woman who turned around the dc school system knows how to fix it. michelle ree is up next. martin bashir resigns after making disgusting comments about sarah palin. shes here to respond for the first time on tv. youll see it only on "fox & friends" in about a half hour

You know, any time you are really disrupting the status quo, youre implementing significant change that people are not used to, youre going to get a lot of pushback. >> right. >> in tennessee, both governor haslam and commissioner have been moving forward on aggressive reforms but theyre also facing a tremendous amount of opposition. you have to be able to push through that as politicians and say, you know what, even though some adults might not be happy with this, this is what is good and right...

Particular that the test investigation company came back and said actually we did the investigation and theres no need for further inquiry. >> as michelle rhee in march 2011 interview with tavis smiley dismissing allegations of cheating in washington, d.c. schools when she was chancellor of the school system. this included firing 56 principals and firing or laying off 700 teachers. there was an amazing piece of reporting that revealed wrong to right answers on standardized tests at d.c. schools....

And sandy sanfords memo warned michelle rhee that she add problem. >> one of the things we saw in atlanta in the beverly hall case was that reporters there looked at the eraser rates and took them to statisticians and said kids are foif six times per test erasing things and statisticians said, this cannot possibly be. >> in atlanta, the superintendent denied all that. the difference is that the atlanta newspaper stayed on the case. that didnt happen in washington. and the political leadership in...

Principals might have done this. it is an open invitation to investigation. he also, by the way, proposed strategies of how to avoid investigation. this is not all pure of heart. >> so then michelle rhee is presented with with this document. at least her deputy is -- >> i know she saw it. i have a reliable source. we verified this -- incidentally, people are very afraid of michelle rhee. a source high in dcps confirmed authenticity of this. ive been reporting for 39 years. when i took it to this...

Gafgts 2008 erasers. there have been five semi investigations. none of them involved the serious important work of a deep eraser analysis. they were all limited and they were more after security audit. but of course, the chancellor was able to say, this investigation proves that the d.c. inspector general spent 17 months. during 17 months he interviewed 60 people. you interview 60 people in a week. in atlanta they spent a year and interviewed 2,000 people. he went to one school. there were 91 sc...