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slow start, putting it bluntly, quote, welcome to the seinfeld congress. it is a show about nothing. the vote on congresswoman omar is one of the political squabbles unfolding while the nation ticks a day closer to defaulting on its debts. house speaker kevin mccarthy met with president biden yesterday, but there doesnt appear to have been any progress on the debt limit. the president did strike this optimistic tone while speaking this morning. >> start treating each other with respect...

African american history is a subfield within the context of african american studies. and what the ap course has done, i think, which it has done pretty effectively, it will prepare students who enter my courses as freshmen. they will come in with a baseline body of knowledge. i think unit four has this idea that it is dealing with movements and debates. it makes no sense to me that black lives matter has now been reduced to a project that the students can voluntarily investigate. black lives m...

The 20th century, you have talk -- readings of mari evans, readings of maude and gwendolyn brooks. theyre doing it in a different way by using primary source material. i wish we didnt have to talk about this by way of framing the desantis offer. it gets in the way, more than clarifies things. >> michael, some of these areas that were revised or eliminated altogether, what would high school students miss by eliminating what i mentioned? >> well, obviously, it is great to see professor glaude as a...

I dont know what to believe. you hear this all the time these days. its a pretty relevant excuse. i dont know what to believe. you say thats a copout? >> i think it is a copout. i think as american citizens we like to say news consumers, but american citizens ought to make ourselves informed. and so to say i dont know. im hearing things on different sides. you know, read a newspaper. watch the evening news. okay. you want to watch fox, but compare and contrast. >> yeah. >> and get a sense and go...

How much woodward has, primary source material. notes from meetings. tape recordings. i dont know exactly what he has, but i know he has notes from staffers from their meetings in the west wing. those are the staffers describing trump. thats going to be important. >> is that going to satisfy him? hes already the president accusing woodward of lying. woodward has a pretty good reputation. hes done this to a number of administrations. is the president going to have an argument, a convincing argume...

Being victimized by a russian intelligence operation. now weve got all this detail about why the special counsel thinks that what russia did in terms of targeting the u.s. public is an actual crime. now, i have no idea how mueller and his team got the kinds of documents they got to put together this indictment. but theyve got a lot of primary source material. theyve got direct quotes from internal reviews from inside this internet research agency from which the russians were running this campaig...

Be russian criminal charges here. criminal charges against russian citizens. i wouldnt have predicted they would be for that part of the attack. but now they brought criminal charges and thanks to the very detailed indictment, we have a ton of new information about what the special counsel believes russia did and why the special counsel believes its not just an american -- not just america being victimized by a russia intelligence operation. we have detail why the special counsel thinks what rus...

It the jimmy carter malaise moment. with us is bill oreilly with his new back to "killing lincoln." you are not busy enough. you have to write a book. >> it ties in to what you are talking about with president obama. the country is getting soft. lincoln is the gold standard for leadership in america. what he did the last two months of his life and how much sacrifice he made for his country. he was the most hated a man in america -- he was the most hated man in america. he saved the nation. what ...

Primary source material. they have direct quotes from internal reviews from inside this internet research agency from which the russians were running this campaign. this is a quote from the indictment. quote, on or about september 14th, 2016 in an internal review of an organization-created and controlled facebook group called secure borders, the account specialist was criticized for having a quote, low number of posts dedicated to criticizing hillary clinton. the specialist was told, quote, its ...