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>> tonight on "the reidout" -- >> we just learned about another shooting in tennessee. a school shooting. and i am truly without words. and our children deserve better. >> first lady and teacher dr. jill biden responding to the latest horrific acts of mass violence as politicians in states like tennessee worry more about drag shows and banning books than about actually protecting our children. also tonight, public protests in israel and elsewhere against the rising wave of authoritar...

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That history would write although dareo darrow lost he won the war, he changed public opinion, people stopped what they were doing and listened to trial and read the fingerpri transcript that was printed in the newspapers, banning of the books ended criminalization of eaching evolution halted. steve: now we see the left. pursuing this idea of censorship -- how would you make the connection to today. >> we dont learn from our history. do we? were seeing partisan censorship in political discourse,...

That history would write although da darrow lost he won the war, he changed public opinion, people stopped what they were doing and listened to trial and read the finge transcript that was printed in the newspapers, banning of the books ended criminalization of eaching evolution halted. steve: now we see the left. pursuing this idea of censorship -- how would you make the connection to today. >> we dont learn from our history. do we? were seeing partisan censorship in political discourse, pole o...

That history would write although dareo darrow lost he won the war, he changed public opinion, people stopped what they were doing and listened to trial and read the fingerpri transcript that was printed in the newspapers, banning of the books ended criminalization of eaching evolution halted. steve: now we see the left. pursuing this idea of censorship -- how would you make the connection to today. >> we dont learn from our history. do we? were seeing partisan censorship in political discourse,...

Not real tension among the public. its like an 80/20 issue. even gun owners overwhelmingly want stronger gun laws. as shannon said, the gun lobby and politicians they own are refusing to let it happen. you have this in the state of tennessee, which ironically is the scopes monkey trial state, where they used to have a law against teaching evolution in public high schools, in public schools. they now are racing to enact these first amendment limiting laws to limit things like drag shows. you have...

Education, nicole, thanks for being here, the statement of the department of education and tom cotton said hes not buying it. are you buying that apology? >> im not buying that apology the because weve seen this administrations department of education over and over again try and sneak things like this in without people knowing and the price of liberty is eternal vigilance which we been able to catch these things but look at the grant programs they have floated, what they are trying to do to obam...

God, your honor, and you know that. they come from man. this is a secular society. the constitution comes first. imagine a chief justice saying, no, my faith comes first. in an interview with ""the guardian"" leading up to the senate election you can very well say the americans the focus of evil in the modern world because america promotes a lot of bad things like same-sex marriage. the same argument made by vladimir putin. it prompted moore to say i guess putin is more kin to me than i thought....

Figure. and this is something that was so interesting to reflect on with creationists. >> indeed. you capture such great stuff in the interviews that you have of creationists. im sharing interviews that you have with creationists. you also take us through the sort of historical inflection points in terms of the pushback on evolution, the first one being whats known as the scopes monkey trial. which was a trial over whether or not teachers could be prohibited from teaching evolution. talk to us a...

This week in tennessee the state senate passed sb 893 requiring public schools to teach the quote controversy over evolution, global warming and human cloning. the bill is being referred to as the monkey bill, a call-back to tennessees famous scopes monkey trial in 1925 when a teacher was convicted for teaching evolution in the classroom. the bill says teachers must find effective ways to present science curriculum as it addresses scientific controversies. the tennessee members of the national a...