just take a look at some of these headlines that just show how widespread the efforts to restrict black history are all across the country. so this is a moment in which i think history is front and center. >> it is. i mean, the president has oftentimes invoked the civil rights movement, especially when he's talking about the moment that the country is facing, even when he ran for the presidency, to -- and right now, democrats are really trying to push back on an effort, as you noted, abby, in a number of republican states, where they are trying to restrict not just the african-american studies pilot program, arc pp pilot program, they are banning books when it comes to books that talk about racism, books that talk about the history of racism against pl black people in this country. and that's now becoming a bit of a rallying cry for democrats to push back on that. >> this is an opportunity for him, because this trip to selma, while it's important, especially