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Fights play out at school board meetings across the country. initially this council comes together, it has conservative, liberal parents, everything in between and they get ready to present this diversity plan and it takes almost two years of work. the plan is ready right in the months of george floyd's murder in which the political conversation around how to talk about race history in the classroom is entirely different than it was in 2018. so this document, despite how it had been worked on for so long by members of the community, is now in that politicized context and there's a massive back...

This diversity plan. it takes two years of. worked the plan is ready red in the months after george floyd's murder, in which the political conversation in how to talk about race in history and in the classroom is entirely different to how we were talked about in 2018. so this document is in that politicized context and there is a huge backlash. parents raise hundreds of thousands of dollars and even launch a lawsuit that leads to a restraining order that stops the district from implementing any diversity and inclusion training for kids in this large and well known school district in texas. so ...

Npr reporter jeff bennett. you're new to the show and table. we'll let you go first. give us the update. does the delay in the bill mean more time to essentially offer sweeteners to get people onboard or does it jeopardize the bill? >> i think it means both of those things. the passage of time has not been good for this bill. one of the reasons we know that mcconnell and other republican leaders want to really rush to have a vote is basically to stop the opposition effort from mobilizing. and opposition effort which doesn't just include the political left as we might assume and consumer groups...

Where this threat emanated from? >> i think it's important for to us distinguish between a counterterrorism effort that is ongoing. dealing with al qaeda and the remnants that still exist in the fatah, creating platforms, taking targeted strikes where necessary. gathering intelligence. all that work has to be done -- would have to be done even in the crisis in iraq wasn't occurring. and there's no doubt that the problem in syria is one that we've been paying a lot of attention to over the last couple years. as you see jihadists coming in from europe, as far as australia, to get trained, and th...

The olympics? remember that? he released two imprisoned members of the band pussy riot who had been in prison two years. the other high-profile prisoner he released ahead of the olympics was this man, once russia's richest man. when he was still free, he decided to use his economic power to fund and help lead an opposition effort against vladimir putin and his seemingly permanent reign in russia. he had him jailed for over a decade when he released him before the olympics. putin also seized the assets of his company, yukos oil, the company who made him so rich. they jailed the guy, took his co...