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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 doesn't 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. that's what kevin and i are going to do. not a joke. but a good meeting yesterday. >> we'll get l...

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 matter is perhaps the most significant modern movement that we have experienced here. it seems that s...

The 20th century, you have talk -- readings of mari evans, readings of maude and gwendolyn brooks. they're doing it in a different way by using primary source material. i wish we didn't 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 always, the tragic truth is that we are politicizing what should be essentially an academic enterpr...

I don't know what to believe. you hear this all the time these days. it's a pretty relevant excuse. i don't know what to believe. you say that's 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 don't know. i'm 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 beyond the headlines. and i think that when people say i don't know what to believe, i'm conf...

How much woodward has, primary source material. notes from meetings. tape recordings. i don't 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. that's going to be important. >> is that going to satisfy him? he's already the president accusing woodward of lying. woodward has a pretty good reputation. he's done this to a number of administrations. is the president going to have an argument, a convincing argument when he tries to discredit him? >> because most of the information is from anonymous sources,...