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Provider. >> thank you for being with us again. one of the more popular and critically acclaimed books of the last half century on millions of bookshelves across the country, and now the target of republicans in virginia. >> when my son showed me his reading assignment, my heart sunk. it was some of the most explicit material you can imagine. >> why the republican gubernatorial candidate is taking aim at a toni morrison classic in the remaining days of the virginia governor race. coming up in the last hour, china has been testing a space-bound weapon with nuclear capabilities and why the t...

Us from virginia. campaigns often take interests turning in the waning days. education takes center stage. it's bringing the president owed indication reform now. thank you for being here. we've seen republican candidates say over and over that he supports -- youngkin, that is -- freedom for parents on how kids are educated. kind of took a hit at toni morrison's beloved book, featuring a new ad where a mom is pushing to have the book banned in her son's english curriculum. >> so when my son showed me his reading assignment, my heart sunk. it was some of the most explicit material you can ima...

>> as a parent, it's tough to catch everything. so when my son showed me his reading assignment, my heart sunk. it was some of the most explicit material you can imagine. i met with lawmakers. they couldn't believe what i was showing them. their faces turned bright red with embarrassment. >> she's talking about toney mor morrison's "beloved." i mean, it is exhausting. i learned this week in a great piece in "the new york times" that over 20,000 native americans were enslaved in california in 1850, even though slavery was outlawed at that time. this is the importance of critical race theory. th...

Instead. but culture war crusades can lead to awkward places. you milght remember in march, youngkin was trying to resist the alleged banning of dr. seuss' books. but free speech arguments only go so far. so one week from election day, the youngkin campaign released an ad where a mother called for banning a book that she found offensive. >> when my son showed me his reading assignment, my heart sunk. it was some of the most explicit material you can imagine. >> so few things about that. the book in question was "beloved" by toni morrison, winner of the nobel prize in literature. it is a novel ...

Pulitzer prize. this is the subject of his latest campaign ad. >> as a parent it is tough to catch everything, so when my son showed me his reading assignment, my heart sunk. it was some of the most explicit material you can imagine, and met with lawmakers they could not believe what i was showing them. their faces turned bright red with embarrassment. they passed bills, requiring schools to notify parents when explicit content was assigned. it was bipartisan, it gave parents a say, the option to choose an alternative for my children. it was so grateful. but then governor terry mcauliffe vetoe...