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Not real tension among the public. it's 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 rampant book banning. i think tennessee might be the most book banning state, even more than flori...

Education, nicole, thanks for being here, the statement of the department of education and tom cotton said he's not buying it. are you buying that apology? >> i'm not buying that apology the because we've seen this administration's 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 obama era discipline regulations, injecting race into the process. trying to be electrified, seems l...

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. he hearkened back to the days of slavery. 1997 this wasn't one of them. moore took on teaching evol...

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. i'm 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 what's known as the scopes' monkey trial. which was a trial over whether or not teachers could be prohibited from teaching evolution. talk to us about that piece and how that changed the way creationists were approaching. >> the trial has been...

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 tennessee's 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 academy of sciences expressed their opposition of the bill and its companion bill in the house, hb 3...