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Charge of agencies when they're going to undermine the mission of those agencies and exhibit a in that is betsy devos who president trump nominated to be head of secretary of education. she has a history of attacking public education, of trying to take resources and diverting them into voucher programs, failed voucher programs. that's actually a very good example of where democrats are united and in fact, have support from two republican senators right now. >> broadly speaking, you're talking about the betsy devos, the talk-a-thon in opposition to her nomination whereby by all accounts it appe...

Senator. take $20 billion and put them into voucher programs which would devastate neighborhood public schools around the country and deprive them of resources. >> isn't there a risk that you're simply against something and not for something else? >> i don't think so, while we will oppose these nominees who again are undermining the missions of these agencies and while we were opposing any efforts to destroy the affordable care act without a comparable replacement.

Your child. >> reporter: as michigan students rank among the lowest in country on standardized test scores, the state opened the door to charter schools as an alternative more than 20 years ago. >> it was born out of a need. charter schools are not a bad thing. it's a school of choice. >> reporter: today in detroit, 46% of students attend charters. nearly 80% of michigan's charters are run by for-profit companies. some get high marks, but overall, charters get no better results than public schools and are largely unregulated. in michigan, betsy devos, the nominee for secretary of education, ha...

She's up for the full confirmation vote, the hiccup, as it's been reported you have susan collins andmerski are suggesting they will vote no on that. let's walk you through the significance and you have these two republicans saying no, that would mean the vice president would be the tie-breaking vote. >> reporter: vice president pence coming out of the bull pen to break the tie. let's explain why the matters, sawn spicer was asked and he said 100% he was convinced betsy devos would be the next secretary of education. there was a lot of problems how that came out a lot of concerns for somebody ...

Children what i was trying to get at when i talked with ms. devos at the hearing was my concern about the fact that the voucher programs that she had supported made children with disabilities if they were to receive a voucher like kids without disabilities do it made those kids sign away their rights under the i.d.e.a. so i thought it was very important to get her perspective on why she thought that was okay and whether she would, as secretary of education, the country's top education officer charged with making sure that all of our kids have access to free, appropriate public education so tha...