The woman you're about to hear from
might never have found herself
in the national spotlight.
Michelle Mauro is her name.
She wasn't expected to win
her Republican
primary race to be North Carolina's
top public school official.
Then last week, in an upset, she did win.
And when she did, her extreme
and controversial comments
began getting attention.
Last Friday, she didn't filed, reported
that she has,
for example, tweeted under her
now dormant personal account
about wanting to see former President
Obama put in front
of a firing squad on pay
per view, saying, quote,
We could make some money back
from televising his death.
That's just one of a string
of social media postings
between 2019 and 2021,
in which McMorrow made suggestions
about executing Obama
and other prominent Democrats
for treason,
including Congresswoman Ilhan Omar,
North Carolina Governor Roy
Cooper, former New York
Governor Andrew Cuomo,
Hillary Clinton, Senator Chuck Schumer,
and then President elect Biden.
In the Biden tweet, here's
how she answered the question
Will you follow Joe Biden's advice
and wear a mask for 100 days?
Never, she replies.
We need to follow the Constitution's
advice and kill all traitors.
McMorrow has also promoted
QAnon, tweeting the Q nine slogan
Where we Go one, We go
all multiple times.
She also tweeted that
the actor Jim
Carrey was, quote, likely
searching for Adreno Chrome,
which is a reference to a Q
and on conspiracy theory,
which claims that celebrity
celebrities harvest the harvest the blood
and drink the blood of children
to prolong their own lives.
That's what they believe.
In addition to all that, Ms..
Morrow,
who again,
is the candidate to be North
Carolina's top public school official,
has called
public schools,
socialism centers
and indoctrination centers.
Now, as part of that Kaye File
a report,
CNN reached out tomorrow
and her campaign multiple times
to get her side of the story,
but received no response.
After publication of the case file story,
Morrow tweeted the following
According to at K File
and at CNN and at CNN Politics.
Obama's drone attacks
on hundreds
of innocent Muslims in
Yemen are not treasonous insanity.
The media demonstrates the need to teach
K-12 students real history
and critical thinking skills,
which, of course,
doesn't directly address
the multiple social media postings
we just listed.
So with that
in mind, scene Instrument Pro
Keypads went to North Carolina
and try and speak with her in person.
It took him several days.
They finally caught up to her outside
a Wake County Republican Party
event in Raleigh.
Sherman joins us now.
So what did she have to say?
Yeah,
Anderson, So she went
to this GOP convention.
It's a local GOP convention
in Wake County.
There were other elected
officials there,
including the lieutenant
governor, Mark Robinson,
who himself
has had some controversy
and has had some
controversial statements.
And we finally got to speak to her
as she was leaving.
Take a look at that exchange.
Hi, Miss Morrow.
How are you?
I'm all right. How did it go in there?
Hey, it went great. Yeah.
Great. Feeling good?
Who are you guys with?
I'm Sherman PROKUPECZ. I'm with CNN.
Oh, have you been
parked in my neighborhood, by any chance?
We've been trying to talk to you. Yes.
Okay, well, you can go through my.
I understand, but I have you now,
so why don't we talk now? No, no, no.
Why not?
Well, I want to ask you,
do you still stay?
I'm not talking to you, ma'am.
Do you still stand by your comments
about former
President Barack Obama
and that he should be executed,
calling for the death
of other presidents?
Do you stand by that?
Do you stand by those comments?
Have a good. Night.
Do you stand by what you've said about
the public education system
and that it needs to be destroyed?
No. Do you stand by that?
No. No.
Do you understand
the concern that people have
with this nomination that you now.
How do you vote in North Carolina
then keep your eyes on your own paper?
Well, let me ask you,
I've read I've read papers, though,
here to
keep your eye
on the concerns that people have
with your nomination
and the things that you have said.
People in New York have concern.
People call people on the phone.
Call. Really?
Yes.
Are they concerned about North Carolina
or do you know that
education is a problem
in this entire country?
So maybe they need to focus on
what's going on in
your state of New York,
which, by the way, is where I grew up.
Maybe they need to focus on
what's going on in California,
where children
are not getting
the education that they need.
Maybe they need to focus on
what they're doing in Michigan,
because right now
in North Carolina,
I'm focused on helping the families
of North Carolina
for their children
to get quality education,
for them to be safe,
and for us to be sure that our money
is going into the classroom
rather than bureaucracies.
That's what I've been focusing on.
That's what
I've been fighting for,
for the last five years,
going to the General Assembly
and dealing with those issues.
So that is why I am running.
I understand that.
But you have said such hurtful
things, too, in terms of the education.
To tell. You about transgender. Kids.
So done with the gotcha moment.
This is not a gotcha.
These are your own words, ma'am.
These are your own words.
You have said that the former president.
Oh, my.
Words, because you tweeted, are those
not your tweets?
Do you deny saying that
you have an opportunity now?
Do you deny saying that? I do.
Are you denying that
you said that in those tweets?
I am telling you.
Have you.
That I'm.
Going to do
you talk
about the indoctrination of children
by teachers?
I am telling. You.
Have you talked about that?
Have you said that about.
Have you seen any of me
going to the school board
for the last five years?
Because you will have my answer.
So clearly,
she didn't answer your questions.
She didn't want to talk about the tweets
about executing President Obama or Biden.
Has Ms..
Monroe ever
explained her tweets
calling for the execution
of these executions?
Well,
no, not not exactly.
She's deflected a lot.
She's tried to suggest it,
perhaps like she did to me
that maybe wasn't even written by her.
How do I know?
She said to me
at one point
that it was something
that that she posted.
So she's deflected.
She's of course, she. Can clear that up.
She could clear it up
very simply
just by answering the question.
Yeah.
I mean, it's not that difficult to do,
but you can see there
that when I wanted to talk about
some of those things that she has said,
and they're very hurtful.
I mean, there are people in this state
who are very concerned
about what she has said
and just her lack of empathy
and understanding
in the different issues
that affect students and children.
And yet,
when you look back at everything
she has said, it is very troubling.
And she could clear so much of this up.
But the bottom line is
she's now in a position
to get elected to a position
where she will be running a school system
with a million and a half students
and a massive budget.
And then she would just have this
you know,
she would have the podium,
she would have a place
to speak,
to say what it is
that she is feeling more widely.
And that is certainly very concerning
to people here Anderson.
Both of us, thanks very much.
Joining us now is Republican strategist
and North
Carolinian Doug Heye,
who recently tweeted, quote,
North Carolina Republicans
dump this lunatic.
Doug, what does it say
about the Republican Party
in North Carolina?
To an extent,
the Republican Party nationwide,
that this person
is the GOP nominee
for such an important job?
And do you think voters realized
these tweets
that she had sent out this supportive
Q&A on?
No, absolutely not.
Look, this was a down ballot race.
It wasn't one of the top tier
races, obviously.
You know,
you had Trump running for president,
Mark Robinson running for governor.
Which of the two marquee races
this is down ballot, it gets fewer votes.
It was a low turnout year.
About 25% of eligible voters
voted in this primary.
So I don't think they knew
exactly everything that she said.
A lot of this has come out
since the election,
but I see so much of this
in every direction, Anderson.
This is bad.
These are not just appalling statements.
These are the worst of
the worst statements
calling to assassinate
political opponents and so forth.
As a former campaign hack myself,
having spent a lot of time
in Wake County in Raleigh,
that's not the state party
headquarters on Hillsborough Street.
But what I see is bad staffing,
allowing your candidate
to walk that far with Sherman
being able to get every question in that
he could.
You want to have a car there
so you can get your
candidate out immediately
because, you know,
and this is problem number three.
You don't have good answers
to these questions
unless you can just simply say
that either you didn't do them,
which clearly she did,
or what I said was wrong and apologize
for it.
Unfortunately, in American politics
these days,
we don't really reward
people for standing up
and saying that they made a mistake.
We don't reward the apologies.
That's
one of the lessons that Donald Trump
sort of taught us in 2016.
I was in Wake County
in Raleigh
the day after the Access
Hollywood tape came out.
And I would have told you
that day, Anderson,
that there's no way
Donald Trump could win.
The reality is he did.
Now, North
Carolina has a lot of close races.
This may be one of them.
We go back and forth
with our politics is as far as
senators and governors.
So she could still win.
But we've learned the lesson.
And I think this is what she's learning.
It's a bad lesson,
but maybe if you don't apologize,
you can get away with it.
I mean, she also,
you know, the whole trafficking in Q
and on,
you know,
talking about Adrina Chrome
and all that is based on on anti-Jewish,
you know,
horrible anti-Jewish tropes
which were used
by the Nazis
about Jews
drinking the blood of children.
I mean,
the idea that this person
could be
head of the school system in North
Carolina is it's quite extraordinary.
It's extraordinary.
And look,
it would be extraordinary
if she were also the insurance
commissioner candidate
or a state senator or basically anybody
running for governor.
Unfortunately, though, Anderson,
in our politics right
now, we are so stratified
and we've seen the parties go so tribal.
It's not even so much red
versus blue anymore.
It's almost shirts
versus skins
that everything that we do
in our politics
comes down to that
sort of existence, local level and so on.
I mean, of course,
with calling for the executions
of a former president
and a president elect
is not disqualifying for, you know,
an elected official in America
or running the school system.
We're talking
about teaching the real history.
I mean,
is there anything that's disqualifying?
Well, I mean, this should be it.
And obviously, again,
I don't think that the voters,
Republican primary voters
in that case knew.
But this should be a good example for
we have a new state
are we have a new RNC chair,
Michael Whatley.
He's also the state party
chair in of North Carolina.
I've known him for 20 years, Michael.
This is a time to stand up
and show leadership.
This has to be a line that we don't cross
because we've seen political violence
against Republican members of Congress,
against Democratic congressmen,
our congresswomen,
obviously with Gabby Giffords.
We know that this could happen again.
This is a time for leadership
to stand up and say no.
Doug, I appreciate your time tonight.
Thank you. Thank you.