>> So, I mean, how she got around that is unbelievable. But obviously she's qualified,
obviously she's gonna pass the question is, will she get close to 60 votes? She said the
board doesn't know if they're teaching CRT in the classroom, but every other
word is having so many friends on boards of school districts and they do know what's being taught.
And Ted Cruz brought, I think it was Ted Cruz, Ted Cruz that brought out all these books
from that school and said, this is what they're teaching in second grade, this is what they're
teaching in third or fifth grade. And it's information. I don't want my daughter to learn.
>> Yeah, I assume that if you were to compile a list of all the things
Ainsley Earhardt is very uncomfortable with her child learning about that would be an
extensive list and effectively school would become a little bit of day care,
a little bit of lunch. Maybe some ra ra ra America's the best country ever.
But bear in mind they're using this attack, that Catania Brown Jackson because she's on the board
of this school is responsible for not only every book that is taught. But
for every misinterpretation of that book by every conservative
across the country, she is responsible for that too. But it went beyond just what you saw.
So let's get into a little bit more of Fox and
friends complaining about the nominee here. >> And Cruz said, he claimed one of the books
accused infants of being racist and he asked our babies racist and she said, I have not reviewed
those books. And they had not come up in her work as a judge, which is one of the things
she said a lot yesterday and I have got a feeling she's gonna say a lot of it.
Again, today kicks off today >> A Children's book with
all these babies are babies racist. >> Right, but everyone knows they are,
everybody knows kids are racist that goes without saying, so we'll see the questions
asked now. But I just do think, I think it's a joke that people are getting mad at Republicans,
Democrats for asking tough questions because she's African American woman.
I think that it would be insulting not to ask tough questions to everyone equally. Just keep
it out of 11th grade dating practices and keep it away from beer, beer trips to red sox games
and I think people, everything's on the table. >> Okay, so there's obviously a lot there
we're gonna dive into including kill me.
They're pulling a Lindsey Graham by making the whole thing over this historic nomination. Their
grievances about tough questions being asked of some of the most flawed candidates for the
Supreme Court in recent history to do. See they're saying, well, she was asked if this
book came up in her legal work and she said no, I expect more of that because it's true.
If you ask her if she's eating puppies and she said no, would
you expect that she would also deny eating more baby versions of household pets. Yes,
the book for kids did not come up in her legal work. Ask a dumb question. Get an
answer that you will then use to make yourself look even more dumb.
Brett, what are we supposed to do? This is how they're using this time.
>> Listen, Georgetown country day school is a private school. How ritzy is it? Ben Markowitz
went there? So just know for elitists that don't have any connection to the public school system.
And I think that conservative senators and Congress people more than anyone,
would advocate for putting any weird, insane curriculum into a private school education.
And they do on the daily, that is actually their goal is to replace the entire public
school system with for profit, private Christian academies for learning. That will do
exactly all the fundamental things that when you break it down, even though the specifics
are different and they say critical race theory and they say, teaching gender grooming.
But in terms of instilling values and fundamental understandings of things
that wouldn't fall into your typical math and science curriculum. They wanna put that in
all kinds of conservative educational curricula. And so it's a wild stupid double standard
and I think that it's pretty obvious to everyone who's not just a Fox News cultist.
>> Exactly yeah. The government should like be hands off except in this particular case where
a private school, which they don't want the government to regulate at a school a book
is available that they're misinterpreting. So the government needs to get in and at the end
of the day what all of this is about other than just making themselves look cool to their base.
Because somehow that works is encouraging the banning of more books. The banning of books,
by the way, there was at least one or two books on that list
that are theoretically available at the schools that Ted Cruz sends his
kids to. Did that not agree with him? He's totally fine with him going there.
You know why? Because it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter at all. He's using it as a prop. He
doesn't actually care. And I wanna highlight Ted Cruz here. But first I want to acknowledge because
Ainsley Earhardt was shocked there that someone on the board of a school doesn't necessarily know
the specific line by line content of every book that might theoretically be available to Children.
Boards of trustees in independent schools turns out are different than in public school districts.
I don't even think they know this stuff in public school districts. But trustees at private schools
almost entirely focused on governance and direction, like a five year strategic plan
and leave operational issues like curriculum to the heads of schools and their staff.
But again, you'd want to know that if you cared at all about the thing that you're talking about.
If it is instead a convenient ruse to fill a bit of time and to cause your base to despise
this woman that's very well liked by the way, then you don't care so much about that.
You will call these sorts of BS diversions, tough questions as Kilmeade
says. They're not, they're not tough, they're nonsensical, they're insane.
There's a lot of baked in subtle racism there that doesn't make them tough though. But Ted Cruz will
evoke a Simonson science thing. If we bring up this picture, he had a number
of displays like this, full blown up pages from books for kids because of the cut like
kids being introduced to the concept that racial bias exists is unacceptable.
If you are a very, very dumb person that is fine with racial bias,
Brett thoughts. >> I love any time that there is a large
sign over the shoulder of someone in Congress. Because I then imagine them going into Kinko's
or Fedex office and just giggling the whole time as they're waiting for the order to come in.
Like this is gonna get them, Ted Cruz is grandstanding. It is only grandstanding.
It only ever will be grand skits standing and anyone who says otherwise doesn't understand
that those giant foam core printouts are literally on grand, stands behind them.
That's a great point and I've never actually thought about that.
>> But no, they appreciate a good prop? AOC pointed out, another one of the props to
Ted Cruz uses tweeting when you're showing off the next book, you want band with the
perfect edges and everything to underscore to everyone. You haven't actually read it. And I
will ask everyone in the audience, how many, I'm not gonna say chapters, I'm not gonna say pages.
How many words of the end of policing is Ted Cruz read? Do you believe he
read a word? I don't believe he read a word. >> No, and each situation is ridiculous because
either he didn't read a word, which is very obviously the case. He saw it in some tweet or
he read every single word and in which case what a huge waste of time he's poring over these things.
No, and he's not gonna read through it all the way and have like this thoughtful back and
forth all they ever do. I've talked to multiple people who are saying, I can't believe they're
grooming kids in schools with critical race theory teaching kids that it's evil to be white.
That's not the situation. The whole point of school is to teach people,
yeah, things to know, but also how to think. And I don't mean what to think, I mean,
how to think. How to encounter a much debated issue and find out
what side of it you come down on and also being able to argue both sides.
I understand both sides and then also take criticism and understand with that same mental
muscle how to frame these discussions in the first place. And we can have honest discussions about
what should be in high school, elementary school, preschool curriculum. But I don't think any
of the people who are making headlines for the subject itself wanna have a serious conversation.
They just wanna signal cultural issues to a base rather than deliver tangible
legislative results that will help them in the real world and in real life
and in real kitchen table issues, not water cooler ones. That is all very
well said and very reasonable. And thus it has no part in any of this just doesn't.