but this is going to be a key test. of course there are going to be elections in taiwan. >> it's january 13th is coming upon us. >> yes, exactly. just around the corner, and again, we know that president xi was complaining about that. now, look, president biden has said publicly that the united states would defend taiwan if china were to invade, a statement that the white house has walked back and softened a bit, but we have heard this president take a very tough line as it relates to china, so we'll watch it closely. >> that's one of the reasons why it's complicated because he's said that we would defend taiwan and then they walk it back because that is supposed to be ambiguous the way these things work. >> exactly, strategic ambiguity. >> nothing ambiguous about the reporting your team did. >> thank you. >> kristen welker, thank you. join kristen for a very special year end show sunday on "meet the press." that does it for this edition of

"andrea mitchell report." chris jansing is here right now. good day, i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. it's a case that could short circuit donald trump's re-election run before the first votes are even cast. now that colorado's highest court has barred him from the ballot, the u.s. supreme court gets the chance to have the last word, but will they take it? >> key israel hamas negotiations are happening right now, egyptian officials trying to broker a new cease fire in gaza, even as hamas looks for a way to stop the conflict entirely. is there potentially a pathway to peace? and the conservative push to promote pro-american values in the nation's classrooms, in some cases using cartoons to reach kids as young as kindergarten. >> we start with that explosive ruling by colorado's highest court stripping donald trump's

name from the state's presidential ballot and putting the fate of his candidacy squarely in the hands of the supreme court. the narrow 4-3 decision affirming that the former president engaged in an insurrection on january 6th, actions that disqualify him from running because the 14th amendment says insurrectionists can't seek higher office. but now we wait to see if the nation's highest court is going to weigh in. but they're facing a tight time line. the state deadline to print ballots is just 16 days away. president biden was asked about the decision after he arrived in milwaukee earlier today. >> mr. president, your reaction to the colorado ruling on trump on the ballot? >> i'm not going to comment on a court case. that's up to the court. that's all i have to say about that. >> is he an insurrectionist?

>> what'd you say? >> is trump an insurrectionist, sir? >> well, i think certainly it's self-evident. whether the 14th amendment applies, let the court make that decision. he certainly supported insurrection, there's no question about it. none, zero, and he seems to be doubling down on everything. >> i want to bring in nbc's justice and intelligence reporter ken dilanian. paul butler is a former federal prosecutor, georgetown law professor, and msnbc legal analyst. former ohio republican governor john kasich is an msnbc political analyst, and vaughn hillyard is here with me. he's been following the trump campaign reaction. so ken, give us the nuts and bolts of this decision. what should we make of this january 5th deadline? >> chris, first of all, this was one of dozens of lawsuits that have been filed nationally to disqualify mr. trump under section 3 of the constitution's 14th amendment which was designed to keep former

confederates from returning to government after the civil war. but until now, every court that has ruled has decided against disqualification. six states so far. this provision bars from office anyone who swore an oath to support the constitution and then engaged in insurrection or rebellion against it. it's been used only a handful of time since the decade after the civil war. the colorado supreme court with all seven judges appointed by democrats, ruled 4-3 that mr. trump did engage in insurrection and does come under the provision. in terms of the deadline, it's a bit complicated. take a listen to the colorado secretary of state on that. >> what the court order said is basically if he appeals, the case basically resets itself. it's assumed he's on unless the united states supreme court intercedes or decides that, you know, they aren't going to take the case or decide the case. so the big picture is that i think we have to wait to see how

this plays out. >> so basically, if mr. trump appeals, which he has said he will do very soon, he remains on the ballot unless and until the supreme court intervenes to make a decision in this case. >> okay, paul, typically the supreme court doesn't do anything super quickly, but what about in this case? >> so, chris, if the court takes this case as it almost has to, it will be the most important election law case since bush versus gore. the court super expedited its process in bush versus gore. it even released its decision on the same day it heard oral argument. this colorado case is actually significantly more important because bush versus gore was about florida and the colorado case would impact all 50 states. so if the court follows the same procedural precedent for the

colorado case, it will expedite and decide this issue long before colorado's primary, which is on super tuesday. i think the larger concern is whether the court's decision will be interpreted as political as bush versus gore, which is widely considered a legal embarrassment. and the supreme court itself has considerably less legitimacy now than it did in 2020 when it decided bush versus gore. so the colorado case isn't just a challenge for donald trump. it's also a test for the united states supreme court and whether it can rise above all of the concerns that americans have about it as an institution. >> governor, it's not just colorado. acrding to law fair, there's at least a dozen more states trying to disqualify trump from the ballot, in several others attempts to do so have been rejected either by state officials or by the courts. what are you watching for? where do you see this going? >> it's going nowhere.

i mean, look, i don't need to lay out my bona fide as my opposition to donald trump. this is just pure partisan ridiculous stuff here. the united states senate, they took a look at whether he should be convicted. he wasn't. i think jack smith didn't move forward to indict him on this. look, you've got a partisan court, all democrats, and they barely -- they barely could say that he should be disqualified, and think about the precedent of this. i always worry about that, i worry about the fact, i've teld you this before, you do this to me. i do this to you, and this just goes on and on. i just think this case is not going to hold up, and it has a significant -- if it were to hold up, you tell me what we're looking at in terms of future decisions being made bipartisan -- by partisans.

a lot of democrats are probably excited about this. i've got news for them, why don't you figure out how to beat trump, that would be a more important decision. i'm watching for the court to just reject this. i hope they're going to do it with that court being divided, i hope it will be pretty close to unanimous. that's what i hope. >> do you think, governor, because there's the legal part of this, right, and then there's the political part of this, do you think that it's a net positive in a way for trump because anytime he can send out fund-raising emails and say they're picking on me, he wins? >> well, i can tell you what these trumpers are going to say. they're going to say, you see, the deep state. they won't even let him compete. they won't even let him get into the ballpark and swing at a pitch. that's what they're going to say and he's going to say the deep state is at it again. for people who don't follow this all the time, chris, like we do,

it's pretty simple to them. now they're saying he can't run for president? that's a reaction. so yes, and it gives him an opportunity to vent more. it gives him an opportunity to get on a soap box and to be able to avoid any other problems that he has, you know. so this is something that they're probably pretty excited about if i had to bet money on it. >> are they excited about it, vaughn? >> to the extent that donald trump loves a legal battle or any battle of any sort, i guess, there is also potential stakes that a supreme court could throw him off the ballot in all 50 states and he would not be the nominee for psident of the united states with four pending criminal trials on top of it. so if you're looking at e len ha baa, she's the spokesperson for trump's legal team. she writes, this ruling issued by the colorado supreme court attacks the very heart of this nation's democracy. it will not stand and we trust that the supreme court will reverse this unconstitutional order. donald trump at his rallies over the last weeks behind him on a

big screen has had the words biden is threat to democracy plastered behind him. he keeps uing words election interference. he takes the phrases used against him, or in this situation he is the one under scrutiny or criminal investigation for attacking the democracy, but now he has using those words to suggest that he is the one under attack. when governor kasich was talking about the u.s. supreme court and how they could potentially rule, i think it's also worth noting donald trump has met their ire in the past. one year ago they ruled unanimously he had to turn over his federal income tax returns to the house, ways, and means committee. what type of response did that spur from donald trump? well, donald trump on social media post, this was just one year ago, said, quote, why would anybody be surprised that the supreme court has ruled against me? they always do it. the supreme court has lost its honor, prestige, and standing and has become nothing more than a political body. this is a humongous case the

supreme court is about to set their eyes on. >> there's no doubt about that, the stakes here, paul, but i also want to ask you about this other question before the supreme court about whether trump is immune from federal prosecution. what are the implications in your mind of having the judicial branch so heavily involved in questions that bear directly on a political election? >> it's a great question. so the colorado decision doesn't go directly to the criminal cases because it's a case about constitutional law, not about criminal law, so there's no direct relationship. the through line is the supreme court. it's the united states supreme court, so in the next few months it will make decisions that are crucial to the future of donald trump and to the future of our democracy. but chris, if i could respectfully disagree with the governor, i don't think his complaint is really about

politics or the colorado supreme court. i think his complaint is about the united states constitution. section 3 of the 14th amendment says that an officer of the united states disqualified from office if they ha previously taken an oath to defend the constitution and then engaged in insurrection. the colorado supreme court ruled that what happened on january 6th was an insurrection and that trump engaged in that insurrection through his messages to supporters before january 6th, his speech that day, and his social media posts afterwards. i don't think that's partisan politics. i think that's four brave justices doing what they believe the law requires them to do. >> can you both -- governor, i've got to give you a chance to respond. >> there have been a lot of states -- there have been other states that looked at this and they just dismissed it. this is a chance for the

colorado court to come down and say we tried to stop donald trump. come on. i understand the constitutional argument. jack smith would have indicted him. the senate would have convicted him. look, i'm the least fan of donald trump, but let's call it like we see it. and you got a handful of partisan appointments in colorado to a bunch of judges that said he shouldn't be on the ballot. if anybody wants to make a -- i'm not a betting man, but if anybody wants to make a bet as to what the united states supreme court will do on this, let me know, and think about the implications. think about the implications of what could happen across this country if, in fact, we start saying somebody can't get on the ballot? look, that's my view, and i wish everybody a happy holiday. i don't have any much more to say about this whole thing. you watch, but if anybody wants to bet, let me know. >> you're going to stay with us, governor kasich, i have more ta to talk with you about.

thank you all so much. the top leader of hamas is in cairo, could another cease fire deal be in the works. we're back in 60 seconds. secons emergen-c crystals.

leaders of hamas are in egypt as the latest round of hostage negotiations appear to be picking up steam. it comes as international and domestic pressure is mounting following the recent shooting deaths of hostages still in gaza. prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his wife met with the loved ones of those still being held captive, for them every day can feel like a nightmarish game of russian roulette. >> the time is running out. we don't have time anymore. we are keep seeing that hamas is murdering hostages inside gaza. we can't let them go. i can't give them up. i can't. i need my dad. i need in my life, and i need him now. >> nbc's jay gray is in tel aviv

for us. so where do hostage negotiations stand right now, jay? >> reporter: yeah, and that young lady at kibbutz beri where we were today, the 22-year-old, both her mom and dad were kidnapped. her mom released after 54 days, but her dad remains in captivity inside gaza, 75 days now that those that remain in gaza are still being held there. there's no question, chris, that the negotiations have intensified. that is clear, and we've heard from the president of israel, herzog, saying that they would welcome another opportunity for some type of pause in the fighting. today we heard from secretary of state blinken who weighed in. give a listen to what he had to say about the situation. >> israel has been very clear, including as recently as today, that it would welcome returning to a pause and the further release of hostages. the problem was and has been and

remains hamas. they reneged on commitments they made during the first pause for hostage releases, and the question is whether they are, in fact, willing to resume this effort. >> reporter: yeah, of course now all of these talks going on behind closed doors and with qatari intermediaries really working to bring the two sides together, with the u.s. obviously playing an active role as well. there are reports that israel has offered a full week of some type of pause in the fighting in exchange for all of the women, children, and all of the men over the age of 60 to be released. clearly they haven't reached a deal at this point, but when you talk to those and we have that are close to the negotiating process, they feel like they are making progress. >> jay gray, thank you for that. i want to bring in carnegie endowment for international peace senior fellow and former arab israeli negotiator aaron david miller. good to have you back on the show. what do you make of the talks happening in egypt, and what are

you hearing, if anything? >> i think everybody's under pressure, chris. the administration's under pressure to press the israelis to change their tactics in order to continue to minimize the rise in palestinian deaths and the administration would like to see a humanitarian pause, not a cease fire. in order to trade hostages presumably for prisoners would then create more space for the entry of humanitarian assistance. hostages families are pressing the netanyahu government extremely hard on this, and the israelis we're now in the third month of this war, have failed to accomplish i think most of their objectives. so right now i think the prospects for some are better off than they were last week, but i wouldn't go as far to say we're on the cusp of an arrangement. the basic problem is that hamas understands if they give up these hostages they give up all of their leverage. i suspect if there is going to be a deal, it will be a deal for

the 20 plus women who remain, some of the older men over 60 and anyone who is seriously ill. >> you know, prime minister netanyahu haseemed largely immune to pressure, but do you think that the accidental shooting of three hostages changes the equation at all making him more likely to want to make a deal? >> i think probably. i mean, that was tragic, heartbreaking, and is symptomatic of the confusion as well as the broadening rules of engagement that the israelis use in a very difficult situation. in an urban environment in which hamas is embedding its military assets below and in and around civilian population, but yeah, i think, look, if the president of israel is openly talking about exchanging hostages for a humanitarian pause, and you don't hear objections from the prime minister, i think, yeah, he's inclined also to see if he

can get back again. right now the focus is on the women and adult males over 60. >> i want to play a bit of my colleague lawrence o'donnell's exclusive conversation about this with vice president kamala harris. >> our position has always been that israel has a right to defend itself without any question. and how it does so matters, and as i have said many times and i think we know that far too many innocent palestinians have been killed, and it is important then that -- and we have made clear our perspective on this -- that there be a lessening of the intensity and more precision around how israel goes after hamas and the leadership of hamas. >> but have you seen from israel any lessening of intensity or greater concern for civilians? >> in terms of the lessening of

intensity, no. i think that secretary of defense austin was just there. he talked about the moral comparative that the israelis face in terms of minimizing civilian deaths and injuries, but i think we're talking frankly -- the israelis still require more time. i would think weeks. january, i think, and in no deadline that we're aware of has been imposed, certainly the administration isn't talking about one publicly, but i think in january you will see a change in the operation of temple from division sized operations using air strikes and artillery to a much more intelligence driven focused set of forays rather than a comprehensive ground campaign. i think that's coming in january. but it by no means suggests that israel's military operations in gaza will end. >> aaron david miller, thank you. it's good to have you on the show. and coming up, it looks like a deal to fund ukraine and

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the senate is wrapping up its work for the year in d.c., and with little or nothing to show for it, there's still no agreement on border policy

meaning additional funding for ukraine and israel will have to wait. but negotiations will resume virtually starting tomorrow and the house is in holiday recess too after taking 700 votes this year, but only 27 bills were actually signed into law. now both face a daunting to-do list when lawmakers return on january 8th. nbc's ali vitali is on capitol hill for us. where do those border negotiations stand? >> they're ongoing, but they're certainly nowhere close to ripe enough to have senators vote on them. initially that had been the hope. it's partly why we have senators in this building this week when they were not supposed to be here at all. those talks, of course, continued between the top three negotiators alongside the dhs secretary, alejandro mayorkas. they even continued today even after the senate has mostly wrapped up its business and now our understanding from the senators involved including senator kyrsten sinema is they will continue in a virtual capacity throughout the rest of

the year, hopefully putting senators and house members alike in the position to come back in january and at least get started on this piece of the puzzle immediately because there is a lot left for them to do in january. it does go to show there's a lot of urgency behind pushing through these negotiations into some kind of voting worthy framework. when you look at the fact that both mcconnell and schumer, the top republican and democrat up here released a rare joint statement yesterday, that does go to show this is a priority for leadership. i'll read to you in part sothing that struck me from this, which is that they acknowledge challenging issues remain, but they say they're committed to addressing the needs at the southern border and to helping allies and partners confront serious threats in israel, ukraine, and the indo-pacific. the senate will not let these national security challenges go unanswered, they write, and they say as negotiators work through remaining sh, it's their hope

the senate will take swift action early in the new year. certainly there's urgency behind all these priorities that are lumped together in the supplemental package. the thing that does have a deadline, government funding itself, not just one but two phases where the government could shut down in mid-january and february. this means they've got a real urgency to get that done and to vote on this as well. even if they come to an agreement on these bipartisan negotiations, that's really only step one because you know how things work in this building. just because the senate decides something, does not mean the house is going to go along, and certainly that's the case in this congress. >> yeah, and even with the senate, hope is not a plan necessarily. ali vitali, you've got a long 2024 ahead of you. thank you. well, congress punts on new immigration policy, the southern border is seeing a record number of migrant crossings. dhs officials tell nbc news more than 12,000 migrants crossed the u.s./mexico border on monday.

the highest number in history. and now an appeals court has blocked the federal government from destroying razor wire that texas planted along the rio grande to deter migrants. nbc's julia ainsley continues to follow this story for us. so border patrol agents say they are overwhelmed. what are you hearing? >> well, yeah, i've got a new stat to share with you. again, we had another record day yesterday, over 11,000 illegal crossings, and more than 12,000 crossings overall when you count those who entered between legal ports of entry. the new and probably most important stat is that cpp, customs and border protection is now at their largest number of holding migrants in their custody. over 26,000 migrants. that means that these places are being pushed past capacity. they're trying to process migrants as quickly as they can and a lot of times taking them to processing centers away away from the border, driving them maybe two hours from the border in arizona to try to get up to tucson. this is basically the breaking

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faced with slumping poll numbers, particularly when it comes to the economy, president biden is in the key battleground state of wisconsin, just about to deliver a speech touting black-owned small businesses in the state. eugene daniels is white house correspondent for "politico," john kasich is the former republican governor of ohio and both are msnbc political contributors. eugene, it is tough to overstate the importance of this. black voters are democrats' most

historically reliable constituency. will talking about black small businesses growing at their fastest rate in 30 years, which is the number they're touting help turn around what polls have shown is some fading support for biden among blacks. >> yeah, they're dealing with a lot of things here, right? it's kind of the overall concerns about the economy, people feeling like the economy isn't working for them, even though the numbers show us something else, right? and that it's hard as a campaign to deal with that. what they've been trying to do say to black voters, say to black people, not just voters, that we are doing things on the official side at this white house that are good for you. they're hopeful that those thing will remind black voters that they have their back, right? president biden talked about that saying he was dancing with the ones who brung him. he knew why he won south

carolina, won the primary and also won the white house. vice president harris has had meetings in the white house with black entrepreneurs talking to them about access to capital earlier this year. they're doing this on the official side so that next year when they have to go and ask for people's actual votes, they can point to these things and hope that that works. they're dealing with the same things, right? whether or not black voters are going to jump over to donald trump in record numbers, i think most people probably doubt those numbers, even in the polls, but it's do they stay home, right? how do you bring the people out who voted for you last time and more importantly, more people than usual. they're dealing with all of these concerns that black voters have had and young voters who are more voters dealing with israel and palestine, climate change, all of these different things and the economy is at the root of all of it. >> yeah, governor kasich, even though americans are spending more money, we just saw those

numbers, and economic indicators have pretty much been going in the right direction, 66% of voters have a pessimistic view of the economy. that's our latest cnbc poll. what do you think is behind that disconnect? is it a messaging problem or what is it? >> i think it's reality actually, you know. i think people, they go to the gas pump. they see prices -- i know that thees prices have moderated themselves. >> gas prices are down. >> they've come down but they're up from where he started, and look, as you know, i endorsed joe biden for president, and i've got to tell you in watching this administration, i have never seen such an isolated administration. they don't like to have people go in there and tell them something they don't want to hear. and look, i've been an executive. i ran the seventh largest state in america. you got to listen to people. you can't just sit back here and think everything is great because people come in and tell you what you want to hear. right now there is a disconnect, the voters are saying that my

prices are up. i go to the grocery store they're up. a young man running a restaurant was talking about how much his prices have gone up. i think what joe biden needs to do is not go around talking about how great it is. i think he needs to do to quote a foreman democratic president, he needs to feel people's pain. that was what made bill clinton so special. he could go and he could say, look, i can feel your pain, and i think the better message for biden is, look, things are improving. look at where the stock market is. the prices have moderated, you know, we still have a long way to go. there are people who are hurting and i think those kind of -- i think they'll ultimately wake up to this. i agree with eugene when it comes to the african american voters. i think they will go back to joe biden. the question is -- and he said it -- this also what kind of turnout do we have? is there enthusiasm? so one final thing i will say on this subject, chris, that is we're about to see the most negative campaign in the history

of american politics for president. you just -- you mark my words on this, that's what it's going to be. that is one of the strategies that biden is going to use and trump's going to use. so my opinion is let biden talk about the way things really are, get a sample, bring some people in to the inner circle who can talk about the challenges out there and another one is the border. people look at pictures, and they say, my goodness, look at all the people coming in the country. they've got to address the border. they've got to address the economy, and i think that's what's critical for them. >> so what are you hearing overall, eugene, about how there may be some adjustments to how biden approaches this campaign. we heard some more tough talk from him today about donald trump, but i think governor kasich is right, it's going to be the nastiest campaign potentially that we've ever seen, the most expensive campaign we've ever seen. are you hearing about adjustments being made already? >> yeah, i mean, the adjustments

have been made over the last couple of months, right? and you know, what they were hearing from other democrats were we need to start going after donald trump, right? the campaign needed to start doing that. the president himself needed to start doing that. you've seen that start to change over the last weeks, and i think they are focusing on that because for them, they're trying to say to voters, you know, you may want us to do more. we want to do more. you may not like how we did x, y and z, but we want to take another swing at it. the other guy is going to do something different. you know, if you're a democratic voter and maybe an independent, maybe you're scared of what donald trump maybe do. i think what you will probably see as it becomes actually clear as voters start voting in the actual caucusing in the beginning of next year, this probably will happen more so. i think they're kind of keeping their powder dry just in case with our politics, not anything can happen at any time, say it's not donald trump, right? they just spent all this time

and money attacking him when there might be a nikki haley they might have to go against. i think we're going to start seeing as it becomes clearer and clearer that donald trump has the nomination sewn up or not, they will have to readjust as well. >> does that adjustment need to include, governor, look at the places where americans agree with you and not with the republicans. i'm thinking about abortion. i'm thinking about truth versus lies, defensive democracy. >> yeah, yeah. but i mean, when you look at the polls today, and i agree with you, abortion has been a good issue for the democrats. we'll continue to drive some turnout. but i think what's important is noting the fact that, of course, they're going to go negative on trump, but at the same time, get in touch with what really is happening out there and being able to tell people what's happening. share those stories about what happens in scranton and how families are struggling at this particular time to be able to make ends meet. i know the economy's getting

better. he should say it's getting better. but at the same time, let's talk about some of your struggles. let's talk about rising medical costs. you know, they say they've reduced the price of prescription drugs. who in america really thinks that's true. so they've got to get into the reality of what is actually happening, and so i think it's two processes, one, you're going to pound on trump, no question about it, and secondly give people something that they can feel positive and excited about and recognize the reality of their lives. in order to do that, the biden people are going to have to open up the tent and let some people get in there to say some things that right now they just don't want to hear said. >> governor john kasich, eugene daniel, thank you both so much. it's called edutainment, and it's spreading through american schools. does the nonprofit prager u have a political agenda? you're watching "chris jansing reports" only on msnbc. reports" only on msnbc

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a lot of trump supporters were streaming back from the capitol to a hotel nearby, and she saw this asked from the fbi saying that they were trying to identify the rioters, so she said, okay, let's get to work, right? so she opened up the bumble app. bumble is the daing platform where women start making the first move. she started matching with guys. she changed her profile to conservative. she took away her photo she had from the women's march to make sure she looked like she was a conservative and then started talking to people. three people she got to admit that they were near the capitol on january 6th, and she actually got this one individual, andrew taki to admit he was on the front into the fbi, and then for few months later she got a cl from an fbi agent in the houston area who was working on this ce, ended up that this andrew individual attacked officers. you can see it in the photo, with pepper spray, and he was

there shortly after arrested. i got to talk to claire about this, she was amazed how willing people were to turn over info. it was simple to get confessions, and then what happened, and then what happened, and all of a sudden they would be turning over this info. it was interesting work that claire got to do there. >> i have no comment. ryan reilly, you sold that story well. thank you so much. schools across the country are increasingly incorporating alternative education resources from prager u pushing patriotic and american values, antonia hylton did a deep dive for us. >> we went behind the scenes to get a better understanding of the controversial edutainment, a

belief that our country is at war, there's a battle between good and evil and our children and their education are the front lines. >> what does it mean to be feminine? >> your kids may have seen these videos online. >> embrace the idea of being a wife and a mother. >> educational videos on everything from culture to history to climate. >> without fossil fuels much of the population would starve to death in a u. this is prager u, a quote, pro-american, education nonprofit with growing school partnerships in new hampshire, florida, and oklahoma. >> according to marissa straight, their videos are an answer to an education system too focused on diversity and gender. in this los angeles studio, prager used artists focused on exceptionalism. >> they feel like they're serving on the front lines of the war of ideas in america.

>> prager u has doubled revenue and reached 10 billion views. founder dennis prager has been a controversial radio show host for years. >> if you're spending a good part of the day teaching kids about preferred pronouns and other what we call woke issues, then you're really not teaching them. >> what i hear from teachers of every background is that they are slammed from block to block. they are under paid. they are under appreciated and they don't even have time to talk about pronouns, gender theory, critical race theory. you can point to here or there. >> i don't believe that they're telling you the truth. i actually think they're lying to you. >> in oklahoma, some teachers like gabe woolly are using prager u in the classroom. we watched the video. a short history of slavery together. after centuries of human slavery, white men led the world in putting an end to the

abhorrent practice. >> she's giving credit mostly to white people right now for ending it before the acknowledgment of the pain that some of your students might actually know about and feel in their families, right? >> right. and there's a lot of content we cover that does cover that aspect. what we almost never talk about is the reality of slavery happening almost since the beginning of time to the end of time. >> a few minutes down the road, families, a mix of white, choctaw and mexican american say the broader culture war playing out in schools is hurting teachers. >> we trust our people. we trust our educators. like i said, this is our community. >> we showed them some of prager u's videos designed for kids. >> 300,000 union soldiers overwhelmingly white who died during the civil war. >> zoe is in fifth grade.

>> no other culture died, no other culture tried to stop slavery, which i know that isn't true. >> that's extremely concerning to me because it's, you know, so much inaccuracy with things. >> what would a good american education system look like to you? >> like it did in the 1930s minus anything that was offensive. >> all the bad things going on in the 1930s. >> minus the bad things, that's correct. >> a vision he's trying to bring to schools nationwide. some of the teachers i have spoken to said they plan to resist using prager u in the classroom. some parents are using opt out forms and asking teachers to not bring prager u into schools. they expect to hire hundreds more illustrators and artists for the work in the coming years, guys. back to you. >> antonia hylton, thank you. on the next hour of "chris

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