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so, in just a few hours a judge will hear arguments over whether or not to unseal the affidavit behind the fbi's search of mar-a-lago, and tonight, cnn is learning that some trump allies are pushing him to publicly release surveillance video of the search. let's discuss now, cnn law enforcement analyst and former fbi dictated director andrew mccabe, he's the author of the threat, how the america -- fbi protects america in the age of terror and trump. kim whaley is here she is visiting professor of law at american university and the author of, how to think like a lawyer. i'm so glad both of you are on. good evening, thank you so much. andrew, you know, we're talking about the former president here, threatening to release the surveillance video. wouldn't that put this investigation somehow in danger? especially the agents as well who are executing this search? >> sure, absolutely. there's a couple things the

agents are gonna be really concerned about. first and foremost, focus on the work. they go into that space to recover materials, highly classified, sensitive materials that shouldn't be in their. they're going to be concerned that any video coverage might have actually captured images of some of that information. that could be used to then disclose it. and secondly, there is undoubtedly the people captured in that video, the agents doing their work as authorized by a federal court, are now going to be identified and thrown around on social media like you've seen what's happened to the two folks that were identified last week from the documents that trump released. they will become the subject of this sort of threats and pressure that we've seen over the last few weeks. >> i don't understand, i don't understand it. kim, trump's son eric told hannity earlier tonight that they were going to release the video at the right, and i'm quoting here, the footage at the right time. what would the consequences of that be? >> well, it sounds like for donald trump it could be more

campaign dollars, right? he shall it raised a lot recently compared prior to the search, as far as, i can't really add much from what andrew said, but from a legal perspective, certainly, this creates this feeds this narrative that somehow it's the fbi and the doj that are the bad guys here. and we need to pivot off of that, and back on the facts. which are that donald trump stole classified information from the american people and from the white house, and despite multiple attempts to get it back, he wouldn't give it back. and the question really is, what happened to it? who sought? how compromised potentially is the american public in this moment? >> if this were to benefit him, why wouldn't he have released it already? >> i think there's probably a bit of a dilemma within the trump camp as to whether or not it actually benefits them. it's good for him in the way that kim just mentioned, it's enabled him to stoke the fire this grievance of this terrible perceived defense of these federal agents, abiding by a court order, doing their jobs

but doing it in the presidents house. on the other hand, it's also gonna show them taking reams and reams of boxes of evidence out of his house. essentially, bearing the truth of the assertions in the affidavit that there was evidence of a crime in that location. >> but that's of course assuming that he releases the whole thing it doesn't just added it and frame it -- it's not a piece of evidence from one court. >> let's turn to this affidavit, because trump says that he wants to release it. but would not give people a roadmap to the investigation? that's with the department of justice is saying, we cannot do this because it will give the sources and methods and who is the target of the investigation and information on witnesses and so far -- stop witnesses in the future from coming forward. what do you make of that? >> sure. it can also hurt donald trump, part of the reason as the affidavit as you know, is it's a sworn statement, someone writes it out it's a narrative, a story of facts that give rise to probable cause to believe

that there was evidence of a crime. so it's gonna have names of people, it could have classified information, it could have grandeur information, not something that typically gets disclosed if at all, and if it is it's much later in the process, not now. and it's for first amendment purposes. their news outlets as well. before donald trump, again, i think this is his rhetoric, this is just to confuse people, and to divert them off the real issue. >> i've heard, andrew, the argument that this is different. the american people need to know. there's too much going on. this is unprecedented. of course, the affidavit should be -- it's not usually released unless someone is charged. correct? >> correct. >> do you think that it's different this time, that it should be released? >> certainly, these circumstances are unique. but not unique enough -- for very serious reasons for keeping this document sealed. i think doj laid it out in their opposition that it's a danger telegraphing exactly what's happening in the

investigation, it runs the risk of identifying witnesses in cooperators who provide information to the government who may need to provide information in the future. it will chill others from coming forward and telling them what they though to the government to get to the bottom of this. and it's also runs the risk of pre-judging the target of the investigation, who is likely mr. trump himself. we don't know that for a fact, but it certainly the most likely candidate to have those facts out in the press for the world to see, significantly prejudices his ability to later get a fair trial, if in fact he's indicted. >> so it tells the story behind this, isn't there an extraordinary burden of proof that comes with trying to get awarded the warrant for a judge to sign, especially for former presidents home? >> well, there is. it's probable cause. it's not the same as a conviction trial which is beyond a reasonable doubt. it's a serious burden. and i have no doubt that the judge here in the head of the fbi, appointed by trump and

merrick garland, had many other people had a very sober, careful assessment in making that determination here. >> trump knows that. he has to know that. >> yeah. >> but on let's think about this, should the burden be different because it's a former president? because it's donald trump? absolutely not. these decisions should be made the same way they're made for every other citizen in this country. >> and, he had to have classified documents which should be -- he had them. and he wouldn't give them back. this is not hard. >> and they're not. his whether these excuses about whether there was a political report saying that it was so chaotic in the final days of the trump administration they were just throwing stuff into boxes. that's still not an excuse. >> he could've given them by subpoena, he could've given the fbi when they knocked on the door and said please, let me have them back. he didn't do it. so we need these back. >> what if they had said, you know, when they discovered that, i'm so sorry that we eatonville inadvertently took them, pardon us, sorry. >> the whole thing is over.

>> and his lawyer signed an affidavit, or a statement saying -- >> it was a lie. >> let's talk about georgia and rudy giuliani appearing before a grand jury in six hours today. how much trouble could he be in? >> rudy giuliani is kind of in the middle of a number of these schemes, not just georgia but january 6th and he is caught on videotape lying about the election and not just lying, but let's be clear here, the effort was to try and get georgia to hold a special legislative session to change the outcome of that states election. as well as the states list of electors. he certainly in trouble, as are others that are in the mix of both of those investigations, one state, one federal. >> if you look at these cast of characters that we've been looking at, look, the lies that they spew and all the crazy rhetoric. john eastman, jenna ellis standing there, rudy giuliani.

they have been ordered to testify, with all of the attention going on at mar-a-lago, how big of a threat does this fake elector investigation remain to the former president? >> i think the fake elector scheme is one of the most serious that we've seen in the course of the january 6th committee investigation. -- >> this is concrete fraudulent attempt. -- >> absolutely. this is a intricate, fully executed, but nevertheless scheme tip completely undermined the results of the election. and it happened, not just in one place, but with teams of people in multiple states. there's a lot of evidence to go around. >> they sent it into the national archives, they sent these fake slates, it wasn't just, let's talk about it over cup of coffee. it happened. that's illegal. >> will someone be held responsible for this? >> i think there's a good chance, but as with all of these january 6th crimes, the folks most likely to get in

trouble first are probably the furthest away from the top level drivers. >> as he would want it. >> it's kind of interesting that we got the state and the federal, they're not necessarily, two different governments, two different apparatuses, it's almost i wonder, a race to an indictment right? because things are happening on multiple fronts here. >> i have to catch myself sometimes with the investigations, because there are so many different ones, wait i'm not talking about january 6th, this is about mar-a-lago. away, this is georgia. >> and you're so read up, and our poor viewers know liver this all day one. >> to the folks at home, and all sorts of blends together. as madness. thank you both, good to see you. now, i want to bring in david ehrenberg he's a state attorney for palm beach florida, dave, hello to you. you live in palm beach, right near mar-a-lago, this is all in your wheel house. you appreciate you joining us. this is the same florida-based judge who approved the search

warrant will hear arguments about releasing this affidavit tomorrow morning. would you expect to see? >> good evening, don. it's gonna be right down the street for me. and i expect that he will keep the affidavit sealed, and if it is unsealed, i think it will be elaborately redacted, it will be no used to anyone. outside of prosecutors. because this is the type of document that is never released, especially before an indictment, or before anyone has been charged in a case. maybe down the road, after there's a charge, and the court can order it to be released. but there's often protective orders, and so no, this is not going to get out there. especially with all the threats against the fbi, this is going to cause more violence against investigators, it will target individuals who would be witnesses. the suspect could collaborate on their stories. and so, no good to come of this. plus, this could undermine the case, because it could damage

any future defendants, sixth amendment right to a fair trial. because one of there is some evidence that comes out and it's later suppressed at trial? well, that would be a sixth amendment problem, and thus, it doesn't benefit anyone to have this stuff released. >> someone has alluded to that in the free world should be smart not to know all of that? >> yeah, but this is a political move move. remember, the politicians out there live by a different set of rules and prosecutors. prosecutors cannot litigate cases in the press. but politicians can. politicians are litigating this in the court of public opinion and so they want to embarrass prosecutors by saying, where is the transparency, no one but the transparency can't really happen. merrick garland went as far as any prosecutor could in releasing the search warrant, and releasing the inventory in other documents. but that's it. and i thought was a great, move because it put trump in a box where he had to say, hey let's release it. -- >> he did that because the former president was the one who went public with the search,

right? and he saying, well, since he went forward with it, it is right. he has all the information you can just release it himself am i correct. correctly also had the power to do it himself, he wanted to say where is the search? we're well, here it is. where is the inventory? now they're saying, where is the affidavit, that's the bridge too far. they're not gonna get the. but they're using that to score political. place well, you know what my saying is here. don't fall for the okey dokey. and a lot of people do, and apparently have. so we are learning about trump considering releasing the surveillance footage data of the fbi agent. i mean, last week reportedly garland said a message with the country is on fire. and asking how he can, quote, reduce. it would would releasing these tapes possibly do the up opposite? >> possibly. there is no prohibition on trump releasing it to probably do so.

but this is going to be a strictly edited production. they aren't going to release anything that makes the former president looked back. and they may even send it back for sinister music. they have the ability to end it as they want to. and if they are not careful, they can really come back to hurt them. because it could show the fbi agents just doing their jobs, walking around peacefully with the secret service in plain clothes at a reasonable our where there's -- no guns blazing. and they could have shots of some of the confidential documents that the foreign president wasn't supposed to take. so it could backfire. and i think that is why they are not sure yet whether they want this released. but in the, and they want this to rally their base, they want to make sure that they keep raising money. and the dark side of this is that it will increase the iron towards the fbi and make some of the threats against the individual agents even more dangerous. a >> lot of people will believe it. that is the sad part. david ehrenberg, david are you

going to run down the street and check it out for us and come back and report? >> yes, about 12 hours, 13 hours maybe. thank you very much, i really appreciate it. >> rudy giuliani, who is the target of the george investigation of trump's attempt to overturn the election in that state appearing before the grand jury for almost six hours today. what could've been going on behind closed doors? >> mr. giuliani, when you met with georgia lawmakers, to delight to them? >> we will talk about this until it's over. it's about grandeur's. is vital to our healthth and wellness, only the sleep number 360 smart bed keeps you cool, then senses and efforortlessly adjusts for your best sleep. and tells you exactly how well you slept. your sleepiq score. our smart sleepers get 28 minutes more restful sleep per night. so, you can be your best for yourself and those you care about most. and now, all smart beds are on sale. save 50% on the sleep number 360 limited edition smart bed. only for a limited time.

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six hours behind closed doors today behind a georgia grand jury investigating trump's attempt to overturn the election in that state. giuliani has been told that he has been a target of the investigation. cnn caught up with him outside of the court today. listen. >> mr. giuliani, when you wet with georgia lawmakers, did you lie to them? >> we will not talk about this until it is over. there is a grand jury and grand juries, as i recall as a secret. >> do you believe president trump is the ultimate target of this investigation? >> i'm not going to comment on the ground very investigation. >> all right, joining me now, another nick. a former assistant special prosecutor. nick, thank you very much. so, this one you want to keep secret. the other one they won't released. >> right. >> so six hours of testimony, does that tell you anything about what could've been going on? >> absolutely. there is only a couple of possibilities here don. one is rudy giuliani testified before the proof about

everything. pretty and likely. he's been told that he's a target of the investigation. his lawyers but costello is a well seasoned criminal defense lawyer and rudy giuliani knows so the stakes are so everything that would incriminate him, he would've said his privilege would answer and tend to incriminate him. . with respect to donald trump, my reason that it took so long was because every time they asked him about the conversation with donald trump he wound up asserting attorney-client privilege as opposed to the fifth amendment. and i hope that it took so long because, the prosecutor wanted to detail all of these conversations having assert the attorney client privilege with respect to all of these conversations with donald trump. and then go back to the judge,

and ordered him to reveal these conversation that and furtherance of criminal activity, by the attorney client privilege. >> there are a lot of big players involved in this georgia case, nick. giuliani, senator lindsey graham, janitor alice and of course trump. i mean let's remind our viewers what he said to secretary state russ -- brad raffensperger. >> so, look all i want to do is this i just want to find 11,780 votes. which is one more that we have. because we won the state. >> i mean, he kind of just said it right there, i don't know what's the big deal is and why you need all the secret investigation. he said. it i mean there's a lot to discuss about him possibly

using rico statute to prosecute organized crime cases. explain how and why that would work. >> well the way the riot would work is because you do have a tape. if you listen to that tape trump becomes more and more worked up as he goes along. and it's pretty obvious that he is pushing brad raffensperger to come up with these votes, he's threatening him to come up with these votes. he's appealing to the fact that their fellow republicans. but, in any kind of tape case, which is always a better case than just having witnesses there is always some ambiguity these to the defense or can pull out of their. what they are doing in georgia is putting this together in the context of all of the other evidence. in the context of what they did, with the phony electors and what they did in other states and what they did on january 6th and then we put that together in a rico case. which means that they can take

individual crimes and put them together with one goal and the goal being to keep donald trump in power and to stop the people transfers power. so the rico case here would be very powerful. this particular prosecutor is well versed in rico. she brought a very successful rico case against some teachers in atlanta georgia on a cheating scandal. she knows how to use it. i've used it on the federal side, and it can be very powerful in putting together an entire picture for a jury and lots of different crimes that makes it lots of difficult when it looks at that central take that donald trump is on to not come away with the conviction beyond a reasonable doubt. >> i was just going to say, shouldn't the trial be similar to this. if you're in charge of this, you plead the, case i rest my case judge? >> well i don't think that he could just use the tape.

>> i'm just being a bit for csis, air but that is some pretty big evidence. he said, it it is on tape. >> oh, he is the star witness in his own criminal trial. no question about it. but you really want to put it in the context of everything else he did to show motive, intent, purpose and -- >> let me just ask you real quick about this, because i have a short time nick. they're ordering them to appear before the court with john eastman as well. could they become target? >> absolutely. i, mean they very well could be and they could be targets as we speak right now. we don't know what the prosecutors told their attorney. but there is certainly going to be ordered, and they have been ordered to show up in georgia to testify. >> nick, thank, you i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> representative liz cheney losing her primary last night to a ardent election denier. but with this lost another victories for big lie believers, is there any room in the

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donald trump is tightening his grip on the republican party with liz cheney's primary loss in wyoming. but cheney's undaunted, telling republicans that she will carry out her fight, or carry on her fight against his lies, and that she is not afraid to stand up for the truth. no matter what it costs her. >> two years ago, i won this primary with 73% of the vote. i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear. but it would've required that i go along with president trump's

lie about the 2020 election. it would've required that i enable his ongoing efforts to unravel our democratic system, and attack the foundations of our republic. that was a path i could not and would not take. >> liz cheney is an endangered species in the gop, but it wasn't always that way, harriet hageman, the choice to be cheney in the wyoming primary, was once so critical of trump that she worked with ted cruz in 2016, trying to force a vote at the republican convention between trump and cruz. we know that worked out. and she's not the only one who knuckled under to trump's stranglehold on the gop. remember this? >> donald, your littering coward, leave heidi the alone. i'll tell you what i think of donald trump. this man is a pathological liar. he doesn't know the difference between truth and lies, he lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth.

and it's a pattern that i think is straight out of a psychology textbook. his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. you know how you make america great again? tell donald trump to go to hill. he's a race baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot. he doesn't represent my party. >> i'm not gonna try and get into the mind of donald trump, because i don't think there's a whole lot of space there. i think he's a kook. i think he's crazy. i think he's unfit for office. >> it's like they don't remember there on tape. let's remember what lindsey graham tweeted back in 2016 when you voted tell the truth and i quote here, if we nominate trump, we will get destroyed and we will deserve it. let's bring in georgia's lieutenant governor, jeff duncan who is republican. and senior cnn political

analyst, ron brownstein. wow. i've seen all the soundbite, but i am reminded. good evening to both of you. lieutenant governor, glad you're here. let's discuss, with chinese defeat she lost in a landslide. is there room for politicians like her, or you, in trump's republican party? >> there is. with one exception. it's not going to be trump's republican party, it's going to be the peoples republican party. and it's going to take time to get there, and unfortunately, there was no surprise to liz cheney's defeat yesterday. you know, when a former president spends that much time money and political capital on trying to defeat one of the most conservative members of that republican caucus, you might have a problem. but it's gonna take some time, to affect -- >> how do you get? they're not to cut you off. >> you tell the truth. the weight of reality is gonna be right, it's gonna take the time to get, there you put truth on the table, that fixes

problems. it fixes joe biden's problems. if excess americans problems. it fixes inflation, national security, immigration. we go to work and become the party of solutions. that's how we win again. >> even if you are like liz cheney, and out of the job? >> just because you're not an elected office, doesn't mean you can't make a difference. liz cheney is not done making a difference in this country. she's gonna speak her mind. she's gonna speak or truth. she stood up when it mattered the most, that's gonna be worth something someday, and it can be bigger than donald trump. >> ron, -- our numbers guy, i call him data. see it at cnn points out that cheney's defeat i should say may be the second worst for a house incumbent in the last years trailing hagerman by more than 37 points. cheney voted with trump more than 90% of the time, but she had sailed trump for inciting a violent mob on the capitol, that was a deal breaker. >> yeah, look. when georgia voted in may, the

governor and the secretary of state beat back trump challengers in republican primaries, there was a kind of almost euphoria among many conservative commentators saying, the republican party was going past trump. that was, however don, quite clearly an anomaly, as we go through the trump the summer, trump backed election deniers are winning in state after state in michigan, in arizona, in wisconsin for the governor secretary of state nominations in arizona and nevada and minnesota and michigan. and of course, only two of the ten house republicans voted to impeach him will be returning. this is trump's party at this moment. and what's very clear, is that the minority, the one quarter one fifth of republicans, who are resistant to that, who don't believe his lies about 2020, believe in the accurate improperly -- counted elections. they have to decide what their role isn't in the party going forward, liz cheney put forward a very clear standard yesterday, when she not only criticize trump, she said no one should

vote for any election denier that has been nominated by the republican party. you know, the republican party of georgia nominated an election denier to replace lieutenant governor who -- stripped of his committee chairmanship last year for his role in trying to undermine the 2020 election. so, the question becomes, are there other republicans were willing to take the stakes stand as liz cheney and say the same step towards changing the direction of the party is to say, we will not support election deniers, even if they're running under the republican banner. >> harriet hageman izzy election denier, and she won. that was liz cheney's -- >> go to other republicans do, don? doug doocy, the governor of arizona, the nominee carrie lake, basically has accused him of running a corrupt and fraudulent election in 2020 and certifying a corrupt and fragile election. he backed another candidate and win that election denier won in arizona, he has endorsed her.

so, cheney i think is offering a challenge to other republicans who claim to want to a different direction. are they willing to give their vote into support candidates who are advancing trump's, efforts to undermine the validity of american elections? and she had put that out there, i'm not really hurt anyone else do it. including in georgia, where there is a prominent election denier running along with those who did stand up for the election. >> lieutenant governor, cheney saying today that she is now rolling out a run for the 2024, what do you think about that? >> well, certainly the need to be a lane to develop a common sense conservative that's got a track wherever of being conservative. and who's got it right. able to tell the truth when it mattered most, so for on january 5th and january 6th. and i think they'll be a link to the bell, look, donald trump's high-water mark was 2016 when he won the election. every day since he's lost support, not on a straight downward path, but

incrementally he's lost support. he no longer has enough to win a general election, maybe enough to short-circuit the system and win a primary. but i think enough republicans are waking up to the fact that we've got to put real candidates, high quality candidates, because here is one of the fall it's gonna happen, these house reps that have been getting elected, the election deniers and others that are really high quality candidates, they just did one thing. they were willing to lie about the election. they're gonna walk into that house, and they're gonna be as effective as marjorie taylor greene's. she doesn't get anything done. she doesn't solve the single problem since she got there. and that's gonna be put on some plate going into the 2024 cycle. where we're trying to pick a new president, hopefully it's a republican president. and meanwhile, we're gonna miss a layup and not win the senate where we should have with the poll rating, approval ratings of joe biden, we should walk into the senate with a majority. but that now than i was in question. >> but people like her and matt gates, they suck all the oxygen of the room and get all the attention. and people are listening to them. in the party. so, i understand your

frustration when it comes to the. let me ask you this, i've gotta get this in, run part of me, lieutenant governor i've got to ask you about what's happening in your state. brian kemp asked a judge today to throw the subpoena from the fulton county district attorney requiring him to appear before the grand jury -- in the 2020 election. should he be required to testify? >> i took a quick glance and on the way in, i think he's not saying he doesn't want to testify, he's trying to make sure that we remove any sort of political nature to it. i think he's asking to testify after the november election. he's got his head down, doing the right thing. but brian kemp has been an incredible teammate through this whole process, and i know georgians rewarded him, especially republicans against david perdue. have you ever seen someone get beat down more than 50% in an election like that. georgians rewarded him, i think in the general election they will to. but brian kemp has told the truth it since day one, and continue to push for him. i participated in that grand jury process, so on that be very careful how i comment. >> thank you both, gentlemen. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back.

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but the surge is just the latest incident putting trump against the bureau. he's been going after the fbi since this time in the campaign trail. as cnn's brian todd reports, he has a history of getting angry

when they don't do what he wants. >> donald trump's contentious relationship with the fbi dates back to before he became president. >> please, fbi. please! go after hillary. >> those provocative days of the 2016 campaign, when trump was relentless in his badgering of the fbi to investigate his opponents handling of her emails. >> the fbi did not act, i have such respect for the fbi. i am so disappointed. how did they let that happen. he was so guilty. >> then, from almost the moment he stepped in the white house, analysts say that trump seemed to view the fbi as his own personal instrument to power. >> donald trump up and did and tried to -- the fbi in that spring of 2017. and that relationship has never been smooth since. >> he's become more famous than me. >> soon after taking office,

trump pressured then fbi director james comey to drop an investigation into former national security adviser, michael flynn. that's according to comey himself who claimed that trump put the squeeze on him, personally. >> i got the sense that my job would be contingent upon how he felt i conducted myself and whether i demonstrated loyalty. trump denied asking for comey's loyalty. but ended up firing comey. later saying that he was frustrated over the ongoing russia probe. >> he wanted that investigation shot down. he sought as a political problem and this is what comey was up to. the morale in the fbi definitely took a hit after the firing of jim comey. i think that was the watershed moment that made everybody kind of focus on this issue of the possibility that the administration is really trying to have a direct impact on how we did our work. >> throughout the rush investigation, and afterwards, trump continued to berate the fbi for how that investigation played out.

>> these were, dirty filthy cops at the top of the fbi. >> trump complained that text between two fbi employees investigating the russia connection were biased against them. >> look at these horrible fbi people talking about, we have to get them out. insurance policies. >> one analyst says, donald trump was not alone among presidents who believed the fbi should be beholden to them. >> that is something that has long frustrated presidents going back to nixon and johnson and even john f. kennedy that the fbi was not necessarily loyal to them personally. >> after lunch besting the fbi again, following the mar-a-lago search, there are hints in recent days that donald trump might have softened a bit towards the bureau. telling, fox quote, the temperature has to be brought down. and saying that he'll do whatever he can help the country. but many analysts are concerned that the latest battle between trump and the fbi could be

irreversible. especially if it unleashes more violence against agents. brian todd, cnn, washington. >> brian todd, thank you. >> the bible and an adaptation of the diary of and frank. just to a 41 books removed from the library shelves in a school district in texas. we're going to tell you what's going on, next.

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i want to bring in now cnn correspondent ed lavandera. and, this is quite an interesting story, hello to you. a lot of these books have been reviewed by a challenge committee. why are they under review again? >> well let's give you a back the school district created this community panel that could review challenges and complaints about books from parents and members of the community. these 41 books which include the bible and graphic adaptation as well as ally but dealing with lgbtq issues were reviewed. i should tell you about two thirds of those books were put back on the shelves or put in age-appropriate libraries like high school or middle school. but in may of this, year three new school board members were elected in large part because of the work of a right-wing christian political action group. just a few weeks ago the school board and new guidelines by which the reviews will be on these challenges school started

today in principles across the district were told yesterday that the 41 books had to be pulled off the shelves while they had to be revealed again. >> okay, so another reason again -- what are they giving for challenging these books? so they obtained a spreadsheet from the school district -- parents can issue these challenges many of these complaints coming with issues with sexuality, and the way sexual issues were disgusted in the book. as far as the bible was, concern with how they describe that it was inappropriate context, they had sexual contact and massage in the and human sacrifice. and, frank for example the complaint was that the holocaust was a difficult subject matter for people to have to learn about.

but when you look closely, there are also other books. and you could tell that some liberal parents are issuing complaints as well. one person, one parent, issued a complaint about donald trump's part of the deal saying that no book written by a, quote, criminal should be included. and the same thing for the fox news website saying that there should not be offered electronically to students across the district as well. >> are there concerns that this could happen another texas school districts? i, mean this is spreading all over the country. and there's already been controversy in texas over how to teach students about race. >> it was a subject of a new law that was passed by the state legislator last year in race issues being discussed in classrooms. and it's not whether not this could happen. it is happening don. in school districts, not just across the state but remember, these kinds of issues have really been the focus of a kind of christian right-wing group across the country where there has been a new focus to get

people involved on the small, local race and school ball election. that sort of thing. that is where they feel they can make the biggest impact,. they're recruiting people to get involved in races like this. this has become a real focal point in politics across the country. >> ed lavandera, thank you very much. thanks for watching everyone. our coverage continues. ic. yoyou see... your gut has good and bad bacteria. and when you get off balance, you may feel it.t. the bloating, the gas - but align helps me trust my gut again. plus, its recommended by doctors nearly 2x more than any other probiotic brand. just one a day naturally helps promote a balanced gut. and soothe occasional bloating gas and discomfort. align probiotic. welcome to an align gut. ♪ does it get better than never getting lost? does it get better than not parallel parking yourself? ♪

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