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hear arguments over whether or not to it and steal the fbi affidavit behind the fbi. cnn is learning that some trump allies are pushing him to publicly released surveillance video of the search. let's discuss now, with the senior law enforcement analyst and deputy director who is the author of the threat to how the fbi protects america in the age of terror. also, kim whaley is. her she is a busy professor of law at america university and the author of how to think like a lawyer. i'm so glad both of you are on. good evening, thank you very much. so andrew we are talking about the former president here threatening to released surveillance video. wouldn't that put this investigation in danger somehow and in the agents who are sk -- executing the search warrant? there's a couple of things that they're gonna be concerned about. first and foremost, they're focused on the work. they go into that space to recover materials highly

classified sensitive materials that shouldn't be in there. they're going to be concerned that any video coverage might've captured images of some of that information that could be used to disclose. it and, then secondly, this undoubtedly that the people captured in that video, the agents doing their work have been 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 threat and impression that we've seen over the last decade. >> and for what? why, why would they -- i don't understand it? >> his son told them tonight that they were going to release the video at the right time. what were the consequences of that? >> well, it sounds like for donald trump it could be more campaign dollars, right? he's raised a lot compared to prior to the search.

as far as, i can't really add four more andrew said, but from a legal perspective, certainly this creates and feeds this narrative that somehow it is the fbi and the doj that are the bad guys are. , and we need to pivot off of that and back on the fact that is 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 else saw it, 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 dilemma within the trump camp is to whether or not it actually benefits him, right? so it's good for him in the way that kim just mentioned. it's able to kind of stoke the fire of this grievance and this terrible perceived defense of the federal agents abiding by a court order, doing their jobs but doing it in the presidents house. on the other, and it's also going to show them taking rains and rains of boxes of evidence

out of his house. essentially, it is bearing the truth of the assertions in the affidavit but there was evidence of a crime in that location. but that's of course assuming that he releases the whole thing. and there's pieces that he edited and framed. and it is not just a piece of evidence. trump says that he wants it released. but with that give people a roadmap to the investigation? that is what the department of justice's saying. we came to this because we said it would give sources a method, and who targeted the investigation information on witnesses and so far. it will stop witnesses, possibly from the future of coming forward. what do you make of that? >> sure, it could also hurt donald, trump? right so part of the reason, the affidavit, as you know is a sworn statement, someone writes it, now it's a narrative of the story of the 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's gonna classified information.

it's gonna have grandeur information. not something that typically gets disclosed, if at all. and if it, is it is much later in the process. not now, and it's for a first amendment purpose. there's news that want this as well. but for donald, trump, again i think it's just rhetoric. this is just to confuse people and divert them off the real issue. >> i, heard andrew, that 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 is going to be released unless someone is charged, correct, is that correct? that's correct. do you think that this is different this time that it should be. certainly, the circumstances are unique. but not unique enough to trump all of the very serious for keeping this document seal. i think doj laid it out, in their opposition. that there is a danger in telegraphing there where there is a risk of providing

declamation to the government, and who they may need to duck provide documentation in the future. from telling with a note to the government, to make it did to get to the bottom of. this also runs the risk of pre-judging the target of the investigation. likely mr. miss trump himself, the most likely candidate to have the 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. >> it tells a story as you said, isn't there an extraordinary burden of proof that comes with when you're trying to get a warrant for a judge to sign off on. especially with the former president's own, it's probable cause, it's not the same as a conviction at trial. which is beyond a reasonable doubt. it's a serious burden. and i have no doubt that the judge here and the head of the fbi appointed by trump and merrick garland had many other people had a very stare sober, careful assessment in making

that determination here. >> and trump knows that, he has to know that. >> 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. he should be held to these decisions should be made the same way as every other citizen of this country. >> and yet highly classified documents which will be in the scif, he had them. and he wouldn't give them back. this is not hard. >> and they're not. his and these excuses about, whether there is a political report saying that there's so chaotic, and 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 to the fbi when they knock knock knock down the door and let's please let's have them back. he didn't do it. so we need these back. >> what if he had said when they discovered that there are so sorry, we inadvertently took them, pardon us sorry the whole thing is over. >> and his lawyer signed an affidavit, and a statement

saying. >> it's, yeah. eye on the ball. here >> let's talk about georgia, rudy giuliani appearing before a grand jury for 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 on caught on video, 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 fake slates of electors. so, he is 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 have been looking at, look, the lies that they spew and all of the crazy rhetoric. john eastman and jim ellis standing behind rudy giuliani with the paradigm dripping down his face, they have been ordered to testify with all of

the intention of going on mar-a-lago, how big of a threat does this make 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. >> this is concrete, fraudulent attempt. >> absolutely. this is an intricate, well organized, purely executed, scheme to completely undermine the results of the election. and it happened not just in one place, but with teams of people in multiple states. there is a lot of evidence to go around. >> and they said it into the national archives, they sent these fake slates, it wasn't just, we'll talk about it over a 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 also kind of interesting that we got the state and the federal, like they're not necessarily, two different governments, two different apparatuses, it's almost, i wonder if it's a race to an indictment? because things are happening on multiple fronts here. >> i have to catch myself sometimes with the investigations, because there are so many different ones to equate, i'm not just talking about january 6th, this about mar-a-lago, oh no, this is georgia. >> and you are so bought in, our viewers don't live with this all day long. i think to the folks at home a kind of blends together. it's madness. thank you both, good to see you. now, i wanna bring in david ehrenberg, he's a state attorney for palm beach, florida. dave, i mean, hello to you. you would live in west palm beach right near mar-a-lago. this is all in your wheel house. so, we appreciate you joining us. this is the same florida-based judge who approved the search warrant. we'll hear arguments about this evan david tomorrow morning. when you expect to see?

>> good evening, don. it's gonna be right down the street for me. and i expect that he will heed the affidavit sealed, and if it is unsealed, i think it will be a elaborately redacted. we will be of no use 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 the case. maybe down the road, after the charge, then the court can order it to be released, but there is 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 the individuals who would be witnesses. the suspects could collaborate on their stories, and so, no good can come of this. plus, this could undermine the case, because it could damage any future defendants, sixth amendment right to a fair trial. would if there's some evidence

that comes out, and that is later suppressed at trial? well, that would be a sixth amendment problem, and thus, it doesn't benefit anyone to have the stuff released. >> so someone has alluded -- he was a leader of the free world to be smart enough to know. that >> yeah, but this is a political move. remember, the politicians out there live by a different set of rules than prosecutors. prosecutors cannot litigate cases in the press, but politicians can. politicians are litigating this in the court of public opinion. they want to embarrass prosecutors by saying, where is the transparency, knowing that the transparency can't really happen. now, merrick garland went as far as any prosecutor could, in releasing the search warrant. and releasing the inventory and other documents. but that's it. and i thought it was a great move, because it put trump in a box where he had to, okay, let's release it. >> he did that because the former president is the one who went public with the search, right? and he saying, well, since he went forward with it, this is his right.

he has all the information that he wants me to release. if you want it released, he can just release it himself, am i correct? >> correct. he always had the power to release it himself. he didn't want us to know that, though. he wanted to say, where is the search warrant? well, here it is. where is the inventory? well, here. it is now using, where's the affidavit? that's the bridge too far. they're not gonna get the. they'll keep using that to score political points. you know what my saying is here, don't fall for the okey dokey. and a lot of people do in apparently have. so we're learning about trump considering -- releasing the surveillance footage. of the fbi agents. last week, trump reportedly sent garland a quote, the country is on fire and how we could reduce the heat. wouldn't releasing these tapes possibly in political ads to do just the opposite? >> yeah, exactly. there's no prohibition on trump releasing if he can do so. but, this is going to be a strictly edited production. they're not gonna release anything that makes the former president look bad.

they even sent it to sinister music just for effect. they have the building to edit it as they want to. and if they're not careful, it could 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 and a reasonable hour when there's daylight, not a predawn raid. no guns blazing. and they could have shots of some of the confidential documents that the former president wasn't supposed to take. it could backfire. and i think that's why they are not sure yet whether they want this released. but in the end, they want this to rally their base, they want to make sure that they can keep raising money, and the dark side of this is that it will increase the ire towards the fbi and get ready for the speaker change any more dangerous. a lot of people will believe it. that is the sad part. dave ehrenberg, dave are you going to run down the street and check it out for us? and come back in report. >> yeah, about what 12 hours?

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rudy giuliani appearing for six hours behind closed doors today behind a georgia grand are investigating trump's attempt to overturn the election in that state. giuliani has been told that he is a target of the investigation. cnn's nick valencia cut out

with him outside the court today. listen. mr. giuliani, when you meant to georgia lawmakers, to delight to them? >> we will not talk about this until the cranberry, and grandeur is, as i, recall is a secret. >> do you believe trump is the ultimate target of this investigation? >> i'm not going to comment on the grandeur investigation. >> all right, joining me now, nick ackerman, the former assistant special watergate prosecutor. nick, thank you very much. so, this one we want to keep secret. the other one they want released. they won't make up their minds. >> they can't make up their minds. >> right, so six hours of testimony, does that tell you anything about what could've been going on in the court? >> oh, absolutely. there is only a couple of possibilities here. don one is that rudy giuliani just testified and told the truth about everything. pretty unlikely. he has been told that he's a target of the investigation. his lawyers brought costello as

a well seasoned criminal defence lawyer. rudy giuliani knows with the sticks. are so anything that would incriminate him, he would've assorted his fifth amendment privilege on the ground that the truth would answer potentially incriminated. with respect to donald trump, i bet that the reason this took so long was because every time they asked him about a conversation with donald trump, he wound up asserting attorney-client privilege. as opposed to the fifth amendment. and i think it took so long because the prosecutor wanted to detail all of these conversations having assert the client attorney privilege with respect to all of these conversations with donald trump. and then go back to the judge and have the judge ordered him to reveal those conversations on the ground that these are conversations in further of criminal activity.

and they are not covered by the attorney client privilege. >> there are a lot of big players involved in this georgia case nick. giuliani, lindsey graham, john eastman and of course trump. i mean, let's remind our viewers what he said to secretary of state brad raffensperger. here it is. >> so look, all i want to do is this, i just want to find 11, 000, 780 votes which is one more than we have. because we won the state. we kind of just said it right there, i don't understand why the big deal. why do you need all the secret investigation. i, mean there's a lot of discussion about fani willis possibly using rico statutes to prosecute organized crime cases. explain why and how that would work. >> well, the why 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 is threatening him to come up with these votes. he is appealing to the fact that their fellow republicans. but, in any kind of taped, case which is always the better case than just having witnesses, they are always some ambiguity duties for the defence lawyer can pull out of. there they are putting this together in the context of all of the other evidence. in the context of what they did with the phony electors, what they did in other states with the phony electors. and what they did on january six. , and they could put that all together in a rico case. which means that they can take individual crimes and put them together as a pattern with one goal. the goal being to keep donald trump in power and to stop the peaceful transfer of 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 jury with lots of different crimes that makes it very difficult when you look at that central tape that donald trump is on to not come away with a conviction beyond reasonable doubt. >> i'm just going to say. shouldn't the trial be similar to this? you are charged with this, you play the, tape ochero's my case judge? >> well, i don't think that you could just use the tape. >> well, i'm just being a bit fishy says here. 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 and pattern. let me ask you just really quick, about this because i have a short. time the judge yesterday ordering trump attorney ellis to appear before the grand jury. john eastman as. well could they become target? >> absolutely they very well could be, and they could be targets as we speak right now. we don't know what the prosecutor has told their attorney. they're certainly going to be ordered. and they have been ordered to show up in georgia to testify. >> nick, thank you, i appreciated. >> thank you. >> representative liz cheney losing her primary last night to a hardened election denier. but with this loss and other victories for the big lie believers, is there any room in the republican party for truth tellers? i'm gonna ask georgia tenant governor, next. bar ks] [dog panting]

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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'll 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 cost 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 have required that i go along with president trump's lie about the 2020 election. it would have 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 in a dangerous species in the gop, but it wasn't always that way. harriet hageman, trump's choice to defeat cheney and wyoming's 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 crews. and we know how that worked out. and she's not the only one who knuckled under to trump's stranglehold on the gop. remember this? >> donald, your civilly sniffling coward, leave hiding the alone. i'll tell you when i think of donald trump. this man is a pathological liar. he doesn't know the difference between truth and lies, he lies practically everywhere that comes out of his mouth. and a pattern that i think is straight out of a psychology textbook. his response is to accuse

everyone else of lying. >> you know how you make america great again? tell donald trump to go to -- 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 even remember that there on tape. let's not forget, what lindsey graham tweeted back in 2016 when he was willing to 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 a republican. and senior cnn political analyst, ron brownstein. wow. i've seen all those soundbites, but just, you know i am reminded. good evening to both of you.

lieutenant governor, glad you're here. let's discuss with cheney's 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 gonna have 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, unfortunately, there was no surprise to liz cheney's defeat yesterday. you know, when a former president spends that much time and 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 get folks -- >> how do you get? they're not to cut you off. >> yeah, you tell the truth. the weight of reality is going to be right, it's gonna take us time to get there, you tell the truth and you put solutions on the table that fixes problems. it fixes joe biden's problems, it fixes 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 elect liz cheney, are you 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 gonna be done making a difference in this country. she's gonna speak her mind. he's gonna speak the truth. and she stood up when it mattered the most. and certainly, that's gonna be worth something someday and it's going to be bigger than donald trump. >> ron, -- our numbers guy, i call him data, at cnn points out that cheney's defeat i should say maybe the second worst for a house incumbent in the last six years, trailing hageman by more than 37 points. cheney voted with trump more than 97% of the time, but assailed trump for inciting a violent mob on the capitol, that was a deal breaker. >> yeah, look, when georgia voted in may and the governor and the secretary of state, he backed trump challengers and republican primaries, there was a kind of almost euphoria among many conservative commentators, saying the party was moving

past trump. that was, however don, very clearly that make the anomaly, as we look through the summer, trump backed election deniers are winning in state after state, in michigan, and arizona, in wisconsin with the governor secretary of state nomination, in arizona, in nevada, in minnesota and michigan. and of course, only two of the ten house republicans who 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 to one fifth of report republicans who are resistant to that, who don't believe his lies about 2020, believe that he acted in improperly after the election, they have to decide, what is their role in this party going forward? liz cheney i thought put forward a very clear standard yesterday. when she not only criticize trump, but she said no one should vote for any election denier that has been nominated. by the republican party. you know, the republican party in georgia nominated an election denier to replace the

lieutenant governor lieutenant governor himself 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 same stand as liz cheney and say the first step toward changing the direction of the party is to say, we will not support election deniers, even if they are running under the republican banner. >> harriet hageman is an election denier, and she won. that was liz cheney's -- >> want 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 fraudulent election. he backed another candidate. when 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 different erection. are they willing to give their votes and to support candidates

who are advancing trump's kind of efforts to undermine the validity of american elections? and she has put that out there, i have not really heard 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's not ruling out a run for 2024. when you think about that? >> well, certainly there needs to be a lane to develop a common sense conservative that's got a track record of being conservative. and who's got it right. was able to tell the truth when it mattered the most, stood up for our country on january 5th and january 6th. and i think there will be a lean to develop, donald trump's high-water mark was 2016 when he won the election. every day he's lost support, not in a straight path, but incrementally he's lost support. he's got enough to win a short term election but enough republicans are waking up to

the fact that we've got to put real candidates high quality candidates because here's where the fall of what's gonna happen these house reps that are getting elected these election deniers and others that are really not high quality candidates they just did one thing. they're 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 hasn't solved a single problem since you got there. and that's gonna be put on display then going into the 2024 cycle, but we're trying to pick a new president, and hopefully it's a republican president. meanwhile we're gonna miss a layup and not win the senate where we should have with the poll rating with the approval ratings of joe biden, we should walk into the senate with a majority, but that now is in question. >> people like her and matt gates, they circle the oxidant of the room and they 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, ron, pardon me. lieutenant governor, i'm gonna ask you about what's happening in your state, bernard governor brian kemp asked to throw to subpoena from that fulton

county district attorney requiring him to appear before the grand jury investigating trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, should he be required to testify? >> well, i took a quick glance at it and i think he's not saying he doesn't want to testify, he's trying to say we don't remove any political nature to. he's asking to testify after the november election, he's got his head down doing the right thing. 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 -- has told the truth since the day one and, is continue to push hard. i participated in that grand jury process, so can be very careful how i comment. thank you both gentlemen, i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thank you. we'll be right back ♪

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cnn learning that trump is considering releasing surveillance video of the fbi search of mar-a-lago, but the search is just the latest incident putting trump against the bureau, he has been going after the fbi since his time on 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 opponent's handling of her emails. >> the fbi did not act, the fbi

i am so disappointed, how did they let that happen? she was so guilty. >> then, from almost the moment he stepped in the white house, analysts say trump seemed to view the fbi as his own personal instrument of power. >> donald trump, you know, up ended and tried to usurp 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 my job would be contingent upon how he felt i conducted myself and whether i demonstrated loyalty. >> trump denied asking for coney's loyalty, but ended up

firing him, later saying that he was frustrated over the ongoing russia probe. >> he wanted that investigations shut down, he saw it as a political problem, and this was 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 everyone kind of focus on this issue of the possibility that the administration was really trying to having a direct impact on how we did our work. >> throughout the rush investigation, and afterward, trump continued to berate the fbi, for how that investigation played out. >> these were dirty, filthy comps at the top of the fbi. >> trump complained that text between two fbi employees investigating the russian were biased against him. >> look at these horrible fbi people. talking about, we gotta get him out, insurance policies. >> but 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 lambasted the fbi again, following the mar-a-lago search, there were hints in recent days that trump might have softened a bit towards the bureau. telling fox, quote, the temperature has to be brought down. and saying he'll do whatever he can to 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 library shelves in a school district in texas. we're gonna tell you what's going on. next.

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a book battle is brewing in texas, the killer independent school district near fort worth, suddenly room removing and reviewing 41 books challenged by committee members during the past school year. among them the bible and a graphic novel adaptation of and frank's diary. bible? i will bring in cnn correspondent, ed lavandera. and, this is quite an interesting story. hello to you. a lot of these books had already been reviewed by the challenge committee, why are they under review again? >> well, let me give you a little bit of a back story, last year, the keller school district created this community panel that would review challenges and complaints about books from parents and members of the community. these 41 books, which included

the bible in and frank's graphic adaptation as well as a lot of books 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, and just a few weeks ago, this new school board adopted new policies, new guidelines by which the review books will be reviewed on these challenges from parents. so, that is what is now happening, again, school started today in keller, principles across the district were told yesterday that these 41 books had to be pulled off the shelves when they get reviewed again. >> okay, one of the reasons again? they're getting for challenging these book said? >> well, we obtained a spreadsheet from the killer school district today, which basically detailed an outlined

the complaints, parents can issue these challenges, they have to explain why they challenge them. many of the complaints coming in from parents, included issues about sexuality, and the way sexual issues were discussed in the book. as far as the bible was concerned, one person wrote that they described, there was inappropriate contact, had sexual contact and massage any in human sacrifice. and frank, for example, the complaint was that the holocaust was difficult subject matter for young people to have to learn about. so, when you look closely there are also books. you can tell that some liberal parents are issuing complaints as well, one person one parent issued a complaint about donald trump sort of the deal, saying that no book written by a criminal should be included. and the same thing for the fox news website, saying it should not be offered electronically to students across the district as well. >> are there concerns that this

could happen in other 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? >> yeah, it's a subject of a new law that was passed by the state legislature last year in terms of race issues are discussed in classrooms. it's not really a question of whether or 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 kind of christian right-wing groups across the country, where there's been a renewed focus to get people involved on the small, local races. school board elections in that sort of thing. that's where they feel they can make the biggest impact, the 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. thanks for watching everyone, our coverage continues. our coverage continues. who do discover is accepted at 99% of places in the u.s.

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