we're investing for our clients in the projects that power our economy. from the plains to the coasts, we help americans invest for their future. and help communities thrive. >> sandra: brand-new at 2:00, congress digging into what children are being taught in the classroom from radical ideas on race and gender to history that never actually happened. republicans say it's about parents' rights but democrats say it's much ado about nothing. >> the parents bill of rights are nothing more than political posturing. >> extremists are being given a platform to push problematic narratives, misinformation. >> this so-called, providing

this so-called woke indoctrination agenda. >> i really take offense to the continued use of wokism referring to the democratic party. >> john: not just coming from the classroom but also disney. a cartoon under fire for what it's telling kids about race, such as pushing for reparations, not just for slavery in the nation's past, but also what's happening right now and wait until you hear why the show is telling kids that abraham lincoln was no hero. welcome back as "america reports" rolls into a second hour. hi again, sandra. >> sandra: a lot of tense moments in that education hearing as democrats suggested parents concerned about woke lessons were worked up about nothing. we'll show you how republicans are responding. >> john: and the controversial disney cartoon may help prove their point. it's all ahead after a fox news alert. >> sandra: a bust at the southern border putting new

perspective on a jaw-dropping statistic as we learn from border that enough fentanyl has been seized at the border to kill more than 1 billion people in the last three months alone. that coming out from border patrol testimony on capitol hill just yesterday. >> john: and today we are getting our first look at one of the drama particular busts that adds up to that chilling total. texas officials finding the drug lab disguised as a car rental business. >> sandra: showing law enforcement in hazmat suits seizing up to 17 pounds of fentanyl materials, hundreds of pills and firearms. >> john: border chiefs sharing their stories on capitol hill, describing how lethal fentanyl really is. >> tucson sector last year we seized about 700 pounds of fentanyl, that's enough to kill everyone in arizona 21 times, or basically half the population of the united states. >> john: that does not include what is getting backpacked over

our border and then into the hands of america's youth. >> sandra: a college student from new jersey was 19 years old when he died from fentanyl poisoning, nearly two years ago. his mother has made it her mission to educate families on the dangers of the deadly drug. tanya will join us in just moments. >> john: but first bill melugin is live in mission, texas again. what more are we learning about this fentanyl laboratory? >> john, we know four people were arrested as a result of that bust, and it's a very significant one, with law enforcement essentially finding a huge fentanyl lab operating in the middle of a u.s. city. right into the pictures right now, take a look. texas dps and houston p.d. finding this fentanyl lab m mass -- as a car rental business. 17 pounds of fentanyl precursors shipped in from china, one kilo

of suspected counterfeit xanax pills laced with fentanyl, counterfeit ox i pills laced fentanyl, one pound of ateral, pill press machines, and a rifle, and some sort of nexus or association with a mexican drug cartel. as mentioned, four people were arrested. we can pull up their mug shots. four suspects, all of them now charged with numerous charges, including possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute and manufacture fentanyl. however, i checked the records, all of those suspects are already out of custody, they have already bonded out. more on this as we learn more details. we'll take you out to lasalle county, texas, troopers chasing a human smuggler, inlands from

the border, not on the border. but eventually pulls off the road, everybody goes bailing off, some trying to climb over a fence, the driver and eight illegal immigrants were arrested, tracked down and taken into custody. lastly, take a look at these images. in el paso, border patrol reporting they arrested a group of 30 illegal immigrants, they found evading underneath the city in a series of storm drain tunnels. we have seen it happen here in the rio grande valley, but a large group of migrants trying to escape and evade detection by going into the storm drain tunnels were all arrested as well. and back out here live where we are, mission, texas, encountered a group of, another group of five chinese nationals who crossed illegally this morning. this is now the third time in the last four days we have seen the chinese show up here. that used to be unheard of. the last year and a half, maybe five chinese nationals, wefr now

seen a dozen in the last several days. back to you. >> john: migrants are truly coming from all around the world, bill, thank you. >> sandra: fentanyl crisis hit our next guest personally. her son j.j. was 19 years old when found dead in his room after taking a drug laced with fentanyl. his mother tanya says he was an average kid who made a fatal mistake and she joins us now. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> sandra: i know so many parents see parents like you who have lost a child to this drug crisis. they see you speaking up and speaking out about it, and i just want to say thank you because this message has to get out there. you and i just had a discussion off camera, one pill can kill. and you are on a mission to make parents around the country know that. >> i just think that to honor my son's life, i mean, you have to. i didn't know a lot about it before i lost him. we were naive, i don't think that it was talked about, and you know, i have said it before

when they told us it was fentanyl that took his life, like i was utterly shocked. it brought me to my knees. i had no idea he had ever tried drugs before. >> sandra: and that is a story we hear far too often. why do you believe this crisis has reached the heights it has in this country? why is fentanyl so prevalent? >> it's getting into the country easily, it's being shipped here, coming over the border, but there's no prevention, there's no awareness around it. i mean, it's the number one cause of death for people ages 18-45, but for some reason it's not the number one health crisis right now. i mean, parents, grieving parents, local officials are the ones forced to spread awareness and you know, for me it's telling my son's story. he was like every other kid you know, and he died at 19 years old, he died. >> sandra: we were just showing his pictures, and such a handsome kid and i can't believe

how hard that must be for you. number of opioid deaths in america, and this is just, i mean, one is too many, this is far too many. we are reaching heights, 81,000 in 2021. i mean, you just talked to me about the number of parents you talked to, kids are dying in their bedroom after buying a pill on snapchat. >> one. >> sandra: and age single digits. that number is growing, though, as we just showed, it's up 70% from 2017. we are seizing more and more at the border. these numbers speak for themselves, put them up there. we seized in 2022, 14,700 pounds of fentanyl at our southern border. the president spoke to this last night, he said that he wants to launch a major action to attack this crisis, i'll get your reaction to what he said, and ask you whether or not you think it will work. here is president biden. >> so let's launch a major surge

to stop fentanyl production and sale and trafficking with more drug detection machines, inspection cargo, stop pills and powder at the border. working with couriers like fedex, to inspect more packages for drugs, strong penalties for fentanyl trafficking. >> sandra: are these good solutions, far enough for you? >> it's a start, but i feel there is not enough being done. how is every year the numbers growing year over year over year. it's almost like it's being let in for no good reason. i don't know the answer, but i think that, you know, it's like putting a band aid on a gaping wound. it's a start, but it's not the answer. >> sandra: beautiful pictures. i know you turned away a moment ago. >> it's so hard, it's so hard. >> sandra: i can only imagine. what do you finally wish that all families knew about this crisis, that you now know having lost a child?

>> i just -- i want people to look at his face and know he could have been your child. he was mine, but he could be any kid, and it's just not talked about enough, and if i can get my circle and my small piece of the world and make an impact and have his life make a difference, then that's all i can ask for. you know, it's -- it's scary, and it's happening all around us, and it doesn't seem to be stopping, so we have to do something about it since it's not coming from above. >> sandra: i know he would be proud of you for being out there, tanya. >> thank you, thank you. >> john: god, your heart just hurts for her. ranchers and farmers near the southern border have dealt firsthand with the migrant crisis. a rancher from arizona now facing first-degree murder charges in the shooting death of a man suspected of crossing the border illegally. william is live in the west coast newsroom with the story. what can you tell us about this part of the border, you've been all across it.

>> john where this happened is an active drug and smuggling corridor, the victim, deported many times. the defendant, 70-year-old george kelly living a mile from the border, but how the shooting is not entirely clear. confrontation, the sheriff has not said. prosecutors, however, charged kelly with murder. bail set at $1 million. kelly waits in nogales in a jail for his nextappearance, postpon for eligibility for a public defender. >> your honor, may i ask a question? you used the word indigent. would you give me your definition of indigent? >> border patrol received a call from a homeowner said he was under fire, a few hours later a second call of shots fired.

the deputies found the victim and recovered two rifles from kelly. 150 acres is near nogales where ranchers daily encounter migrants on their land. most pass through but got-aways smuggling narcotics, rip crews, cartel guides and scouts are bold, confrontations are not uncommon. ranchers carry side arms and rifles when walking or on horseback. >> something goes wrong, i will defend myself, but i hope that doesn't happen. >> so arizona does have a stand your ground law where deadly force may be justified to protect yourself or others, but it is not a blanket immunity, john, and the dozen ranchers i spoke to yesterday say the shooting is emblematic of an open border. back to you. >> all right, william, live in our l.a. newsroom. william, thank you. and sandra, you can imagine the dilemma a lot of ranchers find themselves in, people are coming across the border they think

could be a threat but stand your ground laws don't necessarily apply in every situation here. >> these ranchers are facing tough decisions every single day, but they didn't just start dealing with this, john, and that is important to note. they have been dealing with this for a long time and it is a situation that is only getting worse in this country right now. >> all right. >> john: we want to go live to this quick, the nato secretary general addressing the chinese balloon incursion into u.s. air space with the secretary of state antony blinken at his side. >> very much highlighted importance of strength, and our partners in the indo-pacific to address the challenges that china posted security, to our values, and to our interest, and i think that this -- the balloon over north america confirms that pattern. >> take a final question from karen erickson.

>> thank you very much. so back to turkey then, because turkey is now sending the signal that it might accept finland but not sweden into nato. separating the processes. i wanted to ask you both, to what extent do you see -- >> john: the state department secretary blinken and stoltenberg, about sweden and nato, and finland joining. >> sandra: north korean leader kim jong-un putting his daughter front and center at a military celebration. could he be prepping his child for the future leadership of the hermit kingdom. >> john: and tense hearing on schools, republicans say they are looking out for kids. democrats say they are playing politics. both sides just ahead. marc thiessen standing by to jump in. >> unfortunately, too many forces in the education system

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>> republican reforms including the parents bill of rights are nothing more than political posturing. >> i think it's just unfair that biological boys are allowed to compete against biological girls in school. >> now more than ever critical to rise up to support not scrutinize trans and queer students. >> parents are outraged and this indoctrination of our young children must stop. >> john: just some of what we heard at today's house committee hearing on american education in crisis. republicans saying they are working to expose what's wrong with the education system and give parents more of a say in what their kids are taught. democrats are accusing the gop of leading a culture war in the

classroom. joining us now is marc thiessen, former speech writer for president george w. bush. good to talk to you. the charge that democrats claim that republicans are making classrooms into the epicenter of the culture war, that would seem to indicate that republican members of congress have said what's an issue we can use as a wedge and dream something up. this is not coming from members of congress, this is coming from parents across the country who were truly concerned about what their kids are being taught in school and how little of a say parents have in what their kids are being taught. >> 100% and coming at a time when our kids are in absolute crisis. the nation's report card last fall reported that we -- the pandemic school closures wiped out two decades of progress in reading and math. two decades, gone. and so you've got the situation

where kids, when kids, if you don't fix that, if you are not focused like a laser beam on fixing that, the damage is bad. kids cannot do the subsequent work in subsequent grades and full further and further behind. our schools should be focused like a laser beam on fixing the learning losses from the pandemic and instead you've got this woke educational establishment focused on pushing radical ideologies, race and gender ideologies, and so when conservatives are calling them out and saying you shouldn't be focused on this, it should be on the fundamentals, they say you are waging a culture war. they are doing the culture war and they are the ones harming our kids. >> john: some school board in america shutting parents out of the decision making process when it comes to what their kids are taught in the classroom or whether it comes to their child showing up in school one day saying i want you to call me by a different pronoun and use the

bathroom of the opposite gender. >> yeah, well, what happened is during the pandemic a lot of, when parents send their kids to school the kids say how was the day, but during the pandemic, online school they could sit in on the classes and listen to what was happening and that's where the parents uprising started. think about how wrong the radicals are. pushing racial ideologies, but the black and minority kids from the poorest areas have suffered the worse learning losses from the pandemic. black and hispanic schools were closed longer than white schools, black and minority schools where the majority are minorities, they suffered double the learning loss, and 25% reduction in lifetime earning potential because of the learning losses. you are telling your kids we want you to achieve the american dream but guess what, we are not going to fix the problem to

reduce the lifetime wages by 25%. if you believe in racial equity and you are focused on anything but helping the kids catch up, you are a liar. >> john: and debate what age is it appropriate to start teaching kids about gender, gender preference, about sexuality and sexual preference. the national library -- american library association has a new rainbow reading list for 2023 that's come out. what is in the preschool list, this is 0 to 4 age, bye-bye bynary, a baby refuses to let gender dictate what they like, silver pants or a tutu for a dance recital, and then true you, variety of picture and gender identities, and kid like gavin, when his school takes away his right to use the bathroom of his choice he takes a stand. i mean, this is for kids less than eight years old.

do they understand these concepts? >> of course they don't. they are being indoctrinated. here is the thing. why the answer to all of this is school choice. because right now because kids do not have choice in most of the country, parents don't have choice, they have to go to the school boards and fight this and make it a fight. if they had the right -- if poor minority and other parents have the same choices as wealthy and affluent parents, they could pull their kids out and send them somewhere else where they are not taught these books. but instead, they force parents to keep them in the schools and spoon feed them and force feed them radical ideologies. solution, putting parents in charge of their education, and their education dollars. affluent parents can pull their kids out of the woke school, poor and minority cannot, they are stuck being taught that because they don't have the choice, because public education, the way it's designed

right now is regressive. affluent parents get a choice, poor people don't, that's just wrong. >> john: marc thiessen, never at a loss for words. thanks for joining us. >> sandra: the man accused of attacking paul pelosi is in court today. he attacked pelosi with a hammer last october. pelosi is still recovering from his injuries, and was in attendance at the state of the union address last night where he received a standing ovation. john. >> john: sandra, tragic update to a story we have been following all week. the new york police department officer detectives say was lured into an ambush robbery and shot has died of his wounds. he had been on life support since a gunman shot him in the head last weekend. police said he was trying to buy a car that was listed for sale on facebook marketplace but it was a scam to lure him there with a pocket full of money.

the suspect accused of shooting him, a lifelong rap sheet, 21 arrests, including some for violent crimes. the officer was 26 years old, a married father of two young children. we mourn his passing. >> sandra: the pentagon just giving an update as more questions swirl over that chinese spy flight. a live report on how that spycraft is just one part of china's surveillance program. >> john: top former twitter executives are in the hot seat as house republicans work to get to the bottom of why they suppressed the hunter biden laptop story. byron donalds is on hot stand by, he'll join us next. >> the tweet, yes the person in the pink hat is a bigger threat to your brand of feminism than nazis in the white house. do you think all conservatives are nazis? >> certainly not, sir.

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>> sandra: secretary of state antony blinken speaking moments ago about the recovery of that chinese spycraft shot down over the weekend. >> there is an ongoing operation to recover the balloon's components, we are analyzing them to learn more about the surveillance program. we'll pair that with what we learned from the balloon -- what we learned from the balloon itself with what we glean based on our careful observation of the system when it was in our air space as the president directed his team to do. we'll also share relevant findings around the world. senior administration officials, and dozens around the world through washington and embassies. >> sandra: the pentagon holding the first on-camera news conference since taking out the airship, as they confirm china's growing surveillance program has collected intelligence on the military capabilities of

countries from around the globe. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin has the breaking details from the pentagon. did we learn anything now about the previous incursions of chinese spycraft into u.s. air space? >> well, sandra, we certainly learned more about the scale and scope of the program. we were just briefed by brigadier general pat ryder. i asked whether the pentagon would look back at the unidentified aerial phenomenon, parts of a mandated intelligence report to congress last year on ufos and whether some of those incidents are explained as chinese spy balloons. we are learning more about the scale of the chinese balloon surveillance program which u.s. intelligence and the pentagon have been observing for several years. >> we are aware that there have been four previous balloons that have gone over u.s. territory. this is what we assess as part

of a larger chinese surveillance balloon program. >> general ryder says it was not until recently under the biden administration that they were able to look back and realize that the four previous times, three during the trump administration, all near sensitive installations were in fact the chinese surveillance balloons. not all of them were the same size or had the same payload. fox news has confirmed that this fleet of surveillance balloons are part of a large covert program run by the chinese military or pla, and the balloons are launched from an island province, a global program that covers five continents. >> when you look at the scope of the program and the fact we know the balloons have been spotted in what we now can subsequently assess to be chinese balloons operating over at least five continents and regions like latin america, south america, southeast asia, east asia, and europe. >> when asked why norad did not

shoot the balloon down as it crossed over alaska, one u.s. official told me sometimes you like to watch a thief to learn more about the thief's capabilities and patterns before making an arrest. secretary of state blinken said the state department has begun briefing diplomats at u.s. embassies, sharing with dozens of allies what the u.s. can now share about how they, too, have been the targets of china's spy balloon program among china's other surveillance targets, india, taiwan, japan, the philippines, and vietnam. sandra. >> sandra: ok, jennifer griffin, thank you. john. >> john: sandra, for the second time in a couple months, we are getting a look at north korean dictator kim jong-un's possible heir apparent, his young daughter joining him in a major military celebration. alex hogan is live in london and tracking this. what do we know about this appearance? >> this was at a major military banquet held on the eve of the

75th anniversary of the foundation of the military in north korea. and leader kim jong-un stressed the importance of increased military exercises, combat training, and improving war readiness. state media releasing these images of the event last night, supreme leader arrived with his daughter, believed to be 9 or 10 years old, both of them wearing similar black suits, and her latest appearance at such events, raising a lot of expert speculation she'll be tapped as kim's successor. and praised his forces calling them the strongest army in the world. this is another indication of escalating tensions between pyongyang and washington, showing the troops practicing for months. u.s. and south korea have stepped up their own military drills and north korea has condemned that, and in december kim called for an increase of the country's number of nuclear

warheads. last year north korea had a record year of weapon launches, including the largest ever intercontinental ballistic missile. and reporting that north korea is expected military parade has taken place, although there's no photo evidence of that taking place at least not yet. and what's interesting about some of these military parades is that it's often a means to showcase new military equipment, which is exactly what kim jong-un has said he wanted to show, this major show of force. john. >> john: he likes to put on a show, no question about that. alex hogan, thanks. sandra. >> sandra: the house oversight committee is holding the first hearing into twitter suppression of the hunter biden laptop story. jim jordan live right now, it has been fiery in that hearing room, republicans are taking aim at the former twitter executives for their censorship practices. dip in here, listen to jordan. >> i would like to know what you are referring to in your mind

properly suppressed and when that took place specifically if it took place during the time that the twitter files were first being released a few months ago. >> again, sir, as i think we have notified the committee and we have had these conversations with twitter as well to try to resolve this issue prior to coming up here today, i don't have anything in writing that clears me in my ethical responsibilities to my former client with respect to answering questions i think fall squarely in the attorney/client privilege. unfortunately i don't think i can go beyond what i've said there already, sir. >> asserting the attorney/client privilege, it's overruled as to this particular question and answer. so -- will you please answer the question by mr. jordan. >> point of order, mr. chairman. >> state your point. >> as i understand it, we just

went through this the january 6th committee, multiple witnesses asserted the attorney/client privilege, including people not covered by it at all, it's for a court to decide. i don't think there is anything we can do in this committee unless i'm missing something. >> we'll give you one more chance to answer the question. if you don't answer it, we'll have to deal with it after the committee hearing. mr. baker. >> i apologize, i believe i have ethical responsibilities to my former client and i don't think i can go beyond what i've said already, unfortunately. >> mr. baker, you did suppress documents then that in your language was important to the public dialogue? >> i will give you an extra minute, mr. goldman, you are next. >> thank you very much. >> i'm sorry, sir, could you

repete the question? >> your written testimony, so you did suppress documents at twitter regarding information that was important to the public dialogue. that's a yes or no. >> i'm going to answer the question with the following sentence which is right after that, at all times i sought to help my client understand and comply with its legal obligations. >> gentlemen's time has expired. i recognize mr. goldman for six minutes. >> sandra: we are going to continue to monitor that hearing there. there has been a lot of fiery moments. democrats have taken to blasting republicans for weaponizing the committee, they say. our next guest had a chance to press the former twitter leaders, florida republican congressman byron donalds. what do you believe the hearing has revealed? >> confirmed a number of things. number one, the policy or

ethical or legal ground twitter had for suppressing "the new york post" story about hunter biden's laptop was flimsy, it was thin. there was no basis, number two, they were going back and a lot of the executives were relying on the perceived russia collusion back in 2016 which we all know was not russia collusion, that's what they were looking at and standing on. number three, you can see from some of their own personal tweets, the animosity for the former president. biggest thing that also came out, definite collusion and working back and forth between the biden campaign and people at twitter about various tweets they wanted to suppress, including "the new york post" story itself. >> sandra: and another remarkable moment as jonathan turley points out on this hearing, raskin and a democrat witness have argued that twitter did not censor enough, congressman, turley writes that

is a chilling message given the message censorship program at that company. >> well, listen, i will tell you, that's nothing new for jamie raskin. this is also the same member who along with the former chair of this committee, carolyn maloney had no problem trying to get the oil executives to basically pledge never to spend any money against climate change. they wanted them to pledge that in the committee hearings. so that's nothing new. the scary part is you do have people at twitter, namely the democrat witness who thought they didn't go far enough. she obviously wants to go much further than that, and that has a chilling effect on the american people being able to have their voices heard especially in the middle of a political election. >> sandra: aoc as turley also points out just called the hunter biden story a half fake story. he says it's not clear what half of the story is considered fake. here she is in her own words, however, congressman, claiming that republicans are weaponizing

this committee. listen. >> they have dragged a social media platform here in congress, they are weaponizing the use of this committee so they can do it again. it is -- it's just an abuse of public resources. >> sandra: so, congressman, are republicans weaponizing this committee? >> no, we are going through the investigative process the way it should actually happen on capitol hill. i mean, look, like i said, last congress six hearings on the washington redskins, they changed their name to the commanders, as far as i'm concerned they are still the washington redskins. no congressional authority to do so but they did it anyway. and they cannot defend actions at twitter. the potential pressure from the dnc, biden campaign, elements of the fbi are completely irresponsible and outrageous and so this the leg they have to stand on. they want to argue weaponization. they had a whole other set of

committees last congress that did the very same thing we are accusing us of right now. >> sandra: a lot of moments here. this is congresswoman mace when she had the opportunity to grill one of the twitter executives on censoring doctors during the covid pandemic. listen to this moment. >> where did you go to medical school? >> i did not go to medical school. >> why do you think you or anyone else at twitter had the medical expertise to censor a doctor expert opinion. >> our policies regarding covid were designed to protect individuals. >> when you silence those voices. >> sandra: what was your take away, congressman? >> i thought it was powerful. congresswoman mace did a phenomenal job and demonstrates the level of collusion, she's foreshadowing other committees to come because what's crystal clear is that you have people at the cdc, at the white house, other agencies, who were constantly talking to twitter

about locking down information from some of the most educated and well-known doctors in our country. people whose credentials are second to none, better than dr. fauci and they were shut down by twitter. and so what the executives told us today was is that inside they had a culture that was more than fine of siding with the democrats to shut down information they thought was problematic for democrat narratives and policy. >> sandra: one more exchange on the hunter biden laptop story going back to jim jordan, this was earlier, and he had the opportunity to grill one of the twitter executives about censorship of that story. listen to this. >> why did you take it down? >> the company made a decision that found that it did violate the policy. it was not my personal judgment at the time that it did, but the decision was communicated to me by my direct supervisor and ultimately i did not disagree with it enough to object. >> you know what, i think you guys wanted to take it down, i think you guys got played by the

fbi. >> sandra: quite an explanation there from the twitter executive whose title is the head of trust and safety, congressman. >> listen, it was phenomenal what jim jordan did. the openness upon which they said yeah, we didn't think we should have did it but did it anyway, out r-- outrageous to m. if "the new york post" cannot be published in social media, whose can? they decided to pick and choose the information they felt was not relevant to be displayed to the american people. that reeks of tampering, way more than ads by the russians could have done in 2016. >> sandra: byron donalds live from capitol hill. appreciate it. thank you. >> john: disney is no stranger to controversy but this might take the cake. disney plus is out with a new

season of a kids cartoon called "proud family," reboot of a 2000's era show, african american teenager navigating high school. disney says it's encounters, filled with high jinx. >> slaves built this country, we the descendants of slaves have earned reparations for their suffering. >> and earn reparations for and the white supremacy -- >> not atone for. >> john: and there's more. carol, author of "stolen youth," and so this "proud family" reboot, fully embrace the concepts of the crt and the 1619 project. how do you see it?

>> i think disney is digging its own grave with this woke nonsense. a better path in the last year, replaced the ceo and quiet on political matters but a rot inside this company, with leftists in position of power who decided they simply must insert political messaging to children. i'll make this prediction. this new version of "proud family" is going to bomb. parents, even parents on the left do not want their children getting indoctrinated by cartoon, it's creepy and everyone knows it. >> john: the executive producer admits to adding a not at all secret gay agenda and queerness to children's programming. very young children are watching this. if she is adding a secret, not so secret gay agenda into this program, i mean, trying to steer children into a certain situation or enlighten them? >> oh, she's absolutely trying to steer them. look, in our book "stolen youth"

we point out the ways the left uses our kids as child soldiers for messaging. it's not coincidental they are using the cartoon. what are we going to do, point out the incorrect facts of a cartoon character, it's going to cause disney harm. they need to focus on profits. disney has an earnings call, earnings down 30% from last year. my message to disney is stop this now before you implode. you will never be woke enough, the concessions that you are making to your far left employees will never satisfy them. walt disney had a pro american vision of his country, disney of today is risking it's existence unless they go back to what made them thrive in the first place. >> john: a moment in the episode about juneteenth, and the claim abraham lincoln did not have anything to do with freeing slaves. >> tubman, turner.

and they saline con freed the slaves. and women, emancipation is not freedom. >> john: the message, emancipation is not freedom. you could make the case that until the 60s they were not fully equated, a divisive way to make that point. >> it's a show aimed at children, the kids are supposed to understand what they are talking about, that the emancipation proclamation did not bring the freedom we hoped it would. and how fringe do you need to be to target lincoln? i don't understand who this is aimed at, or how many parents are going to let their kids sit through this. even if you agree with the message, let's say, you are still going to have a 7-year-old being like what's white supremacy, who was lincoln, what is the emancipation proclamation, it's above their heads. so i don't understand why disney would do this kind of thing, it seems to me to be an obvious loser in the ratings battles. >> john: if memory serves me

correctly, some school board members, i believe san francisco, wanted to take aim at an abraham lincoln school, saying they had to rename it because of something in lincoln's pass that was not palatable to them. we have to admit, this nation has a dark history and to some degree the dark history does continue. but is this the best way to make the point? critics of crt, critics of the 1619 project, say the way you are making the points does not bring the country together, it's divisive. >> absolutely. and look, what nation does not have a dark history, what nation has a spotless history, none of them. america is the greatest, freeest nation in the history of the world and we should honor that and appreciate it, and teach our kids that. >> john: carol, great to catch up with you. thanks for joining us today. >> sandra: google showing off its newest project with a whopping $30 million price tag. so, how did that go?

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or howell in "2001 a space odyssey," artificial intelligence -- google's case, need to show it is better than humans. on twitter this morning, the ai chat bot called bard gave the wrong answer when asked what new discoveries from the james webb telescope can i tell my 9-year-old about? barta said the telescope took the very first pictures of a planet outside of our own solar system. astronomers say that is wrong. your southern telescope took the first telescoped photos in 2004. the rigorous testing process and says yes, bard is currently in test phase before launch in a few weeks' time. >> sandra: okay, susan li on that for us. seems like it is all everyone is talking about so keep us posting and we will keep watching. thanks, susan. we are going to take a quick dial check as we get to the final hour of training, john.

markets are trying to find their way, guessing what the federal reserve will do next on 164 the dow. >> john: see what it is like tomorrow. want to bet it is completely different than it is today. every day, it's down, then it's up, pessimistic today, optimistic. >> sandra: well, and we will head into the latter half of the week. thanks for joining us. i'm sandra smith. >> john: and i'm john roberts. we will see you tomorrow. "the story" with martha starts right now. >> martha: thank you very much, you guys. good afternoon, everybody. i am martha maccallum live in our nation's capital. the speaker of the house kevin mccarthy joins us live this hour with his reaction to o the state of the union address last night, which he witnessed in very close proximity. why he says the president is goading republicans with that state of the immune address. plus, also, we will talk about what he just learned about the china spy flight in a classified hearing from a classified testimony that took place earl