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democratic caucus that i so deeply respect. and i'm grateful that so many are ready and willing to shoulder this awesome responsibility. >> give the lady her flowers. her historic 20-year run as democratic leader is coming to an end. as generational change comes to the house democratic leadership in the wake of a midterm that defied the historic odds. >> meanwhile, house republicans are doing exactly what you would expect, ignoring the lessons of the midterm elections and focusing on hunter biden. plus, a blue wave that hit michigan and pennsylvania and what democrats will do with their new power on the state level. michael moore joins me later. we begin "the reidout" tonight with the end of an era. today, nancy pelosi, the first and only woman to serve as speaker of the u.s. house of representatives, took to the house floor to announce that she will step down from democratic

leadership after an historic two-decade tenure leading house democrats. the announcement comes after republicans regained control of the house in the midterms. pelosi said she will remain a member of congress and serve out the term to which she was just re-elected. she is paving the way for a new generation to fill the leadership ranks. the number two democrat, steny hoyer, is also stepping aside. >> when i came to the congress in 1987, there were 12 democratic women. now there are over 90, and we want more. indeed, american democracy is majestic, but it is fragile. many of us here have witnessed its fragility first-hand, tragically in this chamber. and so democracy must be forever defended from forces that wish it harm. last week, the american people spoke. and their voices were raised in defense of liberty, of the rule

of law, and of democracy itself. with these elections, the people stood in the breach and repelled the assault on democracy. they resoundingly rejected violence and insurrection, and in doing so, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. >> also stepping aside, the great jim clyburn. nancy pelosi may be departing and giving up the reins but her legacy atop the house dais will surely endure. she was first elected to the house in 1987. shortly before the year of the woman would alter ever so slightly the makeup of congress. through talent and sheer will, the same will that would later help her advance major legislation, pelosi rose through the ranks, becoming speaker in 2007. saying she had cracked the marble ceiling. she became speaker a second time in 2019, when democrats rode a wave of opposition to trump to win control of the house.

she was re-elected speaker in january 2021. presiding over the most diverse house membership in history. pelosi also had a knack for breaking the internet. from pointing her finger at trump during a congressional meeting, note, she is the only woman visible at the table. trump had tweeted the photo to degrade her, but pelosi liked it so much, she made it her photo on twitter. earlier that year, she had given trump a literal clap back while giving angry auntie during the 2019 state of the union address. then she went viral when he ripped trump's printed state of the union speech in half. and remember this? how could you not? pelosi making a grand exit from the white house in this max mara fire coat. this was after a contentious showdown with trump, a coat so meantastic, it had to be reissued with a sun glassed pelosi looking triumphant. fashion aside, she oversaw

groundbreaking legislative accomplishments like helping to insure health care is a right and not a privilege. here's pelosi emerging as a powerhouse, piercing through throngs of tea party anti-obama protesters while carrying the gavel used when medicare was passed as she and congressional democrats including the late great john lewis marched to the capitol before the health care vote. nevertheless, she persisted only to later lead her chamber during one of the darkest days for our democracy. when it was threatened by insurrectionists who stormed the capitol. >> there has to be some way we can maintain the sense that people have that there is some security or some confidence that government can function. and that we can elect the president of the united states. >> violence would strike again, this time in the most sacred of spaces. her home. when her husband paul was attacked in october. a reminder of how women

politicians and especially high profile ones are so often under siege. it was only one of the many challenges nancy pelosi stood up against, which is why today, president biden described her as the most consequential house speaker in our history who will never waiver in protecting our sacred democracy. joining me now is congressman madeleine dean of pennsylvania, and adeem alshawmy who currently is a policy director for brown steen hyatt farber shrek. thank you both for being here. i do want to start with you, congresswoman, and ask what was the mood in the chamber as speaker pelosi gave that really eloquent and epic sort of final address as speaker? i'm sure she'll speak again, but that was sort of her outro. >> great to be with you. and nadeem, we didn't get a chance to serve together, but man, you served her so well and

served our country. i have to tell you, there was a bit of breathlessness in the chamber. i sat with an awful lot of my colleagues, happened to be surrounded by a lot of women members of congress. we recognize the historic moment that we were on the precipice of. but she spoke with grace and majesty, and she was incredibly speaker nancy pelosi, revealing her constant love of country, love of family, belief in the rule of law, belief in our constitution, and that our better days are still ahead. it was just -- i have to tell you, i found it both joyful and sad. she said it was a season. there is a season for everything. and so with that, we understood what she was doing. and i have to tell you, i just feel like i'm one of the luckiest people in the world to have served alongside her.

>> you know, and it is the essence of class to know when to leave the stage. and to know how to leave the stage, and to do so with the grace that we saw today. you know, this is nancy pelosi from baltimore, let's not forget, from baltimore, representing a great city of baltimore, who serves in the city of san francisco, the equally great city there. talk about what it was like to work for her. >> oh, gosh. thinking about the days i spent working for the speaker, and i have always called her speaker whether we were in the majority or minority. she will always be speaker. it was a master class in politics. every single moment, every single day. she cared deeply about her members, as congresswoman dean knows well. she cared deeply about the issues, and she continued to strive no matter the consequences, no matter the hurdles. look, many of us felt that hoped

that this day would never come, but we knew it would. and just like any legislative battle, just like anything she does, she did it strategically, methodically, and has set the stage for the next generation of leaders with a strong democratic caucus heading into next congress. >> i am going to talk about some of the next leadership, which she's ushered in, which is epic. we're talking about the diversity of it, the diversity just of you being on her staff, but we're going to talk about that in a second. i have to play for all of you my favorite speaker pelosi quote. i think i always call her spoker pelosi too no matter what. this is my favorite quote, here it is. >> people laugh when i say it, but i always say to candidates and especially women candidates, when you come into this arena, you're in the arena. you have to be able to take a punch.

you have to be able to throw a punch for the children. >> i have friends who literally just text me, you have to be able to throw a punch for the children. it's like our favorite statement. that was right after the insurrection had happened. we went over to the capitol to interview her, and she understood the majestic around her. she understood the meaning of the capitol. she has an in depth meaning of strategy as the dean said, but also the purpose for it. and she always would bring back her positive. every time i interviewed her, it's about the children, doing this for children and to make sure our children have what we didn't have. and talk a little bit about that. there were some tough votes. health care was not an easy vote. obamacare, democrats paid a big price, but they thought it was worth it. >> i have enjoyed these past more than four years because she helped me on my campaign four years ago. she always, whether it's in a public setting, a campaign

setting, a political setting or in private, just speaking to her one to one, she always goes back to, mad, make sure you know your why. and her why is always the children. and so it's a master class being around nancy pelosi, of grace, of class, of knowing your subject matter, mastering your subject matter but know your why, for the children, for the future. she's the most historic speaker of the house. and what i love, i have to tell you, is the day i got sworn in, in january of 2019, i was able to have my granddaughter who was maybe 6 or 7 at the time, in the chair with me, in the well of the floor. she went up on the dais with speaker pelosi, whom i always call speaker also. and so up she went. and so my granddaughter doesn't think of any difference in gender. doesn't think there's any barrier that a woman could do this job. she knows that, of course, a woman can do this job, and in

fact, speaker nancy pelosi did this job better than anybody else. >> i do think she will go into history as the greatest speaker of the house in our history. and i mean that. passing -- just passing obamacare was an historic 100-year triumph. took 100 years to make it happen, and she and harry reid are the ones who guided it through. i want to talk about this thing she did today. she and steny hoyer and jim clyburn moved aside to bring in this new leadership. it is historic in and of itself. pete agrulaur of california, katherine clark of massachusetts, and hakeem jeffries. this new leadership looks like america. talk about what kind of change you think that will make, and what will be her role they can turn to when they need advice? >> loved her quote when she said, i'm not going to be the mother-in-law in the kitchen saying my son doesn't like it this way. i think it was one of the

newspapers mentioned that. and that's so classic. she feels very strongly about the diversity of the democratic caucus, about this trend of a leader or soon to be leader like hakeem jeffries and clark and aguilar, that is the future of the democratic party, of the democratic caucus. that is who we are. each have the strength, each rely on each other. they rely on the caucus, and look, what's better than having consiglieres such as speaker pelosi, leader hoyer, and whip clyburn just around in case you have questions. it's fascinating. and look, this is kind of the no drama hopefully democrats that have come in, usher in new leadership, and begin preparing for next congress. it's massive. >> it is, and before that happens, congresswoman, this

country has had two women on either end of the president, the two most powerful, the second and third most powerful people you could say in the country are women. the vice president of the united states, kamala harris, speaker pelosi, who before vice president harris was elected, was the single most powerful woman in the united states. the two of them. just talk a little bit about before we go what that has meant for women and girls and for little boys who want to see what the future looks like. because in a lot of cases the future is female. >> it's meant everything to me, i have to tell you that. role model would be an understatement for these extraordinary women, and hillary clinton among them. i have three granddaughters. i have a grandson. but my sons, my daughters in law, my daughters, we see these women as role models. no longer will anyone ask, can a woman do this job? a woman can do this job and do it extraordinarily well, historically well. i want to go back to something

about speaker pelosi. she is a woman of such faith. and that faith was translated into confidence for the next generation of leadership. and so she didn't stand there with any trepidation over whether or not she passes the torch to people who are ready for it. she's prepared us all. and she has a confidence in us. and a confident in the leadership team you just detailed. she's a woman of faith, of family, of intellect, and confidence in our future. confidence in the future of our country. i have to tell you, i cried a little on the floor, sad for what is passing, and so joyful and feeling so lucky for what i have been able to be a part of. >> i have to tell you, this is not a partisan matter. i grew up as a democrat, but this is not even a partisan matter. speaker pelosi is a great woman. even if you disagree with her deeply politically, you have to admit the greatnist of this historical figure we got to experience in real time.

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already we're seeing the shambolic mess in store. you heard republicans beating the drums about crime, inflation, gas prices. and you would think they would address at least one of those things as their first order of business. but oh, no. what the maga inmates running the asylum, we'll we're seeing what the next two years in the house will be about. here are the incoming chairs of the oversight and judiciary committees. >> i want to be clear. this is an investigation of joe biden, and that's where the committee will focus in this next congress. >> so this is the focus on the judiciary committee, there political nature at the justice department and the linkage to what was happening with the hunter biden story. again, just 15 days before we have a presidential election. >> oh, yes. forget all those issues that we told you about that actually impact americans' daily lives. hunter biden's laptop is paramount. and of course, it will be followed by the crucial investigations about the origins

of covid-19. nancy pelosi and the doj's handling of the january 6th insurrection, and migrants on our southern board border, and then the growing calls for many in the maga caucus looking to impeach president biden, merrick garland too, and alejandro mayorkas about something we'll tell you about later. but why does there need to be a reason other than to try to own the libs and get retribution for their twice imbeached orange leader. perhaps if a competent republican speaker were about to take office, things would be different, but sadly, that role will likely be held by the person donald trump refers to as my kevin. let's be clear, even if kevin mccarthy is able to cobble enough support from all of the fringes of his caucus, he's nug more than a marionette controlled by the strings by the hand standing -- by the guy standing next to him. we have seen when it comes to standing tall as the leader of his caucus, kevin has a penchant

to turn tail and run. >> the same earlier this year when reporters tried to ask him to respond to the rnc declaring the january 6th attack on the capitol was legitimate political discourse. >> run, kevin, run. none of that should be a surprise to the democrats. the real question for them is how to navigate this new reality. kurt bardella, the former spokesperson and senior adviser for republicans on the house oversight committee back in the day who is now an adviser to the dnc writes, democrats must now answer the call and elevate their best communicators. after all, the number one mission of the democratic minority should be communications. obvious candidates for the top jobs on oversight and judiciary

include jamie raskin and david cicilline, and kurt bardella joins me along with charles blow, "new york times" columnist and msnbc political analyst. kurt, you wrote the article. you have seen what it looks like when republicans go wild on oversight. that is going to be the committee where all the crazy is going to take place. what should democrats do? >> they need to match up. back in 2010 when republicans took back congress after that election, democrats actually realized they were in some deep water. they knew that they needed to make a change, so they ditched the seniority system. they benched ed towns and replaced him with elijah cummings. i was on the oversight committee, we were not happy about this. cummings was a brilliant tactician, an amazing communicator. and he could get the best of us. he could win on that dais, on those hearings. now, here we are in a similar situation. there's a competition right now for who is going to lead the oversight committee. jamie raskin, gerry connolly, stephen lynch. democrats need to put forward

the best person for the job who knows how to fight these maga republicans, and in my opinion, jamie raskin is the best person we could have leading the oversight committee. same in judiciary. nothing against jerry nadler who has led the committee very well for a long time, but this is a time where we need to reset. someone like david cicilline, a fighter, a brawler, who knows we're going to be in a street fight against the jim jordans, against the marjorie taylor greenes who is ankling to get on the over sight committee. we know kevin mccarthy can't control these people. when the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. kevin is going to find out what this means. gh if he ain't drinking now, he's going to be. charles, let me show you a collage. this is their official twitter account, which we know twitter is at this point an anemic sort of dying monster, but they tweeted this. hunter biden's laptop is real. joe biden is the big guy, the crime family must be investigated. they're freaking out.

the vast majority of americans couldn't pick hunter biden out of a lineup. they don't care about him. in a lot of ways he's a tragic figure. this is someone who was dealing with addiction, with a lot of personal issues. if anything, what you know about him makes you feel bad about him. they decided to turn him into their new hillary clinton. their obsession. we had this conversation among the team earlier. give us some advice, charles blow. you're an intellectual giant of the journalistic world. part of me wants to ignore it, part of me wants to laugh at it. i'm in between those two. what do you think we as the media should be doing with all these ridiculous investigations to come? >> well, i'm going tostay on the politicians first before we get to the media. i actually believe the best strategy here is to stay on policy and to let them put on a show and to tell americans constantly that it's a show. you know, it is very hard for them to make the case that

hunter biden did something wrong and benefitted from the family name, when every one of the trumps did exactly that. it doesn't help them in their argument as much as it would someone who was not running against donald trump, and that seems like it's going to be the matchup in 2024. and all of this is theatrics and blowing of smoke and fishing to try to damage joe biden for 2024. that's what the entire exercise is about. so i don't think it works as well. they could have had, you know, if they weren't going to stick on the crime and inflation numbers and stick more to what trump, you know, did in 2016, which is demonize people. talk about crime, and invoke black people and immigrants. talk about the border. that actually was a more effective strategy, and with the new leadership coming in, in the house, they would have people to

point to. this is just, you know, it's not what i would want to do, but that works for that base. this thing, you know, of trying to make this person, hunter biden, into some giant bogeyman in charge of a giant conspiracy to get all the money from all the foreign leaders and foreign companies. it just doesn't land. it doesn't have a victim in the same way that benghazi had real victims, and even if hillary clinton wasn't responsible for it, you could have a family come forward and say, i'm hurting and i want more answers. and that helps to propel that narrative. they don't have that here. so it just becomes a very hard sell to the american people, i believe. >> and i mean, the only person who was hurt by the benghazi hearings was kevin mccarthy. he got chased out of his first attempt to become speaker because he blabbed that the whole purpose, he gave away the whole thing like a scooby-doo

villain and said, you know, this benghazi thing is going to destroy hillary clinton. everybody was like, you're too stupid to be speaker, go away. it only hurt him in the end. didn't hurt hillary clinton. she testified for 11 hours. people were like, boss. kurt, democrats won't be able to pass anything through the house. nothing is passing the house. nothing is going through. so democrats like you said are going to have to be on defense in a sense, fighting against this craziness. and then the media has to decide, do you look at the crazy and debunk it or do we just ignore the house of representatives since no legislation is coming out of there, and let the progressives talk about the things they would like to be doing if there was a real congress? >> i can tell you the republicans are banking on the fact the media won't have that kind of displace. they will chase the subpoenas, the press releases, the conferences, the hearings. that's what the republicans are hoping will happen. for democrats, we have to tell the story. we have to point out the hypocrisy. you can't talk about a presidential office and a

presidential family benefitting financially from the office without talking about the first family of the trumps. without talking about jared's billion dollar saudi arabia deal, without talking about what just came out last week from the oversight committee that trump's foreign hotels, that foreign countries were bilking the taxpayers, spending money after money trying to enrich donald trump personally. you can't talk about malfeasance without talking about how donald trump handled classified information. that's the story and the context that democrats have to tell. if the media is going to chase this, they have to tell the story with the full context, and oh, by the way, you don't get to say you want your subpoenas enforced when you spent the last four years ignoring congressional subpoenas. >> i can tell who is not chasing had subpoenas, moi, because none of this matters. i hope hunter biden recovers and has a good personal life. but i don't care about his personal life. i don't, sorry.

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republicans only got a little red puddle in the midterm elections but across the great lakes there was a big blue wave. especially in michigan and pennsylvania. democrats held on to governorships with gretchen whitmer re-elected in michigan and josh shapiro elected in pennsylvania. both won by double digits. victories that helped carry a host of other democrats to victory. including pennsylvania's democratic senator elect, john fetterman, flipping that seat from republicans. and at the state level, pennsylvania democrats won control of the state's house of representatives for the first time in more than a decade. meanwhile, in michigan, voters rejected the big lie by re-electing democratic attorney general dana nessel and secretary of state, jocelyn benson, and michigan voters also sent a clear message about control over your own body, resoundingly passing an initiative insuring a state constitutional right to reproductive freedom. michigan democrats also secured

majorities of the state's house and senate for the first time in nearly 40 years. and made history again by choosing the first woman senate majority leader and first black man as house speaker. with that newfound control, michigan democrats have already signaled what's on their agenda. high on the lest, repealing the state's right to work status as well as increasing teacher pay. penalizing polluters and passing gun safety laws, police reform, and lgbtq protections. and joining me now is michigan native michael moore, oscar winning filmmaker and host of the rumble with michael moore podcast, i'm going to give you 30 seconds to say i told you so. we were skeptical of the red wave because i'm skeptical of the polling aggregators and they seemed a little suspect to me. we were listening to people saying it's an abortion election. it turned out that was true and you were right. >> i won't do that because i understand why so many people

bought into the narrative. the false narrative that it was going to be a red wave. people are afraid. we have gone through four years of trump, gone through all this stuff. i get it. but we have to stop listening to these false narratives and trust ourselves. we are the majority of this country. there are more democrats registered in this country than republicans. we have won 7 of the last 8 presidential elections with the popular vote. more people want us than they want the republicans. we just have to start believing in that and start operating from that place. and in michigan, all those things you just said, all that is true. where i live up in northern michigan, we just elected our first democratic state representative, the state house of representatives. nobody can remember when a democrat had ever been elected in our district before. our congressional delegation from michigan now have become a majority democratic delegation. eight democrats, seven

republicans. i mean, jerry ford's old district in grand rapids, part of his old district was won by a woman, a democrat, defeating the republican. jerry ford's district. so i'm just saying that this is not just happening in michigan, as you said, and not just pennsylvania, by the way. i loned john fetterman my hoodie and my cargo shorts, and he returned the hoodie but not the cargo shorts. anyway. you started the show with fashion with that beautiful coat that nancy was wearing. it's such an honor to be on your show tonight, on this historic night, that speech today by nancy pelosi was so incredible. and i love that quote that you loved. i love. about you have to be able to take a punch, be able to give a punch, but it's for the children. >> for the children. throw a punch for the children. >> i wanted to finish the last part. wasn't just michigan and pennsylvania. minnesota, finally, the governor and the house and the senate,

democratic. maryland, the house, the senate, and the governor, democratic. >> and a black governor for the first time. >> yes, and massachusetts now, back to the democrat is the governor. the senate, and the house. that means that's our four states, just last tuesday, that won the trifecta on this. join the other 14 states now that are completely democratic in terms of the top leadership, the house, and the senate. that's a long way from five, ten years ago. and people have got to start feeling the joy of this because, you know, it can only get better. yes, it looks like they may win the house, but you know, it's kind of like when you get -- everybody gets a trophy. you have to give them something in this election. >> let me just, real quick, because one of the other things that happened, i think there were two trajectories. michigan, your home state in

particular, women now run that state, which is pretty incredible, attorney general, the governor, right, and also the secretary of state. all re-elected. >> and the lieutenant governor is african american. no white men in the top leadership of michigan. we shall not be replaced. we shall not be replaced. >> but i mean the thing about it is, that to me, it sort of really put a pin in it. that women were really not having it in this election. you saw a woman elected as governor in massachusetts as well. there was a lot to me that wasn't as good as it could have been. black women, a historic number of black candidates. most lost their state-wide races. that was a big problem. so it wasn't a perfect election. in your mind, for women, is this going to give hope we can push back on these attempts to take away our right to choose? >> oh, absolutely. i mean, there were only i think three or four states that had -- well, five states if you count

montana and kentucky, that had an abortion resolution on the ballot. we should are had more states have that. and we should be thinking about 2024. everybody get to work now on getting an abortion amendment on your ballot. get a raise in the minimum wage on the ballot. >> yes. >> marijuana legalization. all these will bring out the democratic base and have a strong 2024, but it has to start now. they say at the thanksgiving day parade, they start the next day, we're starting the next day. >> to build the floats. >> we need to start right now on 2024. >> build the floats now. don't wait. that is michael moore's great political advice. michael moore, thank you very much. really appreciate you coming back to the show. >> thank you, joy, for everything you do. >> oh, no, thank you. >> all right, mutual admiration society. thank you very much. up next, conservatives ramp up efforts to make sure students learn their version of american history. without all the icky racial stuff that makes them uncomfortable. we're we'll be right back. we're.

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racism, because they never mentioned, that either. that's for native americans, asian americans, pacific islanders, lgbtq, women's rights movement and americans with disabilities? you don't exist because your contributions aren't the mentioning either. what do they think it is important for your kids to learn? free market in connor me, small government is good, patriotic songs about america, and the entrepreneurial characteristics of people like christopher columns columbus, which i suspect native americans might disagree with. now we have president pandora of the virginia state senate. senator lucas, leader lucas, thank you so much for being here. this is stunning. i am reading through my list of my producers made of the things that people can't learn, including in kindergarten, taking away the lines this a indigenous people were the first inhabitants of the land we now call virginia in the united states. they don't mention indigenous people at all. what in the world is going on in virginia? >> i can tell you it, has been

nothing but insanity ever since this governor hit. i want to preface my remarks by saying i'm only two years younger than emmett till, and i grew up during massive resistance. so education is something that has always been your dear to my heart. and i think that this government is so dame or at least members of his board of education or, they think that we will not fight them on issues like this, i mean, to take the kind of things that i lived through in virginia and just whitewash them? let me just tell you something, we are gonna push back on this with every ounce of energy we have. in addition to the things that you said that they're gonna take out of history, how about they want to identify slave trade as profitable business in america and identify kinship family ties and common values that helped the slave people cope with the conditions of slavery. it is critical that we teach the truth, that we teach the full history of our nation.

and look at all the people who were leaders who helped develop and build this country, i guess they can just it's unconscionable that the sport of education would think that that was all right to whitewash that history. we're just not gonna stand by and let it happen. i'm gonna fight with every ounce of energy i have to try to make sure that, one, it doesn't happen, and to, well, it hasn't been confirmed yet so maybe to hold or confirmation. >> let me just, for those who think they're exaggerating here, third grade, we'll guidelines say the's to students should learn about china and mali as well as a, degrees, and ron. the new guidelines don't mention china and mali at all. they say the children should not about geography incontinence, while the new guidelines only say susan should become familiar with the countries of europe. only able to identify europe's countries, especially greeson italy. they are literally saying it's not necessary to learn about any other part of the world except europe. they could not be more --

>> joy, all of this stuff that they have agreed to and the standards are racist, historically and factory incorrect, they are not age-appropriate, and they reflect explicit post political bias. i'm telling you, the black congress, we are just so upset about what is going on in the state board of education that we have come together we're gonna fight back with everything we have to try to make sure that we get rid of some of those people. five people on the board, first of all, don't even have a public school background. they have private school background. they know nothing about public education. don't care about black and brown children, and obviously this governor doesn't either. but he always finds an opportunity to get up with black people after he's done something stupid like what this board of education is doing now. >> it seems like the goal is to do not indoctrinate virginia

children probably there's no flaws in american history, that indigenous people either didn't exist or agreed to hand over their land and that slavery was okay. i just wonder, i can't imagine, i just don't understand it. do you think this is just about indoctrination? >> you know what, again, it's an attempt to whitewash history. they only want to teach the parts of history that makes them feel comfortable. they don't want to teach about the part that make them uncomfortable. and that's what this is all about. unless we can take the good, the bad, the ugly, and teach all of the full history, i think we do all the citizens in this commonwealth, and especially our students, a disservice. we need to teach the full history, just as it happened. i lived through a lot of. it i didn't have to read it in the book. i knew exactly where i was the day that martin luther king day xi was assassinated. that needs to be taught. >> let me read another. one tenth, cranial guidelines

commentators to dissect, compare, in contrast the concepts of colonialism, imperialism, nationalism, and racism. a new guidelines don't mention them at all. essentially these will be under educated children who couldn't pass it international standards test. this would break virginia education. >> exactly. and i tell, you we reject all of that. i am telling you, this board of education needs to get an idea of how egregious this is and come to the understanding, it's hard for me to believe that this governor's this stupid and he's got this board giving him some bad ass information. >> he's an idealogue, basically he's turning virginia into florida. senator eloise lucas -- >> maybe that's why he is a zero on his rating for presidential. >> senator eloise lucas, a treat to have you on. president polo temp or for the virginia senate. virginia senate.