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public, too. so you know what, i'll represent his voters, too, and they'll serve on committees but not a place that has national security because integrity matters to me. >> kevin mccarthy whose integrity is locked safely in a safe in mar-a-lago. retribution for dear leader donald trump and his min ons. also tonight, a new lawsuit and new outrage over governor desantis' rejection of ap american studies because for he and his administration, learning the truth about african american history lacks educational value. a florida high school student who wanted to take that ap course is now getting ready to sue desantis and he joins me tonight. plus, the ukrainian military gets a big upgrade as the biden

administration agrees to supply them with top of the line battle tanks. what it all means for this nearly year long war. house speaker mccarthy is making good on his threat to block adam schiff and eric swalwell from seats on the house intelligence committee. but before i tell you his rationale, i want to remind you exactly what mccarthy's boss, marjorie taylor greene, did to get expelled from her committee assignments two years ago. in 2018, a post which read quote, a bullet to the head would be quicker than removing then speaker nancy pelosi. which sure made her seem like a danger to the speaker. and if that wasn't enough, a 2020 congressional campaign facebook post showed her posing with a military style rifle alongside photos of

congresswoman omar, alexander casse owe cortez with a caption, quote, the squad's worst nightmare. again, implied threats against members of congress. greene also posted video of herself harassing and confronting parkland school shooting survivor, david hogg and agreed with comments that the sandy hook school shooting was staged. that was the rhetoric sufficient for the house including 11 republicans to yank her from the committees she had been assigned to. but now kevin mccarthy has as promised restored that individual seat on two powerful committees. same with arizona republican, paul gosar, who was expelled months after greene for posting a video depicting him killing congresswoman cortez and attacking president biden.

just proves that how -- as payback, he's blocking schiff and swalwell, but to be clear, it's also retribution on behalf of mccarthy's other boss, donald trump. he claims he lied about triggering the whistleblower even though the source said the whistleblower had not met or spoken with schiff and everything in the complaint was ultimately corroborated in the investigation. as for swalwel, a 2020 axios story about a chinese spy who had fund raised for him as a bundler in 2014. swalwell cut off ties after being alerted by federal investigators. a "washington post" fact check points out that the axios report that started the fever dream itself never alleges swalwell

did anything questionable and notes there is simply no evidence he did anything wrong despite mccarthy's unverified claims in a classified briefing suggested otherwise. there's also this inconvenient reality. two other republican speakers, john boehner and paul ryan, who would have been briefed on the fbi investigation into the woman in question in 2015, did not try to remove swalwell from this same committee. mccarthy can keep members off unilaterally. he also continues to threaten to strip omar from the house foreign affairs committee, but that would require a house vote. in a press conference today, the three members stood together saying it wasn't about any individual committee but the speaker openly using his authority for retribution. joining me now, eric schiff and eric swalwell both of california. congressman schiff, i want to start with you because in a way, i feel like you in kevin

mccarthy's mind, committed the greating crime, which was presiding over the impeachment of donald trump. i can't find any legitimate reason why you would not be on this committee other than that. can you? >> no, i can't. i think this is an effort by mccarthy to please mar-a-lago. to excite the right wing base and to deliver payback to marjorie taylor greene, who is now fully indebted to him for his speakership. but apart for what he's doing to me or to eric, it does damage to the intelligence committee to use it as a political play thing the way mccarthy is. the establishment of this new select committee to on the supposed weaponization of the federal government which will receive intelligence briefings is also going to breed distrust in the intelligence community for congress which means policymakers are not going to get the information they should to protect the country because mccarthy is playing these games

to cater to the most extreme elements of his base. >> you know, and congressman swalwell, you posted a video. it's actually kind of humorously done. but i think it makes a serious point about the threats that we know that christopher wray has said are the greatest threats and we need more intelligence on. just going to play a little bit of that video now. >> sure. >> were you arrested trying to overthrow the government on january 6th? are you facing sleepless nights worried the rule of law will catch up to you? we will fight for your right to commit treason without accountability. at insurrection llc, we understand it's your right to obstruct justice and plot sedition and if you call in the next 15 minutes, we'll include a free gas stove. >> you know, and it's a funny video. it's fun to watch, but i think it makes a point that's quite serious and frightening that what mccarthy is now the people

he's indebted to as congressman schiff has mentioned, are now the people who are going to have access to very important information about our nation's intelligence. they're the people who are going to be able to view things that in some cases might be about them and people they support and that they supported including those who committed insurrection. your thoughts. >> that's right, and they're turning over the keys to our national security secrets to people like greene who rooted on the rioters on january 6th. and goes to the d.c. jail to show solidarity with them in taking mr. schiff and myself off the committee and so yes, that video is a humorful way to make a point. you know, with every day americans that this is now who's in charge of these committees to obstruct justice. i want to make one point about adam schiff because during the first impeachment, during the russia investigation, as

mccarthy and his leadership team tried to run every play to obstruct the investigation, like sending many of the people depicted in that video into a top secret skiff where they're not allowed to have electronics. they're not allowed to be unless they're cleared and they barged in there, adam never flinched. he was a fearless leader throughout that impeachment and that's why they're targeting him. and the same with me and miss omar, it's the fact that we never flinched and we were fearless in our resolve to hold donald trump accountable. so frankly does it suck to not be on a committee that does such important work? yes. it's not about me. it's about who is now given access to top secret information and what it means to use political vengeance to exact revenge on your political opponents. >> congresswoman omar made that point. she said this morning on "morning joe," she said it's going to be hard moving forward when you have a speaker who was publicly humiliated who has

ceded so much power. if she's pushed off her committees, she would no longer chair an africa subcommittee, which is really important. this is the kind of thing that ought to worry americans. the kind of people who kevin mccarthy is giving power to, he's giving marjorie taylor greene and arnie jackson seats on a committee to investigate the coronavirus pandemic where they could essentially pretend to investigate their own conspiracy theory believes. you're talking about on the intelligence, this is some of the most sensitive information thaktd be given to members of congress and this is a person, speaker, who doesn't take it seriously. i feel like this is a tale of corruption but it's also, it feels like a national security threat. does it to you? >> it does. you saw that committee formed as eric points out is really designed to obstruct the justice

department's work. designed to try to allow the committee to be essentially an arm of the trump defense team. to pry into what the justice department has and provide it to donald trump for his defense. and sadly, we've seen this drill before. during the russia and ukraine investigations, the republicans on the committee where eric and i serve were essentially a back door to trump's legal defense. now they're going to use the front door because they have the committee chairmanship but look, we're going to push back. i think if mccarthy thinks by removing us from the intelligence committee that he is somehow going to stop us from holding their feet to the fire, he's going to find out just how wrong he is and i want to mention, too, about eric. they're going after him because he is one of the most effective members of our caucus in pushing back and revealing the hypocrisy, the danger they represent. so as much as this is about retribution, as much this

undermines i think our national security and the institution of the congress, this is also their way of trying to stop people from holding them accountable. we're going to make sure that does not succeed. >> congressman swalwell, the atmosphere in which this is happening is that donald trump is the only announced republican candidate so far for president. he has just been given back back access to his facebook and instagram accounts. he's going to be back on twitter at a time when he posed a national security threat to the country and fomented an insurrection. we're also in a context where we're preparing to aid ukraine with fresh weapons et cetera in their fight against russia's invasion and you have people who we're not sure of which side of the war they're on. they've spoken in favor of the russia side on an intelligence

committee where i don't know if these are people who are trust worthy with national security information. they could give that information to donald trump and god knows what else. >> and joy, if you recall, during the russia investigation, there were individuals apart of our investigation in the impeachment investigation who were sending packages to chairman nunez from russia. so that was pointed out during the impeachment proceedings. so yes, we are concerned that you know, there is a sympathy for or a desire to you know, do putin's bidding instead of america's and then you see more and more people in their conference voting against ukraine funding or support for ukraine and i think that's a part of this corrupt bargain is that mccarthy has agreed to defund the troops by $75 billion because many on his side ask for that. he's also going to have a tough time putting together 218 votes to keep ukraine in the fight in

their fight for freedom, which is our fight for freedom. to your other point on donald trump going back on facebook, adam schiff has led many efforts to try to raise awareness around what it means to put donald trump back on social media because we know his words have power and they inspire and then the leaders in the republican party like speaker mccarthy, they don't condemn them. so when they're not condemned, they're a green light, open lane for more violence to occur. >> why don't you just add off that, i think facebook's decision to reinstate donald trump is inexplicable. it represents in my view, a total caving in and copping out. the only motive i can see is a profit motive here. if you look at what donald trump has been posting on his own social media platform, all of that violates facebook's policies. he's continued to give aid and comfort to those who committed acts of insurrection. he's continuing to spread the

big lie and the idea that somehow he would not do that on facebook when he's doing it on his own platform to me is a tragic decision by a company that's putting its profit above the public interest. >> they have said they believe the threat has passed, which seemed ludicrous. i have a final question to you, congressman schiff. we are actually out of time. i might have to have you guys come back, but i want to ask you quickly because you had been critical earlier of the department of justice's seeming reluctance to take action. given the fact that you now have essentially a trump committee on the, essentially running the house again, through his supporters like greene and mccarthy, do you think that that puts more pressure on should put more pressure on the department of justice to take action because obviously the threat is still live. >> well, i don't think the committee itself is a reason for the justice department to act or not. they have plenty of reason to act based on the pure evidence

of donald trump's complicity in multiple lines to overturn the election. i think multiple violations of federal law. so they should move forward. they pledge to follow the evidence wherever it leads. it has led to donald trump. but they need to be aware this committee is designed to get in their way and they're going to have tom prepared for that. >> indeed. thank you both for being here. up next, three high school students plan to sue ron desantis over his ban of an ap course of african american history. one of those students joins me next. history. one of those students joins me next ♪♪ over the last 100 years, lincoln's witnessed a good bit of history. even made some themselves. makes you wonder... what will they do for an encore?

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today, civil rights attorney, ben crump, gave a stern warning to ron desantis saying he will sue its administration if it continues to block a course on african-american studies from being taught in the state's high schools. during the announcement, crump was joined by the three high school students who would be the lead plaintiffs in the lawsuit. in his latest war against knowledge, desantis has rejected the ap's african-american studies program saying the course quote significantly lacks educational value. but as one of the stupts observed, plenty of other ap courses remain. >> certainly there are other

advanced placement histories such as ap european history, ap u.s. history, and ap world history. all predominantly generated towards white people. by lacking an ap dedicated to the ones this country was built off the backs of is further oppressing a group that has done more for this country than the country has done for them. >> the legal challenge comes as florida education reaches distopian levels. teachers in manatee county are now forced to remove or cover unvetted books from classrooms and libraries to avoid felony charges. the college board which oversees ap classes told our show that it would release a new framework for the ap course on february 1st. which happens to be the first day of black history month. desantis has yet to cancel black history month because it violates his stop woke act because it would make white

children feel bad, which is illegal in florida, nor has he banished february itself entirely from our calendar. at least not yet. joining me now, one of the three high school students who plans to sue florida over its rejection of the course. and thank you both for being here. i want to name all three students who would be in this lawsuit. elijah edwards who is here. elijah, you're a sophomore. talk about this class. and what and why you wanted to take it. or why you would want to take it. >> i want to take the class because i mean, well, first of all, i'm black. that was the first reason that i wanted to take the class. and another reason was recently, i've been more open to learning

about my history and where i came from. and the trial and tribulation of those that came before me. so i want to take the class so i can have a more in depth teaching, about the fact. >> and let me ask you this question, elijah, because you know, florida law says that they are required to teach african-american studies. they're required to teach something about the history of black people in this country. do you feel that you've gotten a thorough education in black history so far in school? >> no. i really feel like i haven't and i feel like what i have learned has been cut short or whitewashed in a sort of way to where they don't give you the full extent of what happened. they only give you part of it. they're trying to like, they're

trying to make it seem better than it actually was. >> and what do you feel when you see that you can still take art history? you can still take japanese language and culture, german language and culture, italian language and culture and spanish language and culture, but you can't take african american history? and you can take european history. >> personally, i feel like it's unfair. unjust. i feel like, i feel like it shows the blatant racism that's displayed by governor ron desantis and some other people in power. i just feel like, honestly, i just feel like it's stupid. >> let me bring you in, state senator jones. thank you for always being available to us. i wanted to hear from this young man because the reality is the people being hurt by this are not just students, but in a world where students his age are

now predominantly of color. in florida, white students are about 38, 39% of the total so what desantis is saying students of color may not learn about their own history and white students have to be protected from black history. they've been clear they want everything cut out of it. anything they don't like politically. they don't like the political stance of angela davis. take her out of the course. what do you make of the college board seeming to kind of cave in saying they're going to come back with a revised curriculum? >> well, joy, it's really unfortunate. but i also want to lift up one fact you made mention of. the fact that elijah and victoria and juliet have all come and made it clear that not only did they want to take this course, they were prepared to take this course. in the next semester. and i also think it's important for us to point out that 60 schools across the country piloted this program. teachers were actually the ones

who made clear on what this program would be outlined as. there were four different different units within the curriculum that mind you, students had already experienced. lastly, it should be noted that this is an advanced level course that students may opt out of and they can opt in or out of to be able to receive the college credit. and the fact that the governor as we know continues to go down this route, we've had this conversation before, to where they are trying to shield students from the truth about history. elijah made it clear. we are already not receiving the right black history, african american studies we should be receiving so why do we continue to go down this route to lie to students and not give them the opportunity to know about our history and what we have contributed to florida and this country. >> so desantis has claimed this course packed a political

agenda. but it seems to me that he's being very open about his political agenda, that he does not, he pointed out things like the course talks about abolishing prisons, intersectionality. it sounds to me like his political agenda is that students will receive a what he thinks of as a conservative education. a conservative, politically conservative education. do you get that sense? >> well, you know, joy, to be honest with you, they can't backtrack what they said. they said what they said. maya aung says it best. when people do what they do, believe it the first time so we believed it the first time when they said african-american studies brought no educational value and now they're trying to do away with it because of queer studies. it's because of the abolishing of prisons. they're trying to say all these other things because they're trying to backtrack because of

the backlash that's coming out. you've showed your hand. you've showed us who you are. there's 22 million people in the state of florida. 22% of those people are black. so our black children like elijah have the potential to continue to learn in a system where they don't see themselves represented in this very system or represented in this state. >> i have to give elijah the last word on this because i do wonder how it felt for you to hear those words that african-american studies has no value. i wonder how that felt to you as a young black man. a black kid. >> honestly, i felt upset. i felt a little angry because i was like, you telling me that people that literally built this country up from the bottom from when we first got here, you mean to tell me that the history of those people aren't, isn't important?

the history of american isn't important? it's not really black history. it's the history of america. i just feel like, honestly he don't know what he's talking about. and that he just -- we got to do something about it. >> well, elijah, i did take ap courses in high school and you are very blessed to be able to fight for african-american studies because when i was in high school, a minute ago, they didn't even have an option for african-american studies. it was only european studies. i took european art history ap classes. there was nothing about us in those classes at all so god bless you for fighting to let kids your age and younger learn the thorough history of black people in this country and the contributions that are important and have value. thank you so much. state senator jones and elijah edwards, new friend of the show. thank you. still ahead, admiral james

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the war has also exposed the sheer weakness of putin's military and equipment. it's so bad he's relying on iran and north korea to resupply his troops and his private mercenaries who are equally weak but no less inhumane. western allies want to build up ukraine's armored vehicle capps tis ahead of what's expected to be an aggressive spring offensive by russian forces. today after months of negotiations, president biden and the german chancellor decided to do just that. >> to liberate their land, they need to be able to counter russia's evolving tactics and strategy on the pat l field in the very near term. today i'm announcing that the united states will be sending 31 abrams tanks to ukraine. that's what this is about. helping ukraine defend and protect ukrainian land. it is not an offensive threat to

russia. >> earlier, chancellor schultz confirmed that germany is sending 14 leopard two tanks to ukraine. he hesitated making the decision for fear it could drag germany closer to conflict with russia. it also clears the way for other european countries to send some of their own german-made leopard tanks. experts believe russia needs roughly 100. president zelenskyy thanked his allies for their pledges and called the decision an important step on the path to victory. joining me now is retired admiral, former nato supreme allied commander. always great to have you, admiral. can you just give us a sense of the importance of this? i'm going to put up on the screen the leopard two tanks that european and nato countries are sending. these are the countries sending them. austria, 56, canada, 82. czech republic. turkey's sending 316.

plus the abrams tanks that are coming from the u.s. we'll put a picture up of what they look like. what's the significance? what can they do to help ukraine in the war? >> before we dive down to the military tactics, the most important aspect here i think joy is the way the alliance is standing together, overcoming some initial disagreements. that's how alliances work. now everybody is moving forward getting tanks into this conflict. that's in and of itself a very important psychological blow to the kremlin because they continue to count somehow on this alliance cracking. i don't think it's going to happen. tactically speaking, the tanks are important for two very reasons. number one, defensively as you alluded to in that excellent read up front, you've got the spring offensive coming with

mobile armor like that, these things can run almost 50 miles an hour. you can search that armor to different points and take apart the russian forces as they attack and then secondly, joy, next phase of this, if you concentrate that armor together, it becomes a force that can crunch across the russian lines. it can drive all the way to the black sea, splitting the russian forces, creating massive logistic headaches for putin. it's a bad day in the kremlin. that's a good thing. >> i just want to make sure i'm clear so let me clarify. these are the tanks that europeans have. they're sending a total of 80, but this is the stock they've got. they're not sending everything. they're sending what they're able to send. the fact that it's kind of staggered, what is the importance of that because it's going to take a while for the u.s. abrams tangs to get there in the fall, but it looks like the european tanks can be there

soon. so are we talking about a situation where ukraine could turn the tide maybe by the time we get to the fall and the u.s. abrams tanks start arriving? >> certainly in the land war. we'll come to the air war in a moment. but in the land war, this is potentially pivotal and it does depend how many tanks get there and when. my own estimate looking at the spire picture and having commanded these forces as supreme allied commander of nato, i was in charge of all those european forces plus the u.s. forces, i think between 100 and 200 main battle tanks will arrive on the fields of ukraine by april. that's plenty of time to be a very significant component. the question you just asked is the right one, joy. will this turn the tide of the entire conflict? i don't think so because there's another war in play. that's the air war where we see putin still controlling the skies by and large and frankly,

i think the next big debate in this war is going to be whether as we have given tanks, perhaps we should consider combat aircraft as well. to help turn the tide in the skies. when we do both those things, i think this war really pivots. >> can i just ask you just as a military man and somebody who knows this world very well, to just comment on the irony? because it does seem like putin was counting on a vicious winter to break europe's spirit and he assumed that the europeans would freeze and beg for oil. instead, his own oil industry is collapsing under sanctions that have actually been quite effective and are just getting tougher and tougher for his country. his best and brightest are fleeing the country and it was kind of a mildish winter and it looks like the legendary russian winter didn't help him out. >> indeed. you know, i'm greek american so i'm aloed to use this expression. for putin, it's a greek tragedy.

that distance boom you hear is his head exploding watching this unfold in front of him and oh, by the way, that's before we add the fact that now sweden and finland, two highly capable turnkey modern militaries, are going to join the alliance probably this spring. so when you put all that together, it's been a bad year for vladimir putin and that's a good thing for nato and the west and for ukraine once they get through this patch. >> admiral, it is not sunday, but you can get an amen on that. bad year for putin is a good year for the world. thank you, admiral. it's been much appreciated. up next, political whiplash as classified documents are found at mike pence's home in indiana. but does all this point to a larger problem of government overclassification? we'll discus when we come back. overclsiasfication we'll discus when we come back

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this week, i called for that. i welcome the decision by attorney general garland to appoint a special counsel. if we have a special counsel reviewing classified materials that were found at mar-a-lago, we need to have a special counsel in this case. >> do you now, mike? just two weeks after former vice president mike pence praised doj

for appointing a special counsel to investigate president biden's classified documents, we learned that pence also had classified material in his home in indiana. in a situation very similar to biden, pence's lawyers conducted a search, found a small number of documents and quickly turned them over to the doj. which gave republican lawmakers and conservative media who were having the time of their lives aheadache. trying to justify their outrage over one and not the other. >> in the case of mike pence, he came forward and proactively reached out and is following the process. in the case of joe biden, he has had classified documents going back to his time in the senate where he started serving before i was born. so this is a long standing national security threat. >> mike pence as you noted, he is a good friend, a good man. he's explained where these came from. that is very different from what joe biden has done. joe biden has given zero

explanation as to how these classified documents got there. >> i mean, pence, seriously, we have this great thing going with joe. >> just ruin it. >> he did. >> come on, man. >> at least they were honest about it at the end there on fox. while both situations don't come even close to what donald trump did, which is withhold more than 300 classified documents, some marked top secret from the national archives for nearly two years despite repeated asks and even issuing a subpoena. there may be another issue at play here that goes beyond just biden and pence and that has where the government's system for handling classified documents is broken. according to the ap, this kind of thing is not new. it has been a problem for decades from presidents to cabinet members to staff across multiple administrations stretching as far back as carter. it turns out former officials from all levels of government discover they're in possession of classified material then turn them over to the authorities at least several times a year.

and the reason why this keeps happening may have to do with the sheer volume of material marked add classified as well as the casual handling of documents by officials and staff members. on top of all that, the hastyness of presidential transitions. joining me now is elizabeth, a national security law expert at the brennan center for justice. and thank you for being here. jimmy carter, i just want to read this. from that same article. former president carter found classified materials at his home in georgia. on at least one occasion and returned them to the national archives. according to the same person who spoke of regular occurrences ofr occurrences of mishandled documents. the president not provide details on the timing of the discovery. but as i understand it, any president, vice president, somebody who is the senior senator on a foreign relations committee, they are right box, they write memoirs, they go and teach high-level college courses. they're using this material and the researchers are using them.

it's not shocking to me that many of them have classified material. is it to you? >> now, it's not shocking. and it's not just former government officials, its current ones as well who are using these documents just in the regular course of business. they may have to work at home, may have family demands, they may have traveled that puts them away from a classified systems and facilities i mean secure systems and facilities that they're supposed to use for classified documents. we're learning that accidental mishandling of classified information, which at least as of now appears to be what happened with president biden and most likely with former vice president pence, is a relatively common occurrence. and that tells us that there is something very wrong with the classification system that is not working the way it is supposed to be. that is really where our focus should be. >> to be classified, as the government classify too much?

>> absolutely. that is a fact, not a theory. former and current government officials have all acknowledged that anywhere from 50 to 90% of classified information could safely be made public, and when you consider that there are roughly 50 million classification decisions made each year, that is just a huge volume of unnecessary secrets. what that does is overload the system. the procedures for protecting classified information are extensive and burdensome, and when you have that much information bound to be some slippage. officials are gonna cut corners or simply make mistakes. >> is there a material difference? i saw the whole email scandal is hillary clinton where he from her home server. she wasn't like retaining actual security information. that is what the fbi and the justice department eventually found. i find, i know it's difficult

for people to see nuance, but it seems to me there is a material difference between that and writing a book, working from home, and hoarding boxes and boxes of top secret material and then when the national archives says, oh no, this stuff is dangerous to have out there, give it back, not giving a back. to the point where they have to actually send the fbi to your house. do you see these things as materially different? >> absolutely. agencies have protocols in place to address this issue, which means classified documents ending up in unclassified systems or locations. those particles all emphasize the importance of moving swiftly to reassert controls over the documents and to secure them. in the case of former vice president pence and president joe biden, their legal teams discovered the documents and the immediately notified the department of justice and turned over all the documents they could find to the national

hark archives. in the case of trump it was the national archives to discover the documents were missing and that began in long saga of trying to arrest these documents from the trump team to the point that, as you pointed out, the department of justice had to issue a subpoena. the trump team actually failed to comply with that subpoena. there was even some evidence that they deliberately concealed documents. so these are not the same, as you said. >> and by the way, what about-ism is not a defense. even our phone with it, it's fun on fox news to do it, but what about-ism isn't a defense. elizabeth goitein thank so. much vice president harris visits florida near the mass shootings as we learn more about the victims in monterey park. back after this. ck after this. when covid hit, we had some challenges like a lot of businesses did. i heard about the payroll tax refund,

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