here's dramatic example, louden county. there's more than 400,000 people in louden county. to the last election before donald trump came on the scene. look at this. 2012, mitt romney was four points behind in louden county. donald trump comes on the scene, now republicans are losing by 25 points. places like louden county, big population centers, suburban areas, metropolitan areas, a lot of white voters with college degrees. that's a group that's dramatically moved away from the republican party. here's the question for tuesday night. can glenn youngkin, the republican, this has been his big goal, can he roll back the clock to something like this? can he undo a lot of damage that was done in places like louden county by donald trump during the trump era? glenn youngkin doesn't necessarily need to win louden county to win tuesday night, but can he get it to ten points or less? that's something we'll obviously be watching on tuesday night. again, that's a story everyone nationally is going to be watching because in 2022, if republicans are going to win back the house, they ne

glenn youngkin, he doesn't need to win louden county next week, i don't think he's going to win loudenn he get it under 15 points? if he can do that in louden county and other places like it, he can win statewide. >> then, kyle, if the key to glenn young kin winning is to not tie himself to donald trump, how is it if youngkin wins, this gets viewed as this is a great win for the republican party and the most powerful person in that party is trump? >> look, the key thing is that trump is not in the white house anymore. does he have the same motivational effect on democrats that he did while he was in the white house? this election is in some ways a good test of it. i also think frankly a gubernatorial race -- everything is nationalized now in american politics. the governor's races are a little less nationalized. you do have a republican governor in states like massachusetts and vermont and maryland. you have democratic governors in states like kansas and kentucky and louisiana. so it may be that, you know, youngkin can distance himself from the national brand more than the federal cand

, louden parents matter. we know that he is really fired up the republican base by warning them if a democrat, terry mcauliffe, gets elected, they're going to take control of their children and what they learn in school. the question is, and this is the critical question, has it started to fire up the democratic base as they see this race tightening. this is a group of women who have been out, they have been texting, going door to door, making phone calls, part of a group called red wine and blue and we have jessica with us who is a teacher. so did it fire you up to hear glenn youngkin? >> yes, it absolutely did. especially in regards to what's going on here in louden county and always have to justify our profession when it's the kids, their well being, who we always have at heart in education. >> and julie, tell me exactly when we hear people are texting, you've sent out hundreds of thousands of texts, why. to who? what are you telling them? >> we are excited for red, wine and blue to be here, 20,000 texts t

republican candidate glenn youngkin is calling for the louden county superintendent and the entire school board to resign after e-mails showed they knew of an alleged sexual assault at a school when it happened. this follows a letter that that they sent the president about fired up presidents at school board meetings. we have the late evidence. >> reporter: youngkin told fox news that a newly uncovered e-mail confirmed they were aware of an assault they crammed not to be. here is -- claimed not to be. here is youngkin this weekend. >> there must be resignations. i don't know how they can go into the next school board meeting we have administrators and a school board that covered it up. >> reporter: the superintendent sent this e-mail to school board members, this afternoon a he female student alleged a male student assaulted her in a rest room. when the father tried to air concerns about transgender student policies, he said the superintendent publicly denied that a bathroom assault ever happened. >> i had never been to a school board meeting. brian: . i didn't know what to expect. i beli

one of the fake crt battle grounds is in louden county, the richest county in virginia where our friendshow time's "the circus" interviewed an activist fighting the inclusion curriculum. >> in louden county this is the wealthiest country in the country. there is not a lot of racism. do you think it's more on the color of their skin or actions? how they're dressed, how they perceive, how they respect others. if you have a kid that is pulled over by a cop, does it really matter what color they are or the respect they give to that police officer? >> so glenn youngkin is your guy. >> he doesn't want to push this racism narrative. he wants to give kids a good education. >> education has become the flash point across the country. >> you know why? >> you got to tell me. >> you don't mess with our kids. >> joining me now, is terry mcauliffe, democratic candidate for governor of virginia. sorry, i just want to let you -- >> hard to watch. >> it's a lot. this game is being played across the country where republican activists backed by some pretty big foundations are pushing this idea that teachin

here is louden county outside of washington, d.c. this is a big suburban area. joe biden won it by 25 points last year. take a look at the trends in loudan county. in 2016, hillary clinton won it in 2017. less than a decade ago, loudoun counties was a swing county. what glenn youngkin and the republicans are trying to do, they don't think they're going to win loudoun county. they're trying to come closer than donald trump did. if they can do that, if they can peel back some of those gain that's democrats made in places like loudoun county in northern virginia, then they have a shot at pulling off the outright victory a week from now in virginia breaking it down like steve can. steve, thanks. >>> a woman in strir beach just sold $31.8 million worth of counterfeit coupons to shoppers and used that money to finance her own home renovations and vacations. fbi investigators said when they served lori ann talon a search warrant, they found fake coupons in every crevice of the house. she knew how to manipulate bar code toes make these coupons work using different techn

this is a father from louden county, virginia. here he is at a school board meeting. he was forcibly restrained, assaulted, arrested. why? because he went to an elected school board meeting. he's a voter, by the way. he went to an elected school board meeting to raise the fact his daughter was assaulted, sexually assaulted in a girls restroom by a boy. this is what happened to him. you testified last week before the house you didn't know anything about that case. i find that extraordinary because the letter you put so much weight on, the letter that's now been restracted, it cites this case directly. there's a news article cited in the letter. it's discussed in the letter. you testified you just couldn't remember it. do you think people like -- parents who show up to complain about their children being assaulted ought to be treated like this man? >> parents who show up to complain about school boards are protected by the first amendment. >> do you think they ought to be prosecuted in a different way that your u.s. attorneys are identifying? >> if what they're doing is

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louden county board members have faced death threats. prince william meetings have broken down with people screaming. there's been violence across the country. here's another one. a california teacher is hospitalized after he's allegedly attacked by a parent over face masks on the first day of school. here's one, an angry parent allegedly ripped off a teacher's mask. it's not the only physical altercation over masks in schools. i'm limited by time here. but there are cases like this all across the country. now, i would like to ask you this question, mr. garland. because you have been vilified, you have been castigated by members of this committee for your responsiveness to the national school boards association that is members of school boards across the country who are reporting this dramatic uptick in violence against school board members, education administrators, other parents who have the temerity to go to a school board meeting wearing a mask. did you tell the school board association to reach out to you? did you coach them to reac

in virginia thats was policy 8040, in louden county public schools that took place over transgender bathroomsacilities and pronouns. republicans were he responding to the issue of books. they were he responding to them and that was an issue that the left was trying to change. republicans are responding to it. they're leaning into it, that's true. howie: do you think the media on the right, some of them, promote the culture war battles and don't liberal media outlets pup. back pretty -- punch back pretty hard? >> they do. i think the thing about the culture wars, we say they're background noise but they create feelings among americans, feeling like culture is changing for some people, others wanting it to change. it has a lot of impact on americans day to he day in their lives, it becomes policy. culture eventually becomes policy. i think to ignore the culture war, the resistance to change is to ignore what would actually become policy and what is already becoming policy. so as journalists we do have to continue to cover it. howie: i think that's a great point that we shouldn't just be dismiss

you're going to see mcauliffe in leesburg in louden county, a crucial county for turnout in this race, and it's one of these truly swing counties that have been trending blue. the question is, can republicans get it back? public education is one of these issues separate from covid, separate from biden, separate from infrastructure, separate from the economy, public education is an issue that glenn youngkin has really been able to take advantage of and the polling, again, shows with those independent voters, they are embracing his conversations around education. >> so is that what it's coming down to? i just want to come off of your comments about, you know, how he's gaining -- youngkin is gaining with the independent voters. we know that virginia has been viewed as a purple state for a long time, and it's become increasingly, blue, right, with biden who won the state by more than ten points in the last general election. talk to us about how youngkin turned this into a -- such a close race? >> education is one of these issues, and it's a sort of combination of events. we all know natio

i just -- i don't know -- louden county is one of the fastest-growing counties in the country. it's also one of the most quickly diversifying because it used to be all white and now it has a huge influx of many minorities, hispanic, and many others. school districts have to deal with them. to insert into all this that the teachers are somehow teaching people to dislike america or dislike white people, people ought to find out what the curriculum is. but the way they're acting in these school board meetings is frankly embarrassing. >> in many cases, when you ask them what critical race theory is, they can't even tell you. >> it's a single thing, a post-grad school course offered in the late '70s. >> and they have no knowledge, but it's being used in virginia. thank you both. >>> coming up next, last summer's peaceful racial justice marches were occasionally marred by violence. the culprits have been exposed, and that's exactly who black lives matter leaders warned about. but my colleague richard lui with today's top news stories. richard? >> good saturday to you. stories we're w

transparent which we have seen in lots of school districts around the country, but i would say how den loudenance to being transparent and hearing the concerns of parents, that's a red flag. when calls for transparency around a curriculum and diversity of thought, when those are resisted parents are right to be concerned and they should keep pushing for answers. eric: in terms of that view, of course, many say that diversity of thought has to do with teaching the history of our country, what's happened in the past. do you think that's being squelched. >> i certainly think it's misguided to generalize about over 13,000 school districts. so anybody who makes a claim that parents are saying that they do not want their children to learn about history, which by the way should be the totality of our history, warts and all, there shouldn't be one narrative that is, you know, seems to be guided by this principle of 1078 idealized version of patriotism, and there shouldn't be another narrative that seems to point out this idea of the united states as an irredeemable eraseist nation. we feed to talk ab

be that there is a new school choice rev lyings that is happening, a school board member today in louden involvement. and so again, just generally, you can apply the standard of did we see this coming a year ago? we did. and because everybody listened ton anthony fauci, this is a consequence that was warned about. >> a lot of other countries have handled it differently, the masking, children in and out of school but what we found out here the kids who were already trailing behind are the ones that slipped even further because of this. >> brian: right there has to be a creative way to attack the inner city schools because money is pouring in but not used in an effective way. my son went to private school my two daughters went to public school, one thing that was consistent, ton of homework. i thought there was much more homework. they work, and everybody i talk to, i can't believe how much homework these kids had. i don't think they had it easy, and i don't -- i got to see where these targeted scores are and why they're not producing results, but i think you have -- there's a mature sayin

louden county, this is huge. this is fast growing. joe biden beat donald trump by 25 points here last year. look at the trajectory. pre-trump this was a battleground. mitt romney lost this county by less than five points, along comes donald trump and the floor falls out for republicans. glenn youngkin and the republicans in virginia believe specifically with education, the attention they've drawn to local education, to school boards to curriculum battles, they think they have found a way not to win a place like loudon county, but not to lose it by 25, not to lose it by 17. they think they could lose it by 10, 12 points. if they can do that in loudoun county, around richmond, they could win statewide. and if they could do that and win statewide here, they have created a model for republicans in the suburbs everywhere 2022. >> steve kornacki, msnbc political correspondent not only telling us what we are looking at, but what we should keep looking at over the course of the next week in order to see how this goes. steve, i know we will be

the epicenter of the ed saying battle is louden county. you see it with the school board fights. under trump, run up the margins in southwest virginia which went heavily for trump and hold on for dear life and that's the type of play that look to be on the verge of working. >> siris, your team has incoming college students optimistic about their futures but only 48 pr optimistic about the country, the united states. these are young people that have had to deal with anxiety and depression impacted by the pandemic during their final high school year. talk to me about that. >> exactly. so optimism in big supply. i think that leaves us at a cross-roads, i'm loathed to say, because we're all at a crossroads. 92% of young people saying they're optimistic or super optimistic about their personal and professional lives. that's staggering considering what's going on with all the chaos swirling outside of their lives. this bill, for example, what's going on in congress, is kitchen table stuff, this is bread and butter, whatever metaphor we want to use. child care, pre-k, climate change, el

plus lawns jones is having breakfast with friends an louden county before they pick their next governor say it is not just the pandemic that's crippling the supply chain. steve: what? kelly o'grady from our sister network fox business joins us live as perfect storm of problems hit the global shipping market. kelly, i think you're out on the west coast this morning. >> i am. i got the whole gang here. this is great. well listen, even as the ports of los angeles and long beach are now operating 24/7, this supply crunch isn't going away they account for 40.of the sheping con ands that are cool into u.s. as of last night 108 were waiting off the coast ready to unload. now the covid shut down and scwents back log created a subsequent perfect storm as you said. and experts, though, predicted this crisis going back to 2015 now consumer habits changed with rise of e-commerce but we expect to get purchases immediately right. pandemic accelerated that but authorities see the need for supply chain to change permanently. >> we needed to have amazon state of mind what does that mean? amazon changed

louden county school superintendent scott ziegler said they failed to provide a safe environment. parents have protested the school board meetings and called for his resignation >> the biden administration will ask to block that prohibits abortions once a heartbeat is detected. last week the score allowed the law to take effect without ruling on whether it is constitutional >> president biden is preparing to reverse his decision cancelling a key trump era policy dealing with the border, but he is not doing it willingly. we go to south texas with details. >> the trump administration implemented it, the biden white house cancelled it and a court says the united states now needs to revive it. so reluctantly the biden administration says it will resume the controversial remain in mexico migration policy and will likely be prepared to do so by mid november. >> it is not in the best interest of individuals who are seeking humanitarian relief under united states law. >> remain in mexico, or its official name migrant protection protocols or mpp requires migrants claiming asylum in the uni

. >> now, one example they gave of a threatening parent scott smith arrested at a louden meeting thismer. he was pleading for answers after his daughter reported being assaulted in a bathroom by a male wearing a skirt. the board dismissed his claims. >> instead of investigating parents, the department of justice should be investigating those who covered up a heinous crime in our school. >> and glen youngkin has called for an investigation into the school's response. in an apology note, they say we deeply value not only the school boards, but the parents who should and must continue to be heard. and a close source to garland says he's pleased with the revised letter as he's focused on preventing violence not on calling parents domestic terrorists. >> thank you so much. appreciate it. >> molly, sky high gas prices are just one sign of inflation pressures. add in the supply chain crisis and pressure is mounting for president biden to address these growing economic problems. the white house remains focused on the spending bills. we have fox news coverage, david lee miller is in northvale,

. >> one example was scott smith who was arrested at a louden, virginia school board hearing, after his skirt. the board dismissed the claims. >> instead of investigating parents, the department of justice should be investigating those who covered up a heinous crime in our schools. >> it's getting a lot of traction there and the nsba says we deeply value the work of local school boards that make important contributions in the communities, but also the voices of parents who should and must be continued to be heard. and a source close to attorney general garland says he is pleased with the revised letter, as he is focused on preventing violence not labeling parents domestic terrorists. david: and merrick garland insisting it won't be used-- >> i can't imagine any circumstance in which the patriot act would be used in the circumstances of parents complaining about their children, nor can i imagine the circumstance where they would be labeled as domestic terrorism. >> well, my next guest might not believe the attorney general in that. darla is the president of the children's scholarship fun

she's an advocate, she runs the louden county republican women's club. she's a big voice on this.'s against, it's all somewhat incoherent and decidedly racist, right? on its face, critical race theory is an academic sort of line of thought that's taught largely -- and is not taught in the virginia school system. what these parents, what these advocates, strategists and what the youngkin campaign is seizing on is the notion that a more equitable and inclusive curriculum is being talked about as something teachers might want to do in the virginia public school system in a response to current events and sort of the tide of history. should we be more inclusive? yes. should we be more equitable? perhaps, yes. should we -- zer zern not only to the wlens of white history? decidedly yes. all of these things are signifiers that america is changing, education is changing and that's where you have people like her and youngkin saying don't change america, the way our children are taught, don't change the lessons we are learn being race or racism, don't change the landscape of american politic

you see some debates cropping up in louden count yip, fairfax and those suburbs south of d.c.ny, but change those marvins a bit and maybe get a victory for virginia. >> stay on it, we will keep watching it. thank you so much for spending some time with us today. a quick break for us. we'll be right back. >>> who knew it could be this easy? your new pharmacy is amazon pharmacy. ♪ ♪ there are beautiful ideas that remain in the dark. but with our new multi-cloud experience, you have the flexibility you need to unveil them to the world. ♪ . >> our thanks to you for letting us into your homes, we're so grateful. "the beat" with ari starts right now. >> i am ari melber. president biding is pushing his party to make a deal while republicans are trying to block the president in ap effort i'm about to show you, this is important, an effort that goes beyond typical opposition politics. it turns more on trying to cast joe biden as some kind of illegitimate leader while the gop advocates for donald trump's return. make the the republican arm nrcc not trying to hide an assume fail the i to

that is an issue with what's going on in louden county and particularly in fairfax county, which the thomas jefferson high school, just as a microcosm of the overall movement. this is not about white parents, it's about asian american parents, parents of color, who are very upset about the kind of watering down of admission standards and just a crackdown on school of choice and mcauliffe when he was governor, he vetoed three school choice bills and then adding insult to injury, monica, there's a quote from terry mcauliffe at the debate between youngkin and him, i don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach. that might be the nail in the mcauliffe coffin, figuratively speaking. monica: yeah, i mean, absolutely, dagen and that comment actually had terry mcauliffe canceling himself in this race. education is one of the driving topics in this campaign, as well as the economy and covid and covid restrictions. but education is really driving a lot of people in this race. and james is right that bringing in the democratic heavy-hitters like obama and biden and mrs.

with parents last week and this is kind of ground zero in northern virginia, places like fairfax and loudenhat their children are being taught or what they're not being taught quite frankly, watered down admission standards to thomas jefferson high school in fairfax county. merrick garland directed federal authorities to address what they call call a disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation against teachers and school board members. they say it doesn't reflect the reality of what we've seen in school boards across the country in recent months. the national school board association in its letter referred to parents as domestic terrorists so this adds to the frustration of parents who now feel like that merrick garland is abusing his power and using the full force of the justice department to intimidate them and shut them up despite their constitutionally guaranteed right to speech. >> i think, dagen, first of all, a lot of conservatives were upset with mitch mcconnell last week for caving to the democrats on the debt ceiling but we might want to go back and owe him a debt of gratitude th

designed to deceive people as to what's really happening in virginia public schools and specifically loudenanic, this is not scripted. these are people standing up, democrats and republicans, for what's happening in their schools. and one quick thing with her ific garland. i was -- merrick garland. i was surprised when the board of schools said we were wrong. and we didn't even check with the board, just two of us wrote it. by the way, viola garcia ends up joining the biden administration. merrick garland, if he start, open -- if he is smart, open up and say upon the new revelations that happened this weekend, i think it was a headache to mobilize -- mistake. steve: then it would seem like the doj had been politicize ised a week ago or two weekes ago when they said it initially. he's not going to come anywhere close to any sort of apology. brian: in response to a letter which they say was wrong, so so he could honestly say, listen, in light of this new information, i would like to apologize. senator josh hawley's coming after him and everybody else on the judiciary committee because he is s

louden county board members have faced death threats. prince william meetings have broken down with people screaming. there's been violence across the country. here's another one. a california teacher is hospitalized after he's allegedly attacked by a parent over face masks on the first day of school. here's one, an angry parent allegedly ripped off a teacher's mask. it's not the only physical altercation over masks in schools. i'm limited by time here. but there are cases like this all across the country. now, i would like to ask you this question, mr. garland. because you have been vilified, you have been castigated by members of this committee for your responsiveness to the national school boards association that is members of school boards across the country who are reporting this dramatic uptick in violence against school board members, education administrators, other parents who have the temerity to go to a school board meeting wearing a mask. did you tell the school board association to reach out to you? did you coach them to reac

nothing like being at nascar in mid-july in louden, new hampshire, our biggest single event of the year, and realizing that our stands were partly empty because the canadians who usually visit and enjoy the magic mile couldn't come even though they had a high vaccination rate and the public health threat was not explained at all, and especially in light of the fact that we were allowing canadians to fly in, just not drive in. so i'll look forward to getting more detailed response from the administration. now, i want to turn to both secretary mayorkas and director wray. about the issue of al qaeda. some assessments indicate that al qaeda could reconstitute itself and be capable of threatening the u.s. homeland in the next one to two years. so what are the fbi and dhs each doing to detect, investigate, and disrupt possible al qaeda attacks on the homeland amid assessments of their resurgence? we'll start with you, director wray. >> well, i appreciate the question. certainly, as we get to the 20th anniversary here now, it's worth remembering that al qaeda has not stopped trying to hit us.