like permission to introduce in the hearing record a letter from the iowa association of school boards disagreeing with the national school board association request for intervention from federal agencies and law enforcement and other concerns that they have. >> without objection. >> regarding your october 4th school board memo, last week you said the memo was for law enforcement audience, despite it being on your public website as a press release. as a result of your memo, school officials and parents may not speak up out of fear. that's a poisonous, chilling affect. that letter wasn't actually supported by organizations but was sent by two unauthorized staff. you based your memo on this letter, i assume you are going to revoke your extremely divisive memo you said was instigated because of that letter. that's a question. >> the memo, it responds to concerns about violence, threats of violence, other criminal conduct. that's all it's about. all it asks is for federal law enforcement to consult and meet with local law enforcement to assess the circumstances, strategize about what may or may not be necessary to prov

school board association? >> i don't know. >> why did the missouri school board association sever their relationship with the national school board association? why did the pennsylvania school board association sever their relationship with the national school board association? because this was political hackry. the kind of stuff you told us when you were seeking confirmation that you would be against. you had the audacity to begin your opening statement today by telling us one of your big three priorities was make sure communications by the white house and justice department were not politicized. the last three administrations have politicized the department of justice the three including you now. you told us one of your priorities in running doj was to reject the kind of politicization we saw in the trump doj and in the obama doj. you told us that was one of your priorities. you wrote a memo here that came from political staffers who have been rejected by their organization coordinating with the white house to try to exaggerate a threat so that they could make sure that parents felt intimidated. you told us -- i w

and we know that the national school board association wants the white house and the association were happy with the letter. the national school board association sent the letter to the white house and the white house promptly called you and said sick the fbi on parents at school board hearings. and that's what i mean. the white house is the profit here and you're just the vessel, correct? >> sir, i did not speak with anyone from the white house while i worked on this memorandum. the memorandum reflects my views that we need to protect public officials from violence and threats of violence, while at the same time protecting parents' ability to object -- >> i get that. i heard your testimony. were you worried you'd be fired if you didn't issue the memorandum? >> i'm not -- i signed on this memorandum on my own. i said from the very beginning. i've taken this job to protect the department of justice and make independent determinations with respect to prosecution, and i will do that. >> i'm sorry to interrupt but i don't have much time. now, when you got the letter from the white house t

we know that the national school board association was upset because parents were coming to school board meetings to object to the teaching of critical race theory. we know that in the drafting of the letter, the national school board association collaborated with the white house. they worked on it together. and we know that the national school board association and the white house, wednesday were -- the white house promptly called you. and said to sikh the fbi on parents and school boards. and that's what i mean. the white house is the profit here. you are just the vessel. is that correct? >> i did not speak with anyone from the white house. this memorandum reflects my views, needing to protect public officials from violence and threats of violence, while at the same time protecting parents ability to object to -- >> i've heard your testimony. were you worried that you would be fired if you didn't issue the memorandum? >> senator, i'm not -- i decided on this memorandum on my own. i've said from the beginning, i've taken this job to protect the department of justice, to make independent

next we learned that the state school board associations affiliated with the national association had nothing to do with putting together the letter. over 20 of these state organizations have publicly disavowed the national association of school boards letters that brought about this directive. now, think about that. the white house helped write a letter to itself comparing parents who love their kids to domestic terrorists, but the actual members of the national school board association had nothing to do with it. on october 22, the national school boards association actually apologized for its original letter that started that whole mess in the first place and was never even authorized by its own board. meanwhile, 17 state attorneys general have written to attorney general garland saying there has been no spike in violence against local school boards, so the idea that parents pose any sort of federal threat to local school boards is all just simply made up. what looks to be by the white house for political purposes. despite all that, the attorney general says he will not change one t

not part of a coordinated political effort. >> prior to the letter, did you help the national school board association put together the letter? >> not -- i have had no such conversations. i would be surprised if that happened, but i don't know. >> at least 11 states have severed ties with the national school board association which last month apologized for the wording used in their letter to the president. the doj has not rescinded their memo and standard by garland's testimony. >> alexandria hoff live with the latest, thank you so much. griff: joining us now with reaction to the controversy over schools. i want to ask you as once the acting attorney general, what does the timing of this streak you as unusual? >> well, a lot about this strikes me as unusual, griff. it's good to be with you today. knowing how that building works at the department of justice and the way they've turned around that memo within four or five days of the white house receiving the original letter from the national school board association, tells me that doj was at the table and obviously, merrick garland must be surprised to

school boards. national school work association documents obtained by fox news shows they met with white house as early as september 14 and the association was actively engaged in the department of justice as well. the association also takes credit from the october 4 d.o.j. memo after sending a letter to the president five days prior. merrick garland maintained he was not part of any kind of coordinated political effort. here's former acting attorney general. >> those are serious tools law enforcement has an stick that on parents merely voicing their concerns about critical race theory and other things taught at school. they should never have happened but it shows the department of justice was clearly coordinating at the time. >> last month national court association apologized for the warning used in their letter to the president. d.o.j. has not rescinded their memo. eric: thanks. arthel: thank you. president biden will be set to meet with mexico's president at the white house next week another sizable migrant caravan could be heading toward the u.s. concerns are growing over human smuggling at the bo

is doing after a leaked email shows the fbi was tracking protesting parents for the national school board associationrorists and were subsequently targeted in a letter from the attorney general. >> has anyone from the defendant of security met with the national school board association? >> not that i'm familiar with. it doesn't fall within our jurisdiction. >> did you see a copy of the attorney general's memorandum? >> i did not. >> reporter: senator cotton telling fox news secretary mayorkas claimed he wasn't aware his department, the national school board association to target concerned parents. who is in charge of the department of homeland security? congressman jim jordan wants an answer to this question. >> the number one question is what is the number? how many parents have this tag, this terrorism tag, how many have that tag on them? >> republicans demanding answers from the doj as they prepare to introduce a parents bill of rights on capitol hill. democrats are rushing to the congressional budget office ahead of the report on the real price of biden's social spending bill. >> cbo does not hav

carley: the national school board association working with the white house to craft a letter to presidenten the calls from parents domestic terrorists. >> the call for federal investigation into those parents. >> newly released emails show the national school board association communicated extensively with the white house before sending a letter to the biden administration was like him some concerned parents to domestic terrorists. an internal memo last month saying they, quote, have been actively engaged with white house, the permit of justice, department of homeland security and other federal agencies. 5 days after that letter went out, to coordinate federal officials to take on the threats outlined in the letter but after intense blowback they admitted the letter was inflammatory and should not have been sent. attorney general merrick garland said his directive was based on the letter but has no intention of taking it back. >> reporter: the letter that was subsequently sent does not change the concern about violence. it alters the language in the letter that we did not rely on and is n

national school board and the fbi reaction to it. here is senator kennedy and attorney general garland on this memo. >> the national school board associationd the white house promptly called you and said sick the fbi on parents at school board hearings. >> i did not speak with anyone from the white house while i worked on this memorandum. this memorandum reflects my views that we need to protect public officials violence and threats of violence while at the same time protecting parents' ability to object to. >> i get that i have heard your testimony. >> i decided on this memorandum on my own. >> bret: as more time goes on, kimberley, we are getting more and more bits of information that not only the school board association but the white house and the doj, some interaction there in email exchanges and other things. >> yeah. well, it sounds as though, too the white house is acknowledging that it did give a heads up to the doj even though it didn't tell them what to do. i mean, you can take that for what you will. usually when you get a call from the white house people's ears perk up and they feel they need to move. there is a lot more to co

national school board association documents obtained by fox news show that the group met with the white4. discussing concern over the current climate of school board members. the association was engaged with the department of justice and the document they also took credit for the october 4 d.o.j. memo after sending a letter to the president five days prior with some parents to domestic terrorist. >> the national school board association put together a letter. >> i have had no such conversations. i would be surprised to think of that happened but i don't know. >> we know someone was in the d.o.j. in the loop after being contacted by the white house. here is former acting attorney matt whitaker earlier today. >> those are serious tools that law enforcement had and to put that on parents that are merely voicing their concerns about critical race theory and other things being taught in school they should never have happened but the speed with which you happen should the department of justice was clearly coordinating. >> the school board association apologized for the wording used in their l

the national school board association sent a letter to the white house and the white house staffing weproblem with the parents and the justice department and fbi to go after them here they toss it over to doj and doj with the task force and it becomes public and then they withdraw the letter. the fbi continues with the task force. so merrick garland goes on capitol hill and claims it's not happening. the fact they have not withdrawn the task force proves this is all about squashing defense. because the left have had a lock on education for decades. the parents now are a threat to that power. and they are using the fbi, this administration, to take care of what they perceive as a problem. if you don't think the teachers unions and these leftist organizations like the national school board association has control and power go back to when the cdc was writing school guidance for masking and covid regulations, right? so they don't exactly have them influence with the justice department with the parent showing up at a school board meeting. >> greg: dana is merrick garland lying or cluelessn

up at school board meetings is frightening and, of course, merrick garland testified the day after that memo went out no, nothing of the sort is going on. >> the national school boards association asked the feds in september to probe whether threats against school board members were the equivalent of a domestic terrorist threat. in particular, they cited opposition to mask requirements and the teaching of critical race theory. garland told the fbi to probe the threats but the school boards association later apologized. the top republican on the judiciary committee jim jordan of ohio wrote to garland about the whistleblower. he says that the email provides evidence that the feds, again, used counter-terrorism tools against parents. bret? >> bret: we will follow this story. chad, thank you. later in the show, we will take a look at how all of this is becoming a major midterm issue as parents grow increasingly concerned over children's education, expressing that concern in washington today. now to news overseas, concerns are growing tonight about a possible russian invasion of ukraine. again. russian troops are massing along the border with ukraine. and ukraine is taking steps ton

he president of the national school board association says in the e-mails that she had been in contacte white house. so they were -- she was talking directly to people on his staff. i'm sure she didn't speak to garland himself. most people don't get to call the attorney general and have him pick up the phone but she was talking to the people that set the policy for sure. we already know that the nsba, which is disavowed the letter and apologized and garland hasn't apologized, they were coordinated with giving edits telling them to add the list of different incidents, none of which garland -- the list of incidents inspired him to write the memo he says. none is a federal crime. he also said during the testimony that i didn't mention domestic terrorism or the patriot act in my letter. when they released the letter, there was an accompanying statement that said he wanted to form a task force that involved the national security division of the justice department. that was created by the patriot act. that's untrue. garland is trying to distance himself from this but this is a mess of their

was politically motivated, but a newly released memo obtained by fox news led by the national school board associationhe group meeting with white house staff as early as september 14th discussing "concern over the current climate for school board members" adding "in sp eight actively engage with the white house white house, department of justice, department of homeland security." that was written around the time folks around the country expressing concerns at public school meetings over masks and vaccine policies. in response to the letter sent by an sba october 4, 2021's of the organization of the attorney general was ordering all u.s. attorney offices and local fbi offices to reach out to local and state law and officials to coordinate efforts on the problem. under oath general garland denied knowledge of any coordination, but the new revelations have some lawmakers seeing red. the biden administration coordinated with national school board activists to go after parents with arkansas senator tom cotton. i said it before, merrick garland should resign in disgrace. the white house for its part called

the national school board association, as threats. a feedback loop that the left is happy to use to attempt to intimidate political opponents. they know -- i call it the 1619 effect. the covid 1619 effect. it was under covid that the idea of critical race theory and 1619 project was exposed to parents. they stood up to defend their children. the government, this is what it does when it doesn't like this response and lies at every level. it takes jim jordan and the leaked memo of emails to get the truth. the f.b.i. doesn't need to announce these things. i have a whistleblower inside the f.b.i. now willing to reach out to me as pertains to what happened january 6. a new case classification. 266y that uses ambiguous language, empowers the f.b.i. to investigate people who would have been around that. just like they are able to create new classifications at parents at school boards. an unleashed f.b.i. based on a politically-directed department of justice and it's a scary thing. >> harris: i use a different word for it. i call it collusion

shocked, have to say when i read the letter that merrick garland wrote responding to the national school board associationter and that letter from the national school board association asked the government to classify parents like me as domestic terrorists and merrick garland responded very quickly to that letter and said that he would take action, he would create a federal task force and he doubled down on the letter that he wrote when he was testifying before congress. that doubling down and that enthusiasm for prosecuting parents could not stand in any stronger opposition to the silence we are hearing now when as you correctly point out activists who were writing last summer in new york city are now telling our new mayor elect that if he implements the policies that he campaigned on to get the rising violence in new york city in check, that if he implements those policies, there will be fire, riots, and bloodshed. >> tucker: it's almost like some people in authority treat them like their own personal militia that they don't restrain, doing the bidding of a political party, it seems that way. >> what we

school board events. particularly in virginia. in september, the national school board association release ad public letter to president biden requesting federal assistance to address alleged violence targeting children, school board members and educators. the letter references increased threats of violence due to frustration over mask mandates and teaching of critical race theory and requests the federal government investigate, intercept and prevent the current threats and acts of violence against public school officials through existing statutes, executive authority interagency and intergovernmental task force asks other extraordinary measures. the letter went on to say the classification of these heinous actions could be equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and it requested the administration review all applicable laws and policies including the patriot act to relevant enforcement actions due to the threat. we know the school board coordinated this letter with the white house prior to this release. five days after the release of the school board association letter, the attorney general released a memo directing the fbi to meet

department of justice against concerned parents showing up at school board meetings, the basis was the letter from the national school boar associationpared the parent to domestic terrorists. less than 24 hours the national school board association receiving all the public outcry after the hearing, retracted the letter and apologized for it. still today as you and i are speaking, liz, the attorney general has not withdrawn his memo, he based it on wild allegations by the school board association no longer exist. they retracted it. he won't take that step. what we've done we sent letters to all thes u.s. attorneys. 94 judicial districts in all 50 states what if anything they have done to advance this memo, the unprecedented directive by the attorney general. we're awaiting those results. it will be interesting to see. elizabeth: it is so shocking and disturbing one letter can trigger the fbi, the national security division, the threat assessment center, the secret service to go after parents, one letter, with no evidence. the ag testified they didn't have any evidence. >> right. elizabeth: he still isn't presenting you guys with evide

todd: republicans calling on the national school board association to explain how they worked with the white house on a letter that labeled concerned parents terrorists. >> reporter: demand from house republicans to top officials comes as evidence the national school board association colluded with the biden white house and justice department, labeling parents as domestic terrorists. representative jim jordan's letter to the nsba saying, quote, parents cannot tolerate the collusion for justification for provoking federal law enforcement. we request that you make yourself available for an interview with the committee as soon as possible. jordan said merrick garland used the letter as an excuse to violate constitutional rights and it's time for people to be held accountable. listen. >> he said he's going to set up a snitch line on parents and is going to investigate moms and dads who are showing up at school board meetings. we hope the individuals come in for a transcribed interview. if they don't, we're going to call for subpoenas. >> reporter: scottsdale, arizona police are launching a

neil: there are new memos that show greater coordination between the white house and national school board associatione past. more details are coming too late. >> reporter: white house official confirmed to fox news they did contact the department of justice to discuss schoolboard interactions but they only talked policy, not curriculum and the doj took enforcement action on their own. the action the biden administration is distancing itself from is a memo released by merrick garland announcing fbi involvement in schoolboard disputes. garland denied the memo was politically coordinator all motivated but the national school but association releasing documents, we obtained them, the group met with the white house early september 14th discussing concern over the current climate for school board members and they have been actively engaged with apartment of justice and the department of homeland security. in the document they took credit for the october 4th doj memo after sending a memo 5 days prior. here is moms for liberty cochair keisha king on "fox and friends" friday. >> we never would have thought th

that's a reference to the national school boards association which suggested parent protests could be a form of domestic terrorism. the fbi doubled down on the terminology comparing school protests to serious offenses. quote: a tag is merely a statistical tool to track information for review and reporting. the creation of a threat tag in no way changes the longstanding requirements for opening an investigation. nor does it represent a shift in how the fbi prioritizes threats. the fbi has used tags to track everything from drug trafficking to human trafficking. fox has reviewed the whistleblower's letter. it appears to be consistent with concerns raised by jordan with the attorney general. however, judiciary committee republicans are not publicly releasing the letter. now there are calls for garland to return to capitol hill for more questioning. >> he was sitting there saying oh we wouldn't charge parents. and then we obtained the memo from a justice department prosecutor that said here are 13 possible crimes. >> house republicans note the national school boards association has apolog

digesting the election results in virginia and the school board on rest, what happens to the relevance of this organization? the national school board associationir own problem, they issued and abject policy disavowing language in their and amending it was too extreme, never should have been in there in the first place. i believe the two people who signed the letter sent to it without even consulting their own board. you know, it is interesting, one of the things that it's gotten so little attention is that one of the cosigners of that letter by all of garcia, disappointed by the biden administration into an advisory board with the education department. and i think that to the national assessment the student progress, so i don't think there's a problem here. >> how much longer does merrick garland stand behind the memo to investigate parents who have been asked to disavow the letter but has not done that? >> he will stand by it forever because he can't afford to admit what he did when everyone cuc did and i think anybody watching this show just thank god for mitch mcconnell. kept the guy who is that willing to do this when he knew better off of

they've had essays on it, the national association -- and it brings to light the fact that you have this education lobby that includes the national school boardricula toward these radical policies that parents don't want. >> it's true. and how tone deaf is it when we know all of in that governor -- or trying to be governor mcauliffe, he actually had randi weingarten be one of his last speakers on the campaign trail. i mean, it's so tone deaf that to the republicans can't learn from this -- and this shouldn't even be a partisan issue. when you have that number of voters and overwhelmingly voters who said education was the number one issue, i think 71% of them voted for youngkin, so they're not all republicans. there's independents and a lot of democrats probably crossed over to do that because they saw what's happening, and they want a change. david ceafd we should mention, we only have about 20 seconds, but poor people tend to benefit from school choice more than the rich or the middle class who can afford to send their a kids to parochial or private schools. it's the poor folks, if you give them the choice to use their tax money concern. >>

it appears he did it at the behest of the national school board association and the teachers union.is ducking it up. what is happening the biden administration is using federal law enforcement for political reasons and not for legal reasons. elizabeth: so they used the national security division meant to go after jihadists, to go after parents. ag garland testified he could not cite a single example of a threat of violence beyond news reports. he testified most of the quote, incidents leading to that nsba letter targeting parent not to involve threats of violence. he testified there was no evidence of widespread violent threats. what was he thinking? why did he fall, hook, line and sinker for a letter nsba then apologized for when his own son-in-law runs panorama, a consultancy selling toxic school agendas to school boards making millions off of that on things like crt? that is what the critics say, what do you say to all of that? >> attorney general merrick garland wasn't thinking. he was following orders from the biden white house who was taking their orders from the national scho

been informed there was a meeting with the white house staff that morning and that the national school board associationmailed notice to the state association executive directors that indicated a letter requesting federal assistance be sent. that's a mouthful, all it really says is they were all in ca kansas ca kahootz. >> now we have documentary proof, steve. this was a setup. the biden white house meets with the national school board association and says send us a letter of outrage accusing parents of being domestic terrorists and we'll order, or assign merit garland to sick the fbi on parents who dare to complain about things like critical race theory and mask mandates. this is garland, who is acting in a lawless way, has no federal authority over this , this is a state matter, and he is weaponizing the vast powers of the department of justice and the fbi to suppress [indiscernible] dissent to tell parents to shut up or else. it is unconscionable but it doesn't surprise me that merit garland capitulated. brian: all right, greg thanks so much it's unbelievable the white house works with the school boa

school boards about what their children are being taught. it's outrageous. it's the national teachers union, the national school boards association influence in the white showps because jill biden is one of their members. the biden administration should show some integrity. jesse: now the predawn raids, going after both trump lawyers in raids, and now a journalists going after a missing tome. >> predawn raids which was u.s. attorney were used to make sure that people who were dangerous and we knew were armed would not use those weapons against anyone in their home, themselves or anyone in law enforcement. it doesn't sounds like any of those cases fit into that category. this is the difference of having an attorney general with integrity like the one i worked under, john ashcroft. and having an attorney general who is allowing the inmates to runt asylum. jesse: tell me about the book. republican rescue. tell me everything we need to know before we hit purchase on amazon. >> here is what you need to know. the last time we lost the house, the senate and the white house within two years, the only other time it happened was 1930-1932

rachel: domestic terrorists: pete: memo came out saw in cahoots with the national school board associationrtment of justice and merrick garland relied upon almost exclusively what the national school board association was telling them. the doj issued this memo. memo saying, you know, be on the lookout for parents. they are the dangerous ones in this equation. the white house, the new aspect of this is that the white house is now attempting to distance itself, attempting from any of this saying here's a white house statement and a response to the fox news channel about that memorandum from the doj. this has nothing to do with curriculum. standard practice across every administration for white house officials to meet with outside stakeholders for listening sessions on a range of issues. spokesperson at the white house also claimed that the white house had no involvement in the issuance of the doj memo saying the doj chose to take this approach on their own. rachel, are they able to create this distance? rachel: no. it's so implausible to believe this. i mean, obviously they -- i mean, how ma

the national education association admitted to it in one of their letters and how to incorporate it. and what i say, actually, throughout my pac... the national school boardsional educational leaders in this country say quite clearly critical race theory... the washington post admitted to it. ..is not being taught in schools. 0k. you clearly didn't prep on what my pac actually has said, and what i've said about critical race theory, and i always sit there and say, more than critical race theory being taught, it is being practised, and that is the difference. and, yes, it is absolutely being practised, which clearly you didn't have in your notes about me. critical race theory... you're making things up. ..according to the successful republican candidate for governor in virginia, is being taught in virginia schools is not true. it has been practised in virginia schools. it's not true. yes, it is. 0k, do children in schools across the country have to do something called privilege walks? do you know the privilege walk is? i know what a privilege walk is, and i know... so, fifth—graders are not... fifth are on videos doing privilege walks. so, you're saying wha

he said that he had received from the national school board association, a call concerning the safety of school board members in response to some of the threat saw that were leveled against school boards around the country by parents. and in response to that, this memo was created that was necessary to step in and protect the safety of school board members. however, we have many republicans, we're stepping up and questioning the priorities of the f, b i and asking if they should really be treating parents who complain about school curriculum and other issues like potential terrorists in an agree just abuse of power with the potential to unfairly track americans activities present biden's, department of justice is using f, b, i criminal and counter terrorism resources to target parents. when multiple us gymnast were sexually assaulted by the team doctor the f. b. i ignored them. when too many concerned parents spoke hard at school board meetings, the f b, i launched its entire con to terrorist division against them, record spike in murder, overdose deaths and illegal immigration. the b

and the attorney general work together with the national school boards association, a very radical organization. and they sent a letter and they said, look, all of these parents complaining at school board meetings, or domestic terrorist. and so merrick girl and sent the f, b i. and in our biggest, most metropolitan county in the state of fairfax county, they actually are flying helicopters overhead to intimidate parents who are simply going to testify it public hearings that went over very badly. it shocked people that they would do this. you had the governor saying that parents had no business interfere and in their children's education and trying to stop the children from receiving pornographic literature and schools. so they, they just, instead of they were tone deaf. they were so insistent that they had on fettered power. and they could just do whatever they wanted and it didn't work to. people just rose up and, and booted them out of office. well happening on a national level politically resonate down to the local vote in virginia. i'm thinking about jo biden's slumping popularity ratings