joining us now, doctor matt brown with nih fellows united, a union that represents early career researchers sir. >> thank you so much. >> it's a pleasure to be here. >> doctor brown, as in doctor brown with a phd in neuroscience from the johns hopkins university. >> school. >> of medicine. >> can you explain to us a little bit what you. >> do so that we. >> understand more. >> generally what nih does? >> sure. >> i'm a basic. >> science researcher. >> at the nih. i'm a postdoctoral fellow. >> that means that i spend. >> my time in the lab. >> doing the basic, fundamental research that we hope. >> sometime, somewhere down the line. >> will lead to increases in therapies and. >> cures for. >> human diseases. >> okay. >> and that is sort of more broadly what nih does. >> what is. >> it mean for nih then if funding is getting cut? >> well, it's. >> going to. >> handicap the united. >> states competitive. >> advantage that. >> we have. >> as being the. >> leaders in biomedical sciences. >> across. >> the world. and so. >> it's not just the intramural program. >> where we do research at. >> the.

congressional reporter for the associated press, matt brown. with chavez-deremer. is rand paul essential to this? i think the answer in the short term is yes when it comes to the committee. but is there any way to get him out of the no column and into the yes column? because it would be notable that of all the controversial nominees, it's chavez-deremer who could have some trouble? >> yeah, we're. >> seeing. >> a bit of a scrambling of the normal. >> partizan lines here, but a lot of. rand paul's colleagues actually were just saying in the hallways yesterday that when. >> he. >> gets something in his head, it's very difficult to get him off of this. but they're hopeful that he's going to be the only. republican who's going to break ranks he and hopeful also that maybe. >> in a closely. >> divided senate. >> you might. >> be able to still get some democratic support for chavez-deremer. >> before you even get out. and i'm sorry, before you even get out of the committee, you or before you even get to the floor, you got to get out of the committee.

matt brown from sonoma county.hank you for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> of course. >> pushed by 30 mile an hour winds, flames swept down along the oakland berkeley hills, destroying everything in its path. >> from the biggest stories in the bay area and beyond to the everyday happenings. dennis richmond was a fixture on the 10:00 news and in our lives for decades. we learned yesterday that dennis richmond died at the age of 81. the immediate shock and grief has given way to outpouring of gratitude and love for a man who was more than a news anchor. he was for sure the head of our newsroom, and many say he felt like part of the family. dennis reflected on his career several years after his retirement back in 2008. >> what do you account for your longevity? how did you survive so long? >> i had a bigger stick than they did. no, i don't know. you know, when i did the news, i did the news. i just did the story. i did the news and moved on. and i was very business like. and i stayed that way. >> dennis richmo

we will have matt brown respond. guest: i think you are referring to the individuals with disabilities in education act which is a federal law which requires public walls serve students with disabilities and it also sends money to schools to pay for the cost of serving them. if you ask states or schools, they will say they don't get enough from the federal government and i think that is a huge question if you were to dismantle the department. what would you do with that law and the money that goes to it that it's written into statutes? i am not aware of president trump or his administration saying that they would target that but it is a very good question. host: jake, a republican. jake. caller: hello and good morning. my question was to bring attention to what i feel the problem in our public school systems is an acronym -- i listened to a long discourse by james lindsay who is speaking about the marxification of education that our children are being taught instead of basic academics. they are being taught how to be

matt haney. you can clap. former san francisco mayor, willie brown. san francisco assessor, joaquin torres. there you go. you really like him. san francisco treasurer, jose cisneros. san francisco sheriff paul miamoto. san francisco supervisor steve, san francisco supervisor tim walter. we are going to have store fronts. the fans will get to experience what we experience every all-star weekend. we are going to have the powell street cable cars, the all-star 2025 branding on them all weekend long as well. golden state storefront right now, this is an example of how nba all-star alley will come to life. starting today. fans can catch the appearance of warriors talent like yours truly. and we are really excited about them. you can take pictures of trophies and dancing. i hope you brought your dancing shoes. it is in collaboration with golden state entertainment. and will be painting an all live mural with the mural project. then a few blocks up union square, there is going to be a basketball court. it's not going to be a fancy basketball court. we are going to have the golden state warrior academy players t

brown v. board of education because segregation i believe is trying to make a comeback. host: matt barnum. guest: on projects 2025 it is true the head of projects 2025, had the goal of limiting the department of education but that was also a trump campaigned on separately from project when he 25. it was not a secret during his campaign that that is what he wanted to do. i cannot comment specifically on the goal and the link to segregation, that certainly isn't something that i have seen. there has been evidence that our schools remain quite segregated and stratified by race and family income. and that has not really gotten better in a few decades. there is little indication the policymakers of either party are interested in tackling that issue. host: deborah in columbia, maryland, independent. caller: i am a schoolteacher and one of the concerns that i had about the department of education being eliminated is the lack of standardization of curriculum throughout the state. so there are some basics that i think all citizens should know with regards to science, mathematics, social studies, es

but please implement this resolution that matt dorsey just to read to you. >> thank you. thank you, ms.. brown for your comments. okay. >> welcome to the next speaker . >> good afternoon. i want to make this real quick perjury, forgery, fraud, identity theft. everything was taken wrongfully from me. i had two pieces i'm still getting attacked, still getting wrongfully arrested outside the the shelter i'm at they're coming inside the shelter. >> nobody's doing nothing. but yet if i hit an officer i go to prison, right? >> so my lawyers come up with a new tactic because my service dog got kicked. >> see, i'm going to get my i'm going to get my justice. the investigation's taking so long when my lawyer is due to the fact of all the officials involved in fact i brought videos to this man's office and he ran behind the wall like a coward. >> yes, sir. so this is what my lawyers are doing investigating each single one of you because when i brought this to your attention, you should have launched off an investigation. in fact, we got two people that cheated on their spouse, so i'm going to ruin your

brown v. board of education because segregation i believe is trying to make a comeback. host: matt barnum.rojects 2025 it is true the head of projects 2025, had the goal of limiting the department of education but that was also a trump campaigned on separately from project when he 25. it was not a secret during his campaign that that is what he wanted to do. i cannot comment specifically on the goal and the link to segregation, that certainly isn't something that i have seen. there has been evidence that our schools remain quite segregated and stratified by race and family income. and that has not really gotten better in a few decades. there is little indication the policymakers of either party are interested in tackling that issue. host: deborah in columbia, maryland, independent. caller: i am a schoolteacher and one of the concerns that i had about the department of education being eliminated is the lack of standardization of curriculum throughout the state. so there are some basics that i think all citizens should know with regards to science, mathematics, social studies, especially in