what does that have to do with parents at school boards? >> this is not about parents at school boards. it's about threats of violence. >> let me turn to that because you've said that phrase repeatedly throughout the morning. threats -- violence and threats of violence. we've heard it a dozen times this morning. as senator lee pointed out, the very first line in your october 4 memorandum refers to harassment and intimidation. why do you continue to tell this committee that you're talking about threats and threats of violence when you're memo says harassment and intimidation? >> i said it involves other types of duct. the statutory definitions of those terms and the constitutional definitions of those terms involve threats solve violence. >> let's look at those statutes. section 223. that statute covers the use of not just telephones by telecommunications devices to annoy someone. so are you going to social the fbi on a parent's group if they post on facebook something -- >> the answer to that is no. the provision that i was particularly draw

unlike threats at the school board level, the justice department actually has a responsibility to protect the decent of parents, if they want to object to what happens at the schools. that is clearly federal. >> john: this is not just about the department of justice or the f.b.i. or attorney general, the letter went directly to the president. here is what the "wall street journal" wrote today. about domestic terrorist parents, the nsba owned up to its mistake, what about the biden administration? should the white house get involved here again apparently and say to the attorney general, the whole tone and tenor has changed, let's back off? >> in a perfect world, that would happen, john. in a perfect world, the white house would say and garland would say why lean on me to issue this in the first place. none of them want to say that, they would be admitting the biden administration was politicizing the justice department. >> it is clear, andy, there are conversations, all this over the top inflammatory language included in the letter to the president and the school board association backed o

memo investigating parents at school board meetings. >> i think your memo was the last straw, the catalyst for a great awaken just getting started. pilots at southwest airlines, chicago police union, parents at school board meetings. americans are pushing back because they value freedom. when the attorney general of the united states sets up a snitch line for parents they'll stand up for the accelerated march to communism we see. america will fight the good fight and finish the course and keep the faith because americans value freedom. >> one of the tools in your arsenal of weapons, of course, is the patriot act that i just mentioned. not many current members of this committee were here when we passed the patriot act. but i was. and mr. chairman, you were, too. i remember clearly that we were both concerned about potential abuse of this new law enforcement tool. i can tell you, not in a million years did we dream that one day we would see the justice department treat american parents as domestic terrorists. >> you said a moment ago you couldn't imagine a parent being labeled a domestic ter

school boards association, that outrageous outrageous letter. as pretext for federal action to chill, deter and discourage persons from exercising their constitutional rights and privileges, according to this. the department of justice, att senior levels of the biden administration, and the organization, including national school board association, colluded to sit up parents and parent organizations and taxpayers, to silence them. on information and belief in our about mid september, work began to developing attorney general memorandum, concerns expressed by depend staff, absence of federal law enforcement nexus and authority. there is none. number two, constitutional protected nature of parent's protest, absolutely it protected, jane doe 2 made it clear this was a house white house house pry. >> on september 29 exciting legal authority -- citing legal authority that include patriot act demanding federal action against parents. >> not clear yesterday to what extent the drafts of this letter were shared with biden administration officials, including jane doe 1 and 2. and changes were suggested or made by them prior to public release date. on my radio show, i said i smelled a rat. this is letter and memorandum from attorn

department of justice, but they have a big problem you've heard domestic terrorism with moms at school boardnk they're going to be spending time going after moms and parents complaining about what they are teaching at school but i don't know if they have time to go after dr. fauci for lying. he should be held accountable because what we have developed as a system of health care in our country where doctors are afraid to speak out because he will cut out the research funding, doctors who have talked about innovative treatment to try to help people survive covid are being lectured and told we will take your license. this is the kind of thing, this top-down centralization of medical authority, it's not good for our country and it's not good for innovation. in a crisis like this abductor will stumble upon something that really works and we may learn from that but not of doctors think they will be fired if you do anything outside the algorithm. >> will: if you want to be investigated and he won't be fired, should dr. anthony fauci resigned? >> without question. it's for lack of judgment. he conti

what does it have to do with parents at school boards? >> it's a not, again, about parents at schoolboards. it's about threats of violence. >> threats, violence and threats of violence. we've heard it a dozen times this morning. the very first line in your october 4th memorandum refers to harassment and intimidation. why do you continue to talk about violence, when your memo talks about harassment and intimidation? >> i said it involves other kinds of criminal conduct and i explained to senator lee that the statutory definitions of the terms and the constitutional definitions of the terms involve threats of violence. >> section 223. that includes annoying, annoying. are you going to post, if they annoy a school board member? >> no. and 2261 a -- >> i wasn't talking about 2261 a. you also mentioned 22 a, that's what i mentioned. and you told senator klobuchar this was about meetings in coordination. i'll have in my hand, a letter from one of your u.s. attorneys to all the accounty attorneys, sheriffs, school board association in which he ta

just having, on the commute case and with the white house and the school boards over that memo, listen to this. >> did you or anyone at the justice department discuss and and i'm sure that the commute kitchen from the national association from school boards was discussed between the white house and the justice department and that's perfectly appropriate. >> did you or anyone at the department of justice can indicate with the american federation of teachers or the national education association or the national school board association prior to your memo? >> i did not. i don't know. >> sandra: did that surprise you jonathan? >> it does, and that with a host of legal experts as destroying the integrity of the justice department. and the beginning of the investigation of the customs officer has declared them guilty and said they had been stopping these individuals trying to come into the country. that's really out of line and it's a direct sort of flap of the justice department independence. in total and nothing but crickets in response to that. the president has made repeated statements about pending investigations most

memo from the justice department at the direction of joe biden, idea to use fbi to intervene at school boardth the purpose of, to be honest, intimidates and harassing parents, i said this is not about violence, we know local police would book and charge that person. that is about use federal law enforcement to try to intimidate parents because theat parents are daring to stand up and criticize critical race theory, i said what are standards your memorandum said that fbi will investigate intimidation and harassment, according to who? what standards, she never answered, she kept saying that everyone is against violence, of course, we are, we're not against the -- they are attacking our basic first amendment to shut down moms and dads, parents, they pay taxes, they have kids in school, they have a right to express their opinion at school boardd meetings. mark: this is same attorney general who refused to call the attacked at the oregon federal courthouse, an act of terrorism, because no one was there. i'mou not aware that violence is so out of control that local police cannot handle it, that is

steps in, how one republican senator is pretending school board harassment and intimidation aren't off the charts. >> does waiting to express one's view at a school board meeting harassment and intimidation? >> the death threat was you're going to get knifed, you [ bleep ]. you're going to get a [ bleep ] dead. >> when "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. the very loud minority of anti-covid vaccine extremists have been making their presence known across the country. they've been showing up at protests and school board meetings and unfortunately also in hospitals. even the blue states have their own contingents. here in new york city for example there have been these anti-covid vax protests. mostly not that well attended but folks are really and truly riled up. in fact, yesterday a group of those anti-vaxxers marched from brooklyn to manhattan, protesting the covid vaccine requirements for school employees. vaccine requirements have been quite effective in getting folks vaccinated we should note. and when they reached union square a few of the marchers just attacked a mobile covid testing site. you

this is exactly what we have seen at a lot of violent antics and threatening at school board meetings is a scene at a minnesota school board meeting this week, where an unmasked man attacked another attendee who spoke out, again, in favor of a mask mandate for children. now, the national school boards association is asking the federal government to step in and help, writing a letter to president biden. quote, america's public schools and education leaders are under an immediate threat. chip slaven is the interim director and ceo of the national school boards association. he co-authored that letter to president biden, and he joins me now. first of all, maybe can you tell us what the experience has been like across the country for the school boards that make up your organization? >> yeah, well, thank you for having me, first of all. we appreciate the opportunity to talk about this letter and why we felt the need to send it. school board members are facing a very critical time as we're trying to reopen school buildings and provide education opportunities for their students in a safe and

. >> ben: speak up at a school board meeting, you are a domestic terrorist.ob to threaten a senator and his wife you are free to go. we will talk to senator rand paul right after this. ♪ ♪ like many people with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis or crohn's disease, i was there. be right back. but my symptoms were keeping me from where i needed to be. so i talked to my doctor and learned humira is the #1 prescribed biologic for people with uc or crohn's disease. and humira helps people achieve remission that can last, so you can experience few or no symptoms. humira can lower your ability to fight infections. serious and sometimes fatal infections, including tuberculosis, and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened, as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. tell your doctor if you've been to areas where certain fungal infections are common and if you've had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have flu-like symptoms or sores. don't start humira if you have an infection. be t

school board meeting a couple of months ago. i listen to it for two hours. i was appalled at the violent nature of the parents who were against the masks and vaccines, how they threaten school board members. and, the school board members cannot say anything to put a stop to it. i was raised, my grandmother, we were raised that if you speak you have to be polite. you express yourself. but you do not do it in a violent manner. we need to protect free speech the way it was intended to be. guest: as i have tried to emphasize throughout, you are right that there is speech that gets out of line that can be dealt with by local police. the vast majority of cases in the u.s. are people speaking normally, politely, and rationally to school boards. to the extent that they are silenced, we will defend that action. to the extent that people acting properly and are not allowed to speak because we view their space as dented information or inciting people to bad things, if we do not let them speak, eventually, it is more likely it will boil over in the kind of behavior you rightly criticized

it is a video about parents at school board meetings. meetings and you guys won't let us play this? >> an objection has been heard that you failed to give the 48 hours required by the rule and therefore -- >> what rule? mr. chairman, what rule? what rule? >> please present the rule. >> in the case of audio visual materials under the leadership of my predecessor chairman goodlatte, the committee developed a written protocol for managing the use of audio video. it requires members to provide 48 hours notice they'll use the materials. until recently this protocol was not controversial. it was a tool we used to manage hearings and make sure videos played properly. the gentleman woman has objected to the materials because the gentleman did not provide the 48 hours notice. playing audio visual materials during a hearing is like -- the normal course of business we do not object to each other's requests but members have the right to object if they choose. objection has been heard. >> did we ever vote on that, mr. chairman? >> that's a clever wri

parents nationwide revolting against the justice department's crackdown on violence directed at school boards as critics say the federal government should be focusing on their threats to the country. >> president biden struggling to get democrats on congress on board with his expensive agenda and some folks in michigan something to be buying either. new timeline for the gabby petito case, certain actions by the fbi are being called very unusual. you are watching "fox and friends first" on wednesday morning. jillian: at the southern border hours from now republican governors will give a news conference. >> border patrol agents break from what could be the largest surge ever of illegal immigrants entering from mexico. >> hard to hear those words but it is true because another caravan is in the works, officials confirm tens of thousands of migrants are heading toward the southern border. the white house told him not to come. >> house the administration preparing for the haitian migrants traveling from central america? and we are going to continue to enforce title 42 at the border but we have a s

in schools, and by the way, who are voters, and they have a right to express their condition at school board opinion at school board meetings. this is unprecedented. i will do everything i can to stop it. >> mark: this is the same attorney general who was testifying his confirmation who refused to call the attacks on the portland federal courthouse acts of domestic terrorism because they happened at night and nobody was there. i'm not aware of a pattern of violence in these various school districts, and they haven't presented any, neither the national school board association or the attorney general in his memo, i'm not aware that violence is so out of control that local police are unable to handle this. that is an absolute flat out lie. are you aware of any federal nexus or federal basis that would allow the united states department of justice and its various instrumentalities to go into school boards to monitor parents, to question parents who dare to become vociferous or provocative? >> none whatsoever, mark. i can't imagine what the basis is for having the fbi get involved here. i will s

what does the national security division have to do with parents at school boards? >> this is not again about parents at school boards, it's about threats of violence. >> again this begs the question, why would the suddenly be a new federal matter? any threats or violence are already prosecutable under state law as well as federal law in some cases so why the need for a deal jake task force? >> how is that the department of justice was able to move so rapidly on a single letter from a special interest group that has now repudiated that letter, said it regret sending the letter and apologizes to its members for sending the letter? >> answer is when we get reports of violence and threats of violence we need to act swiftly. >> you didn't investigate the incidences cited in the letter. did you? >> i took the statement by the national association, when they said they were facing violence and threats of violence and when we saw in the news media reports. >> but you didn't invest the incidents in the letter, did you? >> this is an assessment step and it comes before the inv

school board covered up sexual assault of his daughter by another student. 19 republicans now demand a new ethics globe into attorney general merrick garland. it involves a big bucks family conflict of interest at school boards as he aims federal massive firepower on parents fighting school boards. we have fox news reporting that government documents indicate that the white house released 160,000 migrants into the u.s. since march, despite saying they were deported. they were just given notices to appear. that stuff is usually ignored. when the democrats want more irs power to go after you for their big spending. thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. liz: welcome to the show. you're watching the fox business network. we begin with the president meeting today with big box retailers. they say they will work around the clock 24/7 to unclog the worsening supply chain bottlenecks. they will deploy their ownerships and trucks. the white house is saying it is taking action. it says, you the private sector, you have to step up. you port operators, you labor unions you have to work around the clock. here is the question, will christmas get hit and hit ha

threats. >> over the weekend former president obama weighed in. >> instead of stoking anger, aimed at school boardsators, we should be making it easier for teachers and schools to give our kids the world class education they deserve. >> at tonight's school board meeting already numerous parents have called for the resignation of superintendent ziggler and members of the school board arguing they are serving themselves and not the children of this community. the parents insist they will not be stopped. bret? >> bret: mike emanuel live at loudoun county tonight. thanks. that issue is a big deal in the governor's race in virginia. as we told you at the top of the show, president biden will stump for democrat terry mcauliffe tonight as the virginia governor's race enters its final week. and it is tight. correspondent alexandria hoff is in arlington tonight with the latest. good evening, alexandria. >> good evening, bret. the last time that the president campaigned for mcauliffe was back in july and that gap of time in between points to something interesting. mcauliffe's tactic throughout this race has

the agency plans to monitor what happens at your local school board meeting. really? parents are refusing to be silenced. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". for the past year, we've seen parents take a stand against critical race theory in schools, and mask mandates, and more. and now the justice department wants people to report so-called threats to the f.b.i. not their local authorities, but to the federal bureau of investigation and that is raising big red flags for a lot of people. our own peter doocy pressed white house press secretary jen psaki about a major school board group comparing parents to terrorists. >> so does the administration agree that parents upset about their kids' curriculums could be considered domestic terrorists? >> let me unravel this a little bit because the national school board association is not part of the u.s. government. i would point you to them. what the department of justice said in a letter from the attorney general is that quote threats against public servants are not only illegal, they run counter to our na

. >> bill: we've seen more vying rouse debates at school board meeting but parents are voicing concerns on everything from mask mandates to what is being caught in their child's classroom. education interest groups say things are getting out of hand. the national school boards association says its members are being bullied and it is now actively asking the government for help. a group also representing america's superintendents weighed in saying in its statement we oppose the increasingly aggressive tactics creeping into school board and community meetings. we can't let frustrations and tensions evolve to name calling and intimtation. parents are speaking up because they're concerned what they are seeing in their kids' classroom and looking more likely the issue of being what's taught in schools will be a bigger role in the nation's political debate going into next year's mid-term elections. >> harris: yeah. when you trigger a parent, you have set off a volcano that perhaps you had not expected. we protect our babies at every turn. my next guest is confronting the deputy attorney genera

school boards. when parents have questions about curriculum, about mandates, about material that is in the library, about the safety of children in school, of course they should be at school board. they should be asking questions of the school board members. this is their right and thank goodness parents are concerned they are showing up and they have these questions. i do hope they are holding school board members to account. but for the school board association which of course has apologized for their letter to coordinate with the white house and then to deliver a letter, a memo that is signed by the attorney general of the united states and it is done in a four day turnaround. i brought up to him that there are 45 senators that sent a letter to him in august asking for a status update on the durum investigation and asking for that report to be made public. we still do not have a response but he can turn around this memo and basically calling parents domestic terrorists, it is unprecedented and unbelievable. >> shannon: the memo that came into them was the one that used the words domestic terrorists, it wasn't used in the doj and a lot of people feel like it was

michigan, a father was objected from a school board meeting because he gave the nazi salute and yelled, heil hitler after another apparent spoken favors a. mask at a school board meeting in florida, a protester doused a tree a mask with lighter fluid and set it on fire. those are just some examples. this is been rampant nationwide. and being in that letter the national association of school board, referred to the actions aimed at school boards has equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism. personally, i would've taken a red pen to that. because it's pretty inflammatory language and i don't think accurate. but the justice department responded to the southern with a fairly pro-formal letter themselves, saying, it takes these incidents seriously is committed to using its authority and resources to discourage these threats, identify them when they occur and prosecute them when appropriate. that is a long and short answer. republicans are trying to turn this into a big issue. and again, to be fair there's some real conflict and at least ambiguity here. hear me. out part of having a free country, and i have to agree with ted cruz on this, is allowing

the stage with fists in the air, shouting at us, yelling at me, and some of the school boardry 6th people. the ones who are doing it at school boards. this trump-inspired behavior seems to continue to draw energy from the trump side of our politics. >> right. i mean, we saw with our own eyes, with horror, what happened on january 6th, with people rushing up the steps of the capitol and crashing their way into inside the capitol. and ever since, we've seen the same kind of behavior happening at school board meetings around the country. over a whole host of issues. right now, we're talking about quote-unquote critical race theory, which is not even being taught in schools. and even on vaccines, we've seen this kind of craziness happening at school board meetings. these meetings are not about achievement or how to educate children. it's about grown men and women venting their spleens at people in their community who are there for the proper purpose of ensuring that the children of their community, the students of their communities, get the proper education. the people disrupting

reality check. >> someone ought to tell senator ted cruz that when you're defending nazi salutes at school boardf the examples, my god, a parent did a nazi salute at a school board because he thought the policies were oppressive! general garland, is doing a nazi salute, is that protected by the first amendment? >> yes, it is. >> the issue here isn't the first amendment. the issue is the galloping insanity affecting our lives, by right wing members of congress during america's deadliest pandemic. this drumbeat of disinformation resulted in unhinged accusations, harassment and threats, directed at school board members across the united states. >> we know! we know who you are! we will find you! you will never be allowed in public again! >> as you can see, fists are now flying, all of this on live television. >> you are allowing child abuse. you with your snotty little face, you're allowing it as well. >> because i chose to speak, i'm now being arrested. >> none of this is normal. not this side of desegregation debates anyway. it was in response to these reports as well as requests for the national

angry parents keep up showing up at school board meetings full of rage, and not just in virginia, andilla thompson explains. >> reporter: a california school board president is apologizing after this exchange. >> [ bleep ]. >> reporter: a hot mic captured the president swearing at a parent who raised concerns over mask mandates. this incident the latest in a barrage of contentious moments between educators and parents caught on camera at school board meetings. >> this is illegal. >> this is a hydra virus. >> reporter: threats, intimidation, even violence over mask-wearing, lessons on race, and more. >> the level has gotten to an extreme point of disruption. it creates fear, intimidation, and it needs to stop. >> reporter: the conflicts spilling over into educators' personal lives. brenda sheridan is the school board chairwoman in loudoun county, virginia. when we spoke with her this summer, she shared letters that she says she received at her home, and voicemails like these. >> you are a disgusting piece of [ bleep ], ms. sheridan. you know your home address is on the internet, don't

federal resources amid rising tensions at school board meetings nationwide. mitch mcconnell sent a scathing letter to merrick garland writing telling elected officials they're wrong is democracy, not intimidation. >> regardless of the reasoning, threats and violence against public servants is illegal. that's what he was conveying from the department of justice. >> this move was initiated by the national school board association which likeened the actions of some parents to that of domestic terrorists. mcconnell's letter condemned violence or harassment but said it was federal overreach. parents should be telling their local schools what to teach. that is a major point of agreement for thoefs attending the pray vote stand summit hosted by the family research council in leaseburg, virginia. >> i think the great part is we have heard from so many people who would never even think of getting active in their communities like this. and it has brought out more and more people who are of like logical thinking i would say who really just want an opportunity to have th

we talked about this last night, from attending school board meeting and express outrage at the propaganda being taught in public schools. remember one biden told us the justice department with the independent? these days the doj is just another branch of the dnc because the liberal weaklings of the national school board association don't want to face criticism for the horrible policies they are calling on the doj to criminalize their political opposition. the only speech they want to protect is when you not in agreement with every school decision these petty bureaucrats make. >> you are using the fbi to intervene in school board meetings to tell me where the line is with parents expressing their concerns, waiting for hours. >> it is the job of the justice from the local law enforcement to address that. the attorney general's memorandum simply asks the fbi and their counterparts to ensure that state and local law enforcement has an open line of communication to report threats. >> there's so much nonsense in her statement i don't know where to begin, the fbi exist to investigate whether par

what do they have to do with parents at school boards. >> it's not, again, about parents at school boards. it's about threats of violence. host: the attorney general this morning defends memo on threats to educators. that is the headline on yesterday's hearing and the question by republican senators and it continued with ted cruz of texas. take a listen. [video clip] you based -- >> you based your direction on this letter and i will tell you what, they are selling barest of the letter they have apologized for it and retracted it you don't apparently have the same willingness to apologize and retract what you did. let me ask you something else, a big part of the letter is they are upset about parents not wanting critical race theory taught. your son-in-law makes a very substantial sum of money from a company involved in the teaching of critical race theory. did you seek a decision from an ethics to -- ethics advisor at the department of justice before you carried out the action that would have a predictable financial benefit to your son-in-law? >> the memorandum is aimed at violence and th

jillian: democrats pushing the narrative that angry parents at school board meetings are dangerous. >> domestic terrorism in the united states, has it been more from overseas or homegrown terrorists, most of them being right-wing extremists, have there been threats and violence against schools in the united states of america? >> there have been. >> these are people acting out their feelings in a file and manner. the same as on january 6th. >> republican members of the house judiciary committee are demanding the nfb aid provide documents showing any and all communication it has with the biden white house and the justice department. >> scary stuff, general milley calling china's hypersonic missile test very concerning and almost a sputnik moment. jillian: republican senators calling out the intelligence community on a woke agenda. here is the latest. >> good morning. china's recent test of a hypersonic missile system was described as concerning by joint chiefs of staff chairman general mark millie. he added this is a significant technological event for the country. the comments hall rep

now, in that letter, the national association of school boards referred to the actions aimed at school boards as equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism. personally, i would have taken a red pen to that because it's pretty inflammatory language and i don't think accurate. but the justice department responded to this letter with a fairly pro forma letter themselves saying it takes these incidents seriously, is committed to using its authority and resources to discourage these threats, identify them when they occur and prosecute them when appropriate. that is the long and short of it. republicans are trying to turn this into a big issue. and again, to be fair, there's some real conflict or at least ambiguity here. hear me out. part of having a free country, and i've got to agree with ted cruz on this, is allowing citizens to yell at people in power. that could mean yelling at the president, yelling at your elected representative or yelling at a school board meeting. i've covered school board meetings as a reporter and, man, people yell. it can get very ugly. and that's good in a way.

this is not about what happens at school board meetings. it's only about threats of violence and violence aimed at school officials, school employees, and teachers. >> the first sentence of your memo, in recent months there has been a disturbing spike in harassment and threats of violence. >> yes. >> when did you review the data regarding this uptick? >> i read the letter and we have been seeing -- >> whoa, whoa. so you read the letter? that's your source? >> so let me be clear. this is not a prosecution or an -- >> was there an investigation someone did that said there has been a disturbing uptick or do you just take the words of the national school board association? >> the national school board association, which represents thousands of school boards and school boards members, says these are these kind of threats. when we read in the newspapers reports of threats of violence. when that is in the context of threats -- >> the source for the very first -- >> the time of the gentleman has expired. mr. deutsche. >> thank you, mr. chairman. tha

investigating the loudoun school board for violating civil rights under authorities of, say, the violence against women act? >> i don't believe answer to t. >> if not, why not, because on june 22 at school board meeting in loudoun county, virginia, the attorney general declared that the predator transgender student other person simply does not exist and that to his knowledge we don't have any records of assaults occurring in our restrooms help of when this statement bothered the father of the girl, i'm the father of a daughter, i believe you are too, sir, the girl who had been =craped, sodomized in e bathroom of a high school by a dude wearing a skirt, that father reacted. now, that father reacted by simply using a derogatory word. would that statement have raped, if somebody saidughter it didn't occur? >> i don't know anything about the fact of this case but derogatory words are not what my memorandum is about. >> the victim's mother is heard on a cellphone video telling the crowd what happened, the victim's father is seen being arrested, bloodied, this man, this arrest of■s a 48-year-old plumber became the poster boy for the new domestic terrorism, the biden administration, the

school board member. she said to us that the school board is very aware of any disciplinary actions especially violent and sexual in nature. the fact that the incident happened at the high school. the principal was obviously alerted. then they went to law enforcement. it's automatically sent to the superintendent and the school board. the fact they said they didn't know at the june 22nd meeting is wrong. >> laura: when i first heard that last night, it took my breath away. if you don't know that a girl says she was raped, we won't recount how it happened. it was hideous. it made me want to cry. if they did not know about it they shall all resign. >> i agree. the superintendent is the last line of dense for our kids as far as the school disciplinary process. the fact he is just falling on the excuse we didn't know is lying. >> laura: the democrats passed a bill to end a requirement for virginia schools to report all crimes on campus. the bill's sponsor michael mullen on what crimes would be exempt. >> which misdemeanors are no longer required to be reported to law enforcement. sexual battery and talking and violation of a protect order. i can't recall the other

theory driven mob violence not just at state capitols like we saw in lancing, michigr( which was a dress january 6th attack but also it's in schools and at school boardsacross the country. he country that tell the story. school boards association reaches out to fbi for help as threats violence hits meetings. louden county board members have faced death threats. prince william meetings have broken down with people x

department of justice, to make sure that we are addressing criminal conduct and violence. >> at local school board meetings. let me just ask you this. are parents waiting sometimes for hours to speak at a local school board meeting to express concerns about critical race theory or the masking of their students, particularly young children, is that in and of itself harassment and intimidation? is waiting to express one's view at a school board meeting harassment and intimidation? >> as the attorney general's memorandum made quite clear, spirited debate is welcome, is the hallmark of this country. it's something we all should engage in and -- >> ms. monaco, with all due respect, it didn't make it quite clear. it didn't define those terms. nor does it define harassment or intimidation. it talks about violence. i think we can agree violence couldn't be condoned or looked aside from in any way, swept under the rug at all. but harassment and intimidation? what do those terms mean in the context of a local school board meeting? in the first amendment context we talk about the chill, the chill to speech.

sandwiches for your kids and the fbi might be knocking on the door because you said the wrong thing at a school boardnd shut us down. i really think at this point the only thing to do is have a mass exodus from the public school system. that's it. [cheers and applause] maria: joining me right now is candace owens, the host of candace on the daily wire. you said on this program months ago, pull your kids out of the public school system. your reaction to what's taking place? >> i'm very happy to see it. i have been beating my drum for a long time saying guysing look what's coming around the corner. you knows what they're doing. they're classifying anything that stands against the state as form of domestic terrorism. a lot of lies were told by the media. what they were trying to do was trying to say issue a threat to any person that was awake to what the administration was going to do, if you try stand up to us, we have no problem locking up political dissidents. they were trying to brain wash anyone else to think that we're fighting domestic terrorism. they expanded it. we're looking at parents. parent

if this isn't a deliberative attempt to chill parents, from showing up at school board meetings. boards, i don't know what it is. >> one of the board members they called for her and her children to choke and die, another one said, that the board member was about to get ruins. another one suggested another board member died by suicide. calling also for harassment and bullying board members, you are attempting to intimidate them. you are attempting to silence them. >> it has an effect on. you that you really can't put into words. >> when someone describes the way they want to come into your home, and end your life. >> i cannot believe that in attorney general of the united states, is engaging in this kind of conduct. and frankly i can't believe that you are sitting here today, defending it. >> josh bell is very upset we're gonna send him that montage just to read him into a little bit of what's been going on at the local, but i suspect the nose. it's not just school boards, city council members and election officials even teachers are facing threats physical cells from the right-wi

school board. for what happened. i think they will, third, every democrat who participated in this should be exposed. this is the democratic party. atcratic school board. and then finally, the media need to be denounced for the cover-up of this horrific story. but what is the actual consequence of this? stunning to me, that the parents are on trial. for this. the father is on trial. that our federal government has sided with those people who are covering up this policy and our federal government is putting that poor dad on trial. putting every parent who is horrified by this on trial. you dare not speak out about this policy. that resulted in the rape. sodomizing, forced fellatio of the poor darling 14-year-old girl. mark: we have a democrat running for governor of virginia, mccull -- saying that parents have no say what goes on in the classrooms can you imagine that? we have no say. mark: the knuckle heads in charge of school boards are in charge of our children we have no say, this is the position of the democrat party. >> think about what george allen ran for governor. 56 stories in "washington post" about ma kaka. mistake that g

but at the same time when it comes to parents and school boards, you are perfectly comfortable with calling a mom at a pta meeting a domestic terrorist. this demonstrates why the democrat proposal to take someone with as long a partisan record as you have and to put you in charge of striking down any voting rights law in the country that you disagree with is nothing but a partisan power grab. let me give you another example. your division has operated in a purely partisan way. the doj dismissed the civil rights lawsuits against the state of new york, pennsylvania, michigan for those governors policies that sent covid positive patients into nursing homes, forced the nursing homes to take those patients. a political decision that resulted in tens of thousands of deaths. one of those governors, andrew cuomo has resigned in disgrace and his staff admitted they lied under-reporting the death that policy caused yet your division dismissed the lawsuits against those governors. how are we to see that as anything other than a purely partisan decision? ms. clarke: the letters that were issued to offi

the claimant that they are creating at these school board meetings, at these schools.nd i also believe that parents are parents, they are not doctors. the covid restrictions are put in place for the very safety and health of your children, and all the other children at the school. so it's not just you. host: on the outburst at school board meetings, the lack of stability, i wonder, getting a lot of focus now because of viral twitter videos and youtube videos. do you think these things happened in the past, too and they are just getting amplified more by social media? do you think it is worse now than it was in the past? caller: i believe it is worse now than it was in the past. i am sure that it happened. there were subjects that brought some ire from parents before, but no, this is a situation that has been amplified by, unfortunately, yes, social media, but just the general state of the country politically. i do believe that the prior administration kind of gave people a pass, if you will, to act out, and to forget about civility. and even, unfortunately, to disregar

at me. as school board president. es who are doing at school boards, this trump inspired behavior, seems to continue to draw energy from the trump side of our politics. >> right, we saw with our own eyes, with horror, what happened on january 6th, with people rushing up the steps of the capitol, and crashing their way into inside the capitol, and ever sense, we have seen the same kind of behavior, happening as school board meetings, around the country. over a whole host of issues, right now we're talking about quote unquote, critical race theory. which parents believe is being taught in the schools but it's not. also on vaccines, we've seen this kind of craziness happening at school board meetings. and into everton's point, these meetings are not about student achievement, these meetings are not about how to educate children, it is about grown men and women, venting their spleen's, at people in their community, who are there for the purpose of ensuring that the children of their community, the students of their communi