but just lately dan patrick has gone to another level.ters and making sure that republicans are getting their mail ballots and applications sent to the wrong place and getting rejected just like those from texas across the state. the incompetence but certainly the intent to disenfranchise that yous upon thousands of texans. >> i mentioned that your role as election chief in harris county, you pushed to expand ballot expanding. enacted partly because of the work you did. lieutenant governor patrick's campaign consultant told the texas tribune that the restrictions are, quote, guard rails established by the legislature following harris county's unsuccessful attempt to send mail-in ballots to all of its registered voters in 2020 adding it was that overreach as well as drive through voting that brought about sb-1. they pass a law to ban what you did. then disregard that law so they could do the same thing, right? >> absolutely. let's be clear. voter suppression laws are being passed in georgia, in arizona, in wisconsin, attempted in pennsylva

dissent is crushed so dan patrick lieutenant governor of the great state of texas and he thought aboutand believes he has the solution. lieutenant governor of texas joins us. thank you for coming on, appreciate it. so tenure, do you think it has fulfilled its purpose? >> so about a week ago, the faculty council at the university of texas, they said that they are going to change critical race theory. and then they followed up with something that really got my attention. they said, the council takes the position and this resolution, that the full authority shall never, ever any intrusion, anyone outside, including the legislature for the board of regents. in other words, you can't tell us anything about how we perform our job, what we teach the students, or what we say. and i thought "just who are these people to think somehow academic freedom, which we support gives them the ability to be unaccountable to anyone, including the taxpayers, including the board of regents," we talk about critical race theory a lot but people sometimes don't understand the difference. we want race to be talk

lieutenant governor dan patrick for example said that mail-in ballot applications even though he helpedoing the same thing. so did you as represented dan crenshaw, sending prefilled absentee ballot -- to seniors saying all they had to do is sign, stamp, and mail it. in today's readout defender taylor joins me now. and taylor, the laws sure are different in your state for people like the governor, lieutenant governor and congresspeople for regular ordinary election officials. interesting. talk about what you're doing, i understand you're gonna be joining with black voters matter, you're gonna have a gotv campaign, touring hbcus. talk about what you're doing? >> yeah, number one thank you so much for having me. there is definitely does seem to be a different rules for the republican leadership at this stage versus regular voters. you pointed out how dan patrick, not only help but really assure that law through the senate. of the texas state senate, but also danny crenshaw. using their own political offices to send out vote by mail applications when no longer can these non partisan officia

. >> ashley: texas lieutenant governor dan patrick said she may be able to sell nonsense in nyc, notn aoc thinks texans will fall for her whacked out idiocy, she doesn't know texas. aoc has been campaigning in the lone star state against members of her own party trying to flip two seats for the midterm despite growing number of hispanic voters taking a hard right turn to the gop, which could mean trouble for democrats. according to "wall street journal" poll, if election held today, 44% would vote for biden and 43 said they would vote for trump. 61% of hispanic men said they disapprove of the job joe biden is doing and hispanic women are dead split at 46 each approving and disapproving. >> carley: thank you. bring in wesley hunt, army veteran running for congress in texas. wesley, you heard aoc say texas turning blue is inevitable, what do you think, is it? >> aoc's dream of turning texas blue is no more real than santa anna's dream of conquering texas. she loves freedom, but doesn't want texans to have freedom. she on out of touch with texas. what is happening at southern border, en

. ♪ ♪ >>> on friday, texas lieutenant governor dan patrick vowed to end professor tenure for all newlleges in an effort to combat teachings about critical race theory. of course, this is part of a bigger story that's happening all over the country, and it isn't just exclusive to higher education. in the month of february, teacher usually craft lesson plans around black history month. but this year, "the new york times" is reporting that educators have found difficulties covering the history of race in america as 37 states introduced measures to limit how race and discrimination can be taught in public schools. and 14 have imposed laws or rules to enforce these restrictions. joining me now to discuss this is dr. william, professor and founding director of the racial justice initiative at the university of st. thomas. dr. williams, from your point of view, why in the year 2022 are teachers censoring themselves and watching what they say when it comes to teaching students about america's history with racism. what do you think is driving this? >> well, i think it is that incredible year

meantime, a lot of them are doubling down on cultural issues most recently you saw lieutenant governor dan patricking to ban critical race theory in universities. is there a risk of republicans like patrick going too far? or will they assume it does not matter with these restrictive new voter laws? >> they seem to assume it will matter that they can appeal to the base, they are now restricting academic freedom basically at public universities in texas, or they want to at least. they have the abortion law, we have sort of forgotten about that, that's pretty restrictive, much more restrictive i think than the average voter in texas, maybe a lot of republicans and texas will want. we'll see if roe v. wade will get struck down. or the full ban on abortions period. but if the democrats need to make that case, they need to pry away those rodney savidge republicans who for now seem to regard that as all they're playing these games at the end of the day it's a pro business republican party will vote for abbott, even people like paxton and others. patrick as lieutenant governor. i mean i'm sort of amazed a

lieutenant governor, dan patrick's campaign, this is the third item on his agenda.t all, because lieutenant government campaign instructed eligible voters to send their request for absentee ballots to the texas secretary of state's office instead of their local elections office. in other words, he's hurting his own voters. meanwhile, in dallas, according to dallas morning news, 28% of dallas county ballots have already been rejected during early voting. this is a working just as planned, by the republicans, representative, or did they messed up or hurt themselves in the process? >> you know, we have a running joke in this texas house. half of the time they don't understand the bills that they're filing, and the push it has. and this is the very example of it. i mean, right now, even in reading our lieutenant governor, encouraging people to vote by mail. this is something they wanted to make sure election officials cannot do, or elected officials couldn't do. they would say, lena holden ago, down in harris county, because you make sure that they invested, so that peo

lieutenant governor dan patrick says he wants to extend the pure ly though -- banning teaching things is behind his liberty institute at u.t. austin but the real fights over education are at the k through 12th level where we've seen conservative, mainly conservative white paraend ares whipped up into a frenzy over mask mandates and lessons on race and gender and sexuality and it's leading to terrifying real world consequences. a reuter investigation revealed harassments and death threats sent to board members addressed to one of her adult children. it threatened to kill them both unless she resigns. the school board wars are happening all over this country and again, it's not the grass roots effort that republicans would have you believe. dateline, kansas city, mist mist. >> today it's hard to believe to discuss the material being utilized from the school system. i'm sure you removed the old classics because the writing is no longer appropriate but refilling the shelves with disgusting child pornography. >> that woman denied being inspired by other efforts at school board meetings. bu

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patrick's day. dan: that is really sweet. a nice day to be outside doing just about anything.dhya: it was so unseasonably warm, and you are going to be breaking a sweat again tomorrow, because we are expecting some more warm weather. take a look at the records for tomorrow. san jose, if it hits 70 degrees, will tie its old record set in 1971. livermore expected to surpass its record, coming in at 75, by one degree. it is going to be warm elsewhere, more like april or may than february. air quality will be moderate tomorrow, good to moderate sunday, so if you did not get a chance to enjoy the sunshine and warm weather, there is still time. high pressure is in charge, and while we would like to see these systems bump into the ridge and push it out so we can get some rain, it is not looking like anything is going to come through, at least not immediately. just high clouds over the top of the ridge of high pressure from that system. that system is also bringing a heat advisory for much of southern california, highs in the low 80's to low 90's. for super bowl lvi when the rams take

patrick's day. dan: that is really sweet. a nice day to be outside doing just about anything. and you probably broke a sweat. sandhya: it was so unseasonably warm, and you are going to be breaking a sweat again tomorrow, because we are expecting some more warm weather. take a look at the records for tomorrow. san jose, if it hits 70 degrees, will tie its old record set in 1971. livermore expected to surpass its record, coming in at 75, by one degree. it is going to be warm elsewhere, more like april or may than february. air quality will be moderate tomorrow, good to moderate sunday, so if you did not get a chance to enjoy the sunshine and warm weather, there is still time. high pressure is in charge, and while we would like to see these systems bump into the ridge and push it out so we can get some rain, it is not looking like anything is going to come through, at least not immediately. just high clouds over the top of the ridge of high pressure from that system. that system is also bringing a heat advisory for much of southern california, highs in the low 80's to low 90's. f

lieutenant governor dan patrick issuing a stern warning. taxpayers , own board of regents get out of our business, you have no say to what we do in the classroom, you opened the door for this issue because you went too far. reporter: new professors who include the radical ideology will not get tenure. existing educators will be reevaluated annually. >>> nascar xfinity series race ending with a scary crass on the final lap. fortunately all drivers were able to walk away from that. the driver of the airborne car says he blessed to be okay. later today, landon cassill "fox nation" car will make the nascar debut during the iconic daytona 500. you can watch the great american race on fox at 2:30. will won't, because he is in daytona as we speak of course. will: i will be watching trackside. pete, rachel and i, got into the pits to change a few tires, carley, fill up a gas can. see that later. reporter: can't wait. will: all right. since we're down here in the sunshine state, not exactly warm but since we're here in the sunshine state and the sun