devos:. i said i was pleased they have the ability to decide. >> they already have that .bility your foundation you were associated with have coerced, sent letters, gone door-to-door doing exactly what you said they should not do. i am finding it difficult -- thisdevos: when i started job i resigned from anything outside this job. >> you no longer believe that? support teachers and great teachers to advance in their jobs. >> do you believe teachers should have the ability to join a union? sec. devos: clearly they should. .> you believe in democracy we agree with that, it is democracy, something we do in this country pretty well. believe, you told me resigned from the foundations, that you no longer believe in coerced because that foundation helped pay those organizations coerce. knock on doors, do you still believe in that? sec. devos: i am here for one job -- >> do you still believe that, it is not multiple choice, it is yes or no. i want to be respectful that you have to respect us and answ

devos: certainly. i am sure you are familiar with the process right now where states are putting plans together to really take advantage of the new flexibilities in the reauthorization of perkins five. challenge is for states to think differently about what their unique needs are for their state. and multiple regions often within their state. what is right and appropriate for a state like wyoming is probably going to be very different than a state like connecticut. opportunities afforded in the reauthorization there are very broad. i hope that creative people will take that opportunity seriously and think differently about what the next several years might in how they offer career and technical education to students. molly: the flexibility we have had in es as a and now with perkins has really allowed us more opportunities to work, and really been an incentive. i think almost every state has talked about their relationships with business community, how , or are working together with their commerce depa

she did not come from money, she married money, she married --tum boss -- deck devos dick devos.ho owns amway. she is a crook, she is part of the trump swamp. host: we have a writer and activist writing about betsy devos today, "482,000 children are dissipating in some sort of education choice program through vouchers, tax fellowship or education savings accounts, pretty miniscule given the 56 childrenillion attending k through 12 in public schools and we know from the marketplace that nothing produces excellence like competition, so why shouldn't we have it in something as vitally important as education." that's star parker. our white house coverage continues on this sunday with the mayor of south bend, indiana. pete buddha judge is going to make his formal presidential announcement today in his hometown, where he has been mayor for about 80 years, since 2011. we will have that live today at 2 p.m. eastern time and if you miss it, you can look at it on c-span.org later in the day. just type his name in and we will show the event tonight in prime time. lots more political program

secretary devos, thank you for testament. over the last many years we've had very heated debates about teacher pay, many of us believe you deserve a raise, credentialing in the 1980s and '90s, and whether students are college ready or prepared to go on to college. a lot of that debate is centered around testing in states. but there are important things that happened inside the school about outside the classroom. in many states like mine, texas, the ratio of counselors to students is 300-one or even more. my question is what is your department doing to make sure that another what i would substantively preparing students to go to college but actually building an infrastructure to help guide them there next. >> congressman, the federal department has a limited role in that regard. states and communities having much greater role, and we continue to see that in spite of the fact the federal government has been involved with investing millions of dollars over the last 50 years, we have seen no real difference for improvement in out

i thank secretary devos again for being here today. i look forward to our discussion about how we can bring greater opportunitiess within reach for students across thes country. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. i will not introduce our witness, thees honorable betsy devos serves as 11th u.s. secretary of education. she was confirmed by the u.s. senate on february 7, 2017. she's been been involved in education policy for nearly three decadesat as an advocate r children and a voice for the parents. for 15 years she served as an in school mentor in grand rapids public school system. prior to her confirmation she served as. chair of the enterprise investment management firm. in addition to her leadership in education arena, , she has servd on boards o of numerous national and local charitable and civic organizations including kennedy center for the performing arts, kids hope your essay, art prize, bible church and kendall college of art and design. .. we've made opening statements of ourti perception of it and madam secretary, your p

he stepped in because education secretary betsy devos did not. devos has reversed regulations that reined in the industry. >> i'm not going to tell you the sector is perfect. this sector grew too much, too fast at the height of the recession. >> reporter: he says his schools don't target veterans and believes for-profit colleges were unfairly singled out by the obama administration. >> let's have one set of rules for all schools. >> reporter: secretary devos agrees and says schools should not be targeted because they are for-profit. as for anders figueroa, he has found a new career, but not in television. he's now a wind turbine safety instructor. heidi przybyla, nbc news, washington. >>> at the vatican, tens of thousands heard pope francis mark palm sunday, the beginning of holy week leading up to easter next sunday. among other things, the pope asked the crowd to pray for peace, and he called on them to accept humility. >>> still ahead tonight -- the woman who wasn't there. an inside look at how russian trolls used facebook to influence america

chairman, and thank you secretary devos for being here today. madam secretary, on march 13, i self, and 73 of my house colleagues, sent you a letter regarding your actions receiving the call closure of 24 colleges in the chain, this issue is very personal to me, is one of those now closed campuses, is my districts, is in my district, leaving constituents of georgia, six district, wanting answers. federal court appointed a receiver to wind down operations at augustine. after reviewing the financial of the management corporation, failed to dream center, the court appointed receiver stated in federal court findings, that within 60 days of the sale, executives at dream center knew that the institutions were, and i quote failing without the hope of redemption. ". chairman, i ask for unanimous consent, to enter these court filings into the record. >> interjection? >> thank you. secretary devos, my question for you, is one that the did the department receive this information? >> well, congresswoman, again, let me just say that any school closure is unf

he stepped in because education secretary betsy devos has not.egulations that reigned in the legislation. >> i'm not going to tell you the sector is perfect. this sector grew too much, too fast at the height of the recession. >> reporter: he says his schools don't target veterans. and believes for profit colleges were unfairly singled out by the obama administration. >> let's have one set of rules for all schools. >> reporter: secretary devos agrees and says schools should not be targeted because they're for profit. as for anders figueroa, he has found a new career, but not in television. he's now a wind turbine safety instructor. heidi przybyla, nbc news, washington. >> still ahead, legendary singer tina turner heads for the great white way. plus no spoilers, but we do have some early reviews from last night's "game of thrones" premiere. nexpected bathroom tris you may have overactive bladder, or oab. ohhhh... enough already! we need to see a doctor. ask your doctor about myrbetriq® (mirabegron). it treats oab symptoms of urgency, frequency, and

betsy devos has, according to "newsweek", ten boats, two helicopters and a yacht scheduler. has so many yachts, she has a yacht scheduler! [ laughter ] what's a yacht scheduler!? [ laughter ] [ applause ] is it someone who -- [ cheers and applause ] is a yacht scheduler someone who when you say, "bring the yacht around" says, "i wouldn't do that. it might crash into the other yacht." [ laughter ] then after the hearing, reporters tried to get answers from devos as she waited for an elevator. and she responded by pretending not to hear them. >> madam secretary, do you any response to the democrats criticism of your budget proposal? madam secretary, you said today that you were not the person that proposed this funding change. can you explain who in your administration did? [ light laughter ] madam secretary, have you spoken to the president about this at all? if there's some misunderstanding, madam secretary, this is the opportunity to explain it to us. [ light laughter ] >> seth: i mean look at her. that's -- that's the face of someone thinking to herself, "where's my elevat

and then democrats added how devos has been running the shops. it's hypocritical to show pictures of her reading to children. the trump/devos budget calls for cuts for after school activities and children who need help who live in impoverished communities. over $8 billion, a 12% cut. democrats also confronting her for rescinding obama era guidance that would protect transjegender students. >> did you know when you rolled back the guidance that it can lead to -- >> i did know that but o.c.r. is committed to ensuring all students have access to their educati education. >> take a look at this exchange. >> do you realize that it is your responsibility to educate every child in the united states? >> it's my responsibility to be the secretary -- >> it's a yes or no, madam secretary. >> it's my responsibility to -- >> is that a yes or is that a no? >> you're very good at evading. that's a really simple question. >> that part is not supposed to be the hard part. now a week ago you may recall that we covered in a different hearing house democrats using th

betsy devos is still worse.ghter ] i mean -- [ cheers and applause ] at least -- at least lori loughlin is trying to make it easier for people to get into college. [ light laughter ] in fact, even as trump and his inner circle have spent their time empowering and enriching themselves, they have also been awying to take healthcare from millions of people. last week the trump administration said the entire bfordable care act shoulde repealed and yet, as if that wasn't enough, t trump administration also decided to pick a totally unnecessary fight with basically everybody by proposing to cut funding for the special olympics. >> education secretary betsy devos came under fire on capital hill tuesday while defending proposed funding cuts for the special olympics. the trump administration wants to cut all $18 million i federal money for the program. >> seth: how awful do you have to be to try to cut funding for the special olympics? you might as well use the money you saved to bulldoze an orphanage. "we all know those

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, asking whether devos knew how many children would be affected by the elimination of special olympicst-- >> again, this is a question of how many kids. not the budget. >> i don't know how many kids. >> it's 272,000 kids. i'll answer is for you. that's okay. no problem. ( laughter ) >> trevor: i like how he said that with a smile. that was a super asshole thing to do. "oh, no, that's fine. i'll answer it for you. i'll answer it for you." i understand why he's so angry. i mean, the trump administration is cutting federal funding from the special olympics. that just sounds mean, right? because here's the thing-- the $18 million that they're going to save isn't even that much money for a government. it's actually what the government spends for trump to visit mar-a-lago five times. yeah, that's it, same amount of money. so at the very least, you could compromise on this issue-- send the kids to mar-a-lago, and make donald run for once in his life. ( cheers and applause ) yeah. yeah. everybody wins. and as if that wasn't mean enough, president scrooge mcduck is now saying that he thinks pue

thank you secretary devos for being with us today. day,e having a wonderful -- congress room, who believe just like you that every child has the opportunity to reach their potential. i am so happy. a few weeks ago you came down from south carolina. i really appreciated that. you chose where you would like to go. i was a bit surprised because it was not necessarily the school or district that had the bells and whistles, but it was a --ool that is 92% property, poverty and at one time was the lowest performing school in our state, and that has changed. i would like you to reflect on what you saw at the school. and also at the manufacturing career center that we visited. sec. devos: thanks, molly. thanks all of you for having me here today. it is a pleasure to be back after being with you a year ago. i have visited many schools and done many things since then. i really, really enjoyed the day and south carolina. thethanks, molly, for hospitality there. i wanted to visit a school that had really major medic improvements in turning around.

you are calling for the resignation of education secretary betsy devos because of a hearing last weekain why. >> betsy devos has failed in her basic job of keeping kids safe and making sure that everyone can access a quality public education. what she did was she wanted to rescind civil rights protection for children who experience high rates of discipline because of the color of their skin, and she did that by cherry-picking racist data and research to support it. that is outrageous, even for this administration, even for betsy devos who has a rocky history with protecting civil rights. she has -- it is shocking. just when you think you can't be shocked by her actions, and she needs to resign if she is unwilling to protect our students and ensure there's fundamental fairness that is free of racism. >> congresswoman katherine clark from massachusetts. the study you're citing is from john paul wright from the university of cincinnati if people want to check it out. thanks for being with us this morning. >> thank you. >> alisyn. >>> the breaking news this morning, there's a technical gl

betsy devos is siding with them, so she needs to resign.'t, and if president trump won't fire her, then we need to put these protections back into our budget. we need to put the guidelines that obama had just in guideline form into law, because we need to understand that it is our time to stick up for families at home, to work on these issues that they care about, that we see every single day this administration undermining. it took them 24 hours to go from i have been exonerated by the barr report to repealing the aca and health care. 24 hours. they keep telling us who they are and we have to believe them. >>> so a great pivot to my next question. you've giving up that unequivocal cal for the resignation of the secretary, and who the republicans think they are andically them out on what you consider to be hypocrisy. i want you to look toward 2020 and -- what do you make of -- i don't know, whether it's allegations or the story of lucy flores written about joe biden, a potential democratic contender? how difficult is this conversation, do y

devos argued the schools were too lenient.lso the topic of charter schools, saying one of the questions expected was the commitment to charter schools and the trump administration's plan to add $60 million in funds while cutting $7 billion in -- aseducation department much as $1 billion in funding lost on charter schools that never opened or closed because of problems. more of that story. you can click more to see more of the underlying background at the detroit free press. tallahassee, florida, you are next up. go ahead. caller: good morning. i have three quick points in reference to barr. he is going by the law that were changed by the democrats after bill clinton. as long as he is sticking to the law, that is what is important and a secret court is a secret court. prisonersce to voting, the bad thing about that is most prisons are in rural .reas and districts are small prisoners would be running the local government as opposed to the taxpayers that lived there. in reference to illegal immigration, my sister lives south of h

secretary devos says schools should not be targeted because they're forprofit. as for andre, he's now a win turbine safety instructor. nbc news, washington. >>> well, ready or not, today is the day april 15th, it is tax day. you have until the end of today to fileour return and pay what you owe. you can still file for an eetension. you still to get your check in the mail by midnight. as of yesterday 50 million taxpayers still needed to file. remember, you c always find free e filing options, extension formation and payment information on irs.gov. >>> the ten miler that wasn't quite ten miles. >>> and we were not the only ones hit by the severe w ther this weekend. coming up a look at the damage from texas to ohio. >>>he same storm system that made its way through our area t overnilew through ohio yesterday leaving little standing in parts of the town oy sh >> you can see on the screen some of the damage. shelby police say as man as ten people were injured in the storm. in other parts of the country the storm was deadly killing at least eight people. >> reporter:

such a pleasure to have secretary betsy devos, she is from michigan and she put that she went away to school have an hour to calvin college and she and point got married. they have been involved in education for decades as philanthropists and reformers and political warriors, i am glad you are a secretary. [applause] >> let's talk a bit. i'm glad your education secretary, are you? >> i am indeed. >> did you ever think you would be education secretary? you have been in the trenches so long and you are at the levers of power. >> i never had a goal or dream about being education secretary but when the opportunity arose i cannot say no. i have been involved in education reform, advocating education freedom and school choice for three decades. this is a national extension of what i have been doing for all those years. >> this is an idea summit and you have big ideas, one of which is education, freedom scholarships. sound good. what is it? >> the proposal from the administration, it has corresponding bills that have been interviewed in the house and senate and what it would do is create a f

it broke the record for the most views on devo in a 24-hour period. 65 million views. took the number 1 spot from ariana grande who had 59 million views for her music video. >>> taylor swift now holds three of the top five viva 24 hour records. >>> angry neighbors in san anselmo after woman was killed in a dui crash. coming up in 5:00, what they're demanding from the city to make the streets safer. >>> plus, a fire outside of and uber office building. why one witness thinks that the fire was intentional. >>> good morning. we do have traffic that is doing too well on many commutes, including this one. this is the golden gate bridge heading south into san francisco. >>> plenty of clouds. we know the drill. the tempare a little below >>> why one witness says the fire was set intentionally. >>> today, joe biden officially hitting the campaign trail as the 2020 candidate says the message he wants to deliver. >> from ktvu fox 2 news, this is mornings on 2. >>> good morning thank you for joining us here on mornings on 2. i am pam cook. >> and i am davwill say if we n sweater

he stepped in because betsy devos did not. he lobbies for for profit schools but not ashford. >> i'm going to tell you the sector is perfect. this sector grew too much too fast at the height of the recession. >> he says his schools don't target veterans and believes for profit colleges were unfairly sij singled out by the obama administration. >> secretary devos agrees and says schools should not be targeted because they're for profit. he has found a new career but not in television. he's now a wind turbine safety instructor. nbc news washington. >> coming up, a conservative speaker at cal. the college is welcoming former white house press secretary sean spicer. details on that coming up. did you know comcast business goes beyond fast with a gig-speed network. complete internet reliability. advanced voice solutions. wifi to keep everyone connected. video monitoring. that's huge. did you guys know we did all this stuff? no. i'm not even done yet. wow. business tv. cloud apps and support. comcast business goes beyond at&t. start

games,e didn't play that well i don't think and tonight was obviously our best game and goodo get devoes our team a little different element when hs forechecking, people are aware he's on the ice. good job. >> me skating up the wing, pretty funny. good feeling with all the signs and support. it was azing. so hopefully i can continue to give them something to cheer about. >> reporter: caps looking to carry thiso momentum t raleigh for monday. they win the series, and i don't have my purple coat on but i can keepith this red one and doug tweeted he ate a lot of wings so i think that contr to tonight's win. >> he's got to keep chugging, pounding those wings and may not ed to pack the purple jacket, just saying. >> reporter: might bring it just in case. >> sherree tburruss,hanks as always, sherrie. the stmarlins, wor team in the leaguee matt oound in miami and passed hall of famer on the strikeout list. and there's also an unfortunate. nationals hope to avoid two straightnd 500 on the season. third inning, that's down two and matt adams goes opposite field. victor and anthony come in to sc

>> i have not with secretary devos. but i have with the fbi. >> okay. do you believe there is more that we can do to restrict chinese nationals who are students on college campuses from being involved in dod funded sensitive research? >> i think there are -- are there good reasons to do that? >> yes, there are. >> i'll move on. secretary shanahan, on september 26th, secretary mattis and the va secretary issued a joint statement promising a new and improved joint governance structure to manage mhs again sis and the vaehr modernization. i have asked the va officials multiple times to share the thought process and zero information has been forthcoming. i understand that a study of various option was completed in february. when can we expect an announcement on the new organization? >> i'll take that one for the record. >> okay. even better yet, before the announcement, is it possible for those involved in this subject to be briefed and receive a briefing of some sort? >> yeah. there is line of thinking where the synergies are captured based on this unity of

and betsy devos under fire for using kids as props while still trying to slash $200 million worth of programs for literacy. we begin with the power grab. first new reports that trump wanted to politicize border policy with an idea to try to bus undocumented immigrants into what are called sanctuary cities and are typically more politically liberal. officials in trump's own administration saying this idea was, quote, so illegal, and thus it was ultimately dropped. but donald trump was out threatening his opponents with this very policy today. >> we'll bring them to sanctuary city areas and let that particular area take care of it. california is always saying, we want more people. and they want more people in their sampg twaer cities. we'll give them more people. we can give them a lot. an unlimited supply. let's see if they're so happy. they say we have open arms. open arms. let's see if they have open arms. >> this move to pressure authorities into releasing detainees is seen as quite blatant and potentially unlawful way to use the notion of distributing migrants, or border policy, t

or as betsy devos put it, "well, well, well, and then there was -- two." [ laughter ] some more newse. the 2020 election is in full swing and pete buttigieg is feeling pretty confident. you see him on "meet the press"? he said that he has more experience than the past two presidents. some people disagree, because he's only a 37-year-old mayor, but i think those people forgot that our current president is a a former game show host. so i mean, that's -- [ laughter and applause ] let's be clear. but all the candidates are trying to stand out now. bernie sanders is saying that he wants to make it legal for felons to be able to vote while they're in prison. that's an interesting idea. but, you do not want to know how he plans on getting the ballots inside the jail. [ laughter and applause ] i mean, pretty disturbing. elizabeth warren is also in the news. a new poll found that she's currently in third place in her own home state of massachusetts. but keep in mind, second place is a dunkin' donuts cashier and first place is gronk. so i mean -- [ cheers and applause ] massachusetts -- >> ste

education secretary betsy devos on testing standards and opportunity zones. she spoke during a legislative conference. this is 30 minutes. molly: thank you. my colleagues, i don't usually get a full introduction. it is just coming here is molly.

coming up, secretary of education betsy devos is pushing a $5 billion school of choice program.s great but couldn't do more harm than good. next guest thanks it is time to get the federal government out of education altogether but you've got to hear what she has to say. that is next. that is next. if your moderate to severe ulcerative colitis or crohn's symptoms... are holding you back... and your current treatment hasn't worked well enough... it may be time for a change. ask your doctor about entyvio®, the only biologic developed and approved just for uc and crohn's. entyvio® works at the site of inflammation in the gi tract, and is clinically proven to help many patients achieve both symptom relief and remission. infusion and serious allergic reactions can happen during or after treatment. entyvio® may increase risk of infection, which can be serious. pml, a rare, serious, potentially fatal brain infection caused by a virus may be possible. tell your doctor if you have an infection, experience frequent infections or have flu-like symptoms or sores. liver problems can occur wit

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education secretary betsy devos went for the house education and labor committee to answer questionsbout the plan. members asked about charter schools, for-profit colleges, protections for transgendered and minority students and a number of other issues.

today the senator spoke about his plan for education, slamming trump's education secretary betty devos entering his own support for charter schools and school vouchers. >> in northern new jersey, we faced dire straits. we had a system that was failing so many of our kids, and as a local leader i was willing to look for answers anywhere i could find them. what we ended up finding was just looking at our schools and expanding the schools of excellence and actually making sure we were closing schools that weren't serving our kids. >> correspogarrett has been fol cory booker's campaign. garrett, good to see you. you're also with a candidate's name that starts with a b. i know charter schools have become something of a problem with him with the democratic base, but also, what are you picking up out on the trail? there are a lot of people in washington who say they don't think booker has launched himself into the top tier of candidates. are you seeing things on the road that contradicts that? >> i'll start with the education piece. i'm in a small rural county in iowa. i'm going to back out o

and the only thing that i would credit, the department of education under betsy devos with is taking look at those standards and how to get a fairer hearing. not that they're reached that moment of perfection, nonetheless, michael, all movements, the pendulum swings too far and you have to pull it back and find a good space and certainly looking at it is a good idea. and joe biden made a rookie mistake yesterday. you can't play to the room. you have to play to the country. that was a friendly audience, but it was going to be seen by everyone. and to make light of this is not we're taking it too seriously. like there are people who would like to drum him out of presidential race, without one person casting a vote in the primaries. but everybody saw that. and they saw him making something too light, of something that some people take seriously. >> i want to talk about the political significance of this through the eyes of the president, a piece of video from donald trump. roll it. >> i was going to call him, i don't know him well. i was going to say welcome to the world, joe. you havin

haspel, tor gina transportation secretary elaine chow and education secretary betsy devos. >>> a mystery is unfolding in the woods in a southeast d.c. neighborhood that could involve ltiple murders. news 4 has learned the remains found in aooded area near alabama avenue on saturday could be connected tone or more.ma rk segraves broke the news this afternoon. police have a lot of evidence to hrk with. >> reporter: it wae in these seemingly tranquil woods in southeast d.c. just off alabama avenue where the gruesome discory was made. human remains lying at the base of thisree. here was skeletal remains. it was advanced stages of pretty much skeletal remains. >> the remains had a gunshot wound in the base of the skull. and appear to be those of an adult male. they were found in plain view just a few stepsrom this area which is littered with empty bottles whe people appear to gather from time to time. now according to multiple sources familiar with this investigation, when police got to the scene here, they found a wealth of evidence including a loaded handgun, identification that could be th

this is the devoe street offramp of 101.he ready mix concrete truck that hit a guardrail and spilled a flow of gravel and cement over the side of the road. the contents fell onto the roadway below . >> as a result, there was damage to a couple of parked cars down at bryant and 10th street. the san francisco fire department said the driver of the truck was able to get out and was not seriously hurt. we have noeports of any r injuries of course, the evening commute is well underway in san francisco and this crash is certainly affecting traffic in that area. the offramp, again is closed for the investigation and the cleanup and traffic right now is backing up onto 101. >>> back now to pg&e, today, the california public utilities commission is accused of being too cozy with pg&e, voted unanimously to increase your bill. ktvu's tom vacar was at the vote and says th

this week we learned that betsy devos' education department is mandating that texas tech university stop factoring race into admission decisions, making it the first institution of higher education to cave into your backward policies. we all know the supreme court has repeatedly ruled that universities may use affirmative action to increase diversity. so, mr. president, let me tell you what i think about this tired old conservative crew said that i'm not really sure you have an interest in. affirmative action started under a republican president named richard nixon. it was to try and undo what the government did, and that is, by law, discriminating against certain people of color, specifically blacks, being able to go to certain universities and colleges and other educational institutions. the reason why the government should enforce and encourage racial diversity is because the government enforced laws that made it legal and mandatory to discriminate. if the government had not made the laws and enforced the laws, the government would not be called in now to make up what the government d

we saw it recently, by the trump administration, pointing out secretary devos and others.or young people. >> greg: there's a lot of fraud in all colleges. i think online is the way to go home. and i hope that's what happens. >> dana: jussie smollett's brother making a shocking claim about the troubles after. details ahead. great tasting, heart-healthy california walnuts. so simple, so good. get the recipes at walnuts.org. when it comes to the quality of our cars: the highest. it's why only 1 in 10 cars we look at qualify to sell on our site. if it's been in a reported accident, we won't sell it. and at our state-of-the-art facilities our ase certified mechanics roll up their sleeves and get to it. inspecting, dialing-in, and fine tuning every single car inside and out, bringing all of it up to our high standards. by the time we're done, our cars are beyond "certified." they're carvana certified. so whether you have it delivered or pick it up, we do it all so you can rest easy. you might or joints.hing for your heart... but do you take something for your brain. with an ingr

and woman-- ( booing ) woman appalled that you christened your yacht with domestic champagne, betsy devosngress y st $7tsbio education programs. ( booing ) yeah! now, now, now, now! these kids have had it too good for too long. crayons and colored pencils? what's next, markers?! i say we should go back to the good old days where every child quarries their own slate. then they are issued a single piece of chalk, and when it runs out, you're done with school! back to the textile mill! change some bobbins! what, you're too good for bobbins? ( applause ) but it gets worse. they're proposing millions of dollars in cuts to programs for students who are blind and eliminating all federal funding for the special olympics. ( booing ) >>udience: >> stephen: now, obviously, it would be easy to say that that's evil. but it would also be accurate. ( laughter ) then, then-- ( applause ) that's-- what have we got? health care, disaster relief, children. then there's global warming. trump opposes the democrats' green new deal, which proposes cutting greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. that's amb

he runs this massive private security company, also happens to be the brother of betsy devos.ly, i doubt very significant. because a referral is one thing, but it doesn't mean the justice department has to act on it. it is an indication of congressional indignation. it may be justified. but it is just -- when you think about the mueller investigation being shut down, this would be something given what congressman schiff is saying that erik prince lied about. this would have been something that was relevant to the mueller investigation. there's no mueller investigation. i would doubt this went anywhere. >> we said good-bye just on monday to one of the key players in this whole drama, rod rosenstein. he sent his resignation letter to trump. we knew this was coming, but now he's officially out. we keep the faith, follow the rules, and always put america first. if we put it in watergate terms, will he be remembered as an elliot richardson or a robert bork? the folks who resigned because they were told to do things by the president and didn't, and of course, the president did not t

. >> and secretary devos is in daytona beach, florida, to deliver the commencement address at bethuneat's what i meant to show you because that's what she was talking about right before she made her statement about the fbi losing confidence in james comey. she was reading a prepared statement about trump administration news before she took any questions from anyone. there was no heat in the moment. there was no slip of the tongue. she was reading. she was reading words that she and the team of liars in the white house press office wrote in the cool comfort of their offices. >> there's also another nugget of big news as you guys may have been paying attention in regard to the termination of the former fbi director comey. the president over the last several months lost confidence in director comey. the doj lost confidence in director comey. bipartisan members of congress made it clear that they had lost confidence in director comey. and, most importantly, the rank and file of the fbi had lost confidence in their director. >> she was reading. it wasn't a slip of the tongue in the heat of

[applause] announcer: next, education secretary betsy devos participates in a discussion at the council of chief state school officers.

. >> eric prince gives money to help find it, betsy devos's brother. >> and it goes on for months and months. they are actively trying to find it. quickly. >> the extraordinary detail that famous quote, russia if you're listening find the 30,000 emails, that day. that very day the russians begin an effort to find the emails. >> yeah. >> using their illegal hacking ability and that leads to the disclosure of emails. not those emails but other emails that maybe swung the election. so i mean, the connections between the trump campaign and russia, while not legally criminal are pretty extensive. >> it doesn't paint a flattering picture of what was going on inside the white house and it gives a lot of details and description of how, you know, corrupt things looked. >> yeah. i mean, i think it definitely paints the picture of a white house and april campaign really populated by people willing to do anything to gain the upper hand, willing to do anything up until the line almost of criminality to basically to persevere through the campaign and then, when they're faced with the prospect of th

he works here and he can't believe it. [ laughter ] the cuts are the work of betsy devos, the secretaryf education who thinks school is a waste of money. she appeared before a congressional subcommittee yesterday. they asked her why they decided to nix all $18 million in federal funding for the special olympics. she said it was a difficult choice. got for betsy. those special olympians have had it too good for too long, what with their javelins and shorts. can you imagine? whose problem with america was helping the disabled too much? it's like she's auditioning for the plot in jordan peele's next horror movie. [ laughter ] in fairness to the trump administration, they aren't just focused on punishing special olympians. trump unleashed another attack on obamacare to make sure no one ever gets help from anyone ever again. >> obamacare is a disaster. it's too expensive by far. people can't afford it. and the deductible is horrible. so the premiums cost too much. the deductible is horrible. the only difference between now and the other administration is that we're administering obamacare ve

part of the president's cabinet, secretary of transportation, cia director and education secretary, devosut of 20 as you count. that isn't the face of america. >> and i would say two by marriage, let's be honest here, in the sense it's her husband's -- >> elaine chao has been a cabinet secretary in the past. >> that's true, but she's not getting fired because of who her husband is. we don't worry about her job security in the same way you would if you're kirstjen nielsen. that's exactly right. an image in particular of public safety and military efforts that the president actually has. you've seen these pictures now. it is hard to get 30 white men in a room. you have to try hard, and we see those pictures now. this is consistent with the sort of malization, i would say, of the safety and security apparatus. i want to make one thing clear about the gender issue and kirstjen nielsen. you're hearing she felt bad or she was trying to fight it inside. i think we should judge each cabinet secretary on who they are regardless of gender. this was a woman and a female leader who was responsible fo

we have that story later tonight and a breakdown of donald trump's education chief betsy devos under props while still trying to slash $200 million worth of programs for literacy. we begin with trump's power grab and a sign he knows some of his own orders are illegal. first there are new reports trump wanted to ploliticize border policies. officials in trump's own administration saying this

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