forward with the plan to shrink the size of the federal government by merging the labor and education departments. the centerpiece the proposal to make washington function for effectively. the plan calls for streamlining the way for low-income americans. an area conservatives have railed against. no word on job cuts. the education and labor department would need congressional approval. that means making a merger of the agency a long shot. >>> peter fonda is apologizing for a tweet which targeted the youngest son of the president b barron. the tweet said we should rip r barron trump from his mother's arms and put him in a cage. secret service has been notified. fonda says the tweet was inappropriate and he went way too far in voicing anger over the trump administration. >>> two major political players pledging time and resources to try and flip the house to democrats in november. steve schmidt, a top gop strategist is urging americans to vote democrat. he tells the washington post, our founders predicted a leader like trump. that is why they designedhe system the way they designed it. the definiti

the department of education ideally. s in a way, betsy devos, one would hope if she is true to her rhetoric. what the department of education should be doing is cutting economics for certain times of federally funded programs. a higher level, some other programs, k-12. but they shouldn't be involved in dictating this or that thing. it's one of the smallest federal agencies that's only got 3,500 employers. kennedy: is it true you are a scott pruitt fan? >> i love the tactical hat. yeah. pruitt is very frustrating because he's doing certain things right. then he's screwing its up by being an ars when it comes to spend other people's money which he shouldn't be doing. kennedy: the president does things that are frustrating. restrictionism and immigration and protectionism not good for the country but when you talk about deregulation and cutting taxes. >> and he pardoned jack johnson. but that was jack jones. patrick johnson. get rid of all. let all the johnsons run free. kennedy: i hope someone clips that. kennedy: i'm delig

your department and the committee certainly on s.t.e.m. education. i'm interested in hearing more about how you think the department can support s.t.e.m. education including computer science education and what we can do in schools around the country and i think you will find we'll be particularly interested in rural schools that may not be where we wouldik them to be in that competitive environment. the omnibus included 50 million in dedicated funding for evidence-based s.t.e.m. education programs. i want to certainly workith you and our committee does with the department to continue and support and expand that effort. also interested in working together for post-secondary education more accessible and affordable for all students. two years ago we were able to reinstate in our appropriating bill with the cooperation of our authorizers year around pell grants. st spent som time in missouri at the end of the last college year talking about this being really the fir summer where schools could plan and students could plan for year around pell. we think th

start with the upper echelon folks at the department of education. how you define that will be up to you. eventually, i would like to extend this, i would like you to consider extending this to every policymaker in the department of education. ask them to volunteer to substitute teach at least once in a public school. not a private school, in an inner city public school. i don't mean going in and talking to the civics class about how a bill becomes a lot. i mean signing up as a substitute. all you need is a ba degree, or bs and you go to an orientation. you are a substitute teacher and you start at a quarter to seven and you go to 2:45 and you either do bus or lunchroom duty. it is you and 25 or 30 kids. and you are going to learn some stuff. would you consider doing that? secretary devos: i think it is a great idea, and i think we have an example that i am looking at right now. as i understand, you do this two or three times a year in louisiana. senator kennedy: yeah, what you see is how hard it is to be a teacher. teachers -- they don't just have to

city of jalalabad security forces shot three attackers before they blew themselves up in an education department building and then could do is at least fifteen afghan soldiers were killed battling taliban fighters several large explosions have been heard near the syrian capital damascus. as the blasts came from an ammunition in the city. and the u.n. is warning of a bloodbath in the syrian province of idlib it's calling for a full investigation into government air strikes on the area which is considered a so-called escalation zone under an international agreement more than sixty people have been killed in the past three days those are the headlines i'm going to have more news for you in just under half an hour do stay with us coming up next it's counting the cost thanks for watching. hasn't think of this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics jordan's economy struggling to cope we'll look at the stress is proving the last straw for many people. also this week the airline business find out if it's clear skies ahead or turbulent times for global

republicans have long expressed an interest in eliminating the education department. >>> this morning the president of the oakland a's says the team will match donations of up to $5,000 to replace baseball equipment that was stolen from lick i can henderson field. on monday morning thieves stole thousands of dollars of soccer and baseball fields from storage sheds at the field and also managed to steal this truck and wood chipper worth about $100,000 and damaged the baseball field by driving onto it. it. players work hard to maintain it it. >> a gofundme page has been established to help. head to abc7news.com. >>> an lawmakers have advanced a bill by oakley as samebly man rob bon that to speed up the environmental review process. in addition, the bill would prohibit a judge from halting construction unless there's an imminent life or safety risk. the measure applies to both sites being considered, howard terminal. >>> cannabis is coming to the course list at city college san francisco. it will offer workshops that will teach students about the history of the plant. it will cover the h

i would like to start off with special education department chair, ms. erin hartfield. if you would join me. round of applause. [applause] we also have mr. travis porter here in the building, ladies and gentlemen. round of applause. [applause] and also joining us is ms. michelle wong here in the building. [applause] i just want to say a few quick words. i'm an educator by trade as well. i used to work at a continuation high school here in san francisco. i taught math, science and health education, as part of special day class as well as a co-taught program. the special education field itself in particular our department has stood in the vanguard for leading for equity in our school and different rimth for a long time. we've been in the vanguard of 2025 before it existed, because we strove to put a spin on education. and i'm referring to strengths, preferences, interests and needs. those of you that are familiar with the individuals with disabilities education improvement act of 2004 are aware that when you plan for transitions for students with special needs, you must c

the white house wants to take the departments of education and the department of labor and make them one. so what would that mean for our kids' education and for the workforce? >>> new uncertainty and confusion among migrant families separated at the u.s./mexico border. many parents don't know where their children are and when, or even if, they will be returned. president trump's order to stop separating children in undocumented detained parents does not mean the more than 2,300 children already separated from their families will be reunited in the near future. the department of homeland security, however, says about 500 children separated from their families have been reunited since may. the rest remain in facilities spread across this country. nbc's geoff bennett is at the white house and gabe gutierrez in mexico. let me start with you, gabe, reporting on both sides of the border. i mentioned the confusion, the chaos. what do you hear from folks there? >> reporter: hi, david. certainly still a lot of confusion and everybody knows in mexico, it's different from the border crossing wh

city of jalalabad security forces shot three attackers before they detonated explosives in an education department building and fifteen afghan soldiers died fighting the taliban including. some afghans are going to extreme lengths to devolve peace thousands of people are marching from the southern province of helmand to kabul shell about us for forts. oh these are afghans who not be deterred by hate hunger distance or danger. they are walking seven hundred kilometers to the afghan capital kabul without food or water from dawn to dusk during the holy month of ramadan good you know if all afghans raise the same voice for peace and say no more war i'm sure we will reach a sustainable peace very soon. nine men started in the taliban stronghold of helmand province a month ago as temperatures climbed above forty degrees so did the numbers through town after town the group swelled with afghans strangers sensing a moment to be heard oh it's just an away afghan army and security forces met us they kept their weapons down to welcome us and told us to take our message and taliban also came on the road welcom

one of the most critical functions of the department of education is the role in enforcing federal civil rights and uphold the protection of student civil rights in schools. the office of civil rights within the department of education is a particularly important instrument in enforcing civil rights in schools, protecting those precious rights of our children, ensuring that schools provide students with access to equal educational students and a nondiscriminatory environment in which to learn. it's this idea we have in our country that's fundamental that we have a level playing field and abundant opportunity for all kids, no matter what their background. the continued need for this office is clear. in fact, during the obama administration, the office for civil rights and the department of education handled 76,000 complaints over eight years and issued dozens of policy guidance documents to help schools better protect and preserve civil rights of students. but in the last year alone, year and a half, we have seen what is really clearly an abdication of this leadership in the trump adminis

the washington post reports that the white house will merge the labor and education departments.s for streamlining the way the government provides benefits for low-income americans. that is an area conservatives have railed against for years. any consolidation would need congressional approval making discuss a long shot. >>> "new day" is ten minutes away. john berman joins us this morning. i like your tie. >> thank you very much. >> checks and stripes? >> i choose to bend the rules and sometimes flat outbre breake rules. 2,300 children. what happens to them this morning? when do they get reunited with their parents? there is no answer from the administration this morning. in fact, when i went to bed last night, the answer was nothing. the administration and government would do anything to reunite these kids. later, they tried to backtrack it and say we want to and that is our intention to get it done. do they have a plan? we are trying to figure out that this morning and there is no coherent explanation. that is emblematic of the administration. you get the sense the administrati

the department of education and the department of labor have nothing to do with each other. so this new reported proposal from the trump administration to combine them could be seen as a nicer way of saying they're abolishing the labor department or it could be seen as a nicer way of saying they're abolishing the education department. but i think a safe bet is that what this means is that they are abolishing both of them. this plan first reported tonight by "the wall street journal," not yet formally confirmed by the white house. but there's no reason to think this isn't something they'd try. no reason to think this isn't what they'd expect to be their next brilliant move for a federal government that's really on a roll right now. tomorrow morning, mayors from all over the country, big city mayors from places like l.a., seattle, small city mayors from places like findley, ohio, and gary, indiana, mayors from all over are going to converge first thing tomorrow morning on tornillo, texas, where the federal government set up that tent encampment to house hundreds of kids withou

for the past several years, the education department has received thousands of civil rights complaintsvictims of alleged sexual assaults saying their universities mishandled their cases, girls basketball teams seeking equal access to gymnasiums. the education department undersecretary betsy devos began dismissing complaints that placed an unreasonable burden on the department. civil rights groups allege that by doing so the education department maybe unlawfully dismissing complaints even at students and families present ample evidence of discrimination. they say this close is a critical out for students to defend their right to an education classrooms and on college campuses. larry is calling for massachusetts on our democratic line. caller: hi there. host: go ahead. caller: i am a democrat, but i vote always for the best candidate i consider best. example,ot -- for president trump has doubled the standard deduction, which i think is something very excellent. my question is about twitter. have any standards are the use of its services -- for the use of its services, such as someone sen

the headline, the merger between the department of labor and the department of education that would beled the department of education and work force. that would have to go through congress and be a major battle. the plan would call for the federal food agency, one agency overseeing the food play and restructuring the idea of the postal service being private tied. mick mulvaney spear headed this proposal at the cabinet meeting. he presented this example of solomon and why there needs to be a larger scale government reorganization. >> if you have a saltwater fish and it's in the ocean, it's governed by the department of commerce. once it gets where it's going, it a to go to the department of interior. this is stupid. >> the president loved that one. the president should be able to take some executive actions on this later in month to put it in place. make no doubt about it, congress will have their say on some of these items as well. >> i like the hot dog capable. i had no idea they were governed by two agencies. what is the reaction? >> betsy devos gave up the thumbs up. she said this p

the education department kwirmtd to news 4, it too has oversight of the d.c. licensing. a spokeswoman says theha agency s not spoken to school districts about the issue yet, but says the agency expects an update this year from d.c. officials about what they're doing to -- d.c. officials say they've already planned to tightin up requirements. >>> those government agencies the d.c. office of state superintendent of education is now monitoring the problem, by the way. >>> here are some other stories making headlines this morning. today a vote by the d.c. council could affect the of your next uber or lyft ride. councilmembers will vote on a proposal to raise the ride share tax from 1% to 6%. that money wouldo towards d.c.'s share of dedicated funding for metro. uber and lyft worry that it could drive customers . >>> prince george's county police investigating the deadly crash. ak at the scene right now in clinton at the intersection of glendale drive. police say that a motorcyclist was hit and killed by the driver of a car just before 10:00 last night. the crash caused anoth

the education department hopes they will be the answer to the pit—latrine crisis.we don't have the capacity to look after a ll don't have the capacity to look after all of us every time but what we have the responsibility to do is the learning environment in place is proper and there are good facilities. we are not failing, we might be slow, because we have built so many schools all around the country, but that has not reached some people. forjames, who is fighting for change in his community, there is no more time to waste. he doesn't want anotherfamily more time to waste. he doesn't want another family to know the pain that still haunts them so many years later. pumza fihlani, bbc news, south africa. we're getting more details about the upcoming summit between president trump and north korea's kimjong—un. the white house says the meeting will take place at 9am in singapore, on tuesday the 12th ofjune. and for a group of north korean spies living in the south, the encounter could have a very personal impact, as laura bicker reports. north korean spies were hunted

shakeup in the cards kicked the white house proposing to merge two government departments, the education departednd the labor department, details coming up, tesla suing a former employee. what is driving the legal battle, gatorade is dropping a key ingredient for the first time ever. the immigration debate, donald trump signing an executive order to end family separations and promising to keep his 0-tolerance policy intact. republican lawmakers divided over a solution. group jenkins joins us from the texas mexico border. >> the pres.'s 0-tolerance policy caused a backlash and the crisis we have seen on the border with family separations because donald trump to sign an executive order, here is what he had to say. >> it is about keeping families together while at the same time being sure that we have a powerful, strong border and border security will be equal if not greater than previously. >> the ball is in congress's court, the house expected to vote on two bills, the adership bill and conservative goodlatte bill, kevin brady says he is confident of passage. listen. >> we need a permanent solutio

jalalabad security forces shot three attackers before they that's native explosives in an education department building and fifteen afghan soldiers died fighting the taliban in condones a cease fire is expected to start when ramadan ends later this week mushtaq rame is a political and security analysts he says they are many who think go shooting with the afghan government for resolution. the president up on it's not in the government at daughter to have been announcing that there are a number of groups operating in afghanistan pursuing get men to objectives and honest on has reached an agreement to only with the taliban so they have left many other groups operating and i want us not going to group one it's of course i said and eastern afghanistan i'm going to have problems may need to be accident but it grecians are done but i still want it because they have to have strongholds and pot and headed by districts of the city but even among got abandoned are different groups there are political decision making to get a military. outfit and it is did it really just group that needs hording the talib

twelve people and injuring at least thirty others earlier three suicide bombers stormed the education department in the eastern city of jalalabad but security forces there say they managed to kill the attackers before they detonated their explosives. the un is warning of a bloodbath in the syrian province of idlib it's calling for a full investigation into government as strikes on the area which is considered a deescalation zone under an international agreement the u.n. says the fighting's leaving the two point five million people in it live with no pace to go. the united nations says italy and malta must allow six hundred migrants stranded on a rescue boat in the mediterranean to disembark a charity boat picked up the mostly african migrants in a series of operations at the weekend italy's threaten to close its ports to rescue ships and malta says it had nothing to do with the rescue operation of those are the headlines coming up next here on al-jazeera it's a documentary the system fraud forensics stay with us. this is joe berlinger calling i'm the director of that documentary about the mannin

twelve people and injuring at least thirty others earlier three suicide bombers stormed the education department in the eastern city of jalalabad but security forces there say they managed to kill the attackers before they detonated their devices and in a third incident could use fifteen members of the afghan military were killed fighting the taliban the united nations is trying to negotiate a cease fire to avert an attack by saudi amerada coalition forces on yemen's main port fighting between coalition troops and iran back to the rebels intensified near her data over the weekend and the u.n. is warning that an attack on the city could cost up to a quarter of a million lives many of them children and reports. as the u.n. lobbies to stop a saudi led coalition assault on the who the rebel held port city of hold data regional rivalries do not matter for tens of thousands like the family. their father ahmed is only worried about how to keep his six kids alive ahmed hasn't let them go to school since the worst outbreaks of defeats in color were recorded in the world hit his city the u.n. says ho data

voters of san francisco for their continued support of the public education enrichment fund which is the major funding for the vapa department. thank you to my sons and my husband of 35 years together whom i met in poland of course while teaching arts and education at the american school of warsaw for ten years. [speaking foreign language] >> and translating from polish, thank you, leshig for all your support. thank you for all of your hours and hours of support, hand holding and listening of how crazy artists can be. thank you. thank you. [applause] >> wow. >> all right. congratulations, mr. daniels, and thank you for all your service. item 6 is advisory committee reports and appointments to advisory committees by board members. item 1 out of that is our report from the c.a.c. for special education to invite our c.a.c. up for i have a daughter in transition, currently approaching her third year in transition at thurgood marshall. >> good evening. my name is aleta fisher, and i'm the chierm of the advisory committee, and i -- chairman of the advisory committee, and i'm a parent of three children. first of all, we'd like to t

security forces shot three attackers before they blew themselves up before they were inside an education department building and in condos at least fifteen afghan soldiers were killed fighting taliban. well the terrier a senior security situation is pushing afghans to take extreme measures as they call for peace dozens of people have joined the peace march that started in helmand province and will end in couple shelob ellis who points. imo these afghans will not be deterred by hate hunger distance or danger. they are walking seven hundred kilometers to the afghan capital kabul without food or water from dawn to dusk during the holy month of ramadan. if all afghans raise the same voice for peace and say no more war i'm sure we will reach a sustainable peace very soon. nine men started in the taliban stronghold of helmand province a month ago as temperatures climbed above forty degrees so did the numbers through town after town the group swelled with afghans strangers sensing a moment to be heard. i know a afghan army and security forces met us they kept their weapons down to welcome us and told us t

hundred one people who at least one million dollars in federal student loans according to the education department five years ago just fourteen people had that much more could join that group well the typical student loan borrower owes seventeen thousand dollars the number of those who at least one hundred thousand has risen to around two point five million nearly six percent of the borrowing pool according to the edge of cation department right and they know nothing about it when they go to these colleges and universities they study things that have no marketable after a college that. so you whatsoever like philosophy or. art school but they are willing to take on a million dollars in debt so that they can enter the workforce find themselves at the mercy of the government's military industrial complex that will say hey we figured out a way for you to pay off your debt become a drone operator and kill people remotely in villages across the world they're going to say this is quite multi-layered first of all we do need a dentist this guy mike maroon is an orthodontist doctors perhaps we need lawyers

twelve people and injuring at least thirty others earlier three suicide bombers to on the education department in the eastern city of jalalabad but security forces there say they managed to kill the attackers before they detonated their explosives and in a third incident including fifteen members of the afghan military were killed fighting the taliban let's speak to mushtaq rahim who's a political analyst and security specialist his via skype from afghanistan's capital kabul it was just a few days ago that the taliban and the afghan government agreed to a truce over the ied holiday at the end of the holy month of ramadan so why are we seeing a spike in violence now well as you nor there the president of iran and so on and the government authorities have been announcing that there are a number of groups operating you know one has been pursuing that when you have. a lot of saddam has reached an agreement or only with the taleban and they have many other groups who are creating you know what it's done and they're trying to impose themselves and be glad to be who look by what are not the problem b

a department of education where the head of the department of education, what's your job at the department it's to promote public schools, to try to be helpful to public schools. to protect our students who are being cheated on student loans and make sure that doesn't happen. put good regulations in place and monitor it. and what's happening? we've got someone, betsy devos, heading up the department of education who's hiring, bringing on board people who work for those for-profit colleges that have cheated students and just recently announced, hey, we're going to put somebody in charge who is going to get the right again to be able to sign off on which schools are eligible to get federal loans after having been decertified because they signed off for a bunch of for-profit colleges that were caught cheating students, costing the taxpayer and costing those students both time and in some cases an enormous amount of money. >>> and you can just keep watching this through government. the corruption of the trump administration and the twisting government. not to work anymore for the people but to

hundred one people who at least one million dollars in federal student loans according to the education department five years ago just fourteen people that much more could join that group well the typical student loan borrower owes seventeen thousand dollars the number of those who at least one hundred thousand has risen to around two point five million nearly six percent of the borrowing pool according to the edge of cation department right and they know nothing about it they cannot mix when they go to these colleges and universities they study things that have no marketable after a college value whatsoever like philosophy or. art school but they are willing to take on a million dollars in debt so that they can enter the workforce find themselves at the mercy of the government's military industrial complex that will say hey we figured out a way for you to pay off your debt become a drone operator and kill people remotely in villages across the world there i mean i say this is quite multi-layered. first of all we do need dentists this guy mike maroon is an orthodontist doctors perhaps we need lawy

hundred one people who at least one million dollars in federal student loans according to the education department five years ago just fourteen people owed that much more could join that group well the typical student loan borrower owes seventeen thousand dollars the number of those who know at least one hundred thousand has risen to around two point five million nearly six percent of the borrowing pool according to the edge occurred cation department right and they know nothing about it when they go to these colleges and universe. yes they study things that have no marketable after a college value whatsoever like philosophy or. art school but they are willing to take on a million dollars in debt so that they can enter the workforce find themselves at the mercy of the government's military industrial complex that will say hey we figured out a way for you to pay off your debt become a drone operator and kill people remotely in villages across the world they're going to say this is quite multi-layered first of all we do need a dentist this guy mike maroon is an orthodontist doctors perhaps we need l

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department of education does a lot of worker training programs and higher education. partment of labor does a lot of the same, bridge them together. we don't need both departments, they both could be scaled back and american people would be better ouch. >> you think this is a goofy idea if your idea of education has nothing to to with what kids are doing after they graduate. and any idea of being prepared for an actual job market. that is not to dismiss the humanity, but i think a lot of us would argue you a lot of universities and k-12 have lost a got of ground work of good education. important too remember is key, it not that you, ditching the goals and purposes of regulation, but get them to try to work right, you move away from command and control overlapping programs, with a lot of ways redundant, to something ha -- that is based on intelligence reforms. >> talk about stream lining them to work, your mission for department of labor, foster, promote, and develop welfare of working people to improve working conditions and enhance community for profit ike. am. >> and

i would really like to thank the leadership team in the special education department for -- for all the collaboration. i know in -- it's been a tough year of transition, and people have been working multiple jobs, but we really do appreciate the support and we're grateful for jean's leadership. and really appreciative of the fact that the district has been willing to work with the chief in her requests. as you saw in the budget, there was a significant reduction in operational expenses, and a large increase in staffing costs to be spent in f.t.e.'s in direct support of our students who have i.e.p.'s who need massive amount of supports. and considering the fact that 75% of our students with i.e.p.'s are actually served in gen ed, the more trained qualified support staff we put in place to them, the more we support our students. so thank you very much. the c.a.c. is grateful to be part of this process, and i -- as a parent, i appreciate having the ability to participate in this process. so thank you. >> thank you. commissioners? commissioner walton? >> thank you so much for this report. j

twelve people and injuring at least thirty others earlier three suicide bombers stormed the education department in the eastern city of jalalabad security forces there say they managed to kill the attackers before they detonated their explosives the un is warning of a bloodbath in the syrian province of idlib that's calling for a full investigation into government airstrikes on the area which is considered a deescalation zone under an international agreement or that eighty people have been killed during a heavy bombardment in just the past three days the u.n. says the fighting is leaving the two point five million people in and live with no place else to go. the u.n. says italy and malta must allow six hundred migrants stranded on a rescue boat in the mediterranean to disembark a charity boat picked up the mostly african migrants in a series of operations over the weekend italy has threatened to close its ports to rescue ships and wants malta to take the vessel instead but also says it has nothing to do with the rescue operation those are the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera much more news t

needed explosives in an education department building and fifteen afghan soldiers died fighting the taliban. a ceasefire is expected to start when ramadan ends later this week was shot by haim is a political analyst he says they are many groups negotiating with the afghan government for a resolution the president wanted son and the government ought to be have been announcing that there are a number of groups operating in iran has been pursuing good minute your objectives and honest on has reached an agreement only with the taleban so and they have left our many other groups who are operating in one it's not going to group one it's of course iceland eastern afghanistan i got up romans meaning to the attack site integrations are down by the i still there because they have to have strongholds and plot a nearby district of the city but even among taliban there are different groups of people decision makers that are military. and it is did it really just group that needs holding the taliban group together and then some elements against the cheating are working towards the peaceful settlement of

framework from the california department of education, the most effective intervention occurs at the first sign of difficulty and much can be accomplished with immediate action. so it is imperative that all students learning to read in sfusd have access to evidence-based instruction and foundational reading skills, and that universal screening for markers of dyslexia is a priority. students with signs of dyslexia must have access to structured literacy at first signs of difficulty. the e.l.a. and e.l.d. framework for california and the california dyslexia guidelines were developed to support districts in instituting best practices and ensuring access and equity for all learners. so let's all ground our decision making in these documents to assure that students have the learning opportunities they deserve to unlock literacy. thank you. >> thank you. before the next speaker, aleta fisher. >> yes? >> so you have a card here for public comment and for -- to speak on the c.a.c. special ed. [inaudible] >> okay. so it's not -- doesn't have -- okay. got it. thank you. >> i can get up and tal

. >> laura: i worked with the transportation department and the education department and in the whiteouse. the under-secretary positions are so important. you have bad people you for big trouble. jeff, react to paul ryan today in his weekly press conference jumped on the gaudy spy wagon. let's watch. >> [inaudible]. >> [muffled audio. >> i don't like to comment, let me say it this way. i think his initial assessments are accurate but have more diging to do. >> laura: that's an understatement. a lot of documents are missing. no spy. what is your reaction to that? >> well, my reaction is this has always been 2 different aproaches. when the democrats apparatus was penetrated by people outside of this country the fbi warned them together. that's not the way they handled the republican side of the coin. they decided to go ahead and call it entrapment. they didn't go into them as american citizens and say, listen, we have foreign entits trying to penetrate this and corrupt the process. they handled the republicans differently than the democrats. no excuse for that. >> laura: thanks so much.