school boards. yes, in fact, the national school board association sent a letter, but what became increasingly clear is that it was in collusion with the white house seeking the letter. that has become readily clear from the emails that we have gotten through freedom of information act requests. that the biden white house was seeking the national school board association to have that kind of a letter request in order that they, the biden administration, be able to target scott smith and other parents around this country. every american should shudder at the power of the government, the federal government, being targeted at parents for daring to stand up and defend a daughter who is abused in a path room in the loudoun county public schools. by the way, the superintendent in loudoun has been indicted. this is the truth. yet this administration wanted to make scott smith the bad guy. not the rapist. not the school board that allowed this to occur in the schools in loudoun county. it's not just parents. what about bunny pounds and the christian organization, the i.r.s. was targeting their nonprofit sta

school board meetings. the national school board organization had a letter to merrick garland saying they were like terrorists. >> he is writing to the former interim executive director of the national school boards association. our request that you appear promptly for a transcribed entire interview. we will obtain your testimony. republicans are eager to dig into the justice department's monitoring of parents at school board meetings and wrote to president biden on september 29, 2021, asked help with parents raising concerns about covid lockdowns and curriculum changes at school board meeting suggesting the parental push back could be a form of hate crimes or domestic triskaid triskaidekaphobia -- terrorism. >> mr. jones is thinking about talking at the school board meeting. maybe i won't go and speak up. i know mrs. smith had a visit from the f.b.i. last week. first amendment free speech is what we care about. this committee is about protecting the constitution and in particular the first amendment. >> the white house is signaling cooperation. counsel to the president wrote to jordan last week looking forward to engaging with you and your staff in good faith in the constitutionally mandated accommodation p

we saw parents arrested at school board meetings, we saw the national school board association send a formal request to the fbi asking that they investigate irate parents potentially as to mystic terrorists. what i think republicans are doing appropriately is saying we have to have guardrails about what is and is not considered civil liberty for parents and families and taxpayers. honestly, the federal government requires the folks who made household appliances provide extensive information on use of energy, potential climate impact appeared when you buy a new car, there's federal standards about what is to be reported. the idea that public schools shouldn't make a good-faith effort to inform the public, here's the books we are going to read to this year, the curriculum we will be using, so that parents can be informed in advance and so we can have public conversations or debates when we disagree. it strikes me as appropriate. after the last couple years, it's a necessary response. host: here is a viewer and florida who says, and florida, they said to go to the school board meetings,

school board meetings that is the division dealing with terrorism and the department of justice. they were doing that and it was prompted by the letter sent from the left-wing national school board associationthen five days later he has the memo with the accompanying press release talk about the national security division and then after our hearing the school board association apologize because it's a how bad it was for them politically. and i would not be surprised if someone from the campaign called the white house to say we have to do something because ten days before the election this isn't playing well. when you have that typet of scenario playing out with the justice department one of the things we have to focus on if we get power is what we will do foror parents and kids helping them get the right type of education a good education versus the urban areas the graduation rate is terrible and those reading at grade level is so low. that's a key element as we move forward. >> what do you say to americans who are concerned right now? are in a small business dealing with mandates we don't have any branch of government are these mandates constitutional? is there a remedy for small businesse

school boards. yes, in fact, the national school board association sent a letter, but what became increasingly clear is that it was in collusion with the white house seeking the letter. that has become readily clear from the emails that we have gotten through freedom of information act requests. that the biden white house was seeking the national school board association to have that kind of a letter request in order that they, the biden administration, be able to target scott smith and other parents around this country. every american should shudder at the power of the government, the federal government, being targeted at parents for daring to stand up and defend a daughter who is abused in a path room in the loudoun county public schools. by the way, the superintendent in loudoun has been indicted. this is the truth. yet this administration wanted to make scott smith the bad guy. not the rapist. not the school board that allowed this to occur in the schools in loudoun county. it's not just parents. what about bunny pounds and the christian organization, the i.r.s. was targeting their nonprofit sta

poppa bear's and on the other side is what we are called, domestic terrorists by the national school board associationemacist. just last last thursday night i spoke to our school board and the school board chair kept interrupting me. we are told to shut up and sit down because wet, we are not. >> cj these parents have every right to be able to speak out about people who are affecting the lives of their children. >> you're exactly right. it's incredibly clear our schools have fallen to an absolute state of crisis. i'm 20 years old. i was in high school not too long ago but it's unrecognizabl to me. like drag queen story outdoors critical race theory this is absolutely why parents are battering down the doors to the school board meetings. as you said, they have every right to. these are taxpayers. >> in your neck of the woods, steve desk gondo is using an ap called a signal in that text messages to stop people from being able to get these access to these records through freedo of information act. he says the following, on disk him using signal quoting one screenshot shows him his team members and notify

cooperate, counsel to president wrote last week: >> adding: reporter: no response from national school board association now. parents defending education president and founder nicole neely, your reaction to that report. we were reporting on this too, we had you as a guest, the implication was that school board parents were so upset they threatened to kill school board members, what do you make of that side of the story? >> it was interesting, we filed the public records request that showed there was collusion between biden administration and national school boards so yais sosiaassociation prior to the letter release. there is a lot of egg in the face, they retracted their letter, department of justice has not. not. >> is there proof that parents threaten to kill school board members? >> we have yet to see any. there is no place for violence in this. but many were taken out of context. one thing we found from some school board members, happened in state, they said we wish you had contacted us and asked us for more information they they didn't or like that letter was sent. elizabeth: let's look at what ha

mayor garland said in the hearing it was prompted by the letters sent from the left-wing national school board associationon september 2, '95 days later he does his memo with the accompanying press release talking about the national security division in the day after our hearing two weeks ago the school board association apologized for the letter so they saw how bad this was for them politically, they saw what was happening. i wouldn't be surprised if someone from the color campaign called the white house and said we got to do something, this is 10 days before that election, we got to do something, this isn't playing well. when you have that scenario playing out with the justice department doing that at the prompting of a left-wing political organization, one of the things we have to focus on if we get power is what we are going to do for parents, what we are going to do for kids, helping them get the right kind of education, a good education versus this one in so many urban areas, graduation rate is terrible and kids reading at grade level is so low, that's the key element as we move forward. >> what do

school board meeting. they were, in fact, doing that, and it was all prompted, merrick garland said this in that hearing, it was all prompted from the left-wing letter from the national school board association. five days later he does his memo talking about the national security division, and the day after ourna hearing two weeks a, the day after our hearing the school board association apologized for that letter, because they saw how bad this wass for hem politically, hay sw what was happening -- i wouldn't be surprised if someone from the mcauliffe campaign called the white house and said, hey, we gotta do something, because this is just ten days before, i think, the election. when you have that that kind of scenario playing out with the justice department doing that at prompting of a left-wing political organization, one of the things we have to really focus on if we get power is what we're going to do for parents, what we're going to do for kids helping them get the right kind of education, a good education versus this one where today in so many of our urban areas the graduation rate's terrible and kids reading at grade level is so low. so i think that's a key element as we move forward

garland said in the hearing it was all prompted by the letter sent by the left-wing national school board associationeptember 25 days later the memo with the accompanying press release talk about the national securitylk division. in the day after our hearing schoolboard association apologized for that letter. theyad saw how bad this was for them politically, they saw what was happening but i would not be surprised if someone from the campaign called the white house and said we have got to do somethingg. ithis is 10 days before that election. we've got to do something this is not playing well. when the you have that sort of scenario playing out the justice department doing that the prompting of a left-wing political organization at one of the things thate the focus on if you get power is what we are going to do for parents. what we are going to do for kids helping them get the right kind of education, a good education versus this one today so many of our urban areas a graduation rate is terrible. and kids reading at grade level is so low. that is a a key element as we me forward. >> what you say to am

was brought in along with the national school board association, they court maded and -- coordinated and said let's label him a domestic terrorist. we are funding the department of homeland security that wants to continue to create -- execute policies that invite more people to come to our border, endangering them and us. the reason you care about discretionary spending is because it funds the policies of government, of the bureaucracy. of the administrative state that undermines our well-being, undermines our prosperity. we have the opportunity now, right now, as republicans, to lead the house of representatives forward to change. we should, in fact, change. last week was a monumental step forward to changing this institution, to overwhelming it up -- opening it out of play, to allowing rank anne file members to have -- rang-and-file members to have a say. putting more diversity on our committees. having more debate in committees. coming down to the floor and fighting for the people that we represent. but all of that will be for nought, if we don't embrace wholeheartedly the mission

we saw parents arrested at school board meetings, we saw the national school board association send amal request to the fbi asking that they investigate irate parents potentially as domestic terrorists. i think the republicans are quite appropriately saying that we have to have guardrails about what is and is not considered civil liberties. and, look, honestly the federal government requires that folks who make household appliances provide extensive information on use of energy or potential climate impact. when you buy a new car there are federal standards about what is to be reported about gas mileage and safety. the idea that public schools that serve children should not -- should make a good-faith effort to inform the public that these are the books we are reading, here is the curriculum materials that we will be using so that parents can be informed in advance to make their educational decisions and so that we can have public conversations and debate when we disagree. it strikes me as wholly appropriate and after the last couple of years, a necessary response. host: here is a view