american federation of teachers head randi weingarten, a pal of biden. stay there. aliens are real, alright. there's just too much evidence. but ghosts? not so much. i mean where's the proof? show me the data. ooh, iced tea! kill weeds not the lawn with roundup for lawns products. >> i do want to debunk this myth that teacher unions, at least our union, doesn't want to reopen schools. >> my union has been trying to reopen school since last april. we know how important in school learning is. if we care about our kids enough, let's make sure that we have these guardrails. this time. >> it's a complicated issue. it's complicated. randi weingarten. >> thank you. >> they care about the kids. >> they care about them a lot. >> laura: i love it when an anchor says it's a complicated issue. yes, it is, everything is complicated. teachers really want to go back to school? despite the loss of an entire year of in person learning teachers unions are still not playing ball. that sound that we played from randi weingarten, head of the 1.7 million member american federation of tea

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randy weingarten was the shadow education secretary today. patrolling the language at the events. doesn't want the teachers back in school until they get the $170 billion payout from the covid relief bill. bad news. >> laura: leaning in to the child and saying what are you reading? like what are you wearing? kids, the kids are very intimidated by all this star power. dr. biden is in the house. they are intimidated. >> awkward. >> laura: it would have been great if they said, "well, dr. seuss." where is biden, by the way? as in the president. >> he hasn't held a press conference after 43 days in office. no president in 100 years has done. he restricted to tightly controlled events like the bipartisan cancer meeting in the oval today. the press was shoved out after a few minutes. when biden does speak, he offers addresses. here is what i mean. >> the vice president and i are of the view we can make significant strides. uh, fighting cancer and and other diseases, uh, if we take u.h. a slightly different approach. what i'm talking about today is uh how we go about -- >> laura: my god.

randi weingarten is president of the american federation of teachers. good to see you. back on the show. >> you too, chris. nice to see you. >> how big a deal is the vaccine improvement in the protocol by biden? >> look, it's huge. but even beforehand, we had just done some polling of our members. and about 20% to 25% had gotten vaccines already. the really good news is 70% of our members really want it. and want it quickly. and so we are overcoming vaccine hesitancy, particularly in our black and brown membership. and so this was, no pun intended, a shot in the arm when president biden, you know, said this yesterday about vaccines. but what leana wen, dr. wen said was really important, which is there is a road map. it's basically three things right now. it's the laird mitigation that cdc has told us is needed. it's the testing that the nfl and march madness and others have done because so much of the transmission of the vaccine -- of covid is asymptomatic. and then what vaccines do, and this is really important, we don't know yet if they stop transmission. what we know

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however recommending six feet of distance between adults in the building teachers unions chief randy weingartenssue is that this is being driven by space concerns, not by safety concerns. we got to read studies got to see what it really means, and i just hope this is not a rush, to put in twice as many desks in a place starting to get things reopened. rachel: you have been interviewing so many on "fox & friends" sinned this pandemic started do unions have a legitimate concern right here or do you think more, of -- hot air from them to get what they want. >> i mean seems like their concerns have mouptdz to keep adding concerns to the list that we he saw parents express every week the same story you have mothers saying i haven't been able to work i haven't been able to do what i need to be able to support families because they can't get kids in school, some kids in school part-time hybrid go a day week two days a week a couple days a week whatever the ways maybe different scenario but give me the option, to put my kids in school if i feel like, my parents my kids are safe at school that is all pa

everyone except those pesky teachers unions for the american federation of teachers president randi weingartenned a letter tuesday saying they are not convinced braid the evidence proves 3 feet apart is safe although the world health organization and the american academy of pediatrics and the head of the cdc also the same thing principle the white house ever stop caving to teachers union demands? or will vulnerable student become the crossfire and definitely customer joined me to it discuss cato institute scholar and director of school choice, corey deangelis is here, welcome back corey prospect sent thanks much for having me. kennedy: they say they filed the science, there is the science 3 feet that is good. why are they insisting that 3 feet is not scientific enough for them to return to the classroom? why don't they want to go back? i do not understand. >> it's kind of funny a lot of the people who said follow the signs once they don't like the results of what the science study said they to their tune a little bit braid the whole school ripping debate for the entire last year has been more

the american federation of teachers, their president at least randi weingarten is not buying what youg we are not convinced that the evidence supports changing physical distancing requirements at this time. our concern is that cited studies do not reveal the baseline mitigation strategies needed to support three feet of physical distancing. they don't want to come back 3 feet of physical distancing. do share concern of american federation of teachers. they don't seem to follow. the 6 feet was never really science in the first place. with that being said, i'm very capable of following the incentive and it's very clear that these teachers' unions simply do not want to get back in the classroom. whether or not it be 6 feet, 3 feet, mask mandate or no mask mandate. they have had every opportunity to get back to work and at every opportunity the answer is no. rachel: they pass this massive bill which i call extortion, right? our kids are hostage. we give them the money, and they still don't take care of the kids in the classroom. brit hume was on last night on prime time with brian kilmead

. >> reporter: the american federation of teachers president randi weingarten says the union is reserving judgment for now. why not trust the cdc's guidance? >> we have to figure out in all these schools right now which have been set up for six feet physical distancing how this is going to work. >> reporter: and the updated cdc guidance says that six-feet distancing still should be maintained between adults, that's teachers and staffers, and then adults and children and at times when masks cannot be worn. and the cdc notes it's really up to schools in collaboration with state and local health officials to determine how to implement its considerations and to what extent. michelle? >> thank you so much. >>> jury selection continues in the upcoming murder trial of derek chauvin. he's the former minneapolis police officer accused of killing george floyd in custody last year. on friday, the judge rejected a defense request to delay or move the trial, but as omar villafranca reports, he is allowing evidence that shows floyd's arrest in 2019. >>> keep your hands where i can [ bleep ] see them! >

know if we have stock pictures or not, you want a face of why your kid is not in school, it's randi weingarten at 6 feet you're good. at a 5, you're bad. at 7 you're really good. it was always meant to give you a sense of space. so to flip from 6 to 3 and now magically think it's going to open, of course it's not. not enough for her union, not enough for her teachers, there's more to extract from this crisis before these kids -- and summer's coming too. if we can hold out til summer, we don't have to come back until september. none of it has to do with science. it's made up, and if you believed the 6-foot thing to begin with, then you bought into it. jedediah: yeah, just one quick point, guys. a lot of parents have left the system, and they've had to figure other things out. they've had to look into home schooling. they don't want to go back because they feel they're going into a system that is not driven by science, and they don't like some of these new protocols. they feel like school has changed in those settings, and it's not back to what it was before, and there isn't enough of a degree o