joining me now, randi weingarten, president of the american federation of teachers. randi, welcome. it's great to see you, even though we are seeing each other through a screen. let's go right to it. college board, announcing those changes on wednesday, that no longer includes lesson on the movement of black lives, and readings from any contemporary, keywords and concepts removed from the curriculum, such as institutional racism, queer theory, and mass incarceration. what is your take on these revisions? >> i was disappointed with the revisions. just for your information, those revisions actually happened. let me take a step back, reverent. i taught this class, i'm a big believer in these courses. i'm a really big believer in making sure that we have the ap african american studies course. it's not a history of course, it's a studies course. it's beyond history. in schools across the country. and so of course i was disappointed with these things. basically there is one mention of -- bumblebee of a class basis. i thought that was very undermining as well. i thought we needed to have

. >> we have shortages of cops and firemen, this last month, randy weingarten, she flames teacher shortagesure wars. >> not a surprise that teacher unions are doing this. they are one of worst actors in covid crisis, work with cdc, it is not based on science what they did, masking up young kids have low risk of covid some people, justn 't to want to boss others, you see the human cost of people that lost their jobs. for not wanting to take a shot that violated their conscience. this is outrage ours bill barr said, there is no pandemic excepttion to the constitution. he is right. you can look a lot of people that made a high price for what the teachers union add voy kataadda advocated. as michael points out they don't represent the teacher themselves, some don't walk in lockstep with the union. elizabeth: you have been all over this. this was an emergency use vaccine. fda advisers were worried about it they are now red flagging with signals of side affects. but michael caine, when you hear all this, and you heard that teacher and firefighter, what is your reaction? >> i know rangal and brend

happening in america, teachers will be on board the talking heads won't like it that even then randi weingartento have schools succeed because it shows the rank-and-file teachers are succeeding and that's what we should all want. >> very beautifully put in the new charter schools we will see later in the shell. so last week i was blasted on instagram for telling the truth about that instagram tried to do dodge accountability by blaming the fact checking process of "usa today" so outrageously until we talked about it on the show last sunday and now directly to the editor-in-chief now miraculously the very next day we did get a response from the fact check editor thank you for reaching out we will deny your appeal for the following reasons. stating the biden administration wants to ban gas stoves but they were on the record directly contradicting this proposed or enacted bands of gas does from local governments that the biden administration wants to ban a gas stove. >> so the on the record statements contradicting it so that is the fact check? there are on the record statements from republican le

. >> ashley: teachers union president randi weingarten took the stage amid her opposition with ron desantisown hall. >> todd: a maine mother says her daughter wadvised to wear a breast binder and to not tell her parents. >> who did not feel like our own bodies -- putting kids on path of gender transition -- >> your time is up. >> i will ask that you stick to issues at hand and not do speculation around health and well being at this meeting. >> todd: the mother demanding action, amber lavine is here. a chest binder is a medical device used to flatten breasts in females who are uncomfortable with the appearance of their chest. the timeline is important here. walk us through what happened. >> sure. so early december, i found a breast binder in my daughter's bedroom. i expressed concern about this, they agreed and expressed grave concern and they scaled back and defended the social worker. >> have you heard from the school since? >> not really other than the letters that the school board has released to the public. >> todd: here is the problem, this should be an issue for you and your daughter,

. >> dana: randi weingarten no place to be found. you mentioned ukraine, he remember?just that but many other places and we need to focus as a country corporate america needs to come at the schools need to figure it out right away. the last 20 years we went away from teaching the phonetic method. they went to this whole thing up like we are going to teach it in no way. the new way is not working and we have evidence of that. the reading side the woman who created, my bad, sorry but what happened during covid, parents were like, oh, wait, my kids can't read? so where are all the squad members talk about in the quality of education? because families that have the means will hire a tutor. but a young black kid in baltimore whose mom may be working two jobs? she can't do that. and there is a new governor in maryland, wes moore, an amazing guy and he will do a lot for the city. but there is a whole problem with the system. charles payne was on "america's newsroom" and go back and watch the interview. we posted it, moving and powerful and interesting things to say and concer

. >> todd: teachers union president randi weingarten taken the stage and her battle with florida governor hands on critical race theory. neither crt or parental involvement and curriculum were mentioned at all during the town hall, ash. >> ashley: a shocking accusation of federal overreach as the city reportedly flagged for fingerprints of unvaccinated teachers to the fbi. an attorney representing educators talking about it in federal court. listen to this. >> when the city puts problem codes on employees terminated because advanced constitutional policies not only do they have us in their file but fingerprints sent to the fbi and new york criminal justice service. so when ampex ongoing ability to get employment at other places. >> ashley: michael kang two new york city teachers fired over the covid mandate and a investigative reporter join us now. thank you for giving up with us but i want to go to you first. you were fired for refusing to get the covid shot. does this mean because of the state of new york it is for children who have to get their fingerprints taken? does this mean you we

education, nothing good there, school closures, chronically declining academic standards, randi weingartenbig friends with the president and first lady, he will have a hard time trying to be the education president tonight. remember the gallup poll from last week which showed the top concern of voters is government. this president is all government all the time, biden may try to tout his new green world, that gallup poll is a warning voters don't care for the kind of government biden has brought us. what the president will do is go on the attack, surely more than one mention of mega himag republicans, wicked billionaires and greedy corporations. and make false claims likely cut the deficit by trillion dollars, he inherited a terrible economy and high inflation, none of that is true but if you say it often enough some people will believe it. here's what you will see. the annual farce of members of congress up and down every few minutes to show support. i'm not going to watch. second hour of varney just getting started. jason chaffetz with us on tuesday morning. i don't expect a hear much ab

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. >> judge jeanine: you know, dana, randi weingarten said that -- she assured us that critical race theoryt being taught in the schools and she calls governor desantis a race baiter. >> dana: yeah. that was actually my first point i was going to make is for years i said crt's not even happening but now they're upset because it's not happening? is that what you're upset about. as for governor newsome, he didn't say -- he didn't even write it's bs, he wrote the full word. >> greg: no. >> dana: yes, he did. >> greg: what did you do when you saw it dana. >> dana: i was outraged. >> greg: did you wash your eyes out? >> dana: no >> judge jeanine: i did. that's why my eyes --. >> dana: i just feel like he looks like he's flailing. if you have to write that in a tweet that's not leadership you look pitiful and it will be interesting to see if he goes to south carolina to compete in a democratic primary in either 24 or 28 because i don't think most people want to go for that kind of leadership. and it's not just because of the cursing, it's just because of this being unhinged. also, the last thing