randi weingarten is the president of the american federation of teachers. all right. to make a quick clarification about a segment we did earlier in the show about the great nadir, the racist backlash to the reconstruction era after the civil war and the end of slavery, and the argument that we are experiencing a second nadir now, a backlash to racial progress. in that segment, i spoke with nikole hannah-jones, and i read from a boston review article by this man, nb connolly, who's a history professor at johns hopkins university, and i inadvertently attributed some of the passages from this man from from connolly to nikole hannah-jones. we did correct it at the time, but that was our error. i am going to post a link to his article. this our second nadir on all my social media accounts, and we're grateful to him for writing such a thoughtful article. that does it for me. thank you for watching. catch me back here every saturday and sunday morning from 10 a.m. to noon eastern, and follow me on threads, blue sky, linkedin, and mastodon where i post daily inside with jen

griff gruff but, corey, randi weingarten says this is a direct attack on public schools. >> look, the money belongs to the parents and the taxpayers. it's for the kids. education funding is meant for educating children, not for protecting a particular institution it's time to fund students, not systems. and guess what? the public schools are going to be fine. there's a lot of great public schools out there, and families are going to continue to send their children to those institutions. so randi weingarten's just worried about her knot of $500,000 -- north of $500,000 a year paycheck, and she's worried about the money that she's going to funnel to the democrat party which is a wholely-owned sub subsidiary of the teachers union. her union funneled 90% of the campaign contributions to the democrat party in 2024. that's too bad for randi, but great news for parents, kids and even teachers. griff: that's not the only executive order the president signed this week. another sought to get critical race theory out of curriculum -- curriculums. corey deangelis, thank you for taking time to joi

joining me right now is the president of that union, randi weingarten. randi, great to see you.hat is it about? >> great to be. >> with you. thank you. so what is it about this executive order that you find really potentially harmful? >> so because you can't rob from peter to pay paul, if you want. to create other options which have been available for kids forever. i mean, when i was growing up, we had parochial schools. i had friends that went to parochial schools, people had scholarships for parochial schools. if you want to do that, then find other means to do that. don't take it from the kids who are going to public schools. and in fact, when this went to the voters in three states this year, two of those three states voting for donald trump, they overwhelmingly voted against taking public monies that are needed for the 90% of the kids that go to public schools and giving them somewhere else. and in fact, in the voucher programs we have right now, what we've seen is that they divest money from public schools like in florida and arizona, and the people that use them are basic

american federation of teachers president randi weingarten says will hurt public school students so that0% of the kids >> go to public schools because of the big weingarten says the push for school choice won't help the students who need help. the kids that are basically going to these voucher schools. >> but our people have already been there. donald says he expects to see school choice legislation in the upcoming government funding package in washington. i'm maddie biertempfel. >> trump administration officials are reportedly taking steps to fire certain fbi agents and prosecutors involved in investigations related to trump in the january. 6th riots at the capitol sources with the associated press say the administration is working to identify participated in what they call politically sensitive investigations for potential termination. similarly, a top justice department official ordered the dismissal of prosecutors involved in the cases against writers charged in the january 6th incident. this comes just days after trump pardoned more than 1500 in vivid individuals charged with federa

american federation of teachers president randi weingarten says will hurt public school students so that 90% of the kids go to public schools because the big weingarten says the push for school choice won't help the students who need help. the kids are basically going to these voucher schools. >> our people have already been there. donald says he expects to see school choice legislation in the upcoming government funding package in washington. i'm maddie biertempfel. >> the trump administration is reportedly taking steps to fire certain fbi agents and prosecutors involved in investigations related to president trump in the january. 6th riots at the capitol sources with the associated press say the administration is working to identify fbi agents who participated in politically sensitive investigations for potential termination. similarly, the top justice department official ordered the dismissal of prosecutors involved in cases against people who charge to january 6 capitol riot. this comes just days after trump pardoned more than 1500 people charged with federal recall federal crimes re