and governor youngkin wants to take action.ools to notify parents and awardees once they learn about them. cnn's athena jones joins us now. what are the schools saying about why they failed to notify the students and their parents about these awards? >> reporter: well, fairfax public schools is saying they believe this was a human error, a one-time thing. they do not believe this was something that was done intentionally. it was more like an oversight. i've also heard from several of the parents and officials i've been talking to that the national merit scholarship corporation sends these notifications about commendations, those are basically honorable mentions. students who made the top 50,000 in this competition. top 50,000 students. they send those certificates by snail mail, sometimes with just the name of the school on the envelope or just principal without the principal's name. there are a lot of stories we're hearing about things getting lost in the mail but bottom line, fairfax county public schools said they're going t

what did the parents want and governor youngkin said we are going to put through legislation to makeillegal to do what happened to your son. what do parents really want here? >> parents want to be involved. they don't want to be left in the dark. they want a seat at the table, they want to have a voice in what he is going on in their public school system. this is something that governor youngkin ran on, his parents matter campaign and you are seeing the parents demanding it in all aspects. >> john: we hope your son gets into the school he wants to when he used to go to college. thanks for sharing your story. >> sandra: bill bennett, i imagine you have a lot of thoughts on this. perhaps you could spell it out for the audience. what do you see is at stake here, with schools now willing to scrap merit awards, merit scholarships for the sake of equity. >> well, what a great refreshing and candid guest there, and a lot of life here. you know, justice brandise said sunlight is the best disinfectant, and thanks to parents and fox we are getting sunlight on the problem. underlying this is mo

a little asterisk for governor youngkin.olitics for the richmond times dispatch. i know there that where you have a governor who can only have four years, that makes it harder to run for president because he just got elected. he has only four years. he can't run for reelection. that's a very short time to compile a record. makes it a lot tougher to travel around to iowa, new hampshire, and other early states. >> yeah, first of all, richmond times dispatch, great newspaper. that remains so strange that you can't run for reelection in virginia. mike, "axios," you and your colleagues have crunched years worth of gallop numbers on party affiliation. you found some interesting things. tell us about it. >> yeah, jonathan, this is super interesting and very actionable for both parties. we're calling it the youth declaration of independence. and that is only a third of baby boomers, older voters, say that they are independents. but half of younger voters, gen z, and millennials say that they are independent. and look at this graphic

the relentless pursuit of equity that would damage the prospects of students. >> glenn youngkin's newmes as more schools implicating for failing to notify students about the national merit awards pure georgia state high school is the latest to admit to delaying notifications and national merit scholarship awards to students. the school's principles apologizing saying, "as soon as this was notified, we notified all impacted families in contacting where the students applied to inform them that national merit scholarship accommodations." there is a total of 17 schools under investigation by attorney general jason in three separate counties, eight schools in fairfax county's with five in loudoun county. those schools are hitting the students the hardest, listen. >> they withheld national merit awards from them. this is criminal. they are just terrorizing us as parents. the school board members across the country have gotten this memo that parents are the bad guys. >> many of the schools under investigation by the state have blamed clerical and administrative errors for delay in notifying

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reminds me of glenn youngkin and mcauliffe. mcauliffe said, i don't think parents should be telling kids what they should teach. not just virginia, all over the country. we spoke to an educator last hour, here is had to say to todd, watch this. >> it should be a parent and school partnership and it is really not. in our district in upper arlington, transparency has been a problem, they have their agenda, they get caught reading books without telling inner pas and they say they are going to do an investigation, but nothing happens, no consequences for teachers or staff. you can say you don't have a class that is called critical race theory, when you use the terminology of white privilege, that is under the umbrella and we have social emotional learning, which crt is through that, as well. we have to constantly be on them. >> todd: these are my kids, our kids, not the children of the state. the state is an employee of the parents, parents pay tax dollars, tax dollars gr to school and the dollars educate kids, not forcing views on

i want to put glenn youngkin's quote on the screen.the decision saying they have a maniacal focus, and stretching and recognizing we have students that have different capabilities. what is your reaction to this decision that is affecting a lot of students. this is seven schools, accounts for 25% of the high schools in fairfax county with thomas jefferson high school, the top performing public school in the united states, vivek. >> this is deeply personal to me. my parents came to this country over 40 years ago with almost no money. the only way i was in a single generation to found multi-billion dollar companies, ahead on the basis of merit. i was one of those kids in high school and it made a difference to me, to my family to get ahead in the country, and pursue excellence, and what we see in the country and culture, an assault on excellence itself and even in the school setting, a thought experiment, if you applied the same principles on the basketball court or in the football field, we would not have sports left anymore. we should n

i can't imagine governor youngkin will give up. >> i'm sure he will not.is is just the beginning, i'm telling you i'm in for the fight of my life for me, my daughters, my granddaughters. we will not rest, we will not allow the commonwealth to be turned back. we want to be a safe haven for pregnant people in virginia, we also want to be a place where people from outside of the commonwealth of virginia can come and have access to safe affordable reproductive healthcare. so, i'm sure they're not going to quit, but neither are we. we're going to continue to fight until we codify reproductive rights for all virginians and anybody who wants to come to virginia to find safe and affordable healthcare. >> what do you hear from constituents. this is the position, i looked at public polling. this is the position, glenn youngkin said it, not just of democrats in the commonwealth, independents, a lot of republicans as well. >> we have been receiving emails and text messages and phone calls, you would not believe the magnitude of the calls and messages that we received

. >> governor glenn youngkin saying, quote: the schools have a focus on equal outcomes. >> what they have done is disincentivized hard work. >> banning gas powered cars but wyoming flipping the script of republican lawmakers there proposed a bill that would end cv sales. >> supporting our industries that have been around for 100 years. >> cut protection. the pass wide open. touchdown lamb. >> on behalf of all football fans is thank you and appreciate the memories. what a career. ♪ ain't no singing over me. >> something doesn't feel the same. >> good morning, it is tuesday, many people had yesterday off. so if you did, you have enjoyed your long weekend, welcome back. we're glad to be back together. you are looking at the bucs and cowboys games the bucks lost to the cowboys final score 31-14. what is tom brady going to do is he come back? >> brian: sounded like a guy thanking the fans and thanking the organization. sounded like a guy not coming back to tampa, that's for sure. what's so bad for working for fox that you would still play tackle football. they will not tackle you once you

governor youngkin ran on changing that system.ear he has the power to do that right now but this is what that is part of. >> we'll watch the fight as it plays out, athena, grateful for that. let's bring in the room. it happens at a time. let's start with glen young kip, a number of these republican governors who may have ambitions, say the 2024 presidential race, maybe higher office, he's been quiet for some time and did campaign a lot in the 2022 midterms around the country. back at his race, he made -- he raised education, economy, job, 33, he got it up to 24% by focusing on critical race theory. the question is, where is he taking this? >> yeah, i mean he talks about the maniacal focus on equity. i think from him there is a maniacal focus on higher office, whether he wants to run for senate. that's what it's all about. his continuation of his run for governor all about the so-called woke folks taking over the school system. which, again, we've seen this from republicans before, right? it was the gays were going to ruin marriage

governor glenn youngkin joins us how to explain. to the first story, it turns out this cover-up was real. is that what you discovered? >> yeah, absolutely, tucker. first of all, happy new year. virginia still continues to be absolutely at ground zero when it comes to standing up for parents' rights with their children, for recognizing that kids need their parents and their lives, and for standing up for excellence. that's exactly what we found in loudoun county. i ordered this investigation on day one of our administration, and our attorney general went to work. oh, by the way, the democrats immediately condemned it, saying it was all political. the reality was the loudoun county school board worked to cover this up. these poor young women should have never been assaulted and the superintendent has fired appropriately and indicted. this is the work that comes when we shine a bright light on these heinous cover-ups that we know are going on. now we see, in fairfax county, violations of civil liberties, where we have students who had

. >> dana: glenn youngkin calling for an investigation into a top high school there in the state.rs are accused of withholding important test scores to protect the feelings of lower-performing students. mike emanuel has the story. hi, mike. >> we expect an update at the top of the hour from virginia's attorney general after governor youngkin issued a call for an investigation saying quote, we need to get to the bottom of what appears to be a deliberate attempt to disadvantage high-performing students at one of the best schools in the country. after reports national merit awards determined by student psat scores were withheld from thomas jefferson students until after important deadlines for college scholarships passed. the lieutenant governor says the equity push sends students a terrible message. >> it teaches them that in school anyway you get a participation trophy for everybody. life is going to hit them very hard because life isn't waiting for anyone. either you are prepared or you are not. >> some parents rallied outside thomas jefferson, the public high school last night. f

governor glenn youngkin has to propose a new law too make it mandatory public schools notify parent whennts win national married awards? 17 schools doing that 1000 students involved. all in the name of fairness and equity. schools cite human error. 17 is intentional. it's a pattern. lydia hu in new york with more on the story. lydia? >> reporter: good evening liz. the superintendent of fairfax public schools is continuing her public meetings with parent and she is apologizing acknowledging that trust must be rebuilt. when we first heard about the delay in notifying students of their merit status it was called a unique situation and blamed on human error but now we're getting a very different message. watch. >> i would venture a guess it is not unique to northern virginia. it just happens to be the we're in the middle of conversation right now. >> reporter: virginia governor glenn youngkin promises new legislation to require schools to notify students and parents immediately of awards and scholarship opportunities. for some family it is too late. >> what i didn't know, martha, that fall,

. >> governor glenn youngkin saying quote the schools have maniacal focus on equal outcomes. >> whathey have done is disincentivized hard work. >> border agents quarter of a million migrants. >> also 65,000 known got-aways in december. >> this is cause for celebration for this administration. >> they are doing everything they can to encourage this. >> todd: growing number of democrat states are banning gas powered cars wyoming flipping the script of republican lawmakers there proposed a bill that would end ev sales. >> supporting our industries that have been around for 100 years. >> good protection and the pass wide open, touchdown, lamb. >> on behalf of all football fans is thank you and appreciate the memories. what a career. ♪ all you got to keep strong ♪ move along ♪ move along ♪ like i know you do ♪ >> brian: that's a body of water. that's a strip of water. that's water and a lot of land. and that's providence, rhode island, the capital of rhode island smallest state with a lot of big people. >> steve: what do you mean big people? >> brian: tall people and by the way one of our

enrichment i will work with governor youngkin to get tough on violent crime. >> meanwhile the democrat virginia beach city council member and former nfl player aaron rouse centered his campaign on protecting reproductive rights and republican extremism. >> when i was in the nfl, my job was to be the last line of defense. right now, this is what we needed richmond. extreme republicans are trying to take away the right to choose in virginia. rolling back women's freedom to make their own personal medical decisions. i'm erin rouse. women's race are on the line, but i will never back down. >> all this comes in the context of glendale can spread puzzle for a ban on abortion after 15 weeks, just introduced by republican lawmakers today. the governor said he would go even further than that, telling a christian lobbying group last year he would sign any anti-abortion bill. >> i just want to be clear. i'm a pro-life governor. and as steve said, any bill that comes to my desk, i will sign happily and gleefully in order to protect life. >> most virginia voters are not on the governor side on this

governor youngkin is fighting this particularly in loudon county. your last words, alicia, about the governor's fight and what may be ahead for him and you as a citizen may try to help. >> well, i'm really excited and grateful for the whole team enrichment, glenn youngkin and attorney general and lieutenant governor have moved to uphold promises to families and students and currently writing the bill right now and senator donovan will be carrying the bill for governor youngkin and we are -- we feel so grateful and really believe that this is a bill that must pass. >> harris: blessing to you both and i'm so sorry for your son. i know he must be a superstar because he has a great mom. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> harris: we'll be right back here on "the faulkner focus." we all know that words have power. they set things in motion and make us happy or sad. but there's one word that stands out, because when people say it, lives are changed. it's not a big word. it's itsy bitsy. it's only three little letters. but when you say it, the life of a

virginia republican glenn youngkin is here. first fox team coverage on all of this with aishah hasnie on the pence connection to the document drama as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are fired up. and peter doocy at the white house where there's no let-up to all of those questions. welcome, everybody. i'm neil cavuto. very busy "your world." gets get to it on capitol hill with aishah. >> hi, neil. well, this pence news is rattling lawmakers here on capitol hill. now republicans wondering what's going on. watch. >> i guess seems like everybody that is in the white house needs to check their closets and their corvettes and things like that to see where their classified documents are. i have no idea how people end up with classified documents. >> it's not just people in the white house. the spotlight on congress, too ever since it was revealed that president biden also walked away with sensitive materials when he was a senator. that is mystifying democrats and republicans because those files should have never left a secure ro

virginia governor glenn youngkin is the one who called on the a.g. to investigate this and just moments he's going to join us live and has an update for us. >> you have all these cartels that basically run this border. selling people and drugs across, big money. >> unless this situation changes and we take back control from the cartels for the trafficking coming across our border, it will only get worse. >> sandra: residents in border towns have been warning for months these cartels are now in control of their areas, and this gruesome cartel-style execution is leaving a california town in complete shock and might just be proving their case. sandra smith in new york. john, hello to you. >> john: middle of the week. at least six people were killed in what police describe an early morning massacre, all the earmarks of a mexican drug cartel attack, due to the brutality and the sophistication of the murders. victims, a teenage mother and 10-month-old baby chased down by a gunman as they ran for their lives from the house. >> sandra: we will speak with the

meantime, virginia governor youngkin breaking news. he says that merit recognitions weren't received for the score that they got that would have been a big boon for them in their college applications. why were they held back until it was too late? >> it's just absolutely atrocious for families. it's unacceptable clearly to withhold this kind of information to students who were excelling when they want to apply to colleges. gas, grocerie. we all need cash in the bank to stay ahead. well here's great news for veterans who own a home. home values have climbed to near all-time highs, too. that means the cash you need is right there in your home. newday can unlock it with the newday 100 va cash out loan. it lets you borrow up to 100% of your home's value. not just part of it like some other loans. pay down high-rate credit card debt, consolidate your second mortgage and car loans, and have the security of cash in the bank. the va has granted newday automatic authority. when banks so “no” to a veteran, newday can say “yes.” alice loves the s

. >> todd: and virginia governor youngkin calling for investigation into one of the state's school border for prioritizing equity over students achiefment. >> students achieved real accolade to be national merit scholar and they were not told, because they didn't want to make the other students feel bad. >> todd: tell you what this is all about, keep it here on "fox and friends first." business can happen anytime, anywhere. so help yours thrive and stay connected with the comcast business complete connectivity solution. it's the largest, fastest, reliable network. advanced gig speed wifi. and cyberthreat protection. starting at just $49.99 a month. plus, you can save up to 60% a year when you add comcast business mobile. or, ask how to get up to a $750 prepaid card. complete connectivity. one solution, for wherever business takes you. comcast business. powering possibilities. >> ashley: stop and watch this, surveillance showing a bartender springing into action and tackling a gunman to the ground. the bartender rushed to help when the armed criminal put a woman in a headlock and started f

. >> ashley: youngkin calling into an investigation of a high school telling students they receive national merit awardless to protect feelings of those who didn't. >> violation of civil liberties, students achieved a real accolade to be national merit scholar and they were not told because they didn't want the other students to feel bad. >> ashley: students named condemned students by the corporation and governor youngkin says the delayed notification appears to be deliberate attempt to disadvantage high-performing students calling this human rights violation, that is unbelievable. >> todd: i worked my tail off to get that, sf that was deprived, there would have been h-e-double hockey sticks that ain't right. >> todd: there is one thing parents want once the killer is convicted. >> the latest on the case after this. e wolfgang puck home i knew there would be a lot of orders to fill and i wanted them to ship out fast that's why i chose shipstation shipstation helps manage orders reduce shipping costs and print out shipping labels it's my secret ingredient shipstation the number 1 choice of

it was wide-ranging intense but interesting conversation with governor youngkin. >> fascinating.f all things to do, coming up we have a return to ai, the story of the day googles ai unit is being swept up in the job cuts as we mentioned. ai still a key investment for the company. we will discuss how it is impacting research and much more. wendy hall, this is bloomberg. ♪ get refunds.com powered by innovation refunds can help your business get a payroll tax refund, even if you got ppp and it only takes eight minutes to qualify. i went on their website, uploaded everything, and i was blown away by what they could do. getrefunds.com has helped businesses get over a billion dollars and we can help your business too. qualify your business for a big refund in eight minutes. go to getrefunds.com to get started. powered by innovation refunds. >> at a time where ai research is booming it's actually not escaping the wave of layoffs. it will be organized. it's according to a memo seen by bloomberg. let's break in -- bring in how over governments seattle. wendy hall. she stay up late for us.

this is why candidate youngkin is governor youngkin, you have group of elite administrators are makingons for all of the students, whether it's critical race theory, extreme covid policies and now deciding when merit scholars can be told with the people that actually won them and you already have and we will see what the attorney general comes up with, 3 school districts and 16 schools and i can't imagine what's going to come out but i'm so happy that the attorney general and the governor are taking this on. bill: real quick and we will wrap it up. let's take a look at lieutenant governor. >> i can't imagine that this is what's happening in our schools in virginia. 17 schools when we were told, oh, don't worry about it it's just one school and here we have schools that are withholding information that are crucial to a child's success, we are talking about free tuition and recognizing achievement, my, god, when did that become controversial? bill: evidently the school districts did this because they wanted the schools who didn't receive the awards to in the feel bad the 3 of us were tal

. >> todd: so much of glenn youngkin was due to democrats crossing over in voting for him. as a democrat, may be fiscally liberal it but when it comes to your kids, boy, that is where you draw the line and you say anything that will harm my kids come i will vote for a part of that does the opposite and in that case glenn youngkin and republicans. globally across the board, we have to stop. this is ridiculous. we talk about this a couple of weeks away and you have that kid, you will realize i'm the one in charge of this kid. i put in the work and i should be the one making decisions not the government or the school system. >> carley: empowering parents is bipartisan also so. you know what else is bipartisan? football, mark ha damar hamlin after transferring to buffalo general medical center from cincinnati. his release comes days after doctors removed hamlin's rethink tube and walking around on his own. the doctor said he was jumping around watching the bills take down the patriots on sunday. listen to this. speak with a kickoff ran back, he jumped up and down and got out of

but that youngkin is the governor of the state of virginia. he's been the ceo of carlile.ons when they push lies, and when the truth comes out. they look the other way. >> james in short supply in our society, stephanie. i don't expect to see people who would go out there and make fun of this attack, where amplified the conspiracy theories, or created the conspiracies apologize. elon musk tweets that he apologizes to nancy pelosi i'll be the most surprise person on television. >> i want you to watch this, because even when confronted with video, there are people that are determined to cling to these conspiracy theories. i want to watch this exchange from fox news. >> where is the evidence of breaking and entering? . i got there saying senator, about case in the. area >> is video of him breaking into the house. >> i want to see it. >> okay, it is on the screen right now. i assume it is with the hammer that you later see him with. but there is clear video that we've been giving about side the house. the attacks on the right side the screen, right into the house. >> great. >>

youngkin slammed the district for hiring a $450,000 a year equity coach.arted with the valedictorians. they decided not to have one, because we don't want everybody else to feel bad for not working as hard or being as smart. that was nothing compared to this, but we've got to smart. the asian americans sued to get rid of affirmative action, and they're getting screwed because they outwork everyone else. >> jeanine: what about a kid who has a dream, can run faster, works harder, to achieve that dream? >> geraldo: absolutely. this is unfair. it's creepy. it may be criminal what they did intentionally denying notification of winning a merit scholarship so you couldn't put it on your resume, so you don't get in the college of your choice. tens of thousands of many asian american kids affected by this. this is rotten. i think that -- i believe this is worse than the scandal, people paying to be on the fake rowing team and all that. i think this will be a bigger story. >> brian: it should be. >> geraldo: this is awful what they've done to these children. >> jean

i didn't put it like anywhere in my honors section for college apps. >> now, governor glenn youngkino require that schools notify commended students immediately. they're also going to try to work with the national merit scholarship corporation to implement a layered notification strategy, e-mails, some kind of system to make sure the information gets to students. >> they're trying figure it all out. thank you, appreciate that. >>> straight ahead, what we're learning about the moment actor jeremy renner was crushed by a snowplow and the attempt to save his nephew. >> and we all know, i feel this way sometimes, flying can be scarey. one flight attendant has gone viral for going above and beyond to calm one passenger's nerves, and he joins us live next hour. try this robitussin hohoney. the real honey you love, plus thehe powerful cough relief you need. mimind if i root through your trash? robitussin.. the only brand with real honeneyand elderberry. >> tech: when you have auto glass damage, trust safelite. this dad and daughter were driving when they got a crack in their windshield. [sm

way we are going to have a chance to get virginia the relief they need and deserve and governor youngkin's senate back. to get that we have to fight and what we have been doing has not been working and i'm here to offer to be a different kind of a candidate to fight to try to get that majority back. >> john: you say you want to be the sort of candidate to make and keep promises. it's difficult to know how the race will go. it's a brand-new district, created out of the 2020 census. if it had existed in 2020, based on the political and demographic make-up, joe biden would have won by 7 points, glenn youngkin would have won by 5. may look it leans a little democratic. how does a republican win? >> i'll be the same person if elected than i am reaching out to the people in the district and asking them to vote and they have a choice. if we want to send politicians to do the job that is not done now, they have that choice. i'm not a politician, i don't have political experience but i don't have political, you know, motivations either. i'm here to serve the people of this district. >> john: you sa

. ♪ pete: virginia governor glenn youngkin is pushing a bull that would ban public schools in the stateards after 17 virginia schools that we know of were caught delaying notifications. fox news contributor and author of the book of virtue, bill bennett, joins us. mr. secretary, thank you very much for being here. why would schools withhold merit awards for students who received those? >> well, this is part of the subterfuge of standards, pete. not done by aliens, by the way. [laughter] this is done by our own people. people who are committed to a very different agenda, people who don't believe in the idea of individual achievement, rewardingal the lent, and they make mistake of thinking that regarding people equally means evaluating hem equally. so they bury information. this can be information valuable to getting college admission, scholarships and just a matter of pride. you know, recognizing -- pete: yes. >> -- your kid worked hard and was a national merit scholar. it's a big deal. people have parties because of that and celebrate their kids' work. but i don't have to tell you, this

listen to what virginia governor glenn youngkin had to say about this.rongly. >> they have a maniacal focus on equal outcomes for all students at all cost, and at the heart of the american dream is excelling, is advancing, a stretching, and recognizing that we have students of different capabilities. this overarching effort for equal outcomes is hurting virginia's children and it's hurting even worse the children that they aspire to help. >> so this is part of a larger discussion that we've seen going on with virginia governor glenn youngkin who ran on education issues and has talked even about changing of the admissions process at tj. so this is -- the problem is that it's not clear who he is talking about. who said that they are looking for equal outcomes for everyone? i'm not certain where he's getting that from. a lot of debate going on about this. >> the argument is they would have benefited this they could have mentioned on their college applications they got this recognition. >> exactly. it is recognition, it is not money, not the same thing as mo

>> virginia republican governor glenn youngkin wants to make it mandatory for schools to notify parentsship awards. this comes amid investigations into multiple schools accused of failing to give students their national merit scholarship recognition in a timely manner. governor youngkin vowed today to stop the practice. >> there's clearly has been an effort to bring down the standards for our students in virginia to stop celebrating excellence and this is counter to everything we believe. >> virginia's attorney general is investigating allegations against at least 16 schools. we have new information tonight in the pursuit of reparations for black americans who are descendents of slaves or victims of things such as drugs, housing discrimination, and other racial disparities. national correspondent william la jeunesse has the latest on extremely controversial subject. >> i'm offering no apologies. this is for black evanston residents. >> in a handful of liberal cities growing support for reparations for black americans. >> reparations isn't charity. it's a debt for 400 years of slavery. >

governor youngkin is going after the district saying "they have a maniacal focus on equal outcomes forat all costs." meanwhile virginia's attorney general says no child should be subjected to such treatment. >> we want is we want to demand excellence. we want our students to not have this quote war on merit." what we have seen is what i call woke racism, reverse discrimination against the wrong groups and those individuals' minds we want to make sure that in this country everybody has an equal playing field and everybody can achieve their dreams and we certainly don't want anybody to help back because of who they are in their ethnic background. >> harris: oh, my goodness, that is like the definition of who we are as a country. who is trying to break it? your little ones are young, they are not in school yet but i love talking to the parents of the people of the future. >> jeremy: i have a 3-year-old who's watching. named kinsley. even when she's playing her game, i'm like hey, if you don't do it right, and you lose, you lost. we are going try again. i'm not going to teach that overcomi

so now glenn youngkin is involved. a.g. is involved. the lieutenant governor is involved. they're investigating. and the governor was on fox and said it is now going to be mandatory for schools to notify parents and children of any awards, any kind of recognition, any scholarship that they're up for. listen to this. >> there's clearly has been an effort to bring down the standards for our students in virginia to stop celebrating excellence and this is counter to everything we believe. i mean, this nation was -- this nation was built on the idea of building a better future, of striving and achieving. and here we have what appears to be three -- three large school districts in virginia, who have been systematically withholding information about excellence. this is so counter to everything that we believe. we're going to get to the bottom of it through our attorney general. and we're going to get legislation passed that makes it illegal to do this again. >> brian: can you imagine having to pass legislation to make it mandatory to tell kids they won an award? can this where we

> reporter: jose, in the cases of florida's governor ron desantis and virginia's governor, glenn youngkinboth potential candidates we shouldn't expect their possible announcement until later on in the spring after their legislative sessions conclude in their respective home states. jose >> vaughn hillyard in columbia, south carolina, thank you. >>> up next, the violent attack on paul pelosi, the alleged attacker now speaking out from jail >>> tonight we are hearing a chilling message from the man accused of violently attacking paul pelosi. the suspect made a call from jail yesterday reaching out to a california tv station to talk about the night of the crime dana griffin has details and a warning. some of the video here is disturbing. >> reporter: in a stunning twist tonight. >> drop the hammer. >> nope. >> reporter: david depape, the man in this newly released body cam video, showing the violent october attack on paul pelosi, the former speaker's husband, is speaking out for the first time publicly since his arrest. >> how are you doing >> reporter: the call happened just hours after pol

youngkin, the governor of virginia. yes, he did. he said he had a chance. i thought it was quite funny personally, but in any event, in any event, what doing is he is firing warning shots and here's why. if ron desantis gets in race, everyone gets in the race. mike pence, mike pompeo nikki haley, tim scott, asa there are a litany of people that will run for president if ron desantis challenges him. if nobody, donald trump, then he will win the nomination without any issues. so he is these warning shots to say hey, this will become a bloodbath. stay out of my way. it's my turn still. i want this. wait for your turn. otherwise you're going to get bloodied. and we know that if anybody is capable of bloodying on donald trump retired hillary clinton, that was quite an achievement to he also retired cnn pretty much so donald trump has retired more people than social security? i think so that's what trump is doing now. do i like it? not really. do i enjoy it? no, i in florida, i just voted ron desantis my first vote ever was for governor ron desantis and i'll vote

, governor glen youngkin, yes, he did. i thought it was quite funny, but in any event, what he's doing, he's firing warning shots and here is why. if ron desantis gets in the race, everyone gets in the race. mike pence, mike pompeo, nikki haley, tim scott. asa hutchinson, there are a litany of people that will run for president if ron desantis challenges him. if nobody challenges donald trump, then he will win the nomination without any issues. so, he is firing these warning shots to say, hey, this will become a blood bath, stay out of my way. it's my turn still. i want this, wait for your turn. otherwise you're going to get bloodied. and we know that if anybody is capable of bloodying, i mean, donald trump retired hillary clinton. that was quite an achievement and he also retired cnn pretty much. so donald trump has retired more people than social security, i think. so that's what trump is doing. now, do i like it? not really. do i enjoy it? no. i live in florida. i just voted for ron desantis, my first vote ever was for

governor youngkin we were all very happy. see, you get elected. you're potentially a presidential candidate. you've stood this restaurant and made promises. my platform is about courage. i expect you to do the right thing. i know that preference so. my name is stu. i was a lieutenant colonel. 17 years infantry officer and run run. i was an advanced infantry training battalion. and exactly mean i won't i won't repeat everything matthew said. but i got to a point in my career where i saw a list of decisions that were made that were unacceptable. and everyone that works in a bureau ocracy, you see things that happen the time through action aren't congruent with the mission statement or beliefs, and you don't go around and point every single one of them out, right? otherwise you wouldn't make it very far. so i didn't wasn't a sitting battalion commander by pointing out every every time there was an injustice and i was only three years to the end of my career. but i just got to a point where was i couldn't put my head head down and be complacent and i'

you would think by the youngkin election in virginia and the rout by desantis in florida they would see clue that getting into lgbtq plus activism isn't a good idea. but they don't seem to learn. they are doubling down. >> i'll tell you what, one of my first priorities i will bring to the board is to abolish the diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the university. i'm going to be deposing a department of equality, merit and color blindness. we'll protect your individual rights and treat you equally under the law and we won't play games based on gender. when the public hear was we are doing, we love color blind equality. we'll see a 70-30 support our way. we are doing what we can to invigorate those beautiful american principles. dan: your wokeness affected ai. artificial intelligence. apparently if you ask it a question promoting awoke narrative, it will write a beautiful story. but if you ask if a drag queen story is a bad thing. this is ai. this is kind of like precensorship, isn't it? >> that's exactly what it is. what they want to do is create strict boundaries of what is acc

there are other great candidates, governor desantis, governor youngkin, other people, ted cruz could win. it's a free country. a lot of people get to come and play, but if you had to say today the most likely nominee clearly is donald j. trump. >> you endorsed trump in may of 2016. do you plan on endorsing trump again? >> look, i am very close to president trump, calista is close to him and we've been friends for many, many years. my expectation would be i would help him every way i could, but i'm not right now in the endorsement business i'm happily chatting with you writing a new book to come out in june, called "march to the majority" how we actually created the majority in 1994 and the lessons we learned negotiating with bill clinton. you know, that's a good ways off, but i certainly talk with the president and advise his team regularly and i think he's formidable. if you look at the kind of situation we were in economically and in other ways, prior to his leaving office, and you look the at mess we're in now, you make a pretty good case that a sec trump presidency would be a lot