seriously, thank you my friend. and thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. do you remember italy gate? it was a conspiracy theory that made it all the way to the white house after the 2020 election and claim that somehow an italian defense contractor had conspired with the cia to use military satellites to flip votes from trump to biden. pennsylvania republican congressman scott perry was the one who brought that theory to the white house. he texted former president trump, chief of staff mark meadows, and he texted him things like why can t we just worked with the italian government? on italy gate? perry was ultimately one of just four republican members of congress that the january six committee referred to the house ethics committee prevailing to cooperate with its investigation. the others were california congressman kevin mccarthy, ohio congressman jim jordan, and arizona congressman andy bags. mccarthy is obviously now the speaker of the house. and as of toni
needed. you are going back to the fight? yes. he s confident eastman will find ways to fight for their country. it is a lot of, work it is a lot of money, it is a lot of time, why do it? they do not tell you, this but you can read it in their body language. they have a second chance. that is very rewarding. erin gilchrist, nbc news, silver spring, maryland. and we hope and pray those ukrainian soldiers are able to get that important second chance that they all deserve. and on that inspiration, i wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. do you remember italy gate, it was a conspiracy theory that made it all the way up to the white house after the 2020 election, and claim that somehow any taliban defense contractor had conspired with the cia to use military satellites to conflict votes from trump to biden. pennsylvania republican congressman scott p
were scholars of critical race theory will tell you that the theory basically holds that in a society that is racially driven as this one, people will use antidiscrimination tactic it s in order to further the cause of actual discrimination. so in short, ron desantis is practicing critical race theory, and doing exactly this. he is validating the theory in these actions. so, the implications of this are all over the place. the last thing i think is very important to note is that the kind of protections that we have, and the academic freedoms that we have in this country are overwhelmingly a product of what happened during the cold war, in the mccarthy era. another point at which we saw heavy-handed attempts to try to dictate what people cut and could not learn, people being prosecuted, people using their jobs for teaching facts that were accurate but uncomfortable.
apart from what it does to the university system, what about the general public in the states? sure. it has negative implications all over the place. one of the bizarre ironies of the situation is that when rhonda sentence, in denouncing the ap course, use the language of saying that it was discriminatory, that setting these subjects would be discriminatory, implicitly discriminatory against white people, the weird thing about that, the really weird thing about that is that people who were scholars of critical race theory will tell you that the theory basically holds that in a society that is racially driven as this one, people will use antidiscrimination tactic it s in order to further the cause of actual discrimination. so in short, ron desantis is practicing critical race theory, and doing exactly this. he is