Last month, House Republicans brought to the floor H.R. 5 a bill I call the “politics over parents” act, which would supercharge book bans like the ones Gov. Ron DeSantis has imposed on Florida and bring them to states across America, including here.
and ultimately, um, you know, just a campaign to impose one viewpoint on an entire community take away the choice to read from an entire community. can you reconcile two things for me from the l. a we know that the house passed the parents bill of rights this week and in this press release about the banned books of 2022, you re quoted as saying the choice of what to read must be left to the reader or in the case of children to parents. now the parents bill of rights. they say that or requires schools to provide parents with a list of books and reading materials in the school library. but the l. a opposes that legislation. saying that if this bill became law, it would provide book banners, another tool and leverage point to censor materials in libraries. if the believes that it s up to parents to determine what their children read, why oppose the bill that requires the lists of the reading materials be
civilian hostages. plus, democrats are insisting nothing will change for them in the senate now the arizona s kyrsten sinema has left the party to become an independent. just days after democrats won a super slim majority in that chamber. but one very important thing will change for cinema. that steve bannon joins me for the answer. van, epicenter of today s banned book club feature is a mystery in the quest, but it s also a multi layered story about grief and love and community. extremely loud and incredibly close is a new york times bestselling novel, and an oscar nominated movie, and it has been targeted by book banners. its author, johnson saffron forward, joins me later in the show. velshi begins now. hey, good morning. it is saturday, december the. ten family velshi. we begin with the latest on the successful efforts to bring britney griner home to america from a penal colony in russia. griner, a two-time olympic gold
she refused to talk to us. in fact, everyone on that side of the argument we reached out to refused to talk to us. but one of them did explain hair motivation at a library board meeting. they are now held here because so many people were showing up to the meetings, so many of them were armed that they moved the library board meetings to bigger building that is also right next to the sheriff s department. here is that one woman s motivation. my job is to protect our kids from sexual deviants who will be drawn to our library if inappropriate sexual materials is on our shelves and using our kids as prey. reporter: this week we showed up with our cameras to a board meeting. it was wonderful to not be, like, attacked. reporter: and the would-be book banners did not. so what is going on, nick, is there is a group of individuals that are moving into the area
they moved to library board meetings to a bigger building that is also right next to the sheriff s department. here is that one woman s motivation. my job is to protect our kids from sexual deviants who will be drawn to our library with inappropriate sexual materials is on our library shelves and using our kids as prey. reporter: this week we showed up with our cameras to a board meeting. it was wonderful to not be like attacked. reporter: and the would-be book banners did not. so what is going on, nick, is there is a group of individuals that are moving into the area who are they have the intent of turning this into what they call the american redoubt. reporter: coined back in 2011 by a christian survivalist, the american redoubt, a refuge for self-described god-fearing liberty-loving patriots. the store recently opened by a