that was nbc news correspondent sam brock tuesdays midterms featured elected superintendents across 100 plus scores of gubernatorial and legislative post bat we ll incredible influence over customs. these races are becoming new battlegrounds for culture war fights, encouraged by republican politicians and conservative parents. former trump officials mobilizing conservatives around the unified republican school of agenda. one that bans books and conversations about lgbtq themes and race. school board candidates have received millions of dollars from conservative packs. these elections will decide the people who said in supervised a school project, developed policy, respond to angry parents in hours long public meetings. the stakes of their work are higher than ever. my panel is back with. me don, i will start with. you are seeing this conservative push, try to push
judgment. yeah, this is why, this is literally the appeal, right? someone who has the sort of instinct for culture war fights without the same shooting himself in the foot, as trump, it s what they re looking for. again, i think it s a little early to say that this guy is like some incredible political instincts. we ll see how this continues to play out. fernand amandi, thank you so much. thank you, chris. still ahead, the judicial doubleheader. the justice department is scheduled to face off with trump in court, twice in the same day, over the classified documents stashed at mar-a-lago. we have a former judge, nancy gertner, who s gonna tell me what should be happening next. [school bells] when pain says, “i m here,”
what does this tell you? can it also tell you there s a waning sense of influence and desire to participate, or am i just trying to put a positive spin on this? there s a waning sense of willing to be arrested for it, certainly. but honest to god i think the spaces are bigger than ever. the anger and the furor is larger than ever. they just don t have what they they don t have what they thought was diplomatic immunity which they thought they had on january 6th. they thought they were, you know, onto something. now they realize they re basically at war with the government. but also the culture war issues have shifted since then. they are focused on voter fraud and things like that but they re not really focused on january 6th. january 6th was a big embarrassment to them. if this was a rally about the arizona audit or something or other culture war fights, you know, things that are happening in these school boards all
overall vaccination numbers given those attitudes solely with carrots. i m a believer more elections are being decided by motivation, not persuasion. there aren t many people left in the country that are persuad persuadable. wherein lies the passion? look forward to 2022 on this issue. is there more passion among the unvaccinated who say don t tread on me or the vaccinated, like me, who are saying go get your shot in. obviously, the unvak si flflat unvaccinated have taken this. they have made this into a culture war fight. we know as a general prop proposition, president biden is trying to lower the temperature on all culture war fights.
on me or the vaccinated, like me, who are saying go get your shot in. obviously, the unvak si flat unvaccinated have taken this. with trump and others have done is make this a culture war fight. we know as a general proposition, president biden is trying to lower the temperature on all culture war fights. he s treadsing in the say way he s not putting guns center. or immigration and lgbtq rights. i think it s a moving target. the question is what does life look like for the vaccinated heading forward. i can see them get pretty energized about this too. rock me on the water. yes. a good song and a better book. thank you, ron. thanks, michael.