ash wednesday cross shannon: a teacher forced their fourth-grader to wash his ash wednesday cross which is the traditional catholic marking signaling the beginning of the lenten season office for had. the schools that an investigation is underway. kathy grew and columnist schechter, welcome to you both. here is the fourth-grade student, william cloud describing what happened. the teacher walked over and said, like, what is that? i said it is ash wednesday. it is inappropriate, go take it off, took me aside and you have to take it off. she made me wipe it off. shannon: the teacher apologized. was this a mistake? it may very well be. we either have a diversity problem in that this teacher doesn t understand some people
penalties or post grief answers. i want to be clear that i condemn bullying hand ras meant of any kind. this is a message directly to the bernie bros, as they re called, so to speak. this is an example in the first week of the bernie sanders campaign him trying to solve some of these problems that dogged his campaign four years ago. there was this concern that his supporters were too mean to some other supporters of other candidates, particularly hillary clinton supporters the there was also a huge problem with the way that women were treated in his campaign, sexual harassment issues there. he s met with some of those accusers, promised to do things differently this time around. and he s tried to fix the diversity problem within his campaign. his campaign manager is the first muslim american to run a national campaign. so you see bernie sanders essentially not being tone deaf this time around. a lot of times people accused him of his 2016 race of him just kind of going forward witho
we met welcome back. with the start of the new congress, the spotlight is on the growing diversity in the democratic party and the lack of diversity in the gop. take a look at this. in the new congress 38% of democrats compared to just 8% of republicans. while 37% of democrats in congress and minorities, 90% of house republicans are white men. 90%. does the republican party have a diversity problem? to answer that question we turn to a white man. [laughter] i don t want to go on about, i m not sort of arguing for the sake of it but i do think there comes a point when it just matters and not because of anything other than it s better to have more people around the table to represent the people you re trying to do
we met welcome back. with the start of the new congress, the spotlight is on the growing diversity in the democratic party and the lack of diversity in the gop. take a look at this. in the new congress 38% of democrats compared to just 8% of republicans. while 37% of democrats in congress and minorities, 90% of house republicans are white men. 90%. does the republican party have a diversity problem? to answer that question we turn to a white man. [laughter] i don t want to go on about, i m not sort of arguing for the sake of it but i do think there comes a point when it just matters and not because of anything other than it s better to have more people around the table to represent the people you re trying to do
hi, everyone. i m dana perino. a midwest winter storm having travelers saying attempt to travel west today. why the markets freaking out? and sizing up some of the biggest global risks from 2018. coming up at the top of the hour on the daily briefing . julie: all right. democrats look at the 2020. some are reportedly concerned about the lack of diversity in the top contenders. recent polls showing three white men leading the pack with joe biden, vermont senator bernie sanders and congressman beto o rourke in the top slots. jeanette ellis and nathan rubin. could democrats have a diversity problem, nathan, in 2020?