she learned at her school. they are not your schools. had they are our schools. reporter: both candidates sparring on the campaign trail. there s no place for critical race theory in our system. i m going to ban it. it teaches children to see everything through a lens of race and to divide them into buckets and have children that are called privileged and others that are victims and it s wrong. reporter: mcauliffe denying crt exists in virginia public schools, despite new evidence from 2015 when he was governor that shows his education department at the time explicitly encouraged teachers to embrace the controversial curriculum. and former president trump is expected to headline a telerally for youngkin tonight in hopes of rallying voters, youngkin says he will not participate. todd: marianne, thanks. carley: let s talk about baseball, shall we, todd.
to embrace the controversial curriculum. former president trump is expected to headline a telerally for youngkin tonight in the hopes of rallying republican voters but youngkin says he will not participate. carley, todd. todd: thank you very much. carley: thanks, brooke. the time is now nine minutes after the hour. don t fire the heros, that s the message first responders and other frontline workers are going to send to congress today. todd: two firefighters from d.c. right now ahead of of a vaccine mandate protest join us live, next.