oh my. joining me at the table today, earl potagnis jr., who is an assistant professor of history studies and karen skinner, director at carnegie mellon university center for international relations and politics and research fellow at stanford s institute. and msnbc contributor and foreign policy analyst for newsweek. thank you all for being here. let s just senator. did the president weigh out a week goldilocks foreign policy? i think it was more of a political speech. i think you arkansas ticklated it much better than he did. he has surrounded himself with the unmost unqualified advisers in foreign policy in international relations that i ve seen in recent years, and he s created this these advisers, and i don t think it s him. i think it s his fault he hasn t
code has required that the role and contributions of women, african-americans, mexican-americans, asian-americans, european-americans be included in our history studies. we are failing our students, and i can document that by the tragic and ever growing epidemic of bullying on our school campuses and, in fact, the number of students who can no longer bear and endure the pain they have experienced at school are now killing themselves. we are now helping them by denying them the fact of a civil rights movement and that there is a history here, and there have been leaders not unlike harvey milk. some of those opponents out there say that the curriculum change adds nonessential material to the school day that is already short on time and in their belief it puts inappropriate emphasis on sexuality. what is your response to that concern? so this is no more about