your idea is to keep the whole coalition together. how do you do it? it s a broad tent. you get these robust debates. they re all healthy debates. but you have 96% consensus among house senates, democrats in the house and senate, about the measures in this bill and have you democrats far reaching, bernie sanders and manchin agreeing on the rolling back of the trump tax cuts and censoring climate and medicare expansion. so it s going to be easy i think to keep the party together. you just described the sausage making, that s democracy. things are hard, but at the end of the day, progressives, moderates, sensetures in the party will be able to go back and talk about meeting the benefits of the lives of average americans who don t care about the challenges, and this personality and the other or the ongoing debates. they want to know, what are you delivering for us now to make sure we don t have the
lot of those one-year projects will allow them to look at the pandemic through the lens of intersectionality and help women climb out of this. nevertheless, there are key lawmakers that even if they get those priorities, it s not enough for them. the balancing act is still continuing. i have to say more optimism than we have heard in a while. but at the same time, that can dissipate quickly as we ve seen. no, exactly, which is request i think a lot of people may empathize with the remarks there from governor newsom, who sort of said, ah, i can t take it anymore. let me bring in kristen welker. it was interesting what the president said at the mlk tribute just now, because he talked about one issue that i m not 100% convinced will be in this final bill. that s negotiating the prices on prescription drugs. so where are we as far as the white house is concerned?
and forth you had with that lawmaker, he keeps saying what s in the bill, and he keeps saying we re going to prevent kids from feeling like they re oppressed or they re oppressors. where was this happening? like, this has been sort of where i keep it, did somebody actually teach this anywhere in school? because i haven t found any evidence of it and you ve been working at this a long time. have you? well, i asked him that question, actually, directly, chuck. and what he told me was we were hearing reports, we got phone calls from parents. but i have spent the entirety of this year in texas, going back and forth in the north texas area reporting on what we re seeing happen in that community and other communities nearby. and i have not been able to find one verifiable piece of evidence that critical race theory made its way into texas school or other schools throughout the united states for that matter. it s a graduate level concept, really a law school course.
of its history. texas has taken some of the most stringent steps to control how schools teach race, a very top-down approach, already passing two laws aimed at curbing the teaching of so-called critical race theory which contends that historical patterns of racism are ingrained in u.s. institutions. mind you, they re banning something that has not been happening, so we don t forget. my colleague antonia hill has been following these education wars, first in her podcast south lake and now with her latest episode of meet the press reports. here is a sneak preview. reporter: state senator brian hughes is the author of the second and most stringent of the anti-crt laws in texas. when you look at what s happening around the state, you don t think this has gone off the rails? i think people need to focus on what s in the bill, not what s in other states or things they ve heard and things like that. if we were to tell little white
it s not taught in k-12. when i think is so important in that conversation with senator hughes there is that, you know, i m asking him to grapple with, right, the tangible impacts that a law that he s just authored that has been passed is now having on people s lives. and he s repeating language in the bill and repeating beliefs about what he thinks is happening in the classroom and i m trying to contrast that with, here s what s actually happening, here is what teachers say they re experiencing, here is an educator about to lose his job, and it s not clear that what you re describing ever happened, in colleyville, the community at hand, or any other part of texas, chuck. he keeps saying don t look at other parts of the country. but wasn t this cookie cutter legislation? it was. and these bills, if you look at the language of the bills in states all over the country, they are very closely aligned. i mean, there s very much copy cat language saying, to make sure students don t end u