nomination robert f. kennedy junior. his testimony focusing on government efforts to censor opposing viewpoints including his own calling it a systematic programs to control what americans can say and think. this is part of what he had to say about 30 minutes ago. i am being censored here through this target, through smears, through misinterpretations what it said, through lies, through association, which is a tactic we all thought had been discredited with after a andy mccarthy hearings in the 1950s. those same weapons are now being deployed against me to silence me. dana: he dispensed with his written statement and gave it passionately from the start and got applause at the end of that. he might have some friends in the room. the democrats are loaded for bear. they wanted to table the hearing and wanted to take it to executive session so he wouldn t
program. i m the only one who has objected to that. i fought more ferociously for israel than anybody but i m being censored here, through this target, through smears, through misinterpretations of what i said, through lies and through association, which is attack particular that we all thought had been dispensed with after the mccarthy hearings in the 19 50s. those same weapons are now being deployed against me to silence me. i know many of the people who wrote this letter. i don t believe there is a single person who signed this letter who believes i m anti-semitic. i do not believe that. there is no evidence of that. i want to say something, i think that s more important and it goes directly to what you talked about, ranking member, which is
my blood pressure and i go back in three months and the doctor does mutt test and sees still have high blood pressure, i don t want the doctor to say he worked so hard. i better say he s fine. i want the doctor to tell me the truth. and equitable grading means we want it to be accurate. we love what students work hard and praise them for that, but we don t want that to work the accuracy of the grade. allow me to read aloud from newsweek. this caught my eye. in the name of equity, progressive education consultants and the progressive educators who pay them to advance their ideological goals, drove this change, not parents. the problem they are trying to fix is parenting itself or the lack thereof. you would say what, joe? there s a lot of misinterpretations of this. and what we find is that when parents start to learn about this, they actually think this is a huge improvement to the way
back at history, where is joseph welch when we need him? joseph welch was a lawyer from boston, massachusetts, who stood up in the mccarthy hearing and said to senator joe mccarthy who are conducting the hearings, which were kind of similar to what is going on today, the play acting, the charade, and most of all, to your point, the complete lies he told that got a grip on the american public in the early 50s. joseph welch, the lawyer, looked right at senator mccarthy and said, have you no sense of decency, sir? no sense of decency. and who has a sense of decency today? as i watched hawley and the others, cruz, kennedy, marjorie taylor greene, prattle on and on and on about their lies and misinterpretations of reality, you know, i m wondering, where? where do they think the country
particular group, it influences that group and they mightjump on and send you more information or add links or add more information for people, and so we seem to have seen an escalation of the rhetoric, perhaps encouraged by some people who already have pre existing beliefs about vaccines or maybe are involved in some more extreme conspiracy theories, that are adding to that conversation online, sending people links to less authoritative news sources and misinterpretations of genuine data that really creates a very confusing picture for people who just a very confusing picture for people whojust might be a very confusing picture for people who just might be trying to understand and work out what is going on in the reality of things. thanks for helping us work it out. counter terrorism police are investigating how scrap metal containing traces of uranium arrived at london s heathrow airport last month. the bbc understands that one line of inquiry is whether it was the result of poor ha