Education secretary. But unless a third republican votes against betsy devos, she be 5050, will horsing Vice President michael the deciding vote. We will speak to california congresswoman Maxine Waters about devos and why she is already talking about the need to impeach donald trump. Your words, your actions have shown us that you dont respect us, that both you and all of your nominees for your cabinet us and are dangerous for all of our families. Amy plus, we will take a look at Donald Trumps foreign russia tom iran to mexico. Pres. Trump we are taken advantage of by every nation in the world virtually. It is not going to happen anymore. It is not going to happen anymore. Amy we will speak to harvard professor stephen walt author of the recent piece, trump has already blown it. And we will also talk to an iranianamerican doctoral student who has just returned to School New York after being blocked from reentering the country thanks to trumps muslim ban. All that and more, coming up. W
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Our kyndell nunley, shes been covering the story from the beginning. Kyndell, what we also learned from las vegas fire, that this was the largest decontamination effort in their history. This is big. Kyndell that is correct. Categorized as something much hugeer than at least our initial reports. I can tell you that those initial reports told us that the mercury was isolated toward the gym area and a handful of students who be affected for a maximum of three hours. Well that number jumped to 17 long hours and the number of people needing epa inspection for the chemical nearly 1300. After scanning the School Officials with the Environmental Protection agency found mercury readings past the gym throughout the school. Reason enough to scan every single student and staff member on campus. Clothes and shoes confiscated to stop further spread and officials worked to wash and initial reports went from categorized as not so much of a big deal to historical. So much so last nights efforts were u
Is simply too high. Since the industrial revolution, we have had the greatest economy the world has ever known and if we are to remain so in the 21st century we must educate our people. We have no other choice. They are our greatest asset. And we can do it. We can do it. Im not proposing today a new federal program of any kind. However, i will say that if it were left up to me wed have a Standing Committee in the senate focused exclusively on our children and their future. Such a committee would, for example, examine every funding stream in the federal budget related to kids and ask whats working, whats not working what redundancies exist and how how are we going to align every single taxpayer dollar or tax credit to support the Health Education and wellbeing of our children. I suspect that in addition to increasing efficiency, we would decide to spend more of our resources in and around schools. That is where our kids are after all and thats where the people who serve them in our comm
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