students. the book depicts jewish people as mice and nazis as cats. here s what the author art spiegelman told cnn. i think there s so much focus in this whole parade of what s implied in having to defend the decision to teach maus as part of the curriculum that it led to this daftly myopic response. there s been a noticeable uptick in attempts to control what s being taught in schools especially in republican-led states. let s discuss the impact with an educator and the president of american federation of teachers randi weingarten. ran randi, thank you for being with us. it s not just maus it s other books. yesterday, to kill a mocking
need for their lives. but we re also doing a huge disservice to the peoples who have been discriminated against. we re also also actually opening up the availability to repeat terrible history. we need to make it clear that the holocaust was terrible. genocide is terrible. it s really uncomfortable to teach about genocide. but if we do this in an age-appropriate way, we are actually making sure that we don t repeat it. randi, it strikes me that the same folks who are frightened to teach kids maus and to kill a mockingbird often turn around and celebrate politicians that use racist and crude language and then call their opponents snowflakes. do you think this is really about protecting kids? shielding kids from harm? no. or is it a political weapon? it s a political weapon.
it, just like the book banning, that we saw in autocratic regimes, what s very dangerous about it is that we are stopping kids from grappling with really tough issues. but really important issues. slavery. the genocide. we have to teach it in an a age-appropriate way and we have to be mindful that we respect all kids but this is a very, very dangerous trend and it hurts the students and young adults in america, in terms of their education. randi, one of the board members in tennessee made the argument that schools can still teach kids about the holocaust, but without the profanity and nudity they objected to in maus to be clear the profanity was a couple uses of the word
lot of very long nights and uncomfortable situations for folks trying to escape hurricane irma,en to. so those are people who are trying to get flights. they re still in the airport. when is the last opportunity, ran randi, for folks to fly out? when are they going to stop nights? reporter: they re only say, not putting a deadline on closing the airport. plan to stop flights when it gets to 135 miles an hour, the winds, far less than tropical storm force. they re telling people, also, don, they can t leave their cars here and can t use the airport as a shelter which it feels like people are starting to do because they re sort of camping out here hoping to get a ticket. even though that window is closing rapidly. all right. randi kaye, thank you very much. i appreciate that. joining me by the phone, rear admiral ground. admiral, thanks for joining us again tonight. this hurricane is barreling toward florida. they re bracing for a direct hit. does florida appear well
are politically motivated. i think if there was a narrative to it they would have come out long ago and now all of a sudden, 20 something days until the election and it is coming out like that. i m not saying that it s something that shouldn t be brought up. it is an important thing. but these are things that have been brought up 30 years later. why not before? despite the salacious stories, supporters her, including the women are firmly in trump s corner. as a woman would the latest allegations make you think twice of voting for donald trump? not at all. do you get a sense there is a pattern emerging? yes. that doesn t disturb you? no. you would still vote for him. twice if i could. i think hillary clinton is a crook. nonissue. ran randi is live from west