morning. absolutely. thank you. thank you. cnn this morning continues right now. we are learning more about the man in custody accused of attacking a staffer, intern for democratic congressman gerry connolly. he didn t have any particular motivation, he was on a tear. we have to assess the security we do or do not provide district offices. it s concerning and quite frankly scary. the clock is ticking closer to what would be the first debt deno-fault american history. we don t know what the economic impacts will really be. and that s the scariest part. the fact of the matter is they re now negotiating. they have to. you have to have something done by this weekend. we are nowhere near any of that. after four years and millions of taxpayer dollars, durham report is out. got his own information, which is this information plus plus plus. this report does nothing. it is absolutely a big zero. florida governor ron desantis is expected to launch
let s get started with five things to know for this tuesday, may 16th. new overnight, cnn obtained new video of a man chasing a screaming woman with a bat minutes before he allegedly attacked staffers at a congressman s field office. you hear the screams there. the suspect this morning is under arrest. virginia congressman says his staffers have nonlife threatening injuries. also in washington, president biden is going to meet with house speaker kevin mccarthy again today as both try to find a way forward when it comes to the debt ceiling. mccarthy said they re not closer than they were as a treasury secretary is doubling down that america is headed for a default as early as june 1st. durham is report is now out after three years in the making. the special counsel from the trump era the fbi should have never launched a full investigation into connections between the former president s 2016 campaign and russia. but he did not recommend any new criminal charges or, quote, w
to question students more because i guess i m under investigation from the school board and the doe. so, it s two different things going on at the same time. it s just a mess. this was not even a topic that my students even noticed or cared about because it s already an accepted topic in the classroom, just like how ms. rodriguez said the doors are open. those doors are not something that s new in this public education system. the students have one to one devices. they re able to have access to all this information already. so, this is a common theme that is talked about already. so it was not thought anything of until it got brought this much light and this much attention and now it s definitely a conversation. if anyone opened the door, ms. rodriguez. you said not only you ve been questioned in this investigation, some of your students, right? yeah. i m just interested yes. you go to class everyday. how is this impacting your students? are kids talking about it in
his name is diazo. diazo, huh? i really like him a lot. i just don t know how to tell him. shannon rodriguez, the parent and school board member who reported barbie for showing her class this movie says the movie was shown without approval. it is not a teacher s job to impose their beliefs upon a child. religious, sexual orientation, gender identity, any of the above. but allowing movies such as this assist teachers in opening a door, please hear me, they assist teachers in opening a door for conversations that have no place in our classrooms. this school district confirms to cnn the state is investigating barbie and this statement was sent home to parents, quote, while not the main plot of the movie, parts of the story involve a male character having an expressed feeling for another male character in the future. this movie will not be shown. we re joined this morning by that fifth grade teacher jenna barbie.
able to pull up that we have to shut down, these conversations, these doors that she s talking about that s telling you i m stripping her rights as a parent, those rights are gone when your child is in the public school system because there are students talking about these things. it s where they get 90% of the socialization for the day. we can t shut down every conversation every child has. thank you for being with us this morning. keep us posted. i m sorry to interrupt. go ahead. she s pointing fingers, but what she s saying is that we are indoctrinating by showing these things. but actually we re just showing a representation of our students that are already there. indoctrinating is going around and telling you you can t do all these things. she is pushing the believes that all these things are wrong. and that is indoctrinating. jenna barbee, thank you very much. we did reach out to shannon rodriguez. she is welcome on the show, of course, any day as well. we appreciate your t