But the kind of things being banned here make me feel there is now sort of an allergy to anything that mentions race or racism. reporter: this is about more than a book, a movie, or a curriculum, some veteran teachers say. in york, they worry it s a war on their profession. i am not an enemy of the state. i am here to take care of your babies when they walk into my classroom. there are some i m looking up at but they re still babies. boy, oh, boy. evan mcmorris-santoro joins me now. i mean, this is ridiculous. it s outrageous. thank you for that piece, it s really great reporting. this seems really broad. what was the issue with cnn s sesame street town hall on race? reporter: don, that s the question, students in the piece were asking, parents are asking, teachers are asking, and i asked several times while i was in york. but the board refuses to talk about the specific things they don t like with things like elmo asking about race or a rosa parks biography or the 2017
Trump right up until the end, even calling the former vice president, dan quayle, the only living republican vice president. the book says, over and over he asked if there was anything he could do. put it away, quayle told him. pence pushed, you don t know the position i m in. i do know the position you re in, i also know what the law is. you listen to the param parliam parliamentarian. that s all you do. you have no power. had there been even a hedge by vp quayle, it could have been catastrophic for this country. but you have dan quayle saying no, you have to do what s right, you have to do what the parliamentarian tells us. that s what republican conservatives used to look like, dan quayle. dan coates, also from indiana. dick lugar, another republican
I don t think a moral compass could let you ban books that say equality, and loving each other. reporter: they re standing up to the latest example of controversy surrounding history and race that is affecting a growing number of america s public schools. the school board can t silence our voices. reporter: last fall the all-white school board of the central work school districts unanimously banned a list of educational resources. that resource list, which has a lot of bad ideas and some books i would definitely not want in our district. i do not feel it s fair. it s divisive. reporter: that list includes a book about rosa parks, cnn s sesame street town hall on racism, and much, much more. this is hidden figures. the movie was reporter: like from the movie? yes. reporter: it s frustrate for the students. this is a board that after
Revolutionary war and the civil war. you cannot pick and choose the facts that you want to teach. you also have obligation to teach students critical thinking skills. and it is very clear that the students in york and all around the country are saying i smell b.s. and i m not buying it and i want a full, complete story of this country and i will use my critical thinking skills to discern what is good policy and bad policy and it s the adults that are not leading and we re relying on young people yet again to save us from poor leadership of adults that should not be in the positions they are in. so scott, listen, we re talking about sesame street, rosa parks book. this isn t controversial stuff. it s enlightening. the right and the fox propaganda network love to attack safe spaces and cancel culture. they re all about pushing back against censorship. isn t this being this school board being hypocritical here? isn t this about censoring and canceling books? well, i read the list of
The january 6 riot. i ll discuss with former defense secretary william cohen in a moment. we ll look at an new poll d a fence going up around the capitol in anticipation of a new rally. let s discuss now with william cohen, former defense secretary. secretary cohen, thank you for joining us, good evening to you. president biden has great confidence in general milley in the face of calls for his resignation, even court-martial, because milley called together top military leaders to go over the process for launching nuclear weapons, telling them not to take orders from anyone unless he was involved. did milley overstep in that moment? don, first we have to wait for the book to be published so