we will continue to fight for our constituents and one thing i want to say. this is an attack against us i hurting all people interstate. even though this report is impacting black and brow communities. it s hurting poor white people their attack on democracy hurt all of us i want to emphasize that. i don t want to be about race. - of the shelby county commission and to run in the specia election and i already heard that peopl in the state legislature i nashville are threatening ou shelby county commissioners to not reappoint means are they r gonna take away funding that s in the government s budget for projects that the mayor an others have asked for. and we see lawmaker obviously have been in the national spotlight, throughout the weekend. and i m sure nashville all eye will be on the city in the coming days, they ve certainly been receiving support on so many different levels. vice president kamala harris made a last-minute visit t nashville on friday at - gave a very powerful
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let s continue now with our conversation on the gop book bans, and school shootings wit the president of the america federation of teachers, andy wajngarten. it is great to see you again, thank you for comin back on the show. that clip we just played was from the speec that she gave at the nationa press club earlier this week it is safe to say that you hav effectively become the white house s point person in pushin back on gop book bans. tell us a little bit about your plan and when do you think presiden biden himself will start weighing in more forcefully on this issue well, you know, let me just say i think that secretary cardona has weighed in and the president has weighed in and others have. i think that more important, we should focus les on political and more on educational. i think what yo just said before is completely right, which is the hypocris you laid bare the hypocrisy of it. other countries, western democracies have figured out how to stop mass shootings o people. au
law has been weaponized fo political purposes that is when you know that the left is using that to target their political opponents. and, i can tell you this these backed da, is they are a menace to society. they are a menace to the rul of law you could hear th enthusiasm from the crow there. and, look. he is in pennsylvania righ now. let s remember he was just i georgia earlier this week an he will be headed to michiga and next week. what do all these three states have in common they are all swing states that the former president lost in 2020 and he lost again via his prox candidates in 2022 so, make about what you will of course desantis has not yet announced a run for president. but he did close his speec saying that he is going to fight and saying that he i going to show a little bit mor
someone like he was in 2016hi and like we knew him as president, really a sunnyon person who focuses on serious issues and does them with panache, not someone who sa constantly dwelling on grievance. and i think that alsnting ono cw into the ron desantis attacks we saw at his rally at waco that the audience really didn t respond to that story.: they d he tells about ron desantis like opposed loyalty. it. i don t they don t like it.i don i don t think it works. they blame republicans. so i had the go ahead planweek every every week. d a yeah, but, laura , the president s put forward a new policy, put every week. he s released a quantum leap plan to build freedom cities: ws and revolutionize the american way of life. he s launche talking d a plan tt child mutilation. speec it was two thirds of his speech in waco. it was three quarters of his speech at cpac. he didn t think our policy in both of those addresses