by catering to the hard right. conduct like theirs is just asking for another january 6th to happen. that s of course chuck schumer, but it s not just democrats who are calling out fox news for trying to down play the violence of january 6th. some republican senators did not hold back their criticism either. we ll have their comments straight ahead. speaker mccarthy making no apologies for his role in all of this. we ll tell you how he is justifying handing over thousands of hours of security video. also ahead, the latest on the kidnapping in mexico that ended with two americans dead and two others in the hospital. plus, federal investigators digging deeper into norfolk southern s safety culture following two train derailments in ohio and a deadly collision yesterday morning in cleveland. good morning, welcome to morning joe, it is wednesday, march 8th. it is international women s day, and mika is getting ready for her big event in our next hour, including a conversatio
they believe right now have been targeted but others machb random. they are looking for two suspects and may be in a black nissan rogue. this is why this situation is unsettling. they had told people in the area to shelter in place. this is a holiday weekend. many people out and about. given the way this happened in such a sudden way they had calls of injuries with stabbings. some people showed up at local medical facilities for treatment and doesn t seem as though they putt this together and named the suspects for quite a bit of time and given the fact they are at large many people unnerved. especially because they have already perhaps traveled over a wide area. i don t have to tell you how rare this would be in canada and some witnesses that have spoken of it traumatized how this could happen. no firearms have used but describing it as a mass stabbing. jim? it is truly a bizarre and authorities say some targeted and some random attacks. reporter: you know, in terms of w
2022, reading scores saw their biggest drop since 1990. math scores plummeted during that period for the first time ever. these are some of the worst declines that the study has seen in its 50-year history. it could take a generation for some scores to rebound reports the wall street journal. the learning loss could weigh on economic output in this country in the years to come. pete hegseth and leo terrell are here. first, to david lee miller that shows us what s in the study. hi, lee. the nation s schools are getting a failing grade based on the test scores of 9-year-old students. let s start with math. the decrease was where s than nine points. so called lower performing students saw scores draw by 12 points. black and hispanics decreased more than white. when it comes to reading, the average test core dropped five points. some problem learners saw a decline by 10. reading scores by white, black and hispanic students were impacted equally by the pandemic. an education p
but i think the truth is that this is there is a small part of supporters who do support violence and seem receptive to it. so i look at this as other violent movements. i think the january 6 committee as well as biden s focus on the soul of the nation aspects of the speech provide to republicans an offramp from what trump has become which is someone who goes after the fbi, does not respect the peaceful transition of power, suggests if not directs violence. i think that you see the counter to what trump used to do and i think some of the metrics are
maga republicans, do not believe in free and fair elections and support violence when they don t get their way. they want nationwide ban on abortions. they want to give tax cuts to billionaires and corporations while raising taxes on middle class americans. they re threatening political violence and attacking our democracies. officials say the speech is inspired by charlottesville and january 6. both of those things happened before president biden took office. he talked about leaving it all in the past and healing as a nation when he was inaugurated. officials decided to go back to that when a new poll finds 67% of americans believe the democracy could collapse. that s up nine points since january. he believes this is a moment that a lot is at stake. you ll hear him talk about the core values at what is at stake and how we and how he is going to continue to protect equality