the lives of americans and american families all over the country. and now she s being grilled by congress as she attempts to explain herself and her actions around what turned out to be very devastating choices around what happened to or school kids during covid. critics say the union pushed the cdc and the white house to keep kids at home longer who were in public schools. as you just heard from betsy devos, by this point, they re talking about private schools, catholic schools had gone back to school. so this move that they made on behalf of the public school kids put us into an education crisis according to all of the numbers that we see. also a lot of children in to deep emotional stress as well. we expect to hear questions that we ve been asking weingarten throughout the most heated times of the covid lockdown about why union leaders were dictating science and health advice at the white house. you can see why that would lead people to think that you all have a lot of
i don t think that there is anything wrong with any of these individuals as part of what they re saying. you know, if she feels she was misunderstood on certain counts, this is her opportunity to do so. there s nothing wrong with saying in hindsight, there s things that we could have done differently. absolutely. martha: here s what we re doing to get these kids back on track that is obviously the most important thing that anybody should address right now. absolutely. here s what is really telling. you know, they say there s no politics mixed in with the science. well, the american federation of teachers is the most political organization there is. almost verbatim the language they suggested ended up in the cdc recommendations. that tellses you off the bat that that is false statement. i think the next biggest issue is that people no longer trust our public governmental public health authorities is. and that s going to take a long
the lives of americans and american families all over the country. and now she s being grilled by congress as she attempts to explain herself and her actions around what turned out to be very devastating choices around what happened to or school kids during covid. critics say the union pushed the cdc and the white house to keep kids at home longer who were in public schools. as you just heard from betsy devos, by this point, they re talking about private schools, catholic schools had gone back to school. so this move that they made on behalf of the public school kids put us into an education crisis according to all of the numbers that we see. also a lot of children in to deep emotional stress as well. we expect to hear questions that we ve been asking weingarten throughout the most heated times of the covid lockdown about why union leaders were dictating science and health advice at the
the cdc reached out to her in the first place. while there were a number of ideas that her union handed over, there was one edit that was accepted. house republicans want to know why this union and why randy weingarten were getting involved in these scientific guidelines in the first place during critics say that the guidelines kept schools closed longer than needed. here s chairman win wenstrup. it was called into question why you were advising cdc in the first place. the scientific expertise of the aft is called in to question and called in to question is the high level of access and influence the aft was provided by the cdc. now, martha, weingarten is
we know children were very low in sort of active transmitters of the virus and that other schools, private schools, catholic schools had opened successfully months prior to all of this discussion that was going on. so she s saying they were worried they wanted to make people aware of that they were worried about immuno-compromised teachers returning to school. what do you think about that as a physician? it s pretty remarkable, martha where we re living in a time that you can have direct influence on policy that had devastating consequences regarding our children, their education, physical health and mental health and nobody is being held responsible. not randy weingarten, the lobbyists, the cdc. nobody is. this is an interesting conversation. as we just heard her testify, she said what they wanted to talk about in january 2021, they wanted to add in there how can they keep schools open.