that was not accidental, in fact it was a brilliant piece of jiu-jitsu. here you had men who are clearly craftier than they look somehow convincing a whole lot of other west self-educated women to praise them as living paragons of womanhood. thing about how hard it would be to sell that proposition. i m going to steal your identity and then mock integrate the characteristics that define you as a person. then as i do this you, are going to smile brightly and applaud and then give a speech about how liberated you feel about that? the whole thing is amazing it s like watching a practical joke devised by the drunkest most cynical fraternity brothers at the university of alabama you could pick to all in the baseball hats dipping copenhagen spitting in our coffee mugs. you can get girls to fall for that? no way they will never buy it but they did. i wasn t even that hard to sell it. liberals will fall for anything if they think it s fashionable and progressive. so before long the p
powerful message for young people in his new book he says stand up for what you believe in. part of the goal in telling the story is to take pride in your blackness, take pride in your culture. my hope is young people and readers walk away and they cease their power. laura: nothing wrong with that us all, everyone should take pride in their background and who they are, after all, kaepernick himself lived a charmed life, adopted at five weeks old my parents who by his own account to loved and supported him. your dad and i have had so many proud moments since you came into our lives. you have always been very persistent and tenacious in pursuit of anything you desire, but i admire that treat anyone as well, because it is what took you to fulfillment of your dreams. laura: and upward middle-class upbringing in california, nice house, nice community, a top athlete in school, both baseball and football, probably could have played in the major leagues. his parents sacrifice
local teachers union. they had made her the poster child of a secret meeting on threats to public education. her offense? asking about the curriculum. sandra: welcome back. as america reports rolls into a second hour, i am sandra smith in new york and john, great to be back with you. john: good to have you, sandra, i am john roberts in washington. we will talk to that mom who says the union harassed her for asking basic questions. she is now fighting for air know my parents rights in education. we begin with this fox news alert. many of the breadcrumbs lead to the lab where very few actually lead to nature, if any. if we don t do it, no one will. sandra: that was the chairman of the house covid origin committee, he joined us last hour, right after the committee s first hearing wrap. he says it looks like all roads lead to a lab leak but some democrats, including the white house, are not buying it. they say the evidence remains inconclusive. john: that hearing come
congressman carlos jimenez be throwing his support to? he will tell us in just a moment. first, peter doocy at the white house and how they re planning for the big announcement without saying it s a big announcement. peter? neil, while president biden has said he intends to run for re-election, the imminent announcement for a second term may be a surprise to some folks that paid attention to his campaign the first time. look, i view myself as a bridge, not as anything else. there s an entire generation of leaders that you saw stand behind me. they are the future of this country. about three out of every four adults don t want president biden to run. for democrats, he s under water. 47% want him to run again. that s his own party. something the president is doing effectively though, consolidating the field. he doesn t have any elected democrats challenging him in the primary at the moment. one of the democrats rumored to be considering a challenge over the last year, ill
independents think in the middle. if you read the article that came with this, it said democrats were almost split on whether they think that the state of the union and the state of the country is in really a good solid ground right now. when you see 60% of people agree that the country is not doing well, that is bad, dangerous. the people that did respond pointed to extremism on both ends, democrat and republican. that is where the independent number is so high and that will be tricky for democrats and republicans, really. todd: i take a look from the 30,000 foot view and ask the question, what about our union is strong right now? our enemies don t fear us. our allies don t know if they can can t on us. when it comes to money, we are all worried about inflation and day-to-day paying bills, we are digging ourselves a debt hole on the global future. on the future of our country. that will take years, if not decades and centuries to get out of and that falls on our kids and g