first of all, we expect schools to prioritize what is in a student s head over what is on it. but a school district in texas has kept a student out of the classroom since august because it says his locks are too long. the superintendent now says that being an american requires conformity. now, this case is heading to court. today that student and his attorney are with us. plus, president biden likely needs michigan to win reelection. the city of dearborn has one of the largest arab american populations in the country, and its mayor says he turned down a meeting with the president s campaign manager. he s here to explain why. and dante wright s mother is with us. he was killed during a traffic stop in 2021 when an officer said she accidentally pulled her gun instead of her taser. well, that city just rejected a proposal to change rules for when police can pull someone over, and dante s mother says more people will die. i m victor blackwell. let s start the show. i
Guest on in depth to take your calls on goveren and legal reform in america. Heas written six books including the collapse of the common good, life without lawyers, and his bestseller the death of common sense. His latest book not accountable is a critique of publicsector unions. Joined a live conversation with attorney and author Philip Howard sunday at noon eastern on booktv on cspan2. Senators Amy Klobuchar and rob portman have been awarded the madison prize for constitutional excellence from American University school of Public Affairs for their bipartisan cooperation on capitol hill. Following the awards ceremony both senators spoke indepth about their experiences working across the aisle to pass legislation. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] welcome everyone. Thank you for being with us this evening. I am vicky wilkins, the dean of the school ofth Public Affairs t American University, and i am pleased to welcome me to tonight madison prize for constitutional exc
And the doctor was pretty hopeful for that one either have the high fema. But he was still pretty upset, obviously that he had lost everything except his legs. So he was with us at least two weeks, which is usually the 14 days is usually the amount of time that they, that someone that seriously injured would be with us. And every day we would sit down and write a letter to his newlywed wife and then, his wife did get some letters through to him. So we would sit and read it to him and then we would sit and write some more letters for him. He was finally medevacs to japan. Then he ended up back in colorado, and he was one of the first bionic arms for the army. So he wrote to us. He wrote back to us to tell us this. And this was so important to us because we never knew whats happened to the fellows after they left us. And again, here he was supporting us, letting us know that he did okay. Even though things, hes already been to, he says i cant go any further. He said but i am going to mak
now. it s monday. good morning. we re so glad you re with us. oh, yeah. the team is reunited. let s get started with five things to know for this monday, april 24th. a daring special operations rescue of american diplomats and their families from wore torn sudan. 16,000 american citizens still remain in sudan. most of them are duel nationals. president biden set to name his campaign manager for re-election effort. julia chavez rodriguez. she is a senior adviser right now. the faa investigating a possible bird strike that caused an american airlines flight to catch fire. the plane landed safely. no one hurt. you better hurry up. the bed, bath & beyond coupons are not going to be good for much longer. the company announcing it filed for bankruptcy and now is starting to wind down the operations. also. a-list owners ryan reynolds hugging after the big win that clenched the team s promotion. cnn this morning starts right now. technically, we have six things. poppy ran
hugging it out. good morning, everyone! that was a hollywood ending for rexham and the team s owners. after years of struggling, the welsh soccer club has achieved its dream of a major promotion. look at that. tears. wow, wow, congratulations to them. we ll talk more about that. plus, president biden set to name a campaign manager as he prepares to run for re-election, but new polls are showing that many americans are not excited about a trump/biden rematch. also, the faa is investigating after engines caught fire on two different american airlines planes. but we re going to start in sudan this morning, where the u.s. has now launched a daring rescue operation to evacuate americans from the war zone. the pentagon says that special ops forces blew into flew into the war-torn sudanese capital and helicopters to pick up u.s. diplomats and their families. we re told the mission was fast, it was clean, and u.s. troops were on the ground for less than an hour. here s a ph