desantis defended the decision saying there is no room for feelings when it comes to matt. matt is about getting the right answer and we want kids to learn the things that they get the right answer. it s not about how you feel about the problem, or to introduce some of these other things. there s a right answer and there s a wrong answer and we won elections getting the right answers. all right, so what exactly was in these math books that made them to dangerously touchy-feely for governor desantis in florida republicans to be used? journalists shut it like a men s team at the popular information s letter got their hands on some of their van books and judd joins me now. , chagrin to have you with us. let s go through some of these really quickly. how many of these projected books to junior team read? we were able to get our hands on eight of them. okay and how much evidence of critical race theory did you find in those books? nothing. absolutely nothing and in fact,
hands on some of these banned books and judd joins me now. , chagrin to have you with us. let s go through some of these really quickly. how many of these projected books to junior team read? we were able to get our hands on eight of them. okay and how much evidence of critical race theory did you find in those books? nothing. absolutely nothing and in fact, we really didn t find anything that could even arguably be close to critical race theory at any of these textbooks. so then tell us what did you find in those math textbooks that reference rate, that has the republicans so worried. well it s interesting and as you mentioned most of the textbooks that were rejected were for elementary school students. we obtained four of the rejected textbooks for elementary school students. and in all of those textbooks, we couldn t find any mention of race in any context. even just in passing. in the middle school textbook that we obtained, there was
question not just to discuss racism anything else, just to talk about a math problem and an equation that the students wouldn t work through. and even more importantly, it s important to understand, this is just one problem of hundreds of in some cases thousands of problems in these text. it started with critical race theory and now it s spreading to matt and there s no doubt about it if republicans have their way, it s going to spread into other textbooks in this country. judd legault, thank you so much for joining, us greatly appreciate time, thank you for doing the good work on these books and much more. that is all in on this thursday night. don t forget you can catch me saturdays at 8 pm eastern sundays at 9 pm eastern right here on msnbc. you can stream the original episodes of my show, amen, on fridays on peacock. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening rachel.
race theory and now it s spreading to matt and there s no doubt about it if republicans have their way, it s going to spread into other textbooks in this country. judd legault, thank you so much for joining, us greatly appreciate time, thank you for doing the good work on these books and much more. that is all in on this thursday night. don t forget you can catch me saturdays at 8 pm eastern sundays at 9 pm eastern right here in as bc. you can stream the original episodes of my show, amen, on fridays on peacock. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening rachel. good evening, thank you my friend, much appreciated. thank you at-home for joining us this hour. all right, it was about five years, ago it was may 2017, it was a scoop in the washington post by a reporter adam and this. it was one of those headlines that just makes you go, what? we say what now? very meant memorable headline from the washington post. house majority leader told colleagues in 2016, i think