I mean, it s all joking. reporter: of course. because we re like desperate women who had tried everything that we could do in our own power, in our own communities. we weren t getting anywhere. he was very vocal starting in the summer of 2020 about the need to open schools in particular. reporter: during the covid lockdowns in 2020, these frustrated moms built an informal twitter network of people angry about closed schools and the difficulty of remote learning. they were from all over the country but saw desantis as a model of what they wanted in their cities. school is a safe haven. when i started advocating for kids to go back in person, i was called a granny killer, a teacher killer, selfish on twitter. oh my god, it was awful. reporter: stinecamp is a teacher in dallas and warned early on that lockdowns would hurt kids, especially poor kids. we can t forget our most vulnerable. and we just created the single largest inequality generator in a generation by having so
The use of race in college admissions. so these groups are arguing that given that ruling, now it s even more imperative to make sure they eliminate any policies that disadvantaged students of color, they argue that s what this legacy admissions preferences do simply because so many of these legacies are white. and part of this is because college admissions is a zero sum game, of course. if a legacy applicant gets a spot that means that someone else who may not be related to someone who went to har var, may not be related to someone who donated to harvard, in on their own merit, they can t get in if that spot is taken by a legacy applicant. they said experts have concluded that removing legacy preferences would increase admissions for applicants of color and that approximately one quarter of white students admitted would not have been admitted if the donor and legacy preferences among others did not exist. and so they say if harvard gets rid of these legacy preferences, then they re go
Conversation about the issues that are overwhelming impacting urban america, there are not a lot of people from that section of the electorate that are participating in republican primaries. that s the only way it matters? certainly that s not what i said. i think the reality is that democrats talk about the issues that are going to be impacting primary voters, republicans talk about the issues that are going to be impacting republican primary voters. and then, as always, we have a general election, a pivot, the triangulation it was called during the clinton era. look, i think certainly we should never be trying to segment the conversation. we should be talking about the broader american people, but it s dishonest for us to pretend we don t live in the world where partisan politics does impact the primary process and the issues that get brought up during those periods. guys, stay with us. we have a lot more to come throughout the course of the next hour. also new this morning, ru
Philadelphia, they re actually down almost 20% compared to the same time last year. but that other bit of perspective is that it is still, the homicide level here in philadelphia, still much higher than the pre-pandemic levels. so, again, heading into the actual fourth of july holiday, a lot of folks on edge after this mass shooting in the city. audie, phil? thank you for that context, danny. now joining us at the table, joseph, republican strategist and political commentator. natasha alford, senior correspondent at the grillo and elie honig, former assistant u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york. welcome to all of you. good to be here. these are tough stories to open the day with. and so far what they have in common, of course, is the connection of weapons, right? different motives, different things going on. we had the mayor of baltimore on yesterday. and he talked about illegal guns in his state, not always the
We are back with news on a famous july 4th tradition. nathan s famous hot dog eating contest in brobrooklyn. contestants have ten minutes to eat as many hot dogs as you can. the men s contest starts next hour where joey chestnut is looking to win his 16th belt. his record? 76 hot dogs in ten minutes. he set the record in 2021. an unusual way to celebrate july 4th. most people think beach day,