election and the capital attack. former president trump leading the charge dredging up tall tales about his election defeat as state republicans exploit the lie to pass new election laws. but today president biden plans to push back with his most forceful remarks yet, we re told. jeff zeleny is live at the white house for us now. what more are you learning about the president s speech? president biden will call the assault on voting rights the most serious threat on democracy since the civil war. and that certainly frames all of this conversation. he s going to be essentially trying to draw america s attention to this calling for students faith leaders, people of all political parties to rally behind the cause of voting rights. of course, he will be doing so at the national constitution center in philadelphia. as you said, the birthplace of democracy. he will be talking about how states across the country, some 17 states since november alone have passed new restrictive voti
to avoid a beating. i never did but i have seen it happen. now we like to think that as we get older we outgrow other tortures we really just call them by a different name because isn t it tyrannical leader just another version of a bully? they use the same tools to force you into submission. you can t do or say what you want without being afraid of the consequences. if you tell on them, you end up getting a swirly. jesse: try to talk and you get silenced. sounds pretty similar to communist china. but the only way to defeat a bully is to stand up to them. not everyone is brave enough though. but the special ones are. like the protester, who refuse to move aside for the tanks in tiananmen square or the patriots at the boston tea party who wouldn t give in to king george s demands. or ralphy from a christmas story who had just about enough of scott farcus hey. something has happened. a fuse blew and i had gone out of my skull. jesse: if you do nothing and live in fear y
Scott farcus hey. something has happened. a fuse blew and i had gone out of my skull. jesse: if you do nothing and live in fear your bully will continue to control you. at a certain point, you got to take a stand. they may take a life but they will never take our freedom! jesse: in washington a brave group of high school students are having their william wallace moment. we told you about him last night. their state requires every student k through 12 to be masked up all day every day. even though science says it s wrong. funny how quickly the left abandoned follow the science when they didn t like where it led. but thankfully these kids aren t staying silent anymore. we are all walking in the school with no mask on.
Schools across the country prepare for the upcoming school year. and the pressure to make a decision is playing out in california right now. cnn national correspondent on it for us. brin, what happened? yeah. the politicalization of mask wearing has been from day one of this pandemic. i was just shifting into the schools as districts are hoping to get every child back into their seats in classrooms. and in california, there was a lot of back and forth that happened just recently with the california department of health who said that no student k through 12 could enter a classroom if they didn t wear a mask. and they got a lot of pushback from parents and administrators. the governor heard it too. another tweet was sent that essentially said they re going to let individual school districts decide what they are going to mandate when it comes to masks in the classroom. now, this is something ma that is being echoed across the country. new jersey, neighbor to new york is saying districts
And you know, it wasn t easy. and to know that you could be sitting in class with with young men and women who did not get in fairly, how are you and other students feel being this? feel being this? i have talked to several students since the boston globe broke the story this morning. but i don t really want to i don t know how representative their views are of the entire student k yale daily news cond a survey on certain plus factors in admissions. according to the survey, 43% of the students were for and 41% against giving preferential treatment to recruited athletes in admissions. only 22% of students were for giving children of potential or current donors special status, while 64% of the students were against such practice.