puerto rico today, devastated by hurricane fiona two weeks ago and the president and white house officials did their part to try to tamp down that controversy. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, bret. white house officials are putting out the word that federal help is on the way for people who need it the most. race is not going to be a factor, despite what the vice president said. hello. surveying damage from hurricane fiona. president biden is already sounding the alarm about storms that won t hit for years. today i m announcing more than $60 million in funding to help coastal areas in puerto rico. [applause] become better prepared for the glorm he says his response doesn t favor friends. times like these our nation comes together, put aside our difference our political differences and get to work. we show up. that s different than what vice president harris suggeste
mister president, one quick follow-up. one of the things that they re asking for a public health emergency, is that something you re considering? that s something i ve asked the folks, the medical people in the administration to look at. whether that is i have the authority to do that, what impact that would have. in just a moment we re going to get the latest from in robot speech. let s go to today s other headlines. some major developments in the january six investigation. two here in set for this week. new intel this morning into what former white house counselor pat cipollone said in his more than seven-hour testimony. a member of the panel, congressman stephanie murphy, told msnbc choctaw that cipollone provided a lot of relevant information. some of this we may here on tuesday. are we going to see much of mr. cipollone s testimony on tuesday? or in the first hearing this week? we are always receiving new information from a lot of different sources. we are tryi
The nearly 300-page report skewers the current structure of the NYC School under its mayoral-appointed chancellor and their staff, which is often turned over whenever there is a change in City Hall, leading to a disjointed system and out-of-touch leaders.
Worried about excellencen in schools and kids being challenged. they are worried about not having any choice. at the end of the day, i think education is going to, once again, show itself to be the primary issue in this cycle. and, by the way, we are seeing the same thing in virginia right now where there is arguments about the role of parents in their children s lives. let me tell you parents matter. i think voters will once again state very clearly like they did last year they are voting for parents rights in their kids lives. bret: there are some walkouts in different schools in virginia about transgender support. they say that your policies are somehow threatening them. the washington post wrote it up this way: the draft policy release september 16th by the state education department would require transgender students to use school facilities and programs matching their biological sex. parents would have to give approval and other staff members to refer to students by a differe
The classroom. if parents want to talk to their children about those things, that is the right to do that. i do not believe that the school districts, the teachers and administration has done the right to talk to parents. i m happy that that was part of the bill as well. again, there s still a lot of fluidity there. as part of the new law, parents can sue school districts for violation, damages and legal fees. at this point, the state education department is expected to release more information about the parameters of these standards a little bit later this summer. still a lot of fluid be here, alex, but a lot of concern as well absolutely. okay, thank you for outlining the latest. stephanie stanton. it is distinctly premature, any talk of a red wave sweeping the midterms. . here is why. a group of gop senate candidates that some might describe as ethically bad. so bad that it has republicans worried. for them, the unthinkable could happen. the panel tackles that next.