1
00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:03,520
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. We are blessed today

2
00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:06,800
Speaker 1: to have Senator Marsha Blackburn with us. She's the US

3
00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:09,920
Speaker 1: Senator for Tennessee and there's some stuff going on in

4
00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:11,920
Speaker 1: Tennessee right now, so we're glad you're joining us.

5
00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:14,840
Speaker 2: I'm delighted to join you always.

6
00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:18,360
Speaker 1: Well, I saw last week there was a hearing and

7
00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:21,079
Speaker 1: you started talking about some of these videos that were

8
00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:25,520
Speaker 1: coming out from universities that were saying they were still

9
00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:30,120
Speaker 1: including diversity, equity and inclusion in their programs, but they

10
00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:32,760
Speaker 1: were changing the name of it. So you've heard from

11
00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:34,760
Speaker 1: some of these universities, so I wanted to let you

12
00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:35,800
Speaker 1: talk about it a little.

13
00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:41,320
Speaker 3: Yes, indeed, and we were having a hearing on DEI

14
00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:46,240
Speaker 3: on college campuses and in the workplace, and that day

15
00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:50,640
Speaker 3: we get these videos coming out from the University of

16
00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:53,120
Speaker 3: Tennessee and Belmont and Vanderbilt.

17
00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:56,639
Speaker 2: Even though those colleges have.

18
00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:03,279
Speaker 3: Removed DIEI practices, had individuals who are on faculty and

19
00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:07,679
Speaker 3: staff who were saying, oh, you know, we're still doing that,

20
00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:12,800
Speaker 3: we're just doing it under different names, and we're going

21
00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:14,679
Speaker 3: about it a different way.

22
00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:18,160
Speaker 2: So what we have done is.

23
00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:20,600
Speaker 3: To reach out to each of the universities and have

24
00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:26,960
Speaker 3: contacted each of the three universities, and you know, Tutor,

25
00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:30,280
Speaker 3: we want to make certain that they're complying with federal

26
00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:36,480
Speaker 3: and state law and that they have removed DEI practices

27
00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:41,200
Speaker 3: all each of these universities, each of the three is

28
00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:45,880
Speaker 3: going through an audit, an independent audit, to be certain

29
00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:50,440
Speaker 3: that they have removed all the DIEI practices. And then

30
00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:55,200
Speaker 3: they're also doing some retraining of their staff and making

31
00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:59,880
Speaker 3: certain that every staff member knows that they are not

32
00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:08,079
Speaker 3: to be pushing DEI property principles on school property and

33
00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:12,800
Speaker 3: that it is imperative that they comply with the law.

34
00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:15,160
Speaker 1: Do you think that they'll follow up with you on this,

35
00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:18,320
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously you are going to be so they

36
00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:19,120
Speaker 1: have committed to that.

37
00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:22,480
Speaker 3: Yes, you know, our universities they do great work, they

38
00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:27,320
Speaker 3: do great research work, and we are just so honored

39
00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:31,280
Speaker 3: to have them doing much of that research work and

40
00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:36,200
Speaker 3: opening opportunities for young people. They're in our state, and

41
00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:40,280
Speaker 3: this is an issue of concern. They know that with

42
00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:44,639
Speaker 3: federal funds involved with state funds involved, that they have

43
00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:49,200
Speaker 3: to they have to comply with both the state and

44
00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:50,640
Speaker 3: the federal laws.

45
00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:54,440
Speaker 1: You know, I went to the University of Kentucky. So

46
00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:56,480
Speaker 1: don't be mad at me. But my sister went to

47
00:02:56,560 --> 00:03:00,640
Speaker 1: Vanderbilt and we loved them, loved going there. Both of

48
00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:03,959
Speaker 1: us want to send our kids to our alma maters.

49
00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,840
Speaker 1: We actually I will be going on a school trip

50
00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:09,640
Speaker 1: to visit the University of Kentucky this week with my

51
00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:13,440
Speaker 1: oldest And that's been something that kind of I think

52
00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:15,680
Speaker 1: we took for granted for so many years that we

53
00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:19,160
Speaker 1: had these amazing educations and we went there and there

54
00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:22,320
Speaker 1: was nothing like this push. There was no ideology, and

55
00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:24,080
Speaker 1: I think that's just what people want to get back to.

56
00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:28,000
Speaker 3: You are so right about that. I hear it all

57
00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:33,320
Speaker 3: the time from parents. They want to say in their

58
00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:38,520
Speaker 3: child's education, and they want their children educated, not indoctrinated.

59
00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:43,680
Speaker 3: And so many parents will say, when I was thirteen

60
00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:47,840
Speaker 3: or fifteen or eighteen, I had already studied this, this, this,

61
00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:52,440
Speaker 3: and this, and my child has had no exposure to that,

62
00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:58,600
Speaker 3: So that teaching the basics has dropped out as things

63
00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:04,000
Speaker 3: like CRT and DEI and revision is history crept in

64
00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:11,760
Speaker 3: and it has moved many educational institutions away from their

65
00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:17,120
Speaker 3: core mission of educating and equipping the next generation of

66
00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:18,080
Speaker 3: our citizens.

67
00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:21,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've heard from some professors that we've had professors

68
00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:24,320
Speaker 1: on here, from some of the IVY leagues who have said,

69
00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:28,000
Speaker 1: you know, we saw this starting to happen fifteen years ago,

70
00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:30,640
Speaker 1: and that's something that I think it was shocking to me.

71
00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:32,640
Speaker 1: I think it was shocking to my audience because we

72
00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:34,919
Speaker 1: were like, you know, we didn't see this. We felt

73
00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:37,760
Speaker 1: like it crept up overnight. But it has been kind

74
00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:41,559
Speaker 1: of the slow burn inside with some folks, not all people,

75
00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:43,680
Speaker 1: And I just want to make sure that we make

76
00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:46,479
Speaker 1: that clear. This is not how everybody in education feels,

77
00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:49,680
Speaker 1: but we have sort of seen this starting to happen,

78
00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,680
Speaker 1: and I think that the effects of these protesters that

79
00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,080
Speaker 1: we're seeing that have come out of some of these

80
00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:59,839
Speaker 1: great IVY League universities who we you know, you find

81
00:04:59,839 --> 00:05:03,200
Speaker 1: out you unmask some of these people that are out rioting,

82
00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:06,159
Speaker 1: and gosh, they're like Princeton grads. You know, you're like,

83
00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:08,520
Speaker 1: what are you what are you doing? You're out there

84
00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:11,200
Speaker 1: fighting ice in the streets. And that's something else that

85
00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:14,479
Speaker 1: you're working on, is these anti ice riots. Because we've

86
00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:18,280
Speaker 1: got some of these progressive governors like Governor Knewso who

87
00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:21,240
Speaker 1: says that he doesn't want to stop these riots. And

88
00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:24,240
Speaker 1: then you have the president that has to use federal resources.

89
00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:27,839
Speaker 1: So tell us about your bill that is targeting these laws. States.

90
00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:31,200
Speaker 3: Yes, we've got a couple of things. First of all,

91
00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:35,400
Speaker 3: to protect our ICE agents in federal law enforcement, I

92
00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:40,240
Speaker 3: have legislation that would make it a felony offense to

93
00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:44,760
Speaker 3: docs a federal law enforcement agents as they.

94
00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:48,000
Speaker 2: Are implementing the rule of law.

95
00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:52,480
Speaker 3: And what we found out was that our ICE agents

96
00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:56,120
Speaker 3: in federal law enforcement agents were not covered under the

97
00:05:56,240 --> 00:06:02,000
Speaker 3: covered persons on dosing and regular identities unless they were

98
00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:08,080
Speaker 3: working under cover. So this adds that cover as they

99
00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:13,159
Speaker 3: are going about their duties and their job. And then

100
00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:17,400
Speaker 3: that's just ice. Well it is for our federal lawnfir.

101
00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:19,159
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, all federal law. Yeah.

102
00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:23,520
Speaker 3: And then you also have the legislation we've done. As

103
00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,160
Speaker 3: you have the military have to be called into certain

104
00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:33,520
Speaker 3: areas to restore law and order. We became aware that

105
00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:37,920
Speaker 3: there is nothing in federal statute that requires these cities

106
00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:42,640
Speaker 3: like LA to reimburse the federal government for having to

107
00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:47,080
Speaker 3: call out the National Guard to restore the peace, protect people,

108
00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:53,159
Speaker 3: and protect federal property. So we have legislation that will

109
00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:58,360
Speaker 3: require these states and cities to reimburse the federal government.

110
00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,120
Speaker 3: When you look at those to La riots that carried

111
00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:06,680
Speaker 3: out Tutor, it was one hundred and thirty million dollars

112
00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:13,280
Speaker 3: that DoD spent restoring the peace in Los Angeles, California

113
00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:18,000
Speaker 3: during these recent riots. And people in Tennessee or Texas

114
00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:22,360
Speaker 3: or Michigan don't want to be paying for having descend

115
00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:27,120
Speaker 3: troops to a sanctuary city to restore law and order.

116
00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:30,520
Speaker 3: So this requires them to fit that bill and to

117
00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:32,640
Speaker 3: cut that check and pay back DoD.

118
00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:36,680
Speaker 1: What are you hearing from your Democrat colleagues on this,

119
00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:40,200
Speaker 1: because they've been pretty vocal about saying that ICE agents

120
00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:42,760
Speaker 1: can't wear masks. They don't want them to be protected.

121
00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:45,200
Speaker 1: And really, if we think about this, this is a

122
00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:48,800
Speaker 1: new thing because they have some of them have called

123
00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:52,360
Speaker 1: for people to go out take videos, get injured, go

124
00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:55,120
Speaker 1: try to get attacked by the ICE agents. I mean,

125
00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:56,360
Speaker 1: this is really sick.

126
00:07:57,600 --> 00:07:59,960
Speaker 3: It is indeed, But we have to bear in mind

127
00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:06,760
Speaker 3: the Democrats they lost on November fifth, They have lost

128
00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:09,720
Speaker 3: at the ballot box across the country. They have been

129
00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:13,480
Speaker 3: losing on votes in the House and the Senate. They

130
00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:16,600
Speaker 3: are losing in the courts. So they feel like the

131
00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:21,360
Speaker 3: only thing left for them now is to resist and obstruct,

132
00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:26,160
Speaker 3: and they are trying to obstruct every single day. And

133
00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:29,240
Speaker 3: one of the ways that they're carrying out this resist

134
00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:33,600
Speaker 3: and obstruct is to tell people to get out here

135
00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:42,160
Speaker 3: and fight federal law enforcement, fight ice agents, fight immigration.

136
00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:46,840
Speaker 3: You've got one member of the House who even has

137
00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:54,000
Speaker 3: they're running resistance labs to train people how to resist.

138
00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:59,880
Speaker 3: And so this is we just keep saying, look, if

139
00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:04,640
Speaker 3: you want to reach a resolution, why don't you come

140
00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:09,440
Speaker 3: talk and work on different things, make your case, But

141
00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:15,800
Speaker 3: resistant substruction, trying to blot President Trump's nominees from getting

142
00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:19,880
Speaker 3: a vote going, and trying to block the doors to

143
00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:25,840
Speaker 3: immigration service offices. This is not the way that we

144
00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:30,640
Speaker 3: should be handling the business of our great nation.

145
00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:33,960
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on

146
00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:40,959
Speaker 1: a Tutor Dixon podcast. It's been interesting because as we've

147
00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:45,560
Speaker 1: watched since the election, the Democrat Party, their favorability rating

148
00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:48,280
Speaker 1: keeps going down, and it does seem like they have

149
00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:51,480
Speaker 1: a struggle. I mean, what you just said about the

150
00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:54,960
Speaker 1: resistance labs, it sort of blows my mind. And yet

151
00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:57,800
Speaker 1: I know that this is the division in that party

152
00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:00,559
Speaker 1: right now, I have to ask, is there any anybody

153
00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:03,320
Speaker 1: that you've been I mean, we know that you guys

154
00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:05,960
Speaker 1: are friends for years with people who are across the aisle.

155
00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,320
Speaker 1: That's just the reality of being in DC. And I

156
00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:11,920
Speaker 1: think some people think that it's always fighting all the time.

157
00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:14,840
Speaker 1: But these are your colleagues. Does anybody ever say to you,

158
00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:17,040
Speaker 1: and I'm not asking who, but does anybody ever say

159
00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:19,079
Speaker 1: we don't know what's going on? This is getting out

160
00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:19,360
Speaker 1: of hand.

161
00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:24,720
Speaker 3: We have some and I have also heard from Democrats

162
00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:29,800
Speaker 3: in Tennessee who have said, oh my goodness, I when

163
00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:32,960
Speaker 3: I look at what is happening with some of that

164
00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:37,280
Speaker 3: far left flank, they feel like they have they no

165
00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:41,920
Speaker 3: longer identify with the Democratic Party. You know, Tutor, one

166
00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:46,320
Speaker 3: of the things that I have realized is that Tennesseeans,

167
00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:51,000
Speaker 3: and indeed many Americans, they want to see our country prosper.

168
00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:54,000
Speaker 3: They want their kids to be able to live the

169
00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:58,280
Speaker 3: American dream. They want to make certain that we have

170
00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:02,320
Speaker 3: a proper standing in the world, that our nation is safe,

171
00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:06,760
Speaker 3: that crime, that we get crime under control, and that

172
00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:09,559
Speaker 3: our communities are safe.

173
00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:13,320
Speaker 2: They wanted to see the border secure.

174
00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:16,920
Speaker 3: They want life to be affordable and the cost of

175
00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:20,240
Speaker 3: living to come down. And this is one of the

176
00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:24,320
Speaker 3: reasons that they have supported President Trump in the steps

177
00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:27,600
Speaker 3: that he is taking. And when you look at his

178
00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:33,559
Speaker 3: polling numbers and the way you have people whether they're

179
00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:38,320
Speaker 3: a Democrat, an Independent, or a Republican, they support what

180
00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:43,280
Speaker 3: he's doing with tariffs and trade. They support provisions in

181
00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:47,000
Speaker 3: the Big Beautiful Bill. They want to see the federal

182
00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:52,000
Speaker 3: government cut what they're spending, and those are all things

183
00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:54,800
Speaker 3: that people say, this is good for the country. And

184
00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:57,680
Speaker 3: if it's good for the country, it's probably going to

185
00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:00,560
Speaker 3: be good for our family, and it's probably going to

186
00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:03,439
Speaker 3: end up being good for our kids in the next generation.

187
00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:09,320
Speaker 1: Well, I think that we are definitely seeing people who

188
00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:13,040
Speaker 1: are going back to traditional American values, but that progressive

189
00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:15,480
Speaker 1: wing is still out there. You are still fighting that.

190
00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:17,680
Speaker 1: So I want to talk. I want to go back

191
00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:20,160
Speaker 1: to education, but I want to talk a little bit

192
00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:24,599
Speaker 1: about your bill for the NEA, the National Education Association's

193
00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:27,840
Speaker 1: federal charter. And I want to say first that if

194
00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:31,360
Speaker 1: you haven't been paying attention. Most recently, the Teacher of

195
00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:33,679
Speaker 1: the Year, the teacher who was awarded Teacher of the

196
00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:36,640
Speaker 1: Year came out and said that her job is highly political.

197
00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:39,360
Speaker 1: She now knows that her job is highly political. Well

198
00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:41,880
Speaker 1: it shouldn't be. That's that's not what it's supposed to be.

199
00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:45,280
Speaker 1: You have Randy Weingarten who has said that she believes

200
00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:49,360
Speaker 1: that the AFT should be very political. And the NEA

201
00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:54,640
Speaker 1: is radical in its mission. Now nothing what it was.

202
00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:58,200
Speaker 1: Its original mission was nothing near what its original mission was.

203
00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:01,120
Speaker 1: So you have a bill that is is to strip

204
00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:04,400
Speaker 1: the NEA of their federal charter. Explain that to us.

205
00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:08,960
Speaker 3: Yes, as we were looking at this, this is after

206
00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:12,200
Speaker 3: the NEA had their convention and tutor.

207
00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:15,080
Speaker 2: It's like they lost their every loving.

208
00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:19,160
Speaker 3: Mind, I know, you know, and they were ranting and raving,

209
00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:22,359
Speaker 3: and they were against Trump, and they were against Congress,

210
00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:24,840
Speaker 3: and they were against all these things.

211
00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:30,280
Speaker 2: And when you listen to some of that video, where

212
00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:34,080
Speaker 2: did they talk about the children? Right? You know, they

213
00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:36,240
Speaker 2: kind of forgotten to get there.

214
00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:42,880
Speaker 3: So, realizing they had a federal charter that comes from Congress,

215
00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:45,040
Speaker 3: I said, we need to remove that now. If they

216
00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:47,200
Speaker 3: want to go off on their own dime and do

217
00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:49,400
Speaker 3: a five oh one C three or a C four,

218
00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:52,600
Speaker 3: they can do it. But a lot of the teachers

219
00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:55,559
Speaker 3: I talked to in Tennessee, they say, look, we joined

220
00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:58,720
Speaker 3: the NEA because we wanted health insurance and we wanted

221
00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:03,280
Speaker 3: benefits thanks of that nature. So let's let the NEA

222
00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:06,560
Speaker 3: go off and be a group, and let's not have

223
00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:10,840
Speaker 3: a federal charter, and then let's make certain that teachers

224
00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:15,160
Speaker 3: have other options where they can get the benefits that

225
00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:15,800
Speaker 3: they need.

226
00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:18,120
Speaker 2: And the other thing.

227
00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,560
Speaker 3: That I'm doing is this because you know sixty in

228
00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:25,080
Speaker 3: the Senate, we have to get sixty votes to move

229
00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:28,600
Speaker 3: anything forward. I have legislation that would say, if you

230
00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:33,640
Speaker 3: are a federally chartered union and there's only one, the NEA,

231
00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:38,160
Speaker 3: then you are not allowed to lobby Congress. And we

232
00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:42,680
Speaker 3: think that's appropriate. We have Secretary Linda McMahon who is

233
00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:48,760
Speaker 3: doing a masterful job of devolving the responsibilities of the

234
00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:52,400
Speaker 3: US Department of Education back to the states and the

235
00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:56,680
Speaker 3: local school systems, and she is in the process of

236
00:14:56,800 --> 00:15:00,880
Speaker 3: closing down that US Department and of Education.

237
00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:03,080
Speaker 2: That's a good thing. That's a good thing.

238
00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:06,040
Speaker 1: There were One of our frustrations here in the state

239
00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:09,360
Speaker 1: of Michigan is that you are these are public unions,

240
00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:14,000
Speaker 1: which means they are really taking public funds because these

241
00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:18,320
Speaker 1: teachers essentially have their paychecks skimmed off, and that goes

242
00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:20,880
Speaker 1: to the union, and the union has historically been there

243
00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:24,240
Speaker 1: to champion for teachers and strengthen the schools. That was

244
00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:27,440
Speaker 1: their mission was to support the teachers and strengthen the schools.

245
00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:30,480
Speaker 1: But they've openly come out and said they are a

246
00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:33,840
Speaker 1: political operation. That's right, and they're members of the DNC.

247
00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:36,560
Speaker 1: I mean, we're finding out that Randy Weingarten was a

248
00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:39,080
Speaker 1: member of the but she had in a position with

249
00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:43,600
Speaker 1: the DNC. Lookit a minute, why is it that they

250
00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:48,840
Speaker 1: can legally public charters, can legally influence elections by putting

251
00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:51,880
Speaker 1: money into campaigns, because I mean, it just seems like

252
00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:53,000
Speaker 1: they shouldn't be able to.

253
00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:57,760
Speaker 3: Well, and ninety eight percent, ninety eight percent of all

254
00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:03,880
Speaker 3: the political donations from the NA Democrats. And when we

255
00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:07,440
Speaker 3: were during COVID, it was the NEA that came out

256
00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:10,680
Speaker 3: against reopening schools twenty twenty one.

257
00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:14,440
Speaker 2: Who is it that led the way on CRT? It

258
00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:15,600
Speaker 2: was the NEEA.

259
00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:21,280
Speaker 3: And then you look at this this stuff that they

260
00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:24,520
Speaker 3: have done and that they have pushed over the last

261
00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:27,720
Speaker 3: few years, and you say, first of all, you know,

262
00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:30,640
Speaker 3: if you exist, you can't come to lobby us.

263
00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:33,480
Speaker 2: And secondly, we need to pull this charter.

264
00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:36,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that we can all agree to that

265
00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:39,720
Speaker 1: because we see this trend. I mean, everything we've talked about,

266
00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:44,160
Speaker 1: you're talking about K through twelve, it's this political indoctrination.

267
00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:46,480
Speaker 1: And there was a lot of control over COVID. I

268
00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:48,920
Speaker 1: mean you talk about that. They even we even found

269
00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:51,600
Speaker 1: out that they were making decisions with the CDC's like

270
00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:54,680
Speaker 1: you're experts in everything. Now you can go and talk

271
00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:58,200
Speaker 1: about diseases with the CDC. But then that goes to

272
00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:01,240
Speaker 1: the universities, which is what why you've been rooting out

273
00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:04,560
Speaker 1: the DEI. And that to me is so critical, and

274
00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:08,080
Speaker 1: that is the difference with this administration than any past administration.

275
00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:11,720
Speaker 1: And I would say even Donald Trump's first administration. This

276
00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:14,800
Speaker 1: administration is so on top of saying no, we made

277
00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,320
Speaker 1: a promise to the American people, and we're going to

278
00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:21,200
Speaker 1: keep that no matter how challenging and how difficult it is.

279
00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:24,080
Speaker 1: Because the next step of that, after they come out

280
00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:26,280
Speaker 1: of college and doctor NATed, is going out in the

281
00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:29,080
Speaker 1: streets and punching ice agents in the face and thinking

282
00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:32,240
Speaker 1: that's okay. I mean, I think these things are all connected.

283
00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:36,280
Speaker 3: And we all want our children to have a firm foundation.

284
00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:40,920
Speaker 3: We want them to come out of that K twelve education,

285
00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:46,000
Speaker 3: knowing how to learn, and desiring education and loving this

286
00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:50,159
Speaker 3: country and wanting to be good citizens and give back

287
00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:53,600
Speaker 3: to this country and be able to live their version

288
00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:57,239
Speaker 3: of the American dream, to dream those big dreams and

289
00:17:57,320 --> 00:18:00,320
Speaker 3: find ways to make them come true in a tree

290
00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:05,159
Speaker 3: that is built on opportunity and is built on what

291
00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:08,359
Speaker 3: I call the Big five faith, family, freedom, hope, and

292
00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:13,840
Speaker 3: opportunity and Tudor. If you are going to class and

293
00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:18,080
Speaker 3: you're being taught DEI and as I said earlier, the

294
00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:26,000
Speaker 3: fundamentals of education and learning are secondary to CRT and DEI,

295
00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:30,560
Speaker 3: then you're not going to have that basis. You're not

296
00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:33,840
Speaker 3: going to come out learning how you best learn, which

297
00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:38,160
Speaker 3: is something that we should do for children. So you know,

298
00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:41,359
Speaker 3: we're giving a good hard look. We've gotten a lot

299
00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:47,360
Speaker 3: of support on this. People don't realize that the NEA

300
00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:51,919
Speaker 3: is federally chartered, and so we are. We're getting a

301
00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:55,320
Speaker 3: good bit of support on this because regardless of what

302
00:18:55,520 --> 00:19:01,879
Speaker 3: someone's political affiliation is, they have been aggravated with the

303
00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:06,359
Speaker 3: NEA and some of these school boards that were so

304
00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:13,560
Speaker 3: given to DEI and have push forward some policies that

305
00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:17,720
Speaker 3: parents do not agree with. Some of these policies, men

306
00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:23,719
Speaker 3: and women's sports, boys playing in girls' sports, and people

307
00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:28,919
Speaker 3: want to see their children protected and provided for and educated,

308
00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:33,439
Speaker 3: and they every parent wants the best for their child,

309
00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:38,240
Speaker 3: and we should do our best and give our best

310
00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:43,040
Speaker 3: effort to make certain that opportunity is open for every

311
00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:44,520
Speaker 3: child in this country.

312
00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:47,440
Speaker 1: It is always such a pleasure to hear the things

313
00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:49,439
Speaker 1: that you have to say, because they are the things

314
00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:51,680
Speaker 1: that everybody should be talking about. When you talk about

315
00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:54,040
Speaker 1: the American dream, I just get chills because it is

316
00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:57,320
Speaker 1: the American dream that fits whatever you want the American

317
00:19:57,400 --> 00:19:59,520
Speaker 1: dream to be. And it's a message that used to

318
00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:02,679
Speaker 1: be partisan, but it's a pleasure getting to hear it

319
00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:05,359
Speaker 1: from you. Senator Marsha Blackburn, thank you so much for

320
00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:06,000
Speaker 1: being on today.

321
00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:07,119
Speaker 2: Delighted to join you.

322
00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:10,000
Speaker 1: Thank you absolutely, and thank you for joining us on

323
00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:13,040
Speaker 1: the Tutor Dixon podcast. Go to the iHeartRadio app, Apple

324
00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:15,560
Speaker 1: Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts, or you can

325
00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:18,320
Speaker 1: watch this one on Rumble or YouTube at Tutor Dixon

326
00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:20,480
Speaker 1: and join us next time. Have a blessed deck