♪ >> HELLO. SHE'S BACK! THE QUEEN OF SCHOOL CLOSURES HERSELF, RANDI WEINGARTEN SEEMS TO BE GETTING A PROMOTION IN WASHINGTON. BIDEN'S HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY ANNOUNCING THAT THE LEFT WING TEACHERS UNION BOSS WILL BE ONE OF THE NEW MEMBERS OF D.H.S. ACADEMIC COUNCIL. THE GROUP WILL PROVIDE "STRATEGIC AND ACTIONABLE RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE SECRETARY ON CAMPUS SAFETY AND SECURITY, IMPROVED COORDINATION, RESEARCH PRIORITIES, HIRING AND MORE." THAT SOUND GREAT. I THINK SHE'D FIT RIGHT IN WITH THE OTHER LOCKDOWN HAPPY BUREAUCRATS. SOME LAWMAKERS AREN'T TOO THRILLED WITH HER NEW GIG. FLORIDA SENATOR RICK SCOTT TWEETING "RANDI WEINGARTEN IS THE LAST PERSON WHO SHOULD BE ADVISING ANYONE ON SCHOOL SAFETY." JUDGE, HE IS NOT WRONG ABOUT THAT. AND, YOU KNOW, I READ THE STORY AND MOM OF SCHOOL AGED KID, I GET SO MAD EVERY TIME I HEAR HER NAME. AND IT'S HARD FOR ME TO RECONCILE WHO DID MORE HARM DURING THE PANDEMIC. ANTHONY FAUCI OR RANDI WEINGARTEN. >> Jeanine: THE TWO OF THEM AND THEY'RE BOTH CONSIDERED HEROES BY THE LEFT, BY THIS ADMINISTRATION. LOOK, YOU KNOW WHAT'S RICH ABOUT THIS IS SHE'S APPOINTED BY ANOTHER FAILURE, WHAT'S HIS NAME? THE TWO OF THEM, TALK ABOUT A COUPLE OF LOSERS, I THINK THAT RANDI WEINGARTEN IS AN EMBARRASSMENT. I THINK OUR CHILDREN ALREADY WE'RE BEHIND 33 YEARS IN MATH. WE'RE BEHIND 20 YEARS IN READING. IT IS SAD. THE UNITED STATES IS NOT WHAT IT ONCE WAS AND SHE SINGLE HANDEDLY IS THE PERSON WHO DIDN'T LOOK FOR ANY METRIC TO OPEN UP THE SCHOOL. BUT EVERY METRIC WAS TO CLOSE IT DOWN. AND SHE GETS BEFORE CONGRESS AND SHE SAYS OH, WE WANTED TO OPEN IT UP! BUT PEOPLE WERE DYING! I MEAN, GIVE ME A BREAK. THE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WERE OPEN. THE LUTHERAN SCHOOLS WERE OPEN. CHARTER SCHOOLS WERE OPEN. THE KIDS WERE STUDYING QUANTUM PHYSICS IN CHINA AND IN RUSSIA, THEY WERE STUDYING WHATEVER THEY NEEDED TO STUDY. THIS WOMAN HAS DONE MORE TO DAMAGE THIS GENERATION OF CHILDREN AND YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M GOING TO CAP IT OFF WITH THIS. SHE'S BEEN TO UKRAINE THREE TIMES. THE FIRST TIME SHE SAID SHE WENT THERE TO COMPARE THE EDUCATION SYSTEM TO THE UNITED STATES. MEANWHILE, EVERY SCHOOL BUILDING HAD BEEN TOTALLY BOMBED AND THE KIDS WERE HIDING UNDERNEATH IN SECURITY PLACES. AND THEN SHE KEEPS GOING. WHAT IS SHE DOING IN UKRAINE? WHY DOES SHE KEEP GOING TO UKRAINE? SHE'S BEEN THREE TIMES. YOU CONNECT THE DOTS. >> Kennedy: SHE'S A DOUBLE AGENT, CLEARLY. THE ONLY THING THAT THEY SHOULD BE DISCUSSING IS THEIR RETIREMENT. THEY BOTH SHOULD RESIGN IN DISGRACE AND THE FACT THAT THEY ARE BECOMING THIS PERFECT STORM OF STATISM, THEY ARE SO ANTI-SCHOOL CHOICE, IT'S IMMORAL. I WON'T STAND FOR IT, JESSICA. >> Will: YOU'RE SITTING DOWN. >> Jessica: SO I DON'T THINK THAT THE LEFT LIKES RANDI WEINGARTEN AS MUCH AS -- >> Will: REALLY? >> Jessica: SHE'S A BIG FIGUREHEAD AND HEAD OF A HUGE UNION, NOT THAT LIKE AT LIBERAL PARTIES WE SIT AROUND BEING LIKE WHICH UNION LEADER ARE YOU INTO? I NEVER HEAR ANYONE SAYING I THINK THAT THE -- WHAT HAPPENED WITH EDUCATION WAS WELL HANDLED DURING THE PANDEMIC. AND EVERYONE IS READING ALL OF THESE STUDIES THAT ARE COMING OUT ABOUT THE LEARNING LOSSES, WHERE THERE WERE POCKETS. WHERE THERE WASN'T LEARNING LOSS. AND THE DIFFERENCES IN TERMS OF PEOPLE GETTING VOUCHERS AND THEN GOING TO WORKING IN AN EDUCATION POD, HOMESCHOOLING, WHATEVER IT WAS. SO I DON'T THINK SHE'S SOMEONE -- I DON'T THINK FIRSTLY THE POLLING NECESSARILY OUT THERE ON HER POPULARITY. BUT I WOULDN'T PUT HER UP THERE AS A CULTURAL ICON OF THE LEFT AT THIS POINT. I WILL SAY, THOUGH, IN TERMS OF KEEPING THE SCHOOLS OPEN AND I THINK THAT THEY IGNORED A LOT OF EVIDENCE ABOUT HOW THIS DISEASE WAS AFFECTING CHILDREN AND THE STUFF WITH, YOU KNOW, HAVE TO GET THE DESKS SIX FEET APART AND ALL THAT. SHE DID HAVE THOUSANDS OF TEACHERS TO DEAL WITH. THIS WASN'T AS IF SHE WOKE UP AND SAID, I DON'T WANT SCHOOLS OPEN. SHE HAD TO DEAL WITH THE PEOPLE WHO WERE MEMBERS OF HER UNION SAYING I WON'T GO TO WORK! >> Kennedy: TO THAT POINT, WILL, SHE COULD HAVE SAID GET YOUR HIENIES BACK TO SCHOOL BECAUSE IT WAS A LOT OF HER MEMBERSHIP THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY WERE SAYING I CARE FOR IMMUNO COMPROMISED PERSON. THEREFORE, I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO BE IN SCHOOL. TEACHERS WEREN'T IN SCHOOL. GUESS WHO ELSE WASN'T IN SCHOOL, KIDS. IF THEY WERE, THEY WERE DOING ZOOM IN A ROOM. >> Will: SHE DOESN'T REPRESENT AMERICA'S SCHOOL CHILDREN. SHE REPRESENTS TEACHERS AND WILL LOOK AT THE BEST INTEREST OF ALL TIMES FOR TEACHERS. RANDI WEINGARTEN'S SINS PREDATED THE PANDEMIC BY DECADES. MY KIDS WENT TO, WHEN WE LIVED IN NEW YORK CITY A CHARTER SCHOOL UP HERE IN UPTOWN MANHATTAN. AND IT'S 75% BLACK AND BROWN. IT'S A CHARTER SCHOOL, SUCCESS ACADEMY. AND THERE HAS BEEN NO GREATER ENEMY OF THE WHOLE CHARTER SCHOOL MOVEMENT WHICH A SAVIOR TO POOR KIDS IN THIS CITY THAN THE EXISTENCE OF SCHOOL CHOICE AND SHE HAS BEEN NOT JUST AN OPPONENT BUT AN ADVOCATE FOR DESTROYING CHOICE IN CHARTER SCHOOLS. IN THIS CITY AND ACROSS THIS NATION. HER SINS DEFINITELY PREDATE THE PANDEMIC. NOW, IT'S JUST A DEBATE OF SHE'S ON THE MOUNT RUSHMORE OF UNDERRATED DESTRUCTIVE FORCES IN AMERICA WITH, I DON'T KNOW, BEN CRUMP AND FAUCI AND ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS. WE CAN DEBATE THE OTHERS. >> Kennedy: SO SMART TO BRING THAT UP. THAT MULTIYEAR STUDY OUT OF STANFORD GOES TO SHOW THE SUCCESS OF CHARTER SCHOOLS. AND THEY POINTED OUT PARTICULARLY AND THIS IS A NONPARTISAN STUDY. PARTICULARLY THE CHARTER SCHOOLS IN NEW YORK CITY, AND SHE, ALONG WITH KATHY HOKEL ARE STANDING IN THE WAY OF THAT AND KEEPING KIDS IN FAILING SCHOOLS AND SHAME ON THEM. AND THEN SHE TRIED TO SHAKE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR $750 BILLION. >> Tyrus: SHAKEDOWN, KENNEDY. NAIL ON THE HEAD RIGHT THERE. THIS IS AS A FORMER TEACHER, THIS IS ALL A SHAKEDOWN. HER BUYING GIANT SIX-FIGURE SALARY KEEPS GETTING INCREASED. SHE OBVIOUSLY KNOWS WHERE THE SECOND LAPTOP IS. THAT'S WHY SHE'S GETTING PROMOTED AND GETS ANOTHER JOB. SHE HAS NO BUSINESS REPRESENTING ANYONE OR ANYTHING. BUT THAT'S KIND OF WHAT WE'VE SEEN WITH THIS -- WITH UNQUALIFIED PEOPLE GET PUT. BUT HERE'S THE DEAL. LET'S LOOK AT THE ACTUAL JOB. THEY'RE PUT TOGETHER A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE FIRST WORLD WHO ARE GOING TO SIT DOWN AND DISCUSS WHAT TO DO IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY. BESIDES CALL CAR SERVICE OR YOUR PERSONAL ASSISTANT TO REWRITE IT FOR YOU. ARE THEY BRINGING IN MARINES AND PEOPLE THAT HAVE GONE THROUGH THIS SITUATION WITH SCHOOL SHOOTINGS OR PLANS? NO. IT'S A FABRICATED -- THE WHOLE SECRETARY -- THE WHOLE -- WE NEEDED IT WHEN WE HAD 9/11 AND MAYORKAS AND HIM, IT'S A BLOOMED UP WASTE OF TAXPAYER MONEY. ALL THEY DO IS SIT AROUND AND SAY WEIRD IDEAS AND PAY EACH OTHER MONEYS AND GO FLY TO UKRAINE, WHY? TO GET FUNDED, TO GET MORE MONEY. SO THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT AT THE EXPENSE OF TEACHERS AND CHILDREN. >> Jessica: CAN I ADD SOMETHING QUICKLY? THE GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA WAS ON AMERICA'S NEWSROOM THIS MORNING AND OBVIOUSLY, BIG WIN THAT THEY REBUILT I-95 IN TWO WEEKS. ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE. HE IS SUPPORTING SCHOOL CHOICE IN PENNSYLVANIA. THAT'S WHAT VOTERS WANT AND THAT'S WHAT PARENTS WANT. A DEMOCRAT. BUT THIS IS BIG TO GET A GOVERNOR ON THE RECORD JUST SAYING IT'S WHAT I BELIEVE, AND I THINK THAT THAT WILL HAVE A BIG RIPPLE EFFECT THROUGH THE PARTY BECAUSE HE'S SO BIG. >> Jeanine: THEY FINALLY FIGURED OUT THEY SHOULD DO WHAT THE PARENTS WANT. >> Kennedy: IT'S A WINNING ISSUE FOR ANY PARTY, PARTICULARLY ONE WHER
