Welcome back to the Bill Bennett Show. It's the podcast that helps you translate

Trump. Well, we need some translating this morning and this week.

As an understanding and some perspective. Joining me today is Brian Kennedy.

He's the president of the American Strategy Group.

We're going to talk to him about Donald Trump,

the FBI raid on Michael Cohen's office,

the possible US response to the chemical attack in Syria, the

appointment of John Bolton, a host of other things going on. Then we'll

change pace a little bit. You know I love the world of education. Very interested in education in America.

Been working on it for 50 years now. So I want to look at what I regard as the most significant

test we have in America, the best indicator of American educational

achievement that's the nape the national assessment of educational progress

it's a task given to some thousands, number of thousands of students around the country every year.

And it tells us how we're doing in math and reading.

Chester Finn, Chekery Finn, who is my former assistant secretary, will join us.

He's a distinguished senior fellow and president emeritus of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute,

which is an organization that gives us lots of valuable education statistics and

studies he's also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute of Stanford

University and he'll join me to discuss the latest nape results how the

kids do a lot to digest here.

First, let me get some thoughts off my head and send them out your way and let me know what you think about them.

I got several topics this morning.

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