LIVE: Biden DOJ’s Attempt to Silence Parents on Critical Race Theory
Heritage Explains
Heritage Podcast Network
4.7 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
**The special episode of Heritage Explains was recorded LIVE on Facebook and YouTube**
Are concerned parents DOMESTIC TERRORISTS? That's what Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a memo threatening to use the power of the DOJ and FBI to “investigate” parents who speak out at school board meetings with concerns about what their children are being taught.
What should parents do in the face of this intimidation?
What does it mean that the Biden administration is weaponizing the DOJ and FBI to do the bidding of a powerful leftist advocacy group?
How can parents protect their rights? ASK A LAWYER! Heritage Foundation legal scholar Giancarlo Canaparo answered your questions live.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Tim Deshire, and this is Heritage Explains live. |
| 0:40.0 | So we've been going live on YouTube and Facebook in the TV studio lately to rapidly respond to issues as they arise. Now, we love doing the Heritage Explains podcast, and we will continue to release them once a week, but in order to be a little |
| 0:45.7 | more responsive to the news as it develops, we figured going live was a good fit. Now, these |
| 0:53.4 | interviews are responsive to viewers' questions. |
| 0:56.3 | We try to make it lighthearted as lighthearted as we can with the serious issues these days. |
| 1:01.1 | And also give the audience an opportunity to interact with us and for us to interact with you. |
| 1:08.3 | It's pretty awesome. |
| 1:09.6 | So with that, we wanted to share with you |
| 1:12.0 | one of the most recent episodes in audio format. Now, this features John Carlo Canaparo breaking down |
| 1:19.7 | the DOJ memo released by Attorney General Merrick Garland. It looks like an effort to use the FBI |
| 1:26.0 | to threaten and silence parents who are outspoken opponents of critical race theory in schools. |
| 1:30.9 | It's a big deal, folks. |
| 1:32.5 | So we break that down into bite-sized pieces and also respond to your questions. |
| 1:38.8 | So John Pop, let's roll it. |
| 1:41.8 | Okay. Well, Heritage Explains Live, here we are. Welcome everybody. Thank you so much for |
| 1:46.9 | joining us today. My name is Tim Desher. I'm the co-host of the Heritage Explains podcast here at |
| 1:53.0 | the Heritage Foundation. And we got a big one today. This thing is happening. It's developing. |
| 1:59.1 | And we wanted to come live, again, just like we always do, |
| 2:02.1 | informal, but to take your questions on the issues, feel free. If you hear something, |
| 2:08.2 | if you've been wondering something, drop it in the chat, wherever you're watching, |
| 2:11.7 | YouTube, Facebook, all that stuff. I just wanted to hit that at the top because I always |
| 2:15.2 | forget to do that. But just to set the stage here before we introduce our guest, late in the day this past Monday, a memo surfaced from the Department of Justice. |
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