Nikki Haley says 'climate change is real' during interview with Tucker Carlson



While interviewing GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley at an event on Friday, Tucker Carlson pressed the candidate about issues such as the 2020 presidential election and climate change.

Haley indicated that she believes there were "irregularities" during the 2020 presidential election but does not believe the issues altered the results of the election — she said she thinks Joe Biden ultimately won the contest. Haley also said that election integrity is an issue that needs to be addressed.

When Carlson asked Haley if she believes climate change is caused by human actions, she said that she believes "climate change is real." Carlson pressed the question again, but Haley indicated she was not certain. "Honestly, I don't know how much is being changed or not, as much as I know that putting electric vehicles on the road is not the answer to what you're doing," she said. She also said the U.S. should be energy independent.

Haley indicated that as president, she would veto any spending measure that does not return to pre-COVID levels of spending.

Tucker Carlson interviewed Haley and multiple other GOP presidential primary candidates during the FAMiLY Leadership Summit on Friday. Blaze Media teamed up with the FAMiLY Leader for the event.

Haley previously served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations during a portion of President Donald Trump's White House tenure. Prior to that, she had served as governor of South Carolina.

Polls indicate that former President Donald Trump has a massive lead over the rest of the GOP presidential primary field, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis trailing in a distant second place. Trump was not one of the candidates who participated in the forum on Friday.

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Iowa governor confronts interviewer with obscene passage from book, defends parental rights in schools



Editor's note: The subject matter of this article contains graphic content.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) spoke up in favor of parental rights Monday, telling a local news outlet that parents should decide what is and is not appropriate for their children in schools.

Concerned parents across the nation are butting heads with school districts over certain books available in school libraries, and whether those books — some of which contain explicit sexual content — are appropriate for school-age children. This debate is playing out across six school districts in the Des Moines Metro area of Iowa, where school officials are examining the content of several books deemed objectionable by parents.

During an interview with KCCI-TV, Reynolds read aloud from one of the controversial books, "All Boys Aren't Blue," by George M. Johnson, a series of essays that the author describes as a "memoir-manifesto" of what it was like to grow up as a gay black person. Johnson is homosexual and identifies as non-binary.

A reporter with KCCI asked the governor if she supports comments made by Republican state Senate President Jake Chapman, who recently said Iowa teachers unions have a "sinister agenda" and want to "normalize sexually deviant behavior against our children, including pedophilia and incest." Those comments drew outrage from teachers, who said they were offensive and untrue.

"If you're talking about, do I think inappropriate things are being displayed in libraries, and in classrooms, across the state? From what I've heard from parents, I absolutely agree with that," Reynolds told KCCI, declining to comment directly on Chapman's remarks.

She then read a passage from "All Boys Aren't Blue" that contains a graphic description of a sexual act between two boys who are cousins.

"You told me to take my pajamas, my pajama pants, which I said to take off my pajama pants, which I told you when, which I did. You then took off your shorts, followed by your boxers," she read from the book. "There you stood in front of me, fully erected and said, 'Taste it.' At first, I laughed and refused. But then you said, 'come on, Matt, taste it. This is what boys like us do when we like each other.' I finally listened to you. The whole time I knew it was wrong, not because I was having sexual intercourse with a guy, but that you were my family. I only did that for about 45 seconds before you had me stop. Then you got down on your hands and knees and told me to close my eyes, and that's when you began oral sex on me as well."

"So I don't know if parents feel that that is appropriate for children in K-12 education," Reynolds told KCCI after reading the passage. "Then I think that's a that's a decision for parents to make."

She went on to say that parents have a right to determine what their children are taught in schools.

“These are the parents’ children, they’re not ours, they’re not the government’s, they’re not the school district’s,” she said. “They’re the parents’ children and they have a right to say, to weigh in on their children’s education.”

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds: "Parents\nmatter. \n\nThese are the parents' children.\nThey're not the government's.\nThey're not the school district's. \n\nThey're the parents' children. And they have a right to say, to weigh in, on their children's education."pic.twitter.com/D2nb5wZZoW
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While schools across the nation are removing "All Boys Aren't Blue" from libraries, the author has defended the work as an important message foryoung adults, who may be struggling with their sexuality.

"The reality is there is no topic that is too heavy for a child who could experience said topic. If a child can experience sexual abuse at the age of seven, a child should understand what sexual abuse looks like, how to handle it, how to discuss it, and how to talk about it," Johnson told CBS News last November.

"The repercussions of removing a resource like mine doesn't mean youth, specifically Black queer youth won't experience these things. What it does is remove an educational tool for them to have the knowledge and the wherewithal to understand how to handle those situations."

Other books challenged in Iowa include "Lawn Boy" by Jonathon Evison and "Gender Queer" by Maia Kobabe, each of which contains graphic depictions of sex.

Iowa governor says she won’t take in migrant children: ‘This is not our problem; this is the president’s problem’



Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said recently that her state does not have the capacity to house migrant children who have come into the country illegally amid the country's ongoing immigration crisis, arguing the problem was created by President Biden and so he has the responsibility to fix it.

"We don't have the facilities. We are not set up to do that," Reynolds said during an interview with WHO radio on Thursday, during which she announced that she recently turned down a request from the Department of Health and Human Services to house hundreds of the migrant children.

"This is not our problem; this is the president's problem," she added defiantly. "He is the one that opened the borders. He needs to be responsible for this, and he needs to stop it."

Tens of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children are currently being held in grim, cage-like Border Patrol facilities along the southern border, oftentimes for longer than is legally permitted. The tragic situation is the result of a worsening crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, as unprecedented numbers of migrants surge into the country illegally expecting lenient treatment under President Joe Biden.

The Biden administration reported last week that more than 170,000 migrants were apprehended by Border Patrol agents in March, the highest monthly total in over a decade, and 70,000 more than were apprehended in February.

In response to the crisis, the overwhelmed Biden administration has been forced to adopt drastic measures, including releasing tens of thousands of adult illegal immigrants directly into the country — potentially without court dates — and setting up makeshift surge facilities for unaccompanied children.

Since the surge facilities for children have garnered the most media attention and public outcry, the administration has given special attention to that issue apparently by asking northern states to help out.

According to the Des Moines Register, in late March, a HHS employee reached out to Iowa's state government with a request that the state make any of its unoccupied residential child care beds available to migrant children.

But in response, Iowa Department of Human Services Director Kelly Garcia said that "Iowa is not in a position to take unaccompanied minors at this time."

The Register noted that Iowa Department of Human Services spokesman Matt Highland acknowledged in an email that it "is an incredibly saddening and difficult situation," but said the decision was due to the state's limited resources.