Oklahoma schools boss clashes with CNN anchor Pamela Brown in on-air spat over pro-Trump prayer video

A CNN quality anchor and Oklahoma's schoolhouse superintendent sparred connected surface implicit his caller mandate requiring schools to play a video of him praying for President-elect Donald Trump.

Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters emailed schoolhouse districts past week telling them they would beryllium required to play the video for students and parents.

He blamed the 'radical left' and 'woke teacher unions' for 'attacking spiritual liberty' successful the video and invited the students to articulation him successful prayers for Trump and the country.

School districts successful that authorities person pushed back and argued that Walters has nary authorization to necessitate them to 'disrupt the schoolhouse day.'

CNN Newsroom big Pamela Brown questioned Walters connected Monday implicit what gives him the authority to marque specified demands erstwhile the state's lawyer wide helium has nary powerfulness to unit schools to amusement the clip.

'I person continued to perceive the gaslighting from the left, frankly, adjacent from this network, pushing lies astir what's going connected crossed America,' Walters said.

'President Trump has a wide mandate. He wants supplication backmost successful school. He wants extremist leftism retired of the classroom, wants our kids to beryllium patriotic, wants parents backmost successful complaint with schoolhouse choice. 

'We're enacting upon that docket present successful Oklahoma. That's what our parents want. Every region successful Oklahoma voted for President Trump. His docket is crystal wide and we're going to enact it successful the authorities of Oklahoma.'

Brown unopen down his assertion saying, 'I'm not going to instrumentality the bait connected what you said astir gaslighting from this web connected this.'

'You know, I admit you pushing that left-wing communicative here, but here's the reality. The Constitution...' Walters said.

Brown interrupted again, saying: 'It's not a left-wing narrative. I'm virtually talking astir a petition that parents person signed that's gotten much than 14,000 signatures that person raised this issue.'

Walters is being sued by radical of parents of nationalist schoolhouse students, teachers and ministers for requiring the Bible beryllium incorporated into acquisition plans for students successful grades 5 done 12. 

He is seeking to bargain 55,000 Bibles for nationalist schools and specifying that each transcript incorporate the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution. 

The suit noted the archetypal 'request for proposal' released by the State Department of Education to acquisition the Bibles appeared to person been cautiously tailored to lucifer Bibles endorsed by Donald Trump that merchantability for $59.99 each.

Brown questioned Walters implicit the graphic sections to Bible and what helium would accidental to critics who accidental if the Bible is required successful the schoolroom truthful should different spiritual texts.

'The near doesn't privation our kids to cognize thing astir the relation the Bible played successful American history,' Walters said.

Brown noted that the US constitution 'doesn't person god' successful it and the archetypal amendment allows spiritual freedom.

'Look, CNN doesn't person to similar it. Left-wing activists don't person to similar it,' Walters said.

'It's a humanities document. The Bible is simply a humanities document. You can't rewrite history, Okay?

'And, again, look, the media doesn't person to similar it, but the world is, the American radical person rejected this gaslighting and person enactment President Trump backmost successful the White House with a wide agenda, and we are going to basal close down the president each measurement of the way.'

Brown concluded, 'Just to beryllium clear, this isn't astir the media not liking it. I'm talking astir your critics and whether you're consenting to see their constituent of view, because, arsenic you know, you oversee an full acquisition strategy successful the authorities of Oklahoma with radical with varying viewpoints. And we privation to bring that to light.'