Mary Margaret O'Lehan

Hey Vance, great to be here.

Thanks for having me.

Well, Ben, that's a really good question because this letter that we broke yesterday was sent to Tim Walz only a week after the Covenant Christian school shooting where a trans-identifying shooter targeted kids in a very similar fashion because they were Christian at this school in Nashville.

And so these leaders sent this letter begging Tim Walz for help on these security measures, expressing a critical need for security.

And they talked about how Jewish schools need this as well, Muslim schools, independent schools, basically non-public schools.

And I spoke to these leaders that sent the letter.

I got in touch with both of them yesterday.

And they both told me the same thing, that they met with Tim Walz, that they expressed the need for these very serious safety measures, and ultimately they didn't get them.

And now I also talked to Tim Walz's team yesterday because, of course, we reached out to him.

And we received a very confusing and rather evasive statement from them in which they suggested that private schools do receive funding, even though they didn't specify what kind of funding and whether it was the funding that these schools had asked for.

And the reason for that is because these schools didn't get what they asked for, these security measures.

And Tim Walz's office doesn't want to admit that.

So this is a very serious concern, Ben.

Obviously, this was an atrocity that took place yesterday, a tragedy.

We see these children talking to the news about seeing their friends cover them with their bodies and having to undergo this absolute tragedy.

It's just so heartbreaking.

And so we should have at every level state lawmakers, nationwide lawmakers who are interested in protecting our kids, especially our kids who are being targeted for religious reasons, who are under such fire lately, as we know.

Well, Ben, I'm so glad that you brought that up because this is something that no one ever talks about is these hundreds attacks on Catholic churches around the country that started with the overturn of Roe v. Wade, or actually it started with the leak of the draft opinion showing that Roe v. Wade would soon be overturned.

Catholic Vote has a really interesting tracker map that shows that I believe over 200 Catholic churches have been attacked and vandalized since that leak of the draft letter.

And this is just, you know, one portion of the attacks