Hume: I did not realize Teachers Union was powerful enough to do what they have succeeded in doing

ARLSON: “So at the bottom of all of this — and by the way, everything we just said is public, you can find it on Google, everyone in charge knows it, but the schools are still shut in a lot of places. And there’s only one reason for that, and that’s because the teachers unions have inordinate political power. We want to talk now to Brit Hume, he is Fox’s senior analyst who spent decades watching these unions exercise power. Britt, thank you for joining us. The first and most obvious question is, are you surprised by the power that they have, the teachers unions?”

HUME: “I must say, as powerful as I thought they were, I did not realize they were powerful enough to do what they have succeeded in doing. And we saw the most recent manifestation of that when the Director of the CDC came out and said that the science shows that it’s safe to reopen schools without everyone being vaccinated, and in a matter of hours, really, the Biden administration had come out and said, ‘Well, she was speaking for herself,’ which gave you a sense of how afraid the Biden administration, newly in power, is of what the teachers unions say and want. It is really quite striking. And I would think, Tucker, that, you know, in the elections ahead, that this public policy decision to close down the economy for much of the year and close down schools will come back to haunt the party in power, but who knows? The teachers unions are quite a force.”