Jimmy Barrett and Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter on the morning of 03/08/2019, including: The president of the nation’s largest teachers’ union joined a man who identifies as a woman in teaching transgender ideology to an Arlington, Virginia, kindergarten class last week. Lily Eskelsen García, president of the National Education Association (NEA), joined with Sarah McBride, a spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), in reading the books I Am Jazz and Julián Is a Mermaid to young children at Ashlawn Elementary School. In February 2017, the Trump administration discarded former President Barack Obama’s policy based on gender ideology. The policy required school administrators to validate the claims of children who say they have the “gender identity” of the opposite sex. The Trump economy is going gangbusters (even liberal economists are starting to admit it). Last week it was reported that the U.S. economy expanded by 2.9 percent in 2018, when measured from the 2017 annual level to the 2018 annual level. By a different metric, one that measures from the fourth quarter of 2017 to the fourth quarter of 2018, the economy expanded by 3.1 percent. This is a growth rate unmatched since 2005, according to the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis’ economic activity report.