>> john: fox news alert, harvard university president claudine gay stepping down, marking an end to the shortest presidency in the university's storied history, plagiarism accusations as well as antisemitism on the campus. >> gillian: busy breaking news hour, so far. i'm gillian turner in for sandra smith. so claudine gay confirming the news in the email, she has been mired in scandals, including 50 plagiarism accusations and doubts about her ability to protect jewish students on campus in the wake of october 7th. molly line is live in boston with more details. what can you tell us?

>> her inauguration was in late september and calls for her resignation since october. today harvard president claudine gay making it offering, saying in an email to the university community she made the decision with a heavy heart but adding it's in the best interest of harvard for her to resign, bedrock values to who i am frightening with attacks. and following the attacks on israel and in december she and two other university leaders testified about antisemitism on campus, during the controversial testimony, all three failed to say calling for the genocide of jews violated university policies. >> so the answer is yes, that

calling for the genocide of jews violates harvard code of conduct, correct. >> it depends on the context. >> it does not depend on the context. the answer is yes and this is where you should resign. >> gay also faced growing allegations of plagiarism, initially they unanimously supported president gay and wrote she would make corrections to her work, and they are releasing a statement reading while president gay has acknowledged missteps and taken responsibility for them, also true she has shown remarkable resilience in the face of personal attacks. some has played out in the public domain, there is some racist vitrile through emails and phone calls. we condemn such attacks in the strongest possible terms. gay says she will remain a

member of the faculty, noteworthy in the email and the provost will be the interim president. >> gillian: molly line in boston, thank you. >> john: joining us on the phone is elise stefanik, congresswoman, thank you for being with us, this all began with your line of questioning and their answers to it. gay in the resignation said amidst all of this, doubts on my commitments denouncing hate and promoting scholarly vigor, frightening with personal attacks and racial threats. and some say that could be partially aimed at you. what do you say? >> i say, john, all three university presidents gave morally bankrupt testimony at

the now infamous congressional hearing to a very specific moral question, does calling for the genocide of jews violate your university's code of conduct and one after the other, whether it was mit, penn or harvard failed to answer correctly, they answered it depends on the context. it does not depend on the context and as a harvard graduate, we have seen a failure of academic integrity, a cornerstone of any higher education institution. so i called for her resignations as i did for all three because of their abject failure in the congressional testimony and their failure to protect jewish students. it's long overdue. should not have taken the harvard corporation board this long to demand her resignation and i believe as we continue the congressional investigation we will uncover the greatest

scandal in higher education because the harvard corporation members themselves are complicit in this cover-up of her plagiarism and again, the most importantly, the failure to protect jewish students on campus. >> gillian: congresswoman, this is gillian. so her answer to your repeated questioning at that hearing under scored and really ignited a lot of doubt among the jewish community at harvard about her ability to protect jewish students from antisemitism, from direct threats of attack, but also at this intersection she's facing nearly 50 accusations of plagiarism in her academic publications. do you think your line of questioning is behind and ultimately what drove this ousting or do you think it was more of sort of straw that broke the camel's back type situation? >> you know, this accountability would not have happened were it not for that congressional hearing, and i think what it forced was greater scrutiny of

her position as the president of harvard and you have to remember, gillian, she was selected as president of harvard in a shorter executive search than any other previous president and they should have found out that there were 50 credible allegations of plagiarism and the fact that the harvard corporation we now know knew about that before the congressional hearing and tried to cover it up and threaten media outlets to sue them is a disgrace. when you are a board of any university you is need to make sure that your president, faculty and students uphold the rigors of academic integrity and instead they wanted to hide this from their students, from their community, so this accountability would not have happened were it not for the very clear moral questions at the hearing but there were many people who spoke out and really it was the over 1 billion views because of the pathetic testimony that led to this day. >> john: congresswoman, again in

her letter, says after consultation with members of the corporation it's clear it's in the best interest of harvard for me to resign. you suggested a moment ago the corporation forced her resignation. are you just supposing that or do you have information that they said you've got to step down? >> i don't have information. i think it became clear. i've said it has long been clear, everyone knows it, harvard knew her presidency was untenable, but i have been concerned they tried to make it a political issue. it's not political, it's about academic integrity and leadership, and i'm a harvard graduate myself, and they failed in the responsibility to oversee this institution. they should have dealt with it immediately after the congressional hearing like penn did. >> gillian: congresswoman, does harvard's responsibility now end here? nobody as far as i'm aware at the corporation or elsewhere has

come forward and refuted the answers she gave to you in that hearing. do you have any sense that that might be forthcoming? >> it should be forthcoming. they need to show a new direction of leadership to protect jewish students on campus who have faced physical assault, verbal harassment, and this congressional investigation is not going to stop because of the resignation of the university presidents. there are deep institutional rot in these formerly press -- these universities, i think the investigation will uncover much, much more. this is just the university president on top of the institution but it's the institutional rot we are addressing. the colleges get billions of taxpayer dollars. >> john: like liz magill at u-penn, she's stepping down as

president, she's going to remain on the faculty, she was a professor of government and african american studies prior to this. should she be allowed, i know she's tenured and getting rid of a tenured professor is a difficult proposition, but given the allegations of plagiarism, should she be allowed to stay on the faculty? >> no, and look at some of the student reporting at harvard crimson, students are held to a standard you cannot plagiarize, that does not stand for academic rigor and integrity. you can't have members of the faculty where a great percentage of their body of work is plagiarized. over 50 credible accusations and she doesn't have a very robust body of work compared to previous university presidents or faculty members. she should not stay on the faculty. >> gillian: thank you for joining us for the last minute breaking news.

>> john: karol, your reaction, the water has been spilling over the dam, if you will, but looked for all intents and purposes as though the dam would hold. today it broke. >> i think that there was no way for claudine gay to stay in her position after accusation after accusation was released about being a plagiarize. aim a lowly columnist and i would have been fired for just one of those. it's a real problem and i knew that would ultimately end her tenure there. i think it should have been the fact that jewish students were left unprotected and that she could not simply answer that calling for the genocide of jews violated harvard speech codes. representative stefanik is exactly right, that it was her

congressional testimony that kicked all of this off. it should have been that congressional testimony where she floundered and could not give a real answer what jewish students could expect at harvard should have ended her career there, but plagiarism is something harvard cannot accept at a mass level, they tried to protect her and she ran out of options here. >> gillian: before gay's resignation last hour, i was going to ask you about new six allegations of plagiarism in two academic publications she has put forward, people claim she plagiarized two other academics. does harvard now have a responsibility to reopen or continue investigating these allegations because she is choosing to remain on the faculty? >> well, it's interesting. because if i'm a parent sending my child to harvard and paying these insane tuition fees, do i want my child in claudine gay's

class where i know most of her body of work has been plagiarized. what are the parents paying for her. absolutely harvard has some responsibility to the tuition-paying students to say that we have gone through, you know, a real investigation of claudine gay's body of work and show what the findings are. i understand she's tenured and she's hard to fire, but every student at harvard understands they cannot plagiarize their work and hope to succeed. i think they should make an example and show harvard students they will absolutely 23409 stand for that. >> john: in her resignation letter said in part her tenure as president affirmed student sense of belonging, sense that harvard welcomes people of talent and promise from every background imaginable, when my brief presidency is remembered i hope seen as a moment of reawakening to find our common humanity. when you look at what's happened on harvard's campus in terms of

the harassment of jewish students, when you look at her answer to elise stefanik saying calling for the genocide of jews depends on the context in which the language was used? does that in any way reflect what she has written here? >> right. what humanity, what humanity did she bring us all together in. she excused the vile language of genocide aimed at jewish students. she let that go. she did not protect her jewish students on campus. and look, this is not about jews specifically. if you have anybody marching around calling for the genocide of any grouping that perhaps that violates all of the conduct codes at our top universities. so while it was jews this time, we have to understand that this is not the jewish issue, not a jewish problem, i love that congresswoman stefanik spoke up for jewish students and said this is not acceptable. but i think that's what we

should say about any calls for genocide of any group. the fact that claudine gay still does not get it and still is treating herself as if she's a victim, oh, she got threats or nasty language directed at her, that's still a fraction of what jewish students on harvard campus experienced and she should really start with apology to them and work from there. >> gillian: it's worth flagging before we let you go, she also allowed protests to continue despite containing active threats against jewish students and faculty and the fact that she was aware that a lot of faculty and students were staying off campus because they felt directly threatened and they felt unsafe at their institution. thanks for joining us with the breaking news. we have to leave it there. >> john: thanks, karol. good to see you again. >> gillian: the star of "beverly

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>> according to cbp sources, the december tally shattered multiple records with more than 302000, since october 1st when the new fiscal year began. san diego, tucson and del rio border patrol sectors are the busiest. tomorrow house speaker mike johnson will travel to eagle pass, texas to see the crisis for himself. he'll be accompanied by at least 60 of his republican colleagues from capitol hill, including texas congressman tony gonzalez. agents say the surge will not slow until the white house

enforces existing immigration law and raises the credible fear threat for those seeking asylum. meantime, drugs also continue pouring into the country in record numbers. cbp says agents have seized more than 7300 pounds of cocaine since october 1st, and more than 3400 pounds of fentanyl. also some 29,000 pounds of methamphetamine. it's nonstop, gillian. >> gillian: wow, all right. casey stegall in dallas, thank you. >> john: former acting dhs secretary, chad wolf. put the number back on the screen again, it really is unbelievable. in one month, december alone, according to sources, 302000. >> one month we had 60,000

apprehensions and how we had to do better and now 300,000 in one 30-day period. and the border patrol agents three years into the crisis and don't seen an end in sight. they see it going the opposite direction with more and more illegal activity hurting americans, american communities, their loved ones and everyone else along the border. >> gillian: earlier last week an emergency summit, president biden sent secretary mayorkas and blinken to meet with the government, and i traveled on the trip. i'm curious what you made out of that and what you hoped to see the same mexican officials will travel here to meet with biden at the white house this month. what do you want to see? >> i would have expected a little more coming out of, i'm not going to say the summit but the meeting and what you got from the communique or the

readout was boilerplate language and that's fine if you are in normal times. we are not at normal times along the border. no new enforcement measures mentioned, instead a line in there about amnesty. the biden administration on day one proposed legislation amnesty as the big provision, so they are on the mantra of amnesty and it's remarkable. it will have the opposite effect of what most persons want to see at the border, a little more order and less individuals coming across the border but every time you talk about amnesty another wave of illegal migrants. >> john: new york city mayor abade busses to enter new york city and had them dropped off in new jersey, is it even legal for

him to do that? because these migrants are now in the united states legally, awaiting adjudication of their asylum claim. their movement, according to american law cannot be restricted. >> once they are released from dhs custody, they are down there at the border, they are free to go anywhere in the united states like any other citizens. >> john: for adams to say you can't come to new york city, is he breaking the law? >> that needs to be looked at. but whether they go to new york city, denver, chicago, they have the ability to go to the communities like i would or you would if you decide to go to new york city today. i think he's trying to get around that with some regulations on the bussing of them in there, but look, that's not where his focus should be. his focus should be actually trying to convince the administration that the policy they have along that border is causing the mass influx of migrants into places like new york city. he needs to stop the flow, which is actually convincing the

administration their policies are wrong and come with a different policy solution. >> gillian: mayor adams said to help ensure the safety of migrants, leave you to chew over that. >> yeah, i think that's interesting, the safety, better if we didn't have 300,000 migrants coming across the border every day for their own safety. >> john: maybe he's suggesting new york is not safe. >> gillian: ooh, i don't know. >> john: not be the first one. chad, great to see you. happy new year. >> gillian: also this now, israel adapting military strategy in the gaza strip as the country settles in for the long haul, six months or more of ground combat to wipe out hamas. could a lengthy conflict allow for further escalation. counter terrorism expert weighs in on the risks coming up next.

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warship to the red sea after the u.s. killed at least ten iranian-backed houthi fighters and sunk three of their boats. they received a distress call from a commercial ship the houthis were trying to overtake. what it means for the war between israel and hamas but first jennifer griffin at the pentagon with the latest on what's going on in the red sea. jennifer. >> john, with tensions rising in the red sea we learned antony blinken called david cameron, comes a day after the british secretary of state for defense wrote in an opinion piece "if we do not protect the red sea, it risks emboldening those looking to threaten elsewhere, including in the south china sea and crimea. we won't hesitate to take further action to deter threats to freedom of navigation in the

red sea." adding to the tension, iran has moved a navy frigate into the red sea, equipped with eight cruise missiles. iran's navy has been acquiring the missiles with ranges of over 600 miles along with helicopters. u.s. navy helicopters found themselves in a firefight with houthi gunmen aboard four small vessels attempting to hijack a shipping container. the u.s. navy responded to the distress call and when the houthis fired on the attack helicopters, the crews sank three of the vessels, killing an estimated ten houthi fighters. the u.s. attack helicopters launched from the u.s.s. eisenhower, the first time the u.s. has killed houthis in the red sea since november. more ships are rerouting to avoid the red sea, bound to add

to consumer prices. maersk postponed in the red sea, and today a german shipping company will go around the cape of good hope to january 9th. more than 115 attempted attacks on u.s. bases in iraq and syria since mid october. tomorrow marks the anniversary of the u.s. killing of commander soleimani, iran's proxies have vowed to mark the occasion with more attacks. >> john: maybe we will mark it back. we'll see. jennifer, thank you. gillian. >> gillian: jonathan, senior vice president of the foundation for defense of democracies, author of "gaza conflict 2021, and hamas versus fatah." what do you make of this, i don't know what you want to call

it, provocation, escalation, deployment of the iranian vessel into the red sea. >> certainly not hard to predict, we knew iranians would escalate, to see whether the united states has the stomach to stay in this, and lump the united states in with the wider war that iran is fighting in the middle east. it's very interesting. tonight we are hearing about another very relevant moment that just took place in lebanon, israelis have just taken out the number three of hamas. and this is i think going to probably signal a much wider war. >> john: we wanted to ask you about that, jonathan, he was in lebanon, don't know who mounted the attack, whether it was the idf, the iaf or the mossad, but we do know that benjamin netanyahu gave the mossad instructions back in november to eliminate hamas leaders wherever they are around the world, taking him out would be a very

significant move and potentially could invite some sort of retaliation from hezbollah, even though he was a hamas leader. hezbollah rules the roost in lebanon. what do you think will happen? >> yeah, look, i think the lebanese hezbollah is likely to respond to this in some shape or form. the israelis apparently took him out in downtown beirut. and in the car were two other people. i don't know who the third person is, but a guy, the spokesperson for hamas was also taken out, so it was at least a two-fer, so to speak. i believe that we are likely to see more of this, the israelis are likely to target other leaders where hamas has headquarters, qatar, turkey, and lebanon, and what a wider war

might look like, some might look like gray zone activity, israelis don't have to take responsibility but we will see i think more hamas leadership sacrificed after 10-7, so to speak. i think a lot more of that and that could invite additional provocations from iran-backed militias in syria, gaza, west bank, this thing could go on for quite some time. >> gillian: it's also the reality, we have seen it over and over again with other terrorist organizations in the region that when you use strategic killings and you off, you know, a leader here and there, it rarely has a long-term impact on these organizations. nearly everybody is now replaceable, and it is also possible that as a result of this killing hamas will raise more money. >> it's certainly possible and certainly on the financial side

of things we know that iran are committed, turks are committed to making sure the organization continues to live on, even as the group is going to be, i mean, i think very likely pulled out of gaza and ultimately dismantled or destroyed. i will say, though, that when you take a look at some of the leaders that could be targeted here, arori a key one, and others like sinwar and daif based in gaza right now, if they fall i get a sense hamas does not have anyone who can necessarily immediately step up and fill the gap. a psychological component. if the targeted killings took place in a vacuum i would agree they can reconstitute but they are also losing their safe haven, losing their base and leadership at the same time. this looks more and more like a debilitating blow that the israelis are delivering.

we knew they were capable of it. but of course, that does not mean it's going to be a short war. >> john: all right, well, if you remember if hamas are around the world you are probably looking over your shoulder after this. jonathan, thank you. >> here to celebrate the progress we are making to support black small businesses here and around the country. black small businesses grow, everything benefits. >> john: president biden bragging about what his administration is doing for black voters but new polling shows those voters are not buying what the president is selling. juan williams and jason chaffetz next.

>> john: president biden heads into this election year with

shrinking support in traditional democratic territory. that is according to the first poll of 2024, finds biden trailing former president trump when it comes to minority and young voters. groups that backed biden in 2020. juan williams, jason chaffetz, gentlemen, happy new year to you. juan, i don't know -- i don't quite know juan how jolly it is, though, let's put the numbers up on the screen from the latest u.s.a. suffolk news poll. biden voter support among african americans for biden, 63%. back in 2020 it was 87%. hispanic voters would vote trump 39-34, biden had him 65 to 32, and would you back a third party candidate, 20%, one out of five black voters said yes, a little more than one out of five young

voters said yes. is biden in serious trouble, juan? >> juan: i don't think there's any way to put a positive spin on the numbers, it's not good news for the biden campaign. the caution here for people who would blow that up is that you don't see a corresponding bump with donald trump numbers with black voters, he's at the level he won in 2020 and a lot of those people that you are talking about, especially young people, i think that when you look at issues like abortion, climate change, if they are asked about trump, it's unlikely that they are going to go there. they are part of a larger american cohort that is saying you know, we wish these two guys were not running. we would like someone else. we are looking for independent in the general poll that we just are citing here, it's something like, you know, biden gets 37 but trump gets 39%.

that's not very high. that's nowhere near 50%, and independent would get 17%. that number goes away in a general election. >> john: we will see if that does happen. you know, juan makes a valid point here, jason, that donald trump support among black voters no higher than four years ago. if the support for third party candidates goes away, does joe biden pull off a squeaker here? >> jason: i doubt it. enthusiasm wins elections and if your base is enthusiastic, they are not making the donation, not showing up, not going to the rallies, that's contagious and i think the democrats are in deep trouble. i think the election is about safety, safety in your wallet, safety in the streets, safety on the borders, safety overseas and joe biden is upside down on every single one of the policy issues, you combine it with the fact he does not have the oration skills and ability to

draw a crowd. kamala harris is nowhere, you have people like charlamagne tha god saying we supported you last time, you did not deliver, we are not there for you in 2024. >> john: support remains to be seen but no question juan he has got a problem with latino voters. listen to these folks who were on "fox & friends" this morning. >> conservatives in general right now, their message is really resonating with us. we are feeling it, just in our bank account and at the grocery store. we are going to vote based on that. >> the answer lies in the pocket books. hispanics are entrepreneurs and with biden's america, hispanics are struggling to stay afloat and young hispanics will flock behind a candidate who can champion and support working class families. >> john: ron desantis in florida

set new numbers among hispanic voters, could trump do the same in 2024? >> juan: bad news in several swing states. not only arizona you saw the people speaking from, but nevada and florida, it's just bad news. clearly that would void the trump or the republican nominee, assume to be trump at this moment. but i think you also have to consider the fact that we had great holiday spending, consumer sentiment is on the rise, if it's a function of economic attitudes with inflation on the way down with, you know, unemployment staying pretty low, you know, there is a possibility you see some bumps, some resurgence for biden. but you are right, i mean, these numbers are just not good. >> john: and when you take a look at a state like georgia, karl rove, jason, pointed this out earlier, that biden could

only afford to lose 0.9% of black voters or he loses the state. numbers are going to be very, very fragile for him. >> jason: they are. and i think there is a misnomer out there all this illegal immigration is good for hispanics. i think some of the most offended people by the immigration policy are hispanics and blacks. and they are the ones that have to pay the higher rents because there are now millions of more people competing for housing. they will go out and take jobs that will drive down the cost of labor and those types of things. i think they get highly offended by that, they feel the economic pain of all of that, and that does not bode well for joe biden and inflation is already higher, the other number is. you have a trillion new dollars in credit card debt, that 20 plus percent that they are paying, that's expensive. >> john: we are less than two weeks away from the first

competition of 2024, and november is going to be here before you know it. juan, jason, great to talk to you. thanks for kicking us off with the first political panel of 2024. appreciate it. >> gillian: famous hollywood actor in a violent brawl on the streets of l.a. details for you next. and they don't even have to be identical! one pair can be practical and sturdy, while the other pair is super stylish and wildly good-looking. (♪) ( ♪ ♪ ) start your day with nature made. the #1 pharmacist recommended vitamin and supplement brand.

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>> welcome back. an actor is speaking out after he was attacked by a group of bikers in l.a. look at this shocking video. the beverly hills 90210 star fighting attackers off. this all started after one of those bikers hit his car while weaving through traffic. let's bring in william la jeunesse. he has the details. william, what are police doing now? are they looking into this incident? what's happening? >> as of ten minutes ago, they had not made any arrests. they're investigating. zearing is considered the victim here. he's fine. could have been worse. basically he says that criminals, hooligans are getting away with anything they want because there's no consequences. this happened in the middle of new year's eve. a gang on mini bikes weave in

and out of traffic and one appears to weave in to his s.u.v. he gets out. they fight. the others join in. zearing breaks free before seeking help from a crowd that will do nothing. we'll slow this down. okay? take a closer look. he gets out of his car. he shoves one biker. then another will run in to him from the back. a woman in a green helmet will jump in. a third biker will hit him with a right hook, a fourth and fifth join in, before he gets free. yesterday he posts this on inis the graham. while stuck in traffic, my car was approached aggressively by one of these riders leading to a confrontation. in an attempt to assess any damage, i exited my car. this action unfortunately escalated in to a physical altercation which i navigated to protect myself. basically, gillian, the bikes

are not street legal. they shouldn't have been 0 out there in the first place. police would not say whether or not anyone in the hollywood division is familiar with this particular gang. back to you. >> that is quite the picture. wish him the best, william. thank you. >> john: a go fund me account raises hundreds of thousands for a dedicated burger king employee who never missed a day from work. just when you thought the story couldn't get any better, hang on. it does. teran, own a home and need money for your family? newday usa can help. veterans have earned a lot of va benefits with their service, but the va home loan benefit is a big one. by using your benefit at newday you can borrow up to 100% of your home's value and take out an average of $70,000. use that money to pay off high rate debt and get back on your feet financially.

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