let's return to the ex-president of harvard.vious political overtones, she was also accused of plagiarism, which she allegedly actively used in her harvard dissertation and other scientific works written over the past decades. moreover, after having received attacks from professors, gay began to correct articles for 2001-2007, putting previously stolen parts of the text in quotation marks , noting that these are quotes. they also counted the stolen work and whether gay people have a right to their own housing, in which the professor discussed the topic of fair distribution of housing for the low-income. borrowing on the sly, stealing someone else’s, or simply making it up is not such a rare practice even for the largest american luminaries. last year , the head of stanford had to resign in disgrace. it turned out that the president university, its team of researchers, simply made up data in their papers. an independent commission found errors of distortion in scientific research. works in the field of neurobiology, the author an

harvard said goodbye in january.ecame the thirtieth president of harvard in history and took this post only the first of july last year. election to the post of president of one of the most prestigious universities in the league. gaye was a major victory for so-called tolerance activists as the first black woman to serve as president, but the joy was short-lived. the trigger was the december meeting in congress; during gay’s testimony, when asked whether anti-semitic calls by students contradicted the harvard charter, she simply remained silent, for which she was immediately subjected to serious obstruction. we are talking about protests that broke out against the background arab-israeli conflict, confrontation. clearly, not everyone at harvard supports washington's actions. more than thirty student groups were attacked because of a signed open letter claiming that israel was solely responsible for the war. the authors noted that millions of palestinians in the gaza strip are forced to live in open-air prisons and ca

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we can only assume the harvard corporation come the kind of board of overseers of harvard, made a dealith her from helped to force her out, so they had first supported her and now with tremendous pressure also from billionaire donors, she is out. if you can talk about the significance of harvard hillel, the former director talking about expressing dissent over what israel is doing in gaza right now, professor? >> i think his comments and his testimony in the op-ed he wrote from his vantage point speaks very clearly to the absence of a balanced discussion about claudine gay's testimony was true of the two other presidents, liz magill and selleck warm blue. the truth is, they all performed as they should have. they spoke clearly and directly to personal condemning expressions of anti-messages on which -- anti-semitism which by definition intifada is not necessarily. but putting that aside, they were following the instructions of general counsel and likely the board chairs of their various universities. in the case of claudine gay, you can see garber, the interim president, sitting behind

>> 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 testimo

gay, the president of harvard university, first apologized and the board of trustees of harvard university supported her and said that the speaker's remarks were not anti-semitic, but the pressure was so great that she resigned yesterday. it is important that she the first black president and the second female president. being from harvard university and some democrats pointed out that one of the reasons why he was pressured was that he was black, which means that republicans at the same time they pressured him both because of racial issues and because he refused to stop the freedom of speech and deal with the students who support palestine in this university . are they really being accused of being anti-semitic or anti-zionist ? we don't have much time. it's not like this. it's really the same as in all the demonstrations that are being held all over the american cities. these are not anti-semitic issues at all. they are anti-zionist, even jewish groups. and we have the so-called j-weiss four groups since they are jews and anti-israel and anti -zionist, they are holding massive demonstrat

harvard is in good hands. larry: i don't think her either -- i don't know her either, my modus operandi i do not no personal stuff, i am interested in policies to me as bad as plagiarism stuff s is her responses to congresswoman stefanik and anti-semitism, -- i just think that is the worst thing of all. you talked about that, the lack of moral clarity. the lack of moral understanding and lack of moral leadership. moral leadership on this subject, to ban anti-semitism atlanta college like harvard, some ways the tip of the iceberg, harvard is tip. top of the thing, that is something that we need. we need that. we need a scrubbing, you know, we need a cleansing from harvard college and harvard university. >> i agree. we need to get new boards and new corporations, the corporation is a part of the problem they represent the trendiest approaches, they are supposed to represent the long-term standards of scholarship objectivity, we need a return to meritocracies, to hard grading, a return to real values, where peopl

claudine is out as the president of harvard university. was it that poorly received congressional testimony on campus, or how about the mounting accusations of plagiarism? what we are learning today from harvard insiders. plus, the deadly airport runway inferno. two lanes collide, five on one jet nearly killed, 400 escaped alive. how did the planes and up on the runway in the first place? and the senior member of hamas assassinated at an explosion in beirut. is the situation in the middle east about to get even worse? happy new year, and welcome to the lead. i'm jake tapper, and we start out with raking news. harvard university's claudine gay is stepping down as president, resigning after just about six months on the job. the student journalist who broke the story of her stepping down for the harvard crimson newspaper noted that this is the shortest presidential tenure in harvard's august history. it has been quite a tumultuous month for the now former present. when asked for calling for the genocide of would violate harvard campuses code

at harvard, correct?>> it's a yes or no question. is that corrected? is that okay, for students to call for the mass murder of african-americans at harvard? is that protected free speech? >> our commitment to -- >> it's a yes -- so the answer is yes. tata a calling for the genocide of jews violates harvard code of conduct, correct? >> again, it e depends on the context. >> it does not depend on the context. the answer is, yes, and this is why you should resign. this is long overdue. it should not have taken the harvard corporation board this long to demand her resignation. and i believe as we continue our congressional investigation that we will uncover what will be the greatest scandal in higher education, because the a hard very -- harvard corporation members themselves are complicit in this cover-up of her plagiarism and again, most importantly, their a failure to protect jewish students on campus. the fact that the harvard corporation we now know knew about that before the congressional hearing and tr

let usebate let harvard run haard. let penn run penn. when we have politicians meddling with our scholarly institutions, that is when we have real problems. ho: that was stuart out michigan. claudine gay a professor before taking on the top job at harvard and she served as dean of faculty for five years. she seed as president for six months. she was the second president to resign after that appearance in front of congress to discuss anti-semitism. here is one of those key moments from that hearing. claudine gay her back and rth with a least a phonic. [video clip] >> does the killing of jews count as anti-semitism? do you understand that testimony is dehumanizing for them? that's part of anti-semitism? i will ask you one more time, does calling for the genocide of jews violate harvard's rules of bullying and harassment? >> anti-semitic rhetoric when it crosses into conduct that amounts into bullyg, intimidation, that is actionable conduct and we do take action. >> so the answer is yes? calling for the killing of jews violates harvard's co

harvard president claudine gay finally resigning. pressure from critics who say that anti-semitism the on campus has grown out of control. in her letter gay write, quote with: it has been distre

taking down pictures of white males who had been previous harvard presidents and other harvard affiliates minimize anti- senate on campus giving a blood thirsty anti-semitic mob free reign under the guise of free speech while she was enforcing arcane rules about pronouns and about micro aggressions on everyone else. and so, if you look at the record claudine gay who of course accused are critics of being a racist. i do not like playing the racist tabulation game it's not something i like to do but if claudine gay insists on that game the evidence suggests that claudine gay oversaw a systemically racist institution. she built a systemically racist and she justifies it because she believes she is discriminating against the wrong kind of people the bad people who deserve punishment and unequal treatment for. >> i called the civil rights marxism because the civil rights movement hasn't moved in my view a legitimate movement about equal rights, equal justice, find the constitution, treating human being as individuals to now the opposite we are back to grouping individuals based on race. it dep

we need a cleansing from harvard college and harvard university? >> i agree with you.e need to get new boards and corporations because the corporations are part of the problem. they have represent the trendiest approaches. they're supposed to represent the long-term standards of scholarship, objectivity, what we need is a return to meritocracy. a return to hard grading. a return to real values where people are rewarded based on their hard work and their accomplishments, not the color of their skin or their gender. that's what we moved away from and that's what i hope, this is a watershed event and harvard will pick as the president the most qualified albert einstein on its faculty and send a message we reward hard work, and we reward scholarship and we don't play favorites, use these de-i criteria for judging people academically. larry: and we don't, if i could just add a bit, we don't, we the royal, we harvard, and we don't condone anti-semitism of any kind. that has to be part of it professor dershowitz. you of all people know that. >> 2 was so easy for her to answer

all of harvard has let america down. >> it's not just harvard. majorhese mhes institutions that symbolized greatnesajstitutios in american. >> look at disney. you heard what bob iger said. disney has let a lot of peopledy down, not just shareholders, but all the viewer h lots, all e children across this great land. do you believe that disneychilds is now leaving the woke stuff in the dust? i don't know that it's they might say they're trying, but i think it's so ingrained there. >> you know, i actualls soy i ws thinking about this today. >> quick story, jesse, because thinkingk story,, this is probably ten or 12 years ago, at one point, we received card s to put in the little past that we get in and out securityc about and on and off campus. >> and it was about the hispanic initiativ e and how by the end of that calendar year, they wanted to have a certain number of more was in every position across the company. >> what happened on the production side, pro on the show side, with that, all of a sudden, white men who duside anda suddenwere in posit

harvard leader left.can dream cracking and how can one be made an outcast for having an opinion? who else was thrown out onto the street? and also the bribery system in elite universities, who gives a damn about the general rules? corruption, repression and other scandals in understandable politics. watch right after the panorama. the most important thing is that peace and tranquility stop in palestine, people do not suffer or die, commenting on the situation in the middle east, this was stated by the chairman of the council of the republic natalya kachanova during a meeting with the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of palestine to belarus, ahmed mohame. allow further escalation of the situation in the region and an increase in casualties among civilians . according to the latest data, the number of people killed in the gaza strip since the beginning of the conflict between israel and palestine exceeded 23,000. natalya kachanova emphasized: every people has the right to their own self-determin

you know, harvard, a lot of jews simply don't feel safe to be at harvard right now.cations to harvard were down. students from my school were asking me who were considering applying, is it safe for me to be a jew at harvard, and i do think that's a pretty alarming question for people to be asking in 2023 about america's best university. so my hope is that the next president will really make clear that they're not going to stand for anti-semitism and that harvard once again will be a place that's safe to be a jew. >> charlie covit, we appreciate your time. thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> up next for us, bad blood between jimmy kimmel and aaron rodgers. why the late-night host is threatening legal action over some inflammatory comments from the nfl quarterback. we'll be right back. to duckduckgo on all your devie duckduckgo comes with a built-n engine like google, but it's pi and doesn't spy on your searchs and duckduckgo lets you browse like chrome, but it blocks cooi and creepy ads that follow youa from google and other companie. and there's no catch. it's fre

for employers, of course, there were consequences for harvard on all fronts.e epicenter of the culture wars surrounding israel. the number of applications from applicants for 2024 immediately fell by 17%. the reason for this is the politicization of education and the struggle within the liberal camp over the war in gas. at the same time , a scandal broke out around harvard about racial discrimination of applicants. in court it turned out that the asian applicant has 25 chance of getting into harvard, white 35, hispanic 75, and black 95%. the supreme court considered this a violation of the constitution. not only is political segregation inherent in american universities today; only in june of last year, the us supreme court declared it illegal to use the criterion of race when selecting applicants, but in reality everything is still not entirely different. and in the field of higher education, and in many other areas, in the region. in the field of military service, in the field of medicine, in the field, including, therefore, law enforcement agencies and the

i'm also a harvard graduate. i want to harvard university. i think her presidency was untenable.e defenses that she's been singled out because of her race are also untenable. she gave what i thought you said and the program was right, she gave a terrible response to the claims of anti-semitism at harvard. she's had serious plagiarism problems. i think what has to happen is that harvard and others don't allow anti-semitism and leaders -- university presidents that can't stand up and defend jewish students should be removed. >> trace: i couldn't get in to harvard, john. i appreciate that you are a harvard kcolorado -- scholar. thank you. hezbollah worns of the finger on the trigger after israel takes out the founder of hamas in lebanon. trey yingst and general jack keane join us next. want to save money and get cash? for veteran homeowners, it's easy as 1-2-3. one: call newday and apply. two: take out an average of $70,000. three: pay off your credit cards ♪ we come from a long line of cowboys. ♪ when i see all of us out here on this ranch, i see how far our legacy can go. now on s

of harvard for me to resign.ressing and downcast on all my commitments to confront hate. and upholding scholarly regard. two fundamental values of who i am, and frightening to be subjected to personal tax, and threats fueled by racial animus. >> antisemitic that crosses interracial conduct, that goes into bullying. >> reporter: they said this response at last month's congressional hearing. when republican, elise stefanik, pressure about antisemitism on college campuses. >> it is calling for the genocide of jews call into the bullying and harassment? yes or no. >> it depends on the conduct. >> it does not depend on the contract, the answer is yes. >> in, weeks following plagiarism following her academic work. -- today the board accepting her brexit nation, thing that she had acknowledged steps but also face deeply personal and sustained attacks. saying to panic, this will be the beginning of any scandal in college in history. gays leaving leaving the campus divided. >> this is a direction where harvard might be re

first black president in harvard's nearly 400 year history. she is just the second woman to lead the university, and the fact she is stepping down six months into her presidency means this is the shortest presidency in harvard's history. the harvard corporation put out its own statement saying that they accept this resignation with deep sorrow. they say that gay acknowledged some missteps, but they also described the resilience she showed in the face of what they called racist vitriol in private emails and private phone calls. the harvard corporation said that provost alan garver is set to become the interim president. how did we get here? obviously, it has been a very tumultuous period. going back to the october 7th attacks on israel by hamas, the university was criticized for its response, criticized for the anti-israel student statement. there was a december 5th hearing before congress where gay had to apologize for her performance there. the harvard board offered its unanimous support on december 12, said there would be some corrections to

will dave portnoy hire harvard graduates? let's ask him. sought out resignation, can harvard kids now apply for barstool? >> i think there is still huge, large issues with corporation and this apology was held at gunpoints, she should have done it a long time ago temperature is a first step, a good step. i am glad she is gone, we will now entertain applications from harvard again. >> brian: do you think anything will change at the school? she is staying on faculty. >> it is similar to what they did at upenn it is to save face, rather than you are fired. whatever. still a victory. i think there is still major problems, this corporation or whatever they call it. they are under intense strut nee. bill ackman is ruthless, he spear-headed getting rid of her temperature is a victory. >> brian: he said next mit, you feel the same way, right? >> yes, two of the three are gone, mit has skated under the radar, you have not heard much, but she has to go, too. >> brian: isn't michigan known as one of the most woke institutions out there? >> let's talk

the harvard crimson notes that this marks the shortest presidency in harvard's history. let me read you what the harvard corporation, the border that controls the school, said. they put out their own statement and they said that gay did acknowledge and take responsibility for some of her mistakes. they also said that she has shown remarkable resilience in the face of what they described as deeply personal and sustained attacks. they note that some of these attacks came in the form of repugnant and racist vitriol directed at her through disgraceful emails and phone calls. they say they condemn those attacks in the strongest possible terms. the harvard corporation announced that allen garber, the provost and chief academic officer, has agreed to become the school's interim president until a permanent one is named. how did we get here? it has just been such a tumultuous period for harvard. the school's initial response to the october 7th attacks by hamas against israel was criticized as not condemning hamas in forceful enough terms. that criticism even came from the harvard

elise stefanik went to harvard. congresswoman elise stefanik joining hannity last night.atch. >> is unacceptable it took harvard a month to demand a resignation of claudine gay, i believe these president sit at top the institutions that have rotted out and institutionalized anti-semitism we have seen jewish students assaulted, physically harassed and facing file attacks everything will day. cheryl: stuff on it telling the post this is the beginning of a reckoning for other universities. we had two presidents, even elise stefanik said to down, one to go. >> i saw a tweet from keith boykin a commentator and he said if organ to go after claudine gay then we have to look at the history of all of the university presidents to which i say, great, let's do that, i'm sure a lot of other people would be caught potential in the crossfire it was amazing to see how the media avoided to use the word and tried not to use the word plagiarism repeatedly and she took people's quotes without attribution which is plagiarism. cheryl: i have said this repeatedly plagiarism in academia you migh

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thank you. >> gillian: fox news alert, the harvard crimson, a student-run newspaper out of harvard is now reporting that their president, embattled president claudine gay is set to resign, reporting she's planning to do so this afternoon. she's been in the position just six months. she's now facing lasting criticism about her inability, alleged inability to manage antisemitism across the campus and protect jewish students. she's also facing nearly 50 accusations of distinct incidents of plagiarism in her publications, all this coming to a head, it looks like this afternoon. harvard crimson and the boston globe are reporting she's going to step aside and announce her resignation. >> john: it may be the plagiarism, because harvard was standing by her and o'er position calling for the genocide of jews violates policy at hard, that took out liz magill at u-penn, the woman at mit is in her job, but plagiarism charges she seemed to be on shakey ground, and big ackman calling to take her out, they were resistant. >> gillian: this may ultimately be it. the school has not spoken about her tenu

however, since then harvard has become completely different.t were once only hidden undercurrents, nepotism and arrogance. as well as the desire to restore social justice through double standards, has acquired a dominant ideological determining character. let's return to the ex-president of harvard. apart from the obvious political implications. she was also accused of plagiarism, which she allegedly actively used in her harvard dissertation and other scientific works written over the past decades. moreover, after receiving attacks from professor. gay began correcting articles from 2001-2007, putting previously stolen parts of the text in quotation marks and noting that they were quotes stolen they also considered the work of a gay person, whether there is a right to one’s own housing, in which the professor discussed the topic of fair distribution of housing for the low-income. borrowing on the sly, stealing someone else’s, or simply making it up is not such a rare practice even for the largest american luminaries. last year , the head of stan

harvard can lose its reputation but not its money.is a cancer and we have to expose it for what it is for what it is and we have to get back to what made america great. judging people on their actions anr acd merit. al sharpton is saying this woman was fired because she was a black woman who cracked the glass ceiling. she used someone else's head to crack itr . eight out of the 17 published articles were plagiarized. barack obama, who saved a man from a plagiarism scandal is lobbying to save another person. why are black leaders in this country rallying around other disgraced black americans just because they are black? it is an embarrassment. it should not be like this.at we have to get back toio what hu worked. whatjudging people on what they produce. she has produced nothing. she has produced a loss of $1 billion. harvard did tht e right thing. l they told everybody it is about merits, not about skin color. now she will be -- now jesse jr. will be applying for early admission. >> you are going back 200 yearst black people were rest

is it allowed at harvard? >> it's at odds with the values of harvard. >> can you not say it's against the code of conduct. >> we express free expression even views objectionable, offensive, hateful. >> 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 why you should resign. >> harris: claudine gay's six months term was the shortest ever for a harvard president not only the anger over her response to the israel/hamas war, but also reports of 50 separate plagiarism accusations. the school stood by her through it all. harvard corporation said it accepted her resignation with sorrow. the "new york post" editorial board says the board that covered for claudine gay must go, too. three university presidents at that december 5th hearing, two now have resigned. the other one was mcgill of the university of pennsylvania. she is gone. now claudine gay is gone. harvard alum an

we are asking for equal treatment by harvard.s harvard has a pattern of engaging and even promoting anti-semitism on campus. what that looks like it's allowing students to say in front of a thousand students, faculty and harvard affiliates just a week after october 7th that resistance is justified and they don't see hamas as terrorists and swastikas drawn all over campus and not having any type of condemnation or follow-up or protections for jewish students. what that means is having professors cancel classes and telling students to go protest and engage in protest that code for the globalization of palestine to the sea. what this hopes to do is to fold, number one race attentionw systemic the problem is of anti-semitism at harvard and number to coforce harvard to engage in this sort of dialogue and protections for jewish students as they would with any other minority group. that is what we are asking, equal treatment from hartford. >> todd: and always go after the money. you are bringing this under the civil rights act, under th

claudine gay at harvard.ult of dei, women, people of color, academia, all of it. >>> plus, yet another biden administration official just announced his resignation over the administration's, quote, blind eye to the atrocities in gaza. that official joins me tonight in his first tv interview. >>> but we begin tonight with the three-year anniversary of the greatest assault on american democracy in modern times. the january 6th insurrection. we're just about three days away, again, from that that anniversary. and the key architects of that extensive plan, including members of congress, remain at large. for those of you who may have forgotten, roughly a dozen members of congress met with donald trump at the white house after his loss and worked with his allies to implement a plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election. the plan, cooked up by peter navarro and steve bannon, was dubbed, the green bay sweep. part of the plan was pressuring attorney general bill barr to investigate false claims of voter fraud. ba

we reached out to harvard. we have yet to hear back, but we know that claudine gay is under enormous pressure here. there has been so many things that have gone wrong in just a few last months. the initial response to the october 7th attack was criticized, even by harvard officials. we also know the testimony before congress last month was widely criticized last -- as well. gay did apologize, but the criticism continued. lawmakers have looked into the issue. and at the same time we also have these plagiarism allegations that have swirled around claudine gay. you add that all up and it has proven to be, apparently according to the harvard crimson, too much for claudine gay's presidency to survive. according to the paper, she does plan to step down today. >> matt, it does stand up at the announcement is coming just three weeks after the harvard corporation, which is the university's highest governing body, announced they would unanimously supported her after they had extensive deliberations following her testimon

harvard did investigate. harvard is an important institution.t what you said. she did not take anyone's ideas as her own. the main person said he did not think that was plagiarism. bill ackman as a different problem on his hands. his wife is alleged to have done the same thing. he offered great grace to his wife. she makes mistakes. she's only human. claudine gay was not entitled to that. >> right. whatever bill hackman may say, we can pass judgment. i think it's really important for us to understand that when scholars are engaged in a research, particularly at the level of writing a book or books, we are dealing with 200, 300, sometimes 400 sources. jelani can tell you this. you make mistakes. it's part of what it means to be a human being in this regard. particularly, those of us who work through -- before we had the software which will allow us to do the work, imagine those of us who were working on first jen apple computers or simply word processors or typewriters before that. we did not imagine how ts elliott would survive. a bad poet imita

it is unacceptable that harvard took a full month to demand his resignation.versity of pennsylvania, for example, made the right decision immediately, but only after we they made the academic community see the light, something was rotten at the top in these universities, their leaders ... condoned anti-semitism, especially after the hamas terrorist attack on october 7. back in september, harvard colleagues loudly applauded during the inauguration of a fifty-three-year-old african-american specialist. in the field of electoral technologies, their connections with racial identity in the united states. now some white harvard professors are making bold statements, not only in relation to gays. she represents our bureaucracy's desire for diversity, equality and inclusion. this desire is destroying universities across the country. we began to divide everyone into oppressors of the oppressed. the oppressors are the successful people of the white race, everyone else is oppressed. this is what students are taught these days. gay was appointed specifically for the sake

harvard has announced an interim president alan garber. gay will stay on as professor. lester >> erin, thanks very much >>> now to the killing of a top leader of hamas today in beirut, sparking new concerns about a wider conflict josh lederman is in israel with the latest >> reporter: tonight, the fiery aftermath of an apparent assassination. a senior hamas leader killed in what hamas says was an israeli drone strike on a hamas office in beirut saleh al arouri, the deputy head of hamas, on a u.s. wanted list, accused of involvement in multiple terror attacks. hamas saying seven people were killed in the strike, including two commanders israel won't say whether it was responsible, but only one country is at war with hamas >> israel is at war. whoever did this has a gripe with hamas >> reporter: israel's military has vowed to hunt down hamas leaders worldwide, saying they're living on borrowed time following the october 7th hamas terror attacks that killed 1,200 people tonight, as protests erupt in the west bank, israel is bracing for potentially massive retaliation. not

at harvard university.eople have said that her work has been saturated with problems have scholarly integrity. not true. what is true is that there has been a well orchestrated attack from a quarters to try and oust president, and they have succeeded. you have to admit, that is true, they have succeeded. that is a tragedy. >> let me ask you one second on that, professor -- i just want to ask you, though you have mentioned a -- it is not lost, and we use that you are talking as you can see plainly a black woman, it is not lost on me there have oftentimes over the course of history, both recent and distant, orchestrated attacks to undermine the integrity and credibility of black intellectuals period. the fact that she is a black woman, and in this position, but do you think that has contributed to the motivation behind the wheel orchestrated machine, or was it something different? >> absolutely. i think that the fact that a black woman was the head of the most famous university in the united states maybe the

at harvard university. not true. people have said that her work has been saturated with problems of scholarly integrity. not true. >> he was defending a number of things there, but for you as students, does this kind of comport with how you think about harvard? >> i mean, there are a lot of people who after the decision came out expressed it was unfair, both the former president's statement and the corporation statement both alluded to the impact of race on a lot of what has happened to harvard and president gay over the last few months. i think the claims that these allegations of plagiarism that the broader narrative have been driven by ulterior motives is certainly something that a lot of people believe. the initial claims of plagiarism, the activists that brought them to light made it very clear it was supposed to damage the presidency. certainly, there are a the lot of people who feel that way. there are others who feel this is the right decision. so it's a mixed bag among a affiliates. >> thank you so

but harvard has to go much further. harvard needs to abolish its dei programs.ds to put a permanent end to racist admission system. it needs to pledge institutional neutrality on controversial political issues. and it needs to diversify the faculty not on skin color but on philosophy, on political belief, on viewpoints. that's really what harvard needs to do to start balancing the institution. our reporting on claudine gay's plagiarism on dei empire and absolutely botched handling of the campus anti-semitism controversy shows that the institutions are weak. their ideology is a failure. and we're just getting started in this campaign for reform. >> i think it's important that people don't claim premature victory here. while this is very important, that's why i decided to do this show tonight. it's very, very important. this is just one person at one university that happens to be harvard. but tell us about what you know about how deep this really goes and the american he had carriage psyche. -- educational psyche. >> institutionalized and people who speak out abou

harvard is the most prominent example.laudine gaye became president after the shortest search period and harvard's history, never written a book, published only 11 articles in 26 years but she's female, black, and supporter of diversity, equity and inclusion. that's dei. that is what harvard wanted. not can it academic meritocracy. an intellectual straitjacket. who teaches and what they teach. they have no time for any opinion than theirs. claudine gaye's appointment as president of harvard six months ago marked the high point in progressive control, she breached the pinnacle of a her resignation march the turning point not just for dei but identity politics as well. it failed at harvard and failed in the biden administration. one last point. the writing was on the wall before claudine gaye came along. in 2,006 the eminent economist larry summers was harvard's president, he ran into the progressive mob. he made the mistake of just suggesting that women might lack an intrinsic aptitude for math and science. free-speech does

we are back in ♪ ♪ >> major: tonight, the president of harvard university resigns after criticism of university's handling of anti-semitism on campus and accusations of plagiarism in her academic past. ♪ ♪ harvard's first black female president out after just six months on the job. a suspected israeli air strike kills three hamas leaders in lebanon, including one of the founders of the group's military wing. what it could mean as the conflict widens. a deadly collision in japan involving a passenger plane and a coast guard on its way to victims of the massive earthquakes there. >> we've got a gunshot wound. >> major: our new series, "guns in america." we spend a night at one of the nation's top medical trauma centers with a firsthand look at the impact of gun violence. >> you see people on their worst day, and they are on death's door. >> shift a few seconds from here to there, and that shift can have a big impact. >> google maps and ai may mean less red lights in your future. >> when i look at a red light, i see opportunity. opportunity to help drivers and opportunity to help the pl

you have seen the shredding of academic integrity in harvard's case.ine gay was a planlgerist president. i say this as a harvard graduate. i graduated from undergrad with honors. students, if you plagiarize, you are expelled. >> congresswoman, take a bow. that was one of the best moments i have ever witnessed in terms of a congressman or woman out there being able to able to literally stump college university presidents on what was a layup question. two down, one to go. they deserve to get fired. thanks for being with us. >> former president trump said he is appealing maine's secretary of state opinion to ban him from the ballot. they have repealed his ballot disqualification in their state. here with reaction, ted cruz. you are a harvard grad. i don't know how you feel about claudine gay. let me ask you this. i always believed in the presumption of innocence. you were innocent until proven guilty. i don't even know if you are going to use the fourteenth amendment to keep trump off the ballot. has he ever been accused of insurrection in any of the case

the president of harvard university resigns amid a firestorm of controversy. what happens next. >>> good morning and good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we start with the escalating tensions in the middle east and fears the killing of a senior hamas leader could provoke major retaliation by lebanon's powerful hezbollah militia. an apparent israeli air strike in beirut killed saleh al arouri, the deputy commander of hamas' political bureau and founder of the group's military wing. now this as the u.n. security council could meet as early as today to discuss the iranian-backed houthi attacks in the red sea. israel says it will defend itself against charges of genocide before the u.n.'s top court at the hague. south africa launched the case friday. cbs' jarred hill starts us off this morning here in new york. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. that hamas leader was wanted by both israel and the u.s. now as you mentioned, there are concerns that his killing could escalate tensions in the region. these are the smoldering remains from a drone strike tha

i'm a harvard graduate. i'm very engaged with the harvard community.s right for claudine gay to resign. i don't think she could be an effective president anymore. all of these things can be true. it can be true that it was right for her to resign, that it is disturbing that the president of harvard committed plagiarism, it can be true that the standard is totally different for harvard students, and it can also be true that this event at harvard has become the subject of a national culture wars -- howard: right. >> -- that is only happening because it's harvard. howard: okay, got that go. >> this is one of those times. howard: all right. i didn't know you had a harvard pedigree. remember the liberal gang at "saturday night live" making congresswoman elise stefanik the issue? a quick look. >> oh, my god, can you take a moral stance on anything? can anyone if here say yes to a single question? howard: oh, my god, that doesn't look really good in retrospeck. -- recollect proare spect. thanks so much for joining us. >>> up next, we'll two to israel to look

harvard situation plays right into that. that is in the background a bit.the democrat as left is note your father's and mother's democrat party anymore. larry: jeff concha, you know what? these are dei democrats, they are stuck with that. i think it's extraordinary. you're right it is indirect with respect to claudine gay and harvard but it is not indirect. there is the whole problem, wrecking a great university because of this social justice, woke dei crap. >> not just confined to harvard, right? larry: right. >> almost every elite school around. they had the cut and paste president in claudine gay. she is no longer president but still gets to keep her job by the way as a professor. you know what she will earn this year? $900,000. you wonder why harvard costs 8,000 a year. larry: could be tax-free. >> you think. larry: i would like to check whether it is tax-free or not. >> certainly tax subsidized. we're putting a lot of money as tax pay into harvard for research and what not. a lot of money tied up in there. >> i want to go back to this, i'm like a puppy

[laughter] >> that's also true. >> my sources at harvard told me my powerful monologue on harvard ate breaking point, and the trustees had contemplated and reflected over the christmas vacation. it was time to eliminate her. >> dana: power. >> jesse: my other sources are saying this is about money, and harvard is like a hedge fund that happens to teach classes. they have a $50 billion endowment, and she just lost them $1 billion in ten days. that's what you call bad quarter. harvard loses its reputation but can't lose its money. d i.e. --cancer, and we have to root t out through sunlight and expose it for what it is. it's by discriminating against gender, race, and ideology. we have to get back to what made america great: merit and judging people on their actions. al sharpton, a fraud who is defending a fraud, is out there saying this woman was fired because she was a black woman who cracked the glass ceiling. she used someone else's had to crack it. she stole half of her scholarly work: eight out of the 17 published articles were plagiarized. then, barack obama, who actually saved a