i want to go back to bill ackman for a second.inted out to another reason that claudine gay needs to resign or be fired although to his post today on x he does not think that's going to happen. he said basically in recent weeks i learned a lot about the ei practices in harvard i've come to see that this office which was formed under gaze oversight and vision is not of those things, in fact the actions have led to preferences in favor for certain racial gender in lgbtq+ groups, if claudine gay was a white man and said those things in front of congress last week he would be fired into second but it is claudine gay and she will stay right where she is in the wagons are circled around her. maria: it is interested in a good point, there are growing calls for "saturday night live" to apologize with the sketch that made fun of elise stefanik at the anti-semitism hearing in the new york post is saying your cast member sicily strong backed out of playing elise stefanik the last minute because it made her uncomfortable. your reaction? >> "s

bill ackman.ng just a few hours ago, earlier today, is claudine gay a horrible. i looked at some of stuff. i'm trying to be fair. listen, she probably would be fair with me if i made a mistake. seems like it was a mistake. what she did, she cited the people she took the text from but didn't put quotes around the whole thing but she did cite them. let's be clear here on the pile-up. be really clear what her sinwars are. liz: isn't it amazing though that it took a lot of people, because -- >> right. liz: who, i'm sorry, forgetting his name was it stevens, the big hedge fund guy? >> yes. liz: he was almost the tipping point where he said he was pulling $100 million -- >> mark stevens. liz: mark stevens in penn, for penn. i'm done. >> claw back. liz: you can't let your jewish students be verbally attacked and allow swastikas to remain on the walls at schools. >> here is the thing i said to cheryl friday when i said liz mcgill was gone, the day before she was gone is this. these big donors. liz: ross s

. >> laura: a critic, bill ackman summed up by wondering why these presidents still have their jobs. moral and ethical failure pervade certain institutions due in large part to failed leadership. they must all resign in disgrace. if ceo of a company gave similar answer, he or she would be toast within the hour. of course, that is absolutely correct. were any of these women really the most qualified individuals in america to run their respective institutions? doubtful, but we all know they checked enough boxes to leapfrog everyone else in the running for these positions thachl is how you play the game at universities. don't rock the boat and give left wing students and faculty members benefit the l of the doubt. utter disdain demonstrated yesterday mirror how they treat their alumni, as well, many do not approve how things are going on campus. when trying to grow the endowment, they put on show of respectability and excellence on campus. monthly mailings and alumni magazines, most experience campus life after they graduate, it looks slick and nostalgia kicks in and they take out their

i didn't always follow bill ackman on x.akes decades to build a reputation and a year to squander it. cheryl: i want to look at the markets before we come to the top of the hour. we've had a very good market year. speaking of these corporations. let's focus on business in 2024. let's not focus on dei. ceos, if you're watching right now -- >> focusing on efficiency, adding dollars to the bottom line. markets priced in 12% earnings growth. a lot of people think that's coming from the revenue side, the consumer will remain strong, keep spending. that 12% if it does happen, it's going to come from trimming the fat, becoming operationally more efficient, getting rid of dei departments. cheryl: i don't think the consumer will hang on in 2024. they're already faltering. inflation is what keeps boosting gas station sales and food sales. look at what you're paying at the grocery store. >> i told people i went to harris teeter yesterday because i can't go to whole foods anymore. i think i'll probably have to go to wall a mart. this is

also when it comes bill ackman has been posting on x and making amazing and critical point that claudia gaze leadership at harvard, my reaction shall end up resigning to spend more time with her family or whatever it's going to be but that could be her letting go, i'm tired of the talking point from the left it keeps saying it is all the money it is a big money donors at harvard like bill ackman and others that are pulling their funded, we talked about last week, it is morality that is talking, the fact that you can condemn the calls for the annihilation of israel, you cannot condemn the calls for genocide against jewish people. where do we get so lost in our morality on these college campuses. i shudder to think about parents right now they do have their kids enrolled in these colleges that are starting to question whether money is going to be frank, what are you teaching my child. maria: they should, if jewish students are afraid of their safety they are afraid of walking around campus, this is a major problem. >> honestly having any samet anti-semitism is deplorable, we all know gett

bill ackman tweeted they must all resign in disgrace.f a ceo in one of our companies gave a similar answer, he or she would be toast in the hour and the wharton school of business board said as the stated beliefs and collective failure to act, our board suggests to you and the board of trustees that the university requires new leadership with immediate effect. what do you think? are her days numbered, hours numbered, maybe? >> charlie: it certainly does suggest that, although you know, obviously the wharton school board does not control the larger university in this particular case. but you know, it certainly does seem that it's, you know, the storm is gathering. we watched these hearings on capitol hill all the time and you know, a lot of times these things are for entertainment purposes or purposes of theater. rarely do i remember one of these hearings like this that have been more consequential in terms of actually defining the outlines of debate and putting people on the defensive and leading to actual results and honestly, john, i w

. >> laura: a vocal critic of how these schools have handled the pro-hamas activism on campus bill ackmanup his reaction to the testimony wondering why these presidents still have their jobs. writing the presidents' answers reflect the profound educational, moral and ethical failures that pervade certain of our elite educational institutions due in large part to their failed leadership. they must all resign in disgrace. if a ceo of one of our companies gave a similar answer, he or she would be toast within the hour. of course that's absolutely correct. were any of these women by the way really the most qualified individuals in america to rub their respective institutions? doubtful. but we all know that they checked enough boxes to leapfrog everyone else who was in the running for these positions. that's how you play the game at these universities. don't rock the boat, and certainly always give left wing students and faculty members the benefit of the doubt in campus controversies. the utter disdain that these college presidents demonstrated yesterday mirrored how they treat their alumni a

you compare that to bill ackman who had an earlier timeline. bill: i think there is a risk of a hard landing if the fed does not start cutting rates soon. i think the market expects some time middle of next year. it is more likely as early as q1. sonali: all of this begs the question, blake, is timing everything? blake: it is. i think where i see the reaction function developing -- when that inflation comes down it will be more reactive to the other side. the other thing i would say -- and this is where we are in agreement with waller -- if inflation continues to fall, they are going to get passively tighter on real basis. that real rate will continue to tick up. it is hiking in real terms. that is the reason we think they will scale back. i think the rate setting that is appropriate when inflation is at decades highs and on employment at historic lows is not the right setting when inflation is closer to target and you have some upward pressure on the unplanned rate. sonali: you start to feel the market starting to declare victory for the fed's

harvard mega donor bill ackman saying that the school will not move to ouster he said from a source ill not resign and the governing board has decided not to terminate his or her as president of harvard hundreds of the school's faculty member signing a letter urging to not fire gay. we the undersigned faculty urge you in the strongest possible terms to defend the independence of the university and to resist political pressures that are at odds with harvard's commitment to academic freedom. including calls for the removal of president claudine gay. the critical work of a defending culture of free inquiry in our diverse community cannot proceed if we let its shape be dictated by outside forces. this comes after a disastrous congressional hearing last week, y'all remember, where gay failed to defend harvard's jewish students under a threat of genocide. >> the answer is yes, that calling for the genocide of jews violates harvard code of conduct, correct? >> again, it depends on the context. >> it does not depend on the context. >> gay apologizing two days later saying, quote: i am sorry.

bill ackman has built pershing square into one of the most listened to firms on wall street.e is also famous for his philanthropy politics. we sat down to talk about a riot of issues, including where the economy is going. there is a general consensus that we have probably avoided a recession for the near future. we will have a so-called soft landing. is that your view as well? bill: i think the economy is weakening. we have seen evidence of that and i have concern. there has been a huge subsidy in terms of interest rate and most companies fix their rates for their debt at very low rates, certainty, real estate investors did the same, and that works until it does not work. i think it can have a cliff like effect. seeing that real estate. david: the markets are assuming that there will be a fed discount cut sometime next year. as we talk now at the end of november, it is not clear what the fed will do, but some people say the fed were to cut interest rate, it would help democrats and others say that the fed cannot wait until after the election. do you have a feeling of what the

david: bill ackman said he generally does not make big macro bets. that is not what he does.but a couple of times in his history, he has made macro bets and some have worked out extremely well, and he has made one where he made like $2 billion profit in a relatively short amount of time and that is hard to do. this time, he has made abet that the treasury rate will go down or the interest rate will go down in the fed will lower interest rates sooner than the conventional wisdom things, and if they do, he will make a fair amount of money lisa: i assume he is pretty happy with what he is seen. david: the conventional wisdom today is that the fed is likely to cut interest rates sooner than maybe people thought a month ago. right now, i think the fed does not want get into the election season, so if they are going to cut rates, they probably will not do it too close to the present election, so they will probably have to do it sooner. lisa: meanwhile, breaking, citigroup's reporting figures and what they expect, and they say fourth-quarter trading revenue is expected to drop 15%,

but i want to get your take on what bill ackman has been calling for.ed to get certain jobs, certain opportunities. he's calling for employers, donors to pull their money back, to not come to a place like brown university. what's your reaction? if are you worried that some employers may just say, you know, alex, we're just -- we're not coming if for you today? >> i don't know. i think that's a little bit unfair to students who through no fault of their own are at an institution like. i think that's a little bit shortsighted. bill act match, he went to harvard, right? i'm sure he got employment tunnels. there might be a little hypocrisy there. it is important that we push back on sort of this mob mentality, herd mentality. i think people need to think for themselves, and back in the day it used to be like if you're a democrat, you're a republican, it might be like i'm a yankees fan, you're a red sox pharynx but we can still be friends. [laughter] hoping to get back to that on college campuses sometime the soon. kelly: well, i would hope so as well. alex

[laughter] in recent years, one of the most successful wall street investors has been bill ackman. he has built pershing square into a successful firm. i had a chance to sit down with him to talk about a lot of issues like his latest bet on where the economy is going. there is general consensus in the united states in some circles that we probably have avoided a recession in the near future, we are going to have a soft landing. is that your view as well? bill: i do think the economy is weakening. we are seeing evidence of that in some companies. i have some concerns. there has been a huge subsidy in terms of low interest rates, and most comes in -- most companies fix their rate of debt at very low rates. certainly real invest -- certainly real estate investors are the same. what will be interesting is to see what happens when people have to reprice their debt. that could have sort of a cliff effect. david: markets are assuming, and markets are not always right, that there will be a fed discount cut some time next year. as we talk now, about the end of november, it is not clear what

hedge fund manager bill ackman says they must all resign in disgrace. >> i want to be clear. a call for genocide of jewish people is threatening, deeply so. >> reporter: despite penn's president trying to clarify, the university's board of trustees met today on short notice, and the state's governor called her testimony failed leadership. >> i thought her comments were absolutely shameful. >> reporter: jonathan greenblatt is ceo of the anti-defamation league. >> there are some who have tried to hide behind arguments that it's a matter of free speech. but i'm sorry. freedom of speech is not the freedom to slander people because of their ethnicity. >> reporter: a university of pennsylvania official tells cbs news there is no board plan for an imminent change in leadership. meantime, harvard's president has also walked back her comments, stating calls for violence or genocide have no place at the university. the house education committee says its investigation will focus on policies and disciplinary procedures at the schools. norah. >> nikole killion with all that new informatio

years the most successful insurance company in the most successful wall street investors has been bill ackman. he has been spoken in areas including philanthropy and politics. i had a chance to sit down with him recently to talk about a variety of issues, including his latest idea on where the economy is going. there is a general consensus that we have avoided a recession will have a soft. is that your view as well? bill: it is hard to predict. i think economy is weakening. i have some concerns. there has been huge subsidies in terms of low interest rates. most companies fix their debt at very low rates. real estate investors did the same. that works until it does not work. what will be interesting is when people have to reprice their debt. that could have a clip like affect. david: arkansas are assuming there will be a fed discount cut -- markets are assuming there will be a fed discount cut next year. not clear what the fed will do but some say if the fed were to cut interest rates, that would help the democrats and would be seen as political. some safe defect cannot wait until after the el

but prominent alum, billionaire businessman bill ackman wrote a letter to harvard saying in her short tenure she's done more to damage the reputation of harvard university than any individual in our nearly 500 year history. has since apologized. and so did mcgill. the hearing was spoofed on saturday night live. >> thank you, chairwoman. yeah, i'm going to start screaming questions that these women like i'm billy >> but students don't find it very funny. many are expressing concern over their safety and what they say is a lack of action by universities against jewish hate. penn all jacobi is even suing the school, saying the failure to address anti-semitic incidents on campus is creating a hostile learning environment for him and other jewish students. what it's about is truly safety and not normalizing. >> on campus. and i think there's a clear difference between. >> you know, what should happen and what will happen. >> that was samantha cortese reporting for us tonight. israel says it's prepared to fight for months, even longer to defeat hamas rulers as its ground offense and tense o

hedge fund manager bill ackman said they must all resign in disgrace. >> i want to be clear.genocide of jewish people is threatening, deeply so. >> reporter: despite penn's president trying to clarify, the university's board of trustees met today on short notice, and the state's governor called her testimony failed "failed leadership." >> i thought her comments were absolutely shameful. >> reporter: johnathan greenblatt is ceo of the anti-defamation league. >> there are some who've tried to hide behind arguments that it's a matter of free speech. but i'm sorry. freedom of speech is not the freedom to slander people because of their ethnicity. >> reporter: a university of pennsylvania official tells cbs news there is no board plan for an imminent change of leadership. butaccording to a source close to the penn trustees, there are likely to be conversations with the board and penn president magill about her future in the coming days. norah? >> norah: nikole killion with all that new information. thank you very much. the judge ruled in favor of the woman who is 20 weeks pregnant

crimson in an interview, quote, words matter, but the damage was done one of her staunchest critics bill ackman, a harvard alum, sent a letter sunday to the university's governing board of directors, it read in part -- >> i hope that she'll be able to do what's best for the university and best for her, but i don't know what that is. >> reporter: until recently, a rabbi a visiting scholar, was part of the university's antisemitism advisory group. he was chosen by gay, but while he had accountability he had no real authority to do anything, gay's testimony was the final straw, he resigned from the group last week. >> i had wanted from any of the presidents a certain urgency and anger and indignation, it wasn't even the content of the answer, had they once pounded their fist on the table and said, this is unacceptable, i won't have this at my university, i think people would have felt reassured. >> but instead you got what? >> instead we got legalism -- >> should gay resign? >> not for me to say, really -- >> why not? >> because i'm a rabbi who's been at harvard for two months. >> reporter: severa

hedge fund manager bill ackman to they must all resign in disgrace. >> i want to be clear.genocide of jewish people as threatening, deeply so. >> reporter: despite penn's president trying to clarify, the university board of trustees met today on short notice in the state's governor called her testimony failed leadership. speak i thought her comments were absolutely shameful. putter johnathan greenblatt is ceo of the anti-defamation league. >> there then some that have tried to hide behind arguments that it's a matter of free speech. but i'm sorry. freedom of speech is not the freedom to slander people because of their ethnicity. >> reporter: a university of pennsylvania official tells cbs news there is no plan for an imminent change of leadership. meantime, harvard's president has also walked back her comments, stating calls for violence or genocide have no place at the university. the house education committee says its investigation will focus on policies and disciplinary procedures at the schools. norah. >> norah: nikole killion with all the new information. thank you ver

billionaire hedge fund manager bill ackman said gay's handling of antisemitism cost the university billions did not rattle the board or faculty members. they wrote the undersigned faculty urge you in strongest possible terms to defend the university and resist political pressure for academic freedom. the critical work of defending free inquiry cannot proceed if we let it be dictated by outside forces. tomi lahren weighed in on that. listen. >> tomi: when conservatives come to speak on campus our presence is considered hate speech and administration speak out against it. when i go and riley gaines, same thing. the lack of consistency is frustrating for folks. >> alexandria: pulse released a list to rank free speech on campus and harvard scored dead last. >> ainsley: thank you, harvard refusal to fire president gaza -- gay, revealed outrage. grades of a given to yale last year. leo terrell used to be social studies teacher and now attorney and used to be a democrat. i want your response and reaction to the latest news that claudine gay is staying at harvard. >> i'm outraged. the jewish studen

and hedge fund billionaire bill ackman who went to harvard.id, they must all resign in disgrace throughout the hearing the three behaved like hostile witnesses. their outright refusal to answer questions with a yes or no answer. it didn't go over all with this audience. you had to be much more forceful calling for yen side against jewish people is hear rasment. it goes against code of country. >>> donald trump went pretty much unscathed last night at the republican presidential debate despite be the front-runner by a lot. warning of a second trump presidency continues, next. what it can mean for blue states in his new piece, ahead. >>> all that really smaerts the voters in the end. they're weighing in after every debate our gary the tuchman assembles a group of voters to see how the candidates did. call this one a tiebreaker with a decisive victor. here's gary tuchman. >> reporter: the fourth debate is over. but our fourth debate watch party with republicans in iowa isn't finished yet. in the first three debates the majority thought a differen

we heard from the billionaire, hedge fund billionaire bill ackman for all three to resign, and private equity billionaire and penn alum mark rowan similarly stepping up his campaign, and the ceo of pfizer went on x yesterday and he called it one of the quote most despicable history in u.s. academia and the press secretary weighed in from the podium making it clear that there is no room for genocide. so sara, we will continue the follow the fallout of the hearing and the ongoing meeting of penn and the board of trustees. >> literally everyone else was able to make it clear that you cannot use those words genocide against jews without consequences except for these three university presidents. thank you, matt egan, for your report on this. kate? >> let's talk more about the fallout, and the reactions like they should resign in disgrace and reflecting moral bankruptcy. absolutely shameful is from the governor of pennsylvania josh shapiro, and this is an example that has led up to this. when the university presidents were asked in the hearing about genocide. >> it is a context-dependent dec

you can check out the al alternative. >> not just bill ackman. after the chan family, $185 million, et cetera. there is going to be pressure from donors. and again, the question is how do you receive that pressure, how do you manage it, deal with it, and change? this is the big challenge for president gay now. >> you think they need to change? >> she has to. >> let's talk about why we actually brought you here, to talk about cpi, what it means for the fed. let's focus in on what this means for the fed as a former federal dallas fed president. >> i don't think it changes the attitude of the fomc, led by jay powell, chairmal powell. they're not going to get rid of the 2% target. we talked about this many times here. they're not making much progress toward it right now. this is a 4% year over year on the core. and i listened to the previous discussion on unemployment, the election year, et cetera. 3.7% unemployment is historically low. when i was there, if we pushed it lower than 6%, we felt it would have great inflationary pressure. this business,

about israel around the world and i want to tell everyone as world and i want everybody to look at bill ackmanr published his second letter to harvard president noting harvard ranks 25 percent in terms of free speech ranks and spoke to faculty members unnamed with quotes. years ago harvard was a place where all perspectives were welcome. he asked why this was different than other middle east conflicts and one professor says israel is the rare case where we have a hot conflict people that are deemed white vs. people of color and i have been resisted to the argument this is about race and people as victims as but as more of this footage comes out of the rapes and be atrocities i don't know how people can look themselves in the mirror when you see the gang rapes the child rapes the death and destruction wreaked by hamas. >> how big an issue is the racial component to this conflict? >> i think what jessica is saying is kind of a realization that you are no longer considered a marginalized group. you're considered part of the white oppress earth and when that happens everything is permissible. even

this sounds like bill ackman, follow him on twitter. he's on fire.ous and he's done so much donation to harvard. >> todd: not anymore. >> cheryl: cut me off, i will go drink water. sorry about that. >> todd: it happens. >> carley: great job. interesting update about the dance group featured in joe biden's video. we will talk about it with jimmy failla coming up. >> todd: and lawrence jones is in florida, more with what is coming up on "fox and friends." >> lawrence: we have a big show coming up, latest on the presidential race, who is the candidate republicans decide in this race? live in fort myers, ron desantis's state, are they for desantis ore trump or do they want an outsider like vivek ramaswamy or nikki haley. we will talk to folks today. and trouble for kamala harris, i'm sorry. back and forth between the white house and kamala harris on where they stand with israel and the war against hamas. we'll break it down on this tongue-tied "fox and friends" morning. see y'all in a bit. hey, i just got a text from my sister. you remember rick, her nei

. >> and, by the way, one other thing i will say, you know, bill ackman is threatening to take money,to get rid of claudine gay at harvard. obviously, mark rowan, the guy from apollo, is looking to do the same with magill, leading that effort. both of these people, and, listen, i'm not -- i have nothing against them and, obviously, what they're doing. but remember, they gave, they've helped raise hundreds of millions of dollars for these institutions. they almost make it sound like this thing happened yesterday, this whole notion of wokeness and political correctness, and, you know, the progressive ideology that the end result is, you know, it's okay to rape jewish women. it's not. it's been building for years. it's been ingrained in the culture. it's part of our campus experience where you degrade western civ to promote whacko ideologies in the classroom. and then they've got professors that believe in this stuff. and the students mimic that. cheryl: and they're also on tiktok, charlie. >> yeah, i know. cheryl: they're getting their information from tiktok. >> that is one thing to ge

and bull bill ackman shared one post on x last week with the testimony 106 million views and reposts,alling for resignation of claudine gay. one down, elise stefanik said and two to go. >> emily: and hopefully that outweighs faculty members that signed a letter against calling for her resignation. >> emily: fbi arrested a man for making death threats against vivek ramaswamy. the disturbing details of this next. (vo) three lobster and shrimp entrees for a limited time. ♪ liberty mutual customized my car insurance and i saved hundreds. with the money i saved, i started a dog walking business. i was a bit nervous at first but then i figured it's just walking, right? [dog barks] oh. no it's just a bunny! calm down taco. sit duchess. stop! sesame no no. archie! walter don't, no, ahhhh. ahhhhh! you're lucky you're so cute. only pay for what you need. ♪liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty.♪ (man) what if my type 2 diabetes takes over? (woman) what if all i do isn't enough? or what if i can do diabetes differently? (avo) now you can with once-weekly mounjaro. mounjaro helps your body regulate b

billionaire bill ackman in two short words, one down. grady trimble live in philly with what may happen next. good morning. >> good morning, bill. what's next here is the university says liz mcgill will stay on until it names an interim president. and also remain a tenured faculty member at the university of pennsylvania. meanwhile, calls are growing this morning for the presidents of harvard and m.i.t. to step down as well. in cambridge, massachusetts, check out this video from fox news digital. anonymous private funder paid to put these two billboard trucks near harvard calling for the firing of the president there. but the school newspaper, the harvard crimson, reports more than 500 faculty members have signed onto a letter urging the university's top governing body to resist calls to remove harvard's president claudine gay. members of congress say last week's hearing on anti-semitism on college campuses is just the beginning. the house has launched an investigation with subpoena power into u penn, harvard, m.i.t. and other elite unive

a place in national defense and selling software to militaries >> a lot of commentary from the bill ackmans this week sara, we'll see you monday have a good weekend. let's get to scott wapner and "the half. >>> welcome to "the halftime report" am i'm scott wapner. front and center this hour, the state of the rally with jobs, inflation, and the fed in focus. we'll discuss and debate with the investment committee joining me for the hour today, joe terranova, jenny harrington, steve weiss, jim lebenthal it's been a little bit all over the place. we're trying to hang positive. the s&p has gone a smidge negative there's the dow higher by about 14 the nasdaq is in the red 4.25 is the ten year we did have that hotter than expected jobs report, the ten year moved up on that a bit. the unemployment rate has dropped. joe, i come to you first odds of a rate cut in march have decreased. maybe that's a good thing. some thought that was delusional to begin with. sentiment was up, how do you see things today >> i see things as i usually do in terms of positioning and i think the market in particular in th

billionaire donor and harvard alum, bill ackman, he already posted last night on social media his displeasure for this decision before the decision was even announced. we heard last hour from new york democratic congressman daniel goldman on cnn saying that he is disappointed by this decision, and he's still calling for significant change. by the way, a conservative nonprofit group told me they still plan to send four mobile billboard trucks to claudine gay's home today and tomorrow demanding that she resign. so the controversy may not be over, but harvard has made its decision. they are standing by claudine gay. >> all right. matt egan there. plenty of more reporting that will be coming out of this and the entire issue that happened on that congressional hearing on anti-semitism. appreciate it. kate? >>> new this morning, nikki haley is about to pick up a big endorsement. this coming from sources. >>> and ron desantis says polls are never accurate when it comes to the iowa caucuses. live in des moines ahead of tonight's cnn town hall with the governor. >>> plus, why donald trump kept reachin

. >> bill ackman as well that led to this and led to the resignation to liz mcgill nothing yet from mitrd. >> they came up with an apology at crimson trying to backtrack a lot will depend on how much donor comes to bear. >> 74 members of congress lead the top universities played pivotal role in shaping the moral compass of our future, it's a critical to leadership that reflects the combating anti-semitism of hate speech and bigotry. will: the context from the river to the sea is israel is gone, what they tried to hide behind suddenly they love free-speech all the campus presidents are all about free-speech. >> this is part of a long baked ideology that forces you to see oppressor through oppressed and the oppressed benefit from free speech and the oppressor can have his speech censored. look at the history of what this has done and put harvard in the bottom five of campuses. >> not just the bottom five the worst campus in america for free speech is harvard university. yet if you want to chant something anti-semitic you gotta provide context. will: just as it example how that's been in y

you also had a nearly 2000 word letter from bill ackman to the harvard governing board that he believes done more to damage the reputation of harvard than any other individual in their 500 year history. you have alumni putting on the pressure at the harvard board so a lot of pressure there from congress and alumni. guy: how much support on campus doesgray have? sonali: what's interesting about claudine gray is this recognition that the board of trustees has a lot of power and so to the donors and alumni but at the same time, you have others like the harvard jewish alumni alliance is important to think about. it is concerned the plight on campus will elongate the process of looking for a new president and then you have faculty professors who have a big role in the tenure of a president and perception around the president and you have the likes of jason furman who said you have clotting gauge announcing calling for genocide. larry summers the former president harvard said clotting gay has had the right approach and jason furman says he hopes the -- they don't let donors and politicians di

. >> bryan: bill ackman said in a letter on x knowing what we know now, would harvard consider claudine gay for the position, the answer is definitively no, the board's decision on president gay could not be more straightforward. liz magill resigned on yesterday, she will remain a tenured professor and mit board says their president has full and unreserved support. we'll see. >> sandra: a huge story, thank you. john. >> john: let's bring in byron york, chief political respondent and fox news contributor. more than 500 faculty are trying to save claudine gay, it's a very short letter, short, sweet, succinct, we the under signed faculty urge you in the strongest possible terms to defend the independence of the university and resist political pressures at adds of academic freedom, including the removal of claudine gay. it cannot proceed if it's dictated by outside forces. you think she survives or not? >> she may do that. i think we are at a time this has become intensely politicized. this happened at a congressional hearing and the person who questioned the presidents was representative e

i'm sorry but the donors are the ones the billions of dollars that are given the donors, bill ackmanollow him on x you know he's very upset about harvard. they are the ones that are saying no, i think money talks, maybe i'm being too much of a capitalist but money talks. >> i completely agree i think what parents have to consider is the return on investment, when you getting for your money when you spend send your child to the universities are you turning out of the di tiktok idle brain. we have to lose our prestige addiction, there are other schools i went to public school and i think i turned out okay, state run university has its own problems but there are other ways to get an education that don't involve going to the iv league conformists mills. >> i'm glad you brought up the eei, what were seen with a lot of major corporations they are starting to scale back the di initiative. >> was making money for a long time it was a marketing scheme they said we have a di department we could market that and make them more money and same with esg investment the reason why it's not making the

anti-semitism has because nationwide outrage particularly from billionaire harvard alum by the name of bill ackmaneli protests at harvard since the beginning. he wrote a lengthy post on x calling on the three university presidents to resign in disgrace. now harvard president claudine gates is now claiming her testimony was misunderstood and insist anti-semitic students will be held accountable. you penn president in that particular case is walking back her statement. herewith reaction is hoover institution senior fellow, victor davis hanson. this is not new to conservatives but this might be new to other people and it might be a new low. what is your reaction, victor davis hanson? >> to be frank, sean, those three presidents simply lied. they suspend students all the time for what they call hate speech. they will suspend you if you make an off-color joke that is detrimental to gays or trans or latinos or blacks. they know that. why are they lying? it's because they put their finger in the air and say the jewish population on ivy league campuses for example has dropped all the way down to 10% or 12

everyone looked at bill ackman who founded persian capital. build an eric silvester. of harvard. she did not respond to the first one. noting in at that harvard ranks in the bottom 25% in terms of the free-speech rankings. he spoke to a bunch of faculty members who didn't use their names because they want to keep their jobs which make sense. years ago, harvard stopping a place where all perspectives were welcomed. he asked about why this was different than another middle east conflict. we know what's going on constantly. one of the professors said, israel is the rare case where we have a hot conflict between people that are deemed quite versus people of color. i have been resistant to buy into the argument that this is about race and it is impossible to people to see white people as victims. as more of this footage comes out of atrocities that were committed by hamas, i don't know how people can look themselves in the mirror and not called us explicitly what it is when you see that child rapes and death and destruction. >> an issue is the racial component to this, lik

that said, i will focus on bill ackman, who decided not to be an investor and now a twitter troll. and he spent a lot of time on twitter on the harvard issues and the university of pennsylvania. the only thing i would say is that i would like you to be consistent if he's going to punch down students who say things he doesn't like, or the university presidents, and she punch out, someone like elon musk who has been -- >> very critical of the president of harvard. >> yes. >> and not consistent. >> so if you're a free speech warrior, bill, i would like you to be consistent and stay one the whole time. >> duly noted. kristen, best shot. >> most people have probably not heard of congressman drew ferguson of louisiana but this week he announced he would not be running for re-election and this makes him just another house republican who decided to sit out on the sidelines and not participate in 2024. republicans have already a very thin majority. it is good to have as many incumbents as possible running for re-election. i think the republican house majority already on thin ice and with mo

of course, this is going to upset those same politicians and donors, note mostly billionaire bill ackmanho already tweeted his displeasure about this last night. but she had enough support. more so than the pennsylvania president liz magill who didn't have that outpouring of support internally that gay does. >> by the way, claudine gay apologized in that interview with the harvard crimson a couple days ago. you have to wonder what role that played. thank you. great reporting on this topic. keep u.s. posted. >>> this morning, george santos is said to be in talks with federal prosecutors in the hopes of striking a plea deal. he is facing a laundry list of charges from wire fraud, money-laundering, allegations he conspired with his former cammane treasurer to falsify donation totals. he is expected to appear for a status conference. brynn, what are prosecutors looking to see happen today? do we know how this is all gonna end? >> reporter: yeah, i mean, phil, listen, 23 federal charges is what george santos is facing. now, today is a status conference hearing. past status conference hearings

big donors like bill ackman who has been flaming them on x.he sickening reality is this: if you pair your anti-semitism with anti-americanism, you will essentially get a free pass from the top leadership of elite american colleges and universities. your views are fashionable. cutting edge and protected when till you life on campus is unsafe and double standard where only certain people are protected, believe them? anti-semitism will still be there. now it's up to donors and al alumni. put their money where their principles are. that's the angle. joining me now is why cove one of the students who spoke on capitol hill today a senior at u penn, great to see you. were you satisfied with what you heard from the university presidents today? >> not at all. specifically whether congresswoman stefanik asked liz mcgill does the code of contact at the unfortunate of penn allow students and professors to to say and rally around the idea of the genocide of jews? it was a very direct question. and president mcgill said calling for the genocide of jews. i d

kudos goes to people like bill ackman and the rest of them who are not going to tolerate it.sident is not standing up for this. no one is standing up for the jewish students who are being intimidated and threatened, and locking themselves -- in a library. i think more than anything, what they've got to do is get rid of all of -- mcgill is the first one. she's not totally gone. she is still on the faculty, so that is kind of like a smoke and mirrors. >> dana: wanted to ask you about that, jesse. the president resigns, but it's not what she resigns as now looking for work. she just resigns and goes back to being a tenured professor. >> jesse: that's like biden saying he's not going to run for reelection, but we are still stuck with him for the rest of his term. i see this as about money. these universities raised so much money, and most of these places don't care how woke it gets as long as you keep bringing in the money, but when you screw up this badly, it's going to affect your ability to raise money. if i were harvard, i would be thankful for speeseven. who cares if you wer

bill ackman, who is a billionaire ho has donated $26 million to harvard.e again he called on the harvard president to resign and accused her of being profoundly morally bankrupt. >> ainsley: elise stefanik wants her to resign also and that's where she went to college. >> brian: they tried to take her degree away. >> steve: is aexpire to. do you want your kids to go to a school like that? you have seen what we have been talking about a school like that. and let's talk about a school in oakland, california. because, today, oakland teachers plan a pro-palestinian teach-in. and essentially one of the teachers featured in the youtube video said i know we heard from the superintendent who said you can't inject your personal feelings into this teach. in but the school union supports us. so we can say anything we want. and do you know what? today they're gonna. >> ainsley: this is part of the curriculum. this is what we know about the 2023 palestinian conflict as of october 20th, 2023. >> 1,100,000 people were told to evacuate homes while israeli military bombed t