maria callas was of greek origin.rate her greek origins, of course, but we really treat her as a cosmopolitan persona with a glorious international career. maria callas was a fashion icon. she was very much interested in fashion. we have a section in the exhibition with dresses of maria callas and a variety of personal items. maria callas was very famous, of course, for her personal and social life. how much coverage does that get? this is, of course, an aspect that we deal with in the museum. she was very well known for her social life and her personal life, of course, and her love affair with onassis that ended in a very bad way. when she died in paris in 1977, at the age ofjust 53, maria callas was living virtually as a recluse. she was mourned by her fans all over the world. sobbing. the greek audiences and the greek state always paid tribute to maria callas. i mean, herfamily and her friends never managed to build, to create an institution to protect her legacy. so from my opinion, maria was always and is always

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maria: yeah.hat why, basically, the republicans left town and did not do a deal in terms of policy change at the border as a, as a reason to send money to ukraine? where does that stand? i know when you all come back in january, we've got plenty of dates, deadlines. january 19th, the money runs out of money. february 2 end, government funding also runs out of money. april 19th, fisa. april 30th, potential cut across the board, sequester to discretionary spending. what's the priority when you guys come back? >> well, you know, from a standpoint of senate leadership on both sides of the aisle, they've gotten in this habit, this well-hone process of jamming us at the end of the year. in this case they want with to do the supplemental and and attach some modest immigration reform. and if some of us said we're not playing that game anymore. if speaker johnson said, no, we're going to do a c.r., and a bunch of us just dud not come back last week when chuck schumer wanted to work with leader mcconnell an

maria: blockbuster.ny yesterday, both men giving the committee new data showing then vice president biden used aliases to send and receive at least 327 e-mails from hunter biden and his accountant over nine years, 54 e-mails directly between joe biden and hunter's business partners. this timeline from the committee shows e-mail activity between sh shwerin and biden jumped around the trip to ukraine. another 27 e-mails before joe biden returned to ukraine that november. joining me is florida congressman greg steube, a member of the house ways and means committee. thank you very much for being here. what can you tell us about the latest bombshell, what did you learn from the whistleblowers yesterday? >> well, we learned more and building on the things they disclosed to us previously, the first thing is the claim from the white house that joe biden had a complete wall off of his son's business dealings is a complete lie. you mentioned the 327 e-mails that joe biden was involved in with hunter biden, with bu

maria: wow.ary, thanks very much. we'll be watching your reporting. hillary vaughn on capitol hill. joining me now is senator ron johnson. senator, great to see you. thanks for being here. how does this play out? >> morning, maria. merry christmas, by the way. maria: and to you. >> well, we would be doing, republicans would be doing democrats and president biden a huge favor if we force him to secure the border. i think most of my constituents, i certainly believe that the open border, their policy is a clear and present danger to america. it is our number one, top priority in terms of national security and homeland are security. and the only level range we have right now -- leverage we have right now is president biden's desire to fund ukraine. now, i'm very sympathetic with the plight of the ukrainians, i think most americans are. but i'm even a -- i'm also a very concerned about, for example, the families who have lost loved ones to fentanyl overdoses, the women who are sex trafficked because

maria: yeah. go ahead. >> i think janet yellen is feeling the effects of the mushrooms she took in china with the title here. i blame her for a lot of the inflation problems we are seeing now. she kept rate artificially low for so long. she talked about transitory inflation which we know is a farce. the title is bogus. >> when maria looked over here for the yellen joke, she was expecting me to make it. i can't impersonate our leaders and economists, i'd get in trouble. maybe i can. maria: quick break. markets are on the move this morning as we await the he final read of third quarter gdp out in about an hour and-a-half. the word on wall street panel is here with expectations next. don't miss it. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. ♪ we are family. ♪ i've got all my sisters with me. ♪ we are family. ♪ get up everybody and sing. ♪ maria: welcome back. time for the word on wall street. top investorrers watching i money. joining me is morgan stanley managing director and privat

maria: yeah.osed person, pep, which is hunter biden. i don't understand why you have had to take so long to actually get a vote to inpeach -- impeach, get this impeachment inquiry going. do you feel you have the votes within the house to get a formal impeachment inquiry? >> i do. and i had a reporter ask, well, what's changed, you know, because the press has been writing we didn't have the votes forever. i'll tell you one thing cha -- that changed, we were in washington, d.c. for about 10 weeks, and there's about 10-15 moderates that worry about what cnn says, and they were getting in their head, maria. a great thing happened during thanksgiving, the members went home, many of them for the fist time and circulated for the first time in over 10 weeks, and they met people in walmart and on main street, and they're, like, what in the world have the bidens done to receive millions and millions of dollars from our enemies around the world, and did they not pay taxes on it? so they heard from their cons

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maria: welcome back. good thursday morning, everybody. thanks very much for joining us this morning. i'm maria bartiromo. it is thursday, december 7. it is just before 7:00 a.m. on the east coast. time for the hot topic of the hour. president biden telling reporters he is not only candidate to beat former president trump in the upcoming election after insisting on running, all while his campaign says it's, quote, perplexed by the hubbub after the president casts doubt about running against trump. >> do you think there is any democrat that could beat donald trump other than you. >> probably 50 of them. >> you do believe -- >> i'm not the only one, but i will defeat him. maria: i will defeat him had, this of course on the heels of his comment earlier in the week, i want to get your reaction, when he basically went off p script and said this. watch this. >> would you be running for president? >> i expect so, but look, he is running and i have to run. >> [ indiscernible ] >> not now. >> i think somebody gave

maria?aria: so, hillary, are the cartels carrying the ieds, or are they putting them on migrants or who are acting as if they're, you know, escaping and wanting asylum? >> reporter: no, this was not a situation where with it was placed on a migrant. it was coming through the border. it never made it to the u.s. side. this is the just something that the cartels had on hand. this was not manager that was used against -- something that was used against border patrol agents or used to carry across the border. what it does speak to is really the operation of the car until and and how valuable -- cartel and how valuable and the lengths they're willing to go to protect their business, which a big part of their business now is getting people through the border. so they're willing to fight to the end to control these small gaps in the fence on the border so that they are the only ones pushing people through to the u.s. side, their customers. maria? maria: hillary, thank you. hillary vaughn. and, joe,

maria: david?ou can say that when just on this show, we're reporting record highs in the stock market. one economic indicator after the other is showing that biden's policies are working. and yes, biden's been given a difficult hand. we've had a global pandemic, supply chains, wars in israel and ukraine and so, yes, these are some difficult decisions. >> that didn't happen under donald trump. >> that president biden has to make. he guided it through. maria: i don't agree. because you're talking about two wars arguably because of joe biden's botched foreign policy when he had that botched withdrawal of afghanistan immediately our adversaries were spiking up. that's when we saw the aggression out of china and the aggression out of russia. we saw none of this under the trump administration, david. >> i would equate that so saying look, it's raining today, it didn't rain yesterday when someone else was in charge. i mean, these are some of the things that are just going to happen and regardless of who t

maria: that's exactly right. >> that's all it is. maria: yeah. and both sides by the way are attacking biden for his had handling of this war in the middle east. president biden is you now now g the muslim vote in several key swing states over his report for israel they claim. muslim leaders in arizona, florida, medicine sew the take,d pennsylvania launched a campaign called hashtag a abandon biden. >> on behalf of the michigan muslim commune i at this we will not be -- commune p at this we will not be voting for you in the primary or the general election, for not calling for a cease fire. >> families and children are being wiped out with our p own tax dollars. >> we will change the vote. we will swing it. and we won't be staying with you this upcoming election. thank you. maria: mark, the pugh research center says the muslim demographic typically lanes democrat. your thoughts. >> president biden continues to lose vote after vote. look look howquickly black voicp has been growing. you jewish people in america, roughly two thirds vote democrat. he

[mujer] shalom, maría. [habla en arameo] [mujer] maría, ¡ven! - ¡ven con nosotras, maría!stá tu abuelo, tus primos. Él lo hizo por ti. josé es un buen hombre, es fuerte. [suenan murmullos] yo me casé más joven que tú, hija, igual que mi madre. siempre hay esperanza, maría. ¿también en nazaret? también en nazaret. [hombre] salve... salve, oh, favorecida. el señor está contigo. no tengas miedo, maría, pues, dios te ha favorecido. ven. concebirás en tu vientre y darás a luz a un hijo, y le pondrás por nombre "jesús". ¿cómo es posible? si no me ha tocado ningún hombre. [hombre] el espíritu santo te visitará, y el poder del más alto te eclipsará. y tu descendiente sagrado será llamado "el hijo de dios". "el hijo de dios". maría, incluso tu prima isabel ha concebido un hijo en su vejez, pues, nada de lo que dice dios es imposible. haré lo que esperan de mí de acuerdo a lo que dijiste. [maría] ¿cómo me va a creer alguien? ¿cómo van a entender? [suenan murmullos] "inclusive tu prima ha concebido un hijo en su vejez". isabel. esas son tonterías. isabel no espera tu visita. dice que

maria: yeah.ue the irs, fbi, doj, knew all of this for a long time, they've been sitting on this potential indictment. why do they release it now three days before hunter biden is expected to testify behind closed doors for even bigger crimes and that is influence peddling and money laundering and bribery, does this stop him, prevent him from testifying on wednesday and is this a further coverup? >> i don't know the reasons for the timing of the department of justice. hopefully, we are actually in a position to provide more insight to the american people. it would be incredibly frustrating if this is a move by the doj to stonewall congress trying to get the answers for the american people. in the end of the day, the american people deserve to know the answer about the business dealings of the biden administration but really it's whether or not the president was trading favors in the benefit of the family business dealings. arguing these are standard loans between family members many i don't think

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maria: right. >> independents are upset about immigration. they're saying this is the number two issue behind the economy that's most important to them. you're also seeing even democrats now saying more than half of democrats saying this is an issue that needs to be addressed. so this administration really has something to answer for because they had the ability to do something for several years while they were in control of all three, of all three branches of the government, and they didn't do anything. maria: right. well -- >> now you're seeing republicans taking it into their own hands state by state, andst it's going to be a big problem for democrats. maria: well, to your point, you've got texas democrat henry cuellar joining republicans. now, he's from texas, but he's joining republicans calling for tougher border policies because he's living it. he posted on x our border communities desperately need more federal resources and tougher measures at the border. we must secure the border now. mitc

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maria. maria: all right, madison, thanks very much.l right, new york is slate todd have a $10 billion deficit next year. think about the i higher income earners who are leaving because of punitive taxes, salt deduction cap. the new york post has a crazy story looking into the food prices we're spending on migrants and that's before the 60 day migrant housing limit for mayor adams kicks in. one of no bid contractors that supplies food for migrants is allowed to bill the city $33 per migrant per day, four times the maximum budget given to snap recipients who are u.s. citizens, who are paying into social security, paying into payroll taxes. and that's what we're spending on illegal immigrants who have not yet proven an asylum claim. maria: it's all connected adam. you are an investorment manager, you're picking stocks for a living. you have to think about broad policy decisions as it relates to the border, relates to foreign policy to incorporate it into your thinking about investing. >> how misguided that we try to rewrite history on thi

maria: yeah. these routes ships can reach the suez canal and that canal is 17,000 ships and 10% of global trade pass through that every year so it's really an important waterway and it's certainly something that will impact global economics so we'll be watching that. gentlemen, great to see you both. thanking you so much. sean, thanks for being here. mitch, you're sticking with us all morning long, we're grateful. when we come back, the investigation into the bidens will not slow down for the holidays according to house republican as the house is now sending out investigative teams to interview key people for the impeachment inquiry, they're going to where those people ar. congresswoman claudia tenney is here to weigh in on that. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. stay with us. ♪ they're waiting for you. hey, do you have a second? they're all expecting more. more efficiency. more benefits. more growth. when you realize you can give your people everything, and more. thank y

amy: "mornings with maria" is "mornings with maria" is live right now. ♪ maria: time for the hot topice hour, the 2024 race for the white house is heating up with new polling shows president biden falling further behind. a new wall street journal poll finds former president donald trump currently leading president biden by 4 points, 47% to biden's 43%. that's on a hypothetical ballot with only those two candidates. that same poll suggests nikki haley may be a stronger general election candidate with her numbers coming up at 51%, beating biden by 17 points. haley is slamming bidenomics a a town hall in iowa this weekend, joking that fixing the economy will be difficult for her. watch this. >> we've got to get that straight when it comes to our economy. does that mean it's going to be easy. i think this will be a miserable eight years for me. [ applause ] maria: meanwhile, the president's approval rating sinking further, hitting a new low this morning of 37%. cheryl, there's a reason it looks like the democrats are bringing out the big guns to campaign for joe for joe biden. >> hillary c

maria: good morning, everyone, i'm maria bartiromo. today, president biden responds to the house oversight committee allegations of bribery. >> can you explain to americans why you interacted with so many of your son and brother's foreign business associates? >> i'm not going to comment, i did not, and it's just a bunch of lies. >> reporter: you didn't interact with -- >> they're lies. i did not. they're lies. maria: the ed and the impact with florida congressman and oversight committee member byron donalds coming up. plus, the national security threat of not holding china accountable for anything. the covid cover-up, surveillance balloon, a propaganda war, so much somewhere. key senator rand paul on the covid cover-up and whether another one is on its way over. plus, record apprehensions at the southern border. senate romer marshall on the battle over policy change at the u.s. border versus money to protect ukraine and its border. then, anti-semitism surging across the country with calls for university presidents to ten down for not r

maria: i agree.ose who will not denounce this anti-semitism across the done you tri, mark. >> why would you not condemn hate speech? that's exactly what we're talking about here. i agree with what liz said. you've got a bunch of young entitled and coddled individuals who never had to work hard for anything. maria: yeah. >> they were born on third base thinking they hit a p triple, they don't know where self worth comes from so they take activist positions in conflicts they don't understand. not the right move. maria: all right. we'll take a break. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. we'll be right back. i'm on a journey to discover the human story of gold. how it shapes us... "we're going down?" ... and our world. it's a story... i thought i knew. turns out it's far more incredible... - "it takes your breath away." - ... than i ever imagined. ah, these bills are crazy. she has no idea she's sitting on a goldmine. well she doesn't know that if she owns a life insurance policy o

maria: fantastic.w, you've been at this for so long. tell us about the foundation, where the money goes and i know you're very involved with children. >> yes. we're very involved with children. we're here in the united states now of course for of concerts but we've been honored to be invited to united nations to represent and speak about the project that we have, we have many projects but the ones we're focused on is voices off which are a choir that have been one in particular and places in need i will say, the first one has been ta -- we're moving to the t year we're moving to africa for these projects and the second one is the global lab, a project dedicated to the 19 to 25 because in these moments, it brings a lot of education, they give you the right path. they don't give you the right way, they don't explained and give the chances for kids to know what they're going to do in the future so helping them to find the right way, it's very important in early stage. maria: thanks for all you did for the

-(theme music playing) maria: good friday morning, thank you for joining us i am maria bartiromo it is friday december 22, we are breaking news exam on the east coast. the year end surge, the number of illegals breaching the southern border, now more than 200,000 recorded the month of december, 10000 a day. we have a week to go in the month there is a picture from thursday in eagle pass, president biden sending top cabinet members not to texas or is out of a toback sicko. mike johnson calling an insult to the mega people demanded the administration use executive order to stop the flow of foreigners reaching the border, some of whom are on the terrorist watch list this year. studying pictures from louisville arizona from the illegal migrants pushing to get processed yesterday, look at the picture the historic moment in time all morning long, the year-end rally on wall street strengthening all three major indices finishing the session highs led by technology. the dow industrial wall street was up 322-point the nasdaq 185, one and a quarter percent and the s&p higher by 48, the futures ar

maria: okay. >> we'll take that wet. -- that bet. maria: cheryl, jump in here.mportant. >> we are going to get retail sales tomorrow, so i'm already looking ahead to tomorrow. it's not inflation-adjusted so, to your point about people spending money, they're shopping, whatever, they're paying more for things at the store. but i think that's still going to be the reflected in the strong retail report. i do think the market's been good and i'm actually with adam. i'm pretty bullish. i didn't start the year that way, but i'm feeling pretty good about stocks in the market. i'm not giving advice, i'm just saying i'm smiling about it right now going into the end of the month. maria: all right, stephanie, john, e.j., adam, cheryl oring thank you so much. we've got a market that is higher this morning on the november producer price index. we're to minute -- 30 minutes before the opening bell, dow industrials up 71 is points, the nasdaq also potts and has been -- positive and has been rising on the meals of the numbers, the nasdaq and the s&p 500 higher for the year as w

maria: maybe.ent says he has no idea about any of this, had that he's not involved in any of this. the house rules committee will consider a resolution to formalize the impeachment inquiry into joe biden on tuesday next week, the 14 page resolution lays out rules, public hearings and directs the committees to produce a mob lick report on their -- public report on their findings. tony bobulinski told me that he wants some answers from president biden. he released this statement yesterday. he sent me this statement. i want to read it to you. i'm a former decorated naval officer who was willing to die for this great country and held the highest security clearance issued by the department of energy. why is joe biden blatantly lying to the american people and the world by claiming he didn't meet with me face-to-face. he should call his son and brother as they can remind him of the facts, the american people deserve the truth. tony bobulinski was a partner of hunter biden and he told me of courses met jo

maria: right.course this administration thinks that they can go do these meetings with xi jinping and have some kind of agreement. we still haven't seen any deliverable from that meeting between xi jinping and joe biden where our militaries were supposed to be communicating. we have no evidence of what so far and taiwan's he defense defe ministry today saying two chinese balloons flew north of taiwan today. this is less than a month from the nation l presidential election, the second time this month taiwan reported chinese balloons flying near its territory. china's defense ministry didn't say what the purpose is. we know this was a surveillance balloon that flew over the united states. is it the same thing in taiwan do you think that they're sending surveillance balloons there as well. >> taiwan said these were weather balloons. i think this was pressure. they did cross the median line which goes down the middle of the strait. but of course a weather balloon has instruments and they can be used fo

maria: okay.ou to move to impeach alejandro mayorkas in january then. >> well, the democrats actually reverted themselves back when marjorie brought that motion to the floor, the democrats themselves actually referred it back to our committee, so it gives our committee the authority to do just that. maria: let's talk about some of the deportations or lack of deportations. what can you tell us in terms of i.c.e. and whether or not the department is being honest when they say the border is secure? >> well, they're definitely noting being honest about a secure border, but i think if you drill into -- clearly, the border is wide open, and no one, even democrats if you listen to eric adams and all those talk about the crisis it's causing in new york city and the democrat governor of massachusetts who's talking about a crisis, but the real issue here, i think what really shows intent on mayorkas is the fall in removals. in 2019 i.c.e. removed 267,000 people. in 2021, the first year of this president, it

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maria: you yeah.look, one of the areas that have seen real impact has been housing, freddie mac reporting the 30 year mortgage rate has fallen below 7% for the first time since august. the nahb housing market index out on monday, building permits, housing starts out on tuesday. existing home sales out on wednesday, mike. what's your take on housing right now after we've seen people walk away from mortgages because rates went all the way up to 8%, close to 8%, and of course have been coming down since. >> yeah, maria, we're in a bit of a conundrum here in the housing market. so first for everyone watching at home if you want to see where the 30 year mortgage is going to go, watch the 10 year treasury closely. the 30 year mortgage does not move in lock step with the 10 year treasury but it moves closely and that's a lot better indicator of where mortgage rates are going to go so if this 10 year continues on its rally, so the duration, the bet that not only is the economy slowing but the fed is going to

maria: yeah.pentagon policy bill and i'm wondering where that goes because in the fiscal responsibility act it increased defense spending by 3.2%, left nondefense spending flat. i mean, that would be a decline in defense spending when you compare it to inflation. is that what you're proposing in an environment where china is getting more aggressive against the united states along with iran? >> well, let's be clear. there's a lot of waste and woke and unnecessary spending at the pentagon, probably more waste in that bureaucracy than any and i think our chairman, mike rogers and his colleagues on both sides of the aisle in fairness have found ways to shift monies internally, about 40 billion, to legacy programs and otherwise wasteful spending to things that matter to our security interest today so i think they're doing -- there's a lot more than just what you see on the top line that's shifted from wasteful and unnecessary spending to things that have to do with real readiness for the united states.

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maria: yeah. that's why he wanted the open forum because he knew it would be each lawmaker has five minutes and then you just move on, you really don't have an opportunity to dig deep. i want to get your take on this compared to what's going on with trump. jack smith has his new ideas to bring the supreme court in. new court filings reveal that the special counsel jack smith plans to use data from former president trump's cell phone in his final weeks in office including data revealing when trump's phone was, quote, unlocked, and the twitter now x application was opened on january 6th, 2021. as trump's legal team filed a motion urging to pause proceedings against the former president while his appeal is pending. so on the one hand you've got jack smith saying okay, supreme court, we want you to decide on whether or not the claim that donald trump says he is immune from prosecution, what does the supreme court have to say about that, jumping ahead of the d.c. appeals court and then this idea that h

maria: absolutely.f balls in the air right now. >> thank you for asking. >> we will watch that the federal reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady at a 22 year high in the final rate decision of the year, the fed expected to take another pause and the rate raising campaign today and chairman jay powell will speak and discuss it at 2:30 p.m. eastern time joe to be the wall street journal chief economic correspondent and author of trigonometry as nick tim arose back with us. in your latest article in the journal you write this, powell's press conference can focus heavily on a topic officials have been reluctant to discuss all official don't want to declared victory on market rally that makes it harder to sustain the slow economic growth that they believe necessary to conquer inflation. we see the markets reacting to the potential cut to come that's why we have a market that is incredibly and momentum. >> that is right, this'll be the first fed meeting in quite a while were there putting four of

maria: i love it. and forth, desantis, gavin newsom to the game, back and forth. >> exactly. maria: meanwhile black smoke rising over gaza, right now we want to take you there live, the cease-fire between israel and hamas ended in the fighting is resuming. hamas failing to provide a list of hostage names needed for the cease-fire extension. national security council spokesman says there may be terrorist groups other than hamas that are holding the hostages. watch this. >> we think there are other groups other than hamas that might be holding hostages but that's not to say hamas does not have visibility or a way to find out about it. the onus is really on hamas as this deal progresses today to identify, locate and security hostages and get them to the riredcross to get them to safet. i cannot speak to great certainty of what hamas knows and does not know. maria: joining us naval intelligence officer from the bush administration official and braemar group chairman, good to see you, thank you so much for

maria: look. is also an issue around what is happening with the elections we talk with john ratcliffe he said yeah china is going to interfere in u.s. interconnection probably going to interfere in taiwan election happening january 13, everything we've got got efforts to keep from off ballot, robert f. kennedy, jr., going after california's lieutenant governor on x, for calls to remove there's name from primary ballot writes in knocks we should choose candidates by voting not legal maneuvers to get them off ballot even "washington post" port writes should courts throw trump off the ballot? not so fast writes editorial borrowed reports attorney general was frustrated with merrick garland not going after trump tate said trump was threat to democracy should be prosecuted exactly what ag has done you've got a lot here china, against united states, working to keep their guy joe biden in the office. you've got a potentially, compromised president potentially cover-up at the doj. >> we are getting to the

maria: wow.are healthcare jobs, that are very much in demand, that is one area that i know seeing continued job creation. but interesting, looking for where jobs are, you keep telling me people not hiring quite sobering, charles what do you make of that. >> not a surprise, you know having, for a lot of small businesses,you know according to somebody like nfib, can't afford even ones want to hire priced out of better workers, for a couple of years over paying for people really weren't a qualified, had no choice i think of temp workers a red flag i love the fact 53 thou people back into an asterik here, 7.7 million private sector we need to call out private sector from government government has if i were on scale, steve made the point over and over i agree a thousands percent, accolades incorrect rate cuts watching closely i know, lavorgna into this big time rate cuts, early on knee-jerk reaction yesterday 55% chance 25 basis points cut in march, with 50 base of points moving up to 52 always get kn

maria: welcome back. good monday morning, thank you for joining as i am maria bartiromo monday december 11. just before 8:00 a.m. on the button on the east coast. time for the hot topic of the hour, ivy league schools under fire after weak testimony from three university presidents last week over the failure to condemn calls for genocide of jewish students on campus, the president of university of pennsylvania liz mcgill resigning over the weekend as a result with the chairman of the board of trustees that you penn, grady trimble is live with university of pennsylvania right now with the very latest. >> good morning, calls are growing this morning for the president of harvard and mit to step down after the president at you penn liz mcgill in the chair of trustee scott bock announced they were stepping down, mcgill will stay on as president of the university until the university can name an interim president. meanwhile in cambridge and an omnibus private funder paid to put two billboard tracks near harvard