republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. there s something dangerous happening in america now. there s an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy. the maga movement. president biden is set to deliver a dire new warning about donald trump as trump, late today, asked the u.s. supreme court to keep him on the ballot in colorado. also tonight, the outrage following the resignation of dr. claudine gay at harvard. result 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 th
leaders, who staged the witch hunt that took place on december 5th. and their real target is dei, is equity, is the attempt in this country finally to reckon with a history that harvard itself has been a marked maker in producing scientific racism, who belongs on college campuses. that is not meant to be a smear of my university. that is the finding of a harvard legacy of slavery report that it released two years ago. so, this was finally a moment in harvard s nearly 400-year history to come to terms with its past and to take a leadership position in the future in terms of righting the balance of history and making good on the promise of equal opportunity for everyone. that s where we were headed. and ackman released in a statement today that it wasn t anti-semitism afterall that he was most concerned about. what he was most concerned about was he said dei, that it was at
tucker carlson and himself very, very angry, like not being president of harvard or getting into harvard as a student both of which claudine gay has done and christopher rufo has not. he didn t just wage a war against claudine gay, he telegraphed every step of what he was really trying to destroy and how he was going to do it. amonth before the sham congressional hearing he tweeted about how to fix academia and said, quote, abolish dei bureaucracies and punish universities that discriminate on the basis of race. he later claimed that claudine, gay, quite yetly built a diversity empire overseeing a racist admissions program, a sprawling dei bureaucracy and an effort to dename buildings and reduce the visual presence of white men on campus. the next day he straight up admitted that he launched the story of plagiarism accusations in order to topple her.
slavery-rooted institution in the united states. they want back the pre-20th century. and contempt for black excellence while we re at it, joy. i mean the bottom line is these are people who do not think that black people and especially black women, could have possibly earned any of the accomplishments that they have gotten without affirmative action and do not deserve to be in the places and spaces that they are pioneering institutions across the country. dr. gay was correct that this is not about this is not about anti-semitism or affirmative action and that this is just the beginning of this campaign for folks who are looking to dismantle dei on the other side of a racial reckoning, you know, that they absolutely are responding to with a parallel reckoning of their own. and you know, just to make it clear that it is a planned attack, this is, you know, in addition to using the word scalped, ben collins tweeted about rufo.
republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. there s something dangerous happening in america now. there s an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy. the maga movement. president biden is set to deliver a dire new warning about donald trump as trump, late today, asked the u.s. supreme court to keep him on the ballot in colorado. also tonight, the outrage following the resignation of dr. claudine gay at harvard. result 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