this is america s late news. fox news at night. and breaking tonight, the new evidence is very strong that voters are not happy and the anger appears to be across the political spectrum. young, old, black, hispanic. the numbers for president biden are getting worse and when you have a lot of ground to make up in the new year, solutions seem to be few and far between t senior national correspondent kevin corke is live in dc with the very latest on this kevin good evening. reporter: happy new year my friend, evening to you. now last year president biden reportedly spent about, let s just say about a third of his time on the job away from the job, as it were, at get aways, posh vacation spots and almost weekly at his home over in delaware. but as he gets back to work in 2024 the oldest president in american history is saddled with the lowest approval numbers of any president running for a second term since the end of world war ii with 58%, nearly 6 in 10 americans disapproving
reporter: good evening. yes big news today trace on this. claudine gay was facing increased scrutiny over allegations regarding her academic honesty but pressure for the ivy league s first black president to step aside mounted over her response to this question from one of the school s graduates during a congressional hearing on campus anti-semitism early last month. so the answer is yes, that calling for the genocide of jews violates harvard code of conduct correct? it depends on the context. it does not depend on the context, the and is yes and this is why you should resign. while gay later apologized for her answer it was too little too late for many jewish members of the harvard community. also evidence published by the washington free beacon that accused her of plagiarism, which gay denied. the university also said at the same time it did not amount to plagiarism. in her resignation letter, gay said, quote, it has been distressing to have doubt cast
okay to threaten genocide. trace: that would be the academic trifecta if all three. so allen dershowitz witnesses becky wrote in the new york post. accordingly, speaking of claudine gay, she is only a symptom albeit an important one of the destructive impact dei is having on universities across the country. unless the dei bureaucracy is dismantled universities will continue their decline as institutions of objective learning. and i think objective learning, bethany, is really kind of the optimal phrase there. yeah, absolutely. i mean, we saw a decline in harvard s admissions, and applications, leading up to her resignation. i think that all of that had something to do with the fact that she resigned. because, you know, it took centuries for harvard to become the institution of note in america. and it only took three months of claudine gay for that reputation to absolutely plummet. and it was because of her actions. the fact that like in her
riddled with contradiction and hypocrisy. gay claims that it s been distressing to have doubt cast on my commitments to confronting hate. common sense thinks if you re committed to confronting hate, why would you go before the nation and condone it essentially telling congress that hate is in the eye of the beholder, that it s not defined by words and actions but instead hate is muddied by context. as if calls for genocide, the eradication of a certain ethnic group can be mitigated by nuance. ex president gay went on to say she was frightened by, personal attacks and threats fueled biracial animus so you felt frightened and threatened because you re black but couldn t quite grasp what the jewish students on your campus were experiencing? claudine gay also used her resignation letter to highlight her hopes of building a better foosh. common sense would caution her that building a better future can only come with a clear and present understanding of the
public safety, and that is some two things that he s failing on right now. i think a lot of people are going, man, we don t know what the united states looks like with another four years of biden. trace: i have about 30 seconds, i would like to get both of you to weigh in on this. lanhee the maine ballot trump is off, colorado. do you think the supreme court comes in they have to trace: and puts the remedy for this? i think they have to. let s not forget these are political decisions. the maine secretary of state s decision is a political decision not a legal one. trace: tudor shouldn t we not leave this up to the voters and not the bureaucrats? that s exactly what the courts are going to say, that this is up to the voters, he s going to be on. michigan supreme court said it, that says enough. trace: yeah, thank you tudor dixon lanhee chen. great to have you on. claudine gay is out as president of harvard university resigning amid allegations of plagiarism and the han