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Different approach but the message will be the same, which is that high and oil prices, it is not good for anyone. >> matt eagan, thank you very much. >> thank you, guys. renowned journalist nicolle hannah jones has declined the university of north carolinas offer of tenure and she is instead accepting a faculty role at howard university. her tenure was initially denied by the board of trustees. >> she won the pulitzer prize for her work on the 1619 project which examines the consequences of s...

The university of north carolina at chapel hill. the tenure process has been suspended for weeks amid growing questions over here teaching credentials and involvement in the 1619 project which has been largely criticized as revisionist history. our next guest is one of the leading opponents of critical race there. im a senior fellow at the manhattan institute, christopher rufo joins us now with his take on what this decision means for concerned parents and students. chris, its good to see you to...

All sorts of calls to break up big tech from elizabeth warren to ted cruz. its coming from all sides. the reality of it is i dont think they will be broken up or its a very long process to break them up. the fact that the federal trade commission said look, pay a fine and we will have a little extra oversight on facebook is a great sign for facebook. it will not stop the calls to break up big tech but to do that you really need to change the definition of antitrust. right now is about consumer h...

All sorts of calls to break up big tech from elizabeth warren to ted cruz. its coming from all sides. the reality of it is i dont think they will be broken up or its a very long process to break them up. the fact that the federal trade commission said look, pay a fine and we will have a little extra oversight on facebook is a great sign for facebook. it will not stop the calls to break up big tech but to do that you really need to change the definition of antitrust. right now is about consumer h...

Positive unfortunately. >> tucker: these are the people who will be running our country than? >> people always liked as a university of california berkeley, some french left his place. this is a temple of higher education in this country. this is a place which produces people in the state department, lawyers, politicians, leaders of industry. this is a real major university and its not some kind of lunatic fringe place unfortunately. >> tucker: after stanford its the best university in the big e...

Flag, said god bless america or good for you. they were an extreme minority. it was probably about five to one who were negative to positive unfortunately. >> tucker: these are the people who will be running our country then? >> people always liked as a university of california place. berkeley, some leftist place. this is a temple of higher education in this country. this is a place which produces people in the state department, lawyers, politicians, leaders of industry. this is a real major uni...

Though this is racial slur. why is it appropriate for him to use that? >> like i said, i dont think that it is. i dont think that was certainly not the presidents intent. >> does he see -- >> the more offensive, the most offensive thing -- >> im sorry. >> does he see political value in calling people out racially? why use that term? >> look, i think that senator warren was very offensive when she lied about something specifically to advance her career. i dont understand why no one is asking abou...

Great message. >> wow. >> what a great message coming from that guy. because at the end of the day, it doesnt do liberals any good to just have parrots running around repeating the same thing they want them to think. >> leave it to him to call them out. i sort of -- i think republicans gave up on that frontier. >> its good he went to the lions den but i think its a simplistic message. just because you donate to barack obama doesnt mean you agree with everything on the democratic platform. theres...

"starting point" begins right now. welcome back, everybody. new details in the shocking suicide of football star junior se seau. the "l.a. times" is reporting his family has decided to donate his brain in order to determine if he had chronic traumatic ense encephalopathy. the report says the former linebackers death was a suicide. doctors are unsure whether seaus hard hits on the field let to cte, that dementia like brain disease caused by tough brain injuries that many football player...