shot in conservatives escalating war on diversity, following the supreme court's ban on affirmative action. joining me now is dr. jamal watson, contributing writer for the washington monthly and a professor at trinity washington university. doctor watson, i thought of you. you've done work with the action network, you -- academics at every convention in april. so i really wanted to ask you about this issue, because ever since the supreme banned affirmative action, i've warned that anti-diversity efforts would not stop there. and i don't think claudine gay's ouster is -- largely orchestrated by conservatives, have gotten enough sustained attention. because now, as republican lawmakers are planning to expand their probes of college