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>> bill: "impact segment" segment. as you know, yale university is an ivy league stalwart, very procedures institution. now, two controversy that may harm yale. first, the university is taking john calhoun's name off of one of the residential colleges. he served in the tenant for many years before the civil war. he was an ardent proponent of slavery. however, john f. kennedy named calhoun one of the greatest senators in history. i disagree with that assessment. also, the yale daily news come the student paper, is backing at printed that says the african-american cultural center at yale will ho...

About the decisions that have been made. >> bill: let's turn to the black panthers. the yale paper booted in, right? there is no honoring going on in new haven about the black panthers. what is there? >> i think it is students who want to be a part of a movement and they want to compare them getting calhoun renamed, being part of these protests against things that they represent. >> bill: wear to the black panthers command? ed is a black history month. >> it looked like a few students went in the fall to go visit a thing at berkeley that was presenting a story about the black panthers. >> bill...

Happened to the democratic party. >> do you think they are too focused on identity politics? >> i think that the message that has been shaped by the democratic party has been shaped toward identity politics. they have lost the key part of their base, the people -- >> bill: joining us now from washington, lisa boothe and juan williams. juan, it used to be that democrats held fundraisers under the banner of jefferson jackson dinner's. but you can't do that anymore. it is like john calhoun is out the window, jefferson and jackson are out of the democratic party window. what is going on? >> i thin...

>> asserted about two years ago, the calhoun renaming process really picked up steam. then, they decided last april to not rename calhoun. they had a whole committee established over the summer. >> bill: who is they? >> the administration, the yale corporation. it >> bill: this was basically faculty members that did this? >> not so much faculty members. faculty and students wanted to the name changed -- >> bill: because of the slavery issue, right? >> yes, sir. >> bill: now, that is gone. it's been on, i assume you support the banishment of john john c calhoun, correct? >> i support the renami...

He is really an individual whose lifelong work was around any quality. he wasn't even really for the parts that say that all men are created equal. when you think about residential colleges, this is where the students are formed, a place of community. when you think about those names that we want on those institutions with those colleges within our institutions, it is important to think about that. >> bill: you are distinguishing between the legacy of calhoun and jefferson at washington. why do you think yale even name to the college after calhoun? surely, they knew, because he was not a quiet...