studio? i like it like this. is it you doing this? i don t even know. i m a kind of go along to get along dude. i like being with you, so if that s the cost of sharing a studio. we can raise it up, whatever you want. just feet away from each other. i ll just wear a sweater. thank you. have a good evening, chris. thank you for joining us tonight. i m ali velshi in for alex wagner. we re going to warm up in the next few minutes. president biden hasxt released s first campaign ad of 2024. and in that ad president biden makes clear what he believes will be the central issue of thisce election. i ve made the preservation of american democracy the central issue of my presidency. i believe in free and fair elections and the right to vote fairly and have your vote counted. there s something dangerous happening in america. there s an extremist movement who does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy. all of us are being asked right now what will we do to maintain o
coordinated attempts to undermine their legitimacy and ruin their leader s credibility, end quote. and according to rufo, she s right. this campaign against claudine gay was about toppling institutions and reshaping them in a conservative mold. he said so himself in his own wall street journal op-ed this week titled how we squeezed harvard to push claudine gay out. quote, if america is to reform its academic institutions, the symbolic fight over harvard s presidency must evolve into a deeper institutional fight, a grueling form of trench warfare in which each concept, structure, and institution must be challenged to change the culture. he continues, if there s any home of stopping america s cultural revolution, it must begin with a clear-eyed understanding of how to wield