tonight s candidate on that main stage was run desantis of course. tonight s setting is iowa, where many the mistakes as do or die. florida governor said that the polls don t tell us the full story, and that he is building momentum. among tonight s highlights, desantis said that he does plan to replace obamacare. but when we see that plan is tbd. and he forcibly went after donald trump on everything from inflation to the border to the satanic display inside of the iowa capital. with me to break down all of this that we just saw and heard, jamal simmons, scott jennings, ana navaro, and paul begala. everyone, let s get your take. let us start with you scott, how did he do? i thought it was the best i ve seen him, really lately on the campaign. i think this format, and jake did a great job with it, is a far more instructive format, if you really care about what the candidates think about issues, instead of roman style coliseum attacks on one another. so i thought if you are
beforehand. frankly, they were answers that were counseled to give. soon after the hearing last month, the next day, gay apologized, harvard issued a statement of support for gay, that they had confidence that she could heal the campus community. conservative activism leach a pressure campaign to oust gay, the calder mediocre, unqualified, and affirmative action hire. and they falsely called her let s be clear, harvard has never accused doctor claudine gay of plagiarizing anything, she stands by her work but offered to make minor changes to improper citations. that folks, is not plagiarism. but the support started to crumble and she made the decision to resign saying, quote, after consultation with members of the corporation, it has become clear that it is in the best interest of harvard for me to resign. so that our community can navigate this moment of extraordinary challenge, put the focus on institution rather than any individual. harvard to sided it was
do you think she should have stai stayed on? this is a very nuanced issue. the first thing is you have to state and say that she was below par at her testimony. many of those presidents were below par. not sure why they went. they gave a lot of legal answers to moral questions and that was not appropriate. so that s first. the second thing though is these issues of plagiarism, the piling on that we ve seen, the accusations of plagiarism i should say and the piling on, yes, it is rooted in racial animus. should she have resigned? the answer the no. and i m disappointed that she did. you have a lot of individuals coming and questioning here. scholarly credentials who cannot hold a candle to her. they re questioning whether or not she got the job because of the color of her skin. they re calling her an affirmative action hire. this woman deserves more respect than that. she got that respect from her colleagues in academia, but now you just see the piling on and individuals who should no
vetting process in the judicial hearings and many of them are carrying grudges into the decisions. we know clarence thomas has a grudge against affirmative action because, you know, he has this personal issue that he believed that he was not treated as his intellectual prowess should have been because, you know, he was black and he believed he was affirmative action hire, which, of course, people responded, why did you take the job. there are also people who were hired who were african americans in many positions are not hired before affirmative action policies ever took place. my major concern is this. the acrimony is leaving us, the american people, wondering what kind of high court is this and what kind of credibility should we give it. yeah, that s the big question regarding the credibility and what that all means. gloria brown marshall, thank you. cnn white house reporter jasmine wright joins us now. jasmine, president biden has laid out plan b to provide student loan relief t
nicely into the sort of intersectionality and al the stuff and all the affirmative action hire. col bud t could it go any other way? i mean, if your criteria for the hiring a football coach was we need the , we need the darkest,s we need one to cross dress and transgender, how would that football team s record be ati me the end of three years ofelse playing? s i mean, how else could this go ? well, maybe you ve hit upon a solution to the current crisis in our formerr meritocracy, where congress and passes a law forcing the nba and the nfl l to abide by the same hiring standards they re imposing on , say, jpmorga morgn and citibank and everybody else, why not do that? u ab and we can allan watch what happens when you abandon wel the meritocracy? well, it would be the greatest experiment ever. and i think it would be very informative to a lot of people