Reports of a shooting in the area, but the police have not released in i other information, and again, police in milwaukee in an incident, and we will keep you up to date with something happening there. And now, mike pence with something he never did in aus, saying that donald trump repeatedly telling a lie that the Vice President could overturn the election. I heard this week that President Trump said that i had the right to overturn the election. President trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election. The presidency belongs to the American People. And the American People alone. And frankly, no more unamerican idea than to suggest that one person could overturn an election. When you are considering the messenger, those are fighting words, and pence in front of a conservative audience implying that trump is unamerican, and release a coherent statement saying that i was right and everyone knows it. And if there were any irregularities, it would have been appropriate to send t
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour with breaking news right now. the university of pennsylvania, the president there, has resigned. this comes after her testimony earlier this week before congress about anti-semitism on campus. our polo sandoval is live with more on all of this. polo, not that surprising we re getting this news this afternoon, given what took place this week. the devastating testimony for the president of the university of pennsylvania, that she delivered up on capitol hill. her attempt at cleaning up that testimony, which was also pretty widely panned, and then matching pressure, sounds like, from the board of trustees of that university for liz magill to step down, that s what s happened this afternoon. what s the latest? confirmed directly from the university. jim to your point, not surprising giving the days of outcry we ve seen and heard from throughout the university, state and federally elected officia
obvious. yeah, pence is like a lot of republicans who know better, a lot, and refuse to disavow trump because of the twitter, but there is no twitter and now afraid of primary challenges. but at every point the republicans have had every opportunity to disavow trumpism, and go for democracy and say that it must be protected and this person is anti-democratic, and at every point they have either said nothing or, you know, tacitly kind of encouraged him. so we are getting to the point now where so much of the republican party is doubled down on this anti-democratic, anti-you know, voter, pro voter suppression, and anti-count the vote kind of thing that we are in an impossible situation. you can t have one party who believes in the central tenet of american democracy, and so it is good that mike pence said this, and certainly he is seeing what
backlash to him? i don t know yet. i don t know yet. i don t think it s a mistake that donald trump began his political life as a birther. i don t think that s a mistake. i don t think the political, you know, sort of rhetoric, the way it exploded into anti-muslim, anti-woman, anti-you know, i don t think that s incidental. it s just very, very hard to believe that. you know, and so i think to some extent you do have to ascribe the fact he s actually presid t president, i guess the way to answer this is could i imagine a donald trump without a barack obama as president? no, i cannot. no i, cannot. let s make that real simple. that s the way i feel. it is very hard to imagine history coming along and producing this man as president except for the end of this era. yeah, yeah. so do you think, you know, when you re sort of thinking about barack obama s presidency, as a whole, right, how much do you view that legacy now contingent on what happens in
it exploded into anti-muslim, anti-woman, anti-you know, i don t think that s incidental. it s just very, very hard to believe that. you know, and so i think to some extent you do have to ascribe the fact he s actually president, i guess the way to answer this is could i imagine a donald trump without a barack obama as president? no, i cannot. no i, cannot. let s make that real simple. that s the way i feel. it is very hard to imagine history coming along and producing this man as president except for the end of this era. yeah, yeah. so do you think, you know, when you re sort of thinking about barack obama s presidency, as a whole, right, how much do you view that legacy now contingent on what happens in the next four years? contingent at all. obviously what the policy is, right? does the aca get repealed? obviously, some of that is, but like with any other president, so, iflincoln, a bett example actually is grant, who does this great job during reconstruction and for the