Welcome to The Beat, im ari melber. But we begin with Breaking News in politics. Former republican Vice President and Defense Secretary Dick cheney is backing Kamala Harris. That marks one of her most high Ranking Republican endorsements in this campaign probably the most iconic. Dick cheney is an Arch Conservative Hawk and a gop icon, a fixture running republican administrations as chief of Staff And War policy as Defense Sect and Vice President and during 9 11 and the wars in afghanistan and iraq. Those were stints that made him a Fire Brand Folk hero on the right and loathed by most prominent washington democrats. And indeed this news right now tonight would have been unheard ever 10 or 15 years ago and cheney is far from a never trumper. He endorsed Donald Trump in 2018. This also completes the Cheney Family unusual evolution and it did not come during the actual four years of trumps presidency, his governing priorities and his mistakes, it came over whether were a democracy or a C
hello everybody, i m jesse watters. it s 5:00 in new york city and this is the five. the five. the race hustlers are doubling down to defend the poster child, gay stepping down as president of harvard after 50 examples of plagiarism and her congressional testimony on antisemitism. she has expelled students for plagiarism but not if you re copy cat claudine. he has an army of journalists crying racism. check out headlines, how the right toppled harvard president. new conservative weapon against college plagiarism and conservative see gay s resignation as victory and liberal pundits are going to bat for gay. what happened to claudine gay was mob pressure. there is open pressure on black progress black history. claw dean gay is now the latest casualty of that. i don t think it s fair to say all her critics. only added to their theirs to dethrone her. what they didn t mention was the first ivy league head to roll and other president sally cornbluff is fearing for
the story starts now. john and gillian, happy new year. i m trace gallagher in for martha maccallum. a bomb shell update to a story we ve been following closely ever since this testimony last month. you understand that this call for intyfada is to commit gen se against israel. that type of hateful speech is abhorrent. do you believe that type of speech is contrary to harvard s code of conduct or is it allowed at harvard. it s at odds can you not say it s against the we embrace a commitment to free expression even views that are objectionable, offensive, hateful. it s when the speech crosses in to conduct that violating our policies against bullying does that speech not cross that barrier? does that speech not call for the genocide of jews and the elimination of israel? now claudine gay is stepping down after backlash of that and the plagiarism she s been on the job six months and two days. dave rubin and robert wolf are standing by. first to molly li
ha ha, happy tuesday everyone, i am tom shillue in for greg gutfeld who i m told is busy fighting extradition. so before we get to the news, i thought it might be appropriate to look at some of the new year s resolutions from some famous names and faces. for example, president joe biden, his new year s resolution? continue to cheat death. hunter biden. find that envelope i left somewhere in the white house. commander the dog, eat more salads and fewer secret service agents. kamala harris, to resolve to make resolutions for the new year, because it s new and it s a year. [cheers and applause]. i might add stop laughing, that might help, too. the custodian who cleans the senate judiciary room. three words, use more bleach. brian kilmeade, i will continue to be the butt of greg s jokes. and finally randi weingarten, add 40 pounds to my bench press. she ll make it. on to the monologue. so i m looking over tonight s headlines trying to think of the perfect story to start the s
if they don t do that they can be like any state school. does harvard have to hire an african-american woman as a replacement? no. a lot of people are calling on harvard to do that. i don t think so. i think they should hire whoever makes the most sense for the school and take into account what has happened the last month and where they want to go in the future and i think that s what they will do and it doesn t mean if they do hire a black woman or person of diverse boundary that it s a petty hire or dei hire. there are plenty of qualified people to do this job and you are right, they have in the past dug into the boundary of conservative scholars and we nor neal gorsich plagiarized his 2006 book from a law journal article and said it wasn t malicious that it was a citation