congress is opening an investigation into the allegations warning the wealthy institution could lose federal funds as the school down plays the importance of gay s academic misconduct. now congress is involved. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. morning. bill: a good year, huh? merry christmas. dana: happy shortest day of the year as well. happy greg gutfeld day. bill: the president, claudine gay, becoming an embarrassment for harvard announcing it found more cases where she copied the work of others without giving procrit. instead of punishment she is being allowed to update her doctoral dissertation and make corrections. the house committee is expanding its investigation into anti-semitism at harvard to produce all the documents related to the allegations of plagiarism. dana: virginia fox writing is standards aren t be applied consistently resulting in different rules for different members of the academic community. if a university is no
courts here, all americans need to really worry this could come to your candidate in your town across the nation. bill: that s one of many republicans now calling the trump ballot ban anti-american. colorado might just be the tip of the iceberg. we ll explain that now as we say hello. beginning now on thursday morning i m bill hemmer live in new york. dana: that s weird. colorado is landlocked but the metaphor works. i m dana perino, america s newsroom. good to be with you this morning. legal efforts to disqualify former president trump are underway in more than a dozen states including maine. we re expecting a decision there as soon as tomorrow. also happening in california where the lieutenant governor wants to quote, explore every legal option to disqualify trump. bill: you put all this together and it puts pressure on the u.s. supreme court to get involved and the air out of iowa forcing republican candidates to talk about the frontrunner rather than talking abo
this afternoon, vice president, kamala harris cast the tie breaking vote in the evenings senate for the inflation reduction act. it now heads to the house, which returns to its summer recess on friday. if passed, the i.r.a. would invest 369 billion dollars to help save our planet from climate change. it would also help ease inflation lower prescription drug costs collect taxes from corporations and reduce the deficit. here s senate majority leader, chuck schumer, on the passing of legislation. this bill will kickstart the era of affordable clean energy in america. it is a game-changer. it is a turning point. it has been a long time coming. to americans who have lost faith that congress can do big things? this bill is for you. two seniors who face the indignity of rushing medications or skipping them altogether, this bill is for you. no senate republican voted in favor of this bill but, gop senators to block one big key provision a cap on insulin costs at $35 a month for p
will because i am a giving person. the nurses at the blood bank, in fact, sometimes i will even donate my own. now, there has been a lot of talk about who the democratic nominee should be for 2024. we are not even halfway through the term and they already want to bail on joe. can you blame them, the favorability would be is two points ahead of rheumatoid arthritis and three points below and awards. but anyway, that doesn t seem fair to joe biden out at all. he s got the experience, and the look. it was like he was sniffing hair like tran-nines. that s not what the white house needs, but a coffin for joe. he takes it away when he ensures there is no dead body in their. so disgusting. but like my wife and the homeless musician she invited, they are not even hiding it anymore. suddenly they are mailing you boxes of omaha steaks, cases of red bull and keep sneaking up behind you at family functions. the joe biden name is too strong to ignore. [laughter] okay, so now you are
A lot of people just say, well, you know, that was the noughties and maybe it wasnt as bad as the 70s or 80s. Theres been a sense of progress in a sense. Do you buy that or do you think these challenges are still there for female comedians every day even now . I would say first of all its not just for female comedians. There have been male comics who have named male predators in our circles. I think, if anything, with social media its kind of being perpetuated. What people forget about comedians is we are not only talents that make people laugh. We are also colleagues. Meryl orourke. A quick look ahead to next week. Weve been filming in ukraine for a series of special reports. Heres a taste. The raw emotion of this war and its consequences could not be more stark. Thats all from us tonight. Kirsty s here on monday. Till then, have a great weekend. Breaking news from Around The World 24 Breaking News from Around The World 2a hours a day. This is bbc news. Thats in addition to a 25 mil