tonight on the reidout there s something dangerous happening in america. there s an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy. all of us are being asked right now, what will we do to maintain our democracy? history is watching. the world is watching. president biden s powerful new ad on the trump threat to democracy amid new polling that shows a shocking number of americans don t believe what they saw with their own eyes on january 6th. plus, two new challenges to trump s place on the ballot. this time in florida and illinois. as a deadline looms for the u.s. supreme court to decide on his disqualification in colorado. also tonight, the scandal that the republican-led oversight committee won t be investigating. the millions of dollars trump raked in from foreign governments while he was president. we begin tonight with the 2024 election cycle that s already under way. nearly three years after a heavily armed trump incited mob atta
firms funding black women entrepreneurs and major u.s. law firms over their dei programs. meanwhile in the wake of the october 7th attack on israel by hamas, the anti-dei brigade is weaponizing concerns about anti-semitism to make their case to bring down dei programs everywhere. leading the crusade against gay aren t even pretending it was ever about campus anti-semitism. it was about the diversity they hate so much. take bill ackman, the billionaire harvard donor who led the charge calling for dr. game gay to resign over the plagiarism charge, now calling for the entire harvard board to resign, calling dei racist because reverse racism is racism. although it is worth noting that business insider discovered acumen s wife, an architect and designer, plagiarized her own
have about anything i have said or done in connection with harvard and claudine gay. i ask for him to reach out to me directly. i know you. would you like to talk to him? talk to him about what? he has said in plain language this is about ending dei. he called for the board of harvard, the whole board, to resign, even after they have forced the resignation of dr. gay. because dr. gay was really a pawn for them to go after dei. and as you said, they have been after diversity and after inclusion since 64 civil rights act. and today to make it clear to them that there is not going to be an easy fight. we re going to fight in the
2010 doctoral dissertation at m.i.t. she said she s now double checking her work. i guess he s able to overlook his hard line stance on plagiarism in this case. in response to his fell throated assault on dei, today, the national action network picketed outside his praufs in protest of his acts against dr. gay. in a statement, if he doesn t think black americans belong in the c suite, the ivy league, or any other hallowed halls, we ll make ourselves at home outside his office. joining me now is the president of the national action network and host of politics nation, reverend al sharpton. good to see you. this was the post, there was like a 4,000-word post that he put out. he put together one up about your protest today. he said i would be delighted to sit with mr. sharpton and discuss any concerns he might