supreme court weighs in. plus, harvard s first black president steps down amid allegations of plagiarism and disastrous congressal testimony. was race also a factor? an exchange system in the u.s. falls victim to an elaborate kidnapping plot. one that cost his family $80,000. tonight, a warning from the fbi that he is not alone. let s go outfront. outfront to benight, trump appeals. his legal team appealing the decision that keeps him off the ballot in maine saying the secretary of state there had no legal authority to remove him from the ballot, calling her a quite biased decision maker who should have recused herself and otherwised failed to provide lawful due process. trump s team is expected to appeal colorado s decision. he s expected to appeal that to the supreme court at any moment, following in the steps of colorado s gop. those decisions are based on section three of the 14th amendment which was passed after the civil war and says a person is ineligible to run
the last thing i ll say about this is one of the great american phenomenons is the ability for mediocre white men to succeed and what we re seeing is a lot of mediocrity. particularly in conservative ranks piling on to the former president of harvard university at this time. it infur rates me because this woman deserves more respect even though she tripped and fell in that hearing. you taught at harvard and thought she did screw up but was a resignation or firing the only answer? i think it was long overdue. i agree with bacari, actually. she does deserve respect. to be held to the same standards that students to and she fell short of that. back to the hearing, in stronger terms, this was an epic disaster. all these presidents including professor gay, when they could not clearly denounce genocide, they could not clearly denounce
presidents and who has been successful and who hasn t, what bogs them down is an inability to deal with congress. i don t think this is easy but the president has embraced a strategy where he believes if he brings the country along washington will follow. the president is out campaigning, reminding the republicans of where public sentiment is. it infur rates them. he has to put the heat on them. let s listen to what john boehner said this morning. here it is. right now, i would say we re nowhere. peri period. we re nowhere. we have put a serious offer on the table by putting revenues up to try to get this question resolved, but the white house has responded with nothing. they have asked for more revenue than they have been asking for the whole time. is that a serious offer if it s just talk that they are willing to raise revenues, and
it s a real shame that that s the case. last cycle four years ago, we had 14 days of early voting in the sunshine state. that s been reduced to eight days of early voting without any good explanation frankly. and it s unconsciousable that people in policy-making positions want to reduce the amount of democracy we exercise rather than encourage the amount that we get to exercise in our state. and why there wouldn t be an expansion of the voting hours for early voting prior to today is inexplicable to me. i don t understand the people would not respect that so many have fought and died for the precious right for us to e vote that they contracted rather than expanded and encouraged it. i think we ll be fine in florida. people are frustrated. it infur rates them that they are trying to be suppressed in
brotherhood, zero won. they didn t try to make believe they were taking it seriously. that, i think, infuriated people. the gross cynicism of it infur rated people. it has to do with elections. i don t think it s pointing to the presidential election for a simple reason, which is nobody in egypt thinks it s going to be a serious election. if mubarak wants to show he s heard the message, maybe he ll permit a free election. i d be shocked if he did. parliament elections in december are rigged. now into the start of the new year. hillary clinton watching all of this, calling for the egyptian government to respond to the legitimate needs and the interests of the people. so what can the u.s. do to try to intervene here to help bridge that, as you were saying, that the government needs to respond but what can be done especially with secretary of state clinton stepping in like that with that response? honestly, thomas, i m guessing less than we think. look back at tunisia.