public responses to anti-semitism on campus. good evening, i m jon scott, and this is the fox report. jon: all eyes are now on the presidents of harvard and mit following intense backlash over their controversial testimonieses on capitol hill. c.b. cotton is live in our new york city newsroom with more. cm b. reporter: hi, jon. despite widespread backlash over claudine gay s congressional testimony, hundreds of harvard tobacco allty members faculty members have signed a letter urging members of harvard s governing body to keep her as president. now, this as bipartisan calls continue calling for her expect president of mit to step down after last week s congressional hearing on anti-semitism. the spotlight turns to them after these departures from the university of pennsylvania, president liz magill and board of trustees chairman scott bach announcing their resignations this weekend. magill will continue to serve as the university s leader until an interim is named a
2022 midterm for republicans not on trump himself, but on mitch mcconnell. that is what we re seeing play out in the public. these allies of former president donald trump come out and call for a delay in the senate leadership election that is scheduled right now to happen on wednesday. as of now it has not been delayed and as of now mitch mcconnell is expected to become the minority leader for the senate in this election, but still, noteworthy these republicans are coming out and publicly slamming the results of this election and placing blame on mcconnell. take a look at what marco rubio, florida senator, tweeted this week. he said the senate gop leadership vote should be postponed. we need to make sure those that want to lead us are genuinely committed for fighting for the priorities and values of working americans who gave us big wins in states like florida and want to note, there were three other republican senators who sent a letter urging members of the
the obamacare individual mandate repeal, as republicans praise lower taxes and higher wages democrats continue to paint this as corporate welfare and tax cuts for the rich. nancy pelosi sending a letter urging members to vote against the continuing resolution by the house gop that funds the government until january 19th, they are set to meet today at 8:00 eastern time, 21/2 hours from now. the president and republicans delivering on a key campaign promise with the tech support package. although the bill does minimize the hedge fund benefiting carried interest loophole requiring investors to hold their positions for 3 years instead of one before selling off the bill did not get rid of that loophole. white house economic advisor gary cohen said the white house and delivered on other measures. delivered four key
a couple of them, the first democratic debate on october 13th. to be able to get in before that, he has to get into the race in the next couple of weeks. other big deadline would be the filing deadlines in the states of alabama and arkansas in mid-november and if he is not entered before then, you don t get any delegates and got to be pretty soon. mark murray for us today, thank you. thank you. a group of house republican fresh men sent a letter urging members not to shut down the government and could happen october 1st. kristen welker has more on this. the white house talked about how they re planning for a possible shutdown. what did they say? reporter: craig, that s right. white house press secretary josh earnest answering my questions about this making the point we are so close to a potential government shutdown that the government has needed to start these conversations. here s what he had to say in response to my question.