language to one audience and another to another audience. the day before, he was sending out fund-raising emails talking about i m going to be your retribution. he s what social scientists call a big fat liar. a ph.d. to learn that? and listen, i m sure he will go back to this language of being the retribution because it works for his very rabid base of supporters, even the dictator line. i think he felt like at least in that moment he wanted to clean it up. we obviously talked a lot about the debate and about what happened on another network, but real quick on chris christie dropping out. biggest upshot is this does help nikki haley potentially significantly in new hampshire. if you look at the base of support that christie had in new hampshire, it was significant. double digits in most polls. almost exclusively, moderates almost exclusively. people who voted for biden in 2020, according to cnn s
standards clearly shouldn t have been allowed to go forward with their ph.d. if any of that had been caught. i think the more important thing to take into consideration is look, these rich people who think they should be able to dominate culture and politics and education and everything else, just by their wealth, don t seem to realize they are still subject to some of the requirements we have for decency, integrity and that applies to them and their families. if he didn t like it, he could have stayed off twitter. he was mad about diversity and inclusion, apparently, he says a lack of diversity means we have to get back to letting folk who plagiarize wikipedia be the prominent academics because they re better because i can t think of a reason but i llhink during the break. still ahead, president biden calls out the right-wing war on black history at the south carolina church where a white supremacist killed nine people in 2015.
going on at randall s island. bill: in the meantime you have bill ackman and heard the name a lot in the last two weeks. billionaire hedge fund manager. graduate of harvard university now planning to use artificial intelligence to search for plagiarism at elite american universities. all this coming less than a week after claudine gay resigned at harvard after facing 50 allegations of cheating. today there is a more personal reason why bill ackman is taking a stand. for that answer and that story lydia hu from fox business has more now. good morning. this proposal for an a.i. generated plagiarism audit comes from accusations hurled at ackman s wife who also earned her ph.d. from the elite university. ackman is escalating his demands for reform at higher education by pushing for the a.i. powered plagiarism review writing this. every faculty member knows once
what more can you tell us about those instances? that s right, erica. on thursday our first story covered four instances of plagiarism in professor oxman s ph.d. thesis. the story we just got reveals 28 new instances of plagiarism, 15 of which are citing wikipedia or failing to cite wikipedia but using text pulled directly from the popular online encyclopedia anyone can edit. i m a little can you tell i m a little dumbstruck by that, especially using wikipedia? when we look at all of this with reason. this is something that go ahead. go ahead. this is something that school kids are taught not to do, and yet it is appearing in work by someone who is seeking a ph.d. i was just as flummoxed as you were. i couldn t believe it. so walk me back through what you found initially. so these are the new things you found tonight, those 28 instances, some of them, as you