the dear colleague letter from speaker johnson. tell us what you know about this agreement. we ve got a lot of numbers here. yes, symone. a lot of numbers. a little bit of a discrepancy and what we re hearing from republican leader, speaker johnson and democratic leaders. you mentioned we have that dear colleague letter that gives us the first sense of these top line members. you know, one point 59 trillion for fiscal year 2024, which republicans say allots 886 billion dollars in defense and 704 billion in non-defense. now, democrats are saying that they ve secured more than 772 billion in non defense spending. so, this is getting a little in the weeds here. but the difference is a side card dam deal that is a 69 billion dollars, that was negotiated as part of that speaker mccarthy, biden deal. and so, that is actually sticking around, explaining that discrepancy. what this does is it allows democrats to show that they ve got more money and it allows speaker johnson to kind
unwilling to weather the storm of criticism. gay, who became the first black president in the second woman to lead the university and all of harva s 387 year story, published an op-ed and in the new york times, she wrote, it s not lost on me that i make an ideal canvas for projecting every anxiety about the generational and demographic changes of american campuses, a black woman selected to lead a storied institution. claudine gay was in the top job when the most prestigious universities in the world, this may come as a shocker to some folks out there, black women don t get handed anything without qualifications, especially president of the most prestigious university in the world. if anything, we need to go above and beyond to prove our worth. as women, especially women of color, especially black women, we need to be unicorns to break glass ceilings just earn half asuch as our white male counterparts.
beforehand. frankly, they were answers that were counseled to give. soon after the hearing last month, the next day, gay apologized, harvard issued a statement of support for gay, that they had confidence that she could heal the campus community. conservative activism leach a pressure campaign to oust gay, the calder mediocre, unqualified, and affirmative action hire. and they falsely called her let s be clear, harvard has never accused doctor claudine gay of plagiarizing anything, she stands by her work but offered to make minor changes to improper citations. that folks, is not plagiarism. but the support started to crumble and she made the decision to resign saying, quote, after consultation with members of the corporation, it has become clear that it is in the best interest of harvard for me to resign. so that our community can navigate this moment of extraordinary challenge, put the focus on institution rather than any individual. harvard to sided it was
special counsel that say to the court, we ll continue filing, the court did not say, oh no, you don t. it s not, it s unusual but it s not contemptuous particularly because the court did not say, don t you dare file anything, and after they filed she did not say that. this is not a very successful argument by the trump team, the judge did not tell them to do it and asked him to stay said, stop filing. let s talk new york, it s a civil fraud trial in new york, in this case donald trump has been liable for draw fraud. how liable is he, how much money will we have to pay, will he be able to do business in new york. where do you think this is gonna come down? i think the judge, there are gonna be doing their closing arguments on both sides of this friday, the judge will then make the decision whether the company falsified this record,
can happen eight days out. what are you watching for and is there anything that is going to fundamentally change the makeup of this race between now and january 15th? well, like you say, iowa is a special place. we ve seen these strange things happen here in the final days of the race. you know, people ask if we know exactly what s going to happen and this has been a remarkably stable race. we haven t seen a lot of the changing of, you know, who s in the league, who is in second place, a whole lot. it s been remarkably stable, but one thing that i always note is that in our last poll, the des moines register nbc news i will pull from december, about half of likely republican congress goers say that they have not made up their minds for president yet. and so, we re in these final weeks, these candidates are on the ground constantly. the airwaves are flooded with tv ads and we are seeing things move. this is when people are making their decisions. they re watching what these candidates