she would still have the job. it has been distressing dealt past with confronting hate and upholding scholarly rigor to bedrock values that are fundamental to who i am. and frightening to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus. gay is saying, you don t care about plagiarism, anti-semitism or losing $1 billion. you are just a racist. gay knows exactly how you feel walking through her campuslkingh while students call for their murder ball. and reverend al says .the resignation is an attack on all black women. quote, president gay s resignation is about more than a person or a single incident. this is an attack on every black woman in this country is put a crack in the glass ceiling. it s an assaul put on the health, strength and future of diversity, equity
be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus. dr. gay will remain a member of the harvard faculty, and the school says it will begin a search for a new president in due course. and some conservatives on capitol hill say they will now start looking at m.i.t. s president who was also at that congressional hearing, as well as leadership and faculty at other universities that they consider too woke, and some african american leaders now saying all of this has the stink of racial bias in the way this was handled at harvard, and say that they will begin protesting some of those donors who targeted claudine gay. back to you. still to come, u.s. house republicans set to visit the u.s. border with mexico as the senate tries to reach a compromise on a border security bill. details just ahead.
dana: i m dana perino with joe jeanine pirro, jessica tarlov, jesse watters, and greg gutfeld. 5:00 in new york city, and this is the five. embattled harvard president claudine gai resigning is the most powerful school leader in the country. 50 allegations of plagiarism s, and that shortest presidency and the university s history: six months. gay not mentioning either of the scandals in a statement, but seems to imply that racism was a factor in her ouster. she said it was frightening to be suggested to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus. it started when she cannot answer this question in front of congress. the answer is yes that
not the first plot in recent years plotting jewish individuals and officials and synagogues, and what is the state of that threat in this country? well, jim, this is right in the wheelhouse of what the fbi and director wray have told us that they believe is the most dangerous and the most concerning threat that they face on the counter terrorist site which is the threat from the extremists and predominantly lone offenders motivated by racial animus, and anti-semitic feelings and anti-immigrant feelings and charged with sometimes political grievance and then motivated to act violently on their own. so i think that this guy, he fits that picture perfectly as someone who is, you know, he is heavily armed and he might be mentally unstable, but nevertheless, he has decided to act out the animus and the
people that beat the listing daylights out of this guy, i don t think is a viable legal argument. it s a very viable moral argument. but, you know, if you re talking about second degree murder, there s got to be common sense, a big difference between someone that puts his hands on someone in a lethal type manner versus somebody on the scene, probably should have intervened but didn t. we were on the air live friday night during the release of the tapes. it was horrifying to talk. there was not a lot of talk about race. now you re hearing more and more talk about race. you say that if you re having a hard time understanding how five young black men might have killed another black man out of racial animus, welcome to the club. we re trying to put the puzzle together here of how this