and jesse watters, along with judge jeanine pirro, jessica tarlov, dana perino, and greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 in new york city and this is the five. clotting gate is gone, but the media and race hustling liberals are doubling down to defend the poster child of dci. gay stepping down as president of harvard after 50 examples of wager is emerged and her embarrassing testimony on anti-semitism. expelled those it you are convicted of plagiarism. set to keep her nearly $1 million annual salary and also has an army of sympathetic liberal journalist crying racism and blaming conservatives for her resignation. check out these headlines. how the right toppled harvard s president. harvard president resignation highlights a new conservative against colleges. servicing claudine gay s resignation as a victory. and pundits, listen. what happened to to claudine gay, president of harvard university until she resigned is now the latest casualty of that. there is a racial compone
thanks, jesse. jesse: see ya. bret: good evening. i m bret baier. following two major stories president trump has filed appeal with the colorado supreme court with the decision to keep his name off the primary ballot. we will have that plus analysis with brit hume and shannon bream in just moments. but we begin with the crisis at the southern border. more than 50 house republicans are in eagle pass, texas tonight meeting with border officials. getting a first-hand look at the migrant crisis that is forcing the biden administration to go on the offense. the white house placing blame on the house g.o.p. saying members are obstructing progress, even as president biden faces mounting criticism from democrats. correspondent bill melugin starts us off tonight in eagle pass, texas again. good evening, bill. bill: bret, good evening to you. today s congressional delegation was the largest one to ever visit the southern border. and these house republicans came here after decembe