**>> sean: welcome to hannity and tonight joe biden trashing republicans during a press conference with ukrainian president zelensky all because they are making border security a top priority. now the president always seems to fly off the handle when talking about the gop, while giving america's geopolitical foes a free pass. even as they try to kill u.s. soldiers abroad, almost a hundred attacks in a little over a month. we have a full report straight ahead but first the president of harvard is now getting a free pass. gay just received a unanimous vote of confidence after this abhorrent testimony about genocide and virulent anti-semitism. now festering all over her campus. take a look at this. >> so, the answer is yes. that calling for the genocide of jews violates harvard code of conduct. correct. >> again, it depends on the context. >> it does not depend on the context. the answer is yes, and this is why you should resign. these are unacceptable answers across the board. >> sean: she said it would depend on whether actions were associated with it. gay knows the context. a global intifada is a command for violence against jews, elimination of israel and when protestors hold signs that read by any means necessary, they are praising what are the barbaric terrorist attacks on october 7 and calling for more of the same. the entire student body at harvard. they have been harassed by radical hamas sympathizers since october 7 in that terror attack but gay didn't seem to care. two days ago the penn's president resigned in disgrace after providing a similar response at that very sail congressional hearing but at harvard their president will skirt by with a simple apology. gay is "sorry" if she offended anyone. i don't consider that an apology. anyway, gay told the harvard crimson that she "got caught up in what had become at that point an extended combative exchange about policies and procedures." not really. according to gay harvard takes free speech and free expression very seriously, but in reality, and truth, well, she's wrong. because this year, harvard was named the worst school when it comes to freedom of speech in america by scoring a whopping 0.0 in a study by the foundation for individual rights and expression. now seven of its professors were disciplined for saying or writing something that the university deemed offensive. one feminist lecturer said harvard canceled her and her speech because she does not "believe there are male women." there are strict rules against certain types of speech that are deemed hateful, including discussions that could be labeled as transphobic or fat phobic. that's right. at harvard, apparently now obesity is off limits but when it comes to the jewish people, anything goes. so make no mistake. gay's so-called apology, it was disinfennous but it gets worse. at one point harvard's president said "i failed to convey what is my truth." my truth, the president of harvard thinks she owns a special version of truth? let me see, is it true that israel was a victim of terrorism? is it true that innocent israelis were slaughtered and murdered and raped and some beheaded and some taken prisoner and kidnapped? of course, her version of the truth is probably lacking in originality. of the few academic papers that claudine gay has actually managed to publish over the past two decades now we also know that many were allegedly plagiarized. that's right. the president of what's supposed to be america's most prestigious university is an accused -- accused of plagiarism on top of everything else. according to the harvard crimson, "the crimson independently reviewed the published allegations, though some are minor, consisting of passages that are similar or identical to gay's sources, lacking quotation marks, but including citations, others are more substantial including some paragraphs and sentences nearly identical to other work and lacking citations." according to university policy a student at harvard can actually be expelled for such an infraction but not claudine gay, the president. harvard's board is now allowing her to go back and amend her publications and here's how congresswoman alish responded earlier today. take a look. >> this is a moral failure of harvard's leadership and higher education leadership at the highest levels. and the only change they have made to their code of conduct where they failed to condemn calls for genocide of the jewish people, the only update to the code of conduct is to allow a plagiarist as the president of harvard. >> sean: by some estimates harvard has lost billions of dollars in donations because of claudine gay but the school would rather stand by its president than admit the moral and academic rot that's destroying american colleges and poisoning the minds of young students. today our very own sarah carter traveled to harvard where she caught up with a research associate who is not happy with the conduct of their president but does not want her face of any kind or any of these kids to be disciplined. take a look. >> even harvard president, i know for a fact, okay, she was overly primed by her lawyers, and, you know, she didn't say the right thing, okay. but it doesn't mean she should be punished by resignation. she's going to learn, you know. i think she was site swiped by that question. >> sean: all right. here with more from her trip to cambridge, our very own sarah carter. sarah, to me, there is no moral ambiguity here. this is moral clarity. either harvard stands against murder and rape and torture and terrorism and kidnapping, or they don't. this was not a deep question that she was being asked here, and the thing is, if you apply the standard of at least the question to any other "identity group," you tell me, would there be consequences to any student at harvard? >> absolutely, sean. she's also not a child. she knew she was testifying before congress and she had to prepare to testify better congress so this wasn't a trick question. you know, many of the students that i interviewed here in cambridge also made excuses for president gay. they said, you know, she was caught off-guard. she didn't really know what she was saying, and what i found really surprising, sean, was the fact that it was difficult for many of the students to actually answer the very similar question. are calls for genocide against the jewish people against and violating the code of conduct here at harvard university? take a listen. >> do you feel, though, that her inability to respond to whether or not the calls for genocide violated the ethical code of standard here at harvard? exposed that maybe she was wavering on a subject that should have been very simple to answer. >> i do not know enough about that to comment. to comment fully to be honest. >> personally, i think it's important for the university leader slip to be held accountable but i also think she's tried really hard to fix mistakes. i do feel like she's made mistakes as an administrator but it would be wrong to just get rid offer just because she made these mistakes and it's important for her to show that she's ready to learn and grow from the mistakes that she made. >> i'm, i feel indifferent. the corporation harvard supports genocide, so, i mean, whoever -- in the institution doesn't matter. >> so you feel like her testimony wasn't so much offensive, it's just -- >> it was bad. it was bad. the testimony was awful. >> sean, there are a number of major harvard donors who are not going to let president gay slide. in fact, one of them is billionaire bill acman who stated he'll no longer be donating to harvard as long as they keep president gay in her position of power after her anti-semitic testimony and he assessed that one billion dollars in donations have already been pulled from harvard, from alma mater and other donors, jewish as well as nonjewish that would have been donating to the campus. sean? >> sean: great report, sarah carter at harvard. thank you. here with more the author of the best seller, unkwok, how to defeat cultural marxism in america, harvard law school alumni, texas senator ted cruz. it's interesting. i had on this program two professors from harvard, one, a democrat that thinks you're one of his best students of all time that would be dershowitz, and the other, cornell west who is running for president. i said at the end of the debate, sad part is, this debate that we had on this show, we would not be able to have at harvard. we reached out to them. they never got back to us. and i think that speaks volumes. what is your reaction to your alma mater? >> look, it is disgraceful how harvard is behaving. i've got to say claudine gay's testimony was the worst testimony i have seen in the 11 years i've been in the senate. you had her testimony, the president of penn, the president of mit. the president of penn has already resigned in disgrace. all three should resign. not a one of them could give a simple clear answer, categorically deny anti-semitism, can't gorally denounce genocide against the jewish people and not one of them could figure out whether calling for mass murder of jews violates their harassment policy. it was ridiculous, and there is a reason. why did claudine -- listen to all of these people defending claudine gay, well, she was surprised. what do you mean she was surprised. the entire topic of her testimony was on this and the reason she gave that answer is that she sides with the protestors. she's a radical leftist. she's a cultural marxist. talk about my book, unwoke, how to defeat cultural marxism, this is cultural marxism. they define jews as oppressors. they define palestinians as victims, and the cultural marxist support the violent revolution of the victims against the so-called oppressors, and the result is, because the three of them are leftists, they are cheering for the hamas terrorists. it's disgraceful, and i've got to say at harvard you're seeing jewish students being harassed, threatened at mit, you're seeing jewish students afraid to go to class and these leftists are unwilling to stand up and defend their students. she should resign and i've got to tell you, there are thousands upon thousands of harvard alums who are horrified at the behavior of the institution right now. >> sean: we often talk, senator, about identity politics. what if the genocide of, and fill in the blank, had to do with the particular race, or a particular sex, or against lgbtq community or one of genocide of a person with gender identity issues, or what if it was genocide against people that believe in islam. i think there would be a very different reaction on campus. so -- >> if you call for genocide of any of those groups, whom the left defines as victims, you would be expelled immediately. but because they view jews in the context of israel as oppressors you're allowed to abuse them. look, usc banged a jewish professor from coming on campus. it was an economics professor, who anti-semitic protestors threatened and usc ordered him to teach his entire class remotely for the year. my podcast verdict, ted cruz, yesterday's podcast is entirely on this harvard. the, and just how disgraceful it is, and for the harvard corporation to say, we stand entirely with our president, you know what it's saying, it's saying, we're okay with anti-semitism. we don't want jewish students to feel safe on our campus, and, bit way, claudine gay in that same testimony, she was asked about, the percentage of jewish students that's plummeted on harvard's exist and she said, i don't know. i don't know how many jewish students are there, which is a flat out lie. these bean counters, they know every transgendered left-handed whatever. they know that. but yet they claim they don't know how many jewish people are on campus. this is an institution. and by the way, harvard, going back to the 1950s, harvard had in place what were called the jewish quotas. where they capped the number of jewish students allowed in because on merit, jews were doing really well and getting good scores and getting good grades and they said, harvard said we don't want too many jews and they put quotas in place, so for her to claim now, she doesn't know how many jews are there and she's apparently not troubled that jews feel threatened because she's willing to contribute to the rhetoric that's undermining the safety of her own students, and, by the way, to be clear, i don't mean safety from comments that are difficult to hear, i mean safety from physical threats. we've seen videos of jewish students at harvard being harassed, being threatened physically, and i've got to tell you, if any student, physically threatens another student, that student should be expelled whether they are jewish, muslim or what have you, universities should protect their students, these leftists won't do that. >> sean: on an unrelated topic you really went after senator dick durbin for protecting those people flying on jeffrey epstein's plane, the lolita express as it's called, for not wanting to subpoena the flight logs that would give everybody the names. why is he unwilling to get those flight logs? >> look, it's an awfully good question. a fox news reporter asked him in the hall of the senate why dick durbin and the senate democrats were block being flight logs of jeffrey epstein's plane and he claimed i don't know anything about it. on my podcast yesterday i played the video and said, yes, you were there. you're the one, it was my colleague, marcia blackburn, she introduced an amendment that i joined that would have subpoenaed the flight logs and said we need to see who was on that plane, if there are prominent politicians who were involved in molesting young girls, we need to know, don't protect them, and i've got to say the democrats are freaking out. he literally blocked all amendments, and, in my view, republicans on the judicial air committee, we ought to keep pushing saying we're going to vote on the record. if you're covering up for someone who is engaged in molesting children, we're going to expose it and i will say, sean, do you know what painting jeffrey epstein had hanging in his living room in manhattan? >> sean: i don't. >> it's really horrible, he had pating of bill clinton -- a painting of little clinton in a blue dress wearing pompous high heels on his wall. if you google it you'll hate the image. that's what he had on his wall. maybe that that explains why durbin don't want to subpoena those flight logs. they won't like what they find in they will. >> sean: thank you, senator, appreciate your time as always. much of the academic de bay at american universities stems from its cult like adherence to the b binary system of oppression, and it's what many kids are being brought into. join us, the author of the book we've got issues, how you can stand strong for our country. the host of the brand-new show, primetime, one and only, our good friend, dr. phil. you know what always defines, i look at you, what's always defined you to me is your willingness to just say it as it is, and not worry about consequences. here you're talking about genocide of jews. and then, of course, we want to back off, but we apply one standard to different identity groups but not to the jewish people. why? at harvard and these other schools? >> sean, it's really disgusting and it's so hypocritical to hear harvard talking about, well, it's free speech. they wouldn't know free speech if it came up and bit them in the ass, because this is something that, as you pointed out, fire puts them 248 out of 248. they had to set up an entire new category for them they were so abysmal at it. and they don't do free speech. they do their speech, and, i've had people on my show, dr. carroll hooven, who you alluded just a few minutes ago, labeled as hate speech and drummed out of the university after 20 plus years but yet you can talk about genocide of jews. genocide is an interesting term. it doesn't sound real bad if you say it real fast but the definition of it is to kill a large number of an ethnic group with the purpose of wiping them off the face of the effarth and destroying their nation. that's what we're talking about but there are even exceptions to free speech. not a lawyer, i don't mean to brag but i'm not, but there are exceptions to free speech. you can't insight people to violence, you can't target someone with specific threats which they are doing but still we're not talking about speech here. we're talking about actions. they are blocking, impeding people's path to their classes. they are going in and disrupting their classes. going into the library and intimidating these students, and they are saying, oh, well, that doesn't violate our policies. it's insane, sean. you know it. i know it, and so does anybody with common sense. this is a double standard and, you know, carolyn is -- she's a symptom of the problem, as well as the perpetrator of the problem. this cuts really deep into these ivy league universities. >> sean: there was an interesting editorial in the "new york post" yesterday, one down and hundreds to go, it's not just m.i.t. and you-penn and harvard, this is now institutionalized, but it's institutionalized in lower grades as well, dr. phil. i don't know why all of a sudden we've gotten to a point where educators for kids in grammar school, even in high school, they feel that their values are superior to parental values, and they feel at liberty to indoctrinate these children into their way of thinking, rather than sticking to the basics reading, writing, math, science, history, and computers, i don't know, call me old fashion, dr. phil, but i prefer they educate our kids, not indoctrinate them. >> sean, over 30% of our fifth graders and eighth graders cannot read at the most basic level. 19% of our high school graduates can't read. they are getting past so the schools can get paid. and yet they are wanting to talk about other things and completely absurd and what's happening here, from the primary grades up through college, is, you're right, they are writing their own woke agenda, and that's absolutely unacceptable, and these people that are counseling these students on these issues, whether they are psychologic or medical, don't have training in psychology. they don't have training in medicine. they don't have training in sociology, so they are not trained in any of the disciplines that would qualify them to counsel these students on these issues, and they are excluding the parents. they have known these kids sometimes for two or three weeks, and they exclude the parents completely. and they don't have the training to do this. they need to stick to what they are trained to do, and most of the teachers, sean, would prefer to do that. this is getting jammed down their throats just like it is everybody else. the teachers are not the problem. it's the policymakers and the teachers unions that are creating the problems. >> sean: all right. quick last question. i'm glad you're coming back on tv. where can people find your new show? >> well, it's merit streak media, and we're going to be launching at the end of february, and i'm going to be asking you to be part of this. you and i -- >> sean: me? >> we've been friends for a long time and we've got an awful lot of common thoughts. i'm sure we'll be crossing paths as we go along here, sean, and i appreciate you letting me speak on this today. >> sean: you've got to aim higher. if i'm on the list, you've got to go a little bit higher. i'm sure you can get better people but we're glad to have you back. it's been a while. >> not true. >> sean: you're a good man, sir, god bless you. all right. appreciate it. coming up, is biden turning his back on israel? you won't believe what he told prime minister netanyahu, plus the fbi warning of a heightened threat to public safety this holiday season. 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