few hours after she quit that she claimed to be the victim. claudine gay resigned after all that wildly controversial capitol hill testimony on anti-semitism on the harvard campus and a pile of mounting plagiarism claims against her. the republican lawmaker who fired off the questions that sparked the controversy for claudine gay, actually her answers did that. anyway, that congresswoman says two down, one to go talking about presidents in ivy league colleges where anti-semitism has been raging. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. the new york post cover today claudine gay, playing the victim in her resignation letter. a victim who refused to answer whether students calling for the genocide of jews should be disciplined. here is a refresher. it s a yes or no question. let me ask you this. you are president of harvard so i assume you are familiar with the term intifada. bill: i ve heard that term. do you believe that type of hateful speech is contr
great to see you today. all right. let s start off first of all with keeping a former president off the ballot in maine and in colorado. ron johnson told me his state is on that list, coming up, wisconsin. happy new year, harris. look, first of all, don t open a door you can t close. this is a dangerous door to open. we need the supreme court to step in quickly before we have too many states do this. i will defeat president trump fair and square. i have no doubt about that. but this is not the way to do it. what we have seen happen, this started prior to covid, is government thinking that they know better than everybody else. and you ve got people who are thinking telling people what to think, what to do, how to live, how to breathe. that s not what they are supposed to do. i trust the people of colorado. i trust the people of maine. i trust the people of wisconsin. let them make the decision. let them decide the path forward
courts that are pushing these types of measures pushing him off the ballot are not getting criticized in mainstream media. they do it with pressure from the mainstream media. by and large they re advocates for the left. harris: new op-ed titled trump versus the woke. let the people decide. here is part of it. it s trump who lies, the left will say. it is undeniable he does. but the trumpian right replies progressive america has become an entire culture of lies. men aren t necessarily men, women aren t necessarily women. mediocrity get an upgrade. appeal to excellence is racist oppression. the sane course is to disqualify neither. let the people vote. that from the wall street journal opinion. nikki haley, republican presidential candidate, former south carolina governor twice, former u.s. ambassador to the united nations.
demonizing each other but moving together and bringing out the best in people to go forward. harris: all of those things when you said at the moment. others have said it was a democratic plant in the town hall. i don t know. i wasn t there. but others have said that. you have said that in fact. on a reask what would you have me say about slavery was your answer. clearly you have plenty to say about slavery. the civil war, april 12th, 1861, started in your state at fort sumter and i imagine you have a lot to say about it. a former hud deputy secretary under president trump, someone who is not working in the media but often a guest shermichael singleton has said this about your comments on slavery and the civil war, quote. she should have been able to answer the blank question and move on. she had a chance to be competitive even though she was always likely to lose the nomination. however, that s over now.
the civil war and slavery comments have generated a lot of attention and another week into this people are asking. i will ask you about it because i haven t had chance to yet. a new york times piece is arguing that nikki haley s civil war gaffe complicates her new hampshire push. failure to mention slavery in response to a question about the causes of the civil war have given chris christie fresh ammunition as they compete for the anti-trump involvement you are in second place in new hampshire, 20 points behind president trump. but you are leading chris christie and ron desantis by double digits. you saw on your instagram today are doing well in new hampshire. i want to visit this. it will continue to come up. the reason that it has is maybe you haven t put it to bed yet. so in politico today there is