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you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour with breaking news right now. the university of pennsylvania, the president there, has resigned. this comes after her testimony earlier this week before congress about anti-semitism on campus. our polo sandoval is live with more on all of this. polo, not that surprising we re getting this news this afternoon, given what took place this week. the devastating testimony for the president of the university of pennsylvania, that she delivered up on capitol hill. her attempt at cleaning up that testimony, which was also pretty widely panned, and then matching pressure, sounds like, from the board of trustees of that university for liz magill to step down, that s what s happened this afternoon. what s the latest? confirmed directly from the university. jim to your point, not surprising giving the days of outcry we ve seen and heard from throughout the university, state and federally elected o ....
Speaker boehner and mccarthy are rallying behind scalise. boehner calling the speech an error in judgment but saying he has his full confidence as house whip. carrie dan joins us now. damage control, damage control. has he done enough? well, i think right now what you re seeing house speaker john boehner. it was not a wishy washy statement. speaker boehner said he has high confidence. he s a man of high integrity. you have statement reports from others like kevin mccarthy. house democratic leader nancy pelosi a statement from a spokesman that criticized the party overall but didn t call for scalise oust per. he appears to be in an okay position. the thing going forward when congress comes back next week if we see continued fallout from this and continued criticism from both within the parties and ....