Mike Walters out and will Harvard lose its tax-exempt status. We'll discuss all this and more.

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So MBD, the conventional wisdom, the week of the signal gate debacle, was that Mike Walts would be given a decent interval, and then he would be ousted.

And the decent interval ended yesterday. We're recording Friday morning waltzes out,

but with a significant consolation prize of a nomination to be UN ambassador. The confirmation

hearings might be awkward because we have to answer a lot of questions under oath about

the signal debacle. But Marco Rubio is now Secretary of State, head of

USAID, head of the National Archives, and the National Security Advisor, trumping Henry Kissinger,

who is just Secretary of State and National Security Advisor. So there's a personal element to this. Waltz apparently

wasn't very good at forging relationships in the White House. And a lot of people kind of thought

he was condescending and cold. And then the Signalgate thing, no matter how much they

insisted, it wasn't an embarrassment, it was an embarrassment. And then there is an ideological overlay to this as well, where he's relatively hawkish

compared to the rest of the national security team.

So their strainers didn't like them from the outset.

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