It's an open line Friday. Welcome. It's Eric Erickson here across the nation. The phone number 877-9-7-3-7-4-25. If you want to be on the program today, very happy to have you. We got a lot to talk about including the speaker fight, but I do have to unfortunately continue the familiar theme that we've been stuck with all week.

I want to play for you, Samadio, this is the president of Harvard.

This is a moment of intense pain and grief for a great many people in our community and around the world.

I feel that pain and grief myself.

As members of a university community, we have a choice.

We can fan the flames of division and hatred that are roiling the world.

Or we can try to be a force for something different and better.

People have asked me where we stand. So let me be clear.

Our university rejects terrorism. That includes the barbaric atrocities perpetrated by Hamas.

Our university rejects hate, hate of Jews, hate of Muslims, hate of any group of people

based on their faith, their national origin, or any aspect of their identity.

Our university rejects the harassment or intimidation of individuals based on their beliefs.

And our university embraces a commitment to free expression.

That's the President of Harvard.

Now, while that being the President of Harvard, you should know at Stanford University, an instructor made Jewish students this week,

identify themselves, take their belongings, stand in a corner, and then said, this is what Israel does to the Palestinians,

and added that the colonizers killed more than six million people, suggesting what Israel has done to the world

is worse than what the Holocaust did.

I put all of this in perspective for you and then add in this, ABC News, complaining about

corporations not wanting to hire Hamas sympathizers.

Listen to part of this report from ABC News.

Over the crisis in the Middle East, students taking sides and clashing,

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