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minute classes earlier today as part of a course named run in the louvre. the activities included yoga, dance, stair climbing and running in different rooms and none of them were climate changers. all right. tyrus. >> tyrus: hit it! [laughter] >> tyrus: check out seagulls screeching contest in belgium. 9-year-old from england. much better. speaking of better. check out tyrus.com. check out my tyrus comedy tour in states all over the country. >> jesse: where are you going to be the 27th 6 september. >> tyrus: i be where i be and that's all you need to know. cities everywhere. >> judge jeanine: illinois. >> tyrus: judge, do you have a bird call? >> judge jeanine: no. an owl? ♪ >> shannon: good evening, welcome to washington. i'm shannon bream in for bret baier. breaking tonight as anti-israel
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protests continue to spread to college campuses across the nation, the speaker of the house expresses support to jewish students at columbia university. officials there say they are making progress in conversations with protest leaders. correspondent steve harrigan is on the columbia campus for us tonight. good evening, steve. >> steve: good evening, shannon. the speaker of the house warned the protesters here today that calling out the national guard was a real possibility. >> neither israel, nor these jewish students on this campus will ever stand alone. house speaker mike johnson met with jewish students at columbia university, adding to the growing calls for university president shafik to step down. >> we can't allow this hatred and anti-semitism to flourish on our campuses and it must be stopped in its tracks. >> the clock is ticking as tuesday's midnight deadline to dismantle the tenths on campus came and went. the university says it's making progress and extended talks with student negotiators for another 48 hours.
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while being vegas about what vat will happen if they don't comply. for now students agree to remove some tents, kick out nonstudents and eliminate hate speech. >> israel go to hell. >> some jewish students and professors say the university's president is still not doing enough. >> do you know who the only people not under negotiation table? the jews. she negotiating with hamas supporters, with islamic jihad supporters. >> tensions are growing across the country with clashes at the university of texas in austin and the university of southern california, and more schools joining in. [chanting from the river to the sea, palestine will be free. >> fox news research shows more than half of the university's universities had protests in the last week. [chanting] >> students at princeton are said to be planning an encampment like the one at columbia. violating school policy. and while some members of congress support the
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protesters -- >> i am incredibly moved by your courage and bravery. >> others want to revoke federal funding, international student visas if their terms are violated. [bleep] >> the speaker told the protesters that they were being endorsed by hamas and that they should stop wasting their parents' money. the students responded with a chant. mike, you suck. shannon, back to you. >> shannon: we will talk about that and more coming up. steve, thank you. republicans are pressuring president biden for some kind of action concerning these anti-israel protests. at the same time, president biden signs a foreign aid bill sending billions of dollars to israel, ukraine, and taiwan. senior national correspondent rich edson is at the white house tonight. good evening, rich. >> good evening, shannon. shortly after signing that bill at the white house, president biden said it was good day for the united states, for europe, and for world peace. as other events in the u.s. are also drawing international
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attention. >> my commitment to israel, i want to make clear again, is ironclad. the security of israel is critical. >> president biden today signed a foreign aid bill including more than $26 billion in funding for israel. as critics say he isn't doing enough to address campus protests spreading across the country. with some lauding and parroting terrorist organizations. while the president made no mention today of those demonstrations, the white house says officials will forcefully call out anti-semitism. >> protests must be peaceful. you know, students must be safe. a when we see violent rhetoric, we have to call that out. when we see physical intimidation or grotesque anti-semitic remarks, we have to speak that out. >> tomorrow, president biden will be in the new york area with no campus visits on his schedule. while at columbia today, house speaker mike johnson and several other republicans pressed the administration to revoke federal funding for schools that fail to control threats towards jewish students. johnson suggested that if the anti-semitic demonstrations continue, there could be a role
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for the national guard. and he said he will tell the president that directly. >> my intention is to call president biden after we leave here and share with him what we have seen with our own two eyes and demand that he take action. >> these protests are also gaining international attention, especially in israel where prime minister benjamin netanyahu called the anti-semitism on college campuses in the united states, quote: horrific. >> anti-semitic mobs have taken over leading universities. it has to be condemned and condemned unequivocally. but that's not what happened. the response of several university presidents was shameful. >> next month, president biden is scheduled to speak at more house college's commencement. some faculty students and alumni are calling on the historically black college to rescind that invitation over the president's support of israel. the white house says that president biden is looking forward to celebrating with graduates next month. shannon? >> shannon: all right, rich edson at the white house. thank you, rich. tonight, u.s. supreme court justices are considering arguments heard today about
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whether state abortion restrictions can be invalidated by federal law, mandating emergency care, which the biden administration argues may include abortion. correspondent david spunt has details from outside the court. [chanting] >> today's case originates in idaho but could have wide ranging implications for states with strict abortion laws. >> abortion is murder. >> at issue now whether idaho's near total abortion ban is at odds with a federal law protecting patients in emergency situations. including pregnant women. the biden administration sued idaho arguing abortions may need to be performed when the woman's life and health are at stake. the justices divided with some questioning the federal government's power. >> how can you impose restrictions on what idaho can criminalize, simply because hospitals in idaho have chosen to participate in medicare. >> but the court's liberal justices question the states'
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authority. >> it's not all the states' way. within these rare cases there is a significant number where the woman is -- her life is not in peril but she is going to lose her reproductive organs. she is going to lose the ability to have children in the future unless an abortion takes place. >> idaho's law only provides abortion exception to save a woman's life. the justice department argues a 1986 law ensures patients get appropriate stabilizing treatment in emergency situations. including abortions, if necessary. today's arguments highlight a divisive social issue, playing out on the campaign trail. the justices held separate arguments last month over a nationwide access to the abortion drug mifepristone. >> shannon, decisions in both cases will come from the supreme court by the end of june, setting up an intense few months before the election. shannon? >> shannon: of course the court hears another high stakes case
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tomorrow. the last one of this term. tell us about it. >> it's a big one. it deals with former president donald trump and whether or not he should be immune from federal prosecution. the former president says he should be immune. he was charged by special counsel jack smith for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election results. he claimed the alleged acts happened within his official role as president. and he can't be charged. special counsel smith says trump's behavior continued into his post presidency. this trial originally was supposed to happen in march. it's been delayed because of the supreme court. depending on what the supreme court does, we you could have trial later this summer, august, september, if they rule in trump's favor we may not have one at all. shannon? >> shannon: we will cover that trial start to finish tomorrow. david, thank you. >> thank you. >> shannon: three republicans joined all 29 of the democrats in the arizona house of representatives to pass a measure to repeal the state's near total ban on abortion. that bill now goes to the state senate. the ban is based on a 19th
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century law that was recently upheld by the state's supreme court. it allows abortions only in cases when the mother's life is in danger. >> it's not everyday you can say you made the world truly a better place. but i think the senate can say that tonight. >> i know that history is going to judge this well. it was the right thing to do. it's not a whole lot of money for us. but it is very significant step for them. >> we don't always agree, but when it matters most, they stepped up and did the right thing. >> shannon: well, let's bring in fox news chief political analyst brit hume to talk about this now new massive foreign aid package that has been signed and is on its way. brit, great to see you tonight. >> brit: thank you, shannon. >> shannon: there are people in washington who don't love the way this was passed on the house and senate side. it is a done deal it. now flows to numerous foreign aid policies and priorities for this administration. >> brit: well, that's true, shannon. you know, there is a lot of
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complaining about it, particularly among some republicans in the house. but, let's remember this: these measures passed the house and senate with very strong bipartisan majorities, which ought to be something that i think people will look at and say well, what do you know? it's an election year. these parties are at each other's throats. and we have an outbreak of bipartisan on major -- on a major foreign policy issue. the funding of support for israel, ukraine, and taiwan. that's a very big deal. let's remember, this shannon. the hallmark of american foreign policy post world war ii, all through the cold war, was continuity. yes, there were disagreements here and there about whether we should do this or that. but, over the long haul, it was a bipartisan consensus that containing communism and restraining its spread was the way to go. and, in the end, that policy held and prevailed. i'm not going to start predicting that we're in the
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land of milk and honey now with the partisanship as heavy as it is. this was a big moment. i think it may have had the effect of enlarging the speaker, mike johnson. there he was, you know, involved in this and getting the bills through the house with difficulty, and there he was again today at columbia university making a far stronger statement bin against the protes broken out. far stronger statement than biden has made. something is happening here. >> shannon: brit, as you mentioned, these measures, to get through the house, it was greatly bipartisan. i mean, the votes were almost evenly split on some of these aid packages. that's where the far left of the speaker's party is unhappy. here's congresswoman marjorie taylor greene who keeps jostling that saber about possibly voting him out. >> speaker johnson refuses to use his power as speaker of the house to do any type of negotiating to secure the
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southern border. he needs to do the right thing to resign and allow us to move forward in a controlled process. if he doesn't do so, he will be vacated. >> shannon: the far right of his party is making this argument, does it cost him, brit, or do we, as we are hearing some rumblings from inside trump world that the former president wants this to calm down, cool it, and present a more united front? >> brit: remember, he stood side by side with johnson down at mar-a-lago recently. and suggested that he supports the speaker now that, you know, can you never count than lasting any longer than trump's mood. but, at the moment, that's where it seems to be. i would also add this, democrats are glad that this -- these measures passed the house. and they are, to some extent, at least, grateful to mike johnson for bringing it about. and there is at least a distinct possibility, if not, you know, i wouldn't bet on it, necessarily, but there is at least a possibility that if marjorie
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taylor greene and her little crew, try to oust him, that he will be saved, his speakership would be saved with the help of democratic votes. it will have a distinct majority of republican votes to keep him there. and what these republicans, who are complaining that he is working with democrats, are trying to do is counting on the democrats to help them oust him. i think a number of democrats may not play ball with that and he -- and if he survives this, i think he will be strengthened. indeed, he may already be strengthened. >> shannon: i think you are right about the democrats. many of them publicly and privately have told me they would vote to save him. we will see how that plays out. brit hume, always great to have you. >> brit: thanks, shannon. >> shannon: stocks were mixed today the dow lost 43. nasdaq gained 16. up next, exclusive interview with ukraine's president following the passage of huge aid bill by congress. >> i want to thank you for such
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significant support. very important support. president biden to congress, to mike johnson
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♪ >> shannon: hospital authorities in gaza say an israeli airstrike late tuesday hit a house in the city of rafah, killing at least three people. videos show mourners sitting by the bodies wrapped in bags before prayer rituals were performed by dozens of men. the strike happened as the israeli military signals it plans an offensive on the city where hundreds of thousands of people have taken refuge during the war. israel says it does plan to evacuate civilians from rafah during the anticipated offensive. russia has vetoed a u.n. resolution sponsored by the u.s.s. and japan. calling on all nations to prevent a dangerous nucleares arms race in outer space. the resolution calls on all countries not to develop or deploy nuclear arms or other weapons of mass destruction in space. those weapons are banned under a 1967 international treaty that included the u.s. and russia. ♪ ♪ ♪
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>> shannon: ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy zelenskyy says he will work with whoever in the november presidential election. he spoke to exclusively today with fox news senior foreign correspondent greg palkot about the state of the war with russia and the new aid just authorized by congress. >> as the war rages in ukraine, the embattled people here are breathing a sigh of relief. after six months on hold, congress and president biden okay add foreign aid bill that would deliver $61 billion to the ukrainian military in its fight with russia. >> good to see you. >> no one was more relieved than ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy who speak with fox news soon after the senate acted. >> the moment when we w waited r this six months decisions, 61 billion hopes to -- i'm thankful to people of america. what i wanted to say, i'm thankful not the first time and i hope that you and americans will feel the result of that
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help. a resolve to save ukraine and ukrainians. >> hitch now is getting the weaponry to the troops in ukraine lost ground to the russians. pentagon says some could be sent soon from nearby germany. >> god bless, we will get it as quick as possible. >> is that important that you get the weaponry, the air defense the long range missiles as fast as possible? >> as fast as possible. otherwise, they will push us back, our people know about it and americans have to know about it. >> zelenskyy is not only fighting russia, but also fighting for attention. he watched as the u.s. and other allies pitched in to defend israel, depending off an attack from iran. >> all those planes were helping you here, too? >> we saw it and i think that's why if we want to be real allies, ukraine enlisted countries, they have to show the same on our territory. >> zelenskyy also monitors american politics, not just
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republican lawmakers raising questions but a possible new president who could take a harder line on ukraine. >> would you be able to work with president trump if he is elected and is president next year? >> of course we will. of course we'll work with the united states anyway because it's our strategic partner and the leader in the world. >> this, as the military and civilian casualties mount. >> how do you help to keep the morale, the spirit, of the country up during these very difficult times? >> that is the most difficult question. for me, it's -- you know, the question without real answer. >> in the end though, with the war already two years and two months in, the question remains. whether ukraine can beat russian president vladimir putin and his quest for domination. >> will you achieve victory?
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>> we have to. we don't have alternate. i don't know the kind of this victory. i don't know the date. i don't know how it will be. i'm not sure that everybody will be happy but i know we don't have any alternative that's why we have to win and we will. >> that's why we have to win, zelenskyy said, and we will. a very emotional ukrainian president, determined and a bit tired. it's been a long war. there is more ahead. shannon? >> shannon: certainly is. greg palkot, thank you very much. up next, bret baier with a look at expiring legislation effecting people who were sickened during the effort to build the first atomic bomb. first, beyond our borders tonight. australian police arrest seven teenagers accused of following a violent extremist ideology across sydney. a judge has ban on public platform x sharing a knife
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attempt of a bishop that led to this criminal investigation. antony blinken arrived in shanghai that began a criminal trip china. long stalled legislation to send tied taiwan, israel, and ukraine. the trip comes following a conversation between presidents biden and xi and a president by treasury secretary janet yellen. and this is a live like at sheba, japan. one of the big stories there tonight, japan's first moon lander survives a third week's long freezing lunar night. the country's space agency says it's gotten an image from the device three months after it landed on the moon. temperatures can fall to minus 274 degrees fahrenheit during a lunar night. just some of the other stories beyond our borders tonight. we'll be right back. ♪ i will survive ♪ as long as i know how to love ♪ i know i will stay alive ♪ i got my life to live ♪ and all my love to give.
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♪ >> shannon: new jersey democratic congressman donald payne jr. has died at age 65. the six term representative suffered from heart problems for years. new jersey governor phil murphy called payne a steadfast champion for the people of the state. with his passing now, the house balance of power sits at 217 republicans, 212 democrats with six vacancies. the port of baltimore is preparing to open a deeper channel for commercial ships to get in and out for a few days. thursday's move will be a significant step toward reopening the major maritime shipping hub. closed to most traffic since the cargo ship hit the francis scott key bridge last month, causing the bridge to collapse. the new channel will be 35 feet deep allowing five of the seven cargo ships that have been stuck in the port to leave. ♪ ♪
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>> shannon: tonight we begin a new series looking at toxic towns in the u.s. in missouri, residents and lawmakers are pushing for speaker mike johnson to allow a vote on a bill that compensates anyone with cancer or other illnesses as a result of the manhattan project. although the u.s. dropped the first atomic bomb almost 80 years ago, my colleague bret baier examines why in some parts of the country community members are still fighting to get nuclear waste fully cleaned up. >> bret: thanks, shannon. the radiation exposure compensation act was enacted in 1990. the law provides payments for anyone who may have contracted certain cancers and serious illnesses as a result of the effort to build the first atomic bomb. it is set to expire this year. some lawmakers are pushing to renew the legislation and expand it as mounting evidence shows locations beyond the test sites may have been exposing residents to toxic chemicals for decades.
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[explosion] >> bret: from 1945 to 19 # 2, the u.s. conducted nearly 200 speaker nuclear weapons tests. thousands of workers were hired to mine for uranium throughout the west. >> while some search for uranium others work with it but stay a safe distance away from it. >> bret: while others were certain in developing the weapons at secret sites. >> greatest of war secrets on which thousands of these americans worked. >> bret: the radiation exposure compensation act would eventually cover these workers and individuals who lived near test sites. if they developed cancer or other serious illnesses. >> bret: what changes are in your legislation? >> bret, what my legislation would do is number one reauthorize this program that for years has provided life-saving compensation for folks who the federal government has poisoned. >> bret: one place excluded from the act missouri. now its senator, josh hawley is working to change that. he wants parts of his state and
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other locations to be included in a revamped bill. >> the victims have never been compensated by the government for the exposure the government put them through. >> so why is missouri left out and other states left out? >> well, it was originally written, this program, back in 1990. a lot of it, bret, back then we didn't know the extent of the government's nuclear processing or radiation tests a lot of it was still veto. >> bret: karen nickel grew up in northwest county. she and her family suffered from several illnesses. >> i have lupus and other immune disease. >> bret: chantelle nixon clark also grew up near nickel. she is a two time breast cancer survivor and comes from a family with a history of cancers. >> to be diagnosed with two different types cancers has been definitely has been a disappointment in my life. >> both believe a nearby creek could be part of the high rates of cancer and illness in the
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region lupus is environmental trigger connected to some radiation nothing concrete where cancer just runs all through my family. we believe that that is a contributing factor. >> bret: the centers for disease control and prevention says so, too. a 2019 health assessment determined exposure could have resulted in elevated risks for developing certain cancers. >> this is no small creek. this is more like a little river. >> bret: a lot of residents there are saying more testing should be done. where are you on this. >> more testing needs to be done. >> the residents are absolutely correct. >> bret: before the danger was determined, the creek was a frequent playground for locals. >> back in the 1950s, folks went out and built homes there it was a nice suburban area. it's still a beautiful area. >> there were a lot of children in the neighborhood. and kids spent day -- sunlight
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to sun set in the park there. and playing in the creek. >> bret: several decades later, nicson says a number of classmates suffered from various illnesses. >> person after person after person passed away from rare cancers and whatnot the amount of illnesses and immune diseases. >> trying to learn more about the radioactive waste in their neighborhood. >> unlike karen, i didn't grow up next to this. it was staggering to see how many people were ill and then, again, be able to look back in my community where i grew up. there is. >> shannon and nickel live landfill where underground fire has been burning for a decade. >> the longer this fire burns, the more unstable the ground becomes. >> chapman first learned about
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the fire at westlake landfill in 2013. >> i had been smelling something for a little while. kind of like when you cut an unnun, that's what our eyes were doing. that's what it felt like. like the very intense burning. it was like oh my god. what's happening to me. >> bret: she called the missouri natural resources department. what she learned would change everything. >> they started talking about the manhattan project and there being radioactive waste and he was concerned the fire was going to hit it. >> bret: chapman and nickel funded just moms shortly after meeting in 2013. since then they have worked it uncover how toxic sites, such as cold water creek, and the nearby westlake landfill, came to be in st. louis. over the last decade, they have pressured authorities to clean them up. >> we have interviewed some of these families, heard their stories. i assume you have talked to them as well? >> oh, absolutely. the government has done all of this. it has imposed these hardships
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on these working people and, bret, i just want to say, again, these working folks, they are the heroes of this story. >> bret: in our next installment, we are learning more about how the st. louis area was involved in developing the atom mic bomb and what officials knew about the possible contamination there. we'll send it back to you. >> shannon: all right, bret. thank you. up next, a known gang member out on parole is accused of shooting a sheriff's deputy in the back. and, later, the panel on campus protests and president biden's muted response. ♪ ♪ our biggest challenge? uncertainty. hidden fees, surcharges... who knows what to expect! turn shipping to your advantage. keep it simple...with clear, upfront pricing. with usps ground advantage®. ♪
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♪ >> shannon: we have another example of america's crime crisis tonight. a known gang member already out on parole is facing charges of shooting a los angeles county sheriff's deputy. correspondent bill melugin is there tonight. >> ma'am, it's 212 berry one i have been shot hit the vest. >> a los angeles county sheriff's deputy radios for help moments after he was shot in the back while waiting at a red light on his motorcycle the deposit's ballistic vest saved his life. the photo shows he was just inches away from a potentially
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fatal shot to his head. this violent incident putting another spotlight on california's soft on crime policies. investigators believe career criminal and known gang member raimondo was the trigger man. he is now in custody, arrested hours after the shooting with a gun on him. the l.a. county sheriff says surveillance video and witness statements tied him to the shooting. >> that he has a very extensive criminal history. i could tell you by bulleted points it took up over half the page. and a lot of the acts were violent. >> multiple law enforcement sources tell fox der ron has a prior conviction for manslaughter after he stabbed his co-worker to death in 2001. in 2021, he was convicted of flown evading after leading police on this pursuit in los angeles county. but he only spent months behind bars for it. in 2022, der ron was convicted again for being a felon in
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possession of a firearm. la d.a. george gascon claimed today his office will holder ron accountable. >> it will lead hopefully to a conviction if we are able to prove the case. >> shannon, obviously questions now how a suspect with this kind of criminal history could be out on the streets. i reached out to la d.a. george gascon's office to ask yesterday how they prosecuted his prior cases and had you they plan to prosecute this one but i haven't heard back from them. we will send it back to you. >> shannon: all right, bill. thank you. so, the latest installment in bret baier's documentary series "the unauthorized histories" is now available on fox nation. it's a five-part look at the history of silicon valley. the program trace the rising power of today's tech giants. here's a look. >> these new revolutionaries saw themselves as upstarts who would change the world. few suspected that within just a few decades they themselves would become the establishment with powers that extend far
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beyond the valley itself. >> i would even argue silicon valley has become everything that it professed to hate. silicon valley is the consolidated authority. >> they are not traditional rebels because they're structuring their success with stock options and hiring to and from the u.s. government, selling to the pentagon. these are not revolutionaries of the traditional sort. >> so i think a lot of these executives need to take a good look at themselves today and why they initially set out to do this. >> shannon: you can watch all five episodes of the unauthorized history of silicon valley streaming now on fox nation. up next, the panel discusses president biden's response to anti-israel campus demonstrations. first, here's a look at some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 5 in new york as doctors put a mechanical pump in a patient's heart paired with a new kidney from a genetically modified pig.
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♪ hey hey, ho ho the madness has to stop. >> congress will not be silent as jewish students are expected to run for their lives and stay home from their classes.
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we want to see this be peaceful. handle process on how they are dealing with kids getting cheated out of education because a handful of pro-hamas demonstrators have institutions. find has the capacity to fix this. >> let's bring in our panel to talk about what is going on on campuses, mollie hemingway editor and chief at "the federalist." "u.s.a. today" white house correspondent chambers and jason riley, senior fellow at the manhattan institute. columbia today with other members of house leadership and house he was there. a lot of chanting, a lot of calling him down. but that visual, mollie is again sparking what secretary pompeo brought up there. there needs to be a more full-throated response. >> there absolutely needs to be much more response from all sorts of people. this didn't all just happen at columbia the other kay. this has been brewing for decades it. arises from a left wing ideology
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that teaches hatred for different groups and we have seen this fester for a as long as period of time. heim heartened by how many denounce it once and for all. obviously people are still waiting for president biden to be a little more clear in his recondemns the protesters but condemns hermine to don't understand what is going on in palestine. i want to put this up. this is the "new york post" cover saying columbia surrenders, headlines there say pro-terrorist students get slap on the wrist props join. pressure on school administrators to get this balance right about free speech and protecting kids. not an easy task. >> oh, i think it's not as hard. >> shannon: easier than being led to believe. >> sharon, i think it's time to do what some republican officials are now calling for which is to bring in the feds at
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the national guard should get involved and there is a precedent for this. impact in the 1950s when president eisenhower was in office, we had mobs of white southern democrats resisting court orders. resisting supreme court rulings. threatening, harassing physically. student -- black students trying to go to school. and eick called in the national guard and the 104th airborne division and got things under control and protected those kids. i don't think jewish students in 2024 deserve any less protections than black students did in 1957. and so if biden wants to get serious about cracking down on this, i think it's time to call in the national guard. >> shannon: well, francesca, you cover the white house. do you think that's in the offing, any discussion of taking that action? because i'm quite sure the white house is also worried about the optics of sending in people in uniform to shut down these protesters. >> so the white house is has underscored that the president wants to continue implementing
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his anti-semitism national strategy which includes college campuses. when you dig into that though it mostly calls on schools to denounce anti-semitism, to create things such as task forces rather than talk about action that the president ul take himself and one critique i have heard from the left on the israel hamas war consistently is when the president talks about these issues. today he did speak about the war. when he signed the national security legislation. typically, been putting out want to see him hold listening groups on this issue. he is under pressure on the left to call for a cease-fire as well. pressure from the right and the left to be more public. obviously, he has got some political things that are holding him back here. these are young people. worried about losing, young people leading the protest on campus. he is worried about losing young people to r.f.k. jr. or cornel west. and he -- he has got to win
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michigan, a swing state with a large arab american population that doesn't like what is he doing for israel. finally, he has got a party. about law and order in general. unless donald trump or his supporters are on the receiving end of it. they want to erase the border. they want to defund police. let criminals not prosecutors progressive d.a.s. folding much more forceful on this issue. >> responded to it by the way not to be on college campuses so far at all. is he doing two commencement addresses but he hasn't went to the college sit down with students and talk to them about this and that was part of the critique that progressives have had for him is that can you imagine obama not going to college towns is what one of them said to me. >> shannon: they have been tightly controlled with his campaign activities, too. protesters are showing up everywhere. that's another threat he has got to deal with where he is out there campaigning. to this issue though of cracking down on the college campuses. congresswoman alexandria
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ocasio-cortez says this: calling in police enforcement on nonviolent demonstrations of young students on campus is an escalatory, reckless and dangerous act. it represents a heinous failure of leadership that puts people's lives at risk. i condemn it in the strongest possible term. we have seen them come n some places. students quickly processed out. back to these encampments. how does it work? >> we have also seen not much done by campuses at all. have you seen certain colleges where people disrupt the educational environment for other students they are immediately expelled. you saw at the university of texas they brought troops in to clear the situation there. there are all sorts of things that people can do to restore order to the campus environment. the situation though, again, is that many of these campuses teach this left wing ideology that is racist and bigoted against other groups. a lot of people have favored it. media cheered it on. a lot of people in the democratic party have cheered it on until this moment which is now suddenly causing them a problem because they have two of their special interest groups that are clashing here.
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>> shannon: looking at live pictures at yale's campus to see how they are dealing with it there. it looks pretty quiet at this point. another issue is this issue of tiktok. now this measure that's passed and gotten to the president's desk on tiktok. but, at the same time, what we're finding out is that the administration apparently or the campaign, i should say, plans to ffrancesca stay on tiktok after talking about the condemnation and dangers of it and signing something to get rid of it. >> well, it won't be banned until this time next year, assuming if that even goes through. i will say when it comes to the court, the reason that the ban that the trump administration tried to put in place was blocked was because the court determined that the president didn't have that kind of executive authority. this is legislation. this is an executive action. the other problem with it, according to the judge, was that they didn't come up with another -- enough other options. and so this could be seen as, instead of a 45-day ban. they are giving them an entire year to try to divest. we will see what the courts have
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to say. >> shannon: jason, does it resonate with young voters? tiktok we got our army and we will mobilize. you saw the response came on capitol hill the hey the house is getting ready to do this. the houses were flooded and overwhelmed with people. >> i have some sympathy with defenders of tiktok. i mean, i understand that this shouldn't be on government devices, that there is a national security issue. i understand the mental health concerns. i'm familiar with that literature, particularly of young women and so forth. at the same time, the idea that the government should be censoring so-called misinformation on social media is, to me, a bridge too far. and that is what the people who want to ban tiktok, both democrats and republicans are calling for doing it in the name of. making sure we're not exposed to misinformation. >> shannon: quick word? >> giving joe biden that hour in particular to give what is misinformation, when he has been such a major player in censorship is a problem. >> well, the supreme court is looking at many of those questions. so we will stay tuned to that finally tonight -- ♪ ♪
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