first of all, arab american frustration with president biden is a major political problem. some say if he refuses to call for a cease-fire in gaza, they're willing to campaign against him and that could hand the office back over to donald trump. can he keep his 2020 coalition together or is this a moment of political reckoning. plus congressman dean phillips pins his presidential hopes on new hampshire and immediately runs into trouble in south carolina. one democratic leader even accused him of disrespecting voters. that democrat, congressman jim clyburn will join us. and when your college kids are coming home from break, eating food in a couple of weeks, take a check on their mantality health. students on cam pause are more likely to suffer depression. i'm victor blackwell. let's start the show. we begin with israel's war with hamas and the outrage in response to its bombing campaign in gaza. this morning the israeli military admits that it struck an ambulance just outside a hospital. at least 15 people were killed, according to the hamas run health authority. now, it denies idf claims that the ambulance was being used by hamas. they say the ambulance was part of a medical convoy. egyptian sources say more than 700 internationals will evacuate. among that group, nearly 400 americans like this 11-year-old. >> my dad told me to be safe. he held my hand and kissed my forehead and is very worried about me. he told me he loves me and to stay safe and to always remember. i'm very sad because i left all my friends, especially in school because i was always happy with them and i miss being happy instead of just worrying about my safety all the time. >> well, now the idf is given gazaens three hours to travel south. they posted the message on social media. it's not clear how many gazan residents are access to see it. israeli forces have called on civilians to evacuate as they assault popular areas in gaza city and northern gaza. 're at home the first national poll of arab americans show a massive rejection of president biden and his handling of the war. just 17% of arab americans now say they would vote for biden in 2024. that's down from 59% in 2020. quick math for you. a staggering 42-point drop according to the poll by the american arab institute. now, if arab american turnout reflects those numbers next year, that could jeopardize biden's re-election because arab americans live in all 50 states, but more than two-thirds are in just ten, including the swing states of pennsylvania and michigan, two states crucial to biden's 2020 win. now, biden won michigan by about 155,000 votes, just shy of 3 percentage points. a poll out days before the hamas attack shows trump within one percentage point of biden. the largest concentration of arab american communities in the country is just outside of detroit. let's go to pennsylvania. the president has been there over and over. pennsylvania was so close on election night it was called three days after for biden after those votes were cast. 82,000 votes separated trump and biden in pennsylvania in 2020. out of more than 6.8 million votes cast. and two polls released just before the attack show trump ahead in pennsylvania. can president biden maintain his support for israel and convince dejected muslims and arab americans he is worth supporting in 2024? let's get perspective from the national deputy director of the council of american-islamic relations. good to have you in studio. >> thank you for having me. >> let me start with the video congresswoman tlaib posted overnight online when she said the country is not with the president here. we see videos of the protests across the country, and there are more than muslims and americans at the protests obviously. she ends the video with this. >> we will remember in 2024. ♪ >> the accusation that the president is supporting genocide. is that what you believe? >> disappointment does not begin to describe what the community is feeling. i'm hearing anger, disbelief, even disgust. the american muslim community is seeing video footage of children being pulled o it of the rubble, ambulances being blown up, marketplaces being targeted, and then president biden saying israel has the right to defend itself with very little qualification, even questioning the palestinian death toll. sweerch immense anger in the palestinian american community in the past few weeks and unless the president calls for a cease-fire, that ang anger is o going to grow. >> 9,000 people have been killed in gaza, most of them civilians, women, and children. those lives cannot be brought back. the damage is done. for the president to continue supporting what benjamin netanyahu's far right government is dial while these images continue to come out, it's just untenable. i've heard from muslims to say the tipping point was the murder of the young 6-year-old boy in chicago who was stabbed to deaths by his landlord who was upset by what he was seeing. there's a concern that president biden is dehumanizing tlings. that's contributing to this atmosphere we're seeing of islamophobia unleash like it was earring ago. >> let's listen to this. >> as american muslims, we have suffered under many presidents through different types of policies, but this in particular is a big red line. we believe by not electing biden and him losing, it will reset the political discourse on the american muslim folks. >> two parts of that. the president is often heard do not compare me to the almighty. compare me to the alternative. the alternative is likely donald trump. if you want president biden to lose, do you want the man who proposed the muck slim ban in office? >> we say you should turn out to vote and make your voices heard. some muslim americans say they cannot bring themselves to cast a ballot for someone justifying what they say isth nick cleansing and mass murder. you're right. elections are between two people. we'll have to see who's on the ballot next year. if people keep seeing images of people being killed, civilians, all bets are off. it'll tell people to turn out to vote, but it will be a surprise. >> the poll from the american arab institute, they found that not only are people who responded not in support of the president, they have left the party. they're no longer affiliating themselves with the democratic party. it's the lowest number since 1986 when they started this. we've seen only a few realignments. black voters leaving the republican party in the 1960s, asian american pollers moving away as well. is this that moment for muslims and arab americans, do you believe? >> it's important to note muslims have changed their allegiance. many voted for george w. bush, but when he went to war with iraq and unleashed islamophobia, they swived to the democratic party. would they switch back? i'd be surprised. you might see the independent vote rise. the next few weeks are critical. it all depends how this plays out in gaza. the arab muslim community cannot tolerate this level of violence being deployed, especially our brothers and sisters overseas. the next two weeks are critical. >> thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. cornell university is the latest college campus to see a flair-upin anti-semitism. a student was arrested, accused of making threats against jewish people. yesterday classes were canceled as school administrators say the campus is under extraordinary stress. the anti-defamation league says it has tracked nearly 400 anti-sem mitt is incidents since october 7th. more than 100 were rallies where the group says there was explicit or strong support for violence against jews in israel. now they're warning that they have to crack down or their students and schools will face real consequences. we're talking top students like cornell, yale, harvard, columbia, georgetown, stanford. joining me now is a professor of jewish civilization at georgetown university. he's alsco author of "blacks and jews in america: an invitation to dialogue." thanks for joining us. you say you don't blame the colleges and universities but you think that they're handling this the wrong way, mishandling the public narrative. explain that. >> good morning, mr. blackwell. i think american colleges and universities are in a very difficult space right now. this is not something that they've necessarily created, but it's happening on their campuses. my feeling is they've lost control of their optics, and they've lost control of their narratives. they're going to have to take aggressive steps on what it is that happens and what it is we do as professors. >> so let's go through some of your suggestions. let's start that reasonable and rational people say there is no place for violence or threats of violence in protests. you write this. it's extremely difficult to write on complexity or discuss it against a backdrop of nonstop protests petitionling and disruption. would there be that in place without looking at the profests. if you look at 2020, the protests around police shows it. does the spectacle then create the environmental where the conversations will happen? >> colleges are unusual places and i've always felt that too much passion in a learning environmental is counterproductive. i totally agree with you passion creates conversations, people start to talk, they get interested. but at a certain point what they should do is establishing a sense of critical distance of empathy, of seeing positions we never thought of before because we weren't familiar with the research. so i feel this explosion of incendiary rhetoric is not necessarily helpful for what we as professors are trying to do. >> okay. and you call on the campuses to employ the experts, the protoers there. campus administrators have to find out ways to get their experts to speak and reflect on all the complexities beect with the students and with the public. that's suggesting that it's not happening. but also what i've learned from having conversations with some of the protesters, it's not for lack of information. it's in part because of the history that you lay out in your piece that they are so passionate. do you believe they're uninformed and that's why they're having these emotions? ? >> no, not at all. but we travel in complexities. it's our job to raise to our students' attention what the great german sociologist calls inconvenient facts. that's what i try to do as a professor. when i build a syllabus, i try to list scholars who i could not possibly agree less with. what's important is students get to see a professor dealing with opinions that he or she or they might not necessarily feel comfortable with, and i feel that's the process universities have to encourage in the classroom, and that's very, very hard to do. >> you know that's not the trimd everywhere, for people to enfaj with thoughts and opinions and analyses that they do not agree with. let's look at florida wherein florida the governor six months ago just got rid of the dei offices at public campuses and now hat end ed groups on public campuses. the officers or agencies who are supposed to draw the line and say what is there and what's not, they're not there in some indications. so what then? >> we have government officials telling universities what they should be doing we have university administrations telling professors ha they should be doing. as you might know, victor, over the last 20 years, there's been a tremendous loss of control by professors and governor nance. i think moving forward is professors have to reclaim the narrative. that's the best we can do. on a very low level class by class, syllabus by syllabus, we have to be able to present ourm students with these complex dense arguments, which is what we are trained to do. and i'm with you on that. i find it really problematic that government officials are intervening in college classrooms and setting college curricula, and that's definitely a problem. >> all right, jacques, good conversation. thank you so much. >> thank you so much. black voters have new power in mississippi, and next week when they go to the polls, it's going to be tested in the governor's race. why the democrats running think black support could help pull off an upset. plus missy elliot gets her flowers. why her induduction lastst nigh means so m much. ing. >> here's what you need to know today. we could soon know what will happen to a colorado police officer charged in elijah maclin's death. jury deliberations will continue on monday. he was walking home from a convenience store when police responded to a call about a suspicious person. in body cam footage police wrestled him to the ground, put him in a choke hold, and paramedics injected him with a powerful sedative. officer nathan woodward is charged with reckless manslaughter and negligent homicide. this is the third of five trials related the maclin's death. one officer was acquitted of negligent homicide while nother was acquitted of all charges. police officers conducted a welfare cherks shot jefferson through the back window of her home, and her nephew who was 8 at the time watched his aunt die. a lawsuit filed by jefferson's estate will continue. an officer was convicted in jefferson's death and convicted to more than 11 years in prison. president biden called for gun reform while grieving in lewiston, maine. the president and first lade left flowers at a memorial where 18 people were killed at a bowling alley and restaurant. he said he still has hopes that congress can pass comprehensive gun legislation. no state has a larger share of black voters than mississippi. more than 36% are black. and next week democrats are hoping their votes can help elect a democratic governor there for more than two decades. the democrat brandon presley is running zbevs reaves. the latest reliable poll had reaves up by 11 points, but there's within big change that could help the presley campaign. this year for the first time thanks to voters, a candidate must win with the majority of the popular vote or else face a runoff. up until 2020, candidates need to win a majority of the popular vote and a majority of the statehouse districts, kind of like the electoral college. a lawsuit filed in 2019 argue that the architects had one goal in mind, entrench white control of state government by ensuring that the newly enfranchised african american citizens who at the time constituted a majority of the state's population and some of whom who had been elected to state wide offices would never have an equal opportunity to change their strength into political power. now the plan is that this renewed power for black mississippians level the field. presley has been pitching hit plan on black voters, nations, and colleges. let me tell you about our black governor. he looks down on us. he thinks mississippians have no good sense, was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and has spent time as governor looking out for his big shot voters. >> think of 2020 when the biden administration looked doomed after poor finishes that were early on. it was black voters in south carolina who rescued him. according to a cnn exit poll, biden won about three in five black voters in the state in the 2020 primary. now south carolina voters will be the first to cast ballots in the 2024 presidential primary, so we know the power of black votes. that gets us to south carolina's jim clyburn. he's calling out fellow democrat dean phillips for not respecting black voters and silliness as he challenges president biden in the 2024 primary. congressman clyburn is here to explain next. i'm sure by now you've heard all this, that president biden's plans for a second term are in trouble because of his age, his progressives, independents, the migrant kprie sis, inflation, you get the point. all of it is leading minnesota congressman dean phillips to launch a primary challenge against biden, and at least in the early stages, phillips is betting awele of his white house hopes on new hampshire. there's a problem though. the dnc and team biden want south carolina to go first in next year's primary, and that boots new hampshire from the spot its held for a century and that's why phillips' plans are a problem for a man who helped turn biden around. clooi jim clyburn said they're not respecting the loyalties of some of our party's most reliable constituents. congressman clyburn joins me now. thank you for being on. that was intestify prettied to mean you were talking specifically he was disrespecting black voters. is that what you meant? >> thanks very much for having me and congratulations on the new show. >> thank you, sir. >> that's part of it. the other part of it is brown voters in nevada are second in this primary window. and as far as i can determine, he has not made any attempt to file in nevada. so you're ignoring black votes in south carolina, ignoring brown voters in nevada, you're ignoring the process that was carefully put in place by president biden and the national democratic committee. they went through all of it, studied it, looked at all the constituents and decided the lineup that would give due respect to all evolved voters was in order, and they did that. now he's got someone who's decided to violate that and show no respect for all of this work. >> all right. so dean phillips has responded now to your statement that -- and i've got other things i want to get to. i want to play what you said about he's disrespecting the voters of south carolina. let's play that. >> i'm disappointed. mr. clyburn, a man i admired and respect knows better. those who are participating by dividing and casting a blame and shadow on people like me is part of the problem. i can't wait to get to south carolina and introduce myself. i have respect for mr. clyburn, but i think that's exactly what's wrong. >> exactly what's wrong, part of the problem. of your response to what you heard there from your colleague there in the house? >> i don't quite understand what he's talking about, what's wrong. you put a process in place and you ask everybody to play by the rules. what's wrong is when people refuse to play by the rules. what's wrong is when people disrespect all the work that goes into doing this. the democratic national committee did a lot ofwork. the president gave a lot of concern to it, and he's decided to go around that. and so i don't understand what he means that that's exactly what's wrong. what is always wrong is not following the rules. >> let's talk about voters in south carolina, your constituents there, and the comparison from the 2020 exit polls versus the latest polling on the job approval. there's a pretty big disparity there. exit polls show in 20 president biden won 90% of black votes in south carolina. his job approval in a cnn poll out this week is now at 63% among black voters. i don't know that anybody expects him to win the state in the general, but what's your assessment of this drop-off in approval or support for the president among black voters? >> well, you know, victor, i have been puzzled by all of this polling. you mentioned mississippi earlier. i spent the weekend before last, two, maybe three days in mississippi. i've been in other states as well on my way to virginia on sunday, tomorrow, or monday. and i'm not getting that. i go throughout south carolina all the time. last weekend i was in charleston, in columbia, in orangeburg. i'm not getting that. i don't know what's going on with this polling. i guarantee you -- >> what are you getting? >> i'm getting that african americans are very pleased with this president and what he has done. we know how we're connecting every home and every business in south carolina to the internet. we know this because of this infrastructure bill that he did. we know that seniors are now paying much less for their medicine, most especially for negotiations going on with medicare, the cap of $35 a month for insulin. we know who is responsible for all of that. and so -- >> congressman -- let me just open here. one more thing i want to bring to you. nobody is going to challenge your connection to south carolina and mississippi as you're going over there to help the democratic candidate run for governor. but we've got a scientific poll that shows there's been this drop-off, and also our john king was in milwaukee this week speaking with black voters there. i want you to listen to what they say as, of course, we know wisconsin is crucial if the president is to be reelected. >> black people in general, i think, tend to be pretty loyal to the democratic party, and sometimes i wonder just based on how that party has performed thus far for people of color, if we should continue to be. >> if you're joe biden and you want to be reelected, he'd have a problem today, wouldn't he. >> yes, he woid. >> if it was just joe biden or trump, who would you vote for? >> that's a tough one. >> hearing that, is your suggest that the president does not need to change what he's doing if you have these black voters who seem to be underwhelmed? >> i think that those of usz who happen to run this campaign need to change what we're doing. f we're not making these connections. you cannot ask for a more productive presidency than joe biden has had. you can go through all the bills that he's passed. nothing has come close to it since the great society programs of lyndon b. johnson. so the question is how do we get people to understand it and to feel it? that's the problem. it's not joe biden's problem. it is our problem, those of us who must get this message out and get him connected to the voters. that's the problem, not the president. >> all right. democratic congressman jimically burn, thank you for your time, sir. students of color at predominately white schools and white students at historically black schools, there's a new report out on the impact of depression on college campuses, and we'll talk about how there is this s shared anxnxiety betw thosose two grououps. stayay with us.. in just a couple of weeks college stujtss across the country will be going home for thanksgiving break. if you have one coming home, while you ask about grades and social life, ask about their mental health, especially if they're minorities on campus. a new study from the university of georgia shows a common depression line in anxiety among that group. we have with us an associate professor of the college of public health. thanks for coming in. we've been talking about this during the break because i find it fascinating that there's not just the feelings of depression and an despite between blacks and asians at predominantly white schools, but white students at black schools. >> when the study was done in 2021, we were collecting data from all students. we studied and looked at the data. we thought let's look at the students who are in a minority context like a black student in a white university would be a minority. but a white student in a black university would be a minority. yeah. >> so once these students come home, we're not talking just students who are home sic, right? some of these say they have severe symptoms. what should parents ask? what should they look for? >> we as administrators, fasculy and staff come in. i talk with students. i work with a research group. we're talking about how it's going, what is the research pressure, academic pressure and all of that. when they're home to see for signals, how they're talking about their college campus life and what's going on, just to be a friend when they come home because mental health is common and we do find in the recent years mental health is going up. >> is the answer as obvious as it might seem as to why we're seeing this occurrence of depression and anxiety? >> yeah, victor. there's a lot of research on why. we find social support and academic achievement is a factor among college students primarily especially during covid. one of the reasons why we saw a majority of our students, participants had some form of depression and anxiety, i think most of what we saw during our study was during covid. they were not hoinging out with their friends, daily plans. that research backs up. social support and achievement and pressure does matter. one thing we found that they also report high irrisk of depression. so the college campus and adjusting to the new life of college campus is a fact. when students are coming in new to the college without a family member having been through college and talking about college life but having that at home does matter. how can we support students? we're there. that is our priority. but at home to also talk to your child about how college life is, how they're justing, who are they hanging out with, the feeling of belonging and sense of belongling is we want to develop a culture of. >> janani thapa, thank you very much. all right. next, getting into formation without going into debt. get together because we need to talk about this. beyonce comes to our coins every other month, and now she has another fragrance to sell us. >> my first spray. ooh, ooh, ooh. i actually spray this during the show a few times. got to keep it fresh. in a crisis caused by a terrorist massacre. warning civilians to clear out, while hamas forces them back. allowing in food and water, which hamas steals. listen, if that doesn't make you want to put it down and flip it in reverse, i don't know what to tell you. missy elliott, the greatest female rapper in history hit another change in history. >> rock 'n' roll to me is a gumbo of different styles of music because i think we get this thing where rock 'n' roll, you've got to have a good time. that would be like saying hip-hop is just rap when it consists of -- we have incorporated jazz. we have incorporated blues. >> lisa france is with me now. fewer than 100 of the close to 1,000 artists who have been inducted are females, so this is a big moment. but this is missy. she had to be in there. >> before we recognize her big moment, i've got to congratulate you first of all. i've got to congratulate you on history, baltimore in the house, both of us. but missy elliott is incredible. she gave it up big last night. she had on a gold suit, gold bucket hat. it was so impressive. surrounded by 30 dancers, deejays. she's incredible. hip-hop, which is known to be misogynistic on a lot of levels, to have the first female rapper be inducted into the rock & roll hall of fame is so major. >> just so many good memories i have from high school and college are to missy's music. >> who cannot make it more popular? only missy elliott. let's talk about beyonce. i'm a member of the beyhive. first tax season comes, i've got to tour. then when you go to the concert, every eebs got to be in silver and chrome or whatever. >> the new movie? >> the new movie is out and now she has a new frag a witness. >> she has a new fragrance, say noir and it's going to be expensive. you need a christmas club to keep putting things in there or give her your whole check. it's going to have notes of honey and jasmine and i think it's going to smell like beyonce. she smells like all our hopes and dreams. >> $160. >> $160. >> i bought these. when i went to the renaissance tour, you had to get into silver. i don't have a chrome sneaker lifestyle, but check that lifestyle out. >> get your chrome. >> i don't have anywhere else to wear them. any time we get a renaissance story, i'm going to wear the shoes. >> first of all, you have to build the shoe. you have to become the shoe. >> every time we do a renaissance show, we'll pop the renaissance shoes in the corner. i'm getting my money's worth. >> the perfume is going to be huge? the last one was $400. >> everything she comes out with. even though she didn't give us visuals -- >> you are the visual. >> you are the visual. >> thank you. >> thank you. this is a hard turn, but after the weeks we've had, we need to talk about this. facing trauma. we've covered a lot of it daily in the news. i want you to meet a painter who's putting a face with his pain of art. his work really spoke to me. i'm going g to share that with u next. well, first of all, thank you for joining me for this first show. this is a big moment for me. i've got my own spot. and i wanted to spend just a couple of seconds to tell you what this space is. the goal for me every week is to add context to the big stories that you care about. i'm trying to figure in the picture, and that means diversifying the voices and broadening the perspectives. so when you come here, you should expect new faces. you should expect an angle that you've not considered when you watch this show. and also stories that you have not heard other places. i want to take you some places that maybe you've never heard of. often the stories and the places impact and are places of people of color. you know, i'm going to try some new things, some new approaches. i hope you like them. here's one. i'm an art lover and i think art enriches life. when the artist's vision is applicable to the news of the week or is influenced by the news, i want you to meet that person. i hope it enriches you and your day as well. this week i'm introduced torik oliver. have you ever heard someone say thank god i don't look like what i've been through? after weeks of the terrorist attack and the crisis in gaza and the shooting in maine and even the category 5 that hit acapulco, tore rick's work explores what it would look like if we did look like what we went through. >> my name is tore rick oliver from new jersey and i'm a painter. one of the first things i made was my feelings on the day i received the call that my dad passed away. i was in a very dark place for a long time. we tend to hide and we're not comfortable with showing these very deep emotions. i think the abstraction of the faces say a lot in terms of pain, loss. we all go through trauma at some point in our life. there are people going through trauma right now. i'm basically trying to make people understand, hey, it's okay to express yourself this way. it's okay to show a side of you that you might feel comfortable with. >> there's a lot of beauty in that work. if you're in south florida next month, you can check out tariq's work in miami. thank you for joining me today. i'll see you back here next saturday at 8:00 eastern. 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