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Agitators for fueling the antiisrael protests at columbia and nyu while others are questioning who is funding these people. Watch this. People who peacefully protest for an issue, theyre not throwing bottles and chairs. Theres some organizing going on. Look at the tents. They all wore the same color. To me, i think somebodys funding this. These encampments didnt p spring up you spontaneously. Looks like they have expensive camping p equipment as well. I think its worth asking who is funding the organizations violating the law. Maria the daily mail is reporting the far left groups supporting the columbia protests supported the october 7 hamas attack and George Soros Fund and theres communist china because tiktok was behind a lot of the propaganda, antiisrael propaganda after october 7th. Heres florida congressman Carlos Jiminez with me earl in r in the program. Who is funding this. If you look deep, the ccp is involved, the communist party is involved. Maria i just said that. I have information take that yes, somehow through another organization, the ccp funds that organization who is funding these people. Without a doubt, there are outside agitators. With we had in miami during the george floyd riots. We knew they were here. They tried us for two days. We were tough with them and they left. To other cities, maybe portland or seattle where they had a lot more luck. Maria hanna, your reaction . I dont support the federal government getting involved in protests to a large extent. One thing they should do is look into who is funding this. You have to ask who benefits. I dont think its palestinians or israel. Other interests want to see us fighting one another, they want to see division, we need investigations into these organizations and see are they using pass through organizations. This is something our own government does. We found this with covid. The echo health allianc, we passed them money. We should look at those operations thats are flowing the other direction at this time. We need to know if the thats happening. Maria we saw the ccp trying to disrupt American Life in so many different ways, whether killing american citizens with fentanyl or propaganda through tiktok. I mean, look what happened on october 7th and october 8th on tiktok. Slamming israel groups. I mean, one of the problemses is who is funding this propaganda, where is it coming from. The other problem is why are American Students buying it . Theres a failure here at the University Level to talk about this is how we have a reasoned discussion. This us how we look at source material and vair he phi it. I verify it. These are basic academic failures. When you try to engage students on these the topics they cant get past the oppressor, oppressed framework, they see it as a simple struggle between good and a evil, theyre not willing to talk nuance. Theyre not willing to talk to jewish students on campus. This is an educational failure, on top of what else us going on, what outside influences are here. Maria wouldnt this be an opportunity for this administration to show strength, to show some leadership against the ccp. For gods sake Antony Blinken is in china to to day. How of about bringing this up. What are you doing to support this unrest in america . Stop it now. Maria, youre triggering me. I feel so unsafe. I need to get into a safe space. I mean, isnt it amazing . And thank you for calling out mr. Blinken going to china yet again. Maria, i think youve been talking about this for months. S this marks the seventh trip by a cabinet level official in about as many months. I think there have been one or two equivalent trips where chinese cabinet officialsthey dont have a cabinet, but theyve come over to the u. S. So why is it were going to china and kowtowing when we are the largest economy in the world, we have the strongest military, we have vision, we have a document called the constitution supported by another document called the bill of rights. Theyve never seen anything like that china. Why are we going to china . Doesnt make any sense. Maria what have you gottenen from the seven trips . What have you gotten, administration, biden . What have you gotten from sending your cabinet members over and over again to communist china to beg for communication, to kiss the ring of xi jinping. Nothing has changed. I dont see any evidence what take the militaries are communicating, i dont see any evidence that the ccp is pulling it back. Theyre right there, supporting russia. Theyre right there, undermining america. I think its a slap in the face. It makes us look foolish, were sending representatives, having these meetings, cant accomplish anything. This is a weak administration. They dont have respect for the country. That shouldnt surprise us. They need to take a enough a toh approach. Maria look at the disrespect that communist china has shown america, serving our treasury issecretary psyc psychedelic mu. Shes laughing it off. She he laughed about it. Come on. Maria she probably wanted to save face. She was trying to make believe like she thought it was funny theres no way that was funny within the halls of the white house. Thank you. This is bringing us back to november. We need change in november. Maria well take a break. Were just Getting Started this hour. Were focusing on a big week in earnings next. Weve got meta after the bell, tesla is rallying, stock is up 12 and a quarter percent despite the company reporting the biggest revenue decline in more than 10 years. The word on wall street panel is here with expectations and what it means for markets. Youre watching mornings with maria live on fox business. Stay with us. 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Mixed be but theres a lot of momentum in the nasdaq. The dow industrials down 26, nasdaq up 97. The s p up 6. At t reported a beat on earnings, missed on revenue, despite surpassing subscribers. More people purchased the higher tier unlimited plans. Well hear from boeing in 20 minutes. Tech is soaring. 12. 7 higher, despite the Company Reported the biggest revenue decline since 2012, the Company Announced a renewed push for evs starting early next year but still plans to cut more than 6,000 jobs in texas and california. Well hear from meta tonight, thats the one that sets the tone tomorrow. Alphabet and microsoft tomorrow night after the close, adam. How would you assess earnings and what are you expecting . I lake what im seeing so far. Ill tell you why. The estimates for the Current Quarter that were in are calling for growth of about 3 . 3 , thats not great. Well, thats absolutely right. Thats because the estimates are generally too low. The past two quarters weve seen an average beat rate of 7 . That gets you to 1 10 . I think well see that accelerate because gdp is very strong and we have near Record Number of people employed and when people are making money theyre spending money, thats good for the economy, good for earnings. So im happy with the way earnings season is progressing so far. Maria im glad that you talked about this narrative of the economy doing so well. We keep seeing that in all the numbers. You were betting on that from day one. You still have people like jp morgan Ceo Jamie Dimon an outlier, putting doubt in it. He spoke yesterday at the new York Economic Club and hes calling the u. S. Economic boom unbelievable, saying that even if we go into recession, the consumers still in good shape but hes warning that on the inflation front were headed back to the 1970s. Thats what he told me back in january. He is still saying that, he spoke yesterday about u. S. Policy at the Economic Club of new york yesterday. Your thoughts . First, i shouldnt be shocked. He was dead wrong on the economy. He said we have to be concerned. I think anyone should be surprised with jay he my. Jamie. We do have right now a lot of turmoil in the middle east, this happened in the 70s, Oil Prices Spiked and take was a big problem for the economy. Back then we were Oil Dependent on the middle east. Today were oil independent. So we still have prices basically beating out wages and that was a big deal. You had stagflation, slow growth, high inflation. Today its like the opposite. We have phenomenal growth, were tracking 2. 9 for First Quarter gdp. Thats a really high number and adams point, were at 50 year low unemployment, wages are going up and moderating. Theyre not going up as a anymore. Wage inflation is starting to moderate and starting to see wages outpace inflation. Thats the key thing everyone was talking about inflation beating out wages. That was a big problem. Now youre seeing the opposite. You have to see where the skate is going to be. If that continues thats a great trend for the economy this year. Thats the trend weve been seeing, moderating inflation, wages strong, people will spend money. Thats good for the economy and the stock market. Maria heres jamie dimon yesterday in northern city. I want the next president to put the other party in their cabinet. Biden, he puts some republicans in his cabinet. If its trump, he puts some democrat in his cabinet. I would like to see practitioners go back to government like a of us, i want to help my country. Maria and when i spoke with him in january, it was really interesting the way he took on policy. I think jamie dimon wants to be treasury secretary and i think he would be a great treasury secretary by the way. Heres what he was telling me when talk about policy back in january. Watch this. The problem with saying youre a democrat or republican is that people think youre going to knee jerk support to everything that those people believe so im not i fool i l like i have a democratic heart, i have a more Republican Brain. We need policies that will work. Maria hes talking about policies. He says the democrat policies have failed. It reminds me actually of george w. Bush who called himself a compassionate conservative, a democratic heart and a Republican Brain of. I do think youre right, maria. Jamie wants to be treasury secretary. Sounds like he is playing to both sides so whether its republican or democrat hed be the man for the job. One of the things i think jamie does well, its also one of the things i dont like, is that he constantly talks about how bad things could be and then if they dont turn out to be bad he said well maria were ready anyway. We were prepared for the worst. I think thats a little disinjohn with us. Maria that is what disingenuous. Maria thats what he is doing. Hes a trader at the end of the day. He is trying to figure out where you said the puck goes. Hes a banker. Bankers are the most conservative people on earth. Hmaria ryan, great to see you. Thank you so much. Adam, youre with us all morning. When we come back, new york congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis is here, she wants to talk about her call for Columbia Universitys president to resign in the wake of the campus protest. Thats next after a live report columbia. Well take you to the university this morning to check in. Youre watching mornings with maria live on fox business. Stay with us. voya there are some things that work better together. Like your Workplace Benefits and retirement savings. Voya helps you choose the right amounts without over or under investing. Across all your benefits and savings options. So you can feel confident in your financial choices. They really know how to put two and two together. 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A columbia spokesperson says the students leading the protest have agreed to remove a significant number of tents and people not affiliated with Columbia University from the encampment and make it welcome to all by prohibiting discriminatory or harassing language. New york House Republicans are demanding the University President step down saying the campus jewish students have been harassed by antisemitism on and off campus. [chanting] reporter theres a money trail, similar tents are spotted at campuses separated by thousands of miles. Left of the screen shows aerial footage from protesters at nyu, the right from protester at the university of michigan. A columbia jewish student tells us she feels intimidated he by intimidated by thedemonstration. When we hear slogans like from the river to the sea, palestine will be free. There are questions about where does israel fit in there. And more explicit slogans like israel, go back to hell or saying go back to poland. Its very aaggressive. Reporter House Speaker mike johnson is set to visit the campus to meet with jewish students who are taking the university up on the offer for the hybrid learning model. Maria, back to you. Maria you have a better view than we did. We saw the pictures from yesterday, how crowded the lawn was. Is it still that kind of a crowd there today . Reporter im having a hard time hearing you. I believe you asked about the lawn. Yes, it is still very crowded. There are hundreds of tents set up there. As we get new aerial footage, as we start to have the sun rise well get to see whether the student demonstrators have complied with the concession that they made to remove some of those tents. Maria okay. Great. Thank you. Joining us now is new york congresswoman house ways and Means Committee maam better, republican conference assistant whip, nicole mall a toke kiss. Nicole malliotakis. You signed og for the president of columbia to step down. In february you introduced legislation to strip federal funding from any colleges that blatantly aallow antisemitism and strip student visas from foreign students who participate in these ain these anticipate sc protests. Taxpayers should not be funding them, nor should we be giving people the privilege of coming to the United States to study if theyre going to participate in antisemetic activities. Im hoping that well see the house take up a package of legislation that will include mine but i think whats happening right n now at columba escalated dramatically. This has been going on for months, about five months ago when this started and we saw actual students being physically aassaulted, verbally attacked, threatened their lives. Jewish students are not safe on this campus and the fact that this president of the institution cannot keep her students safe and they have to go to Remote Learning for the rest of the semester is unacceptable and shows she cannot control her school, she cannot keep her students safe and therefore she needs to resign. Maria should parents demand they want their tuition back . If they paid for the whole year, now we know that its going to be virtual. They should be. They should be refunded their tuition. You dont pay tens of thousands of dollars in tuition so you can learn on a computer. Youre not getting the full experience that you paid for. But also questions what are they the teaching these young people, that is the other thing that we would like to know. So i think it certainly is important that they take those steps to refund these students and i would you sa say this as. Why should we, president biden, why should we be paying for Student Loans of antisemetic prohamas students. That is a good question for the president right now. Maria that is a great point that you raise, congresswoman. I want to get your take on who is behind this. We just spoke with one of your colleagues, Carlos Jiminez. Do you think the Chinese Communist party is behind this . I mean, its very possible. We dont know who is behind it. I think that certainly its agitators, whether its george soros or communist china or of mamarxist, anarchist organizations. Were looking at foreign money thats put in 501c3s, receiving a tax benefit from our t government. We need to look at that because they oftentimes also have super pacs in which they are supporting candidates or working against particular candidates so thats something that our committee is looking at right now. Were going to be probably dropping legislation in the next week or two. Maria we would like to know what you find out because this is awfully similar to what happened after october 7th. Where you had massive propaganda coming out of tiktok against israel and some of the agitators, communist china related. So well be watching that. But i want to get your take on why mike johnson is going to columbia today. The speaker of the houses office suggested in a same the senate will not pass Border Security legislation this year. The office said House Republicans passed multiple security bills which have been ignored by the Democrat Senate and proves theyre unserious when it comes to dealing with the border issue. Congresswoman, i guesses throwing in the towel here. You havent been able to be successful at the border. So forget it. Were got to wait until donald trump is in the office is what hes saying there. Instead, hes taking on this and going to columbia today to speak witwith jewish students. Ill be joining the speaker today at columbia. I think its important had takee show support for the students who feel uncomfortable on campus. He wants to send the message the house will pass legislation to hold the institutions accountable. As for the border, im just as disappointed as you are. I think the ukraine funding was the last leverage the house had to force senator schumer to take up border provisions and also force the president to reverse some of his policies and the reality is, maria, that we did pass a lot of legislation. Many pieces with bipartisan support. And senator schumer wont take any of them. The president can do this on his own. He put in place 60 policies. He should reverse them. The fact weve got to fight them every step of the way is frustrating and at this point because of the leverage that we gave away, i didnt vote for that bill as you know, but i believe that it is true that we do need President Trump in there if were going to make changes at this point because the democrats refuse to do anything about securing our own border. Maria so thats it . Okay. So thats it . You pass this bill to send money to ukraine, to send money to israel, to send money to gaza which by the way a lot of senators have told me they think the money will go right to hamas, okay, that money thats supposed to go to humanitarian efforts in gaza and you lose all your leverage at the border so now were supposed to wait eight months to get security at the border until next year and a new president s starting . I mean, what can happen in eight months. Let me think about it. Thats the points that i brought up last week. Thats why i believe the ukraine funding should not have passed without Border Security. Its why i voted against it because like you, i believe that was the leverage. Now, i think that, again, were going to keep passing legislation but if we dont have a partner in the Democratic Party over there in the senate or the white house, you 2340e, know,was are we supposed to do t this point. I agree it was a mistake to give away that leverage without demanding Border Security provisions. That was the speakers decision. I disagree with that. We have to move on and try to continue to pass whatever we can to continue to show the democrats wont do their job. Maria what are we supposed to do . Maybe just dig in. No, not another dollar until the border is secured. Period. I want to take you back to local issues. I know youve been focused on congestion issues. A poll finds 63 of new york votersvote oppose new york citys program. Youre b introducing legislation today that will kill congestion pricing. So if im in new york city and i live uptown in 60s or 70th street and i want to go to the village ive got to pay money just to go from uptown to downtown . Yeah. And its ridiculous. But this is gone another policy brought to us by democrats who are in charge. They love it. They passed it overwhelmingly in the state legislature, slamming people who live in my district to have to pay another toll to go into a borough in the city in he which they live. We have a number of lawsuits. Staten island elected officials are suing and were supporting new jerseys lawsuit as well, josh gottheimer, a democrat from new jersey and a i have been fighting this, looking at every legislative and legal tool we have to stop it but again, if the democrats in new york actually listened to new yorkers who are saying they dont want this, it would not be happening right now. So were going to continue to fight it and i think the lawsuit is a very has a lot of mayor t rite merit and we can wint lawsuit because they violated federal law by not doing a full and thorough economic and Environmental Impact study. Maria maybe. They need the money. They have to pay for stuff for the migrants. They need the money. You know that. Thats right. Its misplaced priorities by our governor who is spending 2 billion to house migrants. All three of these issues from the migrant crisis, the border, congestion pricing, all brought to us by the democrats at the city, state and a federal level. People should remember that in november. Maria the Biggest Issue of all, leadership, leadership and policy matters. Thank you. Nicole malliotakis joining us this morning. Well be back with the Washington Examiners chief Political Correspondent and fox news contributor, byron york is here. Dont miss him, after the break. Maria welcome back. Shares of boeing are higher this morning, the Company Reported First Quarter earnings moments ago. Also you announcing its undertaking comprehensive action in commercial business to strengthen the quality of product. Gerri willis with details now. Good morning, maria. Boeing reporting a double beat, earnings loss, less than expected, 113 eps with expectation of loss of 1. 76 pardon me, against an a expectation of a loss of 1. 76. Revenue beating estimates, 16. 57 billion, commercial airplane deliveries down 36 . Boeings ceo saying lower max production will slow the plane makers recovery. Some other headlines were watching this morning, a swiss air jet nearly crashing this morning. Pardon me. So those boeing earnings of course that comes of the heels of just an incredible number of engineering issues. Maria did you see the boeing earnings . Because when we are looking at a stock this morning that is honk the most actively traded its up 4 and yet the company lost money. Maybe a it didnt lose as much money as they thought it would lose. Thats a reasonable take. Revenue actually was stronger than expected. 16. 6 billion. Thats a lot of money coming through the door. The issue is the cash flow is negative so theyve got a cash burn and yet getting the benefit of the doubt because the stock is already down so much and actually there is one positive headline aside from earnings and that is that it looks like south Korean Airlines is going to order another 15 to 20 triple sevens. So im okay with boeing. Im long it. I lost money on it but im okay. When Great Companies stumble, you buy them of. Thats served me well. Maria thats interesting the way you look at it. You think boeing is a great company. Ge was a Great American company. Maria theyre losing market share from the their international counterparts. True. Maria airbus. Yes. But its a duopoly. Theres only two of them out there. Im okay owing boeing and ive taken heat for it. Maria former President Trump awaits a ruling on whether he violated the courts gag order in manhattan in the criminal trial. Heres trump speaking outside the courtroom yesterday. Watch. The case is a sham. I have a gag order which is totally unconstitutional. Im not allowed to talk. People can talk about me. They can say whatever they want, they can lie. Im not allowed to say anything. Im locked up in a courtroom and this guy is out there campaigning. Every time he opens his mouth gets himself into trouble. Maria joining me is the Washington Examiners chief Political Correspondent, fox news contributor, byron york. Its great to see you this morning. Thanks so much for being here. Good morning, maria. Maria isnt it true, youve got joe biden going to all the swing states, attacking trump, attacking maga republicans, talking about abortion, doing whatever he wants to do during an Election Year and youve got donald trump in a courtroom, in a trial, with charges people are skeptical of and on top of all of that hes got this gag order. He cant say a word and its an Election Year. There are parts about this gag order that just dont make sense. When the prosecutors recently went to the judge and said donald trump has committed seven new violations of the gag order, youve got to do something, some of the examples they listed were trump posting articles on truth social about Michael Cohen, articles that talked about how cohen had pleaded guilty to tax fraud and bank fraud and other crimes and this was supposedly a violation of the gag order. You have to remember, if youre a watcher of msnbc, you see Michael Cohen quite a bit. Hes on television a lot. He has pod casts. He has written books. He wrote a book called revenge accrevengeabout trump. He is beating on him ever day on his x feed, everywhere else, and trump is banned from saying anything about Michael Cohen. It doesnt make a lot of sense. Maria you have an oped in the Washington Examiner titled group think chorus emerges at trump trial. You write in the case of the trump trial the participants are doing what the earlier collusion group think chorus did, trying to convince millions of viewers and readers that trump is guilty of a serious crime when in fact the evidence against him is flimsy, the case against him is ill conceived. You reference the bombshell report from politico this week revealing a group of antitrump legal pundits are holding weekly zoom meetings to discuss how they should cover trump in the media. Jeffrey tubin a part of the group as well on zoom. I didnt know he was zooming again. A real interesting report from politico shows that people like Andrew Weissman and George Conway and bill crystal have a weekly zoom call in he which they discuss arguments and strategy in the effort to get trump and actually youre seeing kind of an interesting change in the discussion of this trump trial going on right now. Remember that the criminal charges are about bookkeeping. Theyre about trump keeping false bookkeeping records of payments made with a nondisclosure agreement with stormy daniels. Its a misdemeanor. Its passed the statute of limitations but thats the heart of the case. Theyre now reframing it, the prosecution is doing it and the talking heads are doing it as a conspirconspiracy to interfere e 2016 election. Trumps is not charged with conspiracy, not charged with interfering with the election. There are suggestions he must have done Something Else unlawful here but its never been specified what that is. But one of the things you do sees personally if you watch see,s especially if you want some of the other cable channels, everybody seems to be saying the same thing and what you find out in this political politico article is that theyre meeting, theyre talking every friday to get their talking points together. Maria byron, one talking point i would like to see them explore is interfereing in the 2016 election by Hillary Clinton. I mean, is it not true that the russia collusion story is deja vu all over again with this . Hillary Clintons Campaign paid for the steele dossier. The steele dossier was a bunch of made up stuff which they admitted to, we were having beers, we embellished and she used that to take down her political opponent. Is that not using Campaign Money to take down your political opponent, interfering in an election . And by the way, she called it Legal Expenses when she was called out on it. That right there tells you what it was, Legal Expenses, paying for a dossier to take down your opponent. Thats what theyre charging trump with right now. It is. Thats the kicker to the story, that they did spend this money to come up with this false research against donald trump and they called it Legal Expenses in their reports to the federal election commission. So youre seeing a case in which Hillary Clinton had to pay a fine for doing this and donald trump is somehow charged with 34 felonies. Maria unbelievable. Byron, thank you for weighing if on all of this. Great to see you. Appreciate your time. Thank you you, maria. Maria americans are struggling with the high cost of College Tuition among other high expenses. Kelly s sabiri is at the details. Stay with us. Rted my own studio. And with the right help, i can make this place i love even better. Earn up to 5 cash back on business essentials with the chase ink business cash card from chase for business. The need for domestic lithium production is crucial. Surge Battery Metals is filling the demand and reducing our reliance on foreign sources with its best in class lithium discovery. Surge Battery Metals, energizing our future. New projects means new project managers. You need to hire. I need indeed. Indeed you do. When you sponsor a job, you immediately get your shortlist of quality candidates, whose resumes on indeed match your job criteria. Visit indeed. Com hire and get started today. Her uncles unhappy. Im sensing an underlying issue. Its tmobile. It started when we tried to get him under a new plan. But they they unexpectedly unraveled their price lock guarantee. Which has made him, a bit. Unruly. You called yourself the uncarrier. You sing about price lock on those commercials. the price lock, the price lock. so, if you could change the price, change the name its not a lock, i know a lock. So how can we undo the damage . We could all unsubscribe and switch to xfinity. Their connection is unreal. And we could all unexperience this whole session. Okay, thats uncalled for. Maria welcome back. Time for the morning buzz. Interest rates on Student Loans expected to be at their highest point in years as College Tuition costs spike, kelly saberi is live at the university of chicago with more. Kelly, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, maria. This is one of the most expensive universities in the country, if not the most expensive to attend. If you are planning to go here, you may be looking at some extremely high Interest Rates if you would like to borrow money. This is a formula set by federal law, not mandated by the department of education. The u. S. Treasury data creates the Interest Rate number that a we get from using figures from next month. So if we base this formula off of the april auction, what were ooh looking at is a 6. 61 based on what we are currently seeing this month. The official number, again, will be determined in the next month. Now, not only is that up 5 andahalf percent this year, these are recession era levels and in the 2007 to 2008 school year the Interest Rate was 6. 8 and it began to decrease every Academic Year through 2014 at which point it then began to fluctuate. Interest on government Student Loans for undergrads is capped at 8. 25 . Meanwhile, the cost of tuition is soaring, the Labor Department says tuition and fees has gone up 859 since 1983. Inflation has increased 219 in the same period. According to the new york federal reserve, for every 1 received by you Higher Education institutions in subsidized federal Student Loans, College Tuition increases by 60cents. The white house has forgiven 153 billion in Student Loan Debt. Still, 1. 6 trillion remains. March. Maria all right. Kelly, thanks very much. Kelly saberi in chicago. Your thoughts . I think the government has to get out of the student loan business period. It doe doesnt get better if the bail out the Student Loans. The product theyre delivering is going down if value and yet the costs keep going up and the American People have had enough. Youve got to get them out of this business and i want to see action from our representatives. I heard nothing along these lines. Maria the Supreme Court deemed this unconstitutional and yet joe biden keeps promising were going to forgive your Student Loan Debt because hes trying to lure voters. This is another bandaid from the president. He nose knows young voters are y about gaza and these protests. This is going to come back to bite him. Its going to raise costs. Maria we have a live update on the protests and Columbia University this morning. Well take you there live, right after this. Maria good wednesday morning everyone thank you for joining us this morning. I am Maria Bartiromo hope youre having a good wednesday morning april 24. Just before 8 00 a. M. On the east coast time for the hot topic of hour protesters at Columbia University divide the University President deadline the deadline for midnight tonight for negotiation but a columbia spokesperson claims theyre making apart progress, fox news cb cotton is live at columbia this morning with the very latest. Good morning. Good morning pro palestinian student demonstrators claim the university threatened to call in the National Guard to clear out the lawn but now are gearing up to see the protesters camped out for two more Days University as you mentioned said it made progress with negotiations and says the students have agreed to a series of concessions to include removing a significant number of tents and people that affiliated with the university from the encampment. Right now we are seeing a small group of protesters gather outside of the university in support of the students as a campus protest continues for longer and more than a week we have sort of seen on a daily basis small crowds show up outside of the university to support and cheer the students on, new york House Republicans say the longer this goes on the more jewish students are harassed and intimidated on campus are calling a columbias president to resign. A jewish student share this video with fox and explained she was stonewalled when she tried to enter the lawn and was approached with the chance. Listen to this. It is important that Columbia University and his other schools recognize that these are not simple protest about a political issue, these are proterrorist mobs. Again that is another republican voice weighing in talking about how something needs to be done about the Campus Climate and were also preparing to see House Speaker mike johnson meeting with jewish students to discuss their fears, many of the jewish students taking the university on his offer to do hybrid learning for the remainder of the semester. Back to you. Thats why many parents want their money back basically. Thank you, cb cotton at Columbia University, your reaction there are still lots of tents on that one. Theyve had the deadline, these people are not budging. Its not funny on its face but is a little funny, the left eats its own theyve coddled this behavior on the campuses for over a decade they have given them safe spaces and let them run the circus and now they are its complete chaos on the campus. I dont think we should expect anything less as a whole is another reason we need to get the government out of funding institutions we need your parents a choice to enter their dollars are going to institutions that support their values and this was all predictable. Do with it what you will. Maria arkansas senator tom cotton and 26 other republicans writing a letter to ag Merrick Garland and mcgill care donate, there demanding more from the administration take action. The department of education of federal Law Enforcement must act immediately to restore order prosecute the mobs who perpetrated violence and threats against jewish students and revoke the visas of all foreign nationals who have taken part in promoting terrorism and hold Accountable School ministers who stood by instead of protecting their students, the white house claims a 30 implemented in antisemitism strategy. We have put forward in antisemitism strategy that weve been implementing that involves different federal agencies to do everything that we can to make sure students feel safe and jewish students feel safe and we will continue to do the work. In the meantime we have to be very clear, we have to condemn violent rhetoric and we have to condemn any form of hate and out of the port under president has been consistent throughout this administration. Maria it is in antisemitism strategy being and plummeted. We are working ever so diligently. What is antisemitism. Its empty words once again from the president s representative, it is unbelievable to me, talking points upon talking points, actually unfortunately what we have here is College President s hiding behind the banner of free speech, this is not free speech violence is not free speech. If you violate the code of your community in this case, Columbia University, if youre acting violently and threatening students you have violated the code of that community, you lose your right to express herself it is no longer free speech it is hate speech and threatening and you should get shut down i