Johnson will meet with Columbia University jewish students tomorrow. Hell also take questions from reporters at Columbia University where protests have forced the school to shift to virtual classes. This comes as police on or near College Campuses in several cities are preparing for another night of possible confrontation with antiisrael demonstrators, Protester Encampments are growing in many places across the country. And many people there are resisting Police Orders to leave New York University students have been participating in the demonstrations in recent days. Correspondent Steve Harrigan is on the scene there tonight. Good evening, steve. Steve good evening, bret. They have been going at it already for about five hours here at its peak 1500 people. And they dont seem to be going anywhere soon. [chanting free, free palestine. From coast to coast. [chanting we will not, weve not rest] ivy leagues, large universities and colleges and even high schools propalestinian protests are s
well. okay? jeff. josh, starting off with foreign policy. there s been or may have been a josh earnest there was talking about the fact in what is awkward timing about the underfunding of the u.s. aging transportation networks. we found out today that amtrak funding has been chopped by congress from $1.4 billion which it has traditionally been down to $1.13 billion. we ll speak about what that funding means and, again, about the awkward timing of all of this. of course, we re waiting for a full accounting from the ntsb as to what led to today s or last night s derailment. but a lot of people in this country are questioning our aging infrastructure. it s not just about rail lines but it s about highways. it s about bridges. it s about mass transit in major cities, and we re going to be speaking about what this de-funding issue means lock term. we re going to thank our rehema
right the transportation and infrastructure committee hearing on rail safety with testimony from rail experts, joining me now from capitol hill luke russert, good morning. good morning. so they are switching now their plans because of what happened in philadelphia overnight? yeah, it seems to be inappropriate to have a full-on debate about amtrak funding over the larger umbrella of transportation funding over what occurred, but what i can tell you, jose quite ironic this hearing was schedulesd for this morning. earlier in march its current budget was approved for the next four years. however, there s a movement to slash that budget by about $270 million or so and get it down to about $1.13 billion. that ran up and a lot of money had to go for infrastructure improvement and especially those
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there has been some griping over the course of the years, but eventually people came to and said we got to move this forward. what s really happened recently it s a very important point. a lot of these house republicans, they come from districts where amtrak plays no role. so essentially their entire model is it doesn t affect me i don t hear about it at home, i don t care about it, it s another big spend government boondoggle that we do not need. if you talk to republicans from the northeast, a lot of them push back on their more conservative counterparts and say hey, this actually matters a lot to us. so it s something that should be, in fact funded. what happened today is particularly striking. in march congress came together on a $1.4 billion re-authorization, the committee of jurisdiction actually agreed got 316 votes. however, because of the caps put in place by the sequester, by the budget dating back to 2011 alex, the appropriations committee essentially big footed the transpor