right now on andrea mitchell reports, breaking news across capitol hill. a bipartisan group of lawmakers calling the presidents of elite universities on the carpet over their response to a spike in anti-semitism on college campuses. what is it about the way that you hire faculty and approve curriculum that s allowing your campuses to be infected by this intellectual and moral rot? leadership matters. you are leaders. in academia, at your institutions as well. new grave warnings from fbi director chris wray over domestic and foreign threats to the homeland, surging since the start of the israel/hamas war and a push to reauthorize a controversial surveillance tool. as the threats from foreign adversaries to our homeland continue to evolve, the agility and effectiveness of 702 will be essential to the fbi s ability really our mandate from the american people to keep them safe for years to come. also this hour, nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel live from
emily: the biden administration is taking action against explosion of antisemitism we ve seen on college campuses. the education department says it is investigating a list of schools over reported incidents of antisemitism and islamophobia. hello, everyone, this is audio, i m emily compagno, joining us today fox news contributor lisa boothe, anchor and co-host of bottom line dagen mcdowell, fox weather meteorologist amy freeze and former white house press secretary ari fleischer. department of education launched investigation into seven schools, over five reports of antisemitism harassment and two of antimuslim harassment. this week posters were spotted on benches mocking those made for israeli hostages kidnapped by hamas. instead of hostages names, they say, missing cow. now word from upenn on this. another school is columbia university, suspended two student groups this week. many protested that decision. watch. columbia university has immense history of fighting for an
Interviews with political figures and news updates. Or observed it. I think if this is true, its a very important development. Its always been hard to accept trump juniors characterization of this meeting as unimportant because of the timeline that it happened on and because of the participants. You have microsoft, the then campaign manager, along with trump jr. , kushner and others meeting with russians. That didnt look like an unimportant meeting that you would runt after the fact which is what trump jr. Said. If there were setup meetings in advance, this will take on increasing significance as a key part of the narrative involving collusion between the campaign and the russians. And barbara mcquaid, the fact that the proximity of the then candidate, just one floor away from when that meeting took place, the fact he then went to a Campaign Lunch later that day with his son, the likelihood they never would have discussed that becomes even more implausible just because of the relations
David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Much. I want to dig into this more. Josh and lynn is joining me. Lynn, let me start with you. Geoff bennett mentioning the 27 district in new york and this is a district that sort of hugs buffalo, it is in upstate new york. And donald trump won that district by almost 25 points back in 2016. You look at the electoral record for the congressman who has announced he is suspending his campaign. Chris collins won that district 67 of the vote back in 2016. Let me put the same question to you as i put to jeff, what is the import of this as you look ahead to the midterms . It depends if he gets his name off the ballot. That is the next question we have to ask. Local authority determine the rules for elections. If his name stays on the ballot, then it might make it improbable that a democrat would be elected. After all, a long time ago when
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