jdbalart. thank you for the privilege of your time. lindsey reiser picks up with more news right now. good morning. i m lindsey reiser in new york. breaking news in the united kingdom, the country s third prime minister in seven weeks has officially been decided. rishi sunak is, therefore, elected as the lead of the conservative party. you heard it there, rishi sunak, britain s former finance minister will take over for liz truss who resigned last week after 44 days on the job. we ll talk about the latest twist in this political turmoil. does the u.s. have a triple-demic on the horizon with the covid, the flu and respiratory viruses on the rise. you re seeing a tidal wave of sweeping across this country right now. but we start with crunch time before the midterm elections. two critical states begin early voting today. with 15 days to go, polling shows historic levels of voter enthusiasm with 70% of registered voters expressing high interest in this election. that
Daily news who say officers announce they would arrest and suspend anyone who cannot leave campus after an antiisrael protest. There are also reports of arrests at Unc Chapel Hill and at Columbia University, Public Safety officers say only students who live on campus and essential workers are allowed on the School Grounds this after protesters took over Academic Building called Hamilton Hall, smashing the windows and bare cationd themselves inside. Lawrence according to reports, about a dozen protesters made it into the building with at least 200 blocking the entrance. Some hanging banners. Including one calling for intifada. Student protest group says they will continue investigating and occupy that building until the school meets their demands, which they already said they wont, which includes divesting Financial Holdings linked to israel. The president says no we are not going to do it. Brian thats not going to happen. What will happen. Bryan llenas joins us outside of columbias cam
Brian unbelievable. Protesters at Columbia University taking over an Academic Building on campus called Hamilton Hall. Smashing windows. Barricading themselves inside. Steve thats some of it right there. Happened a little after midnight. According to reports, about a dozen protesters made it into the building with at least 200 blocking the entrance linking arms and blocking the entrance. Some Hanging Banners including ones calling for in inintifada. Lawrence divest in Financial Holdings linked to israel. Ainsley bryan llenas joins us live now. Is he right outside of the campus. You can see him behind the gates. What are you experiencing . Ainsley, guys. Good morning. We are as close as we can get, unfortunately to Hamilton Hall. I would like to bring people right there but unfortunately this is a Private School with the gate. This is as close as we are right now. This is Hamilton Hall that has now been occupied by dozens of students. You can see one of those signs unfurled. It says fre
this? what about the baby killer? what about the hanging banners over the edge and sort of playing to the tea party crowd, over the top? well, sure, we shouldn t have over-the-top actions. it s just as wrong for senator reid to call president bush a liar as it is for a republican congressman to call president obama a liar. it was wrong for move-on.org to run a full-page add about general betray us. we have a civil debate. rudyard kipling s advice, keep your head when all around is hughesing theirs and blaming it on you. those in political leadership who are supposed to be setting an example. we need to take a quick break. we want to turn to a big student loan change that was overshadowed this week by the debate over health reform. imagine if it were this easy to spot the good guys.
the decibel level. but we re seeing this all throughout the country, where we re seeing this kind of win-at-any-cost culture, where you ve got parents yelling at coaches, and even on and we could go through a whole series of other things, where this winning at any cost rather than how we operate with each other, i think is having a serious effect. and it s having a serious effect on our children and i think it has serious effects when people around the world look at us. we really look like we re cheapening and denigrating ourselves. senator alexander, when you look at the fund-raising letters, when you look at some of the things that have gone on, have republicans we see senator mikulski saying, yeah, over-the-top fund-raising by democrats. what is the republican coupleability in this? what about the baby killer? what about the hanging banners over the edge and sort of playing to the tea party crowd? over the top?