Once again witness the leadership of those peaceful Student Led Protests on campus. President biden i learned a long time ago to listen to that lady. This University Needs to get control of the situation. We want them to be peaceful protests. John we are awaiting a White House Briefing as the antisemitism spread across the country. President biden and his team still have not delivered formal remarks addressing this escalating situation. Setting a deadline for one hour away. Ordering students who have occupied the campus for days to clear that encampment or face suspension. Sandra hello and welcome, everyone. I am sandra smith in new york. John, great to be with you as we kick off a brandnew week and continue to see scenes like this on our College Campuses coasttocoast. John we began this week month as we began last week. So far President Biden has not made any official remarks about the protests which have jewish students feeling unsafe on campus as they get ready for finals and gradua
Tensions are boiling at US college campuses as the riot police move in to break up protest encampments, clear out occupied buildings, and make arrests. | World News
called christmas carols. they changed the lyrics to mimic police. they say they will clear out the last remaining protest encampments next week which is blocking a road. they also said they will use more forceful measures if protesters do not cooperate. translator: if the people who occupy the road decline to leave the police will arrest those who interrupt our work. the remaining protest is the smallest occupied by the movement that took over stretches of the major streets for more than two months. crude oil dropped below $60 a barrel late in the week. oil-producing countries may panic over that but india is benefitting from the cheaper energy. we see how it is helping the
they re really failing now is they re failing to make the transition from protest to politics. i think that what you re seeing now is they re increasingly becoming associated just with disruption and some of this unpleasantness. i think it s some of the reason that you re seeing an increasing distancing of democrats from this movement, very much unlike the wait tea party did find some common ground with some republicans. i think that s not happening here. and that was very clear this week. james, is it working? well, they re certainly revolting. i actually see one similarity between what i call obama bills and the tea party. call them obama bills why? as an homage to the hoover bills, the protest encampments that sprung up this is in homage to obama? no, to the leadership he s given. the tea party was in part a revolt against the republican stabment.
ongoing semipermanent protest encampments? is there a way to keep things essentially law-abiding and protect peep s rights to say what they want to do and assemble and say so in the means of their own choosing? i think there is, rachel. sometimes it s inconvenient and a little expensive. that s what democracy is all about. democracy can be inveents and kind of expensive. the first amendment can be very inconvenient. a lot of people don t like freedom of speech. a lot of politicians would like it if there were no freedom of speech. their lives might be much simpler. that s the price we pay for a living democracy. and particularly at a time like now when so much money is entering politics, we ve got to guard these free speech rights of ordinary people and students and citizens more carefully than ever before. i know that the title, or at least the subject of your speech tonight is on class warfare. to you feel like having this protest movement in the streets,