You up. A lot has happened already. And well continue to bring you moment by moment coverage. Keep an eye on the right box on your screen when this resumes. Whatever were doing, that is where you are going to see whats popping up now and whats popping up next. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in The Faulkner Focus. A dramatic and disturbing statistic. More than 2,000 arrests tied to the Campus Protests and hating jews and hating american movement, whatever it is. All part of the crackdown on campus hate spreading like wildfire. Look at this. [shouting] harris so theyve arrested two plus thousand people and in new york nypd officers have taken apart another antiisrael encampment just this morning. This time at new york university. So they are hitting every campus they can at this point. Does it feel organized . Well get into it. Absolutely you bet. The departments Deputy Commissioner posted pictures of the signs at nyu. They call for death to america, death to israel. And it also released
the island to celebration their recent graduation. the coast guard called off the search late friday. they covered more than 325 square miles trying to locate robbins. politics now. iowa seeing a lot of 2024 action this week. newest gop presidential candidate ron desantis in demain today and trump will visit two days from now. president biden is breaking his silence on the growing gop field. listen. president biden: i haven t been able to keep up with it it is moving so quickly. i m not being fish a lot of candidates. they re confident in a trump rematch but also prepping for a wild card candidate to emerge writing biden s campaign are
digits, which is impressive that desantis has already done that? but people need to attack trump in order to change those numbers. they can t just kowtow to him and tiptoe around and be scared of his base. they need to draw a contrast. the message should be look, this is a loser. it is very hard to lose an election as an incumbent president if you have a booming economy. it is actually a great opportunity to show your leadership skills when you are campaigning from behind the presidential seal and he really messed that up for us and no one is seemingly willing to do that. gillian: i want to get your reaction to this, scott. the washington post was reporting biden is looking to boost the vps profile now. some voters fear she may have to take over in biden wins a second term. two weeks ago harris took part in the top-level meeting on the debt ceiling photographed in
than we ve ever had before. we re going to spend less money this year than we spent last year. we cap how much we can spend for the next six years with government. gillian: house speaker kevin mccarthy spending his day today defending his debt limit deal with president biden. lawmakers returned to the capitol today with a clock ticking toward a june 5th deadline when the nation could default on its bills. the white house tries to lock down democratic support the speaker is facing pushback from the far right wing of his own caucus. this is the best debt ceiling deal that we ve had since i ve been in congress. i will make it loud and clear to my republican colleagues not a deal we should be taking. i think mccarthy should be praised. biden was never going to negotiate with house republicans. not only did he not fight, he surrendered the details of our bill. gillian: chad pergram has new details from capitol hill. good morning. the key is developing the right mix of votes on
alike in the middle of the day, especially memorial day. very disheartening. we have to leave it there. the stood, fought back and stood for what was right and we don t need a doctor. the marines did the right thing. gillian: sir, thanks for your service and thanks for joining us this hour. we appreciate it. all right, thanks, gillian. gillian: you bet. new reporting out now that the biden re-election team is working overtime to boost vice president harris s image. this to sooth voter s second term doubts. candidates are lining up on the gop side. of course we can. we re competing everywhere. we have a lot in common with iowa in terms of what flair has done and what they ve done under governor reynolds. the ground swell of support has been really strong. gillian: republicans are set to flood the first caucus state.