Now, and youll receive a bottle of Vitamin D3 Of Yoon support absolutely free doctors preferred better science, better results im Zachary Cohen in washington in this is cnn closed, captioning brought to you by mesobook. Com if you or a loved one have mesothelial not well send you a free book to answer questions you may have called and well come to you 808 to one 4,000 turmoil as propalestinian protests a Boiling Point at colleges nationwide. We are seeing violent clashes with police. Hundreds of arrests suspensions, even expulsions. Were following the very latest plus for a sixweek abortion ban kicks in and democrats sound off the white house seizing on the new law to Slam Republicans and former President Trump and forcing a vote. Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene on vales her plan to oust speaker mike johnson. But heres the thing. She doesnt have support from her own party or from democrats to do that following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central we are following Breaking News as protests have grown increasingly confrontational on College Campuses this was the scene at the University Of Wisconsin earlier today officers there you see officers, they are in riot gear. They were removing an encampment of protesters, at least 12 people arrested in this case, including several who resisted arrest according to police. And then in new york police just releasing these new images from inside Columbia University, they show the aftermath that Hamilton Hall after police were called in last night to help clear out the protesters who had occupied that building and then refuse to leave around 300 people were arrested and the new york police are now saying that it may deploy more than a dozen offices on that campus through graduation and then this over at ucla and los angeles protesters and counter protesters clashing overnight. And the lapd was called in police do remain on campus at this hour . First, lets bring in cnns whitney wilde, who is on the University Of Wisconsin campus whitney, what are you seeing there well, right now, hours after that believes confrontation, weve seen this protest to grow back to dozens, if not hundreds of students here at the university for sunday of wisconsin. Right now, im on the library mall. This is pretty much the center of campus and as you can see, even after that police action, tense, were going back up. So we spoke with one student earlier today who was here when that Police Confrontation happened. She said shes a modern mediators. You race down here, what you saw was that groups of students sort of encircled by police as they were pushing their way in. And lets take a look at these orange tense. This is what was left after that Police Confrontation. So most of this was actually cleared during that Police Confrontation and then police left during that confrontation, there were around 30 arrests according to the nerve city wisconsins Chancellor Statement that went out a few minutes ago, most students at that time chose to leave. And the reason that police felt and the school felt like it was important to move in was because they say that theres an explicit ban on camping at the University Of Wisconsin madison that they were obligated to basically enforce the code that bans can camping. So again, these few orange tents were all that was left after that, please confrontation. That was hours ago in that time, a lot of tents have gone back up. This is a very calm, very peaceful protest at this time but certainly students are concerned that there may be more police action. We dont know if that is going to happen embedded certainly something that students are asking and wondering about. I spoke with that mediator earlier today about how she felt about what she saw. And heres what she said. I was raised to be antiwar. I was raised to be pro peace and its not a jewish versus muslim issue. Its not the jews arent doing anything wrong. Its the leaders in israel or doing things wrong. Theyre bombing gaza there is still a Law Enforcement presence there are five Law Enforcement officers at just off here. As you can see, theres still Walking Around it is not clear if theyre planning to move back in again. But as you can see, the school says that theres a ban on camping and it continues back to you all right. Uh, whitney, thank you for that. Lets go to gabe cohen, who is live at Columbia University and gave the mare in new york. Eric adams is now blaming knots students, but outside agitators for the unrest at columbia, tell us what you know about this every on as you can hear around me, theres approach yes, that has started here in the last few minutes. Is the same organizers who have been involved in the protests over the past couple of weeks that ultimately culminated in the nypd coming onto campus at the request of the school last night arresting more than 200 people. You ask about those outside agitators that the mayor claims are leading a lot of the efforts as part of those protests. I interviewed one of the protesters who was handcuffed last night, just outside of Hamilton Hall where were standing. She told me that is a law that she is a student here at columbia, a grad student. She says, the vast majority of the people that she has been in contact with her fellow protesters are also affiliated with columbia. We just heard a Press Conference here, led by faculty of columbia, who are extremely critical. The administration and the president of the school saying that they should never have called in the nypd that they were not negotiating in good faith with the protesters, and they claim what happened last night was police brutality. We are seeing a lot of signs. You can see he criticizing should be the president of the school as well as signs. Thats a cops off our campus. Clearly, the message is that last night and the nypds actions did not end the protests action here at columbia. So well see what the coming hours bring here to be clear, this is a peaceful protests were on a public sidewalk. I do want to show you walk while glover, where we are standing there were a lot of nypd officers here, just a few minutes ago when you can see theyre standing by this is happening in public. It is peaceful, but they have been called in by columbia and they will remain here you may 17 after graduation to maintain order as the school and the city has put it and the mayor of new york claiming that those young people are being radicalized. He said, bye, bye professionals, gabe cohen there at Columbia University thank you very much. Lets set out to la where cnns Stephanie Elam is on the campus of ucla. Stephanie, those scenes that we saw overnight on that campus where someone the most violent and dramatic that weve seen during these weeks of protest at universities. A fullon clashes between propalestinian protesters and then counter protesters in the predawn hours or so. Whats the latest yeah. Closer to midnight. Local time. Alex obviously, if a much different theme now, much calmer here. Classes have been canceled by ucla. They just put that message out recent but you can see the effects of what has happened here last night when we got here, there was just still the tension was here. There was chanting, there was people going up against the Police Officers who made a line and push people out and just been fenced in this area where we saw those clashes happening last night. This is that grass where you saw that and you see now since 9 00 a. M. Local security has come back out here. They were out there last night two and then securities further up there and more Law Enforcement from different agencies are out here. What has been interesting though, is what did happen last night. And i talked to a woman, felicia ford who is a native, loss and a native of los angeles. She felt compelled to get out here last night. She said she got out here shortly around midnight and this is what she says. She saw but i just saw that these are Young Students going to school theyre protesting for cause. But the people that i saw and that i understood were the people that didnt go to school here there will causing the Blood Violence that they were committing here. Pipes, mace this a couple of people had knives and she says, i actually watched her in the middle of the night pulling people apart, getting in the middle of people keeping them away from the Law Enforcement line. And as you can see, shes been out here all night. She still out here and shes the only person out here. Whos cleaning up the campus, but she says hes basically team human that she wants to make sure that people are treating each other right . While the situation got very tense last night. Wow, that is something saying stephanie. Thank you so much for bringing that to us. We appreciate it. Stephanie elam there at ucla, joining us now, is jewish student and propalestinian protest or Benjamin Kersten and hes a Graduate Student at ucla. Hes a member of the schools chapter of Jewish Voice For Peace benjamin, we do want to note as were talking about what happened overnight, you were not there when the violence broke out. Is we understand. But tell us about your reaction to what happened absolutely. Im in regular touch with people on the ground and was following in supporting from afar as best i could around ten, 30, or 11 i think what can only be described as a zionist militia descended upon being Encampment Throwing fireworks and other projectiles using bear spray canisters, which have been found around and trying to rip rip apart the barricade and forced their way in and this is a really horrifying escalation of whats been a regular presence of counter protesters and outside agitators at this encampment, which once again is calling on the ucs to divest from their complicity in a genocide its killed over 34,000 people. Benjamin, i just want to ask you about that. He said, you said a militia and were seeing a lot of violence here. You also mentioned outside agitators explain to us as you see this a militia being armed but how do you see a distinction between . Students nonstudents at those who may be coming from outside of the community, explain that to us. Yeah. Thanks. There may certainly there theyre outside groups that have coordinated a presence on campus to come up and at agitate against the encampment. These include the Israeli American Council stand with us, the United Jewish Coalition they may have connections, two groups on campus, but by enlarge, these do seem like folks who are unaffiliated. Several of them from what i saw, a regular presence is based on certain identifying features and flags that ive seen carried several times over last few days yeah. Im very proud of the students here this is a studentled activist effort that is remaining principled and cleareyed about the stakes which or that for us here are the risks that we face are very little compared to what palestinians Facing Gaza Wherever University has been decimated benjamin can also press a little bit on that term that zionist militia, i mean, as a jewish student, what are you calling zionism, if not the right for israel to exist . What do you think that what are you protesting here . What are, what are the people out there protesting again . Yeah. Thanks so much. As as a student of jewish history, i think one thing we need to be very incisive about is how we make distinctions between jewish and israeli and dynasts. And of course these things bleed together i understand the political zionism that is dominant to be a settler colonial all political ideology that has sought to establish a jewish ethno state in historic palestine. And thats resulted in massive amounts of material harm. Well before the Nakba Dozen Palestinians were displaced in 1948 and continuing of course, up to the current genocide, thats being carried out with us funding. And weapons and political cover it talked to us about youre looking for divestment. So tell us what you want there. If youre having what youre hearing from the university if anything, and if you think it is realistic, what youre asking for, if you think that thats anything that the university would see you on yeah. Thanks so much. You know, i mean, my First Response to that is to say that Student Pressure on universities to divest from conditions of apartheid has worked in the past and it will work again with sustained pressure the ucs Chiefly Thirds asset manager, blackrock, has funds that are tied up in Companies LikeNorthrop Grumman and help it systems that make technologies that militarized, say the us, mexico border, but are touted as being fieldtested on palate justinians. And so as students in the United States and at us institutions we are refusing our complicity in this latest escalation of violence. So we need, we need binding policies toward more justin democratic investment principles. On the part of unit of the university and that means getting all funds out of weapons Manufacturing Companies that are complicit in the israeli genocide occupation, and apartheid. And also adhering to the guidelines of the academic boycott of israel benjamin, what do you think would happen to israel if they didnt have defense, defensive systems. And i understand you know, certainly some of the issues that you are taking with israel and civically are very opposed to the war in gaza. But when it comes to israels defense, and its use of obviously some military assets. I mean, what, what do you think would happen without those . Sure you yeah its a complicated question and i feel that my position as someone in the United States is really to figure out my own, my own complicity and to use my positionality as a jew in the United States to argue against us involvement here as a member liter of Jewish Voice For Peace, the values that we abide by our equality, justice, and dignity for all without exception and i think that, that world remains possible i think that there are real questions we have to ask around what were what were calling defense. I mean, once again, i look at whats taking place with genocide and for starvation and if i vendor just iran i mean, what, what do you think would happen without is i understand your opposition to the war and weve seen obviously some horrible things. But what do you think israel would do without . Defenses in the region and im talking about iran specifically. I mean, what do you think would happen yeah. Thanks. You know, i mean, i think that we i think we need . To be doing everything we can to push for ceasefire in deescalation on all id like on the part of all parties involved i think that part of whats in taking place regionally is a result of israels policy toward, toward palestinians benjamin, thank you so much. Obviously, were keeping a very were close eye on what is happening there at ucla and we appreciate your time today. Thank you thank you in the meantime, Secretary Of StateAntony Blinken meeting today with israeli prime hi minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the us seeks to pressure hamas to accept a new ceasefire and hostage deal, the secretary says there has been meaningful progress in getting aid into gaza well, there is a new report from Doctors Without Borders that says, quote, deliberate deprivation. There could lead to tens of thousands of non traumarelated deaths from starvation and a lack of medical care. The Ministry Of Health in gaza says that israels Bombardment Apartment has killed now more than 34,000 people since the war started following the october 7 Terror Attack in israel the ministry does not distinguish, we should note between casualties of civilians and fighters in that data which cnn cannot independently verify. For more, lets go to cnns Paula Hancocks in abu dhabi. So paula, what can you tell us about whats happening in gaza against the backdrop of these protests . Well, ill make some briana suddenly what we are seeing is the humanitarian crisis continuing, we are seeing more aid trucks getting into the area itself for an interestingly, the Secretary Of State visited kerem, shalom today, one of the land crossings into gaza, so that he could get a briefing on exactly what the issues are and why. So little has been getting in over the months so we have heard that last month, there were more trucks that got in since october itself that coming from unrwa, but they also so say that still it is woefully inadequate. The a