and show their support. >> john: "new york post" calling the outpouring a barista mitsfa. and with that, welcome back, i'm john roberts in washington. off we go with hour number two. >> sandra: that story is really something and as you just noted, made the cover of the "new york post," a lot of people are talking about it, john. we look forward to that coffee shop owner joining us in a bit. sandra smith in new york. this is "america reports". that incident playing out on the upper east side, the workers walking out, the latest in a troubling trend of antisemitism we are seeing here at home especially on our college campuses. >> you will not silence us. we will not be silenced. ceasefire now. ceasefire now. >> on campus, i am now confronted daily with shouts to free palestine from the river to the sea. it is a jew hating, genocidal mandate seeking. call to exterminate all jews in accordance with hamas open and unequivocal goal. >> support for hamas is support for a terrorist organization and this must not be misconstrued. regardless of what side of the political aisle you reside on, common ground no student should be threatened, mistreated or silenced due to personal beliefs. >> john: jewish students from coast to coast warning they no longer feel safe in college campuses after witnessing their classmates celebrate the october 7th massacre and call for the destruction of israel. >> sandra: even as the house judiciary committee held a hearing to address those concerns, several anti-israel protestors shouted down jewish students to testify. >> john: mike gallagher moments away, how congress can address the dramatic rise in antisemitism. >> sandra: our team of reporters, the billions flowing into american universities. >> you saw it there, right, supposed to be an important meeting and it was, where these jewish students had a chance to talk to people about the things they are experiencing on the campuses, but pro palestinian supporters were escorted out of the hearing one after another, and current and former students were there to say how they don't feel safe. >> 10,000 people have been killed and you are trying to silence free speech of students. >> the house judiciary committee looking into the current state of the first amendment at american colleges and universities as jewish students told stories about being harassed by pro palestinian supporters on campus, saying it happens on a daily basis. one student hears people every day screaming from the river to the sea. watch. >> professors and student organizations have been fueling jew hatred and spreading it across campus with disregard, or potentially with deliberate intent to incite. >> free palestinian. >> committee will be in order. >> this comes as protests and rallies at campuses across the united states have continued for weeks. live daily, large crowds of students marching on both sides. tulane university in new orleans, a big fight that happened the other day, went viral. investigators say a pro palestinian student tried to light an israeli flag on fire, that's the video on the screen and now cornell university, 21-year-old patrick dye arrested after he threatened to shoot up the jewish center and kill people on campus, saying he was going to slit their throats. serious allegations they deal with on a daily basis. and a 400% spike in antisemitic incidents across the country, just compared to this time last year. why the students want action taken as soon as possible. >> john: it's really, really troubling. thank you. sandra. >> sandra: as american colleges are under increasing pressure to address the antisemitism on their campuses, some of those same schools are under the spotlight for accepting billions in donations for arab -- from arab sources. according to one report, harvard and nyu have accepted a combined $400 million in arab donor dollars. lydia is on this, more live on set for us. how is this money being spent? >> well, sandra, here is the really curious part. according to a report from the american israeli cooperative enterprise, we don't know how the money is spent. $10.8 billion has been given to american colleges and universities from an arab source between 1986 and 2022. but, sandra, there is no public record of how roughly $8.8 billion has been spent by colleges and universities according to the same report. the rest reportedly used on tuition, fees, scholarships, and research activity. where is the money coming there? mostly from qatar. $5.1 billion, which sandra, is also home as you know, to the leaders of hamas. 2.9 billion from saudi arabia, 1.3 billion from the uae. cornell university is the top recipient. received $1.8 billion. university tells fox business donations support the medical school that has graduated more than 500 students from the middle east, asia and other countries. georgetown and carnegie melon. i spoke with betsy devos earlier today. she investigated the flow of foreign money into american colleges and universities, she says reporting disclosures is really a problem, colleges are not following the mandatory disclosure requirements. listen here. >> it's important that there be teeth put into the law because here to for there has not been any penalty if you did not report. needs to be expectation and ramifications if the reporting does not happen. >> and another report, this from the network contagion research institute, it found institutions accepting money are experiencing on average 300% more antisemitic incidents on their properties than institutions that are not. >> lydia, thank you. john. >> john: sandra, wisconsin republican congressman mike gallagher. congressman, thank you for being with us. dig down deeper what lydia was worthing, and an article weiss did in the free press, did this report, it says the report finds that at least 200 american colleges and universities illegally withheld information on approximately $13 billion in undisclosed contributions from foreign regimes, many of which are authoritarian. and she asks the question, are authoritarian regimes, many from the meet, helping to fuel the antisemitic rhetoric, potentially violence on college campuses across the country. >> it's a great article, a great question, and when the trump administration started enforcing section 117 of the higher education act, a few years ago, they discovered $6 billion in undisclosed donations, much of that was from china. this dovetails with the variety of contestants we saw about institutes on college campuses corrupting the discussion about the evil that the chinese communist party is doing around the world so it would not shock me to learn that other foreign regimes are using this money to corrupt colleges and influence students. some of our most elite institutions have become cesspools of antisemitism and the fix is simple. if universities are not willing to comply with the law, then we must act. at a minimum must start to tax the endowments. oh by the way, university endowments are going the other way and plowing billions of dollars into foreign countries like china that do not share our interest. in many ways, investing in chinese military companies that are building things designed to kill americans in a future conflict. the whole situation is absurd. >> john: i do have a question about china but back to what lydia was talking about, let me put this up on the screen. this was the really pertinent farther from report, 2015 to 2020, institutions that accepted money from middle east donor had on average 300% more antisemitic incidents than those institutions that did not. there may be a correlation but is there a causation. what do you think? >> you have shown a strong correlation, i think it's too early to show a causation, but a lot of questions about who is funding groups like students for justice for palestine, behind the attacks we have seen, and our colleges should be a place for free discussion, free debate, not a place where people can threaten to hurt or violently assault jewish students. and for some leading figures, including some of my colleagues, to embrace the worst version of the hate is abhorrent. an investigation by congress to determine whether it's causetive as well. >> john: put your chairmanship hat on comes to the select committee on china. next week when they meet on the seed lines of the apec conference in san francisco, president biden and xi jinping will have a resumption of military to military communications. >> having the crisis communication channel that risks miscommunication leading to conflict is a good thing. in past when we have asked for that, they said no. they have said no for years now. as biden has revived diplomatic and economic engagement as the foundation of the approach to china, they have slowed down key defensive activity that we need to take in order to defend ourselves from growing chinese communist party aggression. for example, we have not sanctioned chinese officials, don't have transparency on the spy balloon incident and no action to either ban or force a sale of tiktok which the evidence is showing is increasingly looking like a chinese communist party influence platform. these are the things we need to do and cannot sacrifice so joe biden can sit down with xi jinping in a room and get a photo op. >> john: congressman mike gallagher, good to talk to you. thanks for joining us, appreciate it. >> thank you. >> sandra: thank you, the house oversight committee is escalating impeachment inquiry into president biden with chairman james comer issuing subpoenas to multiple members of the biden family. fox digital reporter is here live on set. brooke, good to see you. so, who are the subpoenas for? >> hi, sandra, thanks for having me. this just breaking, hunter biden, james biden, the president's brother and rob walker, a business associate of hunter and james. and comer requested transcribed interviews from hallie biden, daughter-in-law, and hunter was involved with her for a time, sarah biden, james biden's wife, and melissa cohen, hunter's current wife, and hallie biden's sister and a former associate. and house oversight committee chairman james comer issued these. >> sandra: the most aggressive step yesterday. >> absolutely, subpoenas for members of the biden family and james comer said these are the first subpoenas. we are expecting more to come. but these come in the middle of this impeachment inquiry, so it is the first step to have biden family members there answering questions. >> sandra: why is all of this happening right now, brooke? >> james comer, these are not the first subpoenas comer has issued as part of the investigation. in september, he subpoenaed bank records belonging to hunter and james biden. at that point the most aggressive step he had taken, but in the last few weeks the committee has been obtaining these subpoenaed records from james and hunter's personal and business financial records. and what hunter biden and james biden's records have shown, is that president biden may have been benefitted. so two checks from james and sarah's personal bank account, one for $40,000 and one for $200,000. and labelled as loan repayments, but james comer says the white house is not providing the documents that would prove those were actual loans and the money actually came on days that the biden family was obtaining money from chinese business company as n more. so, comer is laying out of this out and following the money. >> sandra: as far as the overall this piece fitting into the overall impeachment inquiry, republicans say there is evidence they have uncovered paints a troubling picture of the influence peddling, they say, by biden's family and business dealings, particularly with clients overseas, quoting comer, the oversight committee will bring in members of the biden family and associates to question them on the record of evidence. the stakes obviously are exceedingly high, brooke. >> absolutely. and house speaker mike johnson came in and said that he actually, he told me during an interview last week or the week before that he believes the president actually is engaged in a cover-up and continues to lie to the american people whether he was involved in or had any knowledge of his son's business dealings and last hour, hunter biden's lawyer sent a letter to house speaker johnson asking him to stop these investigations led by comer and also by jim jor done. >> sandra: something tells me that's not going to happen. >> they say they are going to follow the facts and that's what they intends to do. >> sandra: brooke, thank you so much. excellent reporting as always. we have news happening at the white house right now, karine jean-pierre is briefing reporters in that room. she's been taking a lot of questions on the ongoing war, obviously, but there is some difficulty she's been having in responding to some of the media questions. dip in here and listen. >> not just us here in the white house but also congress, national security, the economy, healthcare, gun violence, that's what we should be focusing on. but they continue to try to smear this president and his family on a baseless, baseless investigation and so anything else further certainly i would refer you to the personal representatives on it. thanks, everybody. >> should they comply with it? >> sandra: she has just wrapped up. she took to the microphone following john kirby a moment ago. some of the questions she was taking in that room were obviously directly related to what is happening following the rashida tlaib vote and where lawmakers stood on her censure. she said it's important to be mindful of the language we used. and asked if the president supported with what happened with rashida tlaib and the censure. she said i'm not going to speak to the actions that congress takes. asked whether the president believes it was appropriate action taken by congress. important stuff. that has concluded at the white house. john. >> john: also said she was not going to speak to the posters ripped down and later on took to x and did. the idf reaching deeper into gaza as troops target terror tunnels in gaza city. where things stand now as the war enters the second month. >> sandra: a community is rallying around a jewish-owned cafe right here in new york city after its baristas walked out after the owner's support of israel. we will talk to him live about the outpouring of support he is receiving. lines and the block, next. >> do whatever we can to support, unified, we are willing to do. >> nice to see people coming together and kind of makes you feel like everyone has each other's back. ♪everything i do that's for my health is an accomplishment.♪ ♪concerns of getting screened faded away♪ ♪to my astonishment.♪ ♪my doc gave me a script i got it done without a delay.♪ ♪i screened with cologuard and did it my way.♪ cologuard is a one-of-a-kind way to screen for colon cancer that's effective and non-invasive. it's for people 45 plus at average risk, not high risk. false positive and negative results may occur. ask your provider for cologuard. ♪i did it my way!♪ okay everyone, our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy. yay - woo hoo! ensure, with 27 vitamins and minerals, nutrients for immune health. and ensure complete with 30 grams of protein. 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