Called a star witness in this case. Two more schools in New York City calling in police to remove antiisrael protestors. New yorks finest moving in this morning to help clear the campus at New York University and The New School making 56 arrests finding clear evidence of outside groups funding the protest and radicalizing young students. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom, im dana perino. Bill good morning. We match today. Thats good for a friday. Dana you think i didnt think about that . Well coordinated here. Well oiled machine. Bill good morning. President biden speaking out for the first time in more than a week yesterday. Went 4 1 2 minutes addressing the violent antisemitic, antiisrael College Protests across the country. The president calling out antisemitism and islamaphobia but taking no action while the a. G. Merrick garland, quick to crack down on parents protesting at school board meetings, remains silent and, some say, missing in action. Dana here is some of what President Biden said yesterday. President biden in america, we respect the right and protect the right for them to express that. But it doesnt mean anything goes. It needs to be done without violence, without destruction, without hate, and within the law. Dana Mark Meredith is live at the white house this morning. Hi, mark. Dana, good morning to you. For the white house, these Widespread College campus protests are both a Public Safety issue but also a political liability which could stretch on for weeks, if not months. The white house says President Biden wants to make it clear he believes that americans have a right to protest but that they will not tolerate violence. Either way the images like these that we have been seeing on College Campuses are creating headaches for the white house. The Wall Street Journal saying today the situation holds many risks and few good options for biden, who faces the prospect of continued protests this summer. The president says the protests are not going to impact his position towards israel. Pressure is knowledge for the white house to find a way to calm outraged democrats. We heard from College Democrats of america posting online quote their vote is not to be taken for granted by the democratic party. We reserve the right to criticize our party when it fails to listen to us. Today education secretary Miguel Cardona sent a letter to colleges and universities claiming that some of these incidents that targeted jewish students are in his view abhorrent. Cardona went on to say antisemitism is unacceptable, so is any other form of hate. Many students from jewish, muslim, israeli and arab communities have told us they feel unsafe at school or unfairly targeted simply because of who they are. That letter coming out within the last hour or so. On capitol hill republicans are making it clear they arent done talking about this issue. They want to bring more College President s up to the hill to testify about what has been happening on their campuses and talk about what is being done to protect jewish students across this country. Dana Mark Meredith at the white house, thank you. It is utterly shocking. You know, when i walked out of auschwitz with my mother walking through the gates i said i will never, never have anybody call me a dirty jew or anything else again. I am free now and here it is today. I am shocked. I am pained. I am scared. Im scared both for america, im scared for the jews, and very painful for our young people. Dana Holocaust Survivor and eyewitness to one of the darkest chapters in History Warning history is repeating itself now as antisemitic protests spread like cancer across College Campuses in america. Some democrats are calling them overblown. There are things being called antisemitic that arent. We need to not confuse antisemitism or weaponize antisemitism in a way that curtails some of our most basic freedoms. We firmly stand against antisemitism used against free speech. It has been minimum and overblown by the media. Dana so is education the answer to antisemitism . If not, what is . We have an israel activist and we have a host of a podcast. Dan, i heard you on another podcast talking about education and all of you were saying that education is not necessarily the answer. It made me want to ask you if education is not the answer, what is . This is something im perplexed by because if you look at anti i tell people go to google and put in the word antisemitism and pick any century and you will see antisemitism, major antisemitism in every century. What you realize is where these waves of antisemitism have occurred, they are some of the m most educated and enlightened society. We create these elite institutions and those will be an antidote to antisemitism. History proves it is not. I dont have a quick fix. There is a reason why they call it the oldest hatred. Persistent through every period in history. It comes back every 50 to 100 years and here we are. Bill what the president said about not breaking the law was good. Some of the other stuff we waited 10 days for four minutes worth and i think he missed an opportunity to educate a lot of people doing this stuff. This fellow here, peter, kids versus the umpire. Give me a moment here. No one i spoke to had been to israel, west bank, gaza, or could define zionism. 7,248 miles away from gaza. Here is the historian douglas brinkley. He didnt address the root causes of why these campuses are on fire, all right . He was taking a centrist approach to appease people on both sides of the barricades. It will do nothing to play indicate the anger on College Campuses. That may be true. You had a Golden Moment to explain what the river to the sea actually means. Yes, we did. It was a missed opportunity. This is not the moment to tow the line but to take a stand against hate, against the indoctrination and radicalization of the next generation of our future leaders. These protests, ive been on many campuses. I was on columbia a week and a half ago. Gw yesterday. Dana we have the protestors yelling at you and your husband. Play this and have her react. We are hamas. You are hamas . You are what . You are hamas . Yes, were hamas. Dana hamas is a designated terrorist organization. Does she want to be arrested . They are proud and telling us who they are. I think weve given them too much license with their idiocy. I have said they dont know from what the river to the sea means or what intifada means. Maybe they dont but theyre telling us theyre hamas. I take these threats very seriously and these are violent people. I want to also mention that these protests that are happening on campus are not grassroots movements. These are very well organized and very well funded. They have outside agitators coming onto campus, they have foreign adversaries involved in this. This is not just a group of students who decided to go free gaza. Dana dan, you got back from israel and the people in israel are more worried about the jews here in america. We took our children for the First Time Since october 7th to israel. It was my third time. It was my kids third time. We went to the nova Music Festival site and met with a lot of people on the front lines of october 7th. My 16yearold son said to me. Last summer we took a family trip to eastern europe. My mother is a Holocaust Survivor and visited her hometown with her and went to auschwitz and my 16yearold son said to me, going to southern israel today was harder for him than going to auschwitz. I said why. I was struck by that. He said because the holocaust feels like another era. Not in his lifetime. Another so kids i think have this mindset were more modernized and more enlightened and more civilized you cant imagine this kind of systematic barbarism and ghoulishness. For israelis, they are saying your country is becoming unglued. They rely on america. A reason why america is the most important democracy on the planet for a variety of reasons. Not the least of which most countries who share our values rely on America Holding it together. Looking at these images on College Campuses like the video we just saw, they are saying this country is becoming unglued and we dont know who we can rely on in a world in which the future leaders of this country are being educated at institutions making these kids crazy. Bill it is profound. I had the same experience in israel. I think i want to say that these students are in these tents that are being purchased by someone, this is very well funded but at the end of the day, i cant leave this position without saying that we need to keep in mind there are still 130 innocent people being held in gaza and we need to keep them at the forefront of our mind. All of this can be a big distraction from that and that should be our number one priority. Dana great reminder. Thank you for coming back and being here. Thank you. Bill thank you both. From capitol hill now Senate Republicans urging the president to stand down on any plans to bring thousands of Palestinian Refugees here to the United States warning that potential move poses a National Security threat. Gillian turner has the fallout and live at the State Department to see where this decision is today, gillian, good morning. Well, the Biden Administration is considering plans to bring Palestinian Refugees here to the United States coming even as arab countries largely are shutting the doors to the palestinians refusing to take more people in. This includes neighboring countries like jordan an egypt citing major security concerns. On capitol hill lawmakers are questioning the director of National Intelligence about just exactly how Palestinian Refugees coming into the United States would be vetted . She said this. I can tell you that the process for bringing individuals into the United States includes a very significant vetting process. That would be the kind of process i would expect to occur and it would mitigate any concern or risks we would have. Not everybody up on capitol hill, obviously, is buying that explanation. Listen to this. 70 of the palestinians support hamas. How do you vet that . In a country or in an area in which they continue to prop up this terrorist organization, it is impossible to vet that. We still have American Citizens that are hostages in gaza right now. The white house insists theyre constantly looking at ways to help palestinians join American Family members who may be here in the United States. I mentioned there were 1800 American Citizens that we try to certainly get home or come to the states after october 7th. As it relates to vetting and making sure that we are vetting folks who are coming to do that, thats something we take very, very seriously. We are hearing that the number of Palestinian Refugees under the program that could be admitted to the u. S. Could be as high as in the thousands. But as for now, state Department Officials are insisting no decision has been made. They will tell us, they say, once one has. Bill thanks, Gillian Turner with the update from the u. S. Department of state. Dana jewish actor David Schwimmer unloading. 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That meeting expected to get underway in a matter of minutes. Back to you, dana. Dana thank you. The judge is highly con conflicted. He is trying to make it as salacious as possible by allowing testimony that has nothing to do with the case. He wants to make it a case to try to hurt trump but it is having the opposite effect, i think. Well see. The poll numbers are higher than theyve ever been and thats the story. Bill after that he went in to say good morning to the judge. So our first photos have come in now of trump in court today. Day 11. Just crossing the wire today, dana, blue shirt sorry, blue tie, white shirt. Yesterday was gold or yellow. Earlier trump was hitting the judge in the criminal trial. The judge has yet to rule on accusations trump violated his gag order. Former prosecutor is with us now. Lets put the gag order to the side. This is the moment from yesterday.