[protesters chanting] john and that is a live shot outside The Gates of Columbia University in new York City where right now dozens of antiisrael protesters are Holding Signs and chanting, all while other students are trying to attend their first day of fall classes. In just the last few moments, there have been some arrests. Im John Roberts in washington, as we kick off a Brandnew Week in the fall season. Good day to you. Gillian good to have you, or good to be with you, i should say, john. Excuse me. You know what i mean. Sandra is off today. This is america reports. Right now we are getting these new pictures into our newsroom. They are also showing columbias famed Alma Mater Sculpture covered, you can see there, and red paint. The statue sits very prominently on the steps of the School Library on the main quad. John the protest came after israeli forces recovered the bodies of six hostages, including israeli american hersh goldbergpolin, executed at close range in gaza. Gillian rea
we have to get off our own island. a clever strategy if it was. depends who you talk to at the moment what the republican position is on the alleged abusers in their ranks. characterized the democratic response has been discipline. initially the franken response was, well, this isn t something we re going to talk about. nancy pelosi s response, draw fire for her members. say this is, this guy s an icon. can t pass judgment so quickly. then all of a sudden floodgates broke. everybody on the same position. frank han to go. conyers has to go. possibly throwing a hail mary pass. nancy pelosi knew about all of this. it wouldn t surprise me if she did. the instinct, catch fire for her meshes. perhaps that was the standing order. joan where does are we ever going to get to the point where one of these folks gets forgiven and either party feels are we in this sort of, now it s sort of, an arms race