anti-israel protestors upending some of america s elite university. columbia has switched all of its main campus classes to what are called hybrid learning. for the rest of the semester. these hate-filled protests are spreading like wildfire. the fear among jewish students is growing as well. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. this is america where you can say what is protected speech. this is america where you cannot threaten to kill people and get away with it. and threaten to put people in spaces where they can t have their freedom. that is not free speech. anti-israel demonstrations and encampments have expanded to schools across america. this scene in reaction to arrests at new york university just last night. [shouting and chanting] harris: there they are hating. hating israel, and some of them chanting they stand with hamas. the blood thirsty raping, killers on october 7th on our streets in america armed with flares and waving palestinian flags
and good morning. welcome to today on a thursday morning, i m savannah gurthrie. and i m matt lauer. we ll talk about major breaking news in a minute. but the review you talked about about guy fieri s restaurant, i have never read a review like this. and a lot of people are wondering, is this fair? the kind of review that should be written? or did this go across some kind of a line? yeah, use whatever word you want to use, roasted, fileted, skewered. when the review starts out guy fieri, have you eaten at your new restaurant in time square? we look forward to a response. looking forward to what he has to say. also a developing story in israel overnight. three people killed in a rocket attack after the israelis took out the top military commander of hamas in this strike on wednesday. we ll have a live report from tel aviv coming up straight ahead. and one of the most popular energy drinks on the market. these five-hour energy capsules have been cited as a possible
the man that we always count on to put place democracy front and center of everything. you know so well that since citizens united, the last two election cycles that have set records for money spent, including hundreds of millions of dollars from undisclosed sources, the bulk of this so-called dark money spend iingy outside groups that hide their donors go toward negative tv ads. we all know that. would you recommend changes to the communications act to ensure that voters are informed about who exactly is behind these anonymous tv ads? and is there anything in your view that the fcc can do on its own without congressional intervention? i would recommend them enforcing the statute that we already have. if you take a close look at section 317, which has to do with sponsorship identification and which goes back even before the telecommunications act of 1934 was written, goes back to 1927, ensuring that listeners and viewers more recently know by whom they are trying to be pe
extensive period of review and there would have to be some sort of high level determination as to why a different decision were to be made, is that the way it would work? yeah. under administrative law even with deference, the agency has to provide a reasoned explanation for its change in policy. it would require a notice and comment proceeding which is open. i wouldn t the suggestion has been made that somehow it would lead to instant clarity. it would lead to another three to four-year period of conflict and litigation. chairman copps? i would say it wouldn t take forever to compile that record. i, and a lot of other people i know, would be happy to contribute to the rationale for that sort of action. it s not really starting. a lot of that information is out there with just a route not taken and now we need to go back and look at it. and the fcc s reclassification would be considered arbitrary and cap rishs unless there was a period of comment and refreshing the
thank god my son and daughter are a piece of pie compared to bringing a show to broadway. if somebody said the writing is the easy part compared to getting it produced and getting it to broadway. there are so many aspects that have to all come together at the same time. tonight my emotions are very much on the surface. i can see. i ve had to be so gritty, steady eddie. it s going to be a fun red carpet before. everyone from the show is coming, matt, savannah, al, natalie. so many people here, regis and joy will be there with bells on. absolutely. my hodi woman who got me through this. you know who my date is? liza minnelli! we are going to have a lot of fun. liza knows something about the theater. this woman is a legend in broadway. these are great t-shirts that say scandalous on them. beautiful. we re going to have some fun tonight. it does feel a lot like giving birth. that s joyful and painful at the same time. i want to thank everybody, thank you all