good afternoon. i m bret baier in for martha maccallum. right now on the story, president biden s education department now probing a handful of ivy league universities, colleges, even a k-12 district all reporting cases of anti-semitism or islamophobia as the israel-hamas war continueses to roil american schools. in moments, we ll go live where pro palestinian students are rallying against ethnic cleansing and genocide of palestinians. first, to molly line. good afternoon, molly. good afternoon, bret. the aim according to the education department is to take aggressive action to address the alarming nationwide rise and reports of anti-semitism, anti-muslim, anti-arab and other forms of discrimination. the seven schools under investigation, lafayette college, cornell university, columbia, wellsly college, the university of pennsylvania and the cooper union and maize college. the level of intensity is high. we need to match it with a level of response that meets the moment
good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. here is the story. former president trump back on the stand right now behind those doors in new york city. he and the judge went at it this morning with trump telling him this is a very, very, very unfair trial. and then the judge asking trump s attorney to get control of his client at one point. before we take you to the courtroom with the very latest and the reporting inside, look at these new polls that came out over the weekend from the new york times sienna polling group shows trump beating the current president pretty handily in the battleground states right now. take a look at the margins. this is nevada, georgia, arizona, michigan, pennsylvania. if you can see those numbers. maybe we can take them tighter. most of these are really the battleground, the deciding states for 2020. when you look back at 2020, the same period of time, biden was ahead in these states. he went on to win all of these states. now you have big-name demo
republican rival former president donald trump. the former present hold a sizable lead in five key battleground states the same states president biden defeated trump on the 2020 election. this comments voters are expressing concern over biden s age the ability to serve another term. the biden team dismisses the pole #the poll that counts is election day that is far away and they say mr. biden will win. hello this is a brand-new hour of fox news live i m eric shawn. arthel: i am arthel neville knew polling from the new york times and siena college is calling trouble for president biden will mr. trump s momentum showing no signs of slowing down. the other recent polls has the closest competitor trailing by dozens of points. this all comes as republican ron desantis is expected to score a key endorsement. reports the isle governor kim reynolds will announce her support for desantis at a rally into one tomorrow. fox news caught up with the florida government yesterday. wwe
frfree palestine. free, free palestine. eric: thousands salute flooding the nation s capitol streets to voice their support for the people of gaza and the slam israel you hear them saying free palestine. but are they calling about freeing up palestine from hamas and calling on hamas to stop its attacks? this is a fighting is intensifying as gaza to israeli troops have encircled gaza city hamas leaders but israel said they continue to use civilian casualties for propaganda purposes as there are continuing calls for a cease-fire. this is fox fox news live i m eric shawn. arthel: five arthel neville israel again urging civilians in gaza to fleet areas of conflict and head south. the hamas terrorist are trying to take advantage of evacuations into egypt. a senior u.s. official telling fox news the terror group is trying to sneak out injured militants among civilians. meanwhile the israeli military s is advancing the offensive on gaza amid intense pressure for humanitarian paus
welcome to jesse watters, prime time. welcome to jesse. etime watters prime time. i m brian kilmeade tonight. hamas is surrounden andd at this hour. in fact, in the past 24 hours, israel combat forces have pushed deeper into gaza, leaving terrorist strongholds evaving terrorist strongholds direction with more loss of hope. meanwhile, the war in hamas tunnels has already kicked offfs and it is a war underneath the ground. israeli forces have begunthese rigging these underground lairs with explosives. watch while at thelayers wit sas neutralizing them with airstrikes and going in one by one to clear them out. that takes guts. thatthat takes guile. but this isn t just a one way battle. sadly,d gu the idf has announced that they ve lost 20 soldiers right in combat, sometimes face to face. in the -to-face last 72 hours, whileto airstrikes continue to pummel israel. our own trains, for example, just 100 feet away from00 fee a rocket fired into israel earlier today. watch thi