Move back, move back. Bill you guessed it, another day, another american campus. Two weeks of chaos police finally clearing out antiisrael protestors at George Washington university only a few blocks from the white house. The d. C. Mayor and police chief talked about their decision to go in now. The timing of the crackdown might be viewed from a political lens. Im bill hemmer and hello to you. Dana good morning. Great to see you. Wednesday. Im dana perino and this is americas newsroom. The encampment has been up for two weeks in d. C. Mayor and police chief say the situation escalated over the past several days. Bill operation happened at 3 00 in the morning with riot gear and pepper spray. Chanting and pushing, officers arrested at least 20. Dana it came hours before the mayor and police chief testify on capitol hill. Lawmakers will expected to grill them on their response to the antisemitic protests and why they didnt act season. Bill the protestors projecting long live the Student I
Explosions have been reported, not far from a Military Airbase in the province of isfahan and central around according to irans Fars News Agency Defense Systems on the base where activated in response to what may have been a drone attack targeting the basis radar, the city of this hand is believed to be home to around Illicit Nuclear Weapons Program as well as the countrys Biggest Nuclear research facility, which operates three Small Chinese supplied Research Reactors or flights to its for Hand Tehran Entrez have been, have resumed rather are doing suspended for several hours according to a spokesperson for around airports, one us official confirmed to cnn and israeli strike inside around adding the target was not nuclear and israel informed the white house on thursday and attack was just days away. Ready Officials Say air Defense Systems in several regions were activated and the Explosions Heard Isfahan were outgoing fire from those air defenses well, for the very latest, cnns Nic Rob
Happy easter to those of you celebrating. We have a lot of politics to get to. But first, the growing tension between the United States and north korea. North korea last night launched a Ballistic Missile from the Submarine Base in sinpo, but the missile exploded minutes after launch. This happened as mike pence landed in south korea for talks on how to counter the growing Nuclear Ambitions and he spoke to american troops at a breakfast there this morning. Im joined by Senior National security analyst juan duarte, the failure, the New York Times this morning leans hard into the idea that the failure wasnt necessarily a north korean failure, but maybe sabotage and possibly sabotage from the United States. What can you say . This is a Missile Program thats been replete with failures. And the challenge is we dont know yet. It could be sabotage. It could be poor engineering or bad luck. Its the nature of the Missile Programs but its clear that
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The dose. so that ll be now that we ve had this callous right by israel and apparently no response at least for now by the iranians. how does that change the conversation? there might the g7 leaders well, you can bet that s the top of the agenda this morning, they ve just sat down for their final roundtable meeting and we re expecting about three hours time the final press com conference led by italian foreign minister antonio tajani. and then we re supposed to be hearing from anthony blinken, the us secretary of state. so i think we ll have a better understanding. about what they re talking about. they discussed yesterday ways to urge israel. some restraint and it s it s right now, i m sure the topic of conversation, whether they see this attack as that restraint if it could have been something different, this was sort of a downplay of that, but there are so many other items on the agenda that they ve got to get through these next and last three hours, which includes the humanitaria
The drug world. this really is a cocaine and in some cases the opioid sort of copycats? it s three things. methamphetamine, almost all produced in mexico. heroin, virtually all produced in mexico and cocaine that comes up from further south. those three drugs result in the death of i think last year 52 i think 52,000 people to include opioids. it s a massive problem. 52,000 americans you can t put a price on the human misery, the costs to the united states is over $250 billion a year. the solution is not arresting a lot of users. the solution is a comprehensive drug demand reduction program in the united states that involves every man and woman of goodwill. and he went on to say that congress needs to be working on this. i also asked secretary kelly about the fight against isis and that mother of all bombs in afghanistan. you can hear his answer on the entire interview which is posted on the website. meet the press.com.