everybody, i m martha mccollum and this is your story. the spread of anti-semitism and aunt as many look for leadership, the president chooses what is sometimes referred to as both sides is him and his first on the record comments on these hot tension mark watch spewed do you condemn the anti-semitic protest on college campuses? president biden: i condemned the anti-semitic protest that s why i m set up a program to do that there might also condemn those who don t understand what s going on with the palestinians. martha: more on that from the president in this moment but first let s get straight to senior correspondent steve harrigan who is reporting live at nyu on the action there this afternoon. hi, steve. martha, of the crowd here has been going at it for about two ours. it s getting bigger and leg getting loaded as well. we re hearing chance of free, free palestine. this is called a nationwide strike and already a more than 1000 people involved in here, it s
dana: world war ii era anti-semitism erupts across college campuses and the president is pandering to both sides. i m dana perino, bill hemmer is off today. good morning, bret. bret: i m bret baier. former president trump starting the day talking about the protests on college campuses. interesting outside we re great americans. people that want to come down and protest at the court and they want to protest peacefully. we have more police presence here than anyone has ever seen. you can t get near this courthouse. yet you have nobody up in a college where you have very radical people wanting to rip the colleges down, universities down. and that s a shame. but it all starts with joe biden and the signals he puts out are so bad. i can tell you, he is no friend of israel, that s for sure and no friend of the arab world, either. you look at what he said. he is no friend he doesn t know what to do. he doesn t know what to do. he wants to take a middle ground. oftentimes tha
this is fox and friends. anti-israel nyu protesters marching toward police with flairs and dozens arrested and and columbia making classes hybrid as big-name alumni yanks his support. when i went to columbia, people listened. i never thought i would see this in america. brian: activists chanting hate across america. remember this. [chanting] brian: that happened in ba battleground state of deerborn, where lawrence is this morning. will: new york versus trump. prosecutors say he violated his gag order. remember, mornings are better with friends. brian: fox news alert. chaos on college campuses. police making doz ens of rests at nyu and yale. and harvard shutting their gates until friday and learning columbia university will be hybrid for remainder of the semester. lawmakers are calling for the president of the university to step down. will: we ll get to todd, we ll start with alex us. more protests are expected, we saw hundreds necessary r inside the solid
story with martha starts right now. martha: good afternoon everybody i am martha mccallum and this is the story today. we watch live is the protest play out on college campuses across the country. where is all of this heading? it doesn t appear to be dying down anytime soon so where are we going with all of this? columbia university telling students don t talk come to campus. essentially it s not safe and they went fully remote. is this giving in? is this letting the protesters win? i will speak with an iranian and american activist and attorney who has increasing presence on these issues and a message for those who would defend iran on these campuses and their proxies. when we were screaming that they were killing iranian women for not wearing a hit job where were you? but all of a sudden everybody has graduated from instagram s law to say this is a violation of international law and iran has the right to defend itself. martha: we begin with the other very big story
[chanting] free, free, free palestinian. dana: unfolding this morning police responding at yale university where students are staging anti-israel protests. that s not the only elite school with problems. martha: i m martha maccallum. this is america s newsroom. anti-israel protests intensifying at columbia university once again. the situation so bad the ivy league school s president says that classes are going to be held virtually. think about the ramifications of that and who is winning here. she also is calling for a reset not sure what that means, safety concerns are so high that a rabbi is urging jewish students to stay away from campus as passover begins today at su sundown. dana: how are things shaping up for today, alexis? no major action here at columbia university s campus. not the case at campuses across the country as far out as australia. we want to give you a live look what is happening at yale university. protests bringing out their near campus this