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
Understand and what you don t like. they know what they re saying and they do it opportunistically and repetively. look at the president on drugs from the border. do we have a lot of drugs coming across the border? yes we do. is it contributing to the problems of addiction here? yes it is. it s just not coming on foot and the wall isn t going to stop it. not just because of the tunnels and the cartels but as we know from dhs, the bulk of it, is their phrase, comes across points of entry in vehicles, but he s not loud and proud about the x-ray machines. but that s not his big war. i want more money for detection devices than has ever been given before. he wants the wall because the wall was a simple solution to demonizing who is coming across. the wall he believes is going to save him. lindsey graham said if he doesn t get that wall it s the end of his presidency. i don t know about that but it does real damage to his credibility with that base.
Nairobi, kenya. thanks so much, continue to be safe. also on the phone with us now, someone also in the shopping mall at the time of the shooting. and i understand that you and others were hiding in a bathroom when you heard the shooting? yes, that s true. we were hiding in the ladies bathroom on the first floor. and how did this all unfold for you. how did it all begin? well, it began, i was having coffee upstairs, then we heard something sounded like a table had fallen or something, then we heard repetively, and it got really loud. so i went to check off the balcony to look down and then the gunshots got really loud. people started screaming and running for exits.