fort shannon bream. prepared suit with its military operation closer to the heavily populated southern gaza city despite tough words from president biden. if they go into rafah i am not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with rafah. the white house will withhold key weapons of israel s threatened full scale ground invasion of rafah the move causing friction on both sides of the aisle. it puts israel national security at risk. this is insane very quickly see america pulling back, even in the slightest that is a message to hamas that we do not have to agree to a cease-fire. vowing to fight on. if israel has to stand alone, we will stand alone. this as a protest or rage on campus collides with commencement we will speak with porter republican senator rick scott, ranking member of the house armed services committee, democratic congressman adam smith. former president trump loses out on his push to lift a gag order in new york s hush money
right. thank you all for being with us this morning. a lot cnn breaking news you re following breaking news out of madison wisconsin. this is the scene at the university of wisconsin right now where police are clashing with protesters alleged show you what happened there just moments ago all right. let s bring in chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller. john, your reaction to what we re looking at right now, we should show our viewers or point out to our viewers. you re looking at live pictures of what looks like protesters sort of locking arms outside the campus library there at the campus of the university of wisconsin, madison, john, your sense of things as you re looking at all of this? well, i think the theme of the de seems to be emerging as the university fights back. we saw the police action last night in new york city, the retaking of a season he s building at columbia university a couple of hundred arrests there and city college. and when
arizona diamondbacks and the los angeles dodgers. but bee wrangler, matt hilton came to the rescue to take pilton, got to work trial happening now, breaking news police in riot gear are now on the scene of escalating protests at fordham university in new york law enforcement crack down on arrest at multiple us college campuses after days of student demonstrations against the israel-hamas war pro and pro-palestinian groups violently clashing over a ucla as tensions explode and a deadly conflict overseas adds the divisions right here at home for the next hour, we ll cover the protests live. and from every angle, we ll get an update on security at campuses, including over at columbia university in new york after police had riot gear cleared an occupied building overnight, plus the political fallout as outrage over the war in gaza and concerns about anti-semitism way on the presidential race. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world i will flits h
right now. here you can see police there with their riot gear on campus handling and confronting protesters there who have been in an encampment. these are the pro-palestinian protests we ve seen breaking out across the country. also with us retired seattle police chief and msnbc law enforcement analyst, carmen best. tim, thank you for taking a moment to join us. walk us through what you re seeing and what s happening there. well, ana, it s absolute chaos here on campus, if i m honest with you here at wb madison. i ll step out of the way. law enforcement officials are in the distance. they have their riot shields out, and they ve been advancing on protesters all morning long. they are clearing out an encampment that s been here since monday morning at around 9:00 a.m. that encampment consisted of about two dozen or so tents, but most of those tents are now gone and law enforcement are going tent by tent taking them down. i want to walk you over here as well to where the pro
windows within really a shock in oh to try to get to the protesters who had broken in and occupied the building. they occupied the building, throwing out band and ours that read things like intifada and free palestine. they have been on campus for the pro-palestinian movement for two weeks. now. two weeks would be today they were removed dozens of people arrested. we are hearing now that they have some of them have already been released from jail, but you re listening there to mayor eric adams of new york city and he says that he, that this was a protest that had been, and this is his words co-opted by outside influences. and he says that they were going to stay been sounding the alarm that these protests were supposed to be peaceful. he said, but that they had been co-opted by outside influences. and that he was going to show evidence that there were people who were not affiliated with columbia university who were part of this protests on campus. you will remember this has