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have a town hall. don't be afraid to take questions. they can make it as friendly as the pep rally that was the democratic convention if they want to. free kamala already. let her out. let us hear from her. >> brian: let her out lawrence lawrence free kamala i love it. wedding guests fuming after the bride and groom decided they won't have music at the venue and instead make guests go a

nightclub post dinner. >> steve: did they have to buy their drinks at the nightclub? >> lawrence: what type of wedding was that? >> ainsley: it's a cash bar. i don't know. >> steve: i have seen those at weddings. just saying. >> lawrence: no way? >> steve: yes, absolutely way. hour two of "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ >> ainsley: bring your wallet. >> steve: all right, meanwhile, the trump and harris campaigns are battling over debate rules as the candidates head to key swing states this week. >> ainsley: senior white house correspondent peter doocy joins us live from the white house. hey, peter. >> peter: a familiar name that we can talk about this morning. tulsi gabbard had the sharpest lines of attack debate stages in 20. to say she is now helping donald trump prepare for his debate with harris behind the scenes and she is officially joining his effort to beat her. >> it's not about democrats vs. republicans. it's about having a president who stands for freedom, peace, and prosperity, which is donald

trump versus having a president in kamala harris who attacks our freedoms and censors us and uses political retaliation who has pushed us to the brink of war. and who has created this economic hardship for americans across the country. >> peter: the harris campaign is showing their hands in terms of priorities. visiting just one battleground state this week but for two days. georgia, trump has wisconsin and michigan and pennsylvania ahead before the weekend as a very unlikely celebrity is coming forward saying they hope joe biden does something that trump did. kim kardashian has posted on x last week i had the opportunity to visit the department of justice she goes on to say i hope president biden takes the opportunity to make clemson a significant part of his legacy before he leaves office. #clemson now. president biden has been joking before he went on vacation he will campaign for or against haste, whatever she thinks would

help. it seems that the calculation at least for now has been made that he should just stay out of it. back to you. >> steve: what she is doing a good job at. speaking of clemson. the conventional wisdom is joe biden will pardon his son hunter after the election. >> right? >> peter: well, that depends. if you believe what joe biden and all his top officials have said which is that he will not under any circumstances pardon hunter biden. but. >> ainsley: go ahead. >> peter: he is going to only the power of clemson and the pardon until january. so, he definitely could. it's not like he has never done anything that he contrary to what he said. but it's possible another thought about this, it is possible that he just has it worked out with kamala harris something like i'll endorse you but if something comes down when you are the president, i need you to let him go. >> brian: got get convicted again.

in september or not get exonerated. >> lawrence: thank you, peter. >> ainsley: i bet that was part of the deal i will endorse you, kamala. kamala has to be the nominee and kamala you have to promise you will pardon my son or if she doesn't win in november. then pardon him before he steps down. >> brian: james comer wraps up investigation. $27 million flowed to the biden family. now that the bidens are flowing right out of the white house. it is kind of amazing before we get into this how many biden officials are now kamala harris officials. same people telling us joe is fine going to be great and win the re-election. now i work for the other person. right is there anyone in the white house at haul? do they have anyone to vacuum? >> lawrence: on vacation again for a second week in the row. >> ainsley: our country is running itself. >> steve: circle of people around joe biden who right up until the debate said, you know, go for it. you are the only person who can beat trump. it's like you are fantastic. you are great. wow, we saw that show get out. we're going to work for her. it was that quick.

>> brian: they never acknowledge it, pop up representing somebody else. >> steve: it worked. >> brian: let's talk about the thing that is important to americans that is the economy. if you look at some of the stats about what means the most fox news poll top issue of the day in february 37% of you said the economy. now 38% say. it's not going away. in this is the key within the subset is inflation. it is lower than it was. obviously wasn't as high in 202 2-6789d still 3% above the prices are now 20% above where they were food prices when joe biden took over. keep in mind with inflation. it's only gone up 3% instead of 9%. inflation might be going down but the price of goods is still up. >> steve: right. when you look at that mountain right there, with that blue -- that blue line right there, what happened at that point? that is when that you will federal money was coming in to the economy. and that's what caused the inflation to spike up over north of 9%. and who was the person who broke

the tie in the senate who make sure that the american rescue plan. >> brian: she had the gavel. >> steve: she absolutely did. it was 50/50. kamala harris said okay i'm going to pass that also broke the tie when it came to the 2022 and 2023 fiscal year spending budgets. which pumped more spending into the economy causing the inflation that we're talking about. so she has got her fingerprints on inflation. >> lawrence: interesting because politico has a new piece that came out this morning. can i just vote for her instead of biden. talks about kamala harris campaign trying to scramble to get the hispanic vote. they thought that shield be able to recover after biden, when it came to the border and all of that. well, come to find out that the number one issues for latinos and mile-per-hour americans is the economy. >> of course. >> she is struggling on issue that. they are not rallying behind her. so whatever group you are talking about in the country, black americans, hispanic americans, white americans, everyone is struggling right

now, ainsley. >> ainsley: axios is now report that can her campaign is now saying they might not have enough time to release her policies. the reason she doesn't want her policies released is because her campaign is saying she is flip-flopping on a lot of her past voting record, including no fracking, she -- the list goes on and on of things that she wants to take away your or did want to take away your health insurance plan. now she is big on the border. she was never big on the border. you see the inflation rate. that was under the biden-harris administration. and now trump is going after her for all these expensive items in the grocery store, how high gas prices are she can't defend herself because she over the past few years, has been touting bidenomics. look at trump's latest campaign ad. >> everyday prices are too high. food, rent, gas. back to school clothes. that is called bidenomics. >> steve: bidenomics. >> brian: goes on she is saying she is trying to divorce herself

from it. they tie her to it. harris comes back and this is her version of how she is strong on the economy. watch. >> when i am elected president. i will make it a top priority to bring down costs. i will fight to give money back to working and middle class americans. >> ainsley: why hasn't she made a top priority up until this point? >> lawrence: exactly. when you look at the full ad, when she goes after donald trump, she doesn't have any his words. she puts photos of him in that ad whereas in donald trump's ad he highlights her words. that just tells you they have nothing to run against him when it comes to the economy. steal his ideas but they can't use his words and say okay, he is going to get rid of medicare. they say that in the ad but they have no quote or any video of him saying is he going to get rid of medicare. >> steve: here's what i want to hear. she says she is going to make everything more affordable. >> that's the feel theme.

affordability. that one minute every day ad. they will start running in battleground states right now. $150 million ad buy, they raised half a billion, in five weeks. so they got plenty of money to spend on that. >> ainsley: somewhat her plan? >> steve: that's my point, ainsley, talks about how i'm going to make things more affordable. she doesn't explain how. if she would explain how, then people would go okay, i think that's a good idea or bad idea. by keeping it broad and vague, then it's like well she said she was going to make things more affordable. i'mingjust going to trust her. >> lawrence: when she says how, many people are going to say why not start now then? >> brian: only 29% of registered voters say they are doing better than they were under biden. 64% -- that's two out of three say they are worse off. independents strongly disagree 21% saying they are better off under biden. 71% wish they had trump economy back. that's independents. that's obviously what trump wants to be talking about now. and proud of what he did.

the only thing she has brought out. she brought out price controls that didn't go over well. she brought out cracking down on gouging that didn't go over well. >> steve: gauging. >> brian: yeah. that's how she pronounces it and housing. interesting approach. i'm going to incentivize the building of 2 million homes. >> steve: speaking of housing out in california, the legislature there is likely to pass a bill that will essentially allow people who were in this country illegally, illegal migrants, home loans up to $150,000. >> brian: this is a great idea by the way. fantastic. >> steve: so they can buy a house. this would be open for first time home buyers, and the reason, apparently the reason they are doing this is because there is a federal law that prevents illegals from receiving state aid without a specific state law. so they're going to pass the state law, which essentially will allow them to get a boat load of dough to buy a house.

>> ainsley: called the california dream for all. it's a loan program. it provides 20% down on payments. up to $150,000. gavin newsom hasn't said whether or not is he going to sign it. his office saying he normally doesn't comment on pending legislation. the democratic lawmakers say it's designed to give them same benefits afforded to everyone else and we simply want to be inclusive. >> lawrence: this is after the mansion tax as well. who would want to live in california. >> ainsley: and high interest rate. >> lawrence: this is where kamala harris gets her world view from. this is the state she has been for the majority of her life. if you agree with this type of policy and you want to nationalize it, this is your ticket. >> brian: this is why you think gavin newsom didn't have a prominent speaking spot. it reminds her of california. she doesn't want to be known as a berkeley kid. she wants to be known as oakland kid who grew up there meanwhile the hospital she was born in oakland but grew up in berkeley, meet my good friend 30 years

kamala harris. take your gel and sit down and introduce somebody. and that's about it. so he really did almost nothing. and these are the type of policies which i'm heartened by that she has to run from. that means the american people are looking at think. >> lawrence: they are rejecting it. >> brian: people have a heart. in 2024, they are saying use your head. >> ainsley: if you talk to democrats when we were wondering if joe biden was going to step down. they were saying they don't think that they will pick gavin newsom because of his policies. yet, they picked kamala harris and her policies are even more extreme, more radical. >> brian: which version of her? >> steve: they picked her because she was part of the team she would automatically get all that money. meanwhile, continuing on this theme. there is a suburb of boston, stouten is how i believe is pronounced in massachusetts. having a virtual meeting because there has been uproar.

superintendent of schools sent a letter out earlier this month and said that i know that 150 kids signed up for school bus service this year on time. unfortunately we don't have enough money to send them to school. so you are going to have to figure out a two i get the kids to will school. here's the thing, at the same time it was announced that two buses would drive migrant children from hotels and shelters to their school. so people are like, wait a minute, so the kids who are -- from families in this country illegally going to get buses and ours aren't? now, apparently, it was announced that the buses for the migrants were financed by the state. tonight, at this virtual meeting they are going to talk about okay, we're going to figure a way, everybody's kids are going to be able to take the bus. >> lawrence: what a dumb idea. and i don't bee grudge the children because their parents are the ones that broke the law to come across the border. but we got american kids that

are struggling in this country and we're not giving them all the resources in chicago. i reported on they shut down a school. they don't have enough funding for the school. now they are using it for migrants there. this is just like a repeated thing. >> brian: you did this interview, too. >> lawrence: in boston talked to a young lady upset about three children using the rec center now using it for illegals. in that same area. >> we want to help them but at the same time what about us that need help here? what about, you know, i'm a mother. and i have four children. you know, they need help, they need somewhere to go. they need something to do. >> lawrence: what's going to be the consequence of this being changed? where are those kids going to go right now? >> probably to the streets. to the streets. where most of them are already at. you know, like when we look for help, it seems like the state and governor and them people they push us away. >> brian: that's why the president -- former president has got to go denver and go to

aurora where per capita they have more illegals than ever before. he has got to go these areas and try to maximize the vote in these urban areas. >> ainsley: this is happening in an area where they are also fearing that massachusetts is going to go broke because they went $1.8 billion or will over the next two years because of the migrant costs. they are saring with the buses, budget cuts, can't find drivers yet they can find them for illegal families. >> steve: because the stated is paying for it. of course, it's all the same state tax money. what's interesting in that same town, a lot of people are complaining, because a lot of the hotels are filled up with the migrants, they are losing essentially tourist money. and also business traveler money. so that impacts the tax base as well. >> lawrence: it's the same in new york. >> steve: a problem we see every day here. >> lawrence: jacking up the cost of all of the hotels in new york. because they are selling the hotels in bulk to the government that we're paying for.

>> brian: top dollar. >> lawrence: not even like -- they are not even cutting a deal. so it's jacking up the rent for everyone in the area. >> ainsley: can you imagine being a parent living there and trying to get out of the house at 7:00 in the morning and try get at work at 8:00. rely on the bus system to take your child to school. you have to find transportation and be late for work. if this were us, there are some people who cannot take off. we couldn't be late for the morning show. >> steve: when our kids were going to school. the school was 1.9 miles away from our house. had you to be at least two miles. so every day my wife drove the kids every single day of their life to school. >> ainsley: thankfully in a position where she could. >> steve: we were very lucky. evidence. >> steve: i would do the pickup. >> brian: i have a story. my friend was 1.98 miles away cut him off. i will prove i'm two miles away. the bus came and picked up the two adults and picked them up at

the house and drove to the school. it was 1.99. so you had these two adults it was fantastic. but, you know, normally we toss to the news. why don't we physically turn to ainsley for the news. right? >> ainsley: gosh, a lot of attention on ainsley. i don't like this. turns now to some headlines a french judge has extended police custody, telegram ceo pavlov durov arrested outside of paris over the weekend officials argue he failed to do enough to stop illegal activity on the platform, his app. he case faces up to 20 years if convicted. some see this as a attack on freedom of speech. the arrest took place as part of ongoing judicial investigation. it is in no way a political decision. police in philadelphia are looking for two young suspects who they say carried out four armed carjackings, they believe one suspect is only 17 years

old. the other could be as young as 10. in two incidents, the victims were sitting in parked cars. the last incident occurred when an older woman was walking to her car. the thieves pushed her to the ground and they stole her keys and her wallet. outkick.com contributor riley gaines and other ncaa athlete testify today before a special select committee at the georgia state house. they will be going into detail about competing against and sharing a locker room with lia thomas who is a biological male. >> wanted accountability. we want responsibility from all who were complicit and advanced the regressive policies that allowed thomas to compete with us in the women's category and might i add stripped down fully naked in our locker room. we are fighting for the next generation. we are fighting for our younger sisters. >> ainsley: lia thomas went on to become the division one national champ. a wedding guest is left fuming over a bride and a groom's plan

to save money on reception. the guests posting on reddit he and his fiance booked a fancy max in expensive area ceremony and dinner. the venue doesn't allow music after 9:00 p.m. to say save money they actually aren't having any music at all. instead of dancing and socializing after dinner. asking the guests to leave by 9:00 and join them at nightclub their own dinner they are calling this plan their reception. what do you think? email us at friends@foxnews.com. >> steve: a lot of the people go to weddings and after the dinner they have had enough. so it's great for those people. i didn't want to go to that loud place anyway. but, apparently they have to get to the place on their own, and then do they have to pay for their own drinks? >> ainsley: i believe so. it sounds like that. >> steve: stand in line? >> lawrence: should have picked a different venue. now going to have people that are not going to give you a gift. they are not. part of the reception is, okay,

per plate. >> brian: show me something. >> lawrence: show me something and pay your way. it's tradition. >> ainsley: that's a northern thing. in the south your mom and dad's closest friends might give you a dinner plate of something have registered for. up here, right? everyone is laughing. you have here you literally have to pay your way. if you are at a nice venue. >> steve: someone comes around with a bag money in the bag. >> ainsley: $200 a plate. you are supposed to give $400 for you and your spouse. >> steve: 200 bucks where does that number come from? >> lawrence: i thought it was 200, too. 150 or 200. >> ainsley: depends on the plates. >> lawrence: 500? >> steve: i have been to a number of wedding receptions at the top of that building right there in the rainbow room and it's i know it's costing the family probably 500 or $1,000 a seat. larynx lawrence no way. >> ainsley: grateful for whatever you give?

>> steve: we give them a toaster. >> lawrence: i don't like to go to weddings anyway. >> ainsley: how do they afford it up north. i object turners ask them you have all these weddings this summer they are like it's so expensive. what's your snriewl. >> brian: what about your destination weddings? >> lawrence: ring or a wedding. either get a nice ring or a wedding. >> ainsley: you pay for the ring and her family pays for the wedding if they have it. >> brian: people since i make you marry her i will pay. >> steve: brian, that's why we left the old country. >> brian: they used to do that used to be a lot simpler. that was before the dating game and the bachelor. >> ainsley: but aren't those weddings more successful. >> lawrence: yes, they were. >> brian: enough to exceptions. i don't even know you. [laughter] hi, who are you? let's get married. lawmakers still searching for answers in trump's assassination attempt over a month and and a half later.

florida congresswoman lawler recess what she saw on the ground in but ler, pennsylvania yesterday raises more questions.

>> well, first 567gd foremost. this is a great victory for the families. for mr. zuckerberg to come out and acknowledge that information was suppressed about covid, everything when we saw president trump and people like governor desantis trying to share information with the public, about the efficacy of therapeutics, about lockdowns and whether they were working. at the time they were vilified and information from people who

had decisions prosecute suppressed. so see zuckerberg talking about this is important. shows the lengths that the biden administration went to try to shut this information down. and the other thing that he mentions in this letter that is really critical is an acknowledgment that the hunter biden lapping the story was suppressed. and that's something that we have spent so much time in judiciary working on and trying to bring to light is that we have 51 intelligence officers basically american people and try to cast this as russian disinformation when it wasn't. that information was suppressed in the lead up to the election. so, it's very important for us to be able to show, you know though, rest the real facts of what was going on then and the lengths to which this administration was going to try to hold back this information from the american people. >> brian: remember, the atlanta was out there. president trump was president. so, somehow, the challenging party had more sway with the fbi and other agencies than the one

in power which is vicious. meanwhile, the white house just giving us this statement on this. when confronted with a deadly pandemic, this administration encouraged responsible actions to protect public health and safety, and our position has been clear and consistent. we believe tech companies and our private actors should take into account their effects, their actions have on the american people while making independent choices about the information they present. so, if you bring up something like ivermectin that's being irresponsible in whose eyes? is in some officials eyes? in other people's eyes it didn't. that's the big question, if you went against what they thought was right, then you're wrong. until further notice. that's a bad precedent. >> it absolutely is, the whole idea of the first amendment is that it allows to us express contrary ideas. >> brian: sure. >> to bring those out in the public swear scare and let the republic get to the bottom of what is correct information. what's worse is history tells the story. we now know what the data shows us about the fact that there were effective therapeutics, the

fact that it was appropriate to be prioritizing senior and the vulnerable. so, you know, not only was it wrong for them to try to suppress opposing viewpoints, the actual data that we now have related to the pandemic demonstrates that these positions they were suppressing that many of them were actually correct. and that the public would have benefited from having them out there and getting the option to make their own choices. >> brian: now we know a lot of the so-called fact were wrong. yesterday you went over to butler, pennsylvania. you are a member ever the task force investigating the assassination attempt, the site of the assassination attempt on trump. you haven't received everything have you requested. the whole committee hasn't. requested documents from dhs, the fbi and others. what was your take away from what you saw physically there and from what you expected to see? >> one of the really key things about going to the site and seeing it is that you get the sense of exactly how small it

is. this is not a large area. it's very rural. even as a layperson it's clear what the buildings are. what's in the area and what needs to be secured. so, it really underscores just how inexplicable this catastrophic security failure was. that this was allowed to happen. the other thing that is clear is that there were serious communication and coordination problems. state and local law enforcement are a big part of securing a site like this. of securing a rally. it is evident from the investigation that we have been conducting already that there was a lack of communication and a lack of coordination. so, one of the things we want to be sure we do is understand how that fell apart. because that's a key element to ensuring that this doesn't happen for future rallies while these protects are still out on the trail. >> brian: overtime we know nothing about the assassin. why do they have to quickly cremate the body. we don't know how he made the ieds. they say intelligence experts say they still haven't

unencrypted his tech devices. >> well, and that is the key information that is missing. there that we're still needing to develop from the fbi from, secret service is who was this kid? what was his motivation? did he work alone? did he work with someone else? that's what we are still missing as we are trying to pull information from that phone. so in the coming weeks that, will be one of the key focuses of the committee. >> brian: i wish people were more curious like you guys are congresswoman, thanks so much. >> great to see you. >> brian: meanwhile go over to steve. steve? >> brian: turning to other headlines on this tuesday. two jurors revealing shocking allegations about jury tampering in exclusive interview martha mccallum in fox nation's fall of the house of murdaugh from egg to z. one juror manged piers testified her guilty verdict was swayed by clerk of court becky hill and

martha also sat down with juror myra crosby who was dismissed by the judge. >> do you think the judge made a mistake removing you? >> in all honesty? i do. >> you put a lot of time and effort into that jury? >> i did. >> why do you think you were removed from the jury? >> because they couldn't read me. >> steve: you can see the full exclusive interview right now on fox nation. only on fox nation. meanwhile, can you imagine being stuck in this situation? thrill seekers at a six flags in mexico getting more than they bargained for. they were stuck dangling on a swing ride during a big storm. takes passengers nearly 243 feet up -- oh my goodness. and hits speeds of 40 miles per hour. all the guests were safely evacuated and no one was hurt. but, as you can see, somebody took some pictures, and it's back to school season even for

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that yacht should not have sunk. so the question is what's right? >> well, i think they are right now two competing theories and it looks like the prosecutors are ruling one of those theories out and moving to one where potentially there is more culpability on the captain. the two competing theories one something like a waterspout or water tornado under which that's essentially an act of god under which no amount of precaution can prevent that sinking. the theory theory and it looks like that's where the italian prosecutors are going downpour or down burst localized amount of rainfall. sailboats and most vessels encounter heavy storms every day. both theories explain vast sinking but one the down burst puts more culpability on the captain. >> steve: indeed. he said he didn't see the storm coming. although you see some that video right there alex, there is precedent. back in the day when the costa concordia the big cruise ship

had the problems and dozens of people died, that captain was sentenced to, i think, over a dozen years in prison. >> that's correct. it's -- there is precedence for this. and the costa concordia was a 2012 cruise ship that sank in italy. about 32 people died. the captain of that ship was charged and convicted with manslaughter. got 16 years. so this is not unheard of although it is very unfortunate. it is you unfortunate. initially the story made headlines, british tycoon mike lynch on board. it does appear that, you know, he was in -- he and some others were, because the ship had -- the boat had capsized: unable to get out. >> it raises some alarming questions. sank very fast, at the same time from cruise ships to vessels of this side.

responsible for explaining in an emergency emergency, when we only have minutes, what should you be doing? unfortunately from the facts of this case, it looks like several passengers were stuck in their carbon when there is water intrusion, they can't get out there. is other places that are better for the crew and the passengers to be in an unfortunate situation like this. where perhaps some of them could have survived. >> steve: indeed. it's just a terrible story. let's see what the italian authorities decide to do. alex, thank you very much for joining us from south florida. >> thank you. >> steve: you bet. all right. a quarter before the top of the hour. after day one of the fall semester at cornell, pro-palestinian protesters are already wreaking havoc. we're going to talk to a professor who is calling on his school to stop coddle ling the troublemaker. king off the covers, or blasting the air conditioning. because only the tempur-pedic breeze is made with our

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>> i'm brit hume and i'm fox news chief political analyst. i remember covering bill clinton's administration. i had misgivings about bill clinton. i will tell you, this he wases most charming man i ever met. it's important as a journalist to be able to step back from your own personal preferences and judge people fairly. that's what i trust we will try to do in this election cycle.

♪ >> lawrence: no, brian, no, you you're not. yesterday was only the first day of the semester but already anti-israeli protesters have descended on to cornell's campus. even shattering the door to administrative building, spray painting israel bombs cornell's and blood is on your hands on the wall. cornell university of the law professor william jacobson is the founder of equal protection project and he joins us now. sir, i want to get your reaction to all of this nonsense there. but, i just found this statement from the university just stunning. our aim is not to punish individuals or to suppress the views being to promote it. but to protect the rights of all in our community. i mean, what a non--no one is against the first amendment. but these people are breaking the law. and they are also intimidating people, right? >> well, i think that's the main mistake the administration made last year and appears to be

continuing to make which is there a huge difference between free expression and intimidation and violence. they don't seem to recognize that when you use bullhorns inside the library, when you set up an encampment right in the middle of the main quad, you're not doing it really to express yourself. there are a million other ways to express yourself. you are doing it as an act of dominance. an act of saying we are going to defy the administration. and we are not going to live by the rules that everybody else has to live by. and we want special privileges. and, unfortunately, the administration has been a accommodating of those special privileges of the people who are engaging in the intimidation. >> lawrence: it is so well said and they later say this in another statement. we are appalled by the graffiti spray painted and glass shattered overnight along the front entrance of day hall. those responsible will be subjected to suspension and criminal charges. okay. but they never find these people. they never go after them. there is no real plan yet to stop what happened last year

from happening this year, right, william? >> that's right. i mean, last year we were one of the worst campuses in the country. we had a student last year who is now in prison for four years for threatening to shoot up the kosher dining hall. we have had encampments. we had two students testify in congress about the endless acts of harassment and intimidation they received. to jewish students. and the administration really, i think, has lost their way. and part of that reason is the faculty mostly backs at least the vocal faculty backs these students and eggs them on and lives out some sort of weird revolutionary fantasy through these students. and that's really the problem. they don't understand that there are other people on the campus who would like to be able to study and get an education. >> lawrence: william, what you are pointing sought that the issue is more pervasive. people think once they fire these presidents and they get rid of a few people here and there, but it's all over

academia right now. right? >> that's right. this is a cultural problem on the campuses. it's not, you know, president who is the problem. it's the culture on the campus that encourages anti-americanism, encourages anti-semitism. anti-westernism. these students are chanting for decolonization. they refer to the united states as turtle island. they -- and the university encourages. this and there were faculty members who egg this on and who act as advisers on this. so this is a deep cultural problem that the administration refuses to address. instead, they treat it as a problem of a protest here and there or graffiti here and there and that's not the problem on the campus. >> lawrence: of course they back it. they're the one who talk to these students nonsense about america. and this anti-israeli rhetoric. this anti-semitic rhetoric. william, thank you so much for joining the program. >> great, thank you.

>> lawrence: nuts, and it's about to repeat again. ainsley has headlines for us. >> thank you, lawrence. a scary moment for a texas family after a man with a machete tried to break into their house. he tries to force his way inside but the homeowner quickly grabs a gun after noticing the intruder on her security camera or his security. i don't know if it's a man or woman. the resident points the gun out of the window and sends the suspect running, is he now charges with criminal trespassing, and a long arm -- the long arm of the law catching up with a suspect who is accuse of sticking her hand inside a tiger enclosure at a zoo in new jersey, the woman who was caught on camera hopping that fence, surrounding the enclosure last week is now facing charges. you can even see her stick her hand through the fence and she is nearly bitten. police say the woman pulled the same stunt at nearby bear cage the same day. the suspect is scheduled to appear in court at a later date. and those are some your headlines. it's 55 minutes after the top of the hour. should cell phones be banned in our classrooms? we're getting your thoughts and sending dooce on the loose to

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