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bone. better news on inflation 30 minutes ago. consumer price index declined slightly, 2.8%, better than analysts had expected and reflects the president's first full month in office, by the way. more on that throughout the hour. we'll get back to that. meanwhile, first on campus the debate over hate on colleges. a few hours from now lawyers for the palestinian protestors who helped spark the protest and violence at columbia university is due in court. green card and visa could be on the line as we watch this. good morning, wednesday. a ton to get to today. a loaded day of news. i'm bill hemmer. here we go. >> dana: i can see how you started your day. shot out of a cannon. i'm dana perino and this is "america's "america's "america's "america's newsroom." he has not been charged with a

crime but saying he harassed jewish student. handed out pro-hamas propaganda looking to revoke his green card under a provision of the immigration and nationality act caution that other terrorist sympathizers could meet a similar fate. >> dana: president trump says it will be the first of many arrests targeting students who lead anti-semitic protests. republicans call it long overdue. >> president trump: we need to get them all of the country. they're troublemakers and agitators. they don't love your country. >> if you are on a student visa and aspiring ryuing terrorist who wants to prey about jewish classmates, you're going home. >> the secretary of state has the right to revoke a green card or visa for individuals who serve or adversarial to the foreign policy and national security interests of the united states of america. >> bill: jonathan turley tells us what is on the line legally.

to campus we start with alexis mcadams at columbia university and that's where we begin. >> good morning. those protests started yesterday here at the ivy league campus at columbia university but spilled out all across the streets of new york city. i walked with them for hours and things got chaotic. nypd had to step in making dozens of arrests. they said they wouldn't stop until their demands were met. watch this. [shouting] >> this kept going as they demanded ice release mahmoud kalil saying they don't care from president trump said they won't stop doing this until palestine is free. listen. >> when you hear president trump saying that more arrests will happen he said that the agitators will get thrown behind bars, gets visas and green cards pulled. >> we have to have solidarity.

i'm a u.s. citizen. that's why i'm here. deport me, you can't. let's go. let's go. >> what about if president trump said they will make more arrests now at these campuses? >> bleep police, >> the white house says it is not about free speech. that's not what his arrest is about. the 30-year-old from syria is being investigated as a national security threat. we have oh he seen him on campus for months after no longer a student leading dozens of protests. they say he was leading activities that align with hamas. this is what it comes down to. the state department tells fox part of our immigration law allows the secretary of state to remove a non-citizen if they believe their presence would have serious adverse foreign policy consequences. also these pamphlets we've been talking about are part of the investigation and brought up in the white house briefing called the october 7th attacks by hamas

a moral victory. students say they didn't see him passing him out but at the protests where they were found on the table. there will be a hearing for him today. we don't expect for him to be there. i was asked ice sources being brought back to new york city. they said not any time soon. keep you posted. >> leding our coverage there today big story coming up here. >> dana: jonathan turley joins us now. this is a very interesting legal battle. she just laid out what the law says. do you think, one, do you think the united states has the right to deport him? will they have to show their work today about why they have the evidence to say so? >> well, not necessarily to show the evidence today but they do have an advantage. simply because the government always has an advantage when you deal with the status even of lawful permanent residents. that is a privilege granted by

the united states. now this is a 1227 determination as it is called from the secretary of state where he has personally reviewed this file and said i believe this was called lpr, should leave the country in the interests of the united states. now, kalil's lawyers will have a major issue up front because he is not in new york. and the question is whether this court even has the jurisdiction to issue any type of order because the actual what is called custodian of this individual is down in louisiana. so there has to be that threshold fight as to whether this court has any role to play at all or whether it has to defer to louisiana. underlying this is also what our legitimate free speech concerns. when the government says they will be rounding up a lot of folks to be deported, you have to look at what that standard is. you are aloued to protest in favor of palestinian. what the government is saying

here is that he went well beyond that. that he was involved in illegal conduct at columbia no longer a student. aligned himself with hamas, a terrorist organization, and that plays heavily in favor of the government. >> bill: let me ask you the evidence question in a moment. let's go back 11 months. the scene in april of 2024. the quote from hamas, right? we in the hamas movement believe any popular movement against our people are useful in support of activities for our cause. the importance of this increases if these activities involve young people and university students given that this reflects the vision of future generations. so what we've been told so far about the evidence is that he either posted or handed out or did both maybe these quote pro hamas propaganda flyers. i guess from a free speech standpoint, you may not like it but is that illegal?

>> not necessarily but the question is what the standard is here. because lpr, lawful permanent residents, do have a robust level of constitutional protections. not as much as citizen. supreme court over two decades ago said the government could detain lprs in the case called demoore in 2003. and that is on the books and they have a lot of support for that. we're not sure of the relationship of this material to this individual. some of the material even said it came from the hamas press office. that's a terrorist organization. so that's the type of evidence we're looking to see what the nexus is to this individual. but his involvement and unlawful conduct involving trespass ultimately and property damage puts him in a precarious spot. the secretary of state is given this authority under 1227 to

make this determination. the courts tend to defer to that. they will need to really ramp up fast to show evidence to the contrary. >> bill: a point of clarification. that's what hamas was saying about those protestors a year ago. they were claiming they supported their cause. go ahead. >> dana: the trump administration says this will be the first of many. so how important is it for them to clear this legal bar today? >> well, this case was chosen for a reason. i think they feel this is a good case for them to fight this issue initially. there is a concern -- i believe it's a legitimate one in the free speech community when you say we'll round up lots of folks engaging in protest. what is standard? they're aloud to protest, allowed to use free speech. what they aren't allowed to do is support terrorist organizations to spread terrorist information, threaten jewish students and certainly

not occupy buildings and destroy property. so each of these cases has to make that level of determination. so we'll have to work all of this out. there is a balance here to be struck. but it is important for the trump administration to show that they are striking that balance. >> bill: 15 seconds left. his immigration status is not determined today. that's done by another judge another time. is that correct? >> that's right. the question of who that judge is. there are two judges here. one will be the one down in louisiana that has direct jurisdiction over the custodians of this individual and the federal government is not sending him back to new york unless they have a court order. >> dana: fascinating. we'll watch it with you as this develops this morning. thank you so much. >> bill: talk to you real soon. trump agenda rolling on. education department laying off 1300 employees. they only have an entire division of 4,000. that's nearly half the

workforce. the cuts a precursor to closing all together. secretary linda mcmahon the other day on fox says the department's core mission will not be touched. >> what we did today was take the first step of eliminating what i think is bureaucratic bloat. not to say a lot of the folks -- it's a humanitarian thing to a lot of folks that are there. they are out of a job. but we wanted to make sure that we kept all of the right people, the good people to make sure the outward facing programs, the grants, the appropriations that come from congress, all of that are being met. none of that will fall through the cracks. >> bill: a lot more throughout the program today. american federation of teachers union randi weingarten argues the department is vital for vulnerable students. if you want to eliminate it, you have to get congressional approval. we are a long way from that step. today is a big one nonetheless. 11 past now.

>> dana: search is tense filing for the university of pittsburgh student who went missing last week in the dominican republic. officials naming a person of interest. we are there and have the latest with nate foye. >> good morning. it is day six of the search for missing american college student con aftering key. they are reinterviewing witnesses in the case including the man she was last seen with. look at this surveillance video from the hotel where she stayed with friends. you see them before they went to the beach after 4:00 a.m. last thursday morning. according to local reports the rest of the friends returned to the hotel about an hour after this but the man that she is with who at one point looks like he takes a selfie with her doesn't return until hours later. he reportedly told police he went swimming in rough waves with the woman before he got out, threw up and passed out on

the beach. meanwhile the resort confirms that it had a power outage during this time. lasted about 24 hours leading up to her disappearance. hotel guest tells fox news digital it impacted the guest's ability to communicate and safety was lacking. >> just the thought that there was no kind of safety or protocol going on the night she disappeared was the night that everything was kind of going on and was so chaotic and people were staying out later by the pools or on the beach because they had no a.c. in the rooms and it was so hot. that's the only way they could cool down or have any relaxation at all. >> the dominican armed forces are supporting search teams on the beach. we saw that yesterday with scuba divers in the water and drones and helicopters in the air. dominican police chief says they are also collecting digital

evidence which may have been impacted by the power outage at the hotel. if that's the case it will come out during the investigation. >> dana: thank you so much. this is the timeline, the last known whereabouts march 6th at 4:15 a.m. spotted there. she was last seen on the beach at 4:50, 35 minutes later. and then the last time you see her is five women and one man leaving the beach at 5:5five. an hour later. reported missing at 4:00 p.m. that day. >> bill: one of the things that's very revealing is onto the surveillance cam. he has his phone in his hand. is he taking pictures or is it video? i imagine police have looked at this already. that might be maybe one of your best early clues as to what they were talking about, what was happening between the two of them at the time. okay, marco rubio huge news on

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>> bill: the guns have fallen silent for now. ukraine agreeing to a cease-fire plan proposed by the u.s. after a five-hour meeting in saudi arabia. this after the talks in saudi arabia declared the following main conditions. this truce is expected to last about 30 days. in return the u.s. will lift its pause on intelligence sharing with ukraine and then resume

security assistance to the war-battered country. secretary of state marco rubio this morning saying the ball is now in putin's court. >> the united states has done a good thing for the world in bringing the process forward. now we await and the russian response and urge them strongly to consider ending all hostilities so people will stop dying. so bullets will stop flying and a process can begin to find a permanent peace. >> two other things on this. last hour crossed out of ukraine zelenskyy says his country is ready to sign the framework for the minerals deal with the united states. watch that story. trump's special envoy steve which is could have is due to meet directly with putin tomorrow. >> dana: tesla vehicle charge knowledge stations and dealerships across the country the target of vandalism and firebomb attacks in recent weeks. protestors targeting elon musk business over his work in

washington. so yesterday in a show of respect, loyalty and support president trump purchased a bright red tesla model s to defend musk. commander-in-chief condemned the violence as domestic terrorism. >> some say they should be labeled domestic terrorists. >> i will do that. we'll stop them. we catch anybody doing it. they are harming a great american company. those people will go through a big problem when we catch them. we have a lot of cameras up. we already know who some of them are. let me tell you, you do it to tesla and do it to any company we will catch you and you are going to go through hell. >> dana: alicia is in loveland, colorado. >> it is not lovely at the tesla dealership behind me. vandalized six times in the last three months. part of a string of attacks on the elon musk-owned company.

ever since the ceo started his work at doge. the latest incident happened in seattle on sunday. police say fire destroyed four tesla cyber trucks. tesla owners across the country report they've been verbally attacked for e.v. of choice or seen their cars vandalized. this person startled a cyber truck owner when they rode up and placed an anti-elon sticker on the back. >> at the traffic light i heard two knocks on the back of my truck. just like oh, gee, what happened? >> tesla dealerships and charging stations are being hit around the country ever since the end of january including here in colorado where this tesla store front was vandalized multiple times with molotov cocktails and anti-elon musk graffiti. a transgender woman faces federal and state charges for

the colorado incidents. dealers in some cities are being protested nine arrested at this one in new york. president trump offered his support to musk at a white house event yesterday and when asked if these attacks should be labeled domestic terrorism. >> i want to thank the president for his support. this means a lot. and also thank everyone out there supporting tesla. it is really terrible that so much violence is being perpetrated against people at tesla and owners, tesla stores. these are innocent people who have done nothing wrong. >> musk says he plans to double output of teslas in the united states over the next two years. he is not stopping. >> dana: thank you. >> bill: charlie hurt with us now. co-host of "fox & friends" weekend. i have a couple of things i want to get to. your comment on this domestic terrorist claim from the president. is that where we're headed on this? >> well, of course it is a form of domestic terrorism. if you take -- anybody can have

a crazy unhinged view but if you convert that and actually commit actual violence and property damage, then that's terrorism. although it is kind of interesting i don't think that donald trump driving a tesla is going to improve that situation a whole lot. but i do think that it underscores just how fringe a lot of the protests against elon musk and donald trump is right now. most normal people are even people who didn't vote for donald trump or don't particularly like him are going about their business and maybe find some things that trump is doing and specifically that doge is doing and probably applaud it a little bit. >> bill: i think the cyber truck is becoming a political symbol. you see it driving down the road and you make an association right away. message for the democrats. looking for something to say.

y lyssa slotkin is on the view. >> we're about to turn 250 years old. we're pretty young for a country. these are our like angry teenage years, right? we're going through this push and pull where we're happy rick sad, we want this and that, and what do you do when you have a teenager threatening themselves and others? you try to get them through this period alive so that their brain can fully form and you can come back to what the country -- i'm talking about our country. we're a pendulum swinging. >> bill: i guess we have acne. you think about the appearance yesterday. the argument making. rosie o'donnell is near dublin. watch here. >> i'm here in ireland. and when, you know, it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in america, that's when we will consider coming back. protect your sanity is all i can

say. protect your sanity as much as you can. >> bill: okay, charlie. marry those two together. acne and sanity. >> props to rosie o'donnell to keep her promise to leave the country. i'm proud and great full to her for that. slotkin thing, she is one of the probably the brightest spot in the democrat party today. she is a very -- i think a very good communicator. i think she is pretty sane. don't forget she ran and won her senate race in this last cycle by connecting herself to trump, which i think is very significant. she is in a state where she managed to squeak out a win. donald trump managed at the same time actually managed to win the state at the federal level, presidential level. the idea she will go on "the view" and talk about these things and say things like this

is just stupid. i think it is beneath her. i think the democrat party would be stronger with somebody like slotkin talking about issues that people actually care about and actually offering solutions. and by the way, as a conservative who generally wants to see republicans win, i think it is really important for the democrat party to be a strong party and a sensible party and fighting in some sensible direction because it keeps republicans honest. i think she has a lot to offer but that is not doing it right there. if you have to get sanity checked by joy behar you are probably doing it wrong. if you are on "the view" you are definitely doing it wrong. >> bill: see you this weekend this new york. thanks for coming on. >> right now we're like a chicken that's being plucked at from all over the world. i can do it the easy way or hard way. the hard way to do it is exact will i what i'm doing. the results will be 20 times greater. >> dana: we're waiting for the

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tariffs. $28 billion worth targeting republican-led states. as those kick in president trump is trying to reassure nervous traders and 401k holders it is possible to detox the economy without a recession. >> president trump: i don't see it at all. i think this country is going to boom but as i said i can do it the easy way or the hard way. the hard way to do it is exactly what i'm doing. the results will be 20 times greater. >> his point person, commerce secretary lutnick is possible for a recession to come. >> will these policies be worth it if they lead to a recession even a short-term recession? >> these policies are the most important thing america has ever had. >> it is worth it? >> it is worth it. a, the only reason it could possibly be a recession is because of the biden nonsense we had to live with.

these policies produce revenues. >> things are changing fast. yesterday when the president figured how to keep the lights on for a million and a half americans. white house official explains after president trump threatened to use retaliate for a 50% tariff against canada. ford is backing down on implementing a 25% charge on electricity imports to the united states. ford explained himself here. >> threats going back and forth, tit-for-tat, i have agreed to suspend temporarily. there is a point that both parties are heated and the temperature needs to come down. and i thought this was the right decision. >> president trump is not backing down here. he is now teasing more tariffs as necessary to get business operations moved back into the united states. >> bill: thank you for that. let's bring in linda moynihan

"new york post" financial reporter and a strategic wealth partner. lutnick is doing an interview once an hour. sarcasm. he was with stuart on fox business. >> these are the kind of tariffs to make sure these things come back to america and built in america and then on april 2nd he does his reciprocal tear ifs which say to all the countries in the world, come on, you treat us a certain way, we'll treat you the same way. let's make it fair. you want them high, they will be high like now. you want them low, they will be low. let's treat each other fairly. >> bill: okay now, yesterday it was canada, today it's the e.u. talking to a lot of countries and business, 1.6 trillion in trade between the two. how is it going? >> everyone's head is spinning. it is tough to figure out what the outlook will be as it relates to tariffs. now what i think all the viewers

sitting at home who might be concerned about how it is going to impact them, what i think we should talk about briefly is what i believe is worst case scenario. worst case scenario as a country we bring in 25 trillion a year of total personal income. the total amount of goods we import is 3.3 trillion. if there is a 25% universal tariff on every single good we import, that equates to a 3% tax on taxpayers. not fun, but not the end of the world. so for everyone out there concerned, also recognize the fact that if we do extend the trump tax cuts that would off set that 3%. >> dana: they'll try to work on that next when they get the spending one back. lydia, great to have you here. david solomon was on earlier today. >> the president is engaged with the business community. administration is engaged with the business community.

that's a different experience than what we have had over the course of the last four years. the business community understands what the president is trying to do with tariffs. now the business community is always going to want lower tariffs everywhere in the world. >> dana: what do you think of that? >> the issue is markets want certainty and know exact will i what will happen. when it comes to working a deal or negotiating a deal with another country, trump wants to keep them on their toes and guessing. it is extremely difficult. he is flip-flopping to get a deal done with china and canada. he has to basically bring them to the table. he is using this as a piece of leverage. it is a very interesting approach and messaging we're hearing from him this term as opposed to last term laser focused on the stock market day in and day out. here he is saying it's snapshot. i'm looking at the big picture. >> dana: wait until it goes back up. >> bill: that interview was

conducted by maria b. inflation numbers are better 1/10 of a point. the projection it came down year-over-year and month over month. >> everyone was concerned it would lead to higher inflation with the tariffs. so far so good. we're a month or so into the tariffs. we aren't seeing run away inflation that is good for every sin will viewer out there watching right now. american households. we need to insure that consumer spending remains high. we need to make sure that discretionary spending whether travel, vacation, services, all those things remain high. coming up with a strategy to contain inflation super important. i think they are doing a fine job so far. we'll see what happens. >> dana: how to get more energy production in the country. you can't do that overnight but they are priming the pump. >> literally. very good pun there.

exactly. focused not just on what is happening abroad but what we can do to lower prices on our own front. this is a great piece of data. pushing the markets higher but something they can use to message their agenda that says we are getting the building blocks in place. we're doing these things here and now and it will only continue. >> bill: good to have you both. well done. appreciate the math. >> dana: republicans big beautiful bill passed in the house. they face a tougher battle in the senate. will democrats force a shutdown? tom sassy on his party's strategy next. latino vote may have won president trump the election and why hispanics are shifting right and maybe moments like this. >> diversity of this community as distinct as the bronx, as beautiful as the blossoms of miami and unique as the breakfast tacos here in san antonio.

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>> bill: "wall street journal" interesting intriguing look back at the election in november shining a light how latinos propelled president trump to victory. they write the voting block calling latinos the secret salsa of trump's 2024 comeback.

according to math if the latino vote hadn't shifted harris would have won, very interesting to talk about nevada, arizona, georgia, pennsylvania. you can't take this voting block for granted. >> dana: certainly i think the democrats in a free fall now until they figure out what happened. i think every time they wait, that group goes away a little bit. how do they get them back? fascinating to watch. meantime we have to figure out how to fund the government. watch here. >> now the ball is sent over to the senate and chuck schumer whats a big decision to make. will he cast a vote to keep the government open or blamed for shutting it down? government shutdowns as they all said on video, is harmful for everybody. we don't need that. >> dana: house speaker johnson handing the government funding

bill to the senate. democrats face a dilemma. shut down the government and face blowback from the base. >> the senate democrats had a lengthy meeting yesterday. another one planned today. democrats want to stand up to the president but they fear a shutdown could empower elon musk and doge. >> we could wind up in a situation where maybe this administration decides to leave parts of the government that provide valuable services to the american people closed permanently. so we're still walking through the process. >> it's about the math. republicans can pass the bill on their own with a simple majority but they need help from seven to nine democrats to break a filibuster. only one gop no so far. rand paul of kentucky. republicans are shining a pot light on democrats. >> i think the american people are going to be interested to see whether the democrats are

going to filibuster and by doing that shut down the federal government. it is on them if this happens. >> pennsylvania democrat john fetterman will vote yes but other democrats like tim kaine of virginia are attorney. that's because he represents wide swaths of federal workers near washington, d.c. also watch other moderate democrats from the swing states from arizona, new hampshire and michigan. the funding deadline is early saturday morning. back to you. >> dana: aren't they always? let's bring in new york congressman tom sassy. you voted know. do you think senate democrats should stand down and not vote for this either? >> that's their decision to make. if you want to get a deal done you have to negotiate. there has been no negotiation whatsoever. this has been a my way or the highway deal since the very beginning. and the republicans are happy

with what doge is doing. they are cutting and they are doing some things that i think are very irresponsible and i don't think it is smart for us to further empower that effort. we all think we have to get rid of waste, fraud and abuse and the government could be more efficient. cutting people responsible for monitoring the nuclear stockpile or cut people responsible for monitoring flu or people responsible for monitoring measles. none of that stuff makes sense. there has to be negotiations between democrats and republicans to try to find common ground to move forward. >> dana: if there is a government shutdown a lot more government workers would be furloughed. >> i think whether it's a government shutdown or language that's in the cr they will keep on cutting more people. that's what their plan is right now and end up paying a price for it when they see government not working at all. there is talk about cutting more and more people from the social security department. what i fear is that when people call up social security and can't get the phone answered the

republicans need to say the thing is broken even though they are the ones who let go the employees. >> dana: that's a hypothetical. the bill that they have on the table now is one. >> the here and now is they are cutting people. >> dana: if you shut down the government and democrats shut down the government and more government workers get furloughed and might make doge's job easier to cut people. >> that's what the republicans are hoping for and why they didn't negotiate with the democrats in the first place. they control the presidency, house and senate. they are running the whole thing. this is on them. a lot of finger pointing back and forth. if you want to get a deal done where you need to other side's votes you have to negotiate. you have the try to work together. >> dana: the democrats were asking for things the president would never sign. >> that's not true. there i'm the chairman of a

group that's based upon let's try to find problems. no effort to try to negotiate. >> dana: i think it was october of 1995 a young staffer on capitol hill i think my first day on the job was the first day of the first government shutdown of that year. don't you all get tired of this? >> yeah, i think it's awful. i think we should be funding government normal way. i think we should be doing appropriations bills. there is this toxic culture that exists in washington. not just new because of president trump and elon musk. it has been a toxic thing for too long. too much of democrats versus republicans, republicans versus democrats instead of saying we're america, let's make things better. now it's made more toxic by this my way or the highway attitude. let's recognize we have problems. the problems can be fixed only by people working together to try to find common ground. that's what i'm committed to.

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>> bill: right now a big senate hearing on u.s. military readiness in relation to china and russia. pete hegseth underscores a policy of peace through strength. we've heard that theme a lot now. griff jenkins live in d.c. echoes of reagan and more. good morning. >> good morning, bill. the vice chairs of all five military services are starting to detail right now as you saw in the live shot of the hearing whether our military is ready to defend vital u.s. interests

against growing threats like china or russia. senators are expecting to hear the frank and honest truth. >> in my view for the last four years we've taken a holiday from history with the biden administration's focus on issues in the military that had nothing to do with readiness. >> this comes as president trump criticized the past four years as weak vowing to restore the fighting force. assessment is in line with the conservative heritage foundation 2024 index of u.s. military strength. they rate army as marginal, navy weak, air force very weak, only marine corp earned a strong rating. there was this assessment. >> this readiness, a combination of readiness, capability and capacity to fight the nation's wars and win them has been going down and down and down. so i think the best way to capture it is weak at best. >> one person will be watching. secretary of defense pete