rutgers university releasing a statement to fox acknowledging that disruption but not saying too muchn part, quote, the rutgers university student assembly leaders ended the meeting and president holloway with his driver who was a rutgers university police officer and other attendees left without distinct and lawyer of a jewingish student at rutgers university says client intimidated leading up to the town hall meeting and a criminal investigation is underway and how his client was treated while they continue to evaluate their legal options. back to you. mike: full disclosure my all matter political protesters for decades get that on the record. cb cotton thank you for your report. >> thanks, mike. mike: for more on this joined by member of israel former israeli ambassador to the united nations danny danon, welcome. >> thank you for having me mike. mike: u.s. officials are being asked about israel withdrawing ground forces from southern gaza let's play this clip and i'll have you respond, sir. >> it is really just about rest and refit for these troops that have been on the ground for

boycotts sanctioned movement that began over a decade ago to the establishment of outfits like the rutgers center for security, race, and rights bigotry has been on the move. those forces have powerful friends. president biden's nominee for the third circuit has long been a patron of the center. in fact as new evidence indicates he has played a much more active and enthusiastic role then he described to our colleagues on the judiciary committee. apparently every progressive organization in the country is furious, furious that my colleagues and i dare to call attention to these disqualifying facts. so let's get it straight. radicalism has no place in higher education or on the federal bench. a forge of the president does not seem to agree as he defends him and his radical associations he refuses to render an unqualified rejection of campus anti-semitism. in fact, when i asked him about it he seemed to say their people on both sides. this mealy mouth equivocation for what it is. the president prioritized political supporters over moral clarity. anti-semitism is not a nuanced academic theory.

earlier i talked about the earthquake with rutgers university earth sciences professor alexander gatesy dramatic butjust how rare a fact is this a new york city, newjersey, this part of the country? new york city, newjersey, this part of the country?— new york city, newjersey, this part of the country? thank you for having me. we of the country? thank you for having me- we have — of the country? thank you for having me. we have earthquakes _ of the country? thank you for having me. we have earthquakes once i of the country? thank you for having me. we have earthquakes once in i of the country? thank you for having me. we have earthquakes once in a | me. we have earthquakes once in a while. it depends on the year. some years we've had up to 16 earthquakes in a single year. and then we have not. just depends on the year as to how many we're going to have. it feels like most of the time people don't feel all of those earthquakes. i don't think people are feeling i6 earthquakes a year, are they? most are rather small. _ earthquakes a year, are they? i’j�*if?3ii are rather small. magnitude

the lawyer of a jewish student at rutgers says his client was targeted and intimidated leading up tohe town hall meeting. he says a criminal investigation is underway into how his client was treated while they continue to evaluate their legal options. >> alright thanks so much. arthel: onto the other news recovering as the countdown is on. less than 24 hours now until our first total solar eclipse in seven years and the last one for 20 years but, encroaching cloud cover might just spoil the fun for millions looking to experience this rare celestial event. we've got you covered fox weather meteorologists at a closet standing by with the all-important forecast. first of fox weather correspondent brandy campbell is live in rochester, new york which is in the path of totality. so brandy, how are things looking for tomorrow? >> arthel i think everyone will be waiting to see just how weather cooperates with cloud coverage but right now we are coming to life in front of high false beautiful scenery. as you can tell these guys right now are clear. no clouds in sight but unfortunately our "fo

as of december 2023, an analysis by rutgers university found that tiktok posts mentioning topics that are sensitive to the chinese government including tiananmen square, uighurs, the dalai lama or significantly less prevalent on tiktok than instagram. foreign policy issues disfavored by china and russian governments also had fewer hashtags on particularing to, such as pro-ukraine or pro-israeli ttacker tags. here are some of those . the examples of tiananmen s square, which we know was an example of students standing up to the military. yet, tiananmen square, there are 8,000 more hashtags on instagram than tiktok. the uighur genocide protecting a muslim population, there are 1970 more posts about that on instagram than on tiktok. and my personal favorite, just because i had the privilege of meeting the dalai lama here in the capitol, 5,520 more times the dalai lama is mentioned on instagram on on tiktok. and pro-ukraine, 750 times more rash tags on instagram than on tiktok about ukraine and support for ukraine. i think that says it all in this debate today. are we going to continue to

with a distinguished service professor at the department of earth and environment of sciences at rutgersity. alexander gates about thank you for joining us. this earthquake seems very dramatic. how rare asap is this in new york city, new jersey, that part of the country? >> thank you for having me. we have earthquakes once in a while. it depends on the year. some years we have had up to 16 earthquakes in a single year and other years we have had none. it depends on the year. >> it feels like most of the time, people don't feel all the earthquakes. i do not think people feel 16 earthquakes a year, are they? >> most earthquakes are rather small. a magnitude of 2-3. the reason this one has caught people's attention is it is a 4.8, the largest earthquake we have ever measured with seismographs in the area. >> are there certain characteristics of the topography of that part of the country that makes earthquakes feel, perhaps, bigger than they feel when they happen on the west coast? >> yes. there are a couple factors. first, the earthquakes in this area tend to be very shallow. the one today

at rutgers, a man has been charged with a federal hate crime for breaking in to the university's center for islamic life and destroying property earlier this month. on college campuses across the country, students saying they don't feel safe. >> that was erin mclaughlin reporting. and this morning at morehouse college, some faculty members raising concerns over the announcement of president biden as commencement speaker. administrators are worried professors may join students in protest of biden's speech. an e-mail from kendrick brown says he will convene a virtual meeting thursday to hear different perspectives on their selection. neither morehouse nor brown responded to requests for comment. >>> the supreme court appears ready to keep in place local laws that crack down on homelessness. justices are reviewing a lower court ruling that says the city of grant's pass, oregon was in violation of the eighth amendment when it banned sleeping on public property. the eighth amendment bars cruel and unusual punishment. conservative justices seemed amenable to let local laws stand. and the high

. >> reporter: meanwhile, at rutgers university police announcing a man has been charged with a federale crime for breaking into the university's center for islamic life and destroying property earlier this month. tonight on college campuses across the country students saying they don't feel safe. >> and erin, tonight the white house is weighing in on all this. >> reporter: that's right, lester. tonight president biden saying he condemns both antisemitic protests and those who, quote, don't understand what's going on with the palestinians. lester? >> all right, erin, thank you. >>> in washington the future of tiktok is very much up in the air tonight after a bill passed by the house could result in an eventual ban of the platform. savannah sellers reports on what could happen next. >> reporter: tonight tiktok the closest it's been to a national ban becoming a reality. the senate expected to vote as soon as tomorrow on the bill the house passed over the weekend. >> the bill is passed without objection. >> reporter: it appears likely to pass in the senate too. and president biden has said

. >> rutgers, de 42 anos, esta acusado de evadir el arresto del uso no autorizado de un vehiculo y enfrentaalto agravado con un arma mortal. >> las autoridades calificaron el incidente que dejo un muerto y 13 heridos, como intencional. >> por decadas, una ley en california permitia a los trabajadores que creen haber sido victimas de abusos laborales demandar a las empresas no solo en su hombre, sino en el de otros companeros. >> ahora una iniciativa pretende sustituir esta ley que se conoce con las siglas de paga. >> erika flores nos amplia. >> integrada al codigo de trabajo de la en el 2004, el acta general de abogados privados, conocida como paga ha permitido que empleados en california puedan entablar demandas si creen que han sid como robo de salario. >> permite que ellos reclamen reclamen multas no solamente por ellos mismos, sino para todos los empleados quienes se le han violado los derecho. >> pero la ley paga ahora enfrenta una batalla, una coalicion de organizaciones bajo el hombre de fix paga lograron reunir las firmas necesarias para que los electores puedan decidir en novie hom

hit the full extent of his relationship with the anti-semitic director of the terrorist endorsing rutgers center. he also hit the full extent of his paid work for causes democrats find truly odious. like pharmaceutical innovation and fossil fuel consumption. if there's any covert operation at work here, it's mr. mangi's and our democratic colleagues would be wise to figure out what else he's hiding. instead the situation for this nomination has become so dire that mr. mangi took the almost unprecedented step of writing to the junior senator from new jersey to disclaim any real knowledge of an organization on whose advisory board he sits. mr. mangi tried to justify his association with cop-killing domestic terrorists by claiming ignorance of the full extent of afj's radicalism. it is the same see no evil excuse he attempted for his moral and financial support for the anti-semitic center at rutgers. is this a defense of an aspiring appellate judge, that he was ignorant and careless? my colleague from rhode island says mr. mangi is as well trained and intelligent as any candidate who's ever

alexander gates is an earth sciences professor at rutgers university and he explained why the new york the first is that the earthquakes in this area tend to be very shallow so for example the one today was only one kilometre deep, so basically when happens, you build—up the stress enough so that it breaks the rock, so if you think of it like snapping a pencil, you build—up the stress and then snapped, hear the snap go off but what happens here is that they are so close to the surface, you can sometimes hear the earthquake go off. it sounds like an explosion in the waves are very sharp and close to it and they taper off as you go away. to it and they taper off as you to awa . , ., to it and they taper off as you uoawa. , ., go away. they do say that new york is the _ go away. they do say that new york is the city _ go away. they do say that new york is the city that _ go away. they do say that new york is the city that never - york is the city that never sleeps and one t—shirt store in manhattan definitely was not caught napping. it quickly started printing souvenir t—shirts to mark th

the etiquette is a human rights lawyer and professor at rutgers university. and josh paul was a former senior official at the us department of state. resigned this past october in protest of increased us armed sales to israel is now a non resident fellow at democracy for the arab world. now, when a thank you both for joining me. know what i'm going to start with you. but can you share some findings of the reports and key findings? specifically, what evidence you found that indicates that you as arms as to israel could be a violation of us law. and international law, particularly was discussed in vines memo. are absolutely, i want to emphasize mark that national security memorandum number 20 isn't anything new but actually lifts preexisting laws that have not been enforced as they should have. and it includes international humanitarian law. understanding very well that international humanitarian law as often contested and can be as slippery terrain. 2 thirds of our report focuses on us law alone on civil harm mitigation and u. s. military best practices as wel

were all talking out of their ass but they said this mind-boggling [ bleep ] during a discussion at rutgersniversity called palestine is a feminist and queer and anti- imperialist abolition struggle, i bet that is news to palestinians who are not clamouring for will and grace reruns on al jazeera, not even clamouring for that here. >> i have been at protests where i've been told don't you know what hamas would do to write? and if you were in palestine and this is, we have to start naming this is homophobic, you can't rehearse violence to queer people than the why don't you know that you would be taken and in excruciating detail homophobic its violence. >> greg: let me get this straight i mean sorry gay if you say in actual fact that barbaric hamas terrorists brutally kill palestinians that makes you homophobic? that makes you guilty of homophobic violence? that's like saying gaining weight is fat shaming, these douchebags with doctors say you're homophobic for calling out homophobia but should we really be all that surprised by this idiocy, it perfectly reflects the protest we see daily wha

the groups specifically mentions rutgers, yale, stanford and columbia where this gem of a protest leaderzionists don't deserve to live. they are nazis. they are fascists. i'm not saying that i'm going to go out and start killing zionists. what i'm saying is that if an individual who identifies as a zionist threatens my physical safety in person, ie puts their hands on me, i'm going to defend myself. and in this case scenario, it may come to a point where i don't know when to stop. be glad, be grateful that i'm not just going out and murdering zionists. >> laura: khymani james put out a lengthy statement today after that video resurfaced saying the video was from january but that what he said was wrong and he said every member of our community deserves to feel safe without qualification. i misspoke. in the heat of the moment for which i apologize. well, he is sorry all right. a sorry example of protest inc. this was what blm infected social media feeds can do to the human brain and it's not pretty. we also spoke with a columbia spokesperson who said in part calls of violence are unaccepta

the student -- at columbia and rutgers and at yale, and at stanford, they are cheering on hamas who areing u.s. citizens. >> kayleigh: emily, we can get to the jewish process. the jewish -- supports of terrorism being yelled out. >> emily: the fact that why are these essentially terrorists improvisers -- why haven't they risen to the level of a terrorist facsimile? pretty close if they are yelling "i am hamas." i point out a post on x. if donald trump has to answer for charlottesville, why doesn't joe biden have to answer for columbia university and all campuses? it's all over the country. visibly jewish students are physically attacked because of the visual nature of that, because of their identification. how is that acceptable? i don't understand why this administration has not pulled all mock come out close to. >> we have seen harassments and calls for violence against. it is reprehensible and dangerous. no place on college campuses or anywhere and our country. maybe some on camera remarks will go a long way. >> mollie: that statement i think came from a press secretary at the white

the past few days saying they want to follow in the footsteps of their comrades at columbia as jp, rutgers, new brunswick, yale, and countless others across the nation so this is how it spreads. it spreads quickly. we want to look at fox now at columbia, nyu, yale, protests there popping up most of them have been what police have set up and peaceful throughout the day so far. over at columbia we know there will be a lot of activity there on the ground, the nypd remains on high alert after just the other day campuses across the city agitators were mixed into those crowds. they say they were trying to bring in weapons and ignite confrontation with police. house speaker mike johnson is set to be out there at columbia so we will keep you posted on what happens there, john, john. >> john: alexis mcadams there for us, thank you so much. back to awesome now because these scenes, sandra, are becoming quite remarkable. don't forget this is not far away from the governor's office as well. we see texas dps on how it done my course pack. campus police are there as well and the police are determined it

>> republicans cited amangi's learning security race and rights at rutgers where he served on the board of advisers. amangi claimed ignorance when asked about a speaker to the center who pleaded guilty to helping the terrorist group islamic jihad. >> how can you sit on an organization that would invite these terrorists, convicted terrorists counselor? >> senator, it is an advisory i never heard of that event until today. >> you are on the board. >> mangi's advocates target him because he is muslim recommendation what american these defend condemnation for the 9/11 attacks. sadly, they smack of bigot trip. they tend to exploit people's fears. >> president biden is struggling with muslim voters upset about his middle east policy. withdrawing the nomination could provoke that group even more. bret? >> bret: chad, where does the house speaker, mike johnson, stand on extending aid to ukraine. does he have a plan to do that? >> johnson says ukraine is a priority when congress returns from recess. but marjorie taylor greene is threatening to oust johnson if he puts an aid bill on the floor mar

divest and sanction movement that began over a decade ago, to the establishment of outfits like the rutgers center for security, race, and rights, the forces of bigotry have been on the move. and those forces have powerful friends. president biden's nominee for the third circuit, adeel abdullah mangi, has long been a patron of the rutgers center. in fact, as new evidence indicates, he's played a much more active and enthusiastic role than he described to our colleagues on the judiciary comm committee. apparently, every progressive organization in the country is furious, furious that my colleagues and i dared to call attention to these disqualifying facts. so let's get it straight. radicalism has no place in higher education or on the federal bench. unfortunately, the president doesn't seem to agree. while he defends mr. mangi and his radical associations, he refuses to render an unqualified rejection of campus anti-semitism. in fact, whip asked about it -- when asked about it, he seemed to say, well, there are good people on both sides. hard not to see this mealy-mouthed equivocation for wh

mike emanuel who was inducted into rutgers hall of fame. congratulations. >> thank you very much.e. thankful. i'm touched by my alma mater and thanks very much for your kindness. i appreciate it. and i'm exercising my prerogative as brett's fill-in with my own winner this week. it goes to dr. eve dutakim the chief of cardiac surgery at children's national hospital. he and his team at doctors and children's are taking top notch care of bret and amy's 16-year-old son paul who had to undergo emergency open heart surgery yesterday. it is his fifth. this one was unexpected. but, as you can see, paul is already up and walking. is he hitting all of his marks and will be home soon. thanks to all the good folks at children's. god bless paul, bret, amy, and daniel. and bret will be back in this chair on monday. ♪ >> mike: it is friday, that means it is time for "notable quotables." >> witness the leadership of those peaceful student led protests on campus, it's like columbia, yale, berkeley, and many others. >> i learned a long time ago, listen to that lady. >> long live the intifada. >> th

you have mit student organization praising the palestinian terror group on their signs you got rutgerss saying globalize the antifad da movement. you have stanford instructor who said the jews should be put in a corner in his classroom. so, the thing is. >> ainsley: how does he get away with saying that laura bush. >> lawrence: they finally fired the guy. these are anti-israel protests that, is true. many have become anti-jewish we know that because they are saying they want to exterminate the jews. they are calling from the river to the sea i think this is my personal opinion we have allowed it to go too far we can't control it. we say this is free speech. it's not free speech. they are terrorizing people on campus. >> brian: number one, you have free speech but you can't hinder people going about their day, number one getting through traffic and also going to class. i think it's a total capitulation by this president. i know she has to worry about everyone's welfare. what about the kids that need to go to school. they don't care about this. they shouldn't. they have to finish up thei

. >> in this is cnn >> top internationally today and islamic students center at rutgers university in new jersey was ransacked in the middle of the night, according to local officials the chairwoman of the center for islamic life says vandoorne smashed windows, broke televisions, and printers, and ruined artwork and to palestinian in flag. >> today >> is eid al-fitr, one of the holiest days of the year for muslims as they celebrate the end of radan, w jersey the incint aquote scribed horrifying tning into our rld lead, cnhas learned that hamas told negotiors that they did not have 40 alive israeli hostages to hand over for this fir phase of the deal, which would include all the women hostages as well as hostages in order to meet the number 40 israeli official say ey're now phing come us to fill out the itial release with younger male hostages, includinsoldrs. one of thoshostages still bieved toe in terrorists captivity is 30 five-year-old israeli amican hostage sagui dekel-chen. he is a father from kibbut nir owes who still has not met his third child. she was born in dissent mber two

they say they are following the foot steps of their friends at columbia, rutgers, yale and countlessthers across the nation. they say they want to establish the popular university for gaza. this protest follows days of tense encounters between students and police, protests at ivy league campuses as we have been telling you around the country. ut austin's jewish student organization accused those folks protesting here of promoting a hateful agenda by coinciding it with passover. the university has assured us, they say there will be no tolerance for disruption or behaviors misaligned with university policy. we're going to keep our eyes on this protest at ut austin for you. >>> and coming up, heated moments inside tennessee's state house as protests accused republicans of having blood on their hands. the controversial new bill that would allow armed teachers in public schools. >>> plus reaction from a democratic state representative who was there for those tense moments. you're watching "chris jansing reports" only on msnbc. reports" only on msnbc ah, these bills are crazy. she has no i

the group specifically mentionsi rutgers, yale, stanford and columbia where this of adon' protest leaderoes. >> zionistt deserv don't deserve to live. >> they're . they're fascistsm . i'm not saying that i'm going to go out and, start killing his highness. what i'm saying is that if an individual who identifies as a zionist threatens my physical handty, any costume i eat puts their hands on me. i am going to defend myselfin and that case scenario, it may come to a point wherowe. i don't know when to stop being glad, be grateful that i'm not just going out and murdering zionists. kimani james put out a lengthy statement today after that video resurfaced sayingideo that the video was from january, but that what he said was wronge membe and hen. said every member of our community deserves to feel safe without qualification. i misspoke . in the heat of the moment forgh. which i apologize. rotest well, he's sorry. all right. a sorry example of protest incse inc. >> this is what blm infectedcted social feeds can do to thewith human brain. >> and it's not pretty. we also spoke with a columbia v

. >> i spent time with students from columbia, from rutgers, from brown last week. and it is not peaceful protests that has people screaming for more ten, seven to ten, seven every day, 1,010 seconds. 10000107. it's not it's not political discourse to, to tell jews that they should be gassed. >> its nothing, it's no free speech expression to say that jews should go back to poland, where 90% of the jewish population was slaughtered during the holocaust with all due respect to senator bernie sanders, what happening on college campuses right now. >> so many of these protesters who are out advocating on behalf of the hamas terrorists, who slaughtered 1,200 is absolutely danger dress is inconsistent with the very things that senator sanders says that he actually cares about, which is free speech and the ability for everyone's voice to be heard. there is not another group, there is not. let me be clear about this wolf. there's not another group that will be the target, the focus of this kind of harassment and intimidation where people would look for some justification for

they wlkinbut they said this mid boggling during a discussion at rutgers university called, quote, palestine a is feminist and anti-imperialist abolition struggle all, end quote. you know, i bet that's news to palestinians who are not clamoring for will and grace reruns on al-jazeeraamouring non clamoring for that here. watcamouringh. ts w >> so i've been at protests where i've been told, you know s ,don't you know what hamas would do to you? right, if you were in palestine? >> and this is we have to i start naming this actually as homophobic, right? retlike you, you cannou can't rehearse violence to people and be like, don't you know, abby, you would be in really excruciating detail. >> i think we have to actually shift in. >> it's homophobic. it's violent. homophobic. and we. >> yeah. yeah. haha. so let me get this straight. >> sorry. i mean. n i'm.if >> if you say in actual factct that barbaric mass terrorists brutally killed palestinians that you homophobic that makes you guilty of homophobic. ic vie >> that's like saying gaining weight. it's fat shamingng gaining thes, with doctor who s

. >> reporter: meanwhile at rutgers university on monday a 24-year-old man was charged with a federalate crime for allegedly breaking into that university's islamic center during the eve celebrations earlier in the month. many are left wondering if this will continue to spread. hoda? >> erin mclaughlin there at nyu, erin, thank you. >>> we turn to the criminal trial of former president trump. first witness, former "national enquirer" president david pecker will be back on the stand today as the president faces another critical decision in court. prosecutors are asking trump to be held in contempt, arguing he has repeatedly violated a gag order in the case. nbc's senior legal correspondent laura jarett here with the latest. good morning. >> hey, savannah, good morning to you. this issue over what the former president can say and cannot say about this case almost turning into a trial within the actual trial. prosecutors say he is on monda. donald trump once again overnight testing the limits of the judge's gag order on the eve of a key hearing. >> that jury was picked so fast, 95% democ

police have identified antow rutger a 46-year-old convicted felon as a suspect in the shooting.hey say he fled the scene in this mercedes. >> we are working to get the suspect in custody. the right hands of justice. >> reporter: in chicago, at least 32 people shot over the holiday weekend, with four of those shot dying. after at least three major shootings in indianapolis in march, authorities pleading for peace. >> conflict should not lead to somebody pulling out a gun and trying to resolve it. >> reporter: and here at the chicago shootings, authorities continue to work to identify suspects. robin? >> robin: alex, thanks to you. overseas now to the latest in israel. prime minister benjamin netanyahu under went emergency surgery this morning as protesters against his government take to the streets. our foreign correspon britt clinnett is on the scene for us in jerusalem. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, robin. yeah, the hospital where netanyahu is staying says the prime minister is in excellent condition after a successful operation to treat a hernia. now, the 74-year-ol

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as of december 2023, an analysis by rutgers university found that tiktok posts mentioning topics that are sensitive to the chinese government including tiananmen square, uighurs, the dalai lama or significantly less prevalent on tiktok than instagram. foreign policy issues disfavored by china and russian governments also had fewer hashtags on particularing to, such as pro-ukraine or pro-israeli ttacker tags. here are some of those . the examples of tiananmen s square, which we know was an example of students standing up to the military. yet, tiananmen square, there are 8,000 more hashtags on instagram than tiktok. the uighur genocide protecting a muslim population, there are 1970 more posts about that on instagram than on tiktok. and my personal favorite, just because i had the privilege of meeting the dalai lama here in the capitol, 5,520 more times the dalai lama is mentioned on instagram on on tiktok. and pro-ukraine, 750 times more rash tags on instagram than on tiktok about ukraine and support for ukraine. i think that says it all in this debate today. are we going to continue to

of -- from being arrested of opposingar partide at the south embassy of new york, and they went to rutgers. so it shows in order for us to have progress. in order for us to make strides forward, it takes a cross section of individuals, it takes everybody. and my father and i began to have this conversation as we kick off the book about individuals all pitching in into their efforts in the '50s, '60s and '70s, and now he doesn't necessarily see that now. one of the statements that my father made which has jumped out to many readers of the book, and it's an interesting statement because i pushed back on it, and it stems from this picture. but my father believes that as a country, we're back in 1954. and for me when i put that in the book, i did not think it would be such a startling moment for a reader. however, many readers have said that, you know, for them having someone like my father who's gone through so much and seen so much in this country say that this country is back in 1954 was a sobering reality and a sobering check on kind of the struggles that we're in. i disagree with my fathe