of his wife and son. >>> and kansas governor halting license plate production after a strong response to the new design. people were upset. of course they would be. the colors are like the universitykansas' arch rival, the university of missouri. hello. obvious mistake. >>> now to weather because cold air is stretching across the u.s. this morning. there is lake-effect snow impacting several states. and the national christmas tree here in washington, it was no match for the strong winds that we had last night toppling the norway spruce on the elipse near the white house. derek van dam is tracking it all for us. it is freezing here and across the country it sounds like. >> you have to think about what happened in d.c. yesterday. so you had winds over 40 miles per hour. you've got a 40-foot in essence sail with this norway spruce that is catching the brunt of the strong wind. and of course it will topple something that doesn't have the root structure anymore. so that was a danger. hopefully they get that uprighted as quickly as possible. the winds have relaxed across the east coast because the front responsible for the strong winds but also the lake-effect snow has moved offshore so

at the university of kansas, graduate t.a.s call israel quote a colonial project. ts said on instagram they fully support the palestinians and call for an end to israel. at the university of texas arlington, pro-palestinian students took over a lecture on the conflict and the professor who put it all together says he was forced to resign as department chair. >> we know where they are getting their information but it's not being counter acted in the way that universities are meant to perform. and this is the great problem. >> israel may be winning the battle but they are losing the tiktok war, which is important because, as we have seen, public opinion influences policy. bret? >> william, thank you. eric trump takes the stand in the civil fraud case against his family. we'll have a live report, next. and we hear from some american firefighters who volunteered to go to israel after last month's hamas massacre. >> israel is a shining light in the middle east. so, i never thought that my training would lead me halfway around the globe to do this. but it doesn't matter b

graduate t.a.s at the university of kansas called israel a settler colonial project.wa, many every palestinian live long and free from the river to the sea. in arlington, pro palestinian students took over a q & a session on the conflict. >> we know where they are getting their information but it's not being counteracted in the way that universities are meant to perform and that is the great problem. >> and john, the point is you have a generation of many progressive students from environmental causes, black lives matter, occupy wall street, who see the world as haves and have notes, oppressed and oppressor, and now play out in the conflict overseas. >> john: and the algorithm does the rest. >> sandra: hamas has been waging a war of terror against israel for decades now. jen griffin has a look at the rise next. >> john: united states is calling for a pause in the fighting to get aid into gaza. where the idf is making gains. is now the time for a pause? daniel davis is up next, retired army lieutenant colonel. >> every minute that you pause is another minute that hamas

let's now bring in the sheet of them on a, he's an academic at the university of kansas also. they also have a number of books on the history of palestine. he joins us now from outcomes in the studio. the shit use specialize in the way that narratives all shapes. we've been hearing lots from multiple parties from europe in parties from the united states. about plans of visions for gaza on the other side of this conflicts, but none of them, it seems of being driven by the goals and people themselves. here i think this is absolutely the problem here. i think what's being ignored and what we are seeing in front of us unfold on a daily basis. this hotter for the last 40 days and more is the punishment of the palestinian people that does indiscriminate killing and destruction of palestinians . it's, it's intentional. it's not obviously intentional. what's happening this morning is that i knows exactly what those moves of evacuating the hospital. mean, they mean catalyzing of population. they mean people dying and. and what we have to ask ourselves in all of this house palestinians a

follow us at c-span histor >> university of kansas rhetoricolitical ications professor robert roland teaches a class on ronald reagan's 198 # inaugural address. >> nicholas talked about how reagan became dominant in politics, again, for nearly a generation, so we know that this speech is incredibly important because it was a foundational statement. and i want to give you one more source and a very unlikely one on the importance of reagan's ideas. in the 2008 campaign, then senator barack obama irritated the clinton campaign massively when he noted that reagan changed the trajectory of america in a way that bill clinton did not. he irritated the clinton campaign most of all because he was quite clear that obama was right, that reagan changed things in a way that later democratic presidents before obama did not. what was it about reagan that changed things? more than anything else, it was the force of his rhetoric. the great historian has said of reagan, that above all, reagan and supporters that-- like what reagan did was give his supporters and battered democrats and the disgraced re

bill black is an associate professor of economics and law at the university of missouri at kansas city where he teaches white collar crime, public finance, anti trust law and economics, as well as latin american development. he's a former executive director of the institute for fraud prevention. he has taught at the lyndon b johnson school of public affairs at the university of texas at austin as well as at santa clara university. the professor black was litigation director at the federal home loan bank board, deputy director of the savings and loan oversight body. the f s l i see general counsel of the federal home loan bank of san francisco, and senior deputy chief council of the office of thrift supervision. he's the author of many books and his book, the best way to rob a bank is to own one, which was published in 2005 is considered to be a classic in the genre. professor black, welcome back to the show. we're happy to have you. you have been a leading voice for smart banking regulation for decades. indeed, you were the person who exposed one of the biggest governmental scandals si

i'm robin from the university of kansas. what a great place to. reassess ronald reagan's rhetorical legacy. and we've got such great reasons to do that. i think reagan is routinely recognized in the same class for eloquence as franklin delano roosevelt, only slightly behind abraham lincoln. and that's not such a bad thing, to only be slightly behind abraham. he used his words win two overwhelming presidential victories, and his words helped what has been called by many authors the age of reagan. we have four panelists today and i'm going to introduce them now now and then we're simply going to go in order that's listed and and we have agreed that we're going to take no than 15 to 16 minutes each, leaving some time discussion at the end. i know there very distinguished scholars in the room and we all look forward to that. the first presenter is alison brash from the university of wisconsin. the world has a stage. reagan's foreign policy rhetoric and the invocation of peace. and she's talking about research done as part of her outstanding new book,

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of education is launching investigations into several universities and public schools being accused of anti-semitism, islamophobia cornell and columbia. also the university of pennsylvania and a kindergarten through 12th grade school and kansas. all of included on that list. the investigation includes 5 cases incidents of began after the war broke out between israel and hamas, october 7th at the conclusion of the investigations, the department will make improvement recommendations. the schools could lose federal funding if they do not comply with any recommendations. a professor charged in connection with the death of a jewish protester in los angeles is expected to make a court appearance apparently already has made a court appearance a few years a few hours ago, 50 year-old all naji was arrested yesterday in connection with the death of a jewish protester. paul kessler. he died after an altercation and 1000 oaks this month. it happened during dueling rallies over israel's war with hamas. the suspect has been charged with involuntary manslaughter. happening tonight in santa rosa. and there will be a rally and march demanding cease-fire in gaza and response to what's being called shut it down for palestine. the rally will be

of antisemitism and islamophobia. the investigations include five antisemitism cases and two islamophobia cases mopping the schools, k through 12 in kansas, cornell, columbia, the university of pennsylvania. a rise in tension over the israel/hamas war. joining us to discuss this, education secretary miguel cardona. appreciate your time. you said in the past that there was an uptick in basically the filing of concerns about this. how many investigations do you think that will lead to? we already have these initial batch. are more coming? >> i anticipate more coming. thank you for having me here, phil. first of all, we take the responsibility very seriously to protect students' freedom to learn in an environment free of hate and the feeling of threatening. we spoke to students at different universities. we have been at over five different states, listened to parents and students who feel under attack and threatened, learning. we take that very serious. we are a civil rights agency. we are protecting the students' right to learn. >> the hammer you have in your toolkit is to cut off federal funding. there are steps before that. >> sure. >> what would lead you to cut off fundi

of education's launching investigations into several universities in public schools over alleged anti-semitism and islamophobia. cornell and columbia universities, as well as the university of pennsylvania at the k through 12 school in kansasluded in this dot. officials say the probe includes 5 alleged cases. those incidents started after the war broke out between israel and hamas on october, 7th at the conclusion of the investigations, the d o e will make and prove mundt recommendations. the schools could lose federal funding if they do not comply. >> and happening tonight in santa rosa, there will be a rally and march demanding a ceasefire in gaza. the rally will start at the north side of santa rosa's courthouse square at 6 o'clock. >> let's get you a live look outside at the golden gate bridge spend raining for the last couple of hours here. yeah. that can be a harrowing hall across that span when it's really coming down. chief meteorologist lawrence karnow with us now to tell us how we'll do over the weekend. yeah, it's going to be a fun. 24 hours of you like rain. if you've been looking forward to that really kind of some wild weather, some thunderstorms out there. >> hey, you're going to love these next 24 hours. it

of hate boiling over at u.s. schools. now, the seven schools being investigated include universities like cornell, columbia, the university of pennsylvania and one k through 12 school in kansas these investigation stem from complaints filed by students and advocacy groups. five were antisemitic incidents and two islamophobia incidents that allegedly happened on campuses. and as the agency is working to stem rising texts at schools, here is the education secretary's message to parents. >> your child should be unapologetic about who they are, expressing who they are. they shouldn't have to hide their identity to earn lp on campus or in a k-12 indiscussion and that is our responsibility to protect them. if we see that there are places that are not doing it, we are going to open up an investigation and we are going to provide support, but we are going to open up an investigation to make shoork that we are doing our job as educators. >> cardonis says he has never seen this intensity of hate on school campuses and he anticipates that the agency will launch even more investigations. the agency will make recommendations for fixes at these schools, and if they do not comply, they do

of civil rights. here they are. the schools on the list so far, one school district in kansas, lafayette, cornell, columbia, welsly, universityof science ask arts and anti-semitic harassment and two allege anti-muslim harassment. >> there's a line, children need to be safe. they need to be protected and we as educators need to do everything in our power and make sure they feel safe in their own skin. they shouldn't have to hide who they are to learn on campus. reporter: cornell and columbia are not commenting and the school is cooperating fully and taking comprehensive action and the wellesley sent a letter to leadership calling residential ras declaring there no space, consideration and support for cy ronism within the wellesley community and the school responded quickly and decisively to that incident and making clear that anti-semitism has no place. they say this list ovschools and investigation will grow. liz. elizabeth: molly line, thank you so much. somefirst and we want to fix this and they reported that workers for randi wiengarten's teacher's union authorized a strike and it was naa workers at naa calling for that st

of hate and anti-semitism essentially boiling over on school campuses. now, the seven schools being investigated include six universities and one k through 12 school in kansas. they received word of these investigations in the last 48 hours. this morning, the education secretary miguel cardona was on cnn and he had this message for parents with students at colleges and schools across the country. >> your child should be unapologetic about who they are, expressing who they are. they shouldn't have to hide their identity to learn on campus or in a k-12 institution. that's our responsibility to protect them. we're doing everything in our power to enforce that. if we see there are places that are not doing it, we're going to provide support and open an investigation to make sure that we're doing our job as educators. >> and cardona says that he has actually never seen this level of intensity of hate on campuses across the country. he does expect to see even more investigations launched by the department of education. of the seven investigations that are happening at all of those schools on the screen, five of them are cases of anti-semitism. two of them cases o

of ninend book awards. he's currently finishing a fe volume study on the vicburg campaign for the university press in kansas and a new study of albert sidney johnston for lsu press. he lives with his wife kelly and daughters mary kate and leah grace in adams ville, tennessee, and is my extreme pleasure to welcome him here to the nin annual emerging civil war symposium at steveon ranch. tim smith ladies in. wow. thank you, chris. did my mama tell you to say all that it is a pleasure to be here. i've always heard about the emerging civil war symposium and wow, i'm i'm consider me impressed. this is great. what a wonderful venue. what a wonderful group of folks seeing a lot of folks that i've known for a long time. a lot of folks that been on tours and in the past, seral people herwere just with me last week in a vicksburg. we did four or five days, actually, vicksburg. and there some that are going to be next week in on the gerson drive tour in through mississii and louisiana. so a lot of folks that are back and forth on these tours, so on. so it's good to see all of you for having senior come up and say hell

islamophobia now under investigation by the department of education at six colleges and universities and a k through 12 public school district in kansas looking at five cases of anti-semitic harassment and two involving anti-muslim harassment. this follows several reports across the country from anti-semitic graffiti found on the law school of columbia university. >> i do not feel safe to cornell. >> were a student was arrested for making death threats against jewish people. at cooper union in new york. jewish students huddling in the library as pro-palestinian protests ears banged on the windows and doors. and the university of pennsylvania chancellor criticized for her response to what students say is growing divisiveness on campus amid hateful threats. the school said it would be cooperating fully with the investigation. >> her lack of acknowledgment for palestinian and arab students on campus has been pretty disappointing. us secretary of education miguel cardona telling abc news. >> with complaints about islamophobia and anti semitism on the rise there will be more investigations. >> so that's the ultimate goal. safe learning env

cases and two islam phobia cases among the schools, k-12 school in kansas and six colleges including cornell, columbia and university of pennsylvania, of course, college campuses have seen such a rise in tension over this since october 7th. education secretary miguel cardona will be here to talk to us next hour about all of it. >>> also overnight, the government shutdown has been averted. thank goodness. president biden signed a short-term funding br ing bill w kicks the can down the road until january and february. >>> growing calls for republican congressman george santos to be kicked out of the house of representatives. the calls after an explosive report from the house ethics committee found he repeatedly used campaign funds for personal expenses including thousands of dollars worth of high-end designer goods, botox treatments and apparently some onlyfans watching. now santos will not run for re-election saying a year from hell but he will never back down and announced a news conference outside the capitol on november 30th. cnnen lauren fox is live for us in washington. i don't want to ask you what he's going to ta

islamophobia now under investigation by the department of education at six colleges and universities and a k through 12 public school district in kansaswo involving anti-muslim harassment. this follows several reports across the country from anti-semitic graffiti found on the law school of columbia university. >> i do not feel safe to cornell, where a student was arrested for making death threats against jewish people at at cooper union in new york, jewish students huddling in the library as pro-palestinian protesters banged on the windows and doors. >> and the university of pennsylvania chancellor criticized for her response to what students say is growing divisive on campus amid hateful threats. the school said it would be cooperating fully with the investigation. >> her lack of acknowledged agent for palestinian and arab students on campus has been pretty disappointing. us secretary of education miguel cardona telling abc news. >> with complaints about islamophobia and anti-semitism on the rise, there will be more investigations. >> so that's the ultimate goal. safe learning environments for students and learning environments that

islamophobia now under investigation by the department of education at six colleges and universities and a k through 12 public school district in kansasent is looking at five cases of anti-semitic harassment and two involving anti-muslim harassment. this follows several reports across the country from anti-semitic graffiti found on the law school of columbia university. >> i do not feel safe to cornell, where a student was arrested for making death threats against jewish people. at cooper union in new york, jewish students huddling in the library as pro-palestinian protest posters banged on the windows and doors. >> and the university of pennsylvania chancellor criticized for her response to what students say is growing divisive ness on campus amid hateful threats. the school said it would be cooperating fully with the investigation. >> her lack of acknowledged agent for palestinian and arab students on campus has been pretty disappointing. >> us secretary of education miguel cardona telling abc news. with complaints about islamophobia and anti semitism on the rise, there will be more investigations. >> so that's the ultimate goal. sa

university and a former u. k. military intelligence officer. i asked him, what is really troops can expect is they pushing to the center of kansas city? i think we don't have an idea of that, but i'm absolutely certain that there is probably file is a fairly accurate assessment on the positive intelligence offices of the 36 division all these way. they are the most powerful unit they have who are about to enter. so i thought really speculates on that and the overall context stays the 20 or $30000.00 with a garza at the end table itself. but there's no way of telling how many it goes to city. i would suspect they were going to be a fat, a high number as a wants to make a stop. these really projections with this particular phase of the operation. full goal is to say it will take months, not weeks. it is in fact to ex, essential for a month. so i take your point of israel's made it repeatedly clear their goal is the destruction of from us in particular its leadership and their headquarters and goes to the city. does the idea of believe how mos leaders are in fact still there they say that they have over the last 4 weeks or so. probably t

of the seven schools, they include cornell, columbia university, the univeryuunivers pennsylvania and one k-12 school in kansase investigation stems from complaints filed by students and advocacy groups. five were anti-semitic incidences. as the agency works to stem rising tensions at schools, here's the education secretary and his message to parents. >> your child should be unapologetic about expressing who they are. they shouldn't have to hide their identity to learn on campus or in a k-12 institution. that is our responsibility to protect them. if we see there are places that are not doing it, we're going to open an investigation. we're going to provide support, but open an investigation're dos educators. >> reporter: cardona says he's never seen this intensity of hate on school campuses, and he does anticipate the agency will launch even more investigations. they will make recommendations for fixes at these schools, and if schools do not comply, they do risk losing federal funding. cnn reached out to all of the schools under investigation. most of them replied saying they will cooperate with the investigat

of the reeducation podcast. great to have you back on again. six colleges and universities and one school district, cornell, columbia, wellsly, uhyphen, lafayette, and mays in kansas. what took so long for the biden administration to initiate this investigation, because in the past they see an issue that aligns with their narrative they jump on it. this took a long time for them to take action. >> you know, i would say this, that i do think that it's deplorable the kind of activities and the double standard exposed since october 7th, especially on the college and university campuses, which will take action against students for the slightest of microaggressions. i think that there are dangers of involving the federal government in this kind of question because the definition of antisemitism at times can be nebulous, even though i don't think we would in any way disagree with some of the incidents on the campuses, and i worry that maybe the best tool right now is what we have already seen, well think alumni, student groups themselves taking on some of these people. so for far too long, you know, the cretins on the campuses have not had a real pushback. i think the m

of liberty." >> up next more american history tv. >> i am robin bowman from the university off kansas. what a great place to reassess ronald reagan's legacy. we got such great reasons to do that. i think reagan is routinely recognized as in the same class for eloquent as franklin delano roosevelt and only slightly behind abraham lincoln, and that's not such a bad thing to only be slightly behind abraham lincoln. he used his words to win two overwhelming presidential victories and his work helped shape what is been called by many authors the age of reagan. we have four analysts today, and a good introduced them now and then were simba going to go in order that's listed. and we have agreed that we are going to take no more than 15 to 16 minutes each, leaving some time for discussion at the inn. i know there are very distinguished scholars in the room and we all look forward to that. the firstt present is allison prasch and university of wisconsin. the world has a stake of reagan's foreign policy rhetoric and invocation of peace, and she's talked about research done as part of her outstan