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criminal. luckily the only blood bank for dogs in nevada was able to supply blood and plasma to safe his life. enzo was so happy to all the doggy owners who helped save him. is he home safe. i want you to to know tonight that i will be on "the ingraham angle." >> greg: no truth to the rumor that kristi noem was seen leaving the crime scene. kevin, you got 30 seconds. >> kevin: 37-year-old man struck gold and diamonds two pair of diamonds earrings 14 apiece. the french designer, which is cart yea, made a mistake and, of course, when they realized the error they tried to give him something free like a little leatherback no no than net i want the real thing. gave him 14 k. they understand brand management. >> greg: that's it for us, bret. >> bret: mr. wonderful is really, really good at one more
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thing okay, greg. >> greg: bye. >> bret: good evening. i'm brett bay. anti-israel protesters college campuses clashing with law enforcement several locations again tonight this after police in new york forcibly evicted demonstrators from a columbia university building overnight. new protests have begun at another new york school, an anti-anti-semitic, anti-israel protesters ucla in los angeles fought with pro-jewish demonstrators who tried to tear down their encampment overnight. in the midst of all of this, very little from president biden himself, his staff putting out statements answering questions about the president's relative silence on the issue. we begin tonight in los angeles with correspondent bill melugin at ucla. good evening, bill. >> bill: bret, good evening to you. all classes here at ucla are canceled today after a night of violent clashes here on campus that went on for hours without any kind of law enforcement intervention and just moments ago, we heard from ucla's
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chancellor who described what happened last night as, quote: utterly unacceptable. well, the school had essentially been taking a hands off approach to angt israel encampment behind us for many days and last night tensions finally boiled over. [shouting] fireworks, pepper spray, fist fights and screaming matches. [shouting] >> bill: protests turning violent overnight at ucla. a group of counter demonstrators descended on the campus and tried to disassemble the anti-israel encampment. absent from the scenes of anarchy was any police intervention. for more than two hours, both sides battled with nothing separating them. leading to multiple injuries. it wasn't until the early morning hours that lapd officers arrived and broke up the fights. [chanting we will not stop, we will not rest] >> bill: protesters around the country say they are not deterred by the escalation. >> we are ready to take on
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whatever happens. >> bill: the situation turned violent today in madison, wisconsin, when police removed an encampment. at least a dozen common strars were arrested. and fresh protests broke out at the university of las vegas. [chanting] >> university of texas at dallas encampment went up on monday. university of texas in austin were pepper sprayed. the campus is now calmer. the university issued a statement saying dozens of people arrested there had no affiliation with the school and that weapons, including guns were confiscated. 10 protesters were arrested at the university of south florida tuesday. campus police say this one had a gun in his waistband. the library at portland state remains occupied as does the encampment at ucla's recognize hall. >> we thought we were going to get swept by the lapd last night and stuff but, yeah, going to take a cold shower to get these chemicals off. >> and take a look at this moment of patriotism on the
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campus of unc chapel hill as a group of frat brothers defended the american flag from anti-israel protesters. yesterday, those protesters pulled down the american flag and replaced it with a palestinian flag. law enforcement then went in and put the american flag back in its place. the protesters then came back and tried to pull it down again. well, the frat brothers stepped in and defended it. those are the pictures you are looking at right it now. there is now a go fund me for them to call a quote, unquote, rager that was raised over $120,000. bret? >> bret: that's a lot of kegs. bill melugin in los angeles. bill, thanks. new york mayor eric adams says police have arrested almost 300 protesters at columbia university and city college. he is blaming what he calls outside agitators for some of the trouble. and new demonstrations erupted today at another new york school. correspondent alexis mcadams has the latest tonight from the
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campus of fordham university. good evening, alexis. >> greg, g bret, good evening. this is what is happening on the ground. heavy police presence right behind us in new york city. it's a similar situation to what we saw over at columbia but really a lot less force. this is where it all started here. you can see in this campus building that's where they had a gaza solidarity encampment set up. those students were served suspension paperwork according to organizers today. the administration telling those students via email they were no longer allowed on campus. those tents are now gone. we haven't seen any arrests. protests like this popping up on campuses across new york city, bret. here's a live look across the big apple. the crowd gathering just hours after absolute chaos at columbia university overnight. hundreds of nypd officers in riot gears moving into the campus grounds overnight after getting a call from columbia president minouche shafik asking the police to clear that encampment and remove the students who took over hamilton hall. police tell fox news those students barricaded themselves
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behind those doors using furniture so officers had to actually go through the windows, nearly 300 people were arrested at columbia and at city college on tuesday. the same area where these nypd officers raised the american flag again after protesters replaced it with the palestinian flag. today the nypd confirming that the wife of a man convicted of giving material support to terrorism was on columbia's campus this weeing just the other day. according to the justice department the woman's husband pled guilty to a charge of conspiring to provide services to the palestinian islamic jihad. watch. >> last week, there was the wife of somebody who had been convicted for material support to terrorism on campus. and we have no evidence of any criminal wrongdoing on her part. but that's not somebody who i would want necessarily influencing my child if i were a parent of somebody at columbia. >> and as the protests continue across new york city, the nypd
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remains on standby but no major issues and no arrests just yet. bret? >> bret: you know, alexis, i saw you earlier today talking and interviewing some of these students. one of them said she saw a difference between what she was doing out there and anti-semitic protests. obviously we have seen all kinds of signs and chants at different protests. but they are trying to make that differential, right? >> that's right, yeah. there are some students out here who say they are here to talk about what is happening with the palestinian people. and then there are some outsiders nypd and some of these students know that are moving in and trying to cause trouble and chaos and even possibly, you know, trying to antagonize the police, bret? >> bret: alexis mcadams in the bronx alexis, thanks. president biden has let printed statements and comments from administration officials to do the talking on the campus chaos. his spokesperson today fielding many questions on the protest and several questions about the president's silence on the issue. meanwhile, down the street, congress debated and voted on a
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move to go on the record about anti-semitism. white house correspondent peter doocy has details tonight life from the north lawn. good evening, peter. >> peter: good evening, bret. late today the house easily passed a bill addressing anti-semitism as president biden has remains entirely out of sight. he is at a campaign fundraiser a few blocks away right now. and he is leaving it up to his aides to explain the white house's position on these protests. >> there's a small number of students who are causing the disruption. >> peter: as white house officials sympathize with peaceful student protesters, intense debate erupted on capitol hill over a bipartisan bill aiming to make the holocaust remembrance alliance definition of anti-semitism the law. >> this legislation is a distraction. >> democrat congressman jerry nadler claims the bill cools protected speech. >> the fact that we have some of the highest ranking jewish officials in america refusing to defend the jewish community because of politics is a
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disgrace! >> peter: and in the senate a fresh threat to cut funding to colleges and universities. the biggest supply of money comes from us and so we're taking a look at how to condition that money. >> president biden continues keeping his feelings about campus chaos to himself. >> mr. president, you need to speak tonight. you need to tell these schools, if you don't clean up your act i will clean it up for you. the most recent comment on the protest april 22nd. >> i condemn the anti-semitic protest. i also condemn those who don't understand what's going on with the palestinians. >> peter: and that is not president biden having it both ways according to officials frustrated with comparison's to trump's charlottesville response. >> they are just not the same. fundamentally not the same. and it is in bad faith, it is in bad faith to say that. >> peter: but there are big differences between biden's approach in 2024 versus 2017. >> you said about trump's response then charlottesville was a moment where i thought silence would be com complicityw
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do you explain his silence this week? >> the president has not been silent on this issue when it comes to hate speech, anti-semitism. >> peter: officials here want credit for president biden's past statements on vile anti-semitic rhetoric and for the plan that he put forward in the past to address anti-semitism on college campuses, even though there is plenty of evidence. everyday this week that that plan has not taken hold. bret? >> bret: peter doocy live on the north lawn. peter, thanks. ♪ ♪ >> bret: house lawmakers tried to get some answers today about the alleged involvement of a u.s.-based organization in so-called gain of function research in china prior to the coronavirus pandemic. here is senior congressional correspondent chad pergram. >> peter coshocton shingleton is at the center of the controversy
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surrounding speculation how covid-19 may have started house republicans say his firm ecohealth facilitated experiments on bats at the wuhan institute of virology, ground zero for theories that covid-19 came from a lab leak based on myth and legend. >> the federal government shut down his work in 2020. lawmakers accuse him of playing loose with a $4 million grant and conducting risky experiments. lawmakers believe he tried to cover up research once covid you labeled lab leak theory as conspiracy theory. >> i did not say that. >> suggest since he wasn't forthright that may have fueled speculation about what went down in wuhan. >> you knew that there were difficulties when the taxpayers' money is used for scientific research. it is imperative that people comply with the rules. >> some house lawmakers doubt
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that covid came from nature. the intelligence community says, quote: most agencies say with low confidence that covid-19 was not engineered. but the fbi and the department of energy say it could be from a lab leak. however, democrats doubt there was a conspiracy. >> this is not the same as i'm covering covid-19's origin now is it evidence that our scientific community caused and has sought to cover up the origins of the pandemic. >> the g.o.p. demands a criminal investigation into ecohealth, both parties vow to cut funding for the firm. bret? >> bret: chad, on another issue, congresswoman marjorie taylor greene from georgia says she will try to oust house speaker mike johnson next week? >> that's right. greene will trigger her resolution next week, as you say. democrats will likely rescue johnson. >> now we have hakeem jeffries and the democrats coming out embracing mike johnson with a
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warm hug and a big wet sloppy kiss because mike johnson is giving them everything they want. >> the house will actually vote on killing greene's resolution. that's one step away from a vote to oust the speaker. bret? >> bret: okay, chad. we will monitor that. thanks. the federal reserve chairman says inflation has remained stubbornly high in recent months and the fed does not plan to cut interest rates until it has greater confidence that price increases are slowing sustainably to its 2% targets. it is still the target. stocks were mixed today on that news. the dow was up 87, the s&p 500 lost 17. the nasdaq was down 52. up next, one member of congress calls it a cuban missile crisis in space. we will look at russia's development of antisatellite nuclear technology. first, here's what some of our fox affiliates arranged the country are covering tonight. fox 13 in tampa as florida governor ron desantis signs a
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bill outlawing the sale and manufacturing of lab-grown meat. the bill, also preempts local governments from regulating electric vehicle charging stations and increases penalty informs are people who commit crimes on florida farms. fox 36 in charlotte, with a procession for fallen deputy u.s. marshal thomas weeks jr. from charlotte to moorsville. the 48-year-old weeks died in the line of duty monday when a suspect opened fire on law enforcement officers killing weeks and three others. records show gunmen terry hughes jr. had arrest history dating back more than two decades. he was killed in that shootout. this is a live look at seattle from fox 13, our affiliate there one of the big stories there tonight, animal control officers intensify efforts to locate a missing zebra. yes, a zebra on the loose. the animal has been loose for about 48 hours. it was part of a group of zebras bound for montana. four of them staged a daring
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>> bret: tonight we have an in-depth look at what one republican congressman is calling a cuban missile crisis in space. russia is developing antisatellite nuclear capability in what was previously an off limits location. here is chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin. >> the command to abort the launch is issued. >> for the second year russia failed to lift heavy rocket from far eastern space complex. part of an effort to beat the u.s. in colonizing the moon. a third launch failed tuesday. the same day defense secretary lloyd austin faced questions on capitol hill from lawmakers concerned about a more menacing aspect of the new space race. new intelligence suggesting russia is developing an antisatellite nuclear capability that would threaten u.s. space assets if used in combat it could blind the u.s. military.
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>> it would have devastating consequences. >> concerns about antisatellite weapons in space go back to 2007, when china first fired a ballistic missile at one of its satellites to demonstrate this new capability and threat. house intelligence committee chairman mike turner raised alarm bells two months ago after seeing classified intelligence that suggested russia planned to launch a nuclear antisatellite weapon in space i believe this is the cuban missile crisis in space and this administration is sleep walking itself into an international crisis. >> last week russia vetoed a u.s. and japan sponsored u.n. resolution reaffirming the 1967 outer space treaty, calling for nations to prevent a nuclear arms race in space. china abstained. >> national security adviser jake sullivan called out russian president vladimir putin who has said publicly russia has no intention of deploying nuclear weapons in space.
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if so, he asked, why did russia veto the resolution? bret? >> bret: jennifer griffin at the pentagon, jennifer, thank you. up next, former president donald trump returns to the campaign trail. we'll have a live report from michigan as you look like there in free land, michigan. first beyond our borders tonight, police used tear gas to disperse protesters during the mayday march in paris. thousands of people marched through the french capital seeking better pay and working conditions. tourists are evacuated by air neerve in kenya amid flooding and heavy rains there. more than a dozen hotels, lodges, and camps are flooded. the kenyan red cross says it recognized 36 people by air, 35 by land. more than 170 people have died across kenya since mid march when the rainy season started. this is a live look at cape town one of the big stories there tonight an aquarium in south africa is trying to help more than 500 baby sea turtles washed
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♪ >> bret: the arizona state senate has approved a bill to appeal abortion ban dating back to the 19th century. two republicans sided with democrats in arizona to pass the house bill. the legislation comes after the state supreme court decided an abortion law from 1864 could be reinstated. the bill now goes to democratic governor katie hobbs who is expected to sign it.
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♪ >> bret: former president trump is back on the campaign trail during a short break in his new york criminal trial. he's trying to flip michigan and wisconsin back into his column after winning them in 2016 and losing them in 2020. correspondent garrett tenney reports tonight from freeland, michigan. >> hello, wisconsin. how are you? [cheers] >> former president donald trump back on the campaign trail today holding rallies in wisconsin and michigan. both states and pennsylvania make democrats blue wall strategy since winning those states which flipped for joe biden in 2020 after going for donald trump in 2016 would nearly secure biden a second term. but right now the races virtual tie in all three states. one of the top issues for voters is the economy. >> we had the greatest. we had no inflation. today your inflation is so high it doesn't matter if you make money it doesn't matter. it eats you alive. but, when i'm in the white house, the biden economic bus will quickly be replaced with
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the trump economic boom. we're going to replace it. we will replace it quickly. >> democrats are hoping to make abortion a bigger issue in this race and are hammering the former president over a new "time" magazine interview in which he said he would leave abortion policies up to the states in the second term and wouldn't take action to stop states from enforcing their laws even if those laws included monitoring women's pregnancies, of which trump said, quote: i think they might do that. vice president kamala harris responded to those remarks during a campaign stop in florida today while marking the state's new six week abortion ban taking effect. >> under donald trump, it would be fair game for women to be monitored and punished by the government whereas joe biden and i have a different view. we believe the government should never come between a woman and her doctor. [cheers] >> both campaigns are continuing their attacks on independent candidate robert kennedy jr. who
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today challenged joe biden to agree to a 50-state poll to see who performed strongest against donald trump and for whoever is the weaker between them to then drop out. bret? >> bret: garrett tenney in freeland, michigan, that rally ongoing. you see the former president in a distance there and trump force one over his shoulder. garrett, thanks. let's bring in chief political analyst brit hume. brit, good evening. you watched the earlier rally in wisconsin by the former president. your thoughts? his message and his delivery? >> well, he seems in good form, bret, apart from, you know, whether you like what he said or not, you know, if i were he, i would be a nervous wreck facing what he is facing in the middle of a trial with more to come and had all that stuff hanging over my head. i would have a hard time going out on the campaign trail and being all chipper and up for it and focused. and he seemed to be all of those things today. so, it's a sign that even though
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he is hamp erred by his need to be in court a lot, he maintains an energy advantage over joe biden on the campaign trail by quite a lot. and that may persist as he when he is out there, is he his oldself. >> bret: message a lot today in wisconsin and now in freeland, michigan has been on the economy, which is obviously the number one issue. when polled people around america say it's important to them come election. i want to bring up this "time" magazine piece that went in depth and titled how far would trump go? how far trump would go. and here's a quote from it. what emerged in two interviews with trump and conversations with more than a dozen of his closest advisers and confidantes were the outlines of an imperial presidency that would reshape america and its role in the world. it goes on to specific quotes and cites, as you can imagine,
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officials that are not cited -- they are anonymous in the piece. but, your thoughts on this premise and what a number of the media outlets have been grasping on to? >> brit: it seemed to me that "time" magazine article was more notable for what it said about trump even though it was apparently based on an interview than what he actually said. when people have had a four year experience with a person that's president, they may not be subject unless they are already are against him to claims about how awful and terrible is he going to be if he gets another term. we're looking at polling now, bret. in which people say they found life under donald trump nor agreeable than they find it now, on the incumbent -- under the incumbent president. so, you know, this piece will have its moment and the comments about abortion, that he made were -- suggests that he and other republicans haven't yet found out -- found yet a way to talk about that issue.
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but, i don't think this is very durable. and i don't think the conclusion "time" reached were supported by the quotes from the president -- former president himself. >> bret: yeah. last thing. the white house asked repeatedly today about action or statements made surrounding this campus chaos and the protest we see. here's the white house press secretary. >> did anyone from the administration been in touch with administrators, leaders, at columbia or any of these universities that are seeing these protests? >> i don't have any calls to read out at this time. obviously we're closely monitoring the situation. >> bret: what do you make of the statements or lack thereof from biden himself? >> well, it suggests to me, bret, that biden is thinking -- trying to have it both ways on the underlying issue of israel vs. gaza, in gaza. and about these protests related to it. you know, he is supporting israel with arms. you know, he says relationship with israel is ironclad. on the other hand, he is
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continually carping at the israelis for not doing enough to protect the people in gaza. and so i think, you know, that's a sign he is trying to protect himself with the muslim vote in some states where the muslim vote is important, michigan being the most single example. the same thing is true on these protests. you know, he sends his press secretary, as you saw there, out there to say that, you know, he is strong against anti-semitic and against violence and all the rest of it, but he won't utter a peep himself. it's the kind of a straddling strategy. i think that's what he's trying to do. i'm not at all sure it will work. >> bret: brit, as always, thank you. up next, the winners of the krauthammer scholarships for this year and an interview with charles' son, daniel on set. and, later, the panel on the chaos on college campuses and the search for answers about covid. ♪ ♪ unique style, cutting-edge innovation,
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♪ >> bret: welcome back to "special report." for the past five years, we have honored the legacy of dr. charles krauthammer through a scholarship award for the children of fox news employees. tonight, we meet this year's winners and look back at some of our favorite moments with
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charles. >>ive had things to say. some of them i think are condone fairly well. >> bret: charles regularly appeared on "special report." >> charles, i should point out thanks for being dressed for us tonight. >> i'm trying to raise the is a torial level of the panel this is my feeble attempt. >> bret: he provided intellect. >> that's where a three year residency in psychiatry comes in hand. >> politics and humor. >> hard to compete with a guy in a moon suit and flag. >> took him from the tom of his class at harvard medical school to pulitzer prize winning columnist. >> bret: are you surprised by the amount of influence that you have with your column? >> i find it worrisome. the reason is that when i was totally unknown, i could say anything i damn well pleased. >> bret: charles left us in 2018. but much of his commentary remains relevant today. >> everybody understands hot new hegemon in the region will be.
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it's going to be iran. it's a problem that we have caused. if the demand did not exist in the u.s., you would not have a supply. it wouldn't be a problem. >> bret: each year, fox news has honored his memory through a partnership with the national merit scholarship program providing awards for children of fox news employees. >> i think dr. krauthammer is very good at doing a lot of things very well. i kind of like want to channel that and be able to do a lot of different things myself. >> bret: this year's recipients include nathan king whose father scott king is a photographer based in dallas. >> i kind of like really like put myself out there in academically. >> bret: nathan participants in academic competitions with a focus on computer applications he also founded his schools astro physics club and actively volunteers in his community. >> my main goal for college is to be able to do like kind of high quality research and engage in that kind of academia. >> bret: nathan plans to attend utah state university and major in physics and mathematics.
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>> to see all that work come to fruition through the scholarship is pretty awesome. >> this scholarship is really like a culmination of all my hard work. >> bret: diana iraqman plans to follow in her father's footsteps. her father is a field photographer based in atlanta. >> whenever something that is relevant happens at happens at our school or the area, my school paper and fox covers it there have been multiple situations where i have worked with my dad on covering a story. >> bret: she is currently involved in her school's musical theater program and managing editor of multi media for her school's paper. >> the satisfaction i get from putting together a news story is like something i don't experience anywhere else. >> bret: diana plans to major in literature, media and communications at georgia institute of technology and, like charles, diana will spend
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part of her college career at oxford university. >> seeing someone who can be extremely educated in all these different places and apply it to something you didn't really think you could apply it to is extremely inspiring. >> bret: education was very important to charles krauthammer, and he encouraged his own son to never stop learning. daniel krauthammer joins me now to honor his father's memory and celebrate the scholarship recipients. daniel, it's great to see you. >> so good to see you, bret. >> bret: every year at this time. >> it is. >> bret: now we have two more recipients, worthy folks in your dad's name. it's a bill deal. yeah and my mom and i are so happy to celebrate them my thanks to you and suzanne scott and the fox team establishing the scholarship and keeping it going everywhere. it's a wonderful way, i think, to honor my father's legacy. >> bret: nathan and diana both have some similarities or ties. >> yeah. exactly.
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so diana is very interested in journalism, which is an obvious connection and she speaks a lot about the breadth of her knowledge and bringing things together which my dad did across many fields medicine, philosophy, to politics. and she is going on to study at oxford which my dad did and i did, too. and nathan is an expert in physics, astro physics, math, space exploration which my dad was obsessed with wrote about extensively and went back to school and audited astro physics classes in his 40's because he loved it so much. >> bret: every time we talk i'm inundated with people who say they really miss your dad's voice in today's environment because he could cut through the noise and get to the heart of an issue. and they always ask me like, what do you think dr. krauthammer would say about this time? we're in a tense time, a lot of anti-semitism. there's the student protest. i want to play this soundbite. this is on the panel discussion on the 70th anniversary of the
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holocaust. >> the threat today and it is a real threat, it's a recurrence of the threat, is from its enemies in the middle east. israel is now for the first time since jesus is not just the only jewish state on the planet, it's the largest community of jews on the planet anywhere. and it is now threatened by a regime in iran that openly says it wants to eradicate it. >> you know, he spoke a lot about anti-semitism and what he saw creeping in to our culture. >> he was ahead of the curve on this as on so many things that he saw the growing threat from the root of all the physical danger to israel, which is iran and the regime there, which we have been putting off dealing with for nearly a decade now. >> bret: he also -- a big proponent of free speech. he noticed something changing on college campuses. take a listen. >> the universities, which used to teach tolerance and now teach sensitivity. so, the students learn from the first day that if somebody says
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anything that makes you uncomfortable, you can then complain. you might get them in trouble. >> bret: and from his book, things that matter about magill protest, he wrote this magill i witnessed a mass rally to turn the university, then considered by the left a bastion of anglo imperialism into a french speaking school for the local pro-will he tear i can't tell. seminole moment, visible tangible evident of evidence of the convergence of the left and right and object lesson of ideological moderation and my goodbye if there ever was a hello to political row manhattan schism it. set my own political course through philosophical skepticism and political tolerance he began to speak out one bare dime, one vision.
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nothing else is allowed. anything else, in fact, is an insult and is something you should be protected from i love going back and playing these. we play sound bites on the show. if somebody wants to see some of your dad's writings besides the books, where do they go. >> best place is probably his website charles krauthammer.com which has some of the best stuff he ever wrote. >> bret: i always asked you about your dad and what he might think. what do you think? are you optimistic about where we are? >> i think right now it's an important time. i think in some ways it's good that this extremism is coming out into the open. that a lot of what was boiling under the surface can be seen for what it is. and addressed and confronted. i think it's so important that those students who will be in charge of our society one day keep those traditions that might dad revered going strong. because, if we don't, then we will really be in trouble.
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>> bret: daniel, as always, great to see you say hi to your mom. we wish all to you and your family, especially paul. >> bret: thanks. >> bret: so great to do that every year. up next, the panel on the continued silence from president biden about the anti-israel protest on college campuses. also a look at covid. and then a special delivery. ♪ ♪ i have type 2 diabetes, but i manage it well ♪ ♪ jardiance! ♪ ♪ it's a little pill with a big story to tell ♪ ♪ i take once-daily jardiance ♪ ♪ at each day's start! ♪ ♪ as time went on it was easy to see ♪ ♪ i'm lowering my a1c! ♪ jardiance works twenty-four seven in your body to flush out some sugar. and for adults with type 2 diabetes and known heart disease, jardiance can lower the risk of cardiovascular death, too. serious side effects may include ketoacidosis that may be fatal, dehydration that can lead to sudden worsening of kidney function, and genital yeast or urinary tract infections. a rare, life-threatening bacterial infection in
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>> president biden historically
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has spoken very forcefully about anti-semitism. but this week he is not. he is mia. he is that worried about losing the youth vote? >> i can't speak to youth and support and voters, that's not something i can do from here. the president has taken a lot of policy actions here that he knows that young people care about. >> bret: white house spokesperson talking about the president -- not talking about the campus chaos. axios writes it this way biden's tough options as gaza protest unravel on college campuses, the white house facing year end exam with no good answers. they can have biden forcefully and personally condemn the protesters and risk alienating the same young voters the president needs to be more energized for him to win in november. biden can stand in solidarity with the protesters and offend centrists or they can have a -- have spokespeople make calls for civil and peaceful demonstrations with no real eexpectation that will pay them
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any heed. here is rashida tlaib house floor. >> civil rights movement to antiwar protest to the movement for black lighters, immigrant rights, our country has a long history of student leading movement for change. these students should be praised for standing up for what they believe, in not vilified, smeared with misinformation campaigns and silence. our government isn't just complicit in this genocide we are actively participating. >> bret: okay. with that, let's bring in our panel, fox news senior political analyst juan williams, mollie hemingway, editor and chief of the federalist and matthew con continue netty, fellow at the american enterprise institute. mollie, your thoughts, it's being handled differently, your thoughts about how the white house is doing it and what's happening around the country? >> these protests, whether they devolve into violence and occupation or whether they remain peaceful are largely built on lies about israel and its conflict with the palestinian territories. just as we saw four years ago, the dangerous and deadly riots that took over much of the
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country were based on largely on lies about america and its history and what it's like to be in america today. and so a lot of people are rejecting this latest incarnation of this marxist ideology, but they really need to reject the whole thing. and president biden is in a tough spot because his party, largely with the rise of his predecessor, president obama, really changed the party into focusing on accusations of racism and defining people as oppressed or oppressor and using that for political gain. so president biden is in a very tough situation. does he renounce this natural result of what his party has really wrought or does he try to stay silent and not get too involved? >> bret: and, juan, i say that it's handled differently because did you go around the country thrill and it is being handled differently by different states, different universities. "wall street journal" writes it this way: a tale of three universities. northwestern appeases its protesters, florida enforces its rules, columbia is a mess.
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>> well, bret, i think what you've got here is a situation where what was once peaceful protest has clearly gotten out of hand. in some cases become violent there have been outside influences involved in the violence of the last few days on both the east and west coast. but, you know, the larger point to me is that if the president, president biden speaks out are, do the students listen to him? i don't know that they would listen because they don't agree with his policies biden has continued to send money and arms to israel in the midst of what is a brutal military campaign in gaza. and the students are saying they want a cease-fire, they are saying they want the u.s. to stop supplying and helping as an ally to israel. they want their colleges to withdraw, you know, coordinated
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programs from support over israeli academic institutions and i don't know that president biden's position here would appeal to them. is he about first amendment rights, second amendment rights and is he about saying anti-semitism is wrong and unacceptable and violence is totally out of the question the problem juan is he not really saying it. matthew, another person that may not be listening to him is the israeli prime minister. >> no. bibi netanyahu is convinced is he going into rafah hamas' last strong hold regardless of whether this cease-fire that biden is desperate to achieve with hamas actually goes that place. bret, i want to say it's not a tough choice unless you make it one. john fetterman is not a tough choice to support israel and denounce hamas and denounce hamas as sympathizers on america's campuses. richard torres democrat congressman. not a tough choice for him.
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biden is making it a tough choice. is he making it a tough choice because, throughout his presidency, he has been afraid to confront a lunatic left. if you just look at those signs that we were showing at the beginning of the panel. you see this is not some kind of grassroots bottom up woke millennials and gen z trying to proclaim social justice. this is an organized attempt by the international left to corrupt america's institutions and succeeding. biden's choice is easy. he should be on the side of the nypd. he should be on the side of order. he should be on the side of people who are against these protests and he should be on the side of jewish students across the country. this is an easy choice. and he could make it now. >> bret: yeah. i only have 10 seconds here, mollie. obviously the students aren't the only audience here. >> well, but, you know, there are other democrat leaders who could also weigh in and help the situation. president obama graduated from columbia. he would be listened to by these people. but the problem, again, is how the party has embraced that
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etiology itself. >> bret: all right, panel we have a lot more to talk about. we will bring covid up another time. thanks. ♪ ♪ >> bret: finally tonight, a special delivery, new graphic and all. the fox family grew by one. correspondent alexandria hoff gave birth to a beautiful baby girl earlier today. margaret jean hough born just before noon 6 pounds 14 ounces. congratulations to alex and her husband nathan from everyone at "special report." one viewer at a time. we love it for the demo. tomorrow on "special report," why would the u.s. take in palestinian refugees when arab countries aren't? remember, if you can't catch us live, set your dvr. set your home tonight fair, balanced and still unafraid. here is laura. >> laura: good evening, everyone. i'm laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. thanks as always for joining us.