final thought. >> lawrence: we have a press conference coming up with the new york mayor. he is supposed to address what's happened on campus. i had a jewish resident in new york, wanted to tell you guys thank you. she tore this sticker off a post as she was going to work. that's the type of stuff they're dealing with, guys. >> brian: clear to other people you shouldn't be anti-semitic but not clear on the people on the campus behind you. >> ainsley: pray every day for the colleges. >> brian: nny and city college is a mess. >> steve: the mayor's press conference starts at the top of the hour. see you tomorrow. >> what, over there, go, go.

>> this is not america and it is going to explode over here. it is insane. [people shouting and screaming] [chanting] >> it's crazy. >> why are you out here tonight. >> because we have a right to save palestinian. what we're doing is justified. >> you had violent clashes between dueling groups of protestors at ucla. police are on the scene as the sun comes up there. you had officers in riot gear arrest hundreds at columbia university in new york city and we'll get to it all right now. waiting on a press conference from the mayor and more. i'm bill hemmer. see what we get today. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." lots of news overnight and we'll get you caught up. campus chaos coast to coast as demonstrations reach a boiling

point. pro-israel and pro-palestinian protestors used punches and sticks to beat one another. >> bill: here in new york nypd clearing encampments and protestors from columbia. 25 activists have been arrested. blocks away at city college. >> dana: we're awaiting a press conference from eric adams. >> bill: we'll learn a lot when that starts. cb cotton is at columbia. william la jeunesse, 6:00 a.m. in the morning in california. let's start at ucla. where do things stand now? >> good morning, bill. ucla had been proud of its hand -- hands off approach. late yesterday the chancellor declared the encampment unlawful after a jewish student was harassed an campus and we aired it on fox news.

what is going to happen? the simmering situation exploded last night. 50 to 100 pro-israel demonstrators showed up at 11:00 p.m. to take down the encampment which the university refused to do. it was against student policy. they were met by sticks and bats, pepper and bear spray. private security in t-shirts the university had hired did not intervene. >> look at this. they are throwing things at each other and pepper spraying each other. how are they allowed to have weapons on campus? it is unbelievable. >> a brawl broke out on the lawn. both sides getting and giving equally. some in helmets with shields. by all accounts a mix of students and outsiders. the pro-palestinian group repelled the counter demonstrators with pallets, plywood laced with nails. hitting and shoving, some injuries, minor. now, the daily bruin reports

today that there were only five to six officers on duty at the time that they left after being hit themselves. only lapd and chp showed up two to three hours later to regain order. >> we are experiencing an immense amount of pepper sprayed sprayed by the palestinian protestors. this is supposed to be peaceful. we aren't seeing that. >> the ucla chancellor issued this statement earlier. we support peaceful protests but not activism that harms our ability to carry out our academic mission and makes people in our community feel bullied and threatened. chancellor as well as the presidents of michigan and yale are called to congress may 23. the decisions faced here are the ones we're seeing around the country. do they allow the tents or not? do they call in police or not? and do they actually suspend or expel these students as a

deterrent? they have to live with those consequences. we are finding that here. brown university did agree to negotiate and yesterday decided to allow a vote on divestty tour. in exchange the emotion campment at brown will be torn down. we have to find out what they'll do with the encampment. >> bill: one of the big stories of the day is how university presidents have copped to the fact that outside agitators are part of this. you mentioned some students involved as well. you have democratic politicians admitting also. at ucla, what has the school said about that and how many outsiders were involved in this melee last night? >> well, the university knows who is in that encampment. we were able to get closer yesterday and we will later today until they brought these up. but nevertheless, i spoke to an individual who is inside.

there is probably 50 to 300 individuals in there depending at the time of day. there is a check-in system to go into the encampment. not anyone is allowed. they have the names and i.d.s of the individuals in there. they know there are non-students in there. how many, they aren't disclosing to us. but indeed on both sides, bill, you've got a mixture of people from outside the community, people not students here, former students, whatever. we don't have a firm number. but they have a pretty good idea. >> bill: william, thank you for that. william la jeunesse leading the coverage in california. more news in this part of the country. >> dana: cb cotton is live from new york university. >> good morning. cleanup from last night's chaos is happening over my shoulder. days of negotiations with these student protestors got columbia leadership nowhere. 230 people were arrested here

last night. the nypd calling out the outside professional agitators guiding, teaching and training these students on how to escalate their tactics. columbia calling in the nypd for help writing in part we believe that while the group who broke into the building include students, it is led by individuals who are not affiliated with the university. the individuals who have occupied hamilton hall have vandalized property and are trespassing. by nightfall the building was still occupied. around 9:30 droves of officers in riot gear moved past makeshift barricades set up by students inside the building. nypd sources tell fox between 40 and 50 people were arrested inside hamilton hall and led out to police buses while crowds cheered and yelled shame at officers. new york city mayor eric adams warning protestors had crossed a line. >> we will always protect the right to protest but we must balance that right with the

right to keep students, the school, and our city safe. we cannot and will not allow what should be peaceful -- a peaceful gathering to turn into a violent spectacle that serves no purpose. >> just before midnight pro-palestinian protestors at city college of new york set off flares before officers moved in to clear out an encampment there. nypd sources tell us around 70 people were arrested. as we've been talking about mayor eric adams and nypd are set to hold a press briefing in a matter of moments. columbia university says the students who were inside hamilton hall now face expulsion. dana. >> dana: cb cotton thank you. >> bill: bring in paul mauro. you've been up all night and you just told us that you have never seen anything like this. to me it looks a lot like the summer of 2020. how do you characterize it?

>> i was talking about primarily l.a. watching l.a. pop off i was astounded that for upwards of three hours there was no police response. the difference between new york and l.a., ucla is a public school and they're trying to float this meme that ucla's public safety had to invite lapd in. nonsense. if that's the protocol and you are the governor or mayor break it. there is a riot going on an peopled injured. that is not statutory. it is happening on public streets. those cops -- one thing i know about cops in a situation to go in. you tell them to go in, they will go in and do what they have to do. they have the disorder control units and know how to handle this kind of stuff. in l.a. it was a failure of leadership and we're very lucky. somebody needs to resign. very, very lucky that tent city didn't ignite. you have all those tents. reminded me of occupy wall street.

a mini city, kids are drinking and taking drugs and a couple of rapes. it gets messy. you get a couple of kids drunk and fireworks hit the tents and go off half of them won't wake up. we're watching this live on the air last night and i'm on with jonathan hunt. he said where are the police? i had to say on air, this is one of the first times i'll say this for you. i don't know where to tell you. i don't know where the police are. it was a stark contrast to new york. >> dana: la mayor tweeted this. the violence unfolding at ucla is abhorrent and inexcusable. lapd has arrived on campus but late. call for number one is a protestor that talked to alexis mcadams about being arrested. watch here. >> we'll do what we have always done. get arrested like the criminals in the subway, they are always right back out in 24 hours. >> dana: will that be the case this time around? >> it will likely.

even the felony they have. the only felony on the table is burglary, non-violent. they'll get right out. the problem i have here, one of the things i should raise is where is the governor here in new york. one of the things you want to enforce is make sure these people get hit with as heavy charges as possible. you can't depend on alvin bragg for that. hochul has the ability -- another trump obsessed "politico" in new york. the a.g. can bring charges and the charges are heavier and they stick. according to the reporting. we aren't supposed to be talking about this, where are the charges relative to the fact that three custodians in that building were reportedly held against their will? there is footage of one coming out saying they held me against my will. no charges for unlawful imprisonment or maybe kidnapping? so i don't understand why that's not on the table. i'm smelling a kid gloves deal

again. that's what got us into this mess to begin with. >> bill: maybe the mayor and nypd answer that question coming up in the press conference. a couple things i want to go through now. we talked about protest consultants. i don't know who they are or where they live but i know they are here in new york. probably only a text message away. a couple of things here, i want to play this video. we're told to look in the bottom of the screen on the right-hand side for this woman apparently directing some of this at columbia. let's watch this first. [chanting] >> bill: apparently that woman has been arrested dozens of times. you mentioned occupy wall street from 2011. you think about that. came out of nowhere. what's going on here? who are these people and what do

they want? then blm in 2020 and now this palestinian movement in 2024. as we mentioned to william la jeunesse you have university presidents admitting they are outside agitators coming in and eric adams put out a statement last night saying the same thing on camera. this is live in madison, wisconsin, we look at live pictures now and see what develops here. let's drive to the question, paul. who is behind them? and now that everybody is talking about them, they no longer have the political protection of any party in america. >> i hope that's true. i know that woman. i won't say her name. i remember her from occupy wall street. she was thick in that and it is a professional class of agitators and one of the things we talked about on this show is people don't understand that this is a career path as the agitators get funding from things like the soros foundation, rockefeller

foundation and myriad others, okay? people like jeff bezos x give millions to causes and ends up god knows where. it is a reasonable career path for somebody to be a professional agitator or organizer. they get paid pretty well. what they do is use the quote, unquote, useful idiots of new re recruits in blue cities as their mini armies. every four years. i called it on my website, the cicada protestors. they reappear for four or five years. as soon as you get a big thing they can latch onto they justify their existence and go out after this stuff. antifa, blm, all the stuff you heard but it is a career. it is a profit motive.

>> bill: laura ingraham had a guest on last night and he says that you can earn $3 thousand to work eight hours a week for a period of three months. that's what he said. >> dana: those are the foot soldiers. >> bill: at emory university in atlanta, georgia. this guy came in from statesville, north carolina carrying knives and pepper spray canister and found a axe, hatchet. two knives and survival gear in his car. >> those are the foot soldiers. they travel around the country. they aren't necessarily dumpster diving. the point i would make now that apparatus is in place. a spider web of funding mechanisms. they know how to get the money and communicate. and one day after something like this happens they all have the same tents and placards and organized and know where to show up and how to communicate. their communications are set up. something we should be aware of. may day today, may one. a lot of communists.

we'll see popping off. also the israelis are going into rafah, it will happen. you think they are angry now. wait until the israelis are in rafah doing cleanup operations that will be messy by definition and we're leading into the dnc and we'll be with this story for a while. >> dana: this is madison, wisconsin. you talked about the coast. columbia, ucla. what happened at the university of utah, a different situation in north carolina last night where some guy said no you aren't going to take down the american flag and they put it back up. now this is in wisconsin today and you do kind of think about the romantyization of protests and deeply rooted in the hatred of jewish people and blamed for everything over time. in the interviews we've seen many protestors don't know what they are asking for. in utah where they were negotiating with the students, the students said they wanted an end to campus police. this is like a progressive wish

list, not just about feeling bad for palestine. >> river to the sea, intifada. 9 million people living in israel. 2 million none jewish. they are advocating for the eradication and displacements of six to 7 million jews. where have we seen that number before? let's think about what they say. most of these students couldn't find gaza on a map of gaza, all right? they have no idea what they are protesting for. when you see them challenged and interviewed they don't know what to say. a lot of it is very, very performtive. the problem is they are letting it get to them. once these things start they are much harder to interdict. that was the problem at columbia. they let it get out of hand from the beginning. they dropped all the charges and that's where the mistake was made. the school let them come right back. if you had stopped them the next day when they tried to get back

onto the lawn, everybody across the country is taking their cue from columbia. if columbia had stopped them getting back on the lawn none of this probably happens. we had a protest start april 15th last week coordinated all over the world which argues some real organization. maybe even some foreign influence. it came in when? nowhere near this impact. once columbia ticked off, they are seeing it on social media and competing with each other and this is how it starts. >> bill: let's be honest, a lot of them live in the bureaus of new york city. >> bill: antony blinken is traveling in the middle east. about two hours ago netanyahu told blinken he will not accept any deal that includes ending the war, which means the war continues and they do go into southern gaza. >> dana: unquestionably. he is committed for that.

>> that's a different segment. he is politically boxed in. he has to do it to keep elements of his coalition together. rafah is going to happen. the images from there will come back and it will collide here on the home front with what we're seeing, which is a failure of an ideology. we're seeing the ultimate failure of blue city urban policy. the vacuum of defund that has been left by pulling the police out of public spaces is being filled by some of the worst elements we have. not just in crime, not just in the subways, but in the public spaces. if you are a jewish kid going to columbia, can you imagine how you feel and what you feel about this country when we have a president -- forget sending in the national guard, etc. you can argue there are enough boots on the ground. make a comment. >> dana: i agree. >> bill: thank you, paul. well done and stand by. we might have more for you coming up. in the meantime just a reminder to our viewers we've been waiting for this.

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>> bill: 25 minutes past the hour now. want to take you to madison, wisconsin. the county of dane. that's a democratic hot bed in a battleground state for the election this coming november of 2024. and not quite sure exactly what's happening. it looks more calm than what we saw at ucla and columbia in new york. keeping an eye on it. we'll keep you updated. also this in florida. >> dana: police deploying tear gas at agitators following a stand-off at the university of southern florida. cops moving in on hundreds of rioters after they broke a school imposed deadline to vacate the property. officials reporting that ten people were arrested including a person facing felony charges for

carrying a gun on campus during the protest. that doesn't look like an undergrad to me. how about you? >> bill: i would agree with that. >> dana: i think this will be interesting when you pull all these threads and get more to find out who is not a student, who is agitating and where they are getting instruction and money. >> bill: important to point out yet again the presidents and politicians have copped to this already. they aren't just saying it's students. they are admitting these are people from the outside who are infiltrating and influencing heavily the student population at ucla, columbia. >> dana: too bad their faculty can't influence them in a good way. >> bill: some of them have been on board that side. house republicans are talking legislation cracking down on campus anti-semitism. aishah hosni is live on the hill with more on how this may progress today. aishah, good morning. >> good morning to you, bill. this is mike lawlor's anti-semitism bill. going to expand the definition

of anti-semitism and allow for more prosecutions of discrimination. it is going to divide democrats today, of course. those that are pro-israel are going to vote for this along with republicans and then there are some out there who feel like this is infringing on free speech. >> the anti-semitism bill that mike lawlor has, has a definition so broad that many of the jewish groups like j street and nexus and others cannot support. so why would you do that except if you want to weaponize anti-semitism and you want to use it as a political ploy? >> this bill is just the beginning, guys. speaker johnson yesterday launched a house wide crackdown of anti-semitism on college campuses. so now multiple committees like juts and oversight are investigating the schools.

the office of civil rights is overwhelmed. we'll send it back to you. i believe the mayor is about to speak. >> bill: we'll talk to lawlor and ritchie torres, the republican and democrat sponsoring that bill coming up next hour. here we go live in new york city. let's find out what they found out last night. >> police commissioner as well. last night is another example of why we call new york's finest just a tremendous job done by the men and women of the nypd, such restraint and precision, a totally, totally great job by the men and women of the nypd especially srg and crt units. from all of us up here we want to commend them and i'm sure from most of the new yorkers we spoke to, big kudos to the units and the cops who helped in the operation last night. let's hear from the mayor of new york city, eric adams.

>> thank you so much. and i want to be clear that although there was a massive operation taking place at columbia university, we also was dealing with an operation taking place at cuni and a city to protect. so this is not the department that would deal with one production at a time. there are a multitude of things that happens in a city of this capacity and magnitude and you have to be a well-organized, professional operation to deal with all of those encounters. and i just want to thank the commissioner, the chief of the department, chief shell, commissioner, first deputy commissioner and the entire

operation. and specifically i just really want to thank commissioner winer. she was the one that was monitoring the situation when i first started seeing the protests take place in the city, it just did not fit right. saw similar indicators from the black lives matter march of when it was brought to my attention that there were those who came to the city to disrupt our city, and she was able to -- her team was able to conduct an investigation and what i feared was actually materializing by those who were on the ground. i know there are those who are attempting to say the majority of people may have been students, you don't have to be the majority to influence and co-op an operation. i want to play the new york city

police. we'll protect our city from those who are attempting to do what is happening globally. there is a movement to radicalize young people and i'm not going to wait until it is done and all of a sudden acknowledge the existence of it. this is a global problem that young people are being influenced by those who are professionals at radicalizing our children. and i'm not going to allow that to happen as the mayor of the city of new york. the men and women of the new york city police department should be proud of yourself. at the request of columbia university, after speaking with them throughout the week at their request and their acknowledgement that outside agitators were on their grounds training and really co-opting this movement. at their request we conducted an operation to allow columbia

university to remove those who have turned the peaceful protest into a place where anti-semitism and anti-israel attitudes were pervasive. approximately 300 people were arrested at columbia and city college. we're processing the arrests to distinguish between who are actually students and who aren't supposed to be on the ground. we pointed out yesterday, these external actors with a history of escalating situations and trying to create chaos, not to peacefully protest, but create chaos, if you were at city college and you saw the bottles, the garbage cans, the other items that were thrown at police officers, those police officers showed a great level of discipline to not allow this to evolve to an out of control situation. as we pointed out yesterday, they are attempting to disrupt our city and we are not going to

permit it to happen. we are proud to say they have been removed from the campus. nypd's precision policing insured the operation was organized, calm, and that there were no injuries or violent clashes. to be clear, this is not our analysis of what took place last night. national, independent journalists acknowledged what the police department did yesterday and they were on the ground to see it. i want to be clear that we will continue to use this level of professionalism and we saw the intersectioninality of all the things we've been working on. drones allowed us to do a complete analysis of the hamilton building and of the location. we were able to know how to precisely go in and conduct the operation.

making sure the encryption of our radios, because they were not able to monitor and hear our deployment tactics allowed us to have the element of surprise when we went on the ground. training with our crt team, precision knowing how to go in and conduct a professional operation. we didn't wake up and execute the plan. this is a plan that has been put in place since january of 2022 when we understood our police department had to be prepared for uncertainties like this. so the request we received in writing could not have been clearer. for those who broke into the building did include students, it was led by individuals who are not affiliated with the university. they need -- the school needed the nypd's assistance to clear hamilton hall and the encampments outside. a dual operation on the grounds that took place successfully. clearing the tents, taking back

and reclaiming hamilton hall. we said from the beginning that students have a right to protest and free speech is the cornerstone of our society. but as our major concern, we knew and we saw that there were those who were never concerned about free speech, they were concerned about chaos. it was about external actors hijacking peaceful protests and influencinging students to escalate. there is nothing peaceful about barricading a building, destroying property or dismantling security cameras. we can't allow what should be a lawful protest to turn into a violent spectacle and saves and serves no purpose, as i said. there is no place for acts of hate in our city. we made that clear. that is from anti-semitism to is

-- there is no place for hate in this city and i want to continue to commend the professionalism of the police department and to thank columbia university. it was a tough decision. we understood that. but with the very clear evidence of their observation and the clear evidence from our intelligence division that they understood it was time to move and the action had to end. we brought it to a peaceful conclusion. we will continue to coordinate with columbia, as we have been from the start. and all of our academic institutions to find a peaceful middle of allowing young people to protest without violence. we support the right of free speech and open debate. we always protect the right to protest but we must balance the right with keeping students, the school, and our city safe. it is a combined effort that we are going to continue to move in the right direction to accomplish this goal. we know that this is only a

common in the full center of public protection in the city. this is not a celebratory moment. we should never have had to have gotten here in the first place. we can't create environments while children could be in danger and we must push back on all attempts to radicalize our young people in this city like we're seeing across the entire globe. commissioner, thank you for a job well done and turn it over to you at this time. >> good morning and thank you, mayor adams. yesterday the nypd received an invitation from columbia university and the city college of new york. the safety of their students, faculty, staff and the public was at risk. last night at both school's request the nypd entered the campuses and removed protestors who refused to leave the area. approximately 300 arrests were

made with preliminary charges from trespass to criminal mischief to burglary. at this point we'll let the criminal justice system play out. as we said last night, the universities worked for weeks to negotiate with the protestors, to resolve the situation, and to restore order on their campuses. once it became clear that public safety was a real concern, especially after the protests escalated the situation by breaking and entering into a university building, the nypd was called in to do their job. i just want to say to the men and women of this department, thank you. the terrorist attack on october 7th the nypd has responded to more than 2,400 protests and demonstrations across this city. about 1,100 of those related to situation israel and

palestinian. at every one, we've worked to keep protestors safe and protect their first amendment rights. at the same time, we worked to keep our residents and workforce safe. to make sure our neighborhoods have access to emergency services and to keep life moving in the largest city of the nation. this isn't easy work. no one does it better than the men and women of the nypd. lastly, i want to thank the officials at both columbia university and city college for their efforts to the developing situation. their continuous and open communication with everyone involved from the protestors to the students and staff, to city officials including the police department, was all about public safety. at the end of the day that's what we're focused on. our job is to keep people in our city safe and the nypd is ready to do their job anywhere and any

time we're called upon. they tried to block us out but the nypd and the people of the city of new york will never be locked out and we will always work together to keep our city safe. >> commissioner and mr. mayor, i wonder if you can tell us how many of the people who were arrested, both inside hamilton hall and outside were not affiliated with the school, were not students but were outside agitators both inside and outside? i have a second question. >> pass that question to our chief patrol officer. >> as it breaks down we have 282 arrests. 173 of those came from city college, 119 from columbia.

how it breaks down we'll have the answer sometime today. we haven't broken it down yet but will have that answer. >> can you give us any more details about the people not affiliated with them? were they -- what groups they were associated with? >> good morning. so there are a number of different individuals who we know from over the years associated with protests, not just in our city, but in other cities as well, who are linked to and who we see doing training around the change in tactics that we described yesterday and that we all witnessed, the black block attire, breaking windows, doors, vandalism, property destruction, barricading, makeshift weapons that we recovered in the encampment. so that change in tactics, combined with the presence of known individuals on campus in

the lead-up to what happened in hamilton hall is why we had a real elevated concern around public safety. >> you know, marsha, we know that the terminology of outside agitators was used during the civil rights movement and people attempted to show that the movement was not legitimate. we understand that. but this police department cannot what's the political correct terminology. we are caught up on public safety. when individuals on the campus should not have been there, there were people who are professionals and we saw evidence of training, we saw a shift in tactics that were being used, and when you start using intelligence that intel was able to supply, we knew it was time to communicate directly with the school and say you have more

than a peaceful protest on your hands. >> mr. mayor if i could add to that. as the letter said that we received from columbia, this was led by outside agitators. this was also stated in the letter that we received from columbia asked us to move in. >> i think we have a video we want to show you before we take some more questions. so play the video. [video being played] [chanting]

[video being played] >> before we continue with questions the commissioner will give a quick overview. >> the reason why we just showed that video is that a lot of arrests made, almost 300 arrests made last night. and what you see is the overwhelm majority of those arrests made were made without

incident. no injuries, no real scuffles with police. there was an amazing job again and kudos to the chief and his team srg and the crt last night. make no mistake about it, this is a very difficult operation but we made it look like it wasn't problematic. the reason was the skill of the cops that were out there last night. a lot of these people would have resisted but the way that these officers talked to them, handled them, and took them into custody, it was very professional and overwhelming majority arrests just led to a quick arrest with no incident and then right down to where they were processed. >> another significant part of the video was at the end. that's our flag, folks. you don't take over our

buildings and put another flag up. that may be fine to other people but not to me. my uncle died defending this country. and these men and women put their lives on the line. it is despicable that schools will allow another country's flag to fly in our country. so blame me for being proud to be an american. i thank the commissioner for putting that flag back up. we aren't surrendering our way of life to anyone. >> i wanted to just double back on the outside agitators. you said you have identified some people. why is it so difficult tore the nypd to say x amount of people were outside agitators. secondly, blocking reporters from covering the events, then tweeting out your own videos showing us this video is different than what we were seeing outside, especially the use of force from the police.

is that part of the nypd's attempt to control the narrative? i know some of the people of the dais have talked about. why is it difficult to say ten people, 20 people as you say they were leading the occupation of the building? >> yeah, so i think it is not difficult to say that we know certain individuals. they are well-known to us who have been involved in what we assess to be training, especially around the change in tactics. we're in the process of sorting through all of the data that we recovered last night. sifting through the names of everybody and were they affiliated with the school or not. that takes time and we want to make sure we give you accurate information. i think the larger point is really important, which is this is not about students expressing ideas. it is about a change in tactics that presents a concern. a normalization and mainstreaming of rhetoric -- i'm not just talking about language. i'm talking about tactics and

that's what shifted our response yesterday. a normalization and mainstreaming of rhetoric associated with terrorism that has now become pretty common on college campuses. you see people wearing head bands associated with foreign terrorist organizations. this happened in october when you had a viral tiktok reissuing of osama bin laden's letter to america. that's a larger concern. separate from what happened yesterday but they are related. we do not want ideas, we do not want campuses, which are where people are supposed to be learning and being in a conducive environment for all of the things that we do in schools, being turned into places where people are committing vandalism, property damage and committing crimes. >> bill: it has been a remarkable press conference for 20 minutes. 282 arrests so far. what the mayor said in new york, quote, there is a global

movement to radicalize our children and that a moment ago referring to the american flag being replaced by the palestinian flag. he said my uncle dad for this country. that's our flag, folks. that's eric adams the democratic mayor of new york, who i think perhaps just had his finest moment in standing up for his city and his country right now. >> dana: i certainly found his voice and we have paul mauro with us. you were nypd and a lawyer and know the city well. you have been watching this with us. your thoughts this morning as what you heard from eric adams and the police commissioner. >> i agree that may be the finest moment of his being mayor. something that he is remembered for especially when you contrast it with the way we saw it handled out west and in some other areas around the country. the nypd was just waiting for the word to go and when they went it was very clear this had been planned. it was not pell mel.

despite what some of the media would love to create as a narrative the use of force was minimal. my understanding is inside hamilton hall, the use of force was limited to pushing somebody up against the wall. we had somebody speaking last night as if it was the worst thing she had ever seen or heard about saying they pushed somebody up against a wall. another person got handcuffed. that's police work. you are clearing a building that has been forcibly taken over. if i could i want to talk quickly about rebecca, she used to work for me, the head of intel. she is talking about the mainstreaming of the ideas here. that really is the danger. the possibilities here of radicalization are profound. you have all of these young minds who have been -- have succumbed to a narrative they don't know a whole lot about. if you go back just a year or two ago, we were hearing from d.o.j. that the domestic violent

extremists was the biggest threat domestically for the country. it was a euphemism for groups on the right. proud boys and things like that. a lot of our intel agencies took their eyes off the ball on the sort of islamist threat that could still spike up. full disclosure again, some of my best detectives when i was in intelligence were muslims. a lot of the nypd, have a ton of muslim cops. for them to be out there and called kkk by these students, you can imagine how they feel, okay? but this is a normalization and has morphed into sanctioned anti-semitism. that's what we've seen. they try to thread the needle we're anti-zionist. when you see jewish students who can't get to class it's sanctioned anti-semitism. you see this confluence of blm,

antifa, professional agitators. by the way, just as a last point to tie it all up, this idea that the students are just a bunch of children being led by the hand and it is all outside agitators, this is a meme that we heard during the 2020 summer of love and blm and it ab solves them of all responsibility. i don't buy it. that is one aspect of this i will push back against. i was out there at 2020. i had to watch my people get their faces sown back together. so many emergency rooms in manhattan were clogged with cops, not protestors. i was being told everything is fine. nothing going on here. it's just a few outside agitators. that is not true. there were thousands of kids out there. students. they should be suspended and expelled. >> bill: strong words, paul. 30 seconds left. those who are arrested last night, how long before they are back on the street today?

>> they're back now. half of them are back now. they got a summons. that is not entirely alvin bragg's fault but the bail reform changes. the legislature put laws in that misdemeanor or non-violent felonies, a summons to come back to court later. here is your piece of paper, have a nice day. that's what's going on. >> we're watching developments now in madison, wisconsin. who knows where else. we'll get to all of it. a quick break right now and we'll be back right after this. what can i do to make a better cotton crop? we believe that the best products are made in america and come fresh from the family farm. and produced under the most sustainable farming techniques. from our sheets to our blankets and quilts this is a product that can be passed on. it could be a family heirloom. go to red land cotton dot

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>> dana: fox news alert. sun rises at college campuses, anti-israel anarchists considering their anti-american message of hate. arrests underway at the university of wisconsin in madison. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana peri