some were violent and some turned deadly. william was killed in the confrontation between national guardsmen and students protesting the war in vietnam at kent state university. joe lewis was shot twice that day as was allen both survived and feel it necessary to remember the four who died understanding it could easily have been them it was a tense time troops coming home called baby killers. might be ripped out of a classroom and september to a jungle. they protested civil rights, women s rights, antiwar. these movements changed the course of history. today college kids want to be in the history books too. but they don t know what to protest. segregation is illegal. there is no draft and women have more rights than us sure, there s problems, crime, fentanyl, chinese balloons. but these kids don t care about any of that so they protest words pronouns and isms. lock themselves in a building for 10 days, why? because they wanted more money for the quote division of institutio
bret: breaking tonight the effort to avoid a disaster involving commercial airlines. there have been several very close calls lately we told you about them yesterday. today the held a safety summit to come up with solutions. mark meredith leads us off from reagan national airport. good evening, mark. bret, good evening to you. the top aviation the skies are safe. after a number of near misses and close calls, including one at this airport just last week, the government is also examining if more can be to avoid potential disasters. we have seen an uptick in serious close calls that we must address. transportation secretary pete buttigieg kicked off today s aviation safety summit with a warning. more mistakes than usual are happening across the system, on runways, at gates when planes are pushing back, in control towers and on flight decks. the government says it s investigating six runway incursions this year alone, including one at washington s reagan airport 8
with hutch as well. that s pretty cool. seven years later. tomorrow, on special report, we will talk to arizona democratic senator mark kelly about the border crisis and other issues. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that is it for this special report, fair, balanced and still unafraid. jesse watters primetime starts right now. hey, jesse. hey, bret. thank you. jesse: protests are a big part of american history. this country started with a protest. the boston tea party. it sparked the american revolution. peaceful protests are so important that they are protected by the first amendment. women protested for the right to vote. mlk marched on washington with a quarter million people behind him. the civil rights act was past the next year. in the 1960s and 70s college camcampuses were packed with students protesting the vietnam war. some protests were peaceful.
i noticed indiana university, the judge stood up for them and said that s a legal thing to do and many colleges are doing that, including the one where is my two grand children will be freshmen coming up in the fall and i m glad to see that. so straightforward here to try to keep us from having outbreaks on college camcampuses. i can see why they want to try to avoid more trouble, more sickness, more deaths. what s not to be in favor ov if we could try to prevent the kind of terrible tragedies that are happening around us including to young people that have thought they were immune but look at the statistics now. an awful lot of the people in the hospital and the icu and some of them in the morgue are well under 30 years old. it s so disturbing. senator rand paul, levelled some serious accusations at your organ organization, the national institute of health. i want you to listen to what he