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country. just yesterday, hundreds of students at ithaca college staged a walkout, calling for the resignation of their president. earlier this week at yale, students held a march of resilience demanding more inclusion. today alone, rallies and marches are planned at three more schools. we are covering every angle of this story. nbcs sarah dalloff is following the story at the university of missouri. erica hill is at ithaca college and craig melvin is here with me at 30 rock following r...

politically correct police that theyre willing to do things that are irrational. good day. im luke russert in for andrea mitchell. we have a lot of developing news on the fight against isis to cover today. starting with a massive multi-national operation in europe to break up a recruiting ring linked to the terror group. at least 13 people have been arrested in italy, britain, norway and finland, accused of being part of an online network aimed at radicalizing fighters and sending th...

Technology, missouri university. thats part of the university of missouri system. the schools chancellor says theyre operating normally with increased security. the professor seen on video calling for some muscle with the student froofr resigned. courtesy appointment with the missouri school of journalism and remains in the school of communication and she also apologized for her actions. all of this comes two days after university of missouri system president tim wolfe resigned amid protests of ...

President tim wolfe forced to step down follow a hunger strike by a student and a threatened boycott by the schools football team after wolfe did little to respond to several racially charged incidents on campus including a swastika drawn in feces at a campus dorm. protests also erupting this week at yale, after an sae fraternity member allegedly blocked a student from going into their house party because she wasnt white. sae denies the allegations. last month a kanye west themed party thrown by...

particularly what to do about russias role in syria and the fight against isis. >> if putin wants to go and knock the hell out of if siof im all for it 100% and i dont understand how anybody would be against it. they blew up -- hold it. they blew up -- wait a minute. they blew up a russian airplane. he cannot be in love with these people. hes going in, we can go in, everybody can go in. we cant continue to be the policemen of the world. >> donald is wrong on this. is he absolutely wron...

So theres big news out of the state of missouri today. the president of the university of missouri resigned over racial tensions at mizzou. the chancellor of the whole university system also says that he will resign over the controversy. here tonight in studio for the interview is a university of missouri alum who also happens to be one of that states highest-profile politicians. thats ahead. stay with us.

University of missouri campus. students cheered on monday after two top leaders, university of missouri system president tim wolfe and bowen lofton both announced their resignations. sara, whats the reaction been to these big developments? >> reporter: good morning, jose. activist himself described the resignation as step one in a long journey for this campus and the chancellor stepping down at the end of the year as step two. he had also faced criticism for his handling of racist incidents on c...

Wolfe to step down. the football team vowed not to play until the hunger strike ended. this may have cost the school $1 million if they did not show up to play byu this weekend. that ended with the resignations. >> the resignation of tim wolfe is a glimmer of hope for the students whose voices have been silenced by white male institutions. >> cnns kyung lah has latest. >> reporter: john and christine, a dramatic day here on the campus. the resignation of the university president as well as the c...

Joining me now, staff writer of the new yorker, history writer at university of connecticut. and dave zyer host of the edge of sports podcast. dave, youve been doing a lot of reporting on this story before it kind of exploded onto national consciousness. give us a little bit of context of how this got to this point. >> how it got to the point at missouri, it goes back years. years of racial tension, years of students and faculty members of color feeling marginalized, feeling like they werent bei...

Guys from the same family to be president in a quarter century. if you are asking the american people to support you on that, you ought to know long before this stage what your rationale for running is. its not just good enough to say that youre a competent state governor or competent administrator. youre asking the american people to do something extraordinary, that would be extraordinary in any democratic free representative society and you ought to have a better explanation as to why youre so...