Calling on please and clearing encampments. Yesterday marked the end of the second week of former president Donald Trumps hush money trial. Those are two stories that made headlines this week. To start the program we want to hear from you. What is your top news story of the week . Democrats, your line is 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. If you would like to text us you can do so at 202 7488003. Be sure to include your name and city. You can post a question or comment on facebook at facebook. Com cspan, or on x at cspanwj. In addition to campus protests and the hush money trial here are some of the othereadlines we have been following this week. The dea recommended reclassifying marijuana. The Federal Reserve held Interest Rates at a 23year high. Rates slowed according to the april job report. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced she is continuing her push to remove House Speaker mike johnson. We will get to calls in a few minutes. First, according to the Associated Press when we are talking about this campus protests, 4200 plus students arrested on 46 campuses nationwide since april 17. Those campuses have taken down have made moves to take down those encampments. This article from the Washington Post talks about how universities have hope as summer nears that they will get a little bit of a break. The article talked to students inew york and washington, d. C. Though students say they have no plans to stop their push at the universities. They are planning to move forward. They will not slow down much this summer. According to the article, the stakes have farreaching consequences for students, college administrators, bigcity mayors, Police Agencies and President Biden. Some democrats worry of people the summer, especially after the august convention in chicago could damage President Bidens reelection campaign. Speaking of the white house on thursday, biden recognized they would be no quick end to the densations as he sought to carve out a middle ground. Heres what President Biden said at the white house earlier this week. [video] there should be no place on any campus, no place in america for antisemitism or threats of violence against jewish students. There is no place for hate speech or violence of any kind, whether it is antisemitism, islamophobia, or discrimination against arabamericans or palestinian americans. There is no place for racism in america. It is all wrong. It is unamerican. I understand people have deep convictions. In america we respect the right to protect the right for them to express that. It does not mean anything goes. It needs to be done without violence, without destruction, without hate, and within the law. Make no mistake. As president i will always defend free speech. I will always be just as strong standing up for the rule of law. That is my responsibility to you, the American People, in my obligation to the constitution. Thank you very much. Have the protests forced you to reconsider any policies in the region . That. No. Thank you. Should the National Guard intervene . No. Host at a rally in wisconsin early this week, former President Trump spoke out against President Biden, saying he did not do enough early enough about those campus protests. Here are his comments. [video] think of it. He has not been heard from. When hes the president. When you have a problem like that you should go out and talk to the people. Theres a big problem. Of the fever in our country and hes not talking. If he did, it would matter. It would make it worse. Many are not even students. Many come from foreign countries. Thousands and thousands are from foreign countries. I was wondering about that. Where these people come from . Every College President , remove the encampments immediately, vanquish the radicals and take back our campuses for all the normal students who want a safe place from which to learn. [applause] host this headline in the wall street journal. It is from ben sasse on another president of the university of florida. Adults are still in charge of the university of florida. He writes, parents are rightfully furious at the asinine entitlement of these activists and the embarrassing timidity of many college administrations. One parent put it bluntly. Why the hell should anybody spend money to send their kids to college . Players are asking the same thing. At the university of florida we are asking we tell parents and future employers we are not perfect but the adults are still in charge. He goes on to say, cherish the First Amendment right of speech and assembly. We draw a hard line at unlawful actions. Speech is in violence. Speech is not violence. Violence is an violence is violence. We have an opportunity to keep our students safe, going for us, storing buildings, vandalizing property, hijacking the University Art speech. We will go to the phones. Lana from st. Petersburg, florida. Good morning. Caller good morning. Welcome, america. I would like to make a comment. I was born in the 1960s right after the vietnam war. My parents complained about the economy up and down, gas prices. I moved to florida 20 years ago for a better life. It was wonderful here. Florida has done me no wrong. All of a sudden the economy booms, jacked up to the point i cant afford to live here anymore. I moved from california to florida because of the economy. My question is actually, our children, which are young adults, they are watching in front of the tv as they grow up. War and conflict and arguments between democrats, republicans. I dont identify with any. I have not voted since obama. I dont care for biden. I dont care for trump. Why is young adults passion turned to anger . Their parents. They have watched their parents so upset, so outraged that i dont understand where is the caucus . Where is writing your congressman, your senator . That is the way we were raised to address issues. Nowadays its just war. I think it is really sad. That is what we see on tv. I would like to know where the line is for passion to anger. Even some of the callers. Sure, they are passionate but they are angry. They wonder why our young adults are angry. Because they watch our 60, 70, 80yearold adults. Have a blessed day. Host roy in nashville, tennessee on the republican line. Caller good morning. Im down here in nashville, tennessee. My top new story this week is the story of these College Campuses. It is crazy. My biggest question, the attack happened on october 7. Why did they not start protests . That is the biggest question mark. Was paying for those tents . They all look brandnew. Somebody is finding them. Cant say that for sure. Something is not right about this. Host joel in mountain home, arkansas, republican line. Caller how are we doing . I believe you are new but not rupture but im not sure. Clear nms. We are in a mess. Thats because our administration has no bite in it anymore. We talk and talk and talk but we dont get anything done. I will jump around a little bit because i have not had time to make all my notes. I returned from vietnam in 1968. I was at presidio 6 army headquarters. We had the freedom riders about the war in vietnam. Now they are all in politics. They have got us in this mess. We did nothing back then. Free speech does not allow you to go the colleges and take over. We have to redo what free speech is. You have no business going on these colleges and making headaches for people. We are closing the young kids today, they just follow anyone. I am jumping around a lot. I dont have my thoughts together. Im 82 years old. This administration got us in three wars. This war we are fighting in ukraine, we are not just fighting the russians. We are fighting north korea. How do i say this . I served in korea. I know what north korea is doing. Player supplying all weapons there to ukraine, a bunch of weapons. We are fighting the chinese there. They are supplying a bunch of weapons. We are fighting the russians. They are supplying weapons and fighting this war. The same thing happened in vietnam. We just wasnt fighting the north vietnamese. We found medical supplies that was delivered there probably from the black market from germany, all these countries over there. Now we have no bite anymore. We talk and talk. You have to make an example of these people. You have to think of this liter we have in israel now. He is showing the what hell can be like. Now joe biden wants to bring these people from the gaza strip into this country. Host how would you summarize your comments into this wiis top story weeks top story . Caller we have no leader. This country is run by a senile person with the strings being pulled by obama, george soros, and all this mess. I served 22 years in the army and retired. This is terrible. Take these college kids and put them in the military and let them go support their action. Fight for the country. They dont care about this country. Take away their scholarship. Dont pay their student loan. Lets put them in uniform. You come here, you have two years to serve like we did in the 1959 and 1960s. We have made it too easy for everybody. Host we will go to eric in san jose, california, democrats line. Caller good morning. The top new story would be the campus riots that have been going on. I think it is kind of interesting how the other caller mentioned everyone is so angry all the time. The blt movement. You see people saying their piece but they start property destruction or whatever. It gets a little not weird but interesting how i would think a lot of students, if you dont want your college or university to invest in this or that where they cannot come up with an alternative if you going to Columbia University, where my aunt went, come up with alternatives for your Campus Administration where they can try to find some other way to or, you dont hear from the students where they will say we will take more of the hit for our tuition or whatever. You cannot go where they dont want them to invest their money in. I never hear students say what their solution is. Everyone is like no, no, no. Not enough of this is what is acceptable or working with students. Who would like this route. Take this route as opposed to that route. I would like to mention thanks for cspan for being there. I would appreciate more pointcounterpoint issues on policy. It is helpful to give everybody context on pros and cons of whatever the policy might be. Good is very helpful when you guys have some of the experts on to help us understand the dynamics of all these complex issues. A lot of people like to say biden is bad or whatever. Hes and institutionalist. Things can go slower in that context. If i had to say overall the campus violence would be the top issue. Host eric was talking about the funding that comes from donors. According to the new york times, calls to divest from israel put students and donors at odds. It talks about a small number of universities agreed to reconsider investments in companies that do business with israel. Schools are still far from falling money. Brown university, a liberal Ivy League Institution agreed this week only to hold a board vote this fall whether its 6. 6 billion endowment should be divested from any israeli connected holdings. Northwestern and the university of minnesota have struck deals with student protesters for a clear campus and commitment to discuss the schools Investment Policies around israel. The move could add pressure to administrators at Columbia University, the university of michigan, and the university of North Carolina were protesters have made divestment from israel a central rallying cry. The financial issue divestment from israel has long been untouchable both in american politics and among wall street titans who manage University Endowments and make up a large source of donations. The article says even renewed talks of divestment has raised alarms among wellheeled donors whom few universities dear cross and have exerted influence on campus since the october 7 attack on israel and the subsequent invasion of gaza. We will go to ray in ohio calling on the republican line. Caller good morning. Host what is your top news story this week . Caller hi just wanted to call and say with every thing going on at the colleges, theres a lot of good children in college. Theres a lot of things going on that are running this country down. There is a song out a long time ago by admiral haggard. Meryle haggard. You are walking on the fighting side of me. We have got to get up and do the things they are doing right now. Is wrong. Its wrong. We should go in the cities with the Fire Department on a broadcasting thing and play that song over and over again until they get the message. You are walking on the fighting side of me. Running down our country. Let this song be a warning. You are walking on the fighting side of me. Im proud of this country. I wish to god they would quit. When he donald trump in there very bad right now. Im praying he gets elected. Host donald in elk grove village, illinois, independently. Independent line. Caller i dont know where to begin. Illinois just past a thing. They are not allowed to slate anymore. If you dont run in the primary, you dont get to be on the ballot no matter what. Illinois is basically a dead state. The republicans, what they were doing is run a slate. Nelly made it illegal. They will take it to the court. These people have really great points calling in. Remember Bernadine Dorn . Her son is at northwestern, of professor. Hes the one promoting the palestinians. He is a son of a terrorist. This country, im telling you now, i have been watching politics. I remember when khrushchev slammed his shoe on the table. If people dont rid of the democrats and bring anybody else in this country is doomed to die. Host larry in knoxville, tennessee, also on the independent line. Caller good morning. Someone called in and said they did not know what. They did not start heavy protests until after those five workers, the aid workers were killed over there. That is when therosts really took form. I believe they have the rhto protest. The leadership, someone maybe should have gone to the campus and had a speech and talk to th. Leth know what they plan to do to address their grians. You see nothing. You expect them as a young pers to be logical. Dt understand that. Host hat would you like the message to be if somebody was to talk with the students . Caller peace. Thats the message. Host rick in North Carolina on the independent line. Caller good morning. I have much to say on this. I dont know if you know, the students that are here are on international visas. They just go back to where they came from. Cancel their visa and are not allowed on these visas. Does anyone know what happens to the students . Host what is your concerned with the students that have the visas . Caller if they participate, setting things on fire, breaking into buildings, committing crimes on campuses. Are they allowed to stay in the country . I am unclear on that. I just dont know. Host bronny in mark ronnie in mooresville, pennsylvania. Caller good morning. I am a retiree. Im listening to everything going on on College Campuses. It started with the hostages that they would not release the hostages. We were seeing the brutality of the palestinians or whoever caused it. That is where it started. Biden is doing everything he can to end it without putting his finger on the trigger. He is doing a good job with everything hes doing. He is a decent guy. He cares about this country. If we have trump in office there will be a policeman and a. Gun on every corner of this country putting down whatever he thinks is necessary. I am terrified of trump, of what hes capable of doing. He said it. He believes it. He will do it. That is what i fear most of the trump presidency. It will be frightening. Return the hostages. That is what i want them to do. Get those hostages back to their families. They did nothing. That is all i have to say. Thank you cspan for being there every morning for me. She you very much. I appreciate you very much. Host joe and Staten Island on the republican line. Caller hi. Tuition. [inaudible] in 1980, it was 10,000. Tuition is twice inflation. Host this week the house did approve an antisemitism bill aimed at the propalestinian campus protests. Before the house voted on the bill there was floor debate. Here are the remarks from the gop sponsor of the antisemitism awareness act, republican michael lawler. [video] codifying to single definition will help the department of education and administrations identify entered schism antisemitism. Some opponents may try to make the argument that this imposes a constant imposes restrictions on rights to free speech. It is not true. First of all, constitutional protection is in the bill. It clearly states nothing in this act shall be construed to diminish or infringe upon any rights protected under the First Amendment to the constitution of the United States. Speech is already protected under the Civil Rights Act. When the speech turns into harassment or other prohibited action and the action is motivated by antisemitism, it becomes illegal conduct. Without a clear definition the department of ed an collagen ministries are having trouble discerning whether conduct is antisemitic or not. Whether the activity we are seeing crosses the line to antisemitic harassment. Other opponents to the bill said he would rather see a different bill tackling this. Gentlemen is recognized for an additional minute. That no reason annual political cover to vote against another measure is helpful. I ask my colleagues who would prefer other solutions, consider the good it will do for the jewish students. Keep pushing for more change in the future. We need to hold these institutions accountable. My bill has bipartisan support. 59 cosponsors, dozens of jewish advocacy groups including the adl, hhc. It is absurd to opp