Fox news night. Breaking tonight, antiisrael protesters at columbia and other elite universities just got a major endorsement tonight. A senior hamas leader and the Popular Front For The Liberation Of Palestine calls the protesters our students at american universities. The statement comes as dozens of students are being arrested at the university of texas, austin. Now a live look at the university of Southern California where protests appear to be heating up. And the students appear to be staying a while. Meantime in new york, the Speaker Of The House made note of the terrorist support. Watch. Today hamas issued an Endorsement Statement of the protesters on this campus, calling them the future leaders of america. They screamed at those who bear the star of david. [ chanting ] enjoy your free speech. It was chaos on the campus. We were looking out into a sea of students faces with rage. So many of them, jesse, dont even know what the heck they are talking about. They dont know what hamas has done, they deny the facts of october seventh. Some of them denied tonight 11. Trace as you saw, Speaker Johnson was not treated to a friendly welcome by Student Agitators on their sixth day of protests. We have team fox coverage. Live a columbia. But we begin with matt finn live in los angeles. Reporter trace, today was unorganized day of resistance with antiisrael demonstrations at schools like usc and Southern California, john hopkins in baltimore, and here are some fiery scenes from the university of texas at austin. [ bleep ] [ bleep ] [ crowd noise ] from gaza to mexico fascist Reporter Police at the University Of Texas Austin made more than 20 arrests. The Student Affairs division there warned the school is not going to tolerate Campus Disruptions during finals. Video shows police first asking demonstrators to peacefully disperse. Protesters chanted pigs go home. [ chanting ] reporter and tonight yet another Major University here in california was overrun by protesters demanding a ceasefire in gaza. Protesters at usc clashed with police early in the day and then Law Enforcement issued a Dispersal Order around 5 30 this evening. Dozens of protesters did not comply and formed circles, locking arms. Video shows people agitating police and throwing Water Bottles at officers. Usc writing about the protesters their actions have escalated to the point of confrontation and have threatened the safety of our officers and campus community. Earlier this Evening A Usc Student told fox news jewish students are afraid to wear yarmulkes. Its scary, frightening. The issue is, it may not affect everybody in our country but these people are young and they are going to age and at some point they are going to make up an extremely influential segment of americas people. We are all going to suffer the consequences. Reporter the majority of these protesters are demanding their School Stop Funding anything to do with israel including companies and universities. Trace amazing. The pictures are unbelievable. Live in la, we will get back to you later. Meantime the antiisrael movement appears to still be going strong in new york city where protesters now camping out in tents on campus and seeing their deadline move yet again. Senior correspondent live on the ground at Columbia University. Steve, good evening. Reporter good evening, trace. Another 200 protesters arrested overnight, many arrested near senator schumers house where they were disturbing traffic. Pretty interesting and dramatic confrontation between the Speaker Of The House as well as several hundred protesters here at columbia. He came and talked to jewish students and faculty members for some time and then came out and had a faceoff with several hundred protesters. They tried to shout him down, they jeered at him, insulted him. Johnson said basically hamas supports you and some words supports your movement. He said its wrong for jewish students at columbia to feel like they have a target on their backs and he also leaped also criticized saying you are wasting your parents money, get back to school. Columbia has shifted the deadline a couple of times now about when they are going to remove these from campus. It was supposed to be midnight last night, 3 00 am, up moved to eight in the morning. Now pushback another 48 hours. The University Says if they dont dismantle these tense, they will take certain measures but they will not say what those measures are. The speaker was a lot more blunt saying calling in the National Guard is an option and that the protesters, if they disobey, they should be arrested. Back to you. Trace and on it goes. Steve hair again, we will get back to you. Alive for us a columbia, thank you. [ ] trace the Fox News NightCommonsense Department is finding it easy to come up with topics these days. Progressive members of congress a. K. A. The squad keep turning out heaping helpings of nonsense. That commonsense can then pasteurize into products that are safe to consume. The latest gift comes from congresswoman who offered up two separate tasty bits of bad information. One is that police are the ones that ignited these antiisrael protests on campus. Maybe its just coincidence that her antipolice diatribe comes amid her daughter being among those arrested at columbia. Then there is bad info part two that this is all about genocide in gaza. Commonsense things if this is truly about genocide. Why are University Protesters spending so much time attacking jewish students, a. K. A. Their classmates . Are the jewish students advising netanyahu . Are they trading their lululemons for idf gear, heading to the front lines of gaza 6000 miles away and somehow making it back for 8 00 am philosophy . Does anyone anywhere believe that cops and the jewish underclassmen are colluding . These protesters are simply the Racial Justice crowd with new slogans. No justice, no piece is now genocide show. Common size does commonsense things it wont be long until the Righteous Movement starts busting windows near you. Without lets bring an Columbia University student eden yadegar, republican new york city councilwoman inna vernikov, thank you for coming on. Eden, i know you are home for passover and you intend to go back to columbia. I wanted to play this because this is a columbia protester saying that this is what they were taught. Listen to her and i will get your response. What we have is this encampment at a shown solidarity with each other, with other colleges on the Palestinian People and that is something that the administration cannot take away from us. The way theyve been treating us is if we were strangers in our own campus, as if they had not been teaching us what we are applying at this encampment. Trace these are the same people who a year ago, two years ago, called words violent and now they are using these violent words. What do you make of whats happening on your campus . Thank you for having me. Its very clear to me and to all the jewish students on campus that what we are seeing is not free speech. Freedom of speech does not include freedom to harass nor freedom to intimidate. My friends have been punched, my friends have been hit, my friends have been shoved, flags have been set on fire on columbias campus. I mean that is not what the First Amendment protects. And these protesters are calling for tel aviv to be burned to the ground, to bomb tel aviv, they are calling for a revolution and in the same Breath Calling for a ceasefire. The hypocrisy is astounding. Trace it really is. Inna vernikov, to you now because as we started at the top of the newscast, this endorsement, these columbia students, elite University Protesters are now being endorsed by, you know, one of the leaders of hamas, by the palestine Popular Front For The Liberation Of Palestine. What do you make of this . They are seeing and recognizing this and they see that its beneficial for them. First of all thank you for having me. Theres an illegal occupation going on right now and its not in the middle east, its in the encampments of Columbia University, nyu and other universities across america. The American People need to understand that this is a result of decades of indoctrination, Marxist Indoctrination Across American Academia that has engulfed our College Campuses. And that is the ideology, that jews are the oppressors, that they are White Privilege and therefore they cannot be victims. Trace it really is, its exactly what is happening on campuses and its spreading. We will talk about this. The university of Southern California. Meanwhile back to eden because i want to play the soundbite. This is a jewish professor at nyu who had this to say. I can tell you, if i went into the nyu square with a White Hood On and said lynch the blocks or burned the gaze, my id would be shut off by that night, there would be no need for the words context or new wants, i would not be protected by terms like First Amendment or free speech, i would be out of the world of academia. It seems like we have a Double Standard when it comes to hate speech as long as its against jews. Trace it doesnt seem like theres a Double Standard, there is a Double Standard. He would be blackballed, taken out of his job and so would anybody else and yet we see these protests go on with impunity. Absolutely. I mean there is very much a Double Standard and its only reinforced by our administrations lack of action in condemning this rhetoric, in condemning these hateful actions. I mean its so ridiculous to me that every single marginalized group gets to define their own identity, gets to define what oppresses them, but when it comes to jews, somehow when we cry antisemitism its written off. We are told that we are weapon icing our jewish identities when really we are being targeted because of them. Trace yeah, and i just want to ask because eden was telling us, her friends have been punched, we have other students who say their friends, their nonjewish friends have told them to stay off campus because they are worried about their safety. What do you say to that, inna . You know, my message to the students as i understand that you are afraid but i wish that you all Come Together And Be Brave and come back to campus. I know it might not be easy and we are going to keep pushing for the president to do the right thing, to let the nypd back onto the campus, to expel the agitators, to expel the hamas supporters and we will keep supporting you as much as we can. Trace inna vernikov, eden yadegar, thank you so much for coming on, best of luck to you and we are curious to see what happens when you go back to school. Thank you so much. Thank you for having us. We are living in a Parallel Universe Of Unknown and pain and confusion and the world of no answers, and its very hard for friends and family to really understand that pain because it is so unique and different. What we can do is just pray, keep praying that he somehow heres his parents calling to him, be strong, survive. Trace be strong, survive. We did not know how strong they are until today because when i spoke to his parents in israel, six months ago, just talk after october 7th, they knew he had lost part of his arm. While they were hopeful, they knew the situation was dire but now they have gotten Video Confirmation that he is alive. 200 days later they are not ready to be interviewed and can you blame them. But here is there statement. Watch. Seeing the video today is overwhelming. We are relieved to see him alive we are also concerned about his health and wellbeing as well as that of all of the other hostages and all of those suffering in this region. We are here today with a plea to all of the leaders of the parties who have been negotiating to date. Trace lets bring in coauthor of stolen youth, school bored candidate Bethany Mandel along with the founder of last people forget, elizabeth pipko. Bethany, to you first, when i interviewed the goldbergpolins i was kind of saying we talked about it and we laughed and i said man, it is such a strong family. To think that you know, because you saw the video, that your son lost part of his arm and you wonder whats happening, and then for 200 days not to here anything and to here that hes alive, i cant even imagine what that is, the emotional Roller Coaster that is, bethany. Yeah, they have been incredible throughout, they have become really the public face of a lot of the Hostage Families because they have perfect english, they are american and they have been tireless. They met with the pope, elon musk, president biden, and theyve been wearing the tape on their shirts just like im wearing tonight with the number of days that hersh has been held hostage along with a hundred 33 other innocent souls. Thank god they got this confirmation of life but i think this just added to the fire of, like, we need to get all of these people out before its too late. Trace its interesting because you see whats happening in congress, whats happening with this administration, elizabeth pipko, and you see nancy pelosi calling for netanyahu to step down and you think during all of this why not talk about the hostages, why not put the focus back on the hostages, why not have hamas surrender, why not talk about whats happening in iran . Instead we are going after israel in the middle of a war. I thought it was honestly incredibly inappropriate. The state of israel is obviously one of our closest allies but its also a fellow democracy. I dont think that the leadership in israel should be up to anyone except the Israeli Citizens and that should be blatantly obvious. If not to the people of israel than to the leadership in the United States. And you said why not talk about the hostages, why not talk about whats happening at home . I think of our politicians want to speak up they should speak up about whats happening in our backyard, our College Campuses that are on fire with young people screaming for terrorists and not the leadership in israel which should be up to no one but the israeli people. Trace the wall street journal rights, not every College Campus is columbia and not every synagogue in america is feeling vulnerable, but Once Upon A Time american synagogues hired cops to direct traffic, now they need a whole security and intelligence apparatus to live freely as jews. I mean you wonder, and a lot of people must be asking, whats happening here . Yeah, i mean i would disagree with the assertion that we were ever totally safe in our synagogue. But for sure especially since ten seven. Weve had Armed Security sitting outside for sure. We had it before 10 7 too. But its a scary moment as an american jew when you have on the campuses of the most elite universities in the country from coasttocoast, people who are chanting we are hamas. Hamas and the ayatollah in iran are saying we support what they are doing on these campuses. There is amply does something deeply broken and it doesnt seem like the alarm bells are going off. Trace elizabeth, when you started your online holocaust museum, did you ever think that you would see history in some capacity repeat itself . I definitely did not. October 7th was terrifying as it is about what weve seen here is almost as terrifying. The community that i thought would rally around the jewish people has done the exact opposite. Everything that weve seen happen in this country is the opposite of what i was raised thinking we would end up seeing, the opposite of what i was raised to believe and think and do as an american for any community under any kind of threat. Apparently people were not raised the same way and i think that is blatantly obvious with too many at this point. Trace thank you both. Meantime an off day in the new york versus trump criminal trial, a former president awaits a ruling on whether he violated the judges gag order. This is the Supreme Court is set to here arguments tomorrow on whether trump should be immune from federal prosecution. The Senior National correspondent kevin corke live in dc with the very latest on this. Reporter good evening trace. Against the backdrop of the 2024 president ial campaign, the high court, the Supreme Court, will tomorrow take up the question of whether a former president turned presumptive gop nominee can be criminally prosecuted for his efforts to remain in power after an election. The case