Angeles. You are looking screen right at a live Helicopter Picture of the campus of ucla. The sight of hundreds of Police Officers massing right now, apparently in preparation to move in and clear out the propalestinian Protester Encampment that has now been in place on that Public University campus for almost a week. Last night, of course, 24 hours ago, we saw ongoing battles between those propalestinian protesters and proisraeli counterprotesters. That violence finally subsided after about three hours, and now 24 hours on those scenes, replaced by a massing of Police Officers , clearly in preparation for some sort of operation. Live on the campus of ucla is our correspondent, bill melugin. Bill set the scene for us as it looks to you right now. Well, jonathan, just off campus about a mile away, the Sheriffs Department has about 7 or 8 of their big jail busses parked. They are clearly preparing to make arrests tonight. And by all indications, from what were being told from our sources, somebody is going to go into this camp and try to clear it out. Tonight. The standoff continues. For now, though, well give you a look. This is the encampment about ten yards away from us right now. These protesters, you can see theyre waiting for police to come in as well. Many of them have been up in the wall all evening in their helmets with their masks on, and theyve been strobe ing Law Enforcement with their high powered flashlights. Theyve had their own drone Up In The Air this evening, keeping an eye on everything. And you can see they built this wall earlier this afternoon. They believe it will help keep Law Enforcement out. You can see some of them waving these palestinian flags here, but behind us, well give you a look at whats going on here. You still have this line of california Highway Patrol here. Theyre the first kind of Skirmish Line in front of the wall, some of them in Crowd Control. Then behind them youve got these legions of lapd officers who are kind of doing Perimeter Security for whats off in the distance. I dont know how you can see it off in the distance with the camera. There is still a crowd of many hundreds of these propalestinian protesters who have gathered on the perimeter here because they obviously oppose any action on this encampment. Tonight, lapd is in a full citywide tactical alert. They got a ton of manpower here. This encampment behind us. The protesters have been warned repeatedly that it is an excuse me, it is an unlawful assembly. Theyve been told they have to disperse or potentially face arrest, but none of them have left. Theyve actually been cheering that, no, we are not going to leave. And they told me if we can zoom in on the scaffolding real quick, weve been watching. Theyve got a bunch of people climbing up and down this construction scaffolding. Some of them are on the bottom level right now, but theyre kind of acting as lookouts. It appears when they put the drone Up In The Air. So theyre watching the police. The police are watching them. And right now its essentially just kind of a game of hurry up and wait. But, it does appear, by all indications, with the amount of Law Enforcement agencies that are here tonight. Again, three separate agencies, california Highway Patrol, the l. A. County Sheriffs Department and lapd all operating in different parts of the campuses. Theres going to be some sort of operation this evening. And the question is, when is it going to happen . It could be in the Early Morning hours. It could be somewhat imminent. We just dont know. What we do know is Law Enforcement has been pouring resources into this campus and not everything you see here is everything theyve got. They got a lot of Guys Off Campus Out Of Sight right now. And then over at the Federal Building a mile away, theyve got more units than you can count, and a bunch of sheriffs Busses Waiting to do transport. Kind of like what we saw at Columbia University in recent days. Theyre waiting clearly to fill those busses up. A lot of the officers down here are in riot gear, Crowd Control gear with zip ties. So they are very clearly planning for imminent mass arrests, if thats what it comes down to. If when they decide to enter this camp, people dont leave as theyve been instructed to. And by all indications, these students, these protesters dont have any plans to leave. Jonathan bill, you have a lot of experience of the way that l. A. Law enforcement works and a lot of sources within l. A. Law enforcement. Im curious if you can try to get in the minds of the commanders here, because it seems to me the Dispersal Order was issued at, what, five hours or so ago now. And in that intervening five hours, one of the things that has happened is that the crowds beyond the encampment, the propalestinian protesters who have been called to come and back up the original encampment, seem to have grown and made it therefore more difficult for Law Enforcement when they eventually do make the move. So if you can, can you get in the heads of the commanders and tell us what you think that they might be thinking here . Yeah. After talking to a bunch of Law Enforcement contacts tonight, i can tell you theres two things theyre dealing with right now logistics and optics. Logistics, manpower, where do they deploy them . How do they deploy them . How do they decide to go in . When do they decide to go in . How do they transport people out, that sort of thing. Then, of course, is the political angle to all of this, which is the optics. You got a lot of media here. You got a lot of protesters here, you got a lot of students here, you got a lot of cops here. This is a potential powder keg. They dont want things to get violent. They know this is going to be all over the news, as it has been in other universities across the country. You know, theyre going to be on the phone with the mayors office, lapd, the mayors office, a tight relationship. Thats not the case with the Sheriffs Department. The sheriff is elected. Okay hes accountable to the voters, not to politicians. Then you have the california Highway Patrol, which is accountable to california governor gavin newsom. So you have all these different factions at play, and theyre all going to have different motivations for how to get this done tonight based off who they answer to. So when you have three agencies out here tonight, theyre obviously working together, but theyre all going to have different ideas on what needs to happen here tonight. So theyre obviously going to be putting some sort of a plan together thats going to keep their officers safe and try to minimize the bad optics of what can happen here tonight. Obviously, the optics arent going to get as bad as what we saw last night with fistfights everywhere and people hitting each other with bricks and skateboards and sticks. Its much calmer tonight. But look, theres no easy way to go into a camp of hundreds of people who dont want to be cleared out and who are going to form human chains and complain and scream. Its not going to be good optics. So thats thats thats the bottom line. Logistics and optics. They got to think about. And yeah for sure bill. Its certainly going to be it appears at least on the face of it a very different operation to the one we saw the nypd carry out at columbia, where they went into the one building as far as we can tell, a couple of hundred protesters maybe, and they all went pretty easily. It looks like these guys, from everything youve said and everything youve showed us, bill, it looks like these guys are digging in for a real fight. Is that fair . 100 fair, jonathan. Theyve been building up these fortifications all day long. Theyve barricaded all these buildings to the side. So if Police Wanted to go into those buildings and try to spill into the encampment from there, theyre going to run into complete barricades. We saw some of that at columbia with was it Hamilton Hall . I believe it was called, but yeah, police went in there. They they brought a big truck in and they went in through the second window here. Its not as easy. They got a Big Wall Structure built here. And then you got a bunch of protesters on the outside trying to block any more Law Enforcement from coming in. Its happening on the other side as well. And then you have a huge camp here that has been stocking up on supplies. Theyve got gas masks, they got goggles, theyve got all sorts of protective gear, theyve got shields and weve been looking at some of their internal chats, their Telegram Channels that sort of thing. Theyre prepared for conflict. Theyre saying to be ready to push back, that police are going to come in if they start using tear gas or anything like that. Theyre instructing people to take buckets and put it over the canisters so they fully anticipate and expect that theres going to be some sort of a breach tonight. And their internal chats have essentially been saying, get ready to push back and stand your ground. And even if it means being arrested, do that. And theyre watching everything the police are doing. They have this drone they keep putting Up In The Air, up and down. They got all their scouts on the walls and they continue strobing. All the Law Enforcement here with their flashlights. Yeah. Bill. Any any evidence of any proisraeli counterprotesters there tonight . Obviously there was a great deal of frustration that brought them there last night. Now they perhaps feel that Law Enforcement is doing the job that they tried to do last night in, in ultimately dismantling that camp. But have you seen any, any proisraeli protesters there . I have, but its only been a small handful. Ive seen a couple of israeli flags, actually. We can see one waving right now. Of course, they put it down right when i talk. Tommy, if you look out there into the crowd, you might see the. It looks like they just put it down. Jonathan, there are a few weve seen maybe like 5 or 6. Weve seen a couple israel flags out in the crowd counterprotesting those propalestinian folks, but certainly not the numbers of proisrael counterprotesters we were seeing last night when it looked like there were a couple of hundred. And so far weve not seen any skirmishes or fights or anything like that, thankfully. But it could be a long night ahead. Still, it could indeed be a long night for you and everyone there at ucla. Bill, youre doing great work along with your cameraman, tommy chiu and producer lexi hernandez. We thank you for being here. Bill, as he mentioned, will be there all night. Whatever happens, we will be right here in fox news l. A. Headquarters bringing you anything that develops, anything that happens on that campus. You will see it thatf o campus, you will see it here live with us for now a well seb you back to regular programming. Now, if you thinkny way thaty bad, look at this document obtained by our very own itll manoogian. Now, its a list of needs fromtf protesters that are Nowuattin Squatting at ucla, including, get this vegang , food row, zi zip ties, kneepads, but absolutely no bananas or bagels are allowed and no sunscreen. I wonder if theyd like a big, thic likk juicy steak. I dont know. Anyway, here are the fullanyway report ful. Ucla tonight, bill milligan. Pretty, pretty daryn demanding. Bill. Yeah. On the air just moments ago, you say ucla police Just Announced on a loudspeaker that this encampment behind us is unlawful. Y theyre saying everybody has to leave or potentially face arrest. Evide encampment ignored them and evidently this encampment believes that wallse it. Take a look behind meafte right here all afternoon. They have built a Wallrnoo Hav D their encampment made out of wooden pallets and plywood that the f y have bound together with zip ties and screws that they have drilled hav in. Or they are preparing for some sort of siege they believe is cominge theg, whether its fm counterprotesters like we saw last night or from law enforcemenr fromt. But in the meantime, shawn, you just mentioned that google document we obtained. Lets take a loolet we k at it one more time. This is a list of things that people inside this camp say they need donated to them on that list sed donat, vegan an free food, super bright flashlights with Strobe Strobeci capability, rope and zip ties, helmets, shiel zipd and Wood Kneepads and elbow pads, lotion, no sunscreennd elb. Then goggles and gas masks. They also ask that everything be beads als compliant, meaning boycott, divestment and sanctions essentially dont give them anything that has anything to do with israel. But back out here liveo do as that announcement was made, that this is unlawful, we continue to see more lapas mad d showing up, some of themm with their Crowd Control helmets,wd c their Sheriffs Department deputies gathering off campus. Theres californiasheriff patrl gathering a lot of different Gathenforcement Agencies D are gathering here. You certainly get the vibe that something is aboute will to happen this evening, shawn, and will be here in case it does. In caswell send it back. All right. Bill will be checking in throughout the night. Thank you fo. Thanr being out thn got very violent at ucla last night. Jod weve been showing a lot of that video. Joining us now, former arkansas governor Mike Huckabeeinowor Mid law professor alan dershowitz. Professor dershowitz, you know, you spent a lot of years teaching at harvard. And i know you proud of that for a big part of your life. I wouldnt be proud to be with associated with that institution ever againthat i. I agree with you completely. Harvardt a single professor that i know of, jewish, not jewish, is preparedu to speak up on behalf of the jewish students. They are silen behalf oft. They are unwilling to do. And, you know, the end result is that these protesters are being allowed to win. Theyre being allowed to win. Brown university win. Re being allow says, oh, were going to give in to northwestern. Were going to give it to will admit specially some palestinian students we. Arent qualified well hire Palestinianpa Professorslestin to, encourage more of these kinds of protests. Can you if a Ku Klux Riotclan Rand occurred at a University Campus that the campus campe ities would negotiat with the . The would say, you know, we want about six racist professors because we didntth have any diversity here. We are racists on the facultt ha whd like a few people who favor segregation. F nobody would dream of doing that. But theyre prepared to Hirethas Hamas supporters, hamas professors, kind of hitler youth oriented professors, you cannot give in to these protesters because you do. It just encourages more and more of these Unlawfulf Yo Prots you give in. If students sign a petition, wt then you negotiate with them. You negotiate with them. If they have th totally and completely lawful, lawful protests, but once they cross the line, end of negotiation no more giving in. Otherwise, youre just otherencouraging this kind of lawlessness. You know, mike huckabee, watch this unfold. Violence the violence got really bad last night out in loass. Ting theyre expecting maybe more tonight. Be and agree with professor dershowitz. I mean, youre negotiating with a group of people. Its very hard to understand are where theyre coming from, why theres any moral ambiguitfromy about the 1200 israelis slaughtered on october seven. Ghtere the hundreds taken hostage. The videos of people being towoe death, women, men, women and,bed children being beheaded, that we know occurrededat in huge numbers. Whatever happened to woke campuses, pc campuses . Los people have lost their minds. I dont ever want to hear anybody talk about theymor right side of history anymore. We need to be talking about the right side of sanity, because what we have here is simplhayin indefensible. Its people who are supposed to be smart, smart a to get into a school like this, but theyre showing how utterly ignorant mil are of the middle east, of israel, of the socalle d palestinians, of hamas. And in their ignoranced in, theyre theyre really eliminating themselves from any they. But ifider but if there are no consequences for this ridiculous Savagconsequee Behavn then theyre just going to keep doing it. You knowg it, i still look at te fact that there are people who did stupid thinge ars on january six. You and i are among many conservatives. Mostyou d conservatives who sad everything they did was completely unacceptablo saide. When they hit a cop or broke a a window, or if they did Something Like that. But there are people who did none of those things. They just showed up and walked arounde thinthey. Theyre still in jail. These people, if theyre not put jail for a significant period of time, well, were just going to get a lot more of it because without consequences. 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