This antiisraeli encampment. This time at ucla in california after protestors defied the orders to leave prior. So good morning, it continues. Im bill hemmer live in New York City. Good morning to my partner here. Dana im dana perino and this is americas newsroom. Weve been watching this since the early before the sun rose. Police ordered protestors to leave or face arrest. After standing by on the periphery of the tents for hours the protestors hunkered down and police responded. They tore down barricades and tore down boards. How that was allowed to happen not sure. Bill melugin was on the scene as the predawn crackdown unfolded. Oh. Did you hear that flash bang . Bill okay. Numerous angles to cover over the next two hours. There was a lot of that that you just saw. Sun is rising where the action is, William La Jeunesse is still there live at ucla. Lets begin a new hour with you, william. Good morning, bill. This is what remains of the tent encampment. It is now entirely cleared by Law Enforcement. You can see the coolers, the sleeping bags, the food, the lights, the gas masks, basically you name it. There is probably i was told up to 400 people inside here. It took some time. I think the police started moving in around 2 00 a. M. They were led by chp, State Property. They came in first in their riot gear and masks and so forth and face shields and had to go up against that plywood, right . The plywood was basically nailed or screwed together. Then they had zip ties around the fences making the entry point really difficult. The entry was made over in that corner there basically a dozen officers started going through. The protestors were locked in arms, right . And they had on helmets and masks and so forth to stop the pepper spray and so then the flash bangs started, bang, bang, bang all night long as police continued to peel back layers, first the fence, then the fly wood, then the tents, then the individuals. And only just about ten minutes ago did they finally finish arresting. What they did is came through here, started taking them out onebyone, putting them in their plastic cuffs if you will. Zip ties, and then they pushed the the Cops Corraled these protestors up against the wall over there where keith is shooting right now and again they locked arms and still free, free, palestine the whole bit. The cops said you walk away down here you dont have to be arrested. If you stay you will be arrested. Anyone you saw got arrested wanted to be. This encampment started about a week ago. Declared unlawful by the university two days ago. Police showed up last night and said it was an unlawful assembly. You have another choice to leave. They also had barricaded the doors over here of royce hall, iconic, you see it in the movie and tv shows, a lot of graffiti spray painted on the walls. They barricaded that so police couldnt come in that way and they did the same over to the library, which has been closed for several days and will not open until monday. Basically the encampment, they had secured themselves here. When we arrived around 11 00 p. M. Or midnight local time there were more than 1,000, probably 1500, maybe 2,000 students around the perimeter, right . They were armed for bear as well. They had bats and poles and masks and they had gas masks as well and shields. And the fear was by police that they were going to move in for these alley ways and Access Points between the buildings. Well, police did a good job. They went in and moved them out and sealed them off and then the police moved in here to the encampment area where we are now. The university had to invite the police here. That generally happened it was probably the catalyst was the counter protest a few nights ago when there were 15 injuries and for two or three hours there was fighting going on. University realized someone will get hurt and they called police and said it has to end. Send it back to you. Bill you have a junk yard behind you. Look at all that stuff. When we were watching police move about an hour ago, there were some aerial shots. I dont know if you saw it from your position. There were some aerial shots where the cops were picking up tents and moving them like they were empty cardboard boxes. There was nothing inside many of them. Have you noticed that . Yeah. But bill, what i think i think basically thats because the protestors had basically moved to the perimeter or to the sides. But you are right, when the cops showed up and started taking this plywood and throwing it away and so forth, there were People Living here, no doubt about it. You can see that. Now was every tent i dont think they were occupied. Once the police started showing up. They were around the perimeter, if you will. In fact, lets take a look right now across over here, bill. So you can still see police are here and if we can go beyond that so this is the i think the western edge of the mall, if you will, where we are. You still have protestors out there. But theyre outside the caldron. Calling the police names and still making demands. But those individuals they are not in the encampment per se. But for all intents and purposes its over. The cleanup will begin. As you mentioned, bill, it will take some time. Classes wont begin until monday. This place is a total mess. Dana i had a question about that because i think it is outrageous that people who are going to have to come up and clean up their mess. Not sure what happens to all that stuff. But who is on the hook to pay for it . Is it is taxpayers or add it to the students bill and send their parents a note along with it . Dana, i think you know the answer to that. Taxpayers will pick up the tab one way or another. You would like to believe that it is coming out of the university budget, which technically you could argue it is aid not going to go to future students. But the point is, you know, taxpayers had to pay for the enforcement as well as the cleanup. But the sad part. I got my masters here in these buildings. An the graffiti and the utter disrespect they had for property that was not their own, let alone this being your university and thats the way you want to treat it . Some of the demands they made were so absolutely unrealistic. Uc system, the entire endowment will divest of these companies doing business in israel. Some of their demands saying that they werent going to do it until the genocide ended. Im sorry, israel does not listen to the students inside this encampment. Thats not their job. So some of that stuff is pretty crazy. But yeah, its going to be a lot of cleanup. The stuff weve seen here is crazy in terms of all the stuff. It wasnt cheap, i can tell you a piece of plywood, 3 four inch four by eight will cost over 50 at home depot. The amount of money that went into this that was behind it is not some psych 101 student who is a freshman. Thats real money. Dana thank you so much. We want to get to Jonathan Hunt monitoring the protest. What do you see from your Vantage Point . What i see is just that extraordinary mess at the center of one of the Blue Ribbon Universities of the uc system. It is quite extraordinary to look at it. Weve watched it and covered it live over the last couple of nights since tuesday night when those violent clashes took place between the propalestinian protestors and the counter proisraeli protestors. It has just been desperately sad to see. Desperately sad, frankly, to watch the Decision Making or lack there of on the part of the Ucla Administration and to begin with, Law Enforcement agencies here in l. A. Ucla finally put the call out to police after the violent clashes of tuesday night. Then they moved on to campus yesterday. But they waited hours and hours and hours it seemed before they wanted to move in. We were all completely befuddled by the delays that were going on, which just allowed those protestors to barricade themselves more strongly and more strongly to make it more and more difficult for the Law Enforcement officers who eventually got in. Although i have to say once they went in, it was a textbook operation, dana. Led by officers with the california highway patrol. That is State Property being at uc obviously. And they showed remarkable restraint. They used flash bangs, fired those over the heads of the protestors to disorient them. Did not use any tear gas at all. They had their rifles containing Rubber BulletsLocked And Loaded and aimed but they never as far as were aware fired a single round. They eventually moved in and rounded up everybody and what we now see has been a very, very effective operation. So this is over, but just look at the damage. That is a blue ribbon part of the uc system. Ucla. And that is the center of it that were looking at now. It is, i think, as many people have said, including nearby sheriff, by the way, the sheriff of riverside county, it has been an embarrassment for l. A. An embarrassment for ucla and embarrassment to an extent up until this morning for Law Enforcement in la as well. Now its all over and thats what the United States is looking at. That kind of damage to a major university, extraordinary to me. Bill it sure is. Look at some of the graffiti. Genocide, not war, a hammer and sickle. There was some spanish language, i do believe along the way. Senator Elizabeth Warren was on cnn talking about the twostate solution and peace deal now. How do you negotiate with hamas Still Holding hostages . It is absurd to think you would make that jump at this moment. Overnight reaching deep into the Morning Hours about 1 30 a. M. East coast time and all through the night we watched it all unfold here on the Fox News Channel and with our colleagues on fox friends when we watched this. It doesnt look like the kid gloves are working with these protestors. Now cops. They did nothing to control outsiders from coming in. We saw a lot of people inside who were not students. This is the most violent resistance we have seen, i think, anywhere in the country so far. Yeah, well, you know, i might be scared if i saw this coming at me. Bill a lot more of that to come. Mitch daniels joins us now. Sir, good morning to you. Former University PresidentPurdue University in indiana, former indiana governor and we are privileged that you chose to join us this morning. We have been looking forward to trying to get the perspective of University President s and you are perfect for the job. Can you help us understand whats happening on americas campuses now . Well, i think we all understand whats happening and we also have come to understand in any case a minority of students and many of those participating arent students at all. All that needs to be born in mind. I choose to take a half full view honestly, that were seeing in contrast to some previous episodes like this, some resoluteness on the part of People Holding both my last two jobs, both universities and their surrounding public jurisdictions. My view is that follow through is everything but some expulsions that have been announced in many places would be very therapeutic and helpful. I think were seeing a pendulum moving in a healthy direction. California is california. I dont think we should mistake whats going on there for the typical case. Bill i apologize for the interruption. Were balancing two significant stories. The other one is in Lower Manhattan and here is former President Donald Trump. Thank you very much. So as you know, were late last night we got back from michigan. We went to wisconsin and michigan yesterday. We had tremendous rallies. Sold out rallies, packed. The enthusiasm has never been better. That was a great thing. It was nice to be able to campaign one day without being in this ridiculous show trial. Biden trial i call it. But it was quite a day yesterday and many of you were there and i appreciate your being there. The coverage was very fair. The economy, people are asking me about the economy. It is doing terribly. Interest rates are obviously not going to be able to be reduced prior to the election because inflation is roaring back. Gasoline is way up. Other things are way up and it is roaring back and theyre very surprised. Im not surprised. They say they are surprised. Thats what they say. The economy looks pretty bleak for Interest Rates and i dont think there is any way they can cut them. Inflation, remember, is a country buster. When you have inflation, that breaks countries, literally breaks countries. We cant take that chance. Well see what they do. It was announced yesterday they cant do much with the Interest Rates. Theyll have to remain very high. Its very unfortunate. We had low Interest Rates. They have high Interest Rates. Thats very unfortunate. When you compare my economy to this economy, not a contest. We had the greatest economy in history and now we have a lousy economy. But the problem with the economy is the inflation and anything you make you more than gave back. We call it a 50 tax. A biden tax, inflationary tax and it is about 50 . Thats what it is whether you like it or not. It is too bad. Were down at the trial now getting ready to spend another day in the courthouse, which is bogus trial that every leading authority on law says should never have been brought. Alvin bragg didnt want to bring it until the election hand and he brought it. This case could have been brought eight years ago. Instead they wait and wait and wait. They know it is not a good case and now it has turned out to be they have lost every they have no case. They have no case. But we have a very conflicted judge, unfortunately and so you never know. But other than that, there is no case. It should have never been brought. If it was brought it should have been brought eight years ago. 2015, 2016. Nobody has ever seen anything like it. They wait until i announce and then they start their action and wait until prime time super tuesday. They all started, super tuesday, the biggest day, which we won every single thing. Super tuesday was a big day for me but thats when it all came into being. Who starts a case right smack in the middle of somebodys election . It should be illegal because it is election interference. So were going to go in right now and i will comment just quickly on the colleges and universities. It is a shame. Im so proud of the new yorks finest, they are great people, too, i know so many of them. They are incredible. They did a job at columbia and likewise in los angeles they did a really good job at ucla. It was very embedded. So you understand this is a movement from the left, not the right. The right is not your problem despite what Law Enforcement likes to say, the f. B. I. Director said that he worries about the right. Dont worry about the right. The right is fine. Worry about the left. This is a movement from the left. These are radical left lunatics. It will get worse and worse. They have to be stopped now. They take over countries, okay . We arent letting them take over the usa. We arent letting the radical left morons take over this country. You cant let that happen. And the Law Enforcement and people at d. O. J. Instead of going after donald trump they ought to look what is happening in their own offices. You are loaded up with radical left people that want this country to fail. We wont let this country fail. Thank you very much. Bill court resumes in 12 minutes. First order of business today, a judges ruling on four more gag orders. So stand by for more on that. Dana well do that. We bring back Mitch Daniels, who was president of Purdue University and former governor of indiana. Wanted to ask you about one of the the president was just talking about how the left is really driving this and i guess well sort all that out to find out how many outside agitators and nonstudents are there. From a University President perspective, what should you do to either prevent nonstudents from coming on board or to deal with them going into next fall if this isnt resolved by then . You need to recognize that this is a common phenomenon these days. In some cases we know a majority of those arrested were not students. You need to have a very good relationship, we certainly did at Purdue University, with your surrounding Law Enforcement and prosecutors who will actually act. It doesnt take too many to send the right message, dana. You know, again, maybe im prone to look on the bright side but i think that this whole round of here has a clarifying effect. Which schools will protect their safety . Which schools are serious about the academic enterprise . It is clarifying problem to Jewish Americans where the real hate and most dangerous and virulent antisemitism is located in this country. And it is i hope it will clarify to students, those involved and those watching, that there are consequences for violating clear rules and clear particularly criminal laws. Follow through will be very, very important, including prosecutors in some jurisdictions who have been declining to prosecute even worse offenses. We will need to see which ones do and which ones dont. But again i think public understanding will be advanced a great deal and i hope in a positive direction. Bill the president has been invisible. What is his strategy . Im going to leave that to him and others. It is pretty plain that they feel trapped. They are desperate to placate their extremes. I know they feel conflicted about that. Bill let me steal a line from the Wall Street Journal editorial board. Quote. His, joe bidens moral equivo