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And faculty worldwide to escalate their protests. I hope that the nypd steps in even more than they already are, to ensure the safety of all students on campus. Schools rushed to try to strike deals to calm the chaos, and the political blowback. President biden finally breaking his silence on the mayhem, was the right to protest, but not the right to cause chaos. As secretary of state, blinken tries to broker a cease fire deal between israel and hamas. Its on hamas. The deal is there. They should take it. Well get reaction from marco rubio, the Top Republican on senate intel, and jim himes, the top democrat on house intel, and talk with Virginia Attorney general Jason Miyares on bringing law and order to the chaos on campus. Then its election interference at the highest level. Another fascinating week of testimony at former President Trumps hush money trial in new york. Our panel weighs in on how its affecting campaign 24. All ahead on fox news sunday. Hello from fox news in washington. Our top story antiisrael protests on campuses across the country. More than 2300 people have been arrested on at least 52 campuses across 27 states since this started in earnest last month. Police have cleared protesters away at many colleges, including columbia in new york and the university of virginia in charlottesville, and most universities have significantly increased security as they try to prepare for commencement ceremonies. After days of silence, President Biden spoke out thursday supporting free speech but condemning protesters who have caused chaos on campus and used antisemitic language. Meanwhile, in cairo, hamas representatives are meeting with egyptian and qatari mediators on a ceasefire proposal. But back in israel, Prime Minister benjamin. Benjamin netanyahu vows to launch a Ground Invasion into the southern gazan city of rafah, quote, with or without a deal. In a moment, well get reaction to all of this from gop senator marco rubio and democrat congressman jim himes. But first Fox Team Coverage with jeff paul and israel and Lucas Tomlinson at the white house. Lucas, we kick it off with you. Thats right. Shannon. After days of silence about the protests, President Biden addressed the nation from here at the white house, protests that are expected to continue throughout the summer and into the Democratic National convention. Violent protest is not protected. Peaceful protest is. Biden spoke hours after violence erupted on the campus of ucla. Members of the president s own party have criticized his handling of the israelhamas war and the protests across the united states. Progressive democrat rashida tlaib, the only palestinian american in congress , slammed the police response, sending in militarized Police Forces and even snipers to stop these students for exercising their First Amendment right is truly disgusting. A bizarre scene at the university of alabama, where both pro and antiisrael protesters chanted the same thing. During the 2020 president ial campaign, as protests. Also raged across the country, biden pledged to bring people together. Im going to bring all these interests together peaceful protesters, police chiefs, Police Officers, five blocks from the white house at George Washington university, the statue of the first president remains defaced after a giant American Flag was unfurled. Protesters superimposed this image with the words genocide joe. Bidens former press secretary, jen psaki, will give the commencement address in two weeks. Republican lawmakers visited gw, including byron donalds. Everybody believes in peaceful protest, but this is trespassing now, critics say the protests have cost bidens support among young voters. Mr. President , have the protests forced you to reconsider any of the policies with regard to the region . No thank you, mr. President. Right now, President Bidens cia director, bill burns, is in cairo as hostage and cease fire negotiations continue. Shennon. All right, Lucas Tomlinson at the white house for us. Lucas. Thank you. We turn now to fox news correspondent jeff paul in tel aviv. Hello, jeff. Well, yeah. Shannon. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh reportedly said today that he wants to see not only a full withdrawal of israeli troops, but a comprehensive cease fire. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying that they cant accept that. And if they did, the next october 7th would be only a matter of time, as pressure builds from abroad on hamas to agree to the latest cease fire agreement, there is a very strong proposal on the table right now. Hamas needs to say yes and it is real. Patience is running thin. Protesters and families of hostages in tel aviv once again pushed their government to act only through returning our loved ones home. Will the jewish people be made whole again. Progress is reportedly being made on the latest deal after a delegation from hamas landed in cairo, egypt, this weekend. It could result in both the release of hostages and a pause in the fighting. An agreement would come at a critical time. Israel is preparing its forces for a major ground operation in the Southern City of rafah in gaza. Thats where more than 1 million palestinians are sheltering from the war. Aid is not always available, so i cant say we have enough, but me and my family ration what we receive to get by. As the u. S. Continues building a new temporary pier that will eventually help bring more aid into gaza. During his recent trip to israel, u. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken said more needs to be done. Blinken, who met with israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for 2. 5 hours, reaffirmed the u. S. Cannot support a military operation in rafah. Netanyahu says it will happen. Israel israel will not agree to hamas demands, which means surrender and will continue fighting until all of its goals are achieved. Now we are learning. A few hours ago, there was a mortar attack at the kerem shalom crossing, which connects israel to gaza. Hamas has claimed responsibility for the attack that injured seven people, including one person who is in critical condition. That crossing, which is critical in getting humanitarian aid into gaza, is now closed. Shannon all right. Jeff paul reporting for us from israel. Jeff. Thank you. Joining us now, gop senator marco rubio, Ranking Member of the senate intel committee. Welcome back to fox news sunday. Thank you. Okay, so lets start there. It sounds like this hostage negotiation deal is falling apart. Secretary blinken said hamas just needs to say yes. And not only does it not sound like theyre saying yes, theyve got this shelling this morning at an aid crossing that is going to shut it down. You have been there in recent days with the Prime Minister. They say theyre moving in on rafah. Where do we go from here . Well its their war and they have a right to fight it. These are degenerate savages, hamas. I mean, just think about the report that i just heard a second ago. Okay everybody is saying send in humanitarian aid. These poor people are starving. Well, thats what they tried to do. And these guys are launching mortar attacks against the humanitarian aid thats coming in. You know, that a lot of the humanitarian aid thats getting in and israel is allowing it in anyways because they know they need to do it. But hamas, this stuffs being sold in the marketplace, this administration, this is israels war. We should basically say we are on the side of the people who were the victims on october 7th of a bunch of savages and lunatics who came across that border and massacred and killed and kidnaped and raped and took hostages back with them. These people need to be defeated. How is israel supposed to coexist, to live side by side alongside next to these people and when they talk about displaced people, there are 80,000 israelis right now that are displaced from the north. They have to live. I saw them, they are living in hotels. Their kids are going to School Online and Conference Rooms at hotels. They cant go north because hezbollah is attacking them in north, in northern israel. So this is a time where we need to have not a weak and feeble president , but someone who makes it very clear that we are on israels side. They are the good guys in this fight, and hamas are the evil ones. And these terrible civilian casualties that are happening is because hamas is using them as human shields. Well, and i think that a lot of people, as we watch these campus protests and demonstrations spread, would agree that nobody wants civilians to be killed in this process. But in many of those cases, clearly they have crossed the line to actually threatening fellow students. Those kinds of things were hearing now from some International Students who are speaking up, saying they worry that because they may be suspended or disciplined, it could cost them their student visa to be here in the u. S. Do you think thats going too far . Do you think thats an appropriate response . I think joe biden and he hasnt done it again, because hes fikh and hes hes weak and hes feeble. But joe biden had very early on should have said, as i asked him to do back in october, if youre in the streets of the united states, youre here as a visitor on a visa, okay . Youre not an american. Youre here on a visa, and youre here to teach or youre here to go to school and youre out there chanting on behalf of hamas and hezbollah and these terrorist groups, who, by the way, also hate america. We should revoke your visa if you are here in this country as a visitor on a visa, and you are defacing statues in George Washington, ripping down American Flags, putting up palestinian flags, you should have your visa revoked and eliminated. And i and he should have been very clear about whose side were on from the very beginning. But look, theres a bunch of democratic donors, major democratic donors who are behind the groups that are funding all this. I saw the other day. I think it was in ucla. Theres thousands of dollars of plywood that they were using as barricades against the police. Theyre committing acts of violence, not just acts of antisemitism, acts of violence, of vandalism, threatening people. I saw another video of a jewish student who had to get police, had to basically, shame the police into escorting him. So that he could go into an area of the university where he had every right to be because of these zombies, these anti semitic left wing nut cases that the president should have been very firm about. And thats why everything in america is in chaos from our border to our campuses. Total chaos because we have a weak and we have a feeble president who cannot communicate and refuses to take a strong line on this because hes afraid of people voting against him in november who support these crazy ideas. Well, do you give him some credit for the speech this week . He clearly denounced what has crossed the line, saying, listen, we got to have free speech protections. We have a First Amendment, he did come out and make stronger remarks than that. But at the same time, we havent seen that. We know of action by the doj. Are you surprised there arent some civil rights investigations . Maybe theyve been launched, but certainly not publicly. Well, he gave a short speech off of no cards a seven days into this crisis. We should have heard from him from the very beginning. Look, these are students from all over the country. Think about this. The people who, you know, whos not getting any coverage right now, the kids who paid 80,000 a year to go to these universities, who cant take finals, cant use the library, cant go to class, many of whom have dropped out of school. Whos fighting for them . Joe biden should have spoken about them very early in this process. His failure to address this early on, and to make very clear who side he was on, has just fed this, has just increased this. He should have been very clear and defined himself early on about this, and theyre not doing anything about it as far as i can see. I mean, where are the i want to see if they put as much resource and time into investigating this people as theyve investigated other people in the last couple of years. Well, we know the department of education has launched some investigations. Well talk about that a little bit later in the show, but i want to get to a couple of other domestic issues with you. The issue of abortion has been a very difficult one for republicans. You seem to be of the mindset that you need to embrace it and try to control the conversation in a better way and actually talk about it, not run from it, democrats, though, feel like its a its a great case to make against you. Heres the Vice President in florida days ago, when the six week ban in florida went into effect. Since roe was overturned, and every time reproductive freedom has been on the ballot, the people of america voted for freedom. Now, the Florida Supreme Court has said an abortion measure can be on the florida ballot there in november. How worried are you about that motivating the base . Well what im more worried about is that no one ever asked the Vice President , Kamala Harris or any democrat, what restrictions do they support which abortion should not be allowed . They never tell. You should should someone be allowed to do an abortion on the day of birth . So after birth, nine months should should pass the point of viability . What they will never tell you which abortions should not be allowed. Okay. Theyre always demanding to know what exceptions do you support, but they never tell you which restrictions they would support. They are extremists. They believe abortion should be allowed at any time for any reason, basically, and paid for by taxpayers. No one ever asked Kamala Harris that no one ever asked the democrats that so they should. They should be. Someone should start asking them what their position is on that. And then we can sort of define and decide, all right, what are the policy options here . I dont ive never viewed abortion as a political issue. I believe it is a moral issue. It is the conflict between two rights, a womans right to choose and an unborn human beings right to live. And i on the side of life because without life, none of the other rights matter. Theres no right to speech. Theres no right to vote. Theres no right to do anything if youre not alive and we have to have laws that define how we protect human life. But these people will never tell you what the law, what abortion should not be allowed. They are extremists. They are radical extremists. And it is journalistic malpractice for Kamala Harris to repeatedly be allowed to do interviews and never be asked. Kamala harris, what abortions should not be allowed in america . Which point is it too far and too bad. Never answers that. Never. Shes an extremist. Theyre extremists. Well, i will say, for the democrats who are willing to come on the show and have we do have that conversation with them. And i agree with you. It seems like they also have failed to coalesce around a message for where their limits are in many cases. Before you go, though, youre in florida. Youre spending time with President Trump. Everyone says youre on his vp short list, but that there may be a Technical Glitch with having two people from the same state. When it comes down to an Electoral College vote, would you leave the state of florida or change your residency if you were asked to join the ticket . Well, first of all, the Vice President ial choice for donald trump is going to be made by one person, and thats donald trump. And all this other stuff is just speculation. And i get it. You know, political reporters have to cover political topics. The primary is over. The general is six months away. So they want to speculate on the vp thing. Heres the good news. And i saw it this weekend. The amount of talent that we have in the Republican Party is extraordinary. He doesnt just have a bunch of choices for vp, he has a bunch of choices for a cabinet. Hes going to have an Extraordinary Group of talented people that can serve this country in multiple roles, and thats a decision hes going to have to make. And i would just say, forget leaving me aside for a moment. I think that before anyone decides to move from their state, youd better make sure you move to a state where theres not some da that makes a career. After going after republicans, because what were seeing all over the country right now is the weaponization of our criminal Justice System, not just to go after donald trump, which is now well documented. Right. You have a biden supporting judge, a biden prosecutor and the most liberal county in america on ridiculous charges. And the rest of the world is watching that, saying you know, this is the stuff that america used to sanction other countries for doing. Okay well, its happening here in america. But but i think that thats something that we need to be focused on, because i do think that has an impact on peoples thinking about getting into politics. Okay. So if you do move not to new york, that wont be your choice. We got that. But but if you decide that thats a pretty good its a pretty good guess on that one. If you decide that you have anything to tell us about that or if you, you know, want to consider your residency elsew

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