Its good to be back with you for this second hour of Chris Jansing reports. At this hour, the speaker of the house about to call on the president of the Columbia University to resign, with tensions growing over protests on campus. Can the school reach a deal with students camped out over the conflict in gaza . Well get a live report. Plus, a major test of how the war is affecting democrats at the ballot box. And an Nbc News Exclusive, the fbi director sounding the alarm. What he said about chances for a Terror Attack in the United States similar to the massacre at a russian concert hall. And Donald Trumps daughterinlaw talking election day and the rnc plans that are causing a lot of controversy today. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. Lets start here in new york with the ongoing protests at Columbia University. Nbcs trymaine lee is reporting from right outside campus. Speaker johnson planning a Press Conference there next hour after meeting with jewish student. I know we have a preview of what he plans to say. What can you tell us . Reporter thats right, chris. As Student Protesters and the administration continue to meet and negotiate about protests here on campus, the next hour, House Speaker johnson will be meeting with those students, and he plans on announcing a push for the resignation in the coming days. The campus cant ensure the safety of jewish students. Lets take a listen. Well be hosting a Press Conference with colleagues from House Republicans of new york to call on the president of the university, its unconscionable. Theyre expected to run for their lives and stay home from class. Its maddening. Reporter president shafik has found herself in an uncomfortable position. Losing support of the protesters on campus who want to make sure their rights are maintained. On The Other Side, a growing list of republicans who are demanding her ouster. As they say, she cant assure the safety of jewish students here on campus, chris. Trymaine lee, thank you. Nbcs ali vitali is on capitol hill for us. There was a big contested house race in the pennsylvania primary. Tell us why this is significant and what happened . Reporter it was a significant place for us to watch, chris, and i actually just got back from pittsburgh after reporting on this story in the early half of the week. This contest between the incumbent Congresswoman Summer Lee and her opponent, a local council man, ultimately it was the incumbent who came out on top by a whopping 20 points. Its not surprising if you had been following the polling. It was the first litmus test we got to see of the israelgaza conflict playing out in stark terms in a historically jewish neighborhood, one that was the location of the horrible 2018 Tree Of Life Synagogue Shooting where eleven people were killed. That was certainly something that we were watching as the dynamics here played out. It also came in the immediate days after congresswoman lee voted against aid to israel as part of the package of foreign aid that moved through the house. I asked her about this issue writ large on the day of the primary. Watch what she told me. The reality is that israel and palestine has been used as a wedge long before october 7th. We know that. Progressive members of congress have, you know, been attacked or maligned because of their votes or their viewpoints on critiquing or criticizing or Holding Accountable israel for many years. We know where that wedge is coming from, almost always from the right wing. This is an issue that can divide the democratic party, but more importantly its our coalition. Reporter we were looking at this race for all of those reasons. Its important to point out that congresswoman lee had a challenger in this race well before the october 7th attacks that we saw in israel. That is something that her opponent then further used to highlight the differences between them. They werent only over israel. They were on banning tiktok, that we saw play in Pennsylvania Writ large. All of that going to parlay into november as we look at an early plot point and several progressive members receiving challenges from the pro israel side of their party that were going to see play out over the course of the next several weeks and into the summer, chris. Ali vitali, thank you. Now an Nbc News Exclusive, a chilling warning from fbi director Christopher Wray about the potential for a coordinated Terror Attack on u. S. Soil. Nbcs tom winter has more of this Nbc News Exclusive interview. What did the fbi director have to say . Right, chris. Yesterday when the fbi director started to speak to our colleague lester holt, he talked about the overall threat environment. He says its one of the worst that hes seen in his entire career in federal Law Enforcement. Thats when he looks at the threats from china, from iran, from russia, as well as domestic terrorism threats and then the types of threats that youre talking about. This chilling warning about a foreign directed terror plot. Something we havent seen since approximately 2015 or so. So its been almost nine years since we have seen this type of attack. Lets listen to what he had to say. We are increasingly concerned about the potential for some kind of coordinated attack here in the homeland, maybe not that different from what you saw against the concert hall in russia a few weeks ago from isis k. I think a couple of key points there. He clearly picked that specific incident because its a foreigndirected terrorist plot. Thats when an organization, not somebody whos in their basement or somebody whos looking at their phone on their lunch break and consuming propaganda, that tends to be somebody whos being told what to do, how to prepare, what specific targets to attack, and how they can do that. Those attacks tend to potentially be much more harmful, not that any Terror Attack isnt. Thats something that clearly has the fbi concerned. The drum beat from the fbi, and they would have said this prior to hamass attack, we thought that the threat level there was increasing. Its clearly ramped up since then. According to the fbi as well as state and local Law Enforcement officials weve spoken with, and they are raising the concern about this. And obviously that attack that we saw in moscow killed a number of people. It was a coordinated weapons attack as well as a fire. Youre looking at it there that took place afterwards. Something that federal terrorism officials and Law Enforcement officials are look at. A fire with an active shooter event, in the challenge race with the first responders. Put together, it certainly, as you described, a chilling warning and one based on my reporting is one that we should probably be taking quite seriously. Tom winter, thank you. Rnc Cochair Lara Trump is making headlines for new comments about Poll Watchers on election day. Nbcs dasha burns is following this story for us. What did Donald Trumps daughterinlaw have to say about it . Well, look, this is all part of what the rnc calls a masive voter integrity operation. Claiming theyre going to deploy A Hundred Thousand volunteers and attorneys across Battle Ground states to protect the vote and ensure a big win in november. Our comments to newsmax raise a few flags. Listen. So will they be allowed to physically handle the ballots as well, lara . Yep, and that means, eric, that they should know and they can count how many ballots come in and how many ballots should go out of every single polling location. Heres Something Else we need to make clear. If we catch you cheating and were looking out there for you to cheat, we will prosecute you to the full extent of the law. So, of course, observers, Poll Watchers, volunteers, all of that is welcome and encouraged from both parties during an election, but some of what she had to say, and some of what the rnc outlined in their plans had some Election Experts concerned that it could end up leading to Voter Intimidation or chaos at the polls where folks arent properly trained or become a little bit aggressive about this, given how much the former president does continue to talk and make false claims about a rigged 2024 election. Lara trump told Garrett Haake in an interview that quote, 2020 is in the past, but of course her fatherinlaw continues to hammer that on the Campaign Trail and pretty much any chance he gets. Dasha burns, thank you. In 60 seconds, the antiwar protests disrupting classes and potentially graduation ceremonies. 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My colleague, Erin Mclaughlin spoke to one of them, andrew stein, who shared his experience while on campus at a proisrael counter protest. We started saying in arabic, hamas, hamas, our beloved, please bomb tel aviv. Stein says this video shows him being followed off campus. Me and my friend had poured in our face. Reporter they have no knowledge of any antisemitism on campus saturday night. Anyone who makes threats to a jewish student, we oppose you. I want to bring in jacob smelz, a senior at Columbia University, and the jewish on Campus Student union. Thank you for being with us, jacob. Thank you so much for having me. I know you said you feel safer off campus right now, can you describe what this last week or so has been like for you . Its been incredibly distressing to be a jewish columbia student over the past week. Ever since the hearing in the house educational work force community, jewish students have felt threatened. We have had many antisemitic incidents that have gone on, lots of rhetoric. I have a friend who was simply trying to go back to his dorm late saturday night, wears a star of david necklace, and he was told to go kill himself. I think that speaks to the level of intimidation that jewish students are currently feeling. How do you even deal with that . Did you feel any conflict about leaving campus . During College Years, thats your home, right, thats where your friends are. Thats where the people you have gone through all of this with. I mean, did you hesitate at all . Is the threat so real and present you just had to leave . Yes. Absolutely. Im a current senior. Im graduating in a month. This is the time i should be enjoying college and spending time with my friends and really trying to enjoy my last month. Instead im at the place where i feel so disconnected to the rest of my community, and i feel so physically and emotionally unsafe that i decided i had to go home. Additionally it has been the Jewish Holiday of passover over the past couple of days. A holiday thats a celebration of community and togetherness. Many students like myself feel we cannot celebrate on campus right now given the current climate, so we have decided to go home. And i know some of your classmates will be meeting on campus with Speaker Mike Johnson with today, something you did not feel comfortable returning to campus to do. If you had a chance to talk to him, what would you tell him . I would explain what we have experienced on campus is a real issue. Jewish students feel under threat. Jewish students are being confronted and harassed, simply for being physically identifiable as jewish, and something needs to be done. Nbc news has spoken to jewish students inside the encampment, and one wanted us to share that this encampment is, quote, not antijewish by any means. There was a Passover Satyr there on monday. Passover seter there on monday. Other students who want to find common ground, respectful ground . I would love to find common ground, and im always personally open to discussing any facet of the israelipalestinian conflict or various responses to the demonstrations on campus the past week. With that being said, when the protesters are chanting, we love hamas, we are hamas, we dont want two states, we want all of it, when they are saying we say justice, you say how, Burn Tel Aviv to the ground. These arent calls for dialogue. These arent calls for conversation. These arent calls for deescalation, these are calls for violence against our family and friends. Certainly no one should have to go through this. I cant even imagine, you probably started your College Years with covid, youre ending it now with this. We thank you for taking the time to share your experience and we can only wish you well in the future. Thank you, jacob, much appreciated. Thank you so much. Campus unrest is not confined to columbia. Police are out in force on the campus of the University Of Texas At Austin, trying to maintain the peace at a large protest there. The Palestinian Solidarity Committee of austin directed students to walk out and occupy the south lawn of the campus. We are keeping our eye on that. In georgia, President Bidens invitation to speak at Morehouse College is sparking backlash between faculty and alumni. The Associated Press reports some of the alums were circulating an online letter that condemns the invitation to biden. Symone Sanders Townsend is cohost of the weekend. Matthew dowd is senior Msnbc Political Contributor and analyst who served as Chief Strategist for the bush cheney 2004 president ial campaign. What do you make of the backlash between President Biden and morehouse. There are two things that are important to understand. I talked to faculty at morehouse, and they pointed me to president thomass comments. He sent out a letter to faculty and staff prior to the Announcement Reconfirming that President Biden was in fact going to be the Commencement Speaker and noted that they wont be rescinding their invitation, and two, their invitation was extended prior to october 7th. They noted it was extended in september. Secondly, this letter has been organized by someone i also happen to know, steven green, a young morehouse alum, previously the youth and College Director of the naacp, and while he was the youth and College Director, he really pushed and did a lot of work in terms of civil disobedience. They did