Were a conservative state. Weve always been moving in the prolife direction. We should not be we should not be allowing abortions and we certainly shouldnt be providing Abortion Tourism for other states in the south. Its just not right to tell a woman that theres a certain amount of time that you have to make to have an abortion. Its just its not right. Floridas barbaric six week abortion ban goes into effect with dire consequences for women. But setting the stage for a political earthquake in november. Also tonight, Marjorie Taylor greene is now off on her own island with a doomed to fail effort to topple Speaker Mike Johnson who will survive. Embarrassingly with the help of democrats. But we begin tonight with more Campus Unrest Erupting over not just the war in gaza, but over the military Industrial Complex as we know it. More on that in a minute. But first, Last Night A Stunning Scene Unfolded in New York City where the new York Police Department arrested nearly 300 pro Palestinian Protesters at Columbia University as well as city college of new york. At columbia, police stormed hamilton hall, an occupied building on campus after University Officials sent the nypd, one of the most militarized Police Departments in america, after its own students. This morning, new york mayor eric adams repeated his claim that Outside Agitators are coopting College Protests and basically hood wipging the students who the mayor repeatedly referred to as children. There is a movement to radicalize young people. And im not going to wait until its done and All Of A Sudden acknowledge the existence of it. This is a global problem that young people are being influenced by those who are professionals at radicalizing our children. And im not going to allow that to happen as the mayor of the city of new york. The identities of those arrested have not yet been released. But late today the nypd told nbc news that so far 27 of those arrested at columbia are over the age of 30 and 10 have been arrested multiple times. Of those arrested who were over 30 years of age, some might be faculty or staff or graduate students. It is too soon to say whether or not they are affiliated with the university. Again, we cannot paint a fuller picture until more identities are released. But per the deputy commissioner, one person has an Arrest History Dating back to the 2005 g8 summit when the person allegedly assaulted a police officer. The Outside Agitator narrative has, however, taken off, despite mayor adams or the despite neither mayor adams nor the nypd providing any evidence to back up this claim other than the apparent use of industrial chains to barricade the doors of hamilton hall. Chains that happened to look exactly like the same chains marketed and sold to students by the Columbia University department of Public Safety at a discount to lock their bikes. Which is all to say columbia effectively turned on its own students as negotiations between protesters and the school broke down, with the Schools Administration claiming they were left with no choice but to call in the police whom they asked to maintain a presence on campus until may 17th, two days after commencement. The encampment on columbias has been removed. The green lawn is visible again, along with the markings where the tents were pitched. Of course, the protests have now metastasized nationwide on multiple campuses throughout the country. Universities now routinely are sending the police, many in riot gear. You can see the eagerness in Law Enforcement to shut down these protests, which have been mostly peaceful. But not all. Overnight in los angeles, there were violent clashes between pro Palestinian Protesters and it was responding due to quote multiple acts of violence. The university cancelled all classes today. While in tucson, police at the University Of Arizona cleared out protesters, deploying, quote, Chemical Irritant munitions against according to updates from the school. We know and see what is happening. The question is why. Why are they sicking the cops on their own students and professors, essentially turning the awesome power of the state against the very leaders who will some day inherit it . Well, first off, universities have Endowment Chests and huge financial backers and some of those donors are very upset that universities are turning out woke people affected by dei and Critical Race Theory. They dont like it. And they see these protests as a chance to right these institutions, idealogically. And then there are the multibillion dollar profits you can only see in the business of war. And how our elite educational institutions get involved. A Teen Vogue Article on the history of Military Influence at Higher Education shows how the financial ties between the u. S. Military and american universities stretch back nearly a century. During world war ii and the cold war, these two institutional forces relied on each other to create Weapons Of Mass Destruction and space warfare. It continues today with michael claire, Professor Emeritus of peace and World Security studies at hampshire college, saying he has noticed that the pentagon is once again approaching various universities for help in creating weaponry, like Artificial Intelligence and hypersonic weapons. In fact, students are directly involved in the process of creating military weapons. Joining me now is dean of the Columbia School of journalism and msnbc contributor, reverend mark thompson, Social Justice activist and host of make it plain pod cast. And indigo olivier. Thank you all for being here. What is the status of the campus . There will be a Police Presence all the way through graduation. Where do things stand as of tonight . As you pointed out the campus is pretty much empty right now. So the campus was on lockdown prior to last night. And so, its early quiet at this particular moment. Are classes over . Classes are basically over this week . Classes are over, but finals are not. And so then columbia has 17 different schools. Theyre on slightly different schedules. Slightly staggered schedules so different people are at different point. But virtually very few schools still have classes going on. That said, the campus is almost empty more or less. What about this claim by the mayor trump today rather ironically declaring the lack of Law And Order in new york after leaving his own criminal trial. Thats ironic. The claim by mayor Adams The Campus was beset by Outside Agitators and terrorists duping students to go into hamilton hall. Any evidence of that . Couple things, one, i dont think anyone on this campus would use the language of people being, quote unquote, radicalized. Were here to engage people intellectually and learn and so on. So i think that is, you know, not an apt explanation. And all of my experience here, you know, over the course of the past two weeks where this has unfolded i did not use the word radicalized used by anyone, on any side of this discussion. I will say this, toward the point about kind of, quote unquote, outside people, here is why it was significant, you know, Devin Mcginness got on to the campus. He got on the the campus when the campus was locked down. And you know, there was the proud boy event where they were rallying outside the gates of campus. And so there was a logic that held that if he could get on to the campus as visible and known as he is, then who else has gotten on to the campus. And those tensions were exacerbated by some of the things that happened by the groups outside. One of which was, you know a protester, Counterprotester Who had an israeli flag, had it snatched out of his hands and set on fire. Then other people attempted to scale the gates, people who were outside, attempted to scale the gates and get inside. And so there was a real concern. Im not taking any positions about the rightness or wrongness in this context. There was a real concern that who are those people . And people are capable of behaving like that on the outside, how might they behave on the inside . So those are the questions. And last thing ill say, i dont want to take up too much time, the last thing ill say is that there was a real concern that if someone got hurt, the criticism would have been the opposite, why did the university wait so long to do something. And so, i think those are calculations that people had to make at the time. Mark, we know that obviously fox news took full advantage of this, you know, decrying this as new york Out Of Control and violence, et cetera. We know people like Christopher Rue foe talked about Outside Agitators the guy who created the fake moral panic Critical Race Theory was urging the right to get on the campuses and cause trouble to make it bad for biden to turn into political things. We know that was happening. But you were talking to the students inside hamilton hall. How did things devolve to the point where police were called . Thanks for having me, joy. I led a worship service, Interfaith Service on sunday. Yesterday i was contacted early by governor hochuls chief of staff, stacy lynch. She reached out to see if i could assist in getting the students on the line. She was working with getting the university on the line to restart negotiations to really avert calls they were getting to send in the national guard. They also wanted devoid the kind of police raid that happened last night. And so it was literally like an episode of 24. We spent all day yesterday trying to bring something together as late as 8 30 last night there was a plan for myself, the governors chief of staff, ms. Lynch, and a City Government official to enter the campus to speak with the students in hamilton hall, not exactly in the hall but just outside of it. They were going to be given safe passage to talk to us. A University Official then agreed to meet with us after. While i was en Route Listening over the phone, there were three breach commands given by the police followed by at least three stand down commands by civilian official. Just before we could get to the campus after reaching this agreement, the police, for whatever reason, just could not hold. Im still not clear. Im looking to find out who gave the order. But as we were about to enter the campus, it was breached. And everything was off. This could have been avoided. The other goal i commend the work jilani has done to keep things together and ms. Lynch and the governors office. They expressed to me a desire to try to have some of the students demands met as well. So this could have gone down much differently. Very quickly, before i get to indigo, what were the demands specifically . Oh so the demands were the same as they always have been. Disclosure and divestment when it came to the universitys relationship with israel. I know you want to talk about the military piece. We can do that as well. Yeah. Also what has not been well reported, we just discovered the universitys satellite campus, tel aviv university, does not allow admission to palestinian students or at least no admission to palestinian students who dont have israeli identification. Right. And thats a serious concern because thats somewhat segregationist. Right. Let me go to you, indigo. Talk a little bit about these relationships of these schools to the military because last night we had on a young man from Washington University in st. Louis who specifically called out boeing and investments in Military Companies as one of their demands they wanted that to end. Well, let me just say that these relationships are long standing. They are decades long and they extend to dozens and dozens of campuses across the country. Columbia for instance, one of the Board Of Trustees the member of the Board Of Trustees is a board member on Lockheed Martin. So these Defense Manufacturers have scholarships, they have graduate funding, they have internships, Career Pipelines Set up at major universities across the country. They also have people serving on the Board Of Trustees. They have Lobbying Departments to request Defense Funding for their stem programs. You really cant look at a University Campus today, for the most part, and not find a collection. For instance, The New School where they are protesting, both at The New School and at parsons, the fashion university, im a graduate there. They have connections to the air force and darpa and some of the most egregious agencies that have been doing this kind of weapons manufacturing. So its really kind astonishing and columbia in particular, m. I. T. , the university of california, the universities where you see some of the largest Protest Movements have been some of the worst offenders over the recent decade. Very important to highlight that. And very quickly before we let you go, mark, is that something that comes up . Because we know that people talk about defunding israel. But do they mean militarily . Or in some social way . Well, in every way. And thats what disclosure is about. They want these universities to disclose all of their relationships. But most certainly, Lockheed Martin, i dont know about columbia, Lockheed Martin has a relationship with 60 other universities in this country. And they provide the weapons to the israel, the idf, just as the idf trains many of our police forces, including the nypd. So we can have this conversation more. I wish we had more time, but i appreciate all of you for being here. Thank you all very much. Appreciate it. Up next on the reidout. A big admission from donald trump about january 6th. Stay with us. Stay with us i wanna hold you forever hey little bear bear. Im gonna love you forever cmon, bear. You dont. You dont have to worry. Be by your side. Ill be there. With my arms wrapped around. I love your dress. Oh thanks i splurged a little because Liberty Mutual customized my Car Insurance and i saved hundreds. Thats great. I know, right . Ive been telling everyone. Baby liberty. Did you hear that . Ty just said her first word. Can you say mama . Baby liberty. Can you say auntie . 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