American people are heard. In fact, Peaceful Protest is in the best tradition of how americans respond to consequential issues. But but neither are we a lawless country. Were a Civil Society and order must prevail. That was President Biden addressing the protests on College Campus for the first time. Well have more on his message and the latest on the demonstrations across the country. Plus well go through the ongoing ceasefire negotiations between israel and hamas, which appear to be moving on trumps Hush Money Trial. Well recap the key moments in court yesterday. All right, good morning. Welcome to Way Too Early on this friday, may 3rd. This friday, congratulations, we made it. Im sam stein in for jonathan lemire. And well begin this morning with order being restored to uclas campus. Police arrested more than 200 protesters from an encampment. Officers in riot gear swarmed a University Early yesterday morning confronting protesters and dismantling the eencampment. The clash lasted several hours. Police had to launch flares to try to disperse the large crowd. According to the chancellor of the ucla about 300 people did leave voluntarily, but look at those images. Wow. The university called the police early in the week after the protests turned violent. Fights erupted between propalestinian demonstrators and israeli supporters. Ucla then declared the encampment, quote, illegal. The chancellor explains the decision in a statement yesterday writing, quote, while many of the protesters at the encampment remain peaceful, ultimately the site became a focal point for Serious Violence as well as huge disruption to our campus. Meanwhile, President Biden has broken his silence on the unrest at these College Campuses. Yesterday in an unscheduled address delivered from the white house, the president condemned the violence and the antisemitism. Violent protests is not protected. Peaceful protest is. Its against the law when violence occurs. Destroying property is not a Peaceful Protest. Its against the law. Vandalism, trespassing, breaking window, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations, none of this is a Peaceful Protest. Threatening people, intimidating people, instilling fear in people is not a Peaceful Protest. Its against the law. Dissent is essential to democracy, but dissent must never lead to disorder or denoinying the rights so students can finish their semester and college education. Look, its basically a matter of fairness. Its a matter of whats right. Theres a right to protest but not the right to cause chaos. Lets be clear about this as well. There should be no place on any campus, no place in america for antisemitism or threats of violence against jewish students. There is no place for hate speech or violence of any kind whether its antisemitism, islamaphobia or discrimination against Arab Americans or palestinian americans. Its simply wrong. Theres no place in america. Its all wrong. Its unamerican. Now, while answering reporter questions after those remarks, the president rejected the idea of deploying the National Guard to quell the unrest. He also said he will not change his policies in the middle east in response to those protests. President joe biden, however, is urging americans to take donald trump at his word after the presumptive 2024 republican nominee said this week that hed accept novembers Election Results, quote, if everything is honest. Then added, quote, if its not, you have to fight for the right of the country. Now, upon arriving in North Carolina for a Campaign Event yesterday, biden had this to say about trumps latest remarks. Mr. President , are you worried that trump says he wont accept the Election Results . Listen to what he says. Listen to what he says . What do you just listen to what he says. Joining us now is Politics Editor for bloomberg, laura davidson. Laura, thank you so much. Let me ask you this. One, how concerned is the white house about the prospects of Political Violence happening again after this election if it doesnt go kruchls way . And two, sort of a meta question here, how concerned is the white house that the american apublic has forgotten about the aftermath of the 2020 election when donald trump also did not accept the results then and of course it led to what happened on january 6th . The answer to both questions is very concerning. One, donald trump twice this week has been asked the question will you accept the Election Results. And he said yes ill accept them, but always equivocating, if theres no fraud and thats why you see the response from the Biden White House we need to be preparing. You already see different states beefing up security around elections and to ward off any threat that could come. Everyone remembers january 6th, but the American Public you see sort of that fading as an issue, top of peoples minds when people are asked about trump, what they think about him. People seem to remember more about the Economic Times and less so focused on the democracy issues. You still see temocracy as one of the top issues people are voting on, but it doesnt rank anywhere near immigration or the economy. Immigration, health care, abortion, democracy. Lets turn to the first part of the show we were talking about, the campus unrest. Biden had not spoken in public except for a few stray remarks here and there. Why did he decide to or what was it about what was happening in these visuals that compelled him to do what he did and come out and essentially forcefully condemn the idea of protests, violent protests, the right to protest. It was more or less a condemnation of those images we had seen the night before. As you noted biden had been silent until these unscheduled remarks yesterday where he came out and said, look, students have the right to protest if its peaceful, if it crosses into vandalism, and hate speech, that crosses the line and not acceptable. The issue here the white house at their core and the campaign at their core dont see this as an issue going to hurt them in the fall. Why not . Really the issue is when you talk to them they say, look, it is a small minority, a very vocal minority but a small minority of people who support this and sort of who biden and see it as a Silent Majority of people who may be concerned but dont want to see the social unrest around it. The other thing, too, people would vote on domestic policy not foreign policy. That might be a small minority i agree with them on that. But arent they worried about the imeragery of this, the idea theres chaos on College Campuses, that hes at the helm and things seem to be astray . This is something over the past couple of weeks as these encampments have grown, as the Police Response has gotten much stronger and the Democratic Convention in chicago, concerns about violence there have ticked up and become more of a concern theyre trying to figure out how do we manage this. The hope of the white house is that the semester is about to end, the students are about to go home, and hopefully thissert of dies on the vine and not going to be the top of issue in october. If. Just get the kids home and itll be dealt with, i guess. Politics editor for bloomberg, laura davidson, thank you for coming in. Really appreciate it. And still ahead the nations top Intelligence Officers were on capitol hill yesterday to detail the biggest threats to america. Well go through that testimony. And this fiery crash shutdown one of the countrys busiest hiways yesterday. Look at that. Well have the latest for you and a check on the weather when we come right back. 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The hearing before the Senate Armed Services committee yesterday, director of national intelligenceaveeral hanes, said that beijings provision of components and has help moscow gain ground in ukraine and rebuild its forces after suffering staggering losses the past two years. Hanes said while china has yet to provide lethal weaponry, it has provided Critical Technology and tools for russias illegal military campaign. Now to a Traffic Nightmare in the north east after a fiery crash in connecticut shutdown part of Interstate 95 in both directions. Nbc news correspondent emilie ikeda has more. Reporter with thick plumes of smoke darkening the sky, a nightmarish scene in norwall, connecticut. Can feel the heat from here. Reporter after a crash involving a passenger car, tractortrailer, and fuel truck ignited this massive fire on i95. Flames fully ingolfing the tanker Officials Say was carrying 8,500 gallons of gasoline. I couldnt believe what we were seeing. It looked surreal. Remarkably no one was seriously injured, but officials are urging people to avoid the area as the aftermath coated in fire suppressing foam. Now being diverted onto local roads and other interstates. An hour 40 minutes to get to work today. Stop start, stop start. A section of i5 will remain closed for several days in order for this bridge scorched by the flames to be demolished. Gasoline fueled fires can get hot enough to deform even steel leading to bridge collapses like this in philadelphia last year. Back in the tristate drivers bracing for this travel headache to linger. That was nbcs emilie ikeda with our report. And i will say from personal experience having driven that section of the highway its already a Traffic Nightmare, and i cant imagine how much worse its going to get. Everyone stay safe. Still ahead well turn to sports. A heated nba rivalry from the 90s is about to be renewed. A preview of tomorrows 150th Run For The Roses. Way too early will be right back. E roses. 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