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LEMIRE: “And senator, the Biden campaign certainly stressing that it was Trump appointed justices who did indeed overturn Roe v. Wade. I want to get your take on these campus protests we have, that have consumed the news the last few days, Columbia University, a few schools out west, and many in the heartland as well. Your thoughts on the appropriateness of what the administration’s have done, what the police have done and you know, as someone who has noted, has a lot of progressive and support, are you concerned that progressives, that young voters are — are going to because of this issue, are going to break away from the president?” Warren: “Look, I am grateful to live in a country where people can raise their voices, where they can make them heard by their elected officials. It’s crucial that any efforts at protests be peaceful and that no individuals be attacked, no one should feel threatened. This is what open dialogue is about. But we need to keep the focus on what’s happening in the Middle East. And we need to bring real pressure to bear here. Look, it is time for a ceasefire. It is long past time for a ceasefire. But we need to be pushing on the parties to get that ceasefire and we have got to open up for humanitarian aid.” BRZEZINSKI: “Yeah.” Warren: “Literally thousands of people are on the brink of starvation. We’ve got to get that humanitarian aid. And it’s time to get these hostages back home. They have been held for months and months and months, no one knows their medical condition. They’ve got to be brought back home. And then the biggest part, the United States must give a big shove to both parties to come to the negotiating table, work out a two-state solution where two peoples can live side by side with dignity, with self-respect, with self-determination. That’s how we need to move forward.”

Kennedy: “... Supran, Let me ask you a couple of questions.” SUPRAN: “OK.” Kennedy: “You’re here at the request of my Democratic colleagues.” SUPRAN: “No, sir.” Kennedy: “No. Dr. Supran?” SUPRAN: “That’s correct. Yes.” Kennedy: “OK. Dr. Supran, on December 14th, 2023 you — you tweeted in support of Climate Defiance. That’s an entity that the Brookings Institute has called a radical climate change group. Is that correct?” SUPRAN: “I don’t recall that I’m afraid.” Kennedy: “OK. Would this be the same Climate Defiance that you — I’m looking at your tweet, you — you tweeted in support of them — would this be the same Climate Defiance that called Senator Joe Biden, quote, ‘a sick fu*k?” SUPRAN: “I don’t know. But as I mentioned in —” Kennedy: “Would this be the same Climate Defiance that called Senator Lisa Murkowski, a murderer?” SUPRAN: “I do not know. As I said in my statement —” Kennedy: “Would this be the same Climate Defiance who — who told the CEO of Exxon — Exxon to quote, ‘eat sh*t, Darren,’ close quote?” SUPRAN: “I’m not responsible for the statements of other people. And I also do not know the answer. [crosstalk]” Kennedy: “Nice group you’re hanging around with, doc. Here’s what your tweet says. Quote, ‘We do —‘ in — in support of Climate Defiance — ‘We do not do online petitions. We do not do NGO coalition letters. We do not do fu*king bus stop ads. We chase fossil fuel CEOs and the politicians who do their bidding. And we do not apologize,’ close quote. Did I read that correctly?” SUPRAN: “That is not my tweet, sir.” Kennedy: “That is your tweet, I’m looking at it. Here’s a copy right here. It’s right off your — it’s right off your website big as Dallas.” [crosstalk] SUPRAN: “That is not my tweet, sir.” Kennedy: “On October 31, 2023 you said this on — on Twitter, quote, ‘Climate justice was coined by our movements to locate it as a struggle against genocidal racial injustice, colonialism, and apartheid. If your climate justice doesn’t stand with the Palestinians against colonialism, and apartheid, then your climate justice has no justice in it, close quote.’ Did you say that?” SUPRAN: “I believe not.” Kennedy: “Here it is, bigger than Dallas.” SUPRAN: “May I — may I — may I please the documents?” Kennedy: “Yes, sir. And — and the witness’ documents there.” SUPRAN: “May I please point out that this form of —“ [crosstalk] WHITEHOUSE: “And the senator’s — the senator’s time has expired and there are other senators waiting.” Kennedy: “I’ve got a bunch more tweets. Thank you for your objective advice, doc.” WHITEHOUSE: “I’m sure you do. You can make — put them into a question for the record. And —“ [Crosstalk] Kennedy: “Yes, I’d like to submit all of — all of the good doctor’s objective tweets and scientific analysis for the record.” SUPRAN: “Thank you.” WHITEHOUSE: “That will be done without objection. Senator Merkley.” SUPRAN: “May I clarify one final point?” WHITEHOUSE: “Proceed.” SUPRAN: “These are not my tweets. These are retweets —“ [crosstalk] Kennedy: “Oh, you often retweet stuff you don’t support? Is that what you’re telling me, Doc?” SUPRAN: “I did not say that I don’t support this. I just simply did not tweet it, which as you’re alleging —” Kennedy: “But you retweeted them, didn’t you?” SUPRAN: “I’d like to make very clear that this form of —” Kennedy: “But you retweeted them, didn’t you?” SUPRAN: “— character assassination is characteristic of the propaganda techniques of fossil fuel —“ [crosstalk] Kennedy: “You — you retweeted them, didn’t you?” WHITEHOUSE: “Senator Merkley.” SUPRAN: “Thank you.” Kennedy: “Are you going to call me a sick fu*k?” WHITEHOUSE: “It’s Senator Merkley’s time.”

Ingraham: “Apparently, the only people who can stand up for what they believe in are the transgender athletes and their parents. You guys don’t have any rights. Emmy, middle school boys, I know you know this but our viewers don’t, they throw the 8-pound shot put and the girls throw the 6-pound shot put. So explain to us the unfair advantage that a biological male then would have in throwing that lighter ball.” E. SALERNO: “Well, I mean, it’s obvious that males are physically superior to women. So, in that, he’s going to be throwing something lighter, which is ultimately going to be easier for him to throw.” Ingraham: “I guess you don’t need a PhD in physics to figure that out, AJ. AJ, I’m looking at you guys and you guys probably thought your daughter is a great athlete, she’s going to go to high school, probably get noticed by a college, maybe get a scholarship, and you are thinking to yourself, ‘How is this America , let alone West Virginia?’ Is that what you’re — I’m thinking that for you. I don’t want to put words in your mouth.” AJ SALERNO: “No. I mean, I’ve been thinking this for a while. As a country, if we can’t agree on the differences between a boy and a girl, then what are we doing with the hard subjects?” Ingraham: “Yeah, what are we doing? This is why kids aren’t learning anything, we don’t know the basics, just facts, basic biological facts.”

WAGNER: “I want to read a statement that we just got from Columbia. ‘A little after 9:00 P.M. this evening, the NYPD arrived on campus at the university’s request. This decision was made to restore safety and order to our community. We regret that protesters have chosen to escalate the situation through their actions. After the university learned overnight that Hamilton Hall had been occupied, vandalized and blockaded, we were left with no choice. Columbia public safety personnel were forced from the building and a member of the facilities team was threatened. We will not risk the safety of our community or the potential for further escalation. The leadership team, including the board of trustees, met throughout the night and into the early morning, consulting with security experts and law enforcement to determine the best plan to protect our students and the entire Columbia University community. We made the decision early in the morning that this was a law enforcement matter and that the NYPD were best positioned to determine and execute an appropriate response.’ This is interesting: ‘We believe the group that broke into and occupied building is led by individuals who are not affiliated with the university. Sadly, this dangerous decision followed more than a week of what had been productive discussions with the representatives of the West Lawn encampment.’ It goes on to talk about security precautions that they are taking on campus, and they are making clear that the life of campus cannot be endlessly interrupted by protesters who violate the rules and the law.”ay.

Hannity: “You know, now these students that are being arrested, they will be released within hours, probably the charges dropped and there will be no consequences, which will only embolden them. Your thoughts?” Trump: “Well, I really think you have a lot of paid agitators, professional agitators in here too. I see it all over. You know, when you see signs and they are all identical, that means they are being paid by a source. These aren’t hand painted signs where people would go to their basement and paint something because they really believed it. These are all signs that are identical, made by the same printer. When you see that, that means there’s somebody up top that’s paying or a group that’s paying, and they are doing great disservice to the world, but they’re doing great disservice to our country. But when you look at New York and a state like this, but look at other cities, it’s not a lot different, it’s frankly worse in some places than it is now in New York. And I think New York City’s finest have been incredible. The way they’ve been — it’s not over yet, but the way they walked in and the way they climbed through that window, they were not afraid of anything and it looks like they’ve got it maybe clamped down. But it should have never gotten to this and they should have done it a lot sooner than before they took over the building, because it would’ve been a lot easier if they were in tents rather than a building. Tremendous damage done, too. You know, when you look at that building, that’s a landmark and it’s really been damaged badly by these people.” Hannity: “You know, when you go back to October 7th, Mr. President, the world witnessed the worst terrorist attack in Israel’s history. Probably there had been no president more supportive of Israel, I would argue, than you.”

PROTESTER 1: “They just barricaded us in.” PROTESTER 2: “Oh my f**king God!” PROTESTER 3: “They’re allowed to. They’re allowed to.” PROTESTER 2: “No f**king way! F**k you, it’s finals. Can I go home?”

TAPPER: “— bring in CNN’s Daniel Dale, our resident fact checker who will lay down some facts here, spit some hard facts about based on what we just heard from Donald Trump, that might not comport with the truth, Mr. Dale.” Dale: “They might not.” TAPPER: “What do you got for me?” Dale: “Jake, it’s a tradition now in these appearances I do after these post-court hearings for me to note that former President Trump said this is a Biden trial or this is a Biden indictment or Biden is the one who brought this case. I come out here and note correctly that that’s not true. It’s completely baseless. Again, for the, I don’t know how many times I’ve said this, this was a case brought by a locally elected prosecutor, Alvin Bragg. There is precisely zero evidence that President Biden has had any personal role in bringing the case. Former President Trump keeps invoking former DoJ official Matthew Colangelo, who went to work for DA Bragg’s office. There is no basis for any suggestion that President Biden personally put him there, ordered him there, etc. And then we have this laundry list of other claims. So, former President Trump, you know, said he should be campaigning in various states. Perhaps he would have been, we can’t, you know, check that hypothetical. But our Kristen Holmes keeps noting that even on the off days that former President Trump has, he tends to not be scheduling campaign events. He tends to be at Mar-a-Lago on the golf course, so the idea that he’d be out campaigning every day he’s in court, I think is dubious at best. Then he repeated a claim about another case. The Judge Engoron case where he says, he keeps saying Judge Engoron turned down the Appellate Division, refused to honor the decision of the appeals court in the civil fraud case involving Trump, his sons and his company. That’s not what happened. Engoron interpreted an appeals court decision in a way that former President Trump didn’t like, did not reject it. And then I’ll just note that at the same time former President Trump said that Judge Merchan presiding over this case is rushing this case through, and then that someone said to him, I’ve never sat this long in court before. So, he’s simultaneously complaining, like literally almost in the same breath the judge is going, making this go too fast and also is making it go too slow. It’s not really a fact check, but just wanted to note it, Jake.” TAPPER: “Well, it’s like saying that President Biden is a doddering, senile old fool who was also at the same time a criminal mastermind operating all of these different trials. I mean —“ Dale: “Fair.” TAPPER: “Pick a lane.” Dale: “Pick a lane. It’s a pick a lane.” TAPPER: “Yeah. Alright. Daniel Dale, thanks so much.”

Reporter: “Why should the university be obligated to provide food to people who have taken over a building?” STUDENT: “Well, for first of all, we’re saying that they’re obligated to provide food to students who pay for a meal plan here.” Reporter: “But you mentioned that there was a request that food and water be brought in. Unless I missed —“ STUDENT: “To allow it to be brought in. I mean, well, I guess it’s ultimately a question of what kind of community and obligation Columbia feels it has to its students. Do you want students to die of dehydration and starvation or get severely ill, even if they disagree with you? If the answer is no, then you should allow basic — I mean, it’s crazy to say because we’re on an Ivy League campus, but this is like basic humanitarian aid we’re asking for. Like, could people please have a glass of water?” Reporter: “But they did put themselves in that — very deliberately in that situation and in that position. So it seems like you’re sort of saying we want to be revolutionaries, we want to take up this building, now would you please bring us food and water?” STUDENT: “Nobody’s asking them to bring anything. We’re asking them to not violently stop us from bringing in basic humanitarian aid.” Reporter 2: “They’re stopping the delivery of food.” STUDENT: “We are looking for a commitment from them that they will not stop it.” Reporter 2: “But they haven’t stopped it.” STUDENT: “Well, I don’t — I’m not — I don’t know to what extent it has been attempted, but we’re looking for a commitment.”

BRZEZINSKI: “No, they’re adults and — go ahead.” HAASS: “I was just gonna say, it’s one half about the students. It’s also, Mika, about these authorities and the lack of them. Why are these school administrators, why are they abdicating their responsibility to this degree? This affects students. It affects outsiders. It affects teachers with tenure. The last I checked, tenure is supposed to give you intellectual protection so you can say things in classrooms. It doesn’t, seems to me, give you the ability to break the law with impunity. I just don’t understand. And you see also the difference on the campuses, between what’s happening on some, Chicago and Florida, as opposed to what’s happening at Columbia and others. There is an enormous gap in the principle and backbone we’re seeing here.” BRZEZINSKI: “Richard, to your point, I think that’s where we’ve all — that’s the place we’ve all been sitting in, watching this, going, ‘What the hell is going on? What are these universities doing? Why aren’t they doing something?’ And I’ll echo the horror that this does look like January 6th. What a terrible example for our students. At the same time, these are young adults. The question is, why do you choose to learn about the complexities of other situations around the world, but this one, you want to set up an encampment; this one, you want to scare people; this one, you want to come to the edge of violence or even go to violence.” SCARBOROUGH: “Not the edge. They’re breaking into buildings.” BRZEZINSKI: “This one you risk your future and your education for. See, I think these college students obviously are missing the part where they need to see what’s going on across the country with these protests, that it’s now in the realm of violence. It is in the realm of hatred, whether some are peaceful or not. They need to watch the news and look at all the different arguments and be adults or start learning to be adults and set up discussions and debates across college campuses, or their colleges and universities are going to have no choice but to expel them and ruin their future, the impact they want to have on the community, society and the world at some point.”

Trump: “The whole thing is a hoax. All of them are hoaxes, including the civil cases. They’re controlled by the White House, they’re controlled by Democrat judges and prosecutors that were put there specifically, they hate Trump. And the people are getting it. That’s why it just came out, the new Emerson poll just was released about two minutes ago and I’m leading by a lot in every swing state, I’m leading in the general election. You saw the CNN polls, I’m sure they aren’t too happy with it, but the CNN polls is fantastic. So, we’re here. This is a hoax. This is judge that’s conflicted, badly, badly, badly conflicted. I’ve never seen a judge so conflicted. Giving us virtually no rulings. I’m not even allowed to say, ‘Advice of counsel.’ This is a new one to me. Advice of counsel is when you have a lawyer and the lawyer does something or advises you on something, you say, ‘Advice of counsel.’ He said you’re not allowed to say that. So you’ll all figure it out, but I think the public has figured it out because the poll numbers are the highest they’ve ever been.”

Jones: “How do you feel about them taking over the building right now?” PRO-Palestine PROTESTER: “I think that their cause is a just cause, and I hope that the administration really hears their demands, I think their just demands.” Jones: “Do you feel like it was right to hold three of the janitor workers hostage with inside of the building?” PRO-Palestine PROTESTER: “I think that’s a really false narrative.” Jones: “That’s what they — the janitors are saying that they weren’t allowed to leave.” PRO-Palestine PROTESTER: “I think that’s a really fast narrative:” Jones: “Even if the janitors are saying that, you’re saying that that’s not true?” PRO-Palestine PROTESTER: “I think that it’s a really false narrative that students took anyone hostage.” Jones: “How do you feel about some of the Jewish students saying that they don’t feel safe here on campus?” PRO-Palestine PROTESTER: “I think that this is also really false narrative that’s being promoted.” Jones: “Do you think that October 7th attack that happened is a false narrative? Do you believe that some of the women were raped?” PRO-Palestine PROTESTER: “My colleague just came back on. One moment. Can you get out of my face, please?” Jones: “So this is what you see at these protests. Once you get into the nitty-gritty of what happened on October 7th, the rape of women, what’s happening there, they deny what happened. As you know, that is actually factual now, that the janitorial workers were blocked inside of the building. And any time you bring that up, the Jewish cause, the Jewish people, the kids that feel unsafe on campus, they deny the reality of it, guys.”

Wallace: “It’s one of the nicer traditions about Washington. For a night, at least, the president of the United States dines and then tries to entertain assembled members of the free press. The annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner is one of the symptoms, one of the signs of a healthy, functioning democracy, a one-night-only hiatus from the normal in Washington, an opportunity to suspend those more formal aspects of the relationship between a president and the news media. It’s a coming together and, at its core, the president doing everything right celebrates and honors the free press. Behind the levity, though, there was something darker, a darker undercurrent, if you will, and a point that the president had to make. And it was more profoundly serious. Because at this exact time next year, depending what happens in November, seven months from now, we can’t say for certain that there would even be a White House Correspondents’ Dinner or even a free press or even a White House press corps. Right? You don’t have to have one. Could be another norm Trump blows up. The stakes of the 2024 election were a living, breathing subplot of this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. It came up in the jokes, came up in the inherent contrast between President Joe Biden, there in the room, and the coup-plotting, openly autocratic modeling of himself, Donald Trump, who wants to replace him. The ever-hilarious superstar Colin Jost of ‘Weekend Update’ on ‘Saturday Night Live’ finished his remarks on a serious note as well. He told a story about why his grandfather, outside President Joe Biden’s demographics, voted for Biden.” [Clip starts] JOST: “My grandfather, a Staten Island firefighter, voted for you, Mr. President. (Applause) He voted for you in the last election that he ever voted in. I mean, I’m sure someone else will vote twice in this election using his name, but that’s just how the democratic machine works. (Laughter) He voted for you, and the reason that he voted for you is because you’re a decent man.” [Clip ends] Wallace: “Decency. President Joe Biden, meanwhile, finished his remarks on a serious note as well. Watch.” [Clip starts] Clip startsg Biden: “The defeated former president has made no secret of his attack on our democracy. He said he wants to be a dictator on day one and so much more. He tells supporters he is their revenge and retribution. When in God’s name have you ever heard another president say something like that? And he promised a bloodbath when he loses again. We have to take this seriously. Eight years ago, we could have written it off as just Trump talk. But no longer. Not after January 6th. So tonight, I’d like to make a toast. To a free press. To an informed citizenry. To an America where freedom and democracy endure. God bless America.” [Clip ends] Wallace: “I’ve seen that toast a bunch of times, but it landed very differently this yea, because depending on what happens in November, seven months from right now, this time next year I might not be sitting here. There might not be a White House Correspondents’ Dinner or a free press. And while our democracy won’t exactly fall apart immediately without it, the real threat looms larger. A candidate with outward disdain not just for a free pres, but for all of our freedoms and for the rule of law itself.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: >> It‘s great to have you back on the show. I just wonder, you know, is we‘ve been covering this and you really saw it hit a high point today at universities all across the United States from coast-to-coast how do you think that these schools should be approaching these protest in the opposite way that most of doing it. I mean, this what‘s great about democracy and free speech freedom of assembly freedom of not having a state religion. >> This is what every, those who came here, the white people came here wanting to escape that and so the lesson teaching the children of today in this case, gen z that we will, we will teach you. He will be, you we will call you if you want. >> None of them are committing any acts of violence. None of them are destroying the university worst, maybe in some people‘s minds are doing is holding signs let‘s say, free Palestine or from the river to the sea. This is the one that is constantly being thrown out there. Oh, look at this, this, the sign is frightening all the students from the river to the sea and it‘s like, well, why don‘t you talk to them? >> Because actually, first ball large numbers of these seats are Jewish students who are with the Palestinian students who together are forming these encampments. I don‘t know if that‘s been covered very much. How much I saw this one instance where the Palestinian students inviting the Jewish students into the encampment and then the next day they had a little nighttime entertainment in the encampment and the Palestinian students decided to do a Jewish folk dance for their fellow a protesters who are Jewish students yeah. Can I ask you that because there are some

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: That’s just — and not the person. >> And then things got really weird. >> We all need a mom. Been thinking that we really need all need a tremendous hug in the world right now but in our country that we need you to be mama of the country. [Cheering] Greg, marla. You think that’s what [Laughter] >> This is the new set for gutfeld. >> There is a creepiest thing I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen a lot of creepy things. I’m sure you were going to ask you something? >> I don’t know if that will stick. >> I think that sexist, right? >> By the way, it’s not about Kamala Harris’ lack of it when it occurs. Whenever someone last and an inappropriate moment, like, when nothing that mirrored laughter came before it’s a sign of a kind of unscented goofball. It’s a sign that — I mean if she was like lapping at an Instagram reel of a friend she in a bikini, I get it but she laughed when people say “how are you? Or goodbye. That’s not well. I have a coworker wants to give a — giggled all the time, we stayed away from her. Back to the sexist claim, that in itself is sexist because we wouldn’t find a man nervously chortling all the time as appealing either. Actually we will probably be harsher on him because, you know, we are allowed to be, you know, would get him away from the sharp objects. If anything is because she’s a woman woman that she’s allowed this lightweight status to giggle all the time that to me is sexist. Look at those polls and boastful numbers for Joe other debtors and Christie norms dog. [Laughter] Should be worried because he is looking like old dealer and that is — he was basically telling the press to do his job, not to do there’s. In those data points were from CNN and CBS saying that Joe is getting crushed, that’s okay hostess cupcakes telling your frosting gives you cancer. These are no longer outliers even though they maybe liars but these polls tell you everything about 2024. >> Jesse: truck is looking like is America’s choice for president which is the reason for the law fair. Do you want election interference? It’s in your face. Biden is a dead dog and tried to look like he’s going to win, the only strategy is to remove him through the courtroom are at least bring him as a felon and hope that that makes voters thank twice. They haven’t lied about that by the way. They’ve said it. I don’t know — if you and never from burqa I don’t know how you can be okay with this. You can hate strength and all you want but you don’t want to fight fare? I mean, you’re worse. You should be auctioned — ashamed of yourself.

Pelosi: “I mean, really, I have sympathy and respect for everybody who votes. I’m just glad people vote. I know some of them will always reject those of us who might look different to them in leadership or the rest, and that’s that. But there are those who have real legitimate concerns about immigration, globalization, innovation, and what does that mean for their job and their family’s future, and we have to address those concerns. And Joe Biden is doing that. Created 9 million jobs in his term in office. Donald Trump has the worst record of job loss of any president. So we just have to make sure people know.” Tur: “There was a global pandemic.” Pelosi: “He had the worst record of any president. We’ve had other concerns in our country. If you want to be an apologist for Donald Trump, that may be your role, but it ain’t mine.” Tur: “I don’t think that anybody can accuse me of that.” Pelosi: “And — wait, let me just say, as the speaker of the House, we put forth a $3 trillion bill, $3 trillion of investment in communities and the rest, and that stimulates the economy.”

Jean-Pierre: “That’s because of the work that this president has done. Black wealth jumped up by 60%. That’s important. That’s because of the work that this president has done. But we understand, especially as it relates to the black community, housing is important. We understand that prices, again, are too low. And so we’re going to do the work in the black community, yes, but also for all communities. And so having that conversation, and we believe this tour that the vice president is gonna do is important.”

HOSTIN: “The — the students are telling me this is a humanitarian crisis. What we also don’t talk enough about is the fact that 35,000 mainly women and children that are Palestinians have been murdered. What we also don’t talk about, I think enough, is that for some reason, the discussion of — against Israel’s policies which the U.N. has called war crimes, which the International Criminal Court is investigating as war crimes, what we don’t say is, these are people, these are civilians, and we must protect them. Even President Biden at this point has said, ‘You have gone too far.’”

BARTIROMO: “I got to get your take on what’s going on in this Manhattan DA’s courtroom where Donald Trump has been spending all his days. What is the crime?” DERSHOWITZ: “There is no crime. That’s why they’re putting on people like Pecker talking about catch and kill, they’re putting on McDougal, they’re putting on — there’s no crime. And you know, they ought to be very careful about this because the Supreme Court, the appellate court in — in — in Albany just reversed Harvey Weinstein’s conviction on the ground that they put in too much information that wasn’t really relevant to the case. And that’s what’s happening. There is no crime in Manhattan. You cannot figure out what the crime is. That’s why they’re putting on all this evidence of non-crimes, trying to persuade the jury that catch and kill is a crime. It’s not. Paying hush money is a crime. It’s not. Putting a corporate statement is a misdemeanor barred by the Statute of Limitations. You can’t suddenly resurrect that and turn that into a crime by invoking a federal statute which the federal government refused to invoke.” BARTIROMO: “Yeah.” DERSHOWITZ: “And Federal Election Commission refused to invoke. There is no crime.” BARTIROMO: “Wow.” DERSHOWITZ: “And if it’s Donald Trump today, they can go after you tomorrow, and your relatives tomorrow, for something that isn’t a crime. That’s why every American —“ BARTIROMO: “Wow.” DERSHOWITZ: “— whether you’re a Democrat [indecipherable] should be opposed to what’s going on in that Manhattan courtroom. It’s a scandal and it’s a destruction of America’s rule of law.”

STIREWALT: “On college campuses from coast to coast, universities are wrestling with how to handle student protesters who are upset over Israel’s ongoing military campaign in Gaza, with hundreds arrested on at least 15 college campuses nationwide over the past week. Now, while some of this has been peaceful, others have featured violent anti-Jewish, anti-Israel rhetoric, and expressions of praise and sympathy for Hamas, the terrorist organization responsible for the October 7th attacks, the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust. This is what President Joe Biden said when asked about the protests.” [Clip starts] Biden: “I condemn the anti-Semitic protests. That’s why I’ve set up a program to deal with that. I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians.” [Clip ends] STIREWALT: “With us today to talk about that and a host of other things is John Fetterman. He is Democratic senator from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is true. And I’m going to just say for our viewers, the iPad that you see in front of the senator is a transcription of our conversation.” Fetterman: “Yes, that’s true. I am partially deaf and — and this is just captioning. It’s no different than if you’re watching a show with captioning or if you use glasses in order to read more effectively. It’s just a tool to allow me to fully participate.” STIREWALT: “And we appreciate your participation. We appreciate you being here. So, when President Biden was talking about these protests, he did a little both-sidesing, he said the anti-Semitism of the protesters is bad, but everybody needs to understand about the humanitarian plight in Gaza, too. What tone do you think he should be taking? What’s the right answer when talking about these issues?” Fetterman: “Well, I’m not — I’m not going to give the president any advice, or anyone. Only on fashion. (Laughter) But — but I will say this, is that it’s very clear that there is a very germ of anti-Semitism in all of these protests. And then sometimes it flares up. And again, including one of the — one of the leaders in Columbia said some just awful things and talking about, ‘Well, they’re lucky that I’m not killing Zionists,’ and things like that. And then he defended himself by saying, well, those were taken out of context. And I’m like, well, that’s very similar to the way the college presidents, that same kind of language and those kind of monocultures that create situations, and that replicates. And now it’s no — it’s not a surprise that when you kind of seeing this manifest itself in a campus like this. Now, of course, it’s a great American value to to protest, but I don’t believe living in a pup tent for Hamas is really helpful.” STIREWALT: “You have said that Israel should be allowed to prosecute its own war without conditions from the United States.” Fetterman: “I do. I don’t know what the turn of words is that, of course, everyone’s has the right to defend yourself, a nation, but you also have the right, I believe, to go after and and eliminate Hamas or at least to force them to surrender. And I’ve always — I’m confused why we’re not talking about that more. And if you are gonna protest, why aren’t we protesting? I can’t end that war, Joe Biden can’t end that war, Netanyahu can’t end that war. But Hamas could end it right now, immediately. They could release the last hostage and they could surrender, and all of the misery and the death and destruction ends right there too. So, for true peace, you cannot allow Hamas to — allow it to function. And they’ve been very clear, ‘We’re proud of what we’d done and we’re going to do it again and again.’ It’s very reasonable to make sure that Hamas needs to be neutralized.” STIREWALT: “Okay, the — whether it’s the protesters or Israel or other issues, your public image has gone through a pretty dramatic makeover in recent years or in the past year, let’s say. You were once a progressive hero, you were — “ Fetterman: “Well, with all due respect, I really haven’t changed on that. And I feel like I’ve been very consistent on those things. And then when — I’ve been saying that for years, like, I really don’t identify myself a progressive. And I’ve said this before, that it’s not that I have changed, but that that word has changed as well. And I’ve just — I’m just a Democrat, and I’ve been very clear here and I think consistent. And before the primary, I said, look, you know, I support peace and I support a two-state solution. But if the stuff hits the fan, I’m gonna lean in on Israel, and that’s exactly what I’ve done.”

ANNOUNCER: “From ABC News, it’s ‘This Week.’ Here now, George Stephanopoulos.” STEPHANOPOULOS: “Good morning and welcome to ‘This Week.’ Until now, no American president had ever faced a criminal trial. No American president had ever faced a federal indictment for retaining and concealing classified documents. No American president had ever faced a federal indictment or a state indictment for trying to overturn an election or been named an unindicted co-conspirator in two other states for the same crime. No American president ever faced hundreds of millions of dollars in judgments for business fraud, defamation and sexual abuse. Until now, no American presidential race had been more defined by what’s happening in courtrooms than what’s happening on the campaign trail, until now. The scale of the abnormality is so staggering that it can actually become numbing. It’s all too easy to fall into reflexive habits, to treat this as a normal campaign where both sides embrace the rule of law, where both sides are dedicated to a debate based on facts and the peaceful transfer of power. But that is not what’s happening this election year. Those bedrock tenets of our democracy are being tested in a way we haven’t seen since the Civil War. It’s a test for the candidates, for those of us in the media, and for all of us as citizens.”

SEINFELD: “Nothing really affects comedy. People always need it, they need it so badly, and they don’t get it. It used to be, you would go home at the end of the day, most people would go, ‘Oh, ‘Cheers’ is on; oh, ‘M.A.S.H.’ is on; oh, Mary Tyler Moore is on; ‘All in the Family’ is on.’ You just expected, ‘There’ll be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight.’ Well, guess what? Where is it? This is the result of the extreme left and PC crap and people worrying so much about offending other people. When you write a script and it goes into four or five different hands, committees, groups — ‘Here’s our thought about this joke’ — well, that’s the end of your comedy, they move the gates like in skiing. Culture — the gates are moving. Your job is to be agile and clever enough that wherever they put the gates, I’m gonna make the gate.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: CAPEHART: “Anthony, I want to turn to the Trump’s immunity claim. Justice Gorsuch said during oral arguments, I am going to read this, I’m not focused on the here and now of this case. I’m very concerned about the future. Anthony, why shouldn’t I be concerned that he isn’t concerned about the facts of the case before them?” COLEY: “Right, that is really a head-scratcher because what you see in most court cases, and certainly the Supreme Court, justices, judges, are required to look at the facts of the case, and what he’s saying here has a lot of people scratching their head. I don’t know that anybody can really understand how this is going to play out, but, Jonathan, I will tell you the thing that disturbed me more is the fact that this could get pushed back down to the trial court level. That would achieve what Donald Trump really wants. He’s not trying to win this case on the merits at all. He is trying to throw sand in the gears of the case, to slow down, to keep the case from going to be fully adjudicated before the election. I think at the end of the day, it’s going to come down to the American people doing what we all did in 2020, and that is going to the polls.”

Jill Biden: “We ride with you! Isn’t that right, Joe? (Cheering and Applause) Say hi to Michael and Tom.” Joe Biden: “Folks, I’m sorry for running out here, but I’ve been just signing, finishing up the bill that — that I think all the wounded warriors and warriors would care about. We just finally, thank God, provided the need to protect Ukraine with the money they need. (Cheering) I’m supposed to go back and make one more call, it’s only the first time I’ve not been with you the whole time. I’ll be very, very brief. I want to say one thing to the wounded warriors: You are the spine of America. And that’s not an exaggeration. I really mean it. You are the backbone, you’re the spine of America. You’re the reason why we’re the nation we are. You’re the best America has to offer and God love you all. That’s all — oh, over here too? Well, I tell you what, thank you. And Jill is gonna kick me in the rear end if I don’t get out of here and finish my job. No, I really mean it. You’re the sinew and spine of America. Not a joke. You know, the idea that someone would say winners and losers and — anyway, I don’t want to get involved. But thank you, thank you, thank you. One percent of you, one percent of you, defend all of us. One percent. That — those of you who are wounded, and like I said who died, are the ones who have kept this country what it is.”

BRENNAN: And you have ‘205’ there. That’s the number of days he has been held. In the video, your uncle, under duress, mentions the protests that have been taking place in Israel, pressuring the government for a deal. Do you think that a deal can be reached at this point, and is it up to the United States to close it?” SIEGEL: I do think a deal can be reached. I mean, we know that. A deal was reached in November. Dozens of women and children were released, including my aunt, Aviva Siegel. So, we know that it’s possible. And I do think that’s really important to remember. the United States plays a critical role. It played a critical role in November. I think, you know, ultimately, this is a negotiation between Hamas and Prime Minister Netanyahu in Israel. And one of the things that really worries my family, and worries me, is that it’s arguably not in Prime Minister Netanyahu’s political interest to close a deal. You know, for us, this is the moment. These videos — as you know, there was a video released a couple of days ago of another American hostage, Hersh Goldberg-Polin. I do think that these two videos are a signal from Hamas that they are ready to make a deal and a reminder that there are American citizens being held, including Keith.” BRENNAN: “There are 133 hostages that we know of, five of them Americans. Why do you believe it is not in Prime Minister Netanyahu’s interest to cut a deal to bring them home?” SIEGEL: “I think, you know, there is a lot swirling in the political landscape in Israel. And I’m not here to talk about that. But there have been negotiations going on for months now. We’re at 205 days. There have been deals on the table and they’ve proven elusive. And I worry that that is because of Prime Minister Netanyahu. So, I think that now is the moment. I think — I have faith that we can do a deal now. But I also think that if that isn’t possible, then the Biden Administration should think about what they can do directly to bring our American citizens home.”

GOWDY: “Joining us is New York Congressman Mike Lawler. Welcome, congressman. What is going on with these threatening, dangerous protests on college campuses, some of which are happening in places where you are familiar, you’re a member of Congress, you’re following this. I mean, what is going on with these college campuses?” LAWLER: “Well, unfortunately, Trey, anti-Semitism has been brewing on college campuses for years. These students have been peddling in it, promoting the BDS movement. And really, obviously, in the aftermath of October 7, it has been hyper charged. And Congress must act to crack down on it because these universities and college presidents and administrators are failing in their responsibility to keep these students safe and to ensure that there is a free exchange of ideas, but based in truth and reality and not anti-Semitic rhetoric designed to threaten and target Jewish students. That is why this week we will be voting on my bill, the anti-Semitism Awareness Act, which will require the Department of Education to adopt the IHRA working definition of anti-Semitism and all of its contemporary examples for its discrimination enforcement cases. You have to be able to define and crack down on it. And that’s what we’re seeking to do because these administrators are failing miserably.”