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monday, april 22nd, this is "fox and friends". >> brian: check this out, lease at yale university isare reacti. >> carley: and students forced to do class online today at columbia. >> they are zeescreaming we don want zionists here and columbia doing nothing about it. >> brian: and good samaritans save a the driver of a burning car. >> lawrence: mornings are better with friends. a live look at trump tower. opening arguments in the hush money trial. >> ainsley: david becker will be the first to take the witness
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stand. >> will: breaking this hour, right now police appear to be arresting people at yale as anti-israel protests break down at the school. >> wall street, no one will stop you from leaving, if you do not leave, you will be arrested. we will give you time to leave, if you do not leave, you will be arrested. >> brian: todd piro is outside the university, but first to madeleine rivera. >> madeleine: this situation unfolding right now, police with riot gear started surrounding campus early monday morning. students are staging anti-israel
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p protest. here is a police officer warning protesters they will be arrested if they do not clear out. >> no one will stop you from leaving, if you do not leave, you will be arrested. we will give you time to leave. >> madeleine: it is unclear if anyone has been arrested yet, protests over the weekend turned violent. a member of the press was surrounded by demonstrators and poked in the eye with a palestinian flag. this is just breaking, we'll update you as it continues. >> ainsley: classes at columbia will be virtual today as pro-palestinian student workers plan to walk out today. >> will: todd piro is live from
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columbia. todd. >> todd: president of columbia announcing her plan to deal with the situation. to deesqcalate and give us chane to consider next steps, all classes will be held virtual on monday. this is as protests continue. this is a fifth straight day. jewish students prepare to celebrate passover, the rabbi said this. i would strongly recommend you return home as soon as possible. the universities ramping up sec security, new york city mayor calling out protest saying, i am horrified and disgusted with the antisemitism be ing spewed at ad around campus.
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nypd will arrest anyone breaking the law. nypd arresting 100 people on friday. some students have begun receiving suspension notices, protesters appear undeterred. they are staging a walk out at 1 p.m. today about columbia not divesting from israel. over to you. >> lawrence: unbelievable. >> will: brian had a fascinating interview with two columbia students. i was speaking to them during the commercial break and i wanted to clarify, i said, we are seeing atrocious stuff at columbia. this is a live picture of what is happening at yale. some are being broken up and
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arrested. but columbia, he said, that is how it started, horrific things on the streets and we have to walk to where we are going temperature is totally gone now, blurred. everyone is wearing masks. now people sitting on the grass are saying the same thing. they are mix wed with students, leaders are wearing masks and yelling and committing ha harassment that was taking place on the streets last week. >> lawrence: people in the tents are students, they have student id. back to live footage of what is happening at yale. there was a letter released 1400
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students saying they are not being treated fairly on campus. yale daily news released a publication talking about what happened on october 7. in the editor notes, when it came to hamas raping women and beheading men, there was no evidence, it had not been substantiated yet. all across the country, they won't acknowledge women were raped on october 7. >> ainsley: you see live pictures at yale, we have been talking about the last five straight days. mit, they have set up camps at new york city new school, they set up a gaza solidarity camp. what is going on here?
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a chant? this is yale. chants in one big circle and someone leading with a megaphone. police said, if you don't leave, we will arrest you. there are 200 people, what are they upset upon. no one made them go to yale, if you don't like where they are investing, other universities would take you. >> lawrence: if you look clearly, covid is back outside at yale.
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they don't want their identity to be shown. >> brian: the palestinian garb. >> lawrence: they have surgical masks, they don't want people to know who they are. 196 days. these people are saying they stand with palestinian people, they won't stand in gaza and ask them to release the hostages. >> brian: they are shouting free palestine, there is no palestine, they don't want a two-state solution, there is no solution. >> ainsley: from the river to the sea. they want to wipe israel off the earth. >> brian: prime minister of rafah is going in himself, i'm sure that will be popular, including with this administration flip flopping on this. >> ainsley: there was a yale student journalist stabbed in
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the eye with an palestinian flag. they were dancing in a circle, they began to mock and taunt me. one student took a flag, waved it in my face and stabbed me in the eye. i was blocked so i couldn't find the man who assaulted me. >> lawrence: i am not a father, you have teenagers, we have failed teenagers that don't know about the holocaust, they don't understand historical information to judge a situation like this accurately. >> will: brian pointed out the role of tiktok. brian and i texted this weekend and i talked about it yesterday, i'm comfortable with this.
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part of your point, if we accept the numbers from gaza health ministry, accept their numbers and combine with combatants killed by idf, ratio of civilian to hamas death, they hide among civilians that beats the ratio of every historic war. >> brian: ramadi, pat luenell*- >> will: even accepting gaza health numbers. >> brian: why don't you think they are negotiating? they are winning the pr war of
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the israelis targeting civilians and children. >> ainsley: we interviewed israelis that said everyone feels sorry for us, it will take -- >> brian: look at that. >> lawrence: look at this. >> ainsley: complicit. it will take a few weeks and you will forget about us, average american will. i never thought we would see this. >> lawrence: do yourself a favor and talk to a veteran of iraq and afghanistan and talk to them about what they endured. israelis want to reloose footage what is going on and you are judging them based on some people that meant them harm. some civilians have died as a result of this attack. a lot died in inflation and
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iraq, as well. >> brian: columbia anticipated this and told kids not to come to school. y yale, they are chanting for the palestinian cause various chants. >> ainsley: they brought pillows and prepared to stay in tents. >> brian: i don't know how many are students. today talking to students from columbia that are jewish, they do not feel safe going to class. they are both juniors. >> ainsley: they were on columbia campus singing songs of peace and they got hateful remarks back from protesters, they called them imbred, they said f israel, we don't want z zionists here. >> lawrence: they are doing this online, they cannot protect the
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students. that is ridiculous, you can, you don't have courage to invite nypd to enforce the law. >> brian: they could hire private security, tell jewish students to go to a location. >> lawrence: nypd said ask me, i will provide security, your tax dollars are paying for it. >> ainsley: yale student who had the palestinian student jammed in her eye will be on america's news room. >> lawrence: former president trump expected to leave soon for the manhattan courthouse where his hush money trial is set to
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begin in an hour. >> brian: david pecker will testify for the prosecution. >> ainsley: will there be time after opening statements to hear from david pecker? >> good morning, we expect david pecker will be the first witness to testify. the situation here this, donald trump paid stormy daniels to keep her quiet or donald trump and the trump organization simply paid checks to michael cohen for legal expenses. we will hear this in the opening statements. this case against former president opens with charges of filing false business records claiming the alleged payoffs were legal expenses to mr.
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trump's long-time lawyer and -- >> this is a witch hunt by democratic judges. all over the world they are watching and saying this is a giant witch hunt to hurt the campaign beating the worst president in history. >> david pecker was head of national enquirer. he will likely allege that sc scheme. pecker is expected to testify that former president when running for president was in on the plan, as well as michael cohen, we could get details about that. american media admitted they tried to influence presidential
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election with those payments. because of gag order, he will not by law, be able to make any comments about what david pecker says unless he violates that gag order. >> brian: will there be a transcript released? >> there should be. we should -- the court st stenographer is there. all the evidence should come out, that is one thing the trump lawyer has been arguing, too. >> ainsley: thank you. we had carrie cubac on. >> lawrence: you can't have allegations being thrown out in
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open court in middle of presidential race and no space to respond. that is implication of this gag order. you have michael cohen doing interviews, who is a witness. >> brian: what if eric trump came out, don jr. came out, stephen miller. let me tell you my impression of what happened. >> ainsley: if the judge's daughter can talk, couldn't trump's kids, too? >> brian: if i'm president trump, name cabinet and vice president and fan them out and however long this takes, make sure they are talking and collecting money, running smaller events. >> ainsley: maybe pick your vice president. >> lawrence: he will need them, then there is numbers trial and next trial and next trial.
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>> brian: i think there is a chance this is the only one. can you imagine this in august? >> will: test the gag order. go over to carley shimkus. >> carley: tragic story, investigators looking for suspect accused of shooting and killing off-duty chicago police officer as he was coming home from work yesterday morning, the officer was found shot on the street near his home and taken to the hospital and pronounced dead. they are investigating with a tarjacking could have led to that shooting. tomorrow would have been the officer's 31st birthday. nypd arresting a suspect after being accused of breaking into karen bass's house, we spoke to a former l.a. resident earlier who moved from the city due to
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rising crime. >> calling 911 for anything less than having a knife sticking out of your chest and lapd will never show up, they are overwhelmed with violent crime, if your house is broken into, property crime, good luck with them showing up. you know they were there in se seconds with the mayor. >> carley: bass and her family are okay, no word if this was targeted or random. group of minnesota drivers saving a driver of a burning car. the car burst into flames, they ush ared to save the driver. they were able to shatter the window and pull him to safety in the knick of time.
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nobody, including the driver, were seriously hurt. washington nationals race turning into mascot brawl. several washington, d.c. and virginia-based mascots came sprinting to the president and knocking down the racing presidents. nationals mascot screech invited his friends to ruin the race, screech ended up winning, there is a presidents race at every home game, this wound up different. >> ainsley: that blue one. >> brian: a lot of kids like these and think they are real and you watch them get beat up by other mascots, is that something we should be doing? >> lawrence: worry about the emotions.
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ana marie knezevic /* /* >> ainsley: you see george washington go down like that. >> will: they are not like marshmallows. >> ainsley: they are hard. >> will: you get hit. >> brian: it has to hurt and you don't know if your head is in the head, it might be in the neck or chest. >> ainsley: if you are washington, head is probably in the neck. >> will: what were you? >> brian: i was not a mascot, you lunatic. i was in the game. look at the disinformation. >> will: all the shots i've ever ta taken. >> brian: i can hear you. >> ainsley: we have mascots in
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the green room, so cute, it is weird. you walk in the green room and you are like, someone else is in the room with you. >> lawrence: the mascots will never come on the show again. >> brian: right >> ainsley: what do you do? i guarantee you keep walking. >> lawrence: according to will, he is one of them. >> will: more mascot talk. >> brian: slowly dissolve out, bye. >> lawrence: they are just going to leave us up. (vo) in two seconds, eric will realize they're gonna need more space... (man) gotta sell the house. (vo) oh...open houses. or, skip the hassles and sell directly to opendoor. (man) wow. (vo) when life's doors open, we'll handle the house.
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>> ainsley: more young americans being diagnosed with cancer more than ever before. head and neck cancer is on the rise for those as young as 20 or in their 20s. what is behind this disturbing increase in early onset cancer? good morning, dr. marc siegel. what is going on, why aro many younger people getting cancer? >> some is diet, poor diet, some is alcohol. throat cancer is number one cause of head and neck cancer
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and 80% is connected to hpv. the good news hpv-related throat cancer is curable 80 to 90% of the time. nyu, is using robot on head and neck cancer with tremendous success. number one tool is improve diet, decrease alcohol and get that hpv vaccine. >> ainsley: how do you know if you have this throat cancer before it is too late? >> good question, if you see a bump on your lip, that is one, if you have a sore throat, if you see anything abnormal in your throat, you should be
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getting it checked out. don't say i'm too young. 10%. we have 70,000 new cases per year of head and neck cancer. people have to be on the lookout is survey mouth, lips and tongue. >> ainsley: i know cervical cancer is on the rise for women between 30 and 34. >> hugely important. >> ainsley: michael douglas had throat cancer, i think he is doing well now, he is defending joe biden. he says people that i have talked to say he's sharp as a tack, he is fine. we all have issue with memories, we forget names, he's overcome a stutter in his life, sometimes he might. >> great oops --00 he played
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american president in 1985, that is fictional, we're talking fictional and president biden is using ads saying he's sharp as a knife or tack. president biden has chronic atrial fib riulation, which can lead to brain problems and cognitive problems. clinton advisor wrote in "new york times," let's hear some wisdom. 60% of americans think he is not me mentally fit to serve. fight with wisdom, not ads, fight with cognitive tests. do not bring out a fictional president to say he's okay.
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>> ainsley: he did play a president and he is an actor. thank you for coming on with us. >> douglas was great as president, a little too old to run. >> ainsley: fox news alert, live pictures from yale university as anti-israel protest says ers are shown there. another alert, we are awaiting president trump's departure as he heads to his hush money trial. gregg jarrett is with us on that next. you know what's on our hearts. you know where we struggle. you know where we need to be pushed. help us give it all to you. the good, the bad. help us turn to you in everything. amen.
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will begin in the donald trump hush money trial. departure from trump tower is taking place right now. >> will: on his way to the courthouse in new york city. >> ainsley: he usually takes fdr. >> brian: think about the resources for this trial. >> ainsley: is he allowed to bring a blanket in? he keeps talking about how cold it is. >> lawrence: let's bring in legal analyst gregg jarrett right now. we've been talking about back and forth in this case, are you con concerned about the attorneys being on the jury? >> no, actually i normally am. when i tried cases, i would
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always boot a lawyer off the jury. i always worried attorneys have a tendency to commandeer a jury and impose their will on that jury and you never know how that will work out. here i think that might extend to the defense. lawyers would see through this charade of a case braought by alvin bragg and focus on the facts. do the facts meet the law? no, and the verdict would be an as aquital, so may benefit trump. >> ainsley: about the gag order, the judge's daughter is working for democrats, he gave money to
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joe biden. you have donald trump who is gagged. does gag order prevent his family from talking specifics about this case? >> i don't think it does. i think his family is free to make arguments. this judge was required under code of judicial conduct to recuse himself. why? because his immediate family member issue his adult daughter has financial and economic interest in outcome of her dad's case. through her democrat consulting organization, she and her clients have been fundraising by citing trump prosecution in new york over which her dad presides and they have raised some 93 million and the amount is continuing. so if you read the code, it says
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a family member to the sixth degree that requires judge to recuse. here it is first degree, his grown daughter. he should have disqualified himself. despite repeated requests this guy is hyper biassed against trump and determined to find him guilty. >> brian: opening arguments, should say shorter is better. do you think we'll get to the 1 first witness today? >> i think opening statements, not allowed to argue, no crimes were committed. trump was targeted, he is running for president. this is misuse of the law and a bunch of liars who cannot be
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trusted. core of the case is he misreported hush money, defense will tell jurors in opening statements that money paid was lawful, does not qualify as campaign donation, that trump was not involved in keeping records and the records were both accurate and lawful. >> will: good point about statement versus argument, in a statement, you lay oout the evidence and that will layout a theme, what is theme of prosecution and the defense? >> well, the defense, i can't account for prosecutors because this is such a kakamaymi case. i think defense will urge jurors to focus on law and facts, don't
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allow personal or political view of donald trump to shade your judgement. if they do that, then i think he absolutely would be acquitted. former attorney general william barr said on fox news, he is no fan of donald trump, this case is a travesty and upon conviction it will surely be overturned. i'm concerned manhattan is a hostile venue, jurors may be predisposed, verdict could be preore daned and factor in the judge, witches in salem had a better chance of fair trial in manhattan. >> lawrence: do you expect l last-minute motions to dismiss the case? do you anticipate trump camp one
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last shot at it? >> they will try it, it will not succeed with judge merchan. alvin bragg's case itself is designed to interfere in this election trying to tie up trump in court so he can't campaign. biden democrats brought four criminal cases against their opponent, all of which had time to occur in run-up to the election to interfere in the outcome. two goals here, keep him off campaign trail and label him a
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convicted felon. by then damage will be done. >> ainsley: that is irony. election interference, he is strapped in a chair and joe biden is on air force one campaigning. >> will: police on campus at yale university appearing to arrest some students. a live report from yale straight ah ahead.
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>> we shall not be moved. we shall not be moved. by the water, we shall not be moved. >> will: fox news alert, right now police are at yale, hundreds of antiisraeli protesters rally at the school. >> lawrence: i cannot believe they are singing hymns. madeleine rivera. >> madeleine: i've been following updates from the university newspaper and they report 30 protesters have been arrested. 40 officers are on the scene and
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the police department is getting backup from the new haven police department. the mayor says people have a right to protest but it has to be in a safe way. our focus is on safety. some buildings on campus have been closed off. listen to the sound bite from a police officer saying people will be arrested if they don't leave. >> no one will stop you from leaving, if you do not leave, you will be arrested, we will give you time to leave. >> the police chief telling the news somewhere between 40 to 45 people have been arrested and charged with trespassing. it appears some protesters who were arrested have been
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released. you heard in the video before the toss to me, we heard protesters chanting saying from yale to columbia, we shall not be moved, hundreds of protesters are on campus. >> lawrence: thanks, as they sing civil rights hymns, i hope they talk to elders and ask about the businesses first to integrate when we were not allowed. the jewish committee was first to allow that to happen and now they are pissing on all of them. >> brian: bratgreat point. >> ainsley: the president is about to go to the courthouse, en route to the courthouse. you can see him in the distance, just went into the courthouse.
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he went down east river fdr highway and landed there. >> brian: the palestinians, women, do you think they have rights there? you think that is tolerant society? check in with dana perino for what is coming up, i'm sure she'll be covering this. >> dana: we will follow your amazing lead, "fox and friends." thank you. attacks on jewish students and a rabbi suggesting they get out of town. a student will join us before passover begins today. opening statements in hush money trial of president trump, we have a reporter sending news as it breaks. first witness david pecker of national enquiry and burgum on the president and you can't throw things at concerts, hew luke bryan fell and what comes next.
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>> moments ago former president trembly arrived to the new york state supreme court for opening statements in his new york quote, unquote, hush money trial. >> brian: in the new york civil fraud letitia james is arguing the $175 million bond trump put up is insufficient and should be
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thrown out. >> ainsley: lydia hu is outside of the courtroom for more. >> they question whether the insurance company that is underwriting this $175 million bond could actually pay it if they had to. those lawyers writing this. night specialty insurance company is a small insurer not authorized to write business in new york and thus not regulated by the state's insurance department. had never before written a surety bond in new york or in the prior two years in any other jurisdiction and has a surplus of $138 million. which is less than 175 million needed. another issue these lawyers raise at the attorney general's office is who has access to the collateral trump posted to secure the bond. executives say the former president put up cash in a brokerage account. the a.g. says trump still has
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access to the account. they say that means it is not secure. the ceo of knight insurance company has previously told me he is sure he has the collateral for this bond. of course you may recall an appeals court previously reduced the amount of bond to $175 million from roughly $464 million. that was a move legal experts suggest appellate judges may be sympathetic. but it's engoron who will be deciding this issue. we'll see whether he keeps the bond. >> lawrence: all endale michigan, this morning. we have three diners this week. >> ainsley: bye, everyone.

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