infrastructure you because it was a lot of lip service with the previous administration. joe biden delivered on it. i see jobs coming to the area, i see infrastructure being fixed up. maria: biden also making a stop at a gas station in pittsburgh yesterday, he bought sandwiches for construction workers. this is a page out of trump's book, it comes a week after former president trump's chick-fil-a visit where he treated customers to chicken and milkshakes. that was when one african-american woman told mr. trump bye-bye biden, your reaction, joe. >> it's pretty funny how president biden is basically following donald trump's lead. [laughter] >> the a amazing thing about the ad is the democratic partiey has abandoned the working class. a lot of the working class hasn't realized it yet. if someone asked him are you richer or poorer than you were four years ago, if he's the averaging working class american he's substantially poorer and

biden's open border policies are lowering wages for american workers. worker. maria: wages are done, inflation is up. are you better off a today than four years ago they the obvious answer is no, we're not better off. if you're an an illegal alien,u are better off today. >> without a doubt. >> it's just how bad joe biden is at the everyman campaign stop. it's so clearly scripted and going parallel with aflcio ad about infrastructure bills and how he's getting the economy working, to build new projects and stuff. when you see donald trump go into an unscripted random store and have people i did versus at this, democrats -- diversity, democrats love diversity. look at the diversity of donald trump's' videos, walking into restaurants. people enjoy the time they're spending with donald trump. i would venture to say if i was

trump's campaign strategist, maybe they're listening right now, he's tied up here in new york with this trial for a couple weeks. there might be nothing better he could do for his campaign than do more of these random stops in nearby areas where he can ham it up with regular everyday new yorkers, new jerseyans. maria: it was funny to see joe biden try to do it. joe biden had nobody around him. yesterday, president trump comes out of the courthouse and again it's like he turns everything into a rally, he comes out of the courthouse and there are people out there behind the markings and they're chanting, usa, four more years, four more years and i mean, there's trump working the crowd. >> you've got a guy who has charismaer versus a guy who gives you a bank stare. yyou can at the time it's scripted. he wears aviator sunglasseses inside. it's not sunny inside many you

you can take them off. if have you to look at your feet with every step you take, it's probably better to take them off. the playbook is orange man bad, abortion good. they'll continue to run the ball up the middlend we'll see how republicans respond. maria: this is tuesday outside the courthouse, he's shaking everybody's hands and they're chanting four more years, usa. >> mark my words, maria, he is going to do a rally in the bronx or northern manhattan or somewhere in an urban environment where people are not anticipating people coming out and supporting donald trump, you're going to see new yorkers if not somewhere else, but black, hispanic people, all types of people come you out and rally behind donald trump. it will shock people, who don't believe this kind of support exists among nonwhite president trump supporters. maria: that's what we're seeing. the democrats are losing it. they can't believe that all of these indictments are actually

making president trump even more popular. you've got hispanic comedian and actor john leguzamo attacking a piñata after learning former president trump is gaining support among latinos. watch this. >> excuse me for a second, please. [bleep] [speaking non-english] >> it looks like the democrats are in trouble. you might be thinking how how is this possible? donald trump is winning latinos? build the wall? donald trump? that's right. for latinos, this election is all about inflation. that makes sense. inflation is bad right now. they're going to have to change the name of the game show to the price is [bleep] what now? maria: your thoughts, jonathan?

>> inco i think comedies has n pretty far in this country. it's so political and cynical and angry. the democrat misses that donald trump talks about the voters and what's in their interest. democrats want to talk about donald trump. the voters want somebody that's looking out for them, wants their lives to be better. they know their life was better under donald trump. he's pushing things that make americans better off. they miss that point every time. that shows how out-of-touch they are. i think mark is right. they're going to run on two issues b, if they run on what they're interested in, they lose. every issue donald trumps is ahead on. he's speaking to the voters, not spending all his time personally attacking, trying to ruin someone's personal life with indictments. s he's looking out for the american people. >> leguzamo's job is to know

the commune you the at this well enough and -- community well enough and spoke a little fun. he's dumb founded to find out hispanic people as it turns out are concerned about the regular things that just about every other american is concerned about, are my communities safe, is my school good and can i ford things that i once was able to afford. it's mind blowing to the progressive left that nonwhite people could think that way. maria: it's not just unflation. he's trying to --inflation. like everyone else, hispanics do not want the rules broken. those people who came here, they did it the legal way, now you're seeing all of these tens of thousands of people every week coming and getting ahead of everybody else, cutting the line. >> john leguzaom is missing the key point within the hispanic communities. hispanic people came here legally, they follow their

faith, they work hard. they have their cors core setf values. that includes fairness, making sure people are following a uniform set of rules, not exceptions made for certain groups. maria: we've got a lot coming up. house speaker mike johnson is pushing for a saturday vote on three foreign aid bills. totaling more than $95 billion after much rebellion from within and threats to remove him from office. california congressman mike garcia is here to weigh in on that. don't miss it. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. we'll be right back. ♪

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maria: welcome back. the house releasing the text of foreign aid bills totaling more than $95 billion. the breakdown goes like this,

60 billion for ukraine, 26 billion for israel, 8 billion for taiwan. mike johnson announces the rules committee will release text on a border security bill. that will include measures such as rehaven in mexico, fixing the broken asylum and parole processes and rebuilding portions of the wall. joining me now, congressman mike garcia. congressman, it's good to see you this morning. thanks very much for being here. what are you expecting in the way of voting on these bills? >> well, we're going to see some probably high drama and emotion and maybe a little dentistry as we go through the rules votes on the floor that lead up to the bills being allowed to come to the floor for up, down votes. there's a lot of resistance within our party, primarily over the ukraine package being $60 billion. i myself am not against supporting ukraine but i want to make sure we're right-sizing the package and that we're focusing on giving the legal aid or

munitions to put warheads on russian foreheads and not giving them the blankets and the ban dads but giving them the bullets to win the war. i'm interested to see what the border security bill looks like. that's the number one threat to our nation. we need to focus on the primary national security threat which is our southern border which is completely wide open because of president biden right now. maria: two questions. number one on the ukraine aid, are you expecting that this will be in the form of a loan? frpresident trump has talked abt turning this money into a loan for ukraine and number two, do you think that the border security bill is going to get enough support? i mean, your colleagues are very angry that you're talking about more money to ukraine while having yet to secure the border. what will be the fate of that bill? >> yeah, and let's be eyes wide open. anything we do with the -- in the house with the majority we have right now the, anything

border related will get shot down by the senate and will not get signed into law by the president so this border issue will remain an issue until we have a new president in the owe of val office. this is -- oval office. this is a man made problem, his name ill is joe biden. the reality is, the border security issues will probably be stripped out and bounced back to the house for final up, down vote for foreign aid. as far as whether this will be a loan to ukraine, that's my expectation. we're doing the reading of all the text real-time today. it should be. look, they should be buying stuff. we should be giving them stuff if we can but they should also be looking to purchase stuff and as they get back on their feet and a start exporting grain, gdp starts to improve, and they start to claw more regions of the area back, we should look to get repayment on a lot of it, especially humanitarian aid and

direct government support. we shouldn't give that at the levels we have been and this bill asks for and if we do we should expect to get most of that money back. the you munitions is a different conversation. maria: i'm trying to understand why the senate knocks down or you're expecting the senate to knock down any effort to the secure the border. why? i mean, you know, i don't -- do your colleagues on the left not view the border as the national security threat that it is? >> no, they don't. frankly, i've had fbi director wray and attorney general garland in hearings over the last week and we've railed on them. those are cabinet members who report directly to the president who don't recognize the border as the threat that it is. it's an existential threat. 75 you 75,000 people died of fel poisonings in the last year because of it. seven and-a-half people here illegally. this is what joe biden ran on. this is what he will lose this election over had in t the comig

months. for point of indulgence. as the first hispanic to represent california, first republican to represent california since 1883, i will say his hispanics value strengtd security. they like strength, they like security. that includes economic security. that includes border security. they don't like people cutting in line. the fact that the senate is turning a blind eye to this border issue, they're fearful of a far left base, they're turning their backs on israel now because they're fearful of a far left pro-hamas and appeasement strategy base is why they will lose these elections coming up here in no mhere in november. maria: we were talking about the support for donald trump for

all the reasons you mentioned. alejandro mayorkas will testify today after democrats quickly voted to kill the impeachment articles against him yesterday. chuck schumer row posed a point of or -- proposed a point of order deeming the first article unconstitutional. how is it possible that it fails to meet the high standard for re-removal when in fact he has been having a dereliction of you duty, blowing off the law, aallowing 10 million people illegally to enter the country on joe biden's watch? >> the only way that is possible is because of the tyranny of the majority in the senate and frankly the tyranny coming out of the white house and tone deafness of both of those groups to the fact that this southern border issue is a national security crisis that we have not seen the likes of in my opinion since worl world war ii. this is an invasion. we need to take it seriously. 7,000% increase in illegal chinese immigrants coming across our border in they the last thef months, fighting age males,

primarily single. this isn't a coincidence. this is an invasion. mayorkas is following biden's marching orders. in the end biden is ultimately responsible for this. he will be held accountable for this in november and this is why he will lose the election again. maria: it's incredible to me that the democrats are ignoring this chinese national situation. i mean, why are they here? what are they doing, setting up a quiet army here in america so they can be used as saboteurs later if xi jinping directs that, no comment from your colleagues? they're not doing anything about it, even garland had no answers. you questioned ag merrick garland yesterday on biden's mental capacity and mishandling of documents and he was asked about the chinese nationals. he had no answer as. >> your verbal testimony said you have no doubt there is no cognitive impairment of the president. i have seen the classified documents. i'm aware of the nature of at

least some of these documents. they are of the highest level of national security intelligence and they are extremely relevant even today. these documents that were found in the garage of president biden. and so if it's not a cognitive impairment problem, if it's -- if he's competent and you're confident on that, why is he not being charged? >> mr. hurr described in detail in his report his explanation for why he decided not to bring them. he was subject to some five hours of testimony on that subject. >> you disagree with the foundational premise of his assertions, the rational he was cog cognitively incapable, he ws too hold to face charges. maria: how did he answer that. >> he said that wasn't the rational. when you read the report, that was the rational. he gave himself an "a" as an

attattorney general when i asked how he would grade himself at a time when we had record high crime. crossing the border illegally is a crime. it's not ross cuted right now. --% cuted right novel. these are the characters we're working with right now. this is why we absolutely need to get control of the senate and the executive branch drives these issues and so what we're doing in they the house is trying to be an opposition force, trying to give options to the president, border security with hr2 and they're rejecting it, behaving and voting out of fear, fear of the far left base rather than national security interests. maria: that's incredible. congressman, thanks very much for your work. we'll be watching you. >> thanks, maria. maria: mike garcia is in washington this morning. congressman mike garcia joining us. quick break and then deal making seems to be bouncing back after a rough 2023. citi vice chair of client banking is here with an outlook

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maria: welcome back. time for the word on wall street, top investors watching your money. joining me is citi vice chairman of client banking, leon kalvara. i want to take a look at markets as we get into the conversation about business activity, we're looking a firmer tone, dow up 84,s in dak up 51, s&p higher by 12 and a quarter. m&a off to a strong start. there have been more than 15000 u.s. deals. large global deals powered a 26% jump for the first quarter compared to the same time last year. tell us how you view business activity this morning and what you're seeing in the way of m&a and new deals. >> great. let's start out actually with the ipo side because the backlog on ipos is very, very large right now, there's probably at

least 50 companies that are sitting getting ready to go. number one. number two, the companies that have gone public have performed well. if you look at the performance of 1 5, 16% post ipo, that's excellent. they're high quality companies, properly priced for demand. when you look at the health of the market can you start to look at the ipo market first and foremost. it shows new investors being willing to put cash into the market. the second part m&a. the story of m&a has been largely north america, close to 700 billion, the market is up from a volume standpoint significantly and i think the companies have finally realized how to deal with the anti-trust environment, the uncertainty associated with it, taking into account the new normal of litigation and then also taking into account the fact that these deals are going to take much longer. so as we look at transactions, we are factoring in much longer

close dates and what the implication of that is. maria: i am glad you mentioned the anti-trust situation and how bankers are figuring out how to work around this because it's been feeling like this administration and the ftc does not want to see lots of big deals help whatting. the wall street journal none the less writing that investment banks are reporting a pickup in first quarter deal making activity following a slowdown. companies not wanting to wait on the federal reserve to lower interest rates. tell me how rates play into this and what you're expecting in terms of business expectations. >> there's two aspects of rates. first, let's go back to the equity at this side, the one thing people don't talk about a lot is convertible a market issuance. there have been a significant increase in convertibles to actually refinance a lot of the debt thats was put on during covid and do an interest rate arbitrage. there's a wall of debt coming due over the next few years. convertibles are taking the number down. the m&a side of the equation, high grade companies are financing a at attractive rates,

even though higher. those are factored in with the exception being that they're going to wait longer to close the transaction s when i look at deals, it's not uncommon for me to think about one to two years from a closing standpoint here until you go through the anti-trust process. maria: that's a big deal. i'm wondering if that's why you're seeing private activity take private companies at, what, a 17-year high in north america. some companies are saying forget about it, i'm not going to wait two years to do this deal. the ftc is against this many i'll take the company private. >> firstly, going private with private equity which has significant dry powder and been climbing is a high of 17 years. on the other side, private equity has a recycling issue. a lot of the transactions they've been in for a long time, they've been wait foing for theo and m&a market to pick up. you'll start to see a lot more

activity because investors would like to see cash be recycled before they reinvest. you havehave pressure for liquid pressure to deploy and the private market which has been significant a lot of companies want to do buybacks, right? buybacks is quite attractive. if you look at the numbers for certain companies they'll risk weight the buyback relative to investing in the business. as they consider m&a and they consider the time period, alternative becomes buying back stock to create capital value. we're seeing a lot of buybacks during this pe period which is interesting given the fact that going back to 2023 the markets are up significantly. they're buying back higher priced stock. maria: are people expecting a big change in the tax backdrop. president biden is coming out with his budget, $5.5 trillion in new taxes take what he with like to do. >> interestingly enough, they're not. they're looking at the current

tax situation, looking at the financing cost, cost of capital and the tech side of the issue where it's in the back of people's minds, we still have a long way to go before the election and they're waiting and watching. maria: what about m&a in terms of specific sectors? when you look at what's on the shelf, what you think could play out this year, where are the most expectations for deals within various sectors? >> it started in the fourth quarter in the energy sector. as you know, there's been a fair a amount of consolidation with mega transaction as, some of which are sitting for approval. those are going to take a while. then technology has been the leader in terms of overall consolidation as frankly prices have come to a point where people can justify them. we're off the peak of 2021, 2022. people can affect reasonably priced tech deals. then you have healthcare. you can say it's around, but the continued consolidation in biotech and healthcare will

start to accelerate here as we get through the back part of the year. with the other side of it also being the uptick in ipos for biotech. maria: are you seeing the screo political backdrop affecting decisions today. you've got a war on ukraine, now new attacks on israel from iran, a lot of people expecting a response. how much of this is weighing on decisions today? >> that's a very important point. it's not necessarily weighing on decisions. but boards of directors, chief executives are taking a lot of input on gee geo politics at ts point. there's an uptick in terms of conversations at the border with geopolitical advisors, trying to understand in essence what is the potential fat tail risk, if something really bad happens, how do we factor it in right now and obviously we have at least two very, very significant conflicts. they worry people personally and professionally and they're taking advice, not necessarily

adjusting their movement quite. maria: it makes sense. real quick on the fed, that's the other conversation taking place. you expect rate cuts this year? >> we do expect -- we're talking about two fed rate cuts this year, 45 basis points and we'll see what the number and prints look like. i think chairman powell is going to be very, very careful, not to get ahead and he will be influenced by by the data as ad he's been clear in recent estimates. maria: great to see you. thank you so much. coming up, senate democrats vote to kill impeachment articles get alejandro mayorkas adjourning the trial in an unprecedented move. ron vitiello is here to discuss mayorkas' dereliction of duty at the southern border. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. we'll be right back. ♪

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maria: welcome back. destructive storms battering northern ohio marking the third straight day of severe weather. cheryl casone with details now. >> that is right, maria. severe weather roaring across the great lakes, blasting the region with suspected tornadoes and hail, significant damage reported in ohio. the storm downing power lines and destroying homes and businesses across the state. look at this, the roof of a family dollar retailer partially collapsing from the powerful wind. fortunately no injuries have been reported. well, 911 services have been restored in some areas after outages knocked down emergency services in cities across south dakota, no b nebraska and nevad

texas after dhs warned there could be a threat due to exposure and availability of victims' personal information. meanwhile, police in del-rio, texas say their outage was caused by an issue with a major cellular carrier, unclear if it stemmed% a cyber attack. president biden sharing a very bizarre story yesterday. watch this. >> my uncle, i called him bozie, he told me when he was a kid, he became an army air corpsman before the army came along, a single engine plane recognizance over war zones, and he got shot down in new guinea and they never found the body because there used to be a lot of camels in that part of new guinea.

>> the president implying his uncle was eaten by cannibals in new guinea. military records show the aircraft plunged into the pacific. the pentagon saying for unknown reasons this plane was forced to ditch in the ocean off the north coast of new guinea. the aircraft's nose hit the water hard. three men failed to emerge. they were lost in the crash. one crew member survived and was rescued by a passing barge. an aerial search found no trace of the missing aircraft or the lost crew members. the story from may 14, 194 had 4. but he said it twice yesterday. maria: the story was completely not true. >> you according to the military, the story is not true. >> was -- >> can you imagine if this was trump. we would be talking about how we're jeopardizing relationships with a strategic partner, how

dare you call them can balls. cannibals. salute to un uncle bozey to dien service. joe biden said it. nobody cares. maria: i should assume that since they were made up stories that msnbc did not take et it it liveand pulled away while hes talking. that's what they did with trump. they made that decision. >> i don't watch msnbc. this goes in the face of the kitchen fire story. remember the kitchen fire story? that was another wait a minute, what, you know, fact check. maria: unbelievable. thank you, cheryl. didn't of homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas will testify in front of the senate homeland security committee later to i day, one day after the democrat controlled senate killed both articles of impeachment against him. here's senate majority leader chuck schumer and mitch

mcconnell yesterday. >> we felt very strongly that we had to set a precedent that impeachment should no never be d to settle policy disagreements. >> we set a very unfortunate precedent here. doesn't make a difference whether our friends on the other side thought he should have been impeached or not. he was. and by doing what we just did, we have in effect ignored the directions of the house which were to have a trial. no evidence, no procedure. this is a day -- it's not a proud day in the his he tri of the history of thesenate. maria: joining us now, former acting i.c.e. director, ronald vitiello. your reaction? >> thanks t for inviting me. it's a missed opportunity. i agree with the minority leader, mitch mcconnell. this was an opportunity to get

the administration via the secretary of homeland security on the record with a trial of the facts about what decisions were made, who made them and what are the justifications for those decisions. you know, the department of homeland security exists to protect us, to secure the border among many other things that it does. but this secretary is one that has more knowledge than most. i worked with all a of them throughout my career, the end of my career as a leader in border patrol. he was in the deputy secretary chair in 2014 when we had the unpress dprecedented surge of mt families and children coming through the border. he watched career officials like myself implement strategies to abate that surge, to make it go away, to make the problem smaller. when he came into office and watched what the white house did and acted and removed the policies that were working, they knew exactly the results of it and so they need to get -- he needs to get on the record and

tell people why that was done and who is responsible for it because he sits in the chair. he's responsible to the american people to protect the homeland. maria: do you think any irony is lost on chuck schumer who says we cannot have politics driving an impeachment after impeaching donald trump for making a phone call they? >> yeah, exactly. and politics drives everything. this administration puts politics ahead of border security, public safety every single time and you know, i'd like to ask ron is there any -- you've been in this business, they the this line of work for a long time. s is there any explanation other than this being deliberate and a intentional of the administration to make this happen p? ?>> it's absolutely purposeful. they blew up the system that was in place. when this guy took over we had 45 years of this at the border. they're neglecting their responsibilities under the

immigration and nationality act to remove people or keep them in custody so they can have due process with an immigration judge. we've seen the results of this. we are all at danger. this is not just what happens at the border. this affects every single united states citizen across the country. maria: is customs and border he protection data those 24,000 -- 24,296 chinese nationals have been encountered at the southern border this year since october. the majority of the crossings happening in california and the number already exceeds the number of chinese nationals encountered of all -- for all of last year. we've got six months to go in this year. your thoughts on chinese migrant encounters and why they're a here. what are they planning? what are they doing? >> it's another example of the risk that we're all put up against. these people are coming. we have no idea who they are. we have no idea what their motivation is. even if 1% were here at the

behest of the communist chinese party, it puts us all at risk so why arethey coming? this president ayou allows allos to come across. they're motivated by the policies instituted by the president and the lawlessness across the southwest border. maria: i wonder what they do when they're getting here. the administration put sanctions on ve venezuelan oil at the urgg of republican senators, isn't it true that venezuela sent so many people into america and unfortunately there's a venezuelan gang in new york right now running around that is creating quite the amount of chaos and robberies. what is the impact of these illegal venezuelan migrants

coming here and when they're actually here what are they doing? >> well, there are a lot of them, chittin committing crimesr the place. you mentioned new york. there's reporting in los angeles, houston and miami. they're going into the retail drug trade. they succeeded under the maduro regime, no first impeachment, no fourth impeachment. they're a -- first amendment, no fourth amendment. now they're here in the united states. we're in big trouble because of this particular threat alone, not to mention the chinese, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of got aways that are coming across the border. we have no idea who they are. maria: what should be done about it you said we're in big trouble. what trouble? >> well, i don't think this is going to change until we have new leadership in the oval office and new secretary of homeland security because they refuse to do what they can do to make this problem smaller, to protect us more, and send these people back home.

they refuse to do it and when they talk about it, they talk about it like it's not a crisis, the border's in control, you'll see the secretary talk today about how great the men and women of the front line are. that is a you true statement. but he's not giving them the tools that they need, that he has access to, that he could give them to help minimize this problem to reduce the flow, to let the agents and front line staff go out there and do what they can do to protect us. maria: this us absolutely stunning. ronald vitiello, thank you. we'll keep following the story. we appreciate your time this morning. anti-israel protests breaking out all over the place and specifically at columbia university yesterday after lawmakers slammed the school's president about anti-semitism across the country and at columbia. lydia hu with all the details. >> that's right, maria. hours after columbia university's president testified on capitol hill protests erupting just steps away from columbia's campus. after the break i'll show you what that looked like and those dramatic scenes so don't go

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evacuate. lydia hu has more. >> hours after columbia university's president faced criticism from lawmakers about anti-semitism and failing to hold students and faculty accused of bias accountable, protests erupted. off campus, ddom straighters gathered outside of columbia's gaetz. the protesters lit flares while shouting free palestine. the nypd was on the scene. meanwhile, on campus students continued a sit-in with tents. they put up on the south campus lawn. they demanded the university divest from israel. they called it a gaza solidarity encampment. the demonstrations continued for hours after the university told students they were violating university policies and needed to disband. meanwhile, on capitol hill, university president was grilled by lawmakers about demonstrations like these, at one point she agreed with democratic congresswoman ilhan

omar that campus demonstrations have not been anti-jewish, but rather anti-war. listen. >> have you seen against one -- against jewish people? have you seen protests saying we're against jewish people? >> no. >> republican congresswoman elise stefanik seized on the exchange with omar. watch here. >> you were asked were there any anti-jewish protests. you said no. >> anti-jewish things were said at protests, yes. >> thank you for changing your testimony. >> a columbia student who attended the hearing reacted saying claire clair the clarits needed. >> when a large amount of students are chanting we don't want anti-zionists here, that's clearly ant ant anti-jewish.

>> presidents of harvard and u-penn resigned. maria: what are we expecting from the head of columbia then in terms of resignation? >> well, yesterday in watching the hearing there was air between what the president of columbia was saying and the board of trustees who testified at the same time, alongside her. it will be interesting to see whether we have a resignation from the columbia president, whether she stays on or perhaps where she's terminated. maria: thank you very much. joe, the pressure that ilhan omar y put on the president of columbia to say that this was not about ant anti-jewish, evere sees it. >> hat tip tip for elise stefa. i'm a parent. you're a parent. you have older kids. i can't imagine paying what these universities are charging to make my sons stupider.

i can't imagine being part of that payment process. when you're out there every day denouncing tdenouncing the jewie right to exist, you're being anti-smithic. anti-semetic, the fact these advanced degree holding presidents of universities can't come out and say anti-semitism is really bad and we're going to stop it it's astonishing. maria: what a do you think? >> people are paying enormous amounts of money. the university could stop it right now. that's the what the left is doing on the universities. they've been doing it for years. if these were pro-life protesters or pro-donald trump protesters they would be gone and everyone knows it. the b conservatives aren't a allowed to speak many times on college campuses. people should be able to go to school and be safe. this should stop but the

american left, again, these universities are -- it's one side, one view is allowed and this shouldn't be talked about but it's amazing. maria: elise st stefanik joines yesterday before she conducted the hearing and pressed for israel aid a because she's watching the anti-semitism take place. it's psy spiking you cross the country. >> $89,000 a year is what it costs to go there, for this nonsense where have you a b bunh of students who don't know what they're supporting. they want to become activists. this is why we have to forgive student loans. because $89,000 a year is going towards this rubbish. it's stupid. it doesn't make sense. go to class. maria: yeah. all right. we'll leave it there. we'll be right back with a lot more. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. stay with us.

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