apparently at one point president trump nudged one of his lawyers to look at a piece of paper and whatever was on the paper and laughed and trump turned to to the other one and he nodded. talk with your lawyers to communicate. from inside the courtroom he has been looking straight ahead the whole time. they did read the transcript of that access hollywood tape. it won't be played so it had to be read by the district attorney folks in there, martha. >> martha: interesting they included that in their opening statement as well. >> dana: it was a heck of a monday morning to get us started on a busy week. we have you covered with all of the breaking news from the universities across the country dealing with anti-semitism and, of course, the trump trial. martha, thank you. see you at 3:00. here is harris.

>> president biden: opening statements being read in the trial of our former president. liberal district attorney alvin] brought this case against donald trump on those charges. trump faces 34 counts related to payments made to sex film worker stormy daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election. all of it has people asking why now? district attorney alvin bragg, why now? today a hearing on trump's $175 million new york civil fraud bond, remember the money he had to come up with in order to go forward with an appeal in that case. no victims in the case. you know how it goes. tomorrow a hearing on trump's new york gag order is set. thursday u.s. supreme court arguments on whether trump can claim immunity on the case in georgia. critics are claiming all these anti-trump efforts are politics. >> we are dealing with a case that is really a house of cards

built on quicksand. this is a case that should have never been brought and would never have been brought if it wasn't that the defendant was donald trump. i don't care whether you are an independent, democrat or republican you have to doubt whether or not this is true seeking of justice or whether or not it is a political power play and doing the bidding of joe biden leading up to november. >> harris: the criticism is across the board against how the legal system is dealing its cards against donald trump. we'll bring you the latest from all of the courtroom action as it happens. plus also this hour former federal prosecutor andrew cherkowski will be in "focus." anti-israel protesting taking over universities around america and around the globe. the celebration of the jewish holiday passover begins today at sundown. a look at two ivy league campuses today, yale university on your left. columbia university on your right. some of those protestors

chanting and calling for the downfall of israel. that's not all they are saying. it is in english. the fear now is for the safety of jewish-based students who have heard these kinds of threats ring out since october 7th. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." earlier today police issued a warning to anti-israel protestors. they are occupying one campus, you can see it there, new haven, connecticut. they popped their tents up there, too. an encampment at yale. >> 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. >> harris: the university says there have been at least 47 arrests so far just today. it's not even noon yet eastern time. one jewish student claimed she

was stabbed in the eye during protests over the weekend and she just shared her story last hour. let's take a look at this. >> they saw me and so they began to taunt me as well because they recognized that i was there. i was something they view as an enemy. finally the taunting continued and escalated and i was just there to record them. the taunting he escalated until someone waved a palestinian flag in my face and stabbed me in the eye. when i tried to run after him organizer stood in front of me to stop me from catching my assailant. >> harris: chaos at columbia university has been constant. we've captured almost every second of it. they want to be seen not talk to us. the school added more security and additional police officer patrols as the protests enter day six. they also moved classes online this morning. so now kids who went there to

learn, jewish students who went there to learn, everybody is on lockdown now like during the pandemic. the in-person experience that those parents are paying all that money for could have gotten this at home. now they are online. new york city mayor eric adams says, horrified and disgusting he is with the ain't semitism being spewed around the columbia university campus. hate has no place in our city, he says. well, clearly it has some room for it in new york. fox news correspondent alexis mcadams is right in the middle of everything, as she always is, with the story. alexis. >> well, jewish students here at columbia and across the country and parents sending these kids to these really expensive supposedly great universities want to know what's going on on the campuses and what the schools are going to do to protect students. it ignited in columbia but

across the country popping up at yale and north carolina at chapel hill. look on the screen and you see what is happening this morning there at nyu and at yale. large crowds of students gathering there waving flags and chanting pro-palestinian slogans both on and off campus. out at yale in new haven, connecticut there was chaos as police officers got on the encampments and told the students get out or you'll be arrested. columbia the protests are expected to continue and become so bad a rabbi at the school told jewish students to go home because he said the campus is not safe. watch. >> a pro-hamas mob started chasing us, calling us in the middle of campus calling us inbread. we have no culture. threw hard objects and started harassing him and tried to light his flag on fire and nothing is done with this. >> overnight the president of columbia university calling for a reset, harris.

the president shifted to virtual classes to de-escalate and consider next steps. what does it mean? see how it plays out asking staff and students to stay home saying she is saddened by what is happening on this campus as tensions remain high for several days. university just called in the nypd to sweep the so-called gaza solidarity encampment. 100 students were taken into custody for trespassing and suspended. they'll plan walk-outs at col columbus. calling for the university to di vest at israel. we hear the nypd will have a press conference in 20 minutes and what they have to say about adding safety and security. how do students feel? to give you a pulse at how campus staff feels, too. a jewish professor that said he will ask for police escort just to walk around campus. the pulse on what people are feeling here.

>> harris: 20 minutes away from hearing from the nypd who had a very busy night again last night. so it will be interesting to see what they plan to do moving forward as you said. we'll stay on it and bring you back as news warrants. thank you. ari fleischer fox news contributor and former white house press secretary. i want to get your thoughts on what police really are up against as we wait now. we are 19, 20 minutes away from hearing from them. what are they facing? >> distress. i find this distressing. i can only imagine police officers arrest them and they are let loose. what is the value of an arrest if the people can return to campus and do it again? why do administrators, admissions offices admit students who believe in these things? why do we want people on their campuses who burn american flags, chant death to america

and hate jews? why is it even a thought, a controversy to say kick them off the campus, expel them, arrest them, put them in prison. let them be there for a while and how you stop this type of terrible behavior which is nothing different than what happened in charlottesville except the left want to try to sweep it under the rug where they went nuts about people at charlottesville. this is far worse. >> harris: i have to say this because you are asking the question why let them in? have you talked with a teenager? it is hard to assess what they believe in at those early ages. so i don't know that we've become a country yet that will keep kids out based on what they say they think in an interview. once their actions tell you and once we hear the threats, which are not protected speech, then the question becomes, ari, why not kick them off campus?

how they got there isn't a mystery to me. i get the admissions process. some of it has to be tolerated. why are they tolerating it? >> because in left liberal elitist societies, you have to just look the other way at these poor people who are victims protesting for what they believe instead of recognizing they are not protestors, they are disrupters, what they are doing is designed not to be heard but to shut things down and they are -- it is a classic bigotry against jews. i take it seriously. i remember distinctly in middle school, harris, pennies were thrown at me. i was called a dirty jew. this is in a suburb of new york city where there are a lot of jews. this is the type of thing every jew in america knows somewhere in our past it has happened and now we see it roaring on american campuses and administrators aren't cracking down on it? admissions office. if they are american stints a

different matter. for anybody a foreign citizen here on a foreign visa we have 100% right in the united states no not let them in and throw them out. i don't understand why it's not being done. it needs to be done. >> harris: that's a fascinating difference and point there. you know what? in this country when the world was on fire for blacks in this country, the jewish communities stood with us and i say us collectively. i wasn't born then but i can't even imagine if this were other groups of people that this would be going on. and i want to be fair about saying that. i just in my mind's eye, can't see it. i won't to play it for our audience. joey jones joined me on "the faulkner focus" last week. he says there is a line where free speech has become hate speech on college campuses, please watch. >> all these different universities, some state universities, some highly liberal institutions like the ones we're talking about, where

the faculty and administration kowtowed to radical students to the point they believe they have the power. let me be fair, harris, college is where you should hear arguments on why palestinian should be free and things of that nature. you should have that. once that turns into hate speech, calling for genocide, using terms that thinly veil the idea of destroying the israeli people and the nation of israel, that should not be tolerated in any way, shape or form. it is not fair or free speech. >> harris: ari, what you were saying is all over. people are saying it out loud. the question is why aren't these administrators and ceos and presidents who run these campuses, why aren't they listening? >> can you imagine we are hamas, that's what they were saying ton campus. if somebody said we're the kkk there would be an up roar across the united states. conservatives got kicked off

campuses decades ago. administrations at almost all universities, non-religious universities have all buck far leftist. there is no conservative pushback and nobody on campus who says let's think differently. why is it controversial so say if you say death to america and burn the flag that goes beyond speech. i'm all for debate. how does it get shut down? you bring a pro-israel speaker onto campus they won't get to speak and will be shut down. leftists will take over the building. the debate is only one sided. i'm for both sides having free, fair debate. what is happening on campus now has nothing to do with this debate. it is intimidation bordering on violence. these schools, admissions offices, why do they want these students on their campus? there is something wrong with academia in america.

>> harris: i was just doing a quick look here especially for these ivy league schools, there is an attraction game going on in terms of how many people can you bring in from all over the world? and there is some competition among those universities to see how globally diverse they can be. what you are saying is so true. they have to right to say no to those students and we'll see what happens. >> competitions to see how many american flags they can burn. that's what the competition has come to. >> harris: right now the competition ought to be to give solace who are reminded of a time we said we would not forget. i'm sorry it took you back to that time when you were a young man. that's not fair and shouldn't be happening for anybody here. >> especially on passover. thank you. >> harris: fury over president biden's overhaul of title ix. critics call it gender identity

protections of radical rewrite and assault on women and girls. it continues. this is more of the same. we'll get into it. plus legal experts are tearing into district attorney alvin bragg and his case in the new york versus trump trial. >> i think this whole case ultimately is going to crumble because it is just -- doesn't work under the law and especially under the facts. >> harris: as i opened the hour, opening statements are underway and there is also a hearing going on about trump's $175 million bond payment in a separate new york civil lawsuit. you will remember he had to come up with that money to fight the suit on appeal. a big legal week for the president. we're all over it and we'll cover it with former federal prosecutor

prosecutor.

hearing on former president trump's 175 million bond in his new york civil fraud case is on and new york attorney general letitia james, remember she is very politically thirsty, is challenging that bond claiming the insurance company behind the bond does not have the resources to pay up if trump's appeal fails. man, put down the shovel. just dig, dig, dig. "the new york times" reports that former "national enquirer" publisher david pecker will be the prosecution's first witness on the trial where trump is today. prosecutors are claiming that trump concocted a catch and kill scheme with pecker to bury negative stories. fox news legal editor kerri kupec you're ban with this. >> you can buy writes to a story and choose not to public it.

there is not illegal about it. it is not part of this case. the prosecution wants to bring this in to say well, he and trump had some kind of agreement that he would help him out with the election. >> harris: i want to bring in andrew cherkasky and andrew, we now have learned that the prosecution has finished with its opening arguments and now the defense is giving its opening arguments. we have producers in the courtroom so we're getting realtime what's going on in there. what are your thoughts on this case? >> it sounds like the opening from the prosecution was focused on the idea that donald trump lied over and over and over again referring to the entries in the new york business records saying that the payments were legal retainers. the problem with the prosecution here is that seems to be a perfectly reasonable and rational entry into the books there. it is not as though donald trump put in there donation to child

cancer charity. he was referring to the idea that he is engaged in legal payments and that's what the prosecution has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt is fraud. i don't think that they did a very good job from the notes i've seen so far to convince the jury on the onset that it is a fraud. >> harris: the defense has a couple of things to work with. what you just handed them and also if the prosecution cares that much about lies, why in the world do they call as one of their lead witnesses michael cohen, a professional liar, a convicted liar in this case? is it just to dial up the salaciousness of it all? >> it seems every witness of the prosecution has issues with lies. not only michael cohen, stormy daniels, even the editor of the "national enquirer" seems to have taken a plea deal essentially, immunity deal to get out of his own prosecution. the prosecutors are pointing the

finger at donald trump but their witnesses all have deep credibility issues. the defense is no doubt going to hammer that all morning through their opening statement and throughout the rest of this trial. credibility will be the most important thing throughout this trial and whether or not donald trump testifies, the defense and prosecution are going to have to deal with each one of these witness's credibility along the way and the prosecution has to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. even the journey thinks it might have or probably can't if they can't get to the proof beyond a reasonable doubt and why the defense should be looking for a win. that's what they are going into on this monday morning. >> harris: you think they have a fairly good case based on those witnesses alone. if you have a bevy of liars, i don't think that's worse than circumstantial evidence. it sounds like it is cut and dried but it won't be where trump is concerned. i want to jump to the next case

just to prove that point. so now in the fraud case after the former president came up with that $175 million bond, letitia james, the attorney general, is now saying that the insurance company that backs up that bond doesn't really have the resources to do that. now i accused her of digging deep with a shovel. maybe i'm right and maybe i'm wrong. we have the legal expert. your thoughts. >> well, i think that you are right on to say that she is not only trying to dig deep here, i think she is trying to figure out a way to move into trump tower and what she has been looking for all year long. if she wants space there fill out a rent application. a legal technicality she is going in on. i don't have faith in judge engoron. he has repeatedly had unfair rulings to donald trump. it's the same issue we have with the jury trial.

there are deep concerns with the fairness with the people that are making the decisions for donald trump in the highly blue manhattan jurisdiction. >> harris: you still have your doubts. i heard other legal experts say they were surprised after so much fruitless trying on the last day it came together like the and of a hallmark movie. what is he facing there. i don't think anybody in new york who hasn't seen the name trump on the west side highway here. >> with what's going on the letitia james' claim this bond isn't legitimate, i guess judge engoron could strike that entirely and essentially make it so that donald trump is in default. whether it means he wouldn't be allowed to appeal or whether he is given some extra amount of time. we've seen the appellate court give donald trump extra time in order to post this bond. perhaps if this isn't -- wasn't done with crossing the ts and

dotting the is, i this i the bond is put up there. donald trump put up the cash and it should be something that is sufficient to get this through the appellate process. >> harris: i remember her words, she wants to get him. if that's the case to take down his name. thats the goal was to be able to run donald trump out of town and now he is here. he is in court for the next few weeks, so we're told. we'll see what happens. i appreciate always your time. when you come back i would love to get a lesson from you on free speech on american campuses. let's go there next time. new polling is raising more alarms for team biden and the president's re-election campaign. watch. >> competent and effective, that was president biden's crux of his campaign pitch back in 2020. >> it is a clear liability for joe biden. so these are all troubling numbers for biden.

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>> harris: here is the breaking news, the former federal prosecutor cherkasky were just talking about this and said it wouldn't hold up. trump will be fine. the court has just ruled that the bond that $175 million bond that trump put up will stand despite the fight that the woman on the right, letitia james, the attorney general of new york was

trying stow slide in. what did cherkasky call it frnlt trying to play a legal technicality saying the insurance company trump was using wouldn't have the resources to back up the bond should he fail on appeal. the court says the bond can stay. $175 million needs to be in cash, not mutual funds or securities. knight insurance can't trade or move the money but will have control of the account and will provide a monthly financial statement to the attorney general showing $175 million in cash. agreement cannot change without approval from the court. letitia james, sit down. we'll move on. this is new. donald trump has a narrow 2-point lead over joe biden. now, with the margin of error that means they are in a tie at this point. but when it comes to being competent and effective mentally, especially, as president trump leads by 11 points.

worse for biden trump holds a 19-point advantage when it comes to the mental and physical health to be a president. and nbc news correspondent says this is a problem. >> who has the strong record as president and again trump outpacing biden on that front and again you have to mention this one, too. necessary mental and physical health. we asked this four years ago. it was a wash. now a clear liability for joe biden. these are all troubling numbers for biden. >> harris: troubling on the friendly networks to biden. democrats are reaching for their big names now. former president obama joined biden in a digital pitch to small dollar donors, hillary clinton popped off on trump. >> trump was like just gaga over putin because putin does what he would like to do, kill his opposition, imprison his opposition, drive, you know, journalists and others into exile.

rule without any check or balance. that's what trump really wants. joe biden is old. he is also effective. he is compassionate and cares about people. donald trump is old and he has 91 felony criminal indictments against him. >> harris: which has to be frustrating considering they are in a statistical tie except for when age and acuity matter. power panel, guy benson, fox news contributors and host of the guy benson show and fox news radio. richard fowler fox news contributor. great to see you both. hillary clinton wants to kill -- says trump wants to kill his opposition. she is a former secretary of state, guy benson. >> that seems like a bit hyperbolic. donald trump, of course, was president already for four years. and i think sometimes he pushed the envelope too far and guess what we had institutions that constrained him. those institutions remain. and to the point you've been

making when you look at polling you ask americans which of these two men was a better president, and the answer is donald trump. >> harris: i have to stop there. the nypd with all the protesting at university of columbia right now is speaking. let's watch. >> commissioner, deputy commissioner for legal matters and deputy commissioner for operations, and we are joined by a deputy mayor of communications. all right, so mike, want to step up? >> sure. okay. good morning, everyone. i want to address a few of the issues coming up over the past few days regarding what's happening at columbia and around columbia. first of all i want to start with the key point which is columbia university is private property. so the police action, what we can do and can't do is very, very different on private property than it is on a public

street. so if there is a crime in progress, if someone is in danger we'll go in. we'll keep people safe. if someone for example is being attacked, we will go in to columbia university as we would to a private home to help protect that person. but absent some ongoing crime, we cannot just go on the columbia campus as we see fit. it is up to the university to decide whether or not they want us on campus. as a general matter, columbia university, this goes back many years, does not want nypd present on campus. that's their decision. last week on thursday they informed us they had students who were trespassing. they asked us to come onto campus and take action and we

did. that was an exceptional case. we aren't there. around the university and the streets around the university, that's public property. there we have a very large police presence and our officers are going to take action to prevent crime and to make arrests if there is a crime. obviously any kind of violence will not be tolerated or property damage will not be tolerated or criminality will not be tolerated including harassment or threats or menacing or stalking or anything like that that is not protected by the first amendment. now, of course, protecting first amendment rights is crucial. it is central to what we do and to who we are. so we are always going to protect people's first amendment rights but to the extent you have criminal conduct that is going not protected by the first

amendment we'll take action and our officers are very clear about that. >> we'll take a few questions but work right from left to right. don't yell out. i will get to everybody, all right? >> what is happening for students who are attending passover tonight. what is happening in general and have there been any threats in the campus in relation to the upcoming holiday? >> i will let him talk about some of the presence we have out here. there has been no credible threats to any particular group or individual coming from this protest or any other. in terms of resources and some of the things we've been doing i will let commissioner talk about that. >> to answer your question, we have been in contact with the school and we advised the school we would like them to have safe corridors where officers that the school -- we told the school

officials where our officers are stationed at along the route. if any of the students wanted to go off campus to go to wherever they want to go. we advise them to use our safe corridor pathways. thank you. >> so today at the university a professor was barred because he couldn't -- [inaudible]. did the nypd cannot insure somebody can they step in or -- [inaudible] >> the university makes decisions about who they let on their campus or don't let on their campus. they are doing their own analysis and making their own safety determinations. that is not us. they are a private university, private property. their decisions, not ours. if someone is on campus and they are in physical danger, if they are about to be attacked, for example, we'll respond

immediately as you would in any location. but in terms of decisions of the university in this regard, that's really a question for the university. >> [inaudible question] >> so there have been a small number of instances in connection with some protests on campus. i don't have an exact number for you. i know on october 12th there was a very large protest and counter protest on campus. i remember in connection with that the university did ask us to have a presence on campus to make sure that everyone was safe. that was october 12th. there may have been some other instances between october 12th and last thursday. i couldn't give you an exact number. whatever that number is would be

very small. these are exceptional. >> to answer your question the command up there has been in close contact. the only nypd assistance they asked for us for us to patrol the outer perimeter of the school. >> what about the expected protests -- [inaudible question] . >> exactly where the commissioner said earlier. it will be the same. if there is a protest anywhere we have to respect people's first amendment rights. however, people should be aware that you cross that line and commit a crime the nypd will respond accordingly. we are aware of potential other protests to this popping up but there is that line between first amendment rights and crimes being committed. >> sky news here. >> which of you is the the best to answer this but give us a

sense of how challenging this moment is for you both in terms of your ability to police but also your judgment as you judge what is and what isn't a crime. >> i think several of us can jump in on this. first i will say the nypd is the most adaptable police department in the country if not the globe. we do this on a regular basis while still keeping the other places safe for tourists, special events, protests. this is not abnormal for us. this is not stretching our resources. we're not concerned about that. our biggest concern is to make sure people remain safe in this area but it is not a concern of ours in terms of our ability to respond. in terms of some of the legal challenges i will let the commissioner talk about that. >> sure. i really appreciate the question. this is very sensitive.

incredibly important and we work hard to get it right. on the one hand, public safety is paramount and not allowing criminal conduct to go on is central to what we do every day. we also are committed to making sure people can exercise their first amendment rights. determining when something goes from protected speech to unprotected speech can be very context specific, can require a lot of nuance, and you are right, we have to make calls on a daily basis. we are making judgment calls. we're doing it to the best of our ability. and the stakes are high, no question about that. >> right now there are tents set up again on the campus. is there -- what preparation

does the nypd have for that to be a repeat of last week? >> i'm the commissioner. the one thing i will remind you of even on the first day we were asked to be on campus if you saw how we conducted ourselves that day it was remarkable. it was done with very minimal contact. and most people who observed that complicated the nypd. >> so let me clear up one point. when it comes to the university's internal rules about tents and how and when students can gather, those are university rules, right? we are not the enforcers of those rules. when we went in -- >> harris: we'll split screen with that for a second and want to bring back andrew cherkasky. i wanted to talk to you about this. i thought it would be later this week. this happened now, andrew.

i have to ask so we've heard several times now that the university of columbia has to make decisions about who they want on their campus, about the tents, that's what they are talking about now. whatever internal rules are about the tents. police can only step in when there is a crime being made. my question to you, andrew, is when do words become dangerous or a crime? people wanting to extinguish other people, death to jews, death to -- when do those words constitute a crime? >> i know how important the first amendment is to you and how important the first amendment is to all americans. but the idea of the first amendment is not limitless. when it amounts to threats. when it amounts to intimidation, it can be -- it reaches its limits. more than that, though, when you look at columbia it is a private university. you have civil laws like trespassing and certain laws that limit the time and place of

where certain speech zones can occur so safety can be guaranteed to the public. so when you have setups like this where you have tent cities. i don't want to point out. i notice a lot of those tents all look the same. it seems like they all went out shopping together. so when you get a group of people together and they trespass together, that is a conspiracy to do that. an overall increases the nature of the potential criminal acts here. columbia university has to be particularly focused on what they are allowing on their campuses. not only can they ask the nypd to come in in order to remove trespassers, but they have an obligation under civil law to the students on campus to insure their safety. we heard people talking about dangerous situations that jewish students have been put into. it does not seem like a safe or

peaceful protest and that is something that the first amendment doesn't protect. >> harris: wow. when you just said that i couldn't believe it. conspiracy to commit crimes as you look at that scene, you see not just the familiarity or similarity but there is more than that. it is the consistency of resources on that screen. those tents being so much alike. we tend to see it with the signage and chanting. groups of people now are becoming very similar. quickly, why does that lead you to think that's a propensity for more crime to be committed? >> my issue is not with the idea of the free speech. it is the people who violate that and who cross the line and engage in threatening or violent actions pushing people around. so if you are part of a group that congregates and then one person in that group starts to engage in that behavior, that

group can all be potentially liable to that. i have deep concerns about what is going on on the upper west side. i've heard time and time again jewish students being intimidated and essentially pushed around. it is just something the first amendment does not protect. >> harris: we are talking to many of those people here and we are in the center of the cities. you are closer to where some of the action is. we'll watch all of it. i appreciate your legal expertise and your time today, andrew, always, thank you. critics are going after president biden's newly released title ix rules taking effect in august. and will roll back several trump administration policies on sexual misconduct in schools and on college campuses. the new rules expand protections to pregnant, gay and transgender students. they also broaden the definition for sexual harassment. but they leave out the issue of transgender athletes and girls in women's sports. that leaves former ncaa swimmer

riley gaines in disbelief. >> the most as nine i would say the most anti-woman, anti-reality pursuit we've seen from this administration this far. ist abolishs women's sports and allow men in women's locker rooms and changing spaces. it isn't a battle of red versus blue. what this is sane versus insane. >> harris: former education secretary betsy devos says the rewrite of title ix guts the protections for women and this regulation is an assault on women and girls. pete hegseth, "fox & friends" weekend co-host author of the book a war on warriors available for pre-sale now. welcome, pete. your top line thoughts. >> my top line thoughts are while they didn't list transgender, it is not in the document, that's what this is all about and they did it without having to name it with

one simple change that happened in our society over decades and especially in the last few years by the left. they removed the term biological sex and replaced it with gender identity. title ix used to be about biological sex making sure women and girls had equal access to sports opportunity and every opportunity. now by redefining that very important word it means men have access to the that, too. it does set up clashes, men who identify as women. no rationale to prevent them from participating in these sports or being in these locker rooms. it will set up a flash in states that have drawn sane lines what is permissible or not. it is a federal mandate or decision. so riley gaines is correct. the other bullet point was sexual harassment. in college campuses it has gotten to the point where you are guilty when accused if you

are believing all women or believing everybody at a certain perspective. you will create a lot of additional accusations being made with much of an opportunity for students to defend themselves, which students should always have a right to be heard both sides accuse ant counter accuser. >> harris: the one thing that pops in my mind is that now they'll share spaces. men and women are different. i don't know many young girls, especially under the age of 15 or 16, who are involved in sports who really want to be in a locker room with boys. there is a whole lot of things going on with both of those genders. and if it was meant to protect women, putting them in a situation where they might not be protected physically is challenging. it is a bad idea. what do you think? >> so dangerous, harris. i have daughters. i can't conceive of feeling comfortable sending them to a place where their locker room is

full of men who are at best confused or at worst have bad intentions are sharing that locker room with them in the most intimate of places. this is going to create dangerous precedents, dangerous situations that are entirely unnecessary if we just rejected the craziness of the last 15 minutes recognize biological sex and stood by that. this is what the biden administration will do in the last few months of its administration. hyper drive on the priorities of the far left. a new administration will have to reverse it to put us back on a sane track. >> harris: the hyper drive is being done in different ways. they want to flex also by paying off student loans when much of the country didn't accumulate those loans. so it is all a grab for a younger voter, it would seem, by biden. >> for sure. and many of which -- much of which won't in the future be ruled to be constitutional. but it doesn't matter, harris.

if they are able to make promises about student loans now and forgive debt now even if it's unconstitutional they believe it has the elector y'all impact. a lot of young people see this and not voting based on a perceived giveaway in an election year. they want economic prospects in the future and safe streets and looking somewhere else. >> harris: they want opportunity. pete hegseth, grace to have you on the program. thank you very much. ♪ >> harris: i mean, a gospel star singer like never before man dees yeah confirming that singer passed away late last week. got her start on season five of "american idol."enter i was a huge fan. you will always be missed. your voice remains mighty. "outnumbered" next. "outnumbered" next. yeah, most scented stuff gives me a headache,

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