representative, property owner, anybody authorized to be on the premises such as a tenant and that squatters have no rights under new york city state housing law. they don't secure any rights after 30 days or after 180 days or after any time. they are simply intruders and they are subject to arrest. >> carley: fantastic that you have taken leadership on this issue. and this is really bipartisan. it has to be for something like this to get signed into law. you worked across the aisle on this as well. >> yes. absolutely. the laws that are against squatters and protect homeowners are issues that spant gamut on both sides of the aisle. >> carley: there are bipartisan issues. >> home ownership is the american dream. >> carley: it certainly is. state senator john lou, thank you for joining us. >> we don't at this point in time to become a nightmare. >> carley: amen. "fox & friends" starts right

now. >> lawrence: buckle up, 6:00 a.m. on the east coast and friday april the 26th. and this is "fox & friends." we start with a fox news alert. secretary blinken is set to speak in moments after meeting with the chinese president in beijing. what came out of their meeting? we're going to have that, live. >> plus to another alert. trump continuing examination of national inquirer publisher david pecker. andy mccarthy standing by with his analysis there he is. >> brian: president biden is in the big city that's the nickname. is cl columbia university on the schedule? do you think he will go by like the speaker did? we didn't see it. >> lawrence: "fox & friends" begins right now and remember mornings are better with friends. >> ainsley: this is a fox news alert. we are following several big stories this morning. we are awaiting remarks from secretary of state blinken in beijing, fresh off his meeting with the chinese president xi.

we are monitoring it and bring all of that to you live. >> brian: plus, more anti-israel protests expected today as president biden makes a stop in new york city. >> lawrence: down the road president trump's new york criminal trial resumes just hours from now. trump's defense team will continue cross-examination of david pecker. >> c.b. cotton joins us live coming up and eric shawn is live from the new york supreme court. eric, good morning. >> eric: good morning, guys from new york state supreme court where the defense will continue to resume its cross-examination this morning of david pecker. it turns out that the former national inquirer tabloid publisher said he cut a lot of so-called catch and kill deals with a lot of famous people through the years. not just former president trump. the definition will continue in about two and a half hours or so

with president trump's lawyer cross-examining pecker trying to bring out the weaknesses in this case against the former president. pecker, still considers himself a friend of former president trump's. he testified yesterday about the catch and kill deal to protect the president when he was running back in 2016. he called trump his mentor who offered help when an inquirer photo editor died anthrax letter mailed to the company headquarters in 2019. >> today was breathtaking what went on in this room it was breathtaking. and amazing testimony this is a trial that should have never happened. >> this is a case that should have never been filed. it was really incredible. an incredible guy day. open your eyes. >> pecker detailed the negotiations three years earlier back in the heat of 2016 presidential race.

do to buy playmate karen macdougall story that she had a 10 month affair with trump. and revealed he and trump swapped favors for years that could hurt trump long before he ran for president and did he that with other politicians, too. pecker said he bought stories to kill damaging stories about arnold schwarzenegger, tiger woods and quashed an affair that rahm emanuel had. prosecutors tried show there was a conspiracy between pecker, michael cohen, trump's fixers and the former president to silence macdougall for political reasons, not out of embarrassment over the alleged affair. and as a way of thanking him for handling karen macdougall, trump invited pecker and several infirer editors to the white house for dinner at a point during those meetings at the white house he said that the president then asked how our girl, karen macdougall was doing in reference, he thought, to the deal when they had made.

is it also turns out he was able to squash a story or tried to about marla maple's the former president's second wife as far as back 1988. none of this according to pecker was new at all. as to president biden he was watched whether he was watching the trial he said no, he is too busy campaigning. so the cross-examination will continue today about three and a half hours from now. back to you in the studio. >> brian: bring in andy mccarthy former federal prosecutor and former assistant u.s. attorney and fox news contributor. >> good morning. >> ainsley: good morning. >> brian: andy, the president seemed really upbeat about what took place in the courtroom. did he have a reason to be? and what is the greatest area of concern for the defense team? >> well, i think he did have reason to be because prosecutors generally want to start very strong. and the witness that bragg seems to have put on david pecker, a

long-time friend of president trump who clearly was not hostile to president trump given the trump's team understanding of the case what they realize while there seems to be a lot of evidence offered, it's evidence of conduct that's actually legal. so he can't have thought that that was a bad day for him. orthopedic, you asked me what is the biggest defense fear. it's one thing to be watching the trial through the media, if you are watching it on our channel, you hear me. you hear carry do you peck and jonathan turley talk about the witnesses of the case the jury is not getting that filter. the jury is getting the district attorney's version of events and taking its cues from a judge who has been very friendly to the district attorney if you are

watching with they are not proving legal conspiracy and don't have campaign finance. i don't know that the jury knows that. >> andy, i was stunned when i looked at the testimony and the cross that was happening and typically, lawyers -- especially the prosecutor's office, they go through the testimony but it seems like they weren't prepared for pecker to say that he has done this for other clients. you know, they kind of make this case as if it's unprecedented that donald trump is the only one that did something like this were you surprised by that? experienced trial lawyers whether they are prosecutors or litigators who work the other side, you have to e when you are putting an important witness on, as they say in the biz. draw the sting of any bad testimony. you don't want to have the you

draw the story out of the witnessed a you turn them over for cross-examination and then the jury starts to hear the bad stuff. they think you are trying to hide the ball. ordinarily prosecutors make a point of eliciting from their witnesses all of their prior bad conduct or any of their credibility problems so at least the jury thinks you are playing straight with the jury. i think here they may have been a little bit surprised by some of what they heard. >> carley: andy, you said so far you don't feel like they're proving or doing a good job proving there was a conspiracy. you are not sure how the jury will feel but the jury has two lawyers. do you think that they're thinking the same way you are? >> it's hard to say, unless you know the lawyers, ainsley. you know, the only way they would have gotten on the jury is if they satisfied the parties that they can decide the case based solely on the evidence that they hear in the courtroom and, this is important, the judge's instructions that the judge will give the jury at the

end of the trial which will be critical. so, again, one of the things i would be very concerned about as the trump team is so far judge merchan has gone down the line on almost every important issue ruling in bragg's favor. and i would expect that the jury instructions that he gives at the end of the case will be favorable to the prosecution. >> guy: andy, last question on this trial, we saw the clip there from the former president emerging from the courtroom yesterday. he said this is a case that should have never been filed. and viewers might say well, of course he would say that. he's donald trump, he is the one on trial. but i think it's worth pointing out, if i'm not mistaken, the feds looked at these exact same facts and decided not to pursue a case against trump. and the predecessor to alvin bragg did the same in new york city and came 2024 same conclusion. there are some people in important shoes who actually agree with the former president on this key legal point. right? >> yeah. that's exactly right. this case started in my old office, the u.s. attorney's office for the southern district

of new york. they looked at it, decided not to bring it. cy vance who as you mentioned is bragg's pred said sore looked at it and decided not bring it. bragg himself shut it down in 2022 before reviving it. one other thing that i think is very important here that's being missed the federal election commission have exclusive authority in the united states to enforce federal campaign finance law. did this was any other state or municipal prosecutor in the united states, trying to enforce federal law, they would be papering the state courts and the federal courts with all kinds of motions to try to prevent the district attorney from usurping federal power. that's not being done here because it's bragg and it's trump. >> brian: for us nonlawyers, i found that the arguments fascinating yesterday at the supreme court. as we try to find out what level of immunity any president has,

not just this one, not just this case. it's kind of high level debate. in the end, i don't know how many people were converted, andy, but what did you pull out of that -- of some of the exchanges with all the supreme court justices and both sides that you think is going to figure in the decision? >> brian, i think the most important concession was by michael dreeben who was the lawyer for jack smith and for the biden justice department who basically conceded that there is presidential immunity from prosecution. now, he doesn't allow that it's as robust as president trump argues. but he certainly made a concession to the court that there is an am bit of executive authority that congress can't criminalize once you make a decision that there is presidential immunity, then the question becomes what acts does it cover? so i think by the end of the

argument, it became at least to my mind much more likely that the court may resolve this by sending the case back to trial judge in washington with instructions to go through the indictment and sort out what is an official act of the presidency what is a private act that isn't covered by immunity. if that's what the court does, i don't see how this case gets to trial prior to election day. >> ainsley: what happens if this does. smith's way on almost everything. you know, ainsley, judges behave better when they know someone is checking their work. so, this is an immunity issue. it's going to be reviewed by the d.c. circuit. and it will ultimately, because it can be appealed pre-trial, it could go right back to the supreme court. when you know someone is going to be scrutinizing your work, you tend to do a better job. >> brian: okay. we're going to get it one way or another going to get something by june?

>> oh, yeah. i think for sure the court will decide this part of it. i think if they decide to send it back to judge chutkan that may happen even faster than june. >> brian: why would it take judge chutkan a long time to separate the case? >> because it's not always easy, brian, to say something is an official act or an unofficial act. like, say, if a president is giving a campaign speech, that seems to be an unofficial act, right? but, in the middle of the speech and he says and that's why i'm removing the secretary of state and appointing a new one. then it becomes an official act, right? because that's a presidential act. so, she may have to have hearings on all the different allegations in the indictment and hear evidence from both sides about why they say it's an official vs. a nonofficial act that could take a lot of sorting out and then it gets appealed. >> lawrence: seems like it's going to be difficult instead of

giving blanket immunity if you bring it down to what is official and what is nonofficial? and then all of the president's actions is constantly going to be going back to the court. if we politicize the court in this way, right? >> yeah. but i think, lawrence, you know, the problem there is it's not a legal problem. that's a really sort of cultural and political problem. i mean, we went almost a quarter of a millennium without this happening. president trump constantly says the president has to have immunity, well, we went 220-something years without a court having to have to say that because it was obvious enough to everybody who operated in the system that you can't have a president making important decisions worrying about whether his successor is going to use the justice department against him. that's a brand new brand of poisonous politics that's really modern. so i'm not so sure it's a legal problem as it's a political problem and a cultural problem in this country that people think that's okay to do with

your government authority. >> brian: great in the evenings for the "primetime" shows and morning shows what can't andy mccarthy do? >> thanks, guys. >> lawrence: to another fox news alert. university of southern california canceling main commencement ceremony over the israeli encampments all over campus. >> brian: with the new safety measures, i'm going to use my voice. new safety in place this year, the time needed to process the large number of guests coming to campus will increase substantially. we will not be able to to host the main stage ceremony brings 65,000 students and families to our campus all at the same time. >> guy: most of these graduates, you will remember, also missed out on their high school graduations because of the covid-19 pandemic. >> ainsley: more than 700 people have been arrested on college campuses across our country, this week alone. so i wonder if other universities will follow suit.

>> brian: i think columbia is going to have to do the same thing. they don't have a way to get the people off the campus and out of their pup tents. what are you going to do? you can't control the streets now. can you imagine the opportunity that these pro-hamas, palestinian protesters will have as everyone comes to campus along with the cameras? >> ainsley: did you all read about these pamphlets being handed out on clumsy university campus. first we take columbia. these are pro-palestinian activists that are using this occupation guide book to overturn schools. >> lawrence: don't you think we are letting them win? why can't they just arrest the people that are causing disruption? these are the same kids that were locked down during the pandemic. now they not going to get to graduate across the state because of covid shutdowns. now in '24 they are not going to be able to celebrate their graduation from college as well? i think this is so unfair. and we are giving in to the people that are pro-hamas. everybody else has to alter their life and their safety because of them.

because the administration fails to bring in the police to enforce the law. >> guy: it's hard to imagine usc bungling this any worse than they have. there was the controversy over the valedictorian and then they honored and then she is pro-palestinian or sympathetic arguably to hamas. so then they rescinded that opportunity which made her a martyr on campus and massive new protests. now with all the unrest, the administration steps back and says okay, we can't even get control of our campuses. 65,000 people are coming. that's fewer people than often show up for their football game. like do your job and put on a commencement. >> ainsley: right. by the way, this is usc out in california. this is not south carolina. let's be clear on that. if you look at the states, they are vastly different. look what is happening in your state, lawrence, down in texas. governor is saying absolutely not no. anti-semitism on any of these campuses or in our town squares. look at georgia, emory college, they shut that down so quickly. governor kemp, no way. this isn't happening. kathy hochul, she put on x, she

has met with the columbia president. so i will give her that she did put on x beautiful day in the neighborhood as she took a stroll through central park eating a soft pretzel and taking selfies next to the blooming trees. jack chair of on anti-semitism and is he furious with her about this. said she is more interested in a photo op. the kids are being told they can't go to school. they should stay home. campus is shut down for remote learning and she is walking through central park having a soft pretzel. she is clueless and this can't be ignored. >> brian: everyone knows new york brett zels are not soft get stale immediately. >> ainsley: depends on the cart. >> brian: when you are protesting and your cause is being -- salutations from the palestinianen i can'ts, hamas, and the iranian government, here's the palestinians thank u.s. students for their support. i salute them and american universities who are protect -- who are protesting against netanyahu and the government and the american government. that's the kind i admire them for that i'm calling or the

world students to rise up against their government. a governor shapiro of pennsylvania came out and said i don't even think these students know what they're doing. is he obviously jewish and democratic governor in a battleground state. he is having problems on his campus and guess where else there were riots yesterday, fid, nyu, columbia and the new school. >> ainsley: all here in new york. >> lawrence: we have a fox news alert now. secretary of state blinken now making remarks from beijing after meeting with chinese president xi. let's listen. in. >> candid and constructive conversations i had then with president xi and other senior officials. i made clear our policies and intentions. and identified issues of shared interest where we might work together. those discussions, which were followed by additional senior level visits and meetings between our governments helped layed foundation for productive summit between president biden and presidents xi in san francisco at the end of last

year. our leaders agreed on concrete steps to cooperate on issues that matter to our people. and matter to the world. and reduce the risk of misunderstanding and miscalculation. in the months since then, we focused intensively on advancing those commitments. i return to china this tweak take stock of where we have made progress and where more needs to be done. so that we can deliver tangible results to the american people. that's been the focus of my meetings over the last two days with president xi, with director and foreign minister wii. with the minister of public security and the shanghai party secretary chen jeanine. since the woodside summit, we have advanced our cooperation on fentanyl and other synthetic drugs. the number one killer of americans between the ages of 18 and 45. specifically, the prc has issued a public notice to industry, it's taken enforcement action against some companies that

produce precursors, those are the chemical ingredients that make up synthetic drugs, and the u.s. and china have set up a joint counter narcotics working group to collaborate on policy-making and on law enforcement and shared technical expertise. thanks in large part to the working group's efforts, china is providing information to international law enforcement that can be used to track and intercept elicit drugs and precursors and two governments agreed to sharing best practices to closing loopholes that the drug traffickers and other criminal enterprises use to launder money. so this is important progress but more needs to be done. in my discussions, i underscore the importance of the prc taking additional action, in particular by prosecuting those who are selling chemicals and equipment used to make fentanyl, meeting its international commitments to regulate all of the precursors that are controlled by the u.n. commission on narcotic drugs and

disrupting illicit financing networks. since the woodside meeting between the presidents, we have also resumed direct military-to-military communications, at multiple levels, something that i made a top priority for my meetings in beijing last year. u.s. and prc defense officials met for two days at the pentagon in january. earlier this month our two countries air and naval forces held talks aimed at ensuring safer interactions. last week secretary austin first call with minister of defense. direct, open, clear lines of communication like these are critical to avoiding miscalculations. i'm please pleased to announce that earlier today we agreed to hold the first us-prc talks on artificial intelligence to be held in the coming weeks. we'll share our peppive views on the risks and safety against ai and how best to manage them. we also spoke about ways that we continue to grow people-to-people ties between our countries.

particularly educational exchanges. our governments have a vested interest in creating own and welcoming conditions for these programs, which have long enriched both of our countries. do you know i had a chance to meet yesterday with a few dozen american and chinese students who are learning side by side at the nyu shanghai high program and as well as other other joint prc university programs in china. i heard how the experiences deepened their knowledge inside and outside the classroom and forged ties that will last well beyond their shared educational experience. while there are more than 290,000 chinese students in the united states, there are fewer than 900 americans studying here in china. that's a significant drop from a decade ago when we had about 15,000 americans studying here. president xi said that he wants to significantly increase the number of americans studying here in the coming years. that's something we support. we have an interest in this. because if our future leaders, whether it's in government, whether it's in business, civil

society, climate, tech, and other fields, if they're going to be able to collaborate. if they are going to be able to solve big problems. if they are going to be able to work through our differences, they will need to know and understand each other, language, culture, history. what i told my prc counterparts on this visit is if they want to attract for americans here to china, particularly students, the best way to do that is to create the conditions. that allow learning to flourish anywhere. a free and open discussion of ideas. access to a wide range of information. ease of travel. confidence in the safety, security, and privacy of the participants. now, even as we seek to deepen cooperation, where our interests align, the united states is very clear-eyed about the challenges posed by the prc and about our competing visions for the future. america will always defend our core interests and values. in my discussions today, i

reiterated our serious concern about the prc providing components that are powering russia's brutal war of aggression against ukraine. china is the top supplier of machine tools, microelectronics, nitro sell you los which is critical to making munition and rocket propellants and other dual use items that israel is using to ramp up its defense industrial base. a churning out rockets, drones, tanks and other weapons that president putin is using to invade a sovereign country to demolish his power grid and other civilian infrastructure to kill innocent children, women, and men. russia would struggle to sustain its assault on ukraine without china's support. in my meetings with nato allies earlier this month and g-7 partners last week i heard that same message. futile rubio's defense base not only threatens ukrainian security. european security.

russia cannot maintain better regions with europe while posing the greatest threat to security since the end of the cold war. as we told china for some time. ensuring trans atlantic security is a core u.s. interest in our discussions today, i made clear that if china does not address this problem, we will. i also expressed our concern about the post prcand possibler global and u.s. markets. especially in a number of key industries that will drive the 21st century economy. like solar panels. electric vehicles. and the batteries that power them. china alone is producing more than 100 percent of global demand for these products. flooding markets, undermining competition, putting at risk livelihoods and businesses around the world. >> ainsley: so you are watching tony blinken, is he there in china. it's a three-day visit to china. he met with the president of

china. >> this is the second time they have met in less than a year. is he over there, basically, to stabilize the relationship between america and china, talking about ai. that was interesting news. because now they're agreeing in the coming weeks to talk together as two countries about the growing threats of a.i. talked about the -- they did talk about the aggression in the south china sea. he hasn't gotten to that yet. trade and economic practices and then counter narcotics that we heard. that relationship with russia has with china he is saying you cannot expect to have good relationship with america or with europe when you are funding or helping russia and you are their biggest contributor. >> brian: we told him not to. we said, whatever you do don't supply russia with any weapons. >> ainsley: they are. >> brian: they said okay they are. using components with their duel use. this is for a refrigerator and also for a tank. able to do that and build up their industrial base. that's not stopping. that, to me, is probably a nonstarter with the foreign

minister as well as president xi. they keep on citing every three months how close they are together. the foreign minister in the "new york times" came out and said there is a lot of negative factors with our relationship. he didn't bring this up but he says they are increasing and they are building. he says the u.s. is going out of their way with an endless stream of measures to suppress china. and what about the students we have 90 and they have 290,000 here? are we kidding? we are training our adversary to defeat us in our own country. >> lawrence: he bricks up this fentanyl working group. you chuckled as well, brian, as if they have a problem with it in china. they sell it to us, they get it across our border. but it's not like china has some issue guy they don't have a fentanyl problem. >> lawrence: they block it. i understand the working group if we both share this concern and we're trying to tackle with both of our young people. but that's not the case. you would think that he would address china, why are you sending it across the border to

our people instead of pretending like they don't know the solution to this? >> guy: they're poisoning our people on purpose. if you read the recent report from the house select committee on countering china. they lay out the evidence against the ccp in excruciating detail. and you hear about this working group. and it's hard not to roll your eyes a little bit because it feels so naive. so does the a.i. collaboration. that sounds nice. but i think most americans understand chinese are absolutely going to use ai against us. there's not going to be good cooperation or healthy collaboration there. >> brian: why do we have 24,000 chinese people with roller bags walking across the southern border looking like they just left the gq shoot? they don't look oppressed. are they here to spy? are they here to act? are they here -- they found a way to get out of communist china? >> ainsley: you had that. covid, fentanyl now coming from china. and tiktok. infiltrating our children. and you said the other day there's like one pro-israel

video for every 50? >> brian: yeah, 50 to 70. >> ainsley: palestinian videos on tiktok. who is controlling that? is it china? >> brian: yes. >> ainsley: turning to headlines starting with fox news alert. congressman adam schiff getting a taste of san francisco's crime crisis. thieves reportedly stealing luggage from his car that was sitting in a parking garage. this caused the democrat to give a speech at an upscale dinner party in short sleeves and a hiking vest while everyone. >> brian: ha harks unbelievable. >> ainsley: everyone wearing suits and formal attire. i guess it was stolen before the event. couldn't go to buy a new suit. turning now to your headlines starting with the crisis at our southern border now. border patrol gearing up for a new migrant surge as hundreds of people packed train cars in mexico that are heading to el paso in eagle pass. migrants have reportedly been seen hopping on trains heading toward the border for days now. cbp says it is ready for latest influx. >> brian: great.

>> ainsley: shocking video out of oklahoma city. a bus driver loses control and hits a building as is he pummeled by out-of-control pass jeweler. the bus driver was attacked after denying the man's request to make an early stop. the suspect is facing charges. >> lawrence: unbelievable. >> ainsley: the bus driver is expected to be okay. coast guard and hundreds of first responders helping to put out this massive fire at the very end of this historic pier in san diego county. flames tearing through the vacant restaurant. a fish shack yesterday afternoon, the massive smoke cloud could be seen as far as away as 20 miles. there is no official word of any injuries or what might have started that fire. lots of smoke. my word. and, it's autism awareness month. former nfl player jason kelce is doing his part. jason coming up next is going out bartending for a third year in a row for the eagles. bartending, that's helping autism. >> brian: get your tips and put

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>> ainsley: today pro-israel counter protests are expected to emerge in new york city. this as columbia university continues talks with pro-hamas protesters with demonstrations raging through the night. cb cotton is live at columbia university. has been there all week for us. good morning, cb, what's the latest this morning? >> hi, good morning, ainsley. that's right. in about three hours there is going to be a demonstration here to remind the entire columbia university community that there are still hostages remaining in gaza. ainsley, jewish students have been telling us it feels like their peers have forgotten and no one wants to stand in solidarity with israel. and in the meantime let's roll the tape, columbia university says there are still ongoing discussions with these pro-palestinian student demonstrators who camped out on a campus lawn for more than a week now. and this comes as the clock winds down to commencement. there is only about two weeks left. but these protesters say they are not leaving until their demands are met. meanwhile, minnesota congresswoman ilhan omar joined the student protesters with her

daughter on saturday. and last night, a crowd of pro-israel supporters and christians held a rally to counter the ongoing pro-palestinian student demonstrators and the ongoing anti-semitism that jewish students say they are facing and house republicans are now demanding major donors pull funding from columbia university over the anti-semitism that, again, jewish students say is happening on a day in and day out basis. back to you. >> ainsley: thank you so much, cb. let's bring in a columbia university graduate student a research assistant, organizer of today's bring the hostages home event on campus. has family members who were hostages. some of them were killed. some of them were released. so, thank you so much. emir, for joining us this morning. >> thank you for having me. good morning. >> ainsley: good morning. this is very personal to you. you watched the videos of what was happening to your country, to israel on october 7th. some of them were your family members. two were murdered. four were kidnapped. those four thankfully after 51

days were brought back home. and now you're here on the columbia campus getting a degree and working there you are seeing people protesting against israel. how are you feeling? >> well, you know, for me, like you said, it's really personal. it's alarming. and when someone like me who grew up there and paid a price of terror, you know, personally, when people are walking around the neighborhood, holding sign of mass murderers and glorifying their acts and calling globalizing intifada i know what it means. i live here. columbia urban campus. my son's day care is next by. this is where we live. last week it's been a nightmare. >> ainsley: so sorry for everything that you have gone through. a third of those murdered were at a music festival on october 7th. do you feel like we have forgotten. there are still hostages being held.

>> i feel the whole discourse and public discussion about the war was hijacked by extremists and we don't hear anything more about the hostages as if they forgotten as if we still don't have 133 hostages from 1-year-old baby, to 85-year-old men to young women who suffers from sexual abuse this is the wall we put in columbia we want to remind the world, ourself and everybody that every solution and every progress in the area and, believe me, as someone who is from there, there is no one who wish to a safer and secure region more than we are. but, every solution goes through the hostages first. woe want people to talk about them. we want people to see their names, their faces. and acted on their behalf. >> ainsley: omer, how do you

feel when you see rally don't know what river and sea yet at these rallies that are anti-semitic or how do you feel when they say this never happened in israel? it's really hard to confront that level of ignorance. i'm really sad and shocked that people who i hope that they are not columbia students because supposed to be some level of knowledge i don't have words for people who say such things. can you deny what happened. you can't deny people suffered. can't deny that our friends and family are still fighting to bring, you know, though end this war. to fighting against the terror organization. they are fighting to bring the hostages. it's really concerning. >> ainsley: so, yesterday, sean feucht, who is an evangelist,

christian evangelist and also a music minister and goes around to different campuses and is supporting israel and paired up the with the jewish students students on your columbus on columbia. i'm sure that brings you joy when you see people who are supporting you. then i was watching sean hannityens show last night and had all of these individuals that were holding up the star of david and your flag and were in support and just asking sean to please continue these stories and remember the hostages. what message do you have to america? what would you like us to know? i think after we put the poster, the hostages on the wall, a lot of students and professors came and they feel like someone sees them now because in the last week, people feel that their identity is under attack. people feel that no one listen to them. and when we see such things, such act of support and this is why we were rallying today, i think it makes people feel more safe. i think it makes people feel that their voices is heard.

and we want to. we want to bring our voices also to the discussion. we want to see if we can build a constructive dialogue between the sides. we want to try to push for a deal to see the hostages getting back home. and this is my only message. i'm not doing counter process. i'm not doing anti-process. all i do is for. okay? we're fork working for the hostages. working for the israeli and jewish community. i'm not anti-anyone. this is not my language. this is not what we do. we want just people to respect to feel secure and this is what we de. >> ainsley: omer, please don't lose faith or hope. keep fighting. y'all have just persevered and been persecuted for hundreds, hundreds, thousands of year. you are all resilient. god is with israel and that will never change. god bless you. >> thank you. thank you so much. >> ainsley: you are welcome. we will be watching for that pro-israeli rally today.

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