'The Story with Martha MacCallum' panelists react to President Biden's handling of nationwide anti-Israel protests rocking college campuses.
May 01, 2024

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'The Story with Martha MacCallum' panelists react to President Biden's handling of nationwide anti-Israel protests rocking college campuses.

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Rich Lowry said that more universities need to arrest students over militant anti-Israel protests, and if anyone other than a Columbia University student protest leader whose anti-Israel meeting with officials from January went viral this week had been “a white supremacist saying, ‘I want to kill Zionists’”, he’d be “gone the next day.” He also said that House Speaker Mike Johnson hasn’t gotten enough credit for getting the foreign aid package passed this week, and Biden’s “lapdog” interview with Howard Stern last Friday was “friendlier than an interview he could have gotten anywhere else.”


Shelby Talcott said that anti-Israel college protests are “ruining a lot of college experiences” for Jewish students, but the Biden camp insists that “the media is blowing this up into a bigger deal than it actually is.” She also said that Biden’s recent gaffe reading ‘pause’ off a teleprompter “just underscores how big” of an issue age is in the 2024 presidential election.


Robby Soave said the media are praising former publisher of the National Enquirer David Pecker’s testimony against Donald Trump in his hush money trial because “anyone is a hero” to the media who is “providing any sort of information that in any way looks unfavorable” to the former president and the trial “infuriates so many conservatives in this country.” He also said that Trump “has a First Amendment right” to “discuss the case broadly” despite Manhattan prosecutors arguing that Trump should be fined for continuously violating his hush money trial gag order.


Leslie Marshall said that “it really irritates” her when some conservatives assert that “we Democrats have so much control over the criminal justice system” and connect Trump’s legal woes in blue districts to political persecution. She also said “there is a line in the sand” that Trump keeps crossing with his hush money trial gag order.


Andy McCarthy said that the Supreme Court’s oral argument on Trump’s absolute presidential immunity claim “was one of the court’s finest hours because … the judges were concerned about … the future of the presidency” and not about Trump. He also said that Trump’s lawyer in his New York hush money case is “in a hard spot because of a lot of rulings that the court has made.”