WEBVTT 1 00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:28.039 Jf IM six. Okay here, we're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app Breaking 2 00:00:28.160 --> 00:00:34.719 news. NYPD has entered the campus at Columbia. Students earlier today had taken 3 00:00:34.799 --> 00:00:40.320 over the Hamilton Building and barricaded themselves inside, at least on the ground floor. 4 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:47.039 NYPD took a ladder seemed like on a fire truck to enter in on 5 00:00:47.159 --> 00:00:51.840 the second floor of the Hamilton building and I was taking This audio is from 6 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:56.560 just minutes ago. There's gonna be a sampling of audio of the three major 7 00:00:56.640 --> 00:01:00.759 cable channels, so you'll see a difference in coverage. First, we'll start 8 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:04.079 with MSNBC, which sets it up as far as the moment that law enforcement 9 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:10.760 entered the building, and the NYPD had drone operators here who flew drones overhead 10 00:01:10.799 --> 00:01:14.400 to sort of monitor for quite a while before this all began. But now 11 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:18.280 they're clearly going trying to make an entrance through that window right there at the 12 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:23.680 corner of one sixteenth and Amsterdam. Just for context, encampments at the University 13 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:27.599 of Connecticut Yale and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill were cleared out. 14 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:34.599 About four dozen encampments on college campuses remain across the country, but the sort 15 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:40.439 of the initial one, the first one, and the one where the situation 16 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:42.920 is clearly the most tense and has escalated to the highest degree is here in 17 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:52.519 New York City, at Columbia University uptown in Manhattan, Antonia. I don't 18 00:01:52.519 --> 00:01:55.359 know if you can make this out, but are they trying to speak with 19 00:01:55.799 --> 00:02:00.640 the protesters who've locked themselves inside? Is that what's happening. We can't he 20 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:05.200 certainly can't hear the officers who are right by that window, but it does 21 00:02:05.239 --> 00:02:07.439 not look like there is dialogue. I can't actually see another person on the 22 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:10.479 other end of the window, but that's because there is a shade that has 23 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:15.199 been blocking any visibility into the building all day. So that's some of the 24 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:21.039 instability the concern here is one thing we do know that happened when they entered 25 00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:24.280 last night around twelve thirty am. The first thing protesters did was wrapped trash 26 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:31.039 bags around security cameras, and so they may be walking into an unknown whenever 27 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:35.639 the officers open that window or breach one of the doors. Okay, we 28 00:02:35.719 --> 00:02:39.120 hear some noises. It sounds like they're oh, an officer is going through 29 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:44.159 the window. The first officer has entered the window. People are screaming on 30 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:51.960 the street in response. Okay, here they go. So what we're witnessing 31 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:57.919 is NYPDA officers in full riot gear entering Hamilton Hall on Columbia Universe's campus in 32 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:00.919 New York City. That think correct, It was not riot gear. They 33 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:05.680 had riot helmets and that was it. But that's some of MSNBC's coverage. 34 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:09.240 Let's go to Fox News and this is Senator Ted Cruz who was on I 35 00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:15.919 Guess giving commentary with Sean Hannity, paying roughly eight thousand dollars for student organizers 36 00:03:15.960 --> 00:03:21.919 and activists. That's for about eight hours a week to cause this kind of 37 00:03:21.960 --> 00:03:25.919 dissent. This is money, in massive quantities that are being spent by the 38 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:30.919 radical left to undermine and tear down America. And what we need, Sean, 39 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:36.680 we need leaders in the university administrators to say if you do this, 40 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:39.719 you are expelled. If you're a student, game over, it's done. 41 00:03:39.879 --> 00:03:46.000 We need democrats. Why is Joe Biden terrified of these radicals? You know, 42 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:51.159 just a few days ago, Joe Biden stood next to AOC while AOC 43 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:55.400 saluted the protesters at Columbia NYU, and he stood there with a goofy Grid. 44 00:03:55.479 --> 00:04:00.280 It's not just the squad, it is the so called main se stream 45 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:03.360 of the Democrat Party. And it's because they're terrified of the radicals of their 46 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:10.360 own base that are anti Semites and sadly are leftists who hate America. You 47 00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:14.000 know, it really is an amazing and all these cops are risking their lives 48 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:18.000 tonight. They have no ideas. They climb into Hamilton Hall one by one 49 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:20.959 tonight, they have no idea what is on the other side there. Those 50 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:27.920 were no idea heroes. Yeah, Senator Cruz, who really appreciate you staying 51 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:30.399 with us late tonight. Thank you. On this freaky news night that was 52 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:35.639 Ted Cruz and Sean Hannity on Fox News. We played MSNBC's coverage and here 53 00:04:35.759 --> 00:04:42.040 is CNN's all. This is simultaneous one hundred and fourteenth Street and putting them 54 00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:46.360 on these buses that they've brought in to here. I saw I kind of 55 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:50.319 three or four. It is not clear how many people are participating in this. 56 00:04:50.759 --> 00:04:55.519 The assumption was there was about several hundred, maybe three hundred or so 57 00:04:55.879 --> 00:05:00.680 in both the encampment and in Hamilton Hall. I'll tell you this all kicked 58 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:03.519 off two weeks ago when there was a one campman, police came and made 59 00:05:03.560 --> 00:05:08.920 arrest. They arrested one hundred and eight people. Seventy seven zero of those 60 00:05:08.959 --> 00:05:12.759 people were not Columbia students. So I think police are going to be and 61 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:18.439 Columbia's gonna be looking for that today. Clearly police now control everything inside the 62 00:05:18.439 --> 00:05:21.800 campus. They have moved us the media down to this main gate where they 63 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:28.279 made entry into the campus, and they are arresting people inside and then bringing 64 00:05:28.279 --> 00:05:32.319 them out another gate just down the way. I see another one, perhaps 65 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:39.720 two more people who are in cuffs being led to buses right now coming out 66 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:43.120 of Columbia. So we have a handful of arrests so far, less than 67 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:46.600 a dozen so far from this side. Anyway, it sounds like there were 68 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:50.160 some arrests, but tho it sounded like those were protesters who were outside the 69 00:05:50.199 --> 00:05:56.600 gates on the Amsterdam side who were arrested a little earlier tonight. Anderson John 70 00:05:56.639 --> 00:06:00.160 Miller, as you watch this, and we're watching this, this splits in 71 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:02.120 both on the left of police on the left side of the screen because you're 72 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:10.399 just joining us entering via barricat through a window into Hamilton Hall from Amsterdam Avenue. 73 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:14.639 So that ought to give you some I guess, some reference point as 74 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:19.639 far as how the cable networks are covering it. Less analysis on Fox and 75 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:27.480 more commentary, CNN giving more analysis, and MSNBC was just more like narrating 76 00:06:27.519 --> 00:06:31.279 what was going on. But if you just tune in Columbia University earlier today 77 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:39.319 suspended protesters after the encampment talk stall, there were some talks which were going 78 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:46.240 on. Students and as you heard from other audio, non students had taken 79 00:06:46.360 --> 00:06:50.560 control of Hamilton Hall. They had barricaded the building at least on the first 80 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:58.879 floor, making law enforcement NYPD enter through the second floor. Presently, they 81 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:02.560 are making a rests all around the campus. Students are told to shelter in 82 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:09.759 place. At this point, we do know that Columbia has been suspending protesters, 83 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:15.279 students, arresting students and non students. That's also essential to highlight regarding 84 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:20.120 this protests, and we don't necessarily know where it's going to leave from here. 85 00:07:20.279 --> 00:07:26.920 My personal concern was when NYPD entered at night. I don't know all 86 00:07:26.920 --> 00:07:30.480 the logistical issues or concerned, but I was hoping that if they were going 87 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:33.519 to open into the building, that they would have done it in the daytime, 88 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:40.920 whether it was less likelihood of their being an escalation beyond the control of 89 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:46.040 the law enforcement or students there in that moment, going in under the cover 90 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:50.079 of night. But at this point we do know that NYPD has entered Columbia 91 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:57.639 University Hamilton Hall. They've been reported dozens of protesters arrested so far. There 92 00:07:57.720 --> 00:08:03.920 are no reports to my knowledge of any violence or skirmishes thus far. But 93 00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:07.920 the evening is still early. And I say this with caution, and we'll 94 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:09.600 continue to follow this story. When we come back, we'll give you an 95 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:16.120 update on what happened with USC today and UCLA. USC president met for the 96 00:08:16.399 --> 00:08:18.800 with protesters for the second day in a row. Will give you an update 97 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:24.560 on that and more. You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from 98 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:30.040 KFI AM six forty. And if there is a general trend in the protests, 99 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:35.559 I would say that Columbia has gone first in the sense of their escalation, 100 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:43.840 in the sense of how they have been more active in vocalizing their issues. 101 00:08:45.399 --> 00:08:50.759 West Coast USC UCLA have been behind the curve in that regard. But 102 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:56.480 if the past is prologue, what has been happening at Columbia will probably happen 103 00:08:56.559 --> 00:09:03.399 at USC and UCLA if they continue on this path. One thing that USC 104 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:07.399 does have as far as the protesters in that situation that Columbia did not, 105 00:09:07.879 --> 00:09:11.720 there seems to be a more open dialogue. I didn't say there was progress. 106 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:16.480 I said it was a more open dialogue. And I'm basing that on 107 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:22.200 the fact that USC president Carol Folt has met with leadership of the protesters. 108 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:26.919 I don't know who that is specifically, but she's meeting with someone, and 109 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:31.240 she has met with someone or someone's for the past two days. Well, 110 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:35.799 students here they're just wrapping up finals and now they're focusing on the big day, 111 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:39.279 that graduation day, but they don't really know exactly what that will look 112 00:09:39.320 --> 00:09:41.279 like. They hope to learn more today. But I can tell you today 113 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:46.519 here on campus, things are fairly quiet here after well a couple of weeks 114 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:50.039 here that the campus has really been shaken up by protesters, which has led 115 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:54.559 to an increase insecurity. Today, the school is meeting with protesters, as 116 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:58.879 you mentioned, for the second time, to hopefully come to an agreement. 117 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:03.840 Well, yesterday Active met with USC's president Carol full asking for what they call 118 00:10:03.879 --> 00:10:09.159 as an emergency campus student dialogue in response to campus protests over the war in 119 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:13.080 Gaza. A demonstration later happened at the school entrance here on Hoover and Jefferson 120 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:16.879 Well. Today, both parties are expected to meet as a university is also 121 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:24.360 expected to release details about what's next week's commencement ceremony will look like. USC 122 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:28.200 says the ongoing protest force him to make changes to this year's ceremony, but 123 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:31.799 it's unclear what that will look like for the roughly sixty four one thousand people 124 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:35.679 expected to attend. Over the weekend, Tommy Trojan, the school's one hundred 125 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:41.519 year old statue was vandalized. One student's mom, who spoke exclusively to NBC 126 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:45.200 four, not only witnessed it, but she says she tried her best to 127 00:10:45.320 --> 00:10:48.360 stop it. I saw the video of the vandalism. It was playing this 128 00:10:48.519 --> 00:10:52.919 day. It was not a good look for the protesters. Talked about it 129 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:58.799 last night. The escalation in that regard, when part of the story is 130 00:10:58.120 --> 00:11:03.799 vandalism or violence or some sort of other escalation, you're making it more difficult. 131 00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:09.080 You're actually negotiating, I would say from a place of weakness you're not 132 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:13.559 going to endear yourself to the general public that you're not going to have the 133 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:20.000 moral authority on your side, and I would say the university administration leadership would 134 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:24.320 be less likely to come to any deal. And honestly, I don't believe 135 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:31.240 that the University of President Carrol Foult is actually negotiating with the expectation of conceding 136 00:11:31.320 --> 00:11:35.720 anything. I think she knows as well as anyone. If you have a 137 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:41.679 dialogue, then there's less likely the propensity for violence or further escalation. You've 138 00:11:41.679 --> 00:11:46.759 got to have that dialogue. I don't think that the protesters or the students 139 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:50.519 are going to get anything that they're asking for, and to the best of 140 00:11:50.519 --> 00:11:54.519 my knowledge, they're asking for divestment. They're asking for ceasing of any type 141 00:11:54.559 --> 00:12:00.639 of financial commitments or connections to anything connected to the Israeli government, any type 142 00:12:00.679 --> 00:12:05.519 of scholarships or student exchanges with israel I. Don't think they're going to get 143 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:09.840 any of that at all. But the protesters can at least say that there 144 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:13.679 is an open line of communication. Whether they get to the next step, 145 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:18.559 I find that highly unlikely, but I would rather see the open line of 146 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:26.320 communication as much as we criticize usc for how they bungled the valedictorian speech. 147 00:12:26.440 --> 00:12:31.919 This open line of communication makes it less likely that they have a Columbia situation. 148 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:37.240 That's the first thing in UCLA. UCLA officials alerted students today that access 149 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:41.720 to Royce Hall and Powell Library at the center of campus, if you know 150 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:46.679 that, would be limited through Friday. Quote. Alternate locations are being identified 151 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:52.000 as options for classes taking place in Royce. Instructors whose classrooms are located at 152 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:56.960 Royce were expected to inform their students about the new temporary class locations. And 153 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:01.480 weren't UCLA and structors also walking out today? Yeah? Yeah, they were 154 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:07.639 joining in with the protests and USLA as also Before we came on. They 155 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:13.320 had also made it clear that anyone involved in the protest would be facing disciplinary 156 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:20.639 actions. Well again, if you use Columbia University as a guide, Columbia 157 00:13:20.759 --> 00:13:28.200 threatened suspensions. They followed through on that starting today. I know for a 158 00:13:28.279 --> 00:13:33.679 fact that students have been suspended. Don't know about expulsions as of yet, 159 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:41.360 but given that NYPD has now entered the Hamilton Building on the second floor and 160 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:48.320 made numerous arrests of presumably folks who would be students, those suspensions, those 161 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:54.799 expulsions are coming west coast. It's been tamer in nature compared to what we've 162 00:13:54.840 --> 00:14:00.200 seen at Yale, Harvard and obviously Columbia, but that could change. But 163 00:14:00.440 --> 00:14:03.919 again I give credit to USC in the sense of, as long as you're 164 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:09.759 talking, then there's less likelihood of a further escalation because of any protester who 165 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:15.320 is serious about what they're doing, they're not going to escalate while there's an 166 00:14:15.320 --> 00:14:18.840 open line of communication and cut off that line of communication. But that all 167 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:22.440 could change in a heartbeat, because after a certain point, USC is going 168 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:28.919 to have to say definitively to the protesters, and I think they will sooner 169 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:31.919 than later. They're going to have to say definitively, we're not going to 170 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:39.039 give you anything that you're asking for. We may give you immunity in the 171 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:46.120 sense of if you end the protests now, then we won't expel or further 172 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:50.639 prosecute those students, but that means you still have to give up the encampments. 173 00:14:50.679 --> 00:14:54.320 You're still going to have to give up the protests, and I don't 174 00:14:54.320 --> 00:14:58.200 know if the protesters are willing to do that. And also the protesters, 175 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:03.159 they only really have one more piece of leverage, and that would be graduation, 176 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:09.519 because outside of graduation, there is no reason for any university to not 177 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:15.519 go ahead and clear out the campus. There's no reason because there's nothing to 178 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:18.600 protect at that point. But we'll continue to follow this. We are watching 179 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:24.639 what is happening live right now at Columbia University in New York where NYPD has 180 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:30.559 I don't want to use word breach. They have entered the building, Hamilton 181 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:35.720 Hall, on the second floor because students had barricaded themselves inside on the first 182 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:39.639 floor, and they are in the process of arresting students and any other protesters 183 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:45.159 who are in that building. And also there is a shelter in place notice 184 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:50.480 for the campus of Columbia, and we will follow that and see where it 185 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:54.399 goes from there. The rest of the evening. You're listening to Later with 186 00:15:54.559 --> 00:16:00.639 Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty. I wish I had some 187 00:16:00.679 --> 00:16:04.360 good news to report on behalf of Metro. I really wish I did, 188 00:16:06.120 --> 00:16:08.799 but I don't. I don't know if I ever will in the near future 189 00:16:10.039 --> 00:16:15.720 or even in the distant future. Another day another bad news moment for Metro. 190 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:21.399 But to be fair, I don't know if what happened today was specifically 191 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:26.799 the fault of Metro or a failing on the part of Metro. By now, 192 00:16:26.840 --> 00:16:32.799 you've probably heard about the Metro train, the Expo line, the E 193 00:16:32.960 --> 00:16:38.919 line which collided with a USC bus today, and they're varying reports of how 194 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:44.600 many people who were injured or sent to the hospital. But somewhere between sixteen 195 00:16:44.679 --> 00:16:49.799 and eighteen twenty people were injured and needed medical attention after a USC bus and 196 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:56.879 a Metro plane Metro train collided earlier this morning. From what I know, 197 00:16:56.000 --> 00:17:00.039 I don't think it has any connection to the protests. This is the second 198 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:06.839 Metro incident in the USC area in the past two and a half or three 199 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:11.640 days. That's worthy of mentioning. We are following breaking news from downtown Los 200 00:17:11.640 --> 00:17:15.400 Angeles. A train has struck a bus. Let's get up to Rich breaking 201 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:18.599 overhead and Sky five with the latest, Rich Glenn lew It's on an exposition 202 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:23.599 between Normandy and Figure Road. It's an expo it's the Metro Expo line versus 203 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:29.160 a small transport bus. Here we're hearing at least two patients. We're on 204 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:33.440 the bus, one minor, one moderate. We're transported Now. As for 205 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:37.599 the bus, we're hearing as many as nine people are requesting transport for some 206 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:41.519 sort of minor injury and about fifteen other people that are being assessed. Here 207 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:45.799 at the scene, you can see the triadge area that's set up here by 208 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:49.880 La City Fire. This happening just before twelve o'clock today. LAPD is here 209 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:53.960 on hand to assist the fire department as well as provide some traffic control. 210 00:17:55.160 --> 00:17:59.240 Now, the Metro line in this area, the Expo line will be interrupted 211 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:04.160 while this operation is happening. Exposition between Vermont and Normal or excuse me, 212 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:10.920 Figueroa and Normandy will also be blocked off while they are in the process of 213 00:18:10.960 --> 00:18:14.359 assessing patients. Here you see some of them still trying to get off of 214 00:18:14.599 --> 00:18:18.720 the bus or the train itself. Again, this was a small bus that 215 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:26.359 collided with the Metro Expo line here near usc and they will be assessing patients 216 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:27.960 for some time. As the latest from Sky five, I'll send it back 217 00:18:27.960 --> 00:18:32.160 to you at Hollywood. To be honest and to be fair, this is 218 00:18:32.240 --> 00:18:37.119 not all that uncommon. If you ride Metro enough, there are days in 219 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:44.039 which you'll be delayed because some trains somewhere may have hit a car because a 220 00:18:44.119 --> 00:18:48.839 car didn't want to wait and try to rush and fly by the signal and 221 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:52.319 was either hit or clipped by a train. I can think of two or 222 00:18:52.359 --> 00:18:57.279 three different occasions in which I was a passenger on a train or a train 223 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:03.720 line leading up to place where someone unfortunately either tried to commit suicide or was 224 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:08.160 successful at committing suicide. So I'm not going to blame this on Metro, 225 00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:15.200 but i will say this that this is something else that if you were reticent 226 00:19:15.240 --> 00:19:18.880 to get on Metro, if you were unsure, if you were ambivalent about 227 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:22.720 whether it was something that it was safe to ride, this doesn't help in 228 00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:27.599 that regard. This is not going to say to you that this is what 229 00:19:27.640 --> 00:19:33.039 you would want to worry about from day to day. So this is just 230 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:38.079 the latest in a string of events which I would say chips away at the 231 00:19:38.160 --> 00:19:45.759 foundation of what public transportation is supposed to be. It's supposed to be safe, 232 00:19:45.960 --> 00:19:49.599 it's supposed to be reliable, it's supposed to be something that we can 233 00:19:49.640 --> 00:19:55.640 depend on on a level where we can get on and not necessarily have to 234 00:19:55.680 --> 00:20:00.359 worry about slamming into a bus, not have to worry about homeless person accosting 235 00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:07.519 us, not have to worry about something bad happening, our lives being put 236 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:12.759 in danger, someone brandishing a knife, someone who was trying to rob us, 237 00:20:14.160 --> 00:20:17.519 or even worse. These are the things that we all have to contend 238 00:20:17.559 --> 00:20:22.240 with when we're riding Metro. Today is just that latest instant instance. And 239 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:27.119 no it's not fair because from what we know, it's not the fault of 240 00:20:27.279 --> 00:20:32.000 Metro, but it is something else that we would all have to place on 241 00:20:32.079 --> 00:20:37.359 our minds if we were to choose to ride Metro consistently. It's one more 242 00:20:37.480 --> 00:20:41.680 thing to have to consider. And it's not something which never happens, because 243 00:20:42.279 --> 00:20:47.519 I've experienced it, not necessarily been on the train when it hit a car, 244 00:20:47.799 --> 00:20:52.839 but been on the train line and then your trip is diverted and you 245 00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:57.559 have to get out and then catch a bus and detour to your location, 246 00:20:57.680 --> 00:21:02.359 and it takes another hour to get wherever you're going. These are the things 247 00:21:02.359 --> 00:21:06.440 that if you ride Metro you should know that it's not all that uncommon. 248 00:21:06.640 --> 00:21:11.440 Unfortunately, but today, within the context of all the negative news which is 249 00:21:11.440 --> 00:21:18.079 happening literally daily, sometimes twice daily, sometimes three or four times a week, 250 00:21:18.720 --> 00:21:22.720 that you have to say you know what, I'm just not going to 251 00:21:22.759 --> 00:21:27.440 get on Metro for the foreseeable future because nothing good seems to happen on it. 252 00:21:27.480 --> 00:21:32.720 But the only thing that is consistent in nature is something bad is happening 253 00:21:33.119 --> 00:21:37.720 on it. And in the past week we've had two incidents near usc I 254 00:21:37.720 --> 00:21:41.720 don't think they're connected to the protests. Maybe it's just because it is a 255 00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:48.000 highly congested area that more things are more liable to happen down there. But 256 00:21:48.279 --> 00:21:52.359 after a while, it's more than a coincidence, it's a pattern. Let 257 00:21:52.400 --> 00:21:53.680 me just put it this way. You can not pay my ass to get 258 00:21:53.680 --> 00:21:57.680 on Metro, not at all, under any circumstances. I would love to 259 00:21:57.880 --> 00:22:03.640 report positive news about Metro. I wish I could go back to the days 260 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:10.480 of making jokes about the green Shirt ambassadors and how Metro was flailing around trying 261 00:22:10.519 --> 00:22:14.839 to find some sort of solution and not spending the money in the right way 262 00:22:15.160 --> 00:22:22.440 to address the correct problem. But since safety is the prevailing issue, safety, 263 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:27.759 including this collision today, is at the top of everyone's minds, Well, 264 00:22:27.839 --> 00:22:33.400 there's nothing else for me to talk about other than the safety or lack 265 00:22:33.440 --> 00:22:37.160 of safety thereof as it relates to Metro. Yesterday I said that there probably 266 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:41.240 would be attacked today. I was wrong. I have to admit it. 267 00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:45.200 I was wrong. There was not a metro attack that I know of today. 268 00:22:45.440 --> 00:22:48.240 It was just a major collision in which eighteen people were taken to the 269 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:55.279 hospital. You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six 270 00:22:55.400 --> 00:23:03.200 forty. We started the show tonight with the breaking news of NYPD entering Columbia 271 00:23:03.359 --> 00:23:06.759 University. We wanted to see whether it was going to further escalate. We 272 00:23:06.799 --> 00:23:10.039 want to drop into ceing In's coverage right now. They're speaking to one of 273 00:23:10.079 --> 00:23:18.559 the League Columbia student negotiators on behalf of protesters, peaceful administrators, and the 274 00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:23.839 university thinks that this would discovered to students from calling for the end of the 275 00:23:23.920 --> 00:23:30.480 war in Gaza and the end of the end of Columbia's investment in the companies 276 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:34.200 that are investing in the genero side of the Teal Singior people. Since we 277 00:23:34.240 --> 00:23:40.640 started our negotiation last last Friday, the university did not deal with this with 278 00:23:40.680 --> 00:23:45.519 this movement as an actual movement, an anti war movement. Instead, they 279 00:23:45.559 --> 00:23:52.839 dealt with it as an internal student discipline matter. They've negotiated with us about 280 00:23:52.839 --> 00:24:00.519 bringing food and blankets to the encampment. They refused to to to acknowledge that 281 00:24:00.640 --> 00:24:04.400 this is actually more than that. This is a nationwide movement. This is 282 00:24:04.440 --> 00:24:11.920 a movement that that asked Colombia to to divest its investments from from the companies 283 00:24:11.960 --> 00:24:15.960 that are fueling the ward and guys that right now. So what I'm feeling 284 00:24:17.079 --> 00:24:22.960 right now, I'm feeling disgraced about it by this institute. When Hamilton Hall 285 00:24:23.200 --> 00:24:27.039 was taken over, whether it was part of, as you say, a 286 00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:33.359 larger anti war movement or an on campus disciplinary matter, what was the expectation 287 00:24:33.559 --> 00:24:38.359 that Columbia would do once a building was seized in, windows were broken and 288 00:24:38.440 --> 00:24:45.960 vandalized. The the the autonomous group decided to take that building when they felt 289 00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:52.440 that the university is not answering their demands, the university is not dealing with 290 00:24:52.480 --> 00:24:59.599 them seriously, and the university is actually just this is the problem I have 291 00:24:59.759 --> 00:25:04.440 with It's not the university's job to make you feel better about whether you're being 292 00:25:04.559 --> 00:25:08.519 taken seriously. You don't get to take the building because you don't feel the 293 00:25:08.680 --> 00:25:12.240 university is handling this in the way that you think it should, in the 294 00:25:12.279 --> 00:25:18.759 sense of it being an anti war movement as opposed to an inter school disciplinary 295 00:25:18.839 --> 00:25:22.559 matter, because that's what it is. Columbia is not going to ask U 296 00:25:22.640 --> 00:25:29.200 C, L, a USC, Harvard, and Yale about what they should 297 00:25:29.200 --> 00:25:33.759 do collectively. They are concerned about their campus. They're concerned about their student 298 00:25:33.839 --> 00:25:40.480 body. They're also concerned about their professors and their property. They're Hamilton Building, 299 00:25:40.839 --> 00:25:47.000 They're they're not going to consult with I think I think they've overplayed their 300 00:25:47.000 --> 00:25:52.240 hand completely, and to think that the university had some sort of obligation to 301 00:25:52.279 --> 00:25:59.960 recognize either your protests or as you describe it, a movement, when it's 302 00:26:00.119 --> 00:26:03.720 you were paying attention. This is one of the student leaders. Acknowledge that 303 00:26:03.759 --> 00:26:10.920 there was vandalism, acknowledge that there was a forcible takeover of a student excuse 304 00:26:10.960 --> 00:26:15.039 me, a building on campus. That is not going to endear you to 305 00:26:15.160 --> 00:26:19.400 the university when you need things from the university. If anything, that's going 306 00:26:19.440 --> 00:26:23.839 to make them less likely, the university less likely to negotiate with you in 307 00:26:23.839 --> 00:26:27.079 good faith. In fact, they're not going to negotiate with you at all. 308 00:26:27.359 --> 00:26:32.160 And if you're just tune in, we're talking about how NYPD has entered 309 00:26:32.160 --> 00:26:37.039 Columbia University. Dozens of protesters have been arrested so far. If you're watching 310 00:26:37.079 --> 00:26:44.200 the televised coverage, there are I would say dozens and dozens of NYPD officers 311 00:26:44.279 --> 00:26:48.039 on campus. They have riot helmets. It's been erroneously reported that they're in 312 00:26:48.119 --> 00:26:52.960 full riot gear. That is not true. They don't have shields, they 313 00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:59.599 are not in a forward position, they're not in an aggressive stance. They're 314 00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:04.559 at this point maintaining control of the campus. Students have been told to shelter 315 00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:08.759 in place. This has not in any way spilled over to the West Coast 316 00:27:08.759 --> 00:27:15.359 campuses in the sense of what's happening or not happening at USC or UCLA UCI. 317 00:27:15.960 --> 00:27:18.920 But I was saying earlier in the hour that what has been happening at 318 00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:26.000 Columbia may spill over to the other schools they followed along a similar path and 319 00:27:26.279 --> 00:27:30.359 trajectory. We were just taking a just a brief survey at the beginning of 320 00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:36.599 the show tonight about how different cable news outlets were covering the issue, and 321 00:27:36.839 --> 00:27:40.960 as you might imagine, it was very, very disparate in nature. But 322 00:27:41.079 --> 00:27:45.039 the overall scene at Columbia, and I think this is a good thing, 323 00:27:45.400 --> 00:27:51.599 seems very calm. NYPD seems very relaxed. They don't seem to be focused 324 00:27:51.640 --> 00:27:55.640 on any group of students. From what I understand, all students not only 325 00:27:55.720 --> 00:28:00.000 have been told to shelter in place, they should not be walking the campus 326 00:28:00.039 --> 00:28:04.319 at this point. So it seems that the campus has been completely locked down 327 00:28:04.559 --> 00:28:11.279 at this point. And it now CNN is reporting that Columbia has asked NYPD 328 00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:17.599 to stay on campus until at least May seventeenth. I assume that's on the 329 00:28:17.640 --> 00:28:22.279 other side of graduation. Let's drop back in see if we get some more 330 00:28:22.319 --> 00:28:26.720 information on that. And really, what Colombia has done in bringing in the 331 00:28:26.839 --> 00:28:33.480 NYPD is to overwhelm the student population with just the sheer presence and numbers of 332 00:28:33.599 --> 00:28:38.960 force. Just being there is going to make a difference. I can imagine 333 00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:45.119 that students will still demonstrate in whatever way that they can. They feel very 334 00:28:45.119 --> 00:28:53.440 strongly about Columbia divesting from supporting what's going on in Gaza, and so I 335 00:28:53.440 --> 00:28:57.039 don't imagine that professional it might look a little different, but I think we're 336 00:28:57.079 --> 00:29:03.279 still going to see students demonstrating. Ar Miguel Marquez still standing by just outside 337 00:29:03.319 --> 00:29:08.359 Columbia University. Miguel I understand you've got some new information. Yeah. NYPD 338 00:29:08.599 --> 00:29:12.440 just briefed us a short time ago here on one fourteen. They say it's 339 00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:18.720 done. There is Hamilton Hall has been cleared and is secured. The encampments 340 00:29:18.839 --> 00:29:21.720 that was out there for the last couple of weeks, that too has been 341 00:29:21.759 --> 00:29:26.880 cleared. The only thing out there right now are tents and their personal possessions. 342 00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:30.279 But everybody that didn't want to leave and didn't want to leave the campus 343 00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:36.240 was arrested. They also say there was no reports of anybody resisting arrest. 344 00:29:36.359 --> 00:29:40.920 There were no reports of anyone being injured as well. This is now so 345 00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:45.079 we've come down to Amsterdam Avenue. We can see all the police officers who 346 00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:48.759 are protecting this so that the buses bringing out the last few people who were 347 00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:53.200 arrested can get out. There are protesters behind us. There are also on 348 00:29:53.240 --> 00:29:59.720 the other side of Amsterdam Avenue. This is interesting as well. So this 349 00:29:59.799 --> 00:30:03.519 is on j Hall, just on the corner of one fourteen and Amsterdam and 350 00:30:03.559 --> 00:30:08.079 you can see all the individuals hanging out their windows just watching what's going on 351 00:30:08.119 --> 00:30:15.079 out here. Hamilton Hall is just up the street here another block, and 352 00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:19.559 that is now secure. There were reports that there was smoke off the top 353 00:30:19.559 --> 00:30:23.720 of the Hamilton Hall earlier. Police say that that's not true. There were 354 00:30:25.119 --> 00:30:27.759 people who claimed that they were using a tear gas. Police say that is 355 00:30:27.799 --> 00:30:30.680 not true. They did use flash bang grenades. They said. When they 356 00:30:30.680 --> 00:30:36.799 went into Hamilton Hall, the doors were barricaded with tables with chairs with soda 357 00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:41.519 machines. They used the flash bangs to distract whoever was in there, and 358 00:30:41.559 --> 00:30:45.799 then they were able to open up those doors and get get more officers in 359 00:30:45.160 --> 00:30:48.920 to clear out and check and then clear out the entire hall. But at 360 00:30:48.920 --> 00:30:53.359 this point, when this start started around nine pm, it's done. They 361 00:30:53.880 --> 00:31:02.240 the police will stay as you can hear has complete control of the campus. 362 00:31:02.279 --> 00:31:07.319 Columbia University. They say that the property the campus has been cleared. There 363 00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:11.880 are no protesters on campus in the sense of the encampments. The encampments have 364 00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:17.480 been deserted. There have been a number of arrests, and the university has 365 00:31:17.519 --> 00:31:23.039 asked NYPD to stay on campus through May seventeenth. Not to get ahead of 366 00:31:23.079 --> 00:31:29.599 myself, but that effectively would be the end of the protests on Columbia University's 367 00:31:29.640 --> 00:31:33.119 campuses. We will continue to watch that and see if there's any spillover here. 368 00:31:33.279 --> 00:31:37.880 Locally, it's later with Mo Kelly k IF I am six forty. 369 00:31:37.079 --> 00:31:44.079 We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, untangling the mess until it makes sense. 370 00:31:44.839 --> 00:31:49.039 KS. I'm KOST HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County, Live 371 00:31:49.440 --> 00:31:52.240 everywhere on the Art Radio app.