MORNINGS, THANKS FOR JOINING US THIS MORNING. I AM MARIA BARTIROMO. I HOPE YOU ARE HAVING A GOOD FRIDAY MORNING FRIDAY, MAY 3, 8:00 A.M. ON THE EAST COAST, AFTER 10 DAYS WITHOUT AN ON CAMERA STATEMENT ABOUT NATIONWIDE COLLEGE RIOTS PRESIDENT BIDEN DECIDED TO DRESS CHAOS HAD SOME JEWISH STUDENTS AFRAID TO SHOW UP FOR CLASS. >> MOMENTS LIKE THIS ALWAYS, RUSH TO SCORE POLITICAL POINTS THIS SUSPECT A MOMENT FOR POLITICS THERE SHOULD BE NO PLACE IN ANY CAMPUS, NO PLACE IN AMERICA, FOR ANTISEMITISM OR THREATS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST. IRAN STATEMENTS HOME FOBBA DISCRIMINATION, DESTROYING PROPERTY NOT A PEACEFUL PROTEST. MARIA: TO BE CLEAR THERE WAS NO PHOBIA THIS WEEK CHUCK SCHUMER IS HIGHEST RANKING JEWISH OFFICIAL IN THE COUNTRY U.S. GOVERNMENT CALLING OUT ANTI-ISRAEL AGITATORS ON COLUMBIA'S CAMPUS THIS WEEK YESTERDAY DURING REMARKS DID NOT MENTION THE PROTESTS OR THAT JUST HOURS BEFORE HIS SPEECH LOST POLICE BROKE YOU THE ANTIISRAEL ENCAMPMENT AT UCLA SCHUMER FOCUSED ON ATTACKING REPUBLICANS OVER ABORTION WATCH. >> REMEMBER MOST SAME REPUBLICANS, ARE ON RECORD SUPPORTING A NATIONAL ABORTION BAN A BOTTOM LINE THAT IS EXTREME ABORTION BANS ARE A DIRECT CONSEQUENCE OF REPUBLICANS GETTING INTO POWER. >> I AM TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THIS RELUCTANCE FROM CHUCK SCHUMER, TO TAKE THIS ON. JOINING ME RIGHT NOW WEST VIRGINIA SENATOR, RANKING MEMBER OF THE SENATE ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE A MEMBERT SENATE APPROPRIATIONS CONSUMERS AND RULES COMMITTEE AS WELL THANKS VERY MUCH NOR BEING HERE. >> GOOD MORNING, MARIA. . THANK YOU. MARIA: WE HAVE NOT HEARD A LOT FROM CHUCK SCHUMER ON THIS, HIGHEST RANKING JEWISH PERSON IN GOVERNMENT, WHY? WHAT DO YOU THINK I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT CHUCK SCHUMER GOT ON THE FLOOR OF SENATE SAID NETANYAHU YOU KNOW NOT CONDUCTING HIS COUNTRY'S WAR THE WAY THAT HE SHOULD. HE CALLED FOR ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES TACTICS I THINK ARE MISPLACED YESTERDAY IN THE MIDST OF ALL THIS DESTRUCTION AROUND CAMPUSES ANTISEMITISM TO SLOGANS SHOUTED, IT IS JUST VERY DISCOURAGING FOCUS WOULD NOT BE ON WHAT IS HAPPENING ON OUR COLLEGE CAMPUSES, YOU KNOW WHAT? IT IS POLITICS ALL POLITICS, ALL DAY FOR CHUCK SCHUMER. MARIA: THAT IS SO HORRIBLE TO HEAR THAT THAT IT IS ALL POLITICS ALL THE TIME, WITH CHUCK SCHUMER. IT IS SAME THING WITH JOE BIDEN, LET'S FACE IT SENATOR, OKAY? HE IS AFRAID OF NOT GETTING THE PRO-PALESTINIAN VOTE IN PLACES LIKE MINNESOTA, MICHIGAN. WHAT ELSE CAN WE BELIEVE IS THE REASON HE TOOK SO LONG TO SAY ANYTHING ABOUT ALL OF THIS ANTISEMITISM RAGING IN THE COUNTRY SHOULDN'T HE HAVE BEEN OUT DAY ONE DENOUNCING THIS IS. >> ABSOLUTELY PRESIDENT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE DAY ONE WHERE HAS HE BEEN RAB COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SAYS TO JEWISH STUDENTS BETTER STRAY OFF CAMPUS NOT SAFE FACULTY THERE, THAT SAFETY CONCERNS YOU SEE HOW IT ESCALATED INTO SUCH A DESTRUCTIVE PROTEST, YET SILENCE CRICKETS FROM PRESIDENT, WHAT WAS HE DOING DECIDING WHOSE SIDE HE IS ON OR HOW TO PHRASE IT? NO. THIS SHOULD NEVER BE ACCEPTABLE ANTISEMITISM SHOULD BE EXTINGUISHED IN THIS COUNTRY HAS TO COME FROM THE PRESIDENT HE HAD A VERY WEAK RESPONSE. >> I WANT YOUR TAKE, ON THE EDUCATION SECRETARY YOU HAD A CHANCE TO QUESTION CARDONA THIS WEEK ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT RESPONSE TO IENTS SMECHL ON COLUMBIA'S CAMPUS WATCH THIS FOR A MINUTE. >> DO YOU HAVE PEOPLE AT THE COLUMBIA RIGHT NOW TO SEE WHAT IS GOING ON THERE DO YOU HAVE A STAFF THERE TO WATCH? >> I DO NOT HAVE STAFF. >> CIVIL RIGHTS OFFICE HAVE SOMEBODY UP THERE. >> I DO NOT HAVE STAFF AT THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, I SHOULD SHARE WITH YOU WE HAVE OPEN INVESTIGATION AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. MARIA: TELL US MORE ABOUT THAT A GREAT QUESTION ON YOUR PART. >> WELL, YOU KNOW, TITLE 6 OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT SAYS YOU CAN'T DISCRIMINATE HE SAYS I NEED? MORE MONEY FOR CIVIL RIGHTS DEPARTMENT, SO WE CAN INVESTIGATE ALL THESE THE SIMPLE WAY IS FIRSTHAND KNOWLEDGE WHAT IS OCCURRING YET, THE PRIORITY THEY DON'T SEND SOMEBODY TO NEW YORK OR CALL SOMEBODY OUT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, IN NEW YORK, I MEAN SO, SO DISCOURAGING SO WEAK. UNRESPONSIVE MESSED UP APPLICATIONS FOR FINISHING AID FOR STUDENTS VERY WEAKLY WADED INTO ANTISEMITISM ON CAMPUS ARGUMENT IT HAD TO COME AS I SAID EARLIER FROM THE TOP. TONE IS SET FROM THE TOP WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY KARINE JEAN-PIERRE DISCUSSING EBB POTENTIAL PLAN TO BRING PALESTINIAN REFUGEES INTO AMERICA SAYS TAKING VETTING VERY, VERY SERIOUSLY, BUT IF HE WERE TO TAKE GAZANS INTO AMERICA DOWN THE THAT SUGGEST ANSWERING ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTERS GIVING THEM WHAT THEY WANT? A GROUP OF MORE THAN 30 REPUBLICAN SENATORS SENT LETTER TO BIDEN ADMINISTRATION A DEMANDING END PLANS TO BRING IN GAZANS REFUGEES, AND FOCUS ON SECURING RELEASE OF UAS YOU SAY HOSTAGES HELD BY HAMAS? TELL ME MORE ABOUT THIS. >> RIGHT LOOK AT THIS SITUATION AMERICAN HOSTAGES HELD IN GAZA RIGHT NOW THAT SITUATION GOING ON FOR MONTHS NO I, WE DON'T KNOW HOW MANY ARE STILL ALIVE WE DON'T KNOW EVEN, WHERE THEY ARE, OR ANYTHING SO AMERICAN CITIZENS. PRESIDENT BIDEN LOWEST AFGHAN ININTERPRETERS HELPED US FOR YEARS HE ENDANGERED THEIR LIVES LEFT THEMS IN AFGHANISTAN DID NOTHING TO TRY TO BRING THOSE FOLKS BACK WHO HAVE HELPED US NOW WANTS TO OPEN OUR BOUNTY OUR COUNTRY TO GAZANS CITIZENS PRIORITIZE THAT? THIS IS POLITICAL IT IS ALL POLITICAL. AND JUST -- IT IS SO AGGRAVATING TO ME WHO ARE WE WILLING TO STAND UP AGAINST TERRORISTS USE SEX AS WEAPON OF WAR? I THINK MISPLACED, END OF A HONESTLY YOU SAY TO YOURSELF ARE THEY CERTIFYIOUS ABOUT THIS HOW DO YOU SAY THAT IS THE FAIR WAY TO DO THIS. >> ESPECIALLY ON TOP OF RHETORIC AGAINST ISRAEL NOT JUST CHUCK SCHUMER SAYING WE WANT NEW ELECTIONS BENJAMIN NETANYAHU OUT DOESN'T SERVE ISRAELI PEOPLE YET PRESIDENT BIDEN SAYING YES CHUCK SCHUMER GAVE A GREAT SPEECH IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL THIS YOU HAVE TO ASK WHY OF AFTER 10 MILLION FOREIGNERS, 10 MILLION ILLEGALS IN THIS COUNTRY BECAUSE OF WIDE-OPEN BORDER WHAT IS THE ULTIMATELY GOAL HERE? >> THE ULTIMATE GOAL TO GET VOTES FIGURE OUT, HE IS IN A DIFFICULT POSITION THE PRESIDENT IS LOOKING AT POLITICS AS YOU MENTIONED EARLIER, AND ALSO GOT POLITICS ON THE OTHER SIDE. AND SO YOU KNOW TRYING TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO WEAVE THROUGH THIS SHOWS WEAKNESS HE SHOULD STAND BY ELIMINATING ANTISEMITISM, NOT WEAK STATEMENTS THROWING AVELSE IN WHEN TALKING ABOUT IT TO ME SENDS A SIGNAL TRYING TO I AM GOING TO PLEASE YOU THEN NOW TRY TO PLEASE YOU AN ELECTION YEAR I NEED YOUR VOTE. >> MORAL EQUIVALENCY. >> PRESIDENT BIDEN EPA REGULATIONS WOULD FORCE CLOSURE OF U.S. COAL-FIRED PLANTS PRINT NEW GAS-FIRED PLANTS YOU ARE LEADING GOP OVERCAST TO OVERTURN THIS YOU SAY THIS IS ILLEGAL. >> IT IS ILLEGAL, AGAIN AN EXAMPLE OF THE ADMINISTRATION, OVER REGULATING OVER WHAT CONGRESS EXPLICITLY LEGISLATED TO WILL LEAD TO TO CLOUD COVER OF ALL PLANTS IN A SMOERTD A LOT OF PEOPLE WITH JOBS, ENDANGERS BRITS ON ONE HAND SAYING YOU ARE GOING TO DRIVE ELECTRIC CAR A.I. SOCIETY, A HUGE, ENERGY CONSUMER ON THE OTHER HAND GET RID OF BASE LOADED FUEL PROVIDERS LIKE NATURAL GAS, COAL, WHERE ARE WE GOING TO GET ENERGY FOR THIS? ENDANGERING I THINK OUR FUTURE NOT ABLE TO HELP ALLIES WHEN THEY HAVE ISSUES WITH ENERGY GOING TO FIGHT THIS, OVERTURN IT GOING TO HAVE BIPARTISAN SPORT, I LOOK FORWARD TO THAT. >> AS I SAY THIS IS NOT JUST EC
