We have a 'very dangerous collision course' here right now, Charles Marino warns

For more on securing college campuses during the protests, let’s bring in former DHS senior advisor Charles Marino and UCLA professor near Hoffman. Gentlemen, welcome. Good morning. Good to be with you, Mike. So let’s start with the letter sent by Education Secretary Miguel Cardona yesterday writing quote, environments where students feel unsafe and experience discrimination on college campuses cannot be tolerated. How safe do students and faculty feel at UCLA? Near not safe at all. Not safe. Because when anti-Semitism, when anti Jew hate rears its ugly head, the Jews are the Canary in the coal mine. The Jews are always the first scapegoat. But it’s an early sign of an implosion of our society. And I can tell you that for weeks now we’ve been warning that this would turn violent. And it just shows you that what starts with the Jews ends with everybody. How has the culture changed during your years at UCLA near? Well, it’s been a slow creep, but there’s been an education of concept that might seem very alien, but they’ve been trickling in, for instance, in our medical school, environmental racism and justice, that’s a class. Immigration and imperialism, that’s a class. There is a class being taught on anti settler colonialism and indigenous health. If this is what you’re teaching in your curriculum, then don’t be surprised when you get Physicians of the Future that engage in belief systems that are just contrary to the American way. More than 2300 arrests made on college campuses since April the 18th. We’ve got a map showing the campuses across the country where arrests have been made big picture. What are your takeaways, Charles? Well, I can tell you in many of the cities and states, it’s no surprise that many of these school and and university administrators delayed law enforcement intervention because they followed the suit of the policies of the cities and states in which they reside. And we see the drastic and consequential results because of their poor decisions. What I can tell you is it doesn’t work when you do not support employees and students and others that are law abiding and you coddle the criminals and those that are outwardly supporting terrorist organizations. And what we have on full display here Mike, is we’ve got a significant home grown violent extremism and radicalization problem in this country. Some of it is being put out by the schools, some of it is being supported by outside groups. We need to follow the money and identify who that is. But we’ve got a very dangerous collision course here right now. We’ve got tense world events. We’ve got the radicalization I spoke about, and we have an immigration system that’s been allowed to collapse under this administration, and we have no idea who’s in the country. I want to play for you a clip from a senior official with the NYPD, and I’ll get you to react to it. There is somebody behind this movement. There is some organization behind this movement. The the level of organization that we’re seeing and both of these campus here and at Columbia, there is somebody funding this. There is somebody radicalizing our students. I get that question all the time. Who is funding it? Could it be a foreign adversary, Charles? It absolutely could be. And and look, it could be multiple groups that hate America. We’ve heard a lot of this rhetoric coming out of students that are both American born, some that are here likely on student visas and those that likely were outside of the school population and showed up where they could have been in the country illegally. We don’t know who they are. But law enforcement officials, it’s time. Enough is enough. We’ve got to follow the money because this is, as the NYPD Commissioner said, very well organized, very well coordinated and very well funded. And those three are very dangerous things. That’s why we’re 10% higher in our threat level here in the United States than we were pre 911. And this is very concerning. It’s not a matter of if, but when. From the New York Times on UCLA quote none of the videos analyzed by the Time show any clear instance of encampment protesters initiating confrontations with counter protesters beyond defending the barricades near blaming the Jewish camp. You know nothing could be further from the truth. When that encampment was assembled on Thursday, first of all four giant buses showed up and a whole bunch of hoodlums came out. I met the students and started setting up this encampment by Friday morning. I went there and I saw with my own eyes and I had a film crew with me that these people were blocking entrances. They were not allowing students to go to class, they were not allowing students to go to the library. They were assaulting people. They got anywhere near the encampment and as the days went on, the encampment grew and they got bolder and they started blocking people from even walking around and I got assaulted trying to get close to the encampment. They came and tried to disrupt our counter protest that had a legal permit. It was total chaos. There was no law and order. I went to the police station not once but twice on UCLA and I told them that this was going to explode and the police basically said, well, we know that it’s dangerous. They even told me that one of the security officers got kidnapped into the quad there and they barely got him out. And they had directives from Michael Beck and the civilian leadership not to go up there. And you know, it’s not a police state. So when you don’t allow the police to do what they have to do, this is the end point, Charles. We’re nearly out of time, but what’s the long term impact on this country of all this? Well, we better keep our eye on the ball here because the threat level is just exploding and we’ve seen a demonstration of that and continue to see that we’re at a very dangerous tipping point here in this country. And it’s time that law enforcement is allowed to do their jobs. And I think we see that from Mayor Adams now where he’s sick and tired of it and enough is enough and he’s starting to take the right position. And buck the political talking points. Charles Moreno, professor near Hoffman from UCLA. Gentlemen, thanks very much.