White House urges 'peaceful' campus protests after hundreds arrested

"We certainly respect the right of peaceful protests," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told ABC's "This Week." But, he added, "we absolutely condemn the anti-Semitism language that we've heard of late and certainly condemn all the hate speech and the threats of violence out there." The wave of demonstrations began at Columbia University in New York but they have since spread rapidly across the country. While peace has prevailed in many campuses, the number of protesters detained...