Speaker Johnson calls on Biden to visit Columbia amid pro-Palestine protests

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is urging President Biden to visit Columbia University and observe the pro-Palestine protests roiling its Manhattan campus after Johnson and a group of GOP lawmakers stopped by the university grounds and denounced the demonstrations.

Asked during a press conference on Tuesday if he would challenge Biden to visit Columbia — which has been the site of one of the most explosive pro-Palestine campus protests in the U.S. — Johnson responded, “Yeah, I do.”

“In fact...