Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said Tuesday that the students taking over college campuses across the country — Columbia University, most acutely — are “fanatical” and “deeply troubled” but “easily detained” nonetheless, adding that university administrators need to respond, regain control, and “restore law and order.”

Cotton made the comments during an interview with conservative radio host and podcaster Hugh Hewitt.

Cotton was reacting to the news that the anti-Israel protesters at Columbia had broken into and barricaded themselves in an academic building overnight.

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