Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., told Newsmax on Friday that states, at some point, will have to “take back control” of public colleges and universities and “put a litmus test on them.”

Burchett joined “Carl Higbie FRONTLINE” to give his reaction to the mass anti-Israel protests that are paralyzing college campuses across other parts of the country.

“Well, I just hope they don’t come down south,” Burchett told Higbie. “I can remember my dad there in the ‘60s was a dean at the University of Tennessee, and we didn’t have those problems here because we had discipline, and we had law enforcement, and we respected that.”

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