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U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said American university presidents “need to get control” of pro-Palestinian protests on campuses across the country. But he rejected calls from fellow Republicans to bring in the National Guard to lock up all demonstrators. “The First Amendment is important. But it doesn’t give you the ability to claim there’s a fire going on in a theater, because it threatens everyone else,” McConnell said in prerecorded interview that aired Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “What needs to happen, at least at the beginning, is these university presidents ne…