On Wednesday's broadcast of CNBC's "Squawk Box," Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) stated that if Columbia University President Minouche Shafik had threatened to expel or revoke the visas of students in the encampment on campus or fire members of the faculty who were in the encampment and followed through on these threats, "this situation could have been resolved decisively. But once there's a crisis of confidence in the leader of the university, then chaos ensues."