Politicians nation. Tonights lead, order in the court. The third week of Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial here in manhattan ended with one of his closest former president ial aides on the stand tearfully recounting her memories of the alleged payout to Stormy Daniels and how trumps comments about groping women sent his 2016 campaign into the kind of panic mode. Also tonight, many of americas colleges and universities are grappling with how to move forward with commencements as Campus Demonstrations continue over the war in gaza and u. S. Involvement in the conflict. President biden has called for restraint from all sides as interactions between protesters, counterprotesters, and Police Forces have grown violent in some places. And arrests now number in the thousands. We start with the epicenter of the unrest just a few miles from here at Columbia University in new york city with one of the schools most prominent graduates joining me now in studio, congressman gerald, democrat of new york
Good morning. It is 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart. Right now, the jury is in recess and former President Trumps new york Hush Money Trial. It comes after testimony resumed earlier this morning when jurors did leave for recess, they were hearing from georgia longstreet, a paralegal who works on the manhattan district attorneys office. Her testimony coming after jurors heard more from a forensics data expert, with the manhattan district attorneys office, who inspected Text Messages, recordings, secret recordings and other data from phones owned by former trump attorney Michael Cohen. With us to talk about all of this, msnbc National Correspondent yasmin vossoughian, outside the courthouse in manhattan, danny cevallos, Criminal Defense Attorney and msnbc legal analyst, phyllis cote, senior judge and Clinical Professor of law and director of the externship and pro bono program. What has been happening inside the courtroom . This break is probably for a short p
Good day. Im jose diazbalart back with you for another hour. Andrea mitchell is on assignment. We are keeping watch on the Manhattan Courthouse where the jury is back in the courtroom and Donald Trumps defense team is starting crossexamination of a key witness in the former president s first criminal trial. The questions towards Stormy Daniels former attorney. Earlier today, a Second Gag Order Hearing for additional alleged violations after judge merchan found trump in context tuesday and warned the only way to deter further violations might be jail time. The state insisting its not what they are after in hopes of Keeping Disruptions to a minimum. The first violations were done on social media on his campaign website. We begin this hour with nbcs Yasmin Vasiljevs and jeffrey sloman. Whats the latest from inside the court . The question going into this was, what was the purpose of davidsons testimony when it comes to the prosecution . That was setting up the purpose, the context of how
Are watching, and i have been watching and hoping for the professionalism of the police force in their response. They didnt volunteer or ask to be there, we asked them to be there and what we have seen so far from what the camera can detect has been no police brutality, no overreaction by the police, and cooperation by the students who are being arrested. Well, let me say this, to take into account, nypd has been preparing for this. This is not new to that city, dealing with these situations, and part of the reason for the administration there at columbia , moving in in the way nypd did, they were well prepared. Theyve been preparing for this for some time. They have been relying on intelligence, im sure. They had a plan and we saw that. So far, it has been without incident. Those officers, i am quite sure, are only using the necessary force, but i think we are in a situation where we are hopefully seeing this come to an end, because it should have come to an end, this week, and it app
[inaudible] eric moe protest on the streets of tel aviv israels under growing pressure to try and secure their release of the remaining hostages held in gaza. This is a new round of ceasefire talks set to get underway. President biden speak into the israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledging to defend the jewish state or recent concerns about the humanitarian crisis in gaza since israels possible invasion into rafah to finish up the murderers of hamas once and for all for this a brandnew hour of Fox News Live. I am eric shawn. Hi arthel. Arthel hello everyone i am ararthel neville. Egypt is stepping up efforts to broker a truce between israel and hamas. As do proposals includes a three week ceasefire in exchange for the release of 20 hamas hostages israel warns that is prepared to launch an invasion of rafah in Southern Gaza if a deal is not reached soon. National security expert Doctor Rebecca granted joined us earlier today and Fox News Live with some insight. Biden has been