There are injuries here. We just dont know how many, but yet look at the size of that tornado. Lets get to the maps here. Ill show you whats going on. It could be a continuously violent night all the way through good morning hours. We will see tornadoes likely on the ground throughout the night, all the way from really almost texas into nebraska. This red box here thats the tornado watch box, which means theyre possible these pink boxes, which means theyre happening. So for you, bennington, missouri valley, that would be blair right over here. Heres i6 at omaha. But what im concerned about down here south of syrupy county, this are more storms here that are violently rotating and are working toward omaha proper, where the storm here missed the Western Suburbs of omaha. Almost elkhorn really. But this is the area that im most concerned about over the next 30 minutes or so now for she knew can kansas, you have some storms to your west as well . They are also Rotating Down in texas. It is hail and a wind event for you, we will watch the tornadoes because they are on the ground right now. All right. Scary stuff. Meteorologist chad myers, thanks so much. The other major story this hour they four of testimony in Donald TrumpsCriminal Hush MoneyCover Up Trial is just wrapped up for the week. What a week. It has been for the former president today in court, the defendant watched three witnesses testify, including his former assistant, wrote a graph as well as david pecker has reported friend and former publisher of the National Enquirer, testifying about the deal that pecker says he helped broker with Adult Film Star and director Stormy Daniels. Pecker today in his fourth, day of testimony, admitting he would kill stories, meaning he would he would buy them and then not run them. So as to influence the 2016 election and quote, to help a president ial candidate. Candidate being his friend, mr. Trump prosecutors say trumps false location of Business Records over those Hush Money Payments to Stormy Daniels amount to an illegal conspiracy to subvert the election by concealing information from voters first well see if the jury goes goes along with that theory. That is just one of the legal drama starring mr. Trump this week yesterday, his federal election subversion case was front and center. As the Us Supreme Court heard oral arguments on his claim the president s are immune from prosecution for official acts they commit while being president , the justices seemed to be leaning towards rejecting his claims of sweeping Immunity Trump also took a loss yesterday when a federal judge of held the verdict and award in E Jean CarrollsDefamation Case against mr. Trump denying his motion for a new trial altogether this week, mr. Trump also finds himself listed as an unindicted coconspirator in both arizona and in michigans 2020 election subversion investigations. And indictments. Lets discuss all of this with ronan farrow, contributing writer at the new yorker, who has done extensive reporting on david pecker his company, ami, as well as the Karen Mcdougal catch and kill deal ronans a lawyer, also the author of catch and kill lies, spies, and a conspiracy to protect predators. Ronen, good to see you again, my friends. So today the defense tried to expose small inconsistencies in pecker statements. They focused on a key august 2015 meeting at trump tower with pecker trump and cohen were pecker said he agreed to be the eyes and ears for the trump campaign, flagging any negative stories about trump to Michael Cohen the defense asked, did you ever are specifically use the term catch and kill in the meeting and pecker replied, no, i did not but then under Redirect Questioning from the prosecution, pecker reiterated the contents of the 2015 meeting, saying my understanding is those stories that come up, i would speak to Michael Cohen and tell them these are the stories that are going to be for sale that if we dont buy them somebody else will and then Michael Cohen would handle by them or trying to make sure that they dont ever get published unquote. So even if the term catch and kill wasnt used you wrote a book called catch and kill. Is that not catching gill that is the definition of this colloquial term that has emerged around this catch and kill, which was a term that i and other journalists around this first started during from ami employees it was something of whats called a neologism. It entered into the discourse partly through this, and it was a practice the enquirer had engaged in for a long time, this sort of stick and karatay well buy up the unflattering stories. Maybe we wont run them. Also. Will run flattering stories about you. They had done that if hollywood celebrities in the past, and here they were clearly applying it in a political context and it was apparent to all of us digging through the trail of money on this, that even if the underlying rumors about a fares are supposed, love children, didnt matter at all and we didnt care what did matter was the potential Flexion Line Implications of the transactions, as you pointed out on the stand today pecker faced a meal beauvais, one of these Trump Lawyers who on crossexamination, had to eject its he tried to pick apart peckers credibility by looking at the long history of cooperative statements hes made to Law Enforcement over the past year is about this and finding any can you a little difference. Did he initially say that hope hicks was present for some of that meeting that you mentioned or did he not tried to impeach his memory about those things . And then the other thing, beauvais was trying to establish was were these deals that were also just in the interest of the National Enquirer in the usual sense that they would have sold pulled issues and that was the Main Objective of these transactions. Heres the thing. David pecker has come off extremely well for prosecutors in this case so far. Hes been very composed. He has a avuncular manner during this case so far and he has repeatedly saying the main point, which is the one you highlighted, which is in the face of all of this, hes saying no, this was not the normal course of business even if they were on the margins ways in which it might have benefited the enquirer in the usual sense, there was this other objective here to subvert the election. Yeah. And pecker acknowledging that the story that he helped kill, that he paid 150,000 to kill one of the stories you help break Karen Mcdougal googles silence being bought for 150,000. That would have been and i forget if i dont know if it was the prosecution or mr. Packer, but tabloid gold was the term that was used because people who read the National Enquirer would have bought a lot of copies of it to read the story about donald j. Trump, and 1998 play of the year pecker was the first witness on the stand for four days what do you know having researched this so much for your book and for the article about Karen Mcdougal, what do you know about david pecker and his relationship with donald trump that the jury did not here well, one thing is that it was a wider, deeper relationship than is being admitted into this case. There was a safe that contained a lot of materials about trump those materials moved locations several times over the course of disk becoming an electoral issue. There was a list that i was shown by a senior ami source of trumps stories, not all of them terribly consequential. Some of them were his feud with rosie odonnell, but some of them were also potentially unflattering ones. So this was a deep and wide relationship and pecker saying over and over again now this was about trying to help donald trump get into the white house is confirmation of something that ami lied to a lot of reporters, including me about back when these things were first emergent. Also that save helps helps explain perhaps why mr. Trump has not criticized david pecker at all. I want to ask you before you go, because yesterday we saw i made a Major Court Ruling completely separate from the trump case also on a subject that youve broken a lot of stories about and you think it could ultimately manner for trump the New York Court Of Appeals overturned Harvey Weinsteins 2020 eviction for sex crimes basically, the court said that the lower court made a mistake by allowing women to testify about allegations of Sexual Assault that were separate from the three for which he was actually charged in that case, you are at the forefront of investigating, reporting a multitude of allegations against weinstein. You say this ruling could come back to haunt trumps judge juan merchan in trumps trial, explain well, it illuminates a shared legal issue that is at the heart of both of these cases of course, for activists and for survivors of Harvey Weinsteins alleged crimes its an anguished moment, to hear that one of his conviction was overturned on essentially a question of legal technicality, the way the case was built. But for legal spectators, its less surprising because this was always a case where prosecutors overextended a bit in the context of the new york rules of evidence on what you can lead into a case he was being charged on three pledged assaults and they let other women with other accounts of unrelated assaults come in and testify. And i have a new piece out in the new yorker detailing what exactly the rules are and why that always seemed like a bit of an overextension. Now, this doesnt matter that much for Harvey Weinsteins immediate future. His lawyers in california where he asked to serve us separate 16 year sentence. Thats essentially going to put them away for much of the rest of his life are saying, well will it could help us on appeal in california, but thats a much stronger case. Ive been in touch with the prosecutors in that case and californias rules for letting in that kind of evidence of uncharged alleged bad acts are for much more lax and permissive. That ruling is less than jeopardy. Hes less likely to be affected. What it does affect is the general case law on what you can let in in terms of Uncharged Acts in new york. And that is interesting in the context of this trump trial because of the trump trial hinges on charges about one transaction from Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels but much of the case prosecutors are building is about the wider pattern, about Uncharged Acts, namely all of these ami options interesting ronan farrow, always good to see the book catch and kill. Its a great read. Weve covered it before on the show. Thanks so much for being here, ronna, good to see you also today, both President Biden and donald trump out with big now thats when its both saying they would be willing to debate each other. The American People do deserve a formal discussion on the most important issues of our time, when and where that might actually happen. We do not know. Plus a reversal from a student at Columbia University who led propalestinian protests. He said, in a rant that was televised for at least broadcast, at least in part on Instagram Live, he said that zionists dont deserve to live as other students are echoing that wild, clearly antisemitic claim and more demonstrations are spreading is, is apology such as it is too little too late. Well be right back somebody would ask her something and she would just walk right past we didnt know they were talking to her. I just could not here. I was hesitant to get the hearing aids because of my short hair, but nobody even sees them ive nearly invisible hearing aids are just one reason weve been the brand leader for over 75 years. When i finally get here for the first time, i could hear every if called miracle ear 18002 347090, and schedule your free hearing evaluation today. Ive struggled with generalized Myasthenia Gravis, but the patient where already doing this again, White House Correspondents, i thought you were youre not in town for that. Youre too fancy and im skipping out on it. You know, the new yorker doesnt have a culture of going. And then its so fun, but also its like thats rubbing elbows. No, no, its definitely i feel like last time i saw yeah. I feel like im the last few times ive seen you in person, its often at the White House Correspondents, a Party One Way or another to be clear i stand on no high horse. I will go do the grocery woozy thing at some point, but now im skipping it out this year. I want to see you soon though, and if you do great show and i loved being on jake. Thank you so much, ron, and keep Keep On Keeping on. Youre doing such a fantastic job. We love having you on. Ill talk to you soon. They dont deserve to live comfortably let alone zionists dont deserve to live commodity james ii spokesperson for the Student Protests at Columbia University, said this more than once eah. Mark has, jake tapper all. Hombre tbi me. I said Hi International lead protests on campuses are spreading to colleges throughout the country from california to indiana, from illinois to georgia. At Emory University in atlanta, clashes with police turned physical in some cases as 28 people were arrested prompting a group of democratic george ohio state lawmakers to condemn, quote, the Excessive Force used on Quote Negotiations continue at Columbia University to find a way to resolve the conflicts and remove the tense before graduation. One of the issues being debate in all of this is how much are these protests . Solely rooted in concern for palestinians and opposition to what the Israel Defense forces is doing in gaza. Because we have seen sentiments expressed by some of the groups behind the protests that the hamas Terrorist Attacks on civilians on october 7 were mere Quote Resistance and some have said that israel should not exist. Other individuals associated with the protests are in the protests have said wildly hateful and antisemitic things, including as cnns Miguel Marquez reports for us now, one of the columbia Student Leaders behind the protests on that campus zionist de dont deserve to live comfortably, let alone zionist dont deserve to live. Commodity. James eight spokesperson for the Student Protests at Columbia University, said this more than once. In a personal social media post in january the same way were very comfortable accepting that. Nazis dont deserve to live ashes dont deserve to live racist, dont deserve to live xy hes comments. James unapologetic i think we need to shift the conversation from peoples comfort to the Hundreds Of Thousands thousands of people who have been displaced. The tens of thousands of people who have been murdered by israel harder your words help. I think its very important to your words, health i think its very important for people to understand that the conflation of anti zionism with antisemitism is woefully incorrect. Act and wrong again, what do you apologize again . As i mentioned earlier, we believe in the sanctity of life here at this encampment. Despite his calls for a class of people to cease existing, james nearly daily expresses his belief that israel is committing genocide. While israel plants to move forward with its genocide, backed by the United States and other western powers. It is important to remember why we are here after being confronted, james released a statement saying, in part, i am frustrated that the words i said in an Instagram Live video have become a distraction for the movement for palestinian liberation. I misspoke in the heat of the moment for which i apologize some jewish students at columbia say they have been called zionist by protesters just for being jewish. Other jewish students have taken an active part in the protests for what they view as an overbearing israeli response to the october 7, hamas Terror Attack and a weak us response to continued bloodshed its possible that propalestine protest might make some jewish students feel uncomfortable, but i will emphasize that the propalestine protest here at the encampment are they have fundamental values against hate and bigotry that with regard to mr. James the Columbia University, he says that they will not comment on individual cases. Its