Story of the week. The number four republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents can call in at 202 7488002. If you would like to text us, that number is 202 7488003. Please be sure to include your name and where you are writing in from. You can reach us on social media at facebook. Com cspan and on x cspanwj. Some top stories we have been following, of course the College Campus protests as we mentioned, and the Supreme Court immunity case. We have Economic News with gdp slowing to 1. 6 in the first quarter. The trump hush money trial entering week 2 as well as a gag order debate in that case as well. Also, President Biden signed a foreign aid package. The package of aid to ukraine and israel and taiwan. That piece of legislation also had a provision that could potentially ban the social media videosharing apps tiktok. Heres President Biden speaking at the white house on wednesday after signing the 95 billion package of aid. [video clip] pres. Biden it is a good day for america, for europe, for world. This is consequential. I signed into law the National Security package that was passed by the house of representatives this weekend and the senate yesterday. It will make america safer. It will make the world safer. It continues americas leadership in the world and everyone knows it. It gives vital support to americas partners so they can defend themselves against threats to their sovereignty. And the lives and freedom of their citizens. It is an investment in our own security, because when our allies are stronger and i want to make this point again and again when our allies are stronger we are stronger. Im grateful for all of those in congress who voted for this bill. It is a path to my desk that was a difficult path. It should have been easier and gotten there sooner, but in the end we did what america always does. We rose to the moment, we came together, we got it done. Host on aid to ukraine, the developments in that ongoing conflict as well. Here is a story in the Associated Press that russia renews attacks on the Ukrainian Energy sector as kyiv launches drones at southern russia. Russia launched a barrage of missiles against ukraine overnight and attacks appeared to target the countrys Energy Infrastructure. Russia says that its air system intercepted 60 ukrainian drones over the southern region. The Ukrainian Air force says saturday russia launched 34 missiles against ukraine overnight, of which 21 had been shot down by Ukrainian Air defenses. A bit more news on those campus protests that we were talking about at the top of the show. It is on the front page of the Washington Post along with photos about how these protests started at Columbia University in new york. At columbia, the seeds of a revolt. Police raided a protester encampment at columbia last week. The students at yale were tracking every minute of the chaos that followed with smart phones on social media. Students at the new York City Ivy League school, if they were going to risk arrest, they would too. By the next morning yale demonstrators pitched their own tents. On a zoom call students around the country were strategizing on how they could replicate columbias protest. We talked about what it was like to recruit people, to join, what it meant to stand in solidarity together, and what it would look like if these camps started popping up everywhere. Representative mike johnson, the speaker of the house, went to Columbia University and spoke to the students. Here is a portion of his remarks on wednesday. [video clip] rep. Johnson im here to proclaim to all of those who gnash their teeth and demand to wipe the state of israel off the map and attack our innocent jewish students, this simple truth. Neither israel nor the jewish students on this campus will ever stand alone. Today, hamas issued an endorsement statement of the protesters on this camp is calling them the future leaders of america. It is detestable. This has to be said because the cherished traditions of this university are being overtaken by radical and extreme ideology. It places a target on the backs of jewish students in the United States and on this campus. A growing number of students have chanted in support of terrorists. They have chased down jewish students. They have mocked them, reviled them, shouted racial epitaphs. They have screamed at those who bear the star of david. [crowd chanting we cant hear you] rep. Johnson enjoy your free speech. They tell students who wear the star of david to leave the country. Some professors and faculty have joined the mob. Things have gotten so out of control that the School Canceled in person classes. They have come up with a hybrid model where they will discriminate against jewish students. They are not allowed to come to class for fear of their lives and it is detestable. Columbia has allowed these lawless agitators and lawlessness to take over. The virus of antisemitism has spread across other campuses. By some counts as many as 200 universities have a similar form of protest right now. Host it was on wednesday that the House Press Secretary was asked about events at columbia and other protests. Here is a portion of her remarks. [video clip] columbia is a private institution and we have been consistent about not commenting on personnel matters. That is something for the board of Columbia University to speak to you and the president to make that decision. I will not comment on that. That is the speakers privilege to speak for himself and what he sees. So, look, i would say more broadly, and i said this moments ago, this is a deeply painful, painful moment for many communities and we understand that, but the president believes that free speech, debate, and nondiscrimination on College Campuses are important, important american values. So, he will always be, we will always be very clear about that here. But protests must be peaceful. Students must be safe. When we see violent rhetoric we have to call that out. When we see physical intimidation and grotesque antisemitic remarks we have to speak that out. You saw that from the president s statement on passover. He talked about action, taking action, and making sure we are calling that out. We will continue to do that forcefully, condemn antisemitism from this administration. We are implementing, as you know, the First Ever National strategic effort to counter antisemitism, because there should be no place in this country when it relates to that type of hate. Host once again, our phone lines for your top stories of the week, republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. Lets start with mike in sun city, california on the line for republicans. Good morning. Caller good morning. Relative to the trump trial, i have to agree with most that it is really a sham. How does your side not control the media if you can get away with such blatant manipulation of the judicial process . You had the third guy in charge, or Something Like that, coming over from the supply department to help with the prosecution. They cant even effectively find a crime. The statute of limitations has run out. On and on and on. It is political. The judge has given to the biden campaign. His daughter has raised 100 million for the biden campaign. On and on. I am embarrassed for them. It goes to prove that my old Political Science professor said at ucla, to understand politics you have to understand the elite liberal media serves as the offensive team to the left and democrats serve as the defensive team to the left. Here you have case in point. It is really pathetic watch. It makes me proud that i am a republican. Host thank you for your call. Danny in yuma, arizona on the line for republicans. Good morning. Caller good morning. Im calling from yuma, arizona. For one thing, it took you guys long enough to start covering this terrible antisemitic things that are going on at columbia, harvard, and other top universities across the country. You know something . Two things. One, kimberly, i dont know the percentage, but College Students cannot go out and afford these tents that all of a sudden popped up, pun intended. Someone is funding all of these educators. I believe it is george soros. College students are not going to go out and do this. Not only that, kimberly, what the democrats are doing to donald trump and the American People as a whole is terrible. Democrats are telling us, democrats think that we are stupid, that we dont see what is going on, that they know better than us who to vote for. In america, i have the right to vote and to make my voice heard. The democrats are taking that away from us. Its crazy. The only the the only way to get rid of these lunatics is to vote them out. I will not generalize, but a lot of your democratic callers are so misinformed on what is going on at the border. We are being invaded, kimberly. I challenge cspan to come down here with a news crew and set up and do a live shot from down here in yuma, arizona. It is terrible what our hospitals host we will get to a couple more colors. Thank you for calling in. Bob in New Hampshire on the line for independents. Caller yes, good morning, thank you. I kind of agree with the spirit of peacefulness for a College Campus. Like when we went against apartheid in south africa we divested. A good place to start is the colleges. I am not saying that that government should pullout with weapons and stuff like that. Israel has to defend themselves. That brings me to point number two. The gaza situation. Number two is it has to ba. 2 state solution. Be a two state solution. These student protesters should say that hamas should surrender and xo themselves exile themselves. If they dont do it themselves they are prolonging the war and are just as bad as what is happening on the others. That will lead may be to the u. N. Coming in and taking over military in the gaza strip, working towards a two state solution. That has to happen. For that to happen, iran has to kick in. These students should be looking at iran saying stop the violence there. Youre not going to have a two state solution if iran is throwing missiles in there through their surrogates. Oh, the fifth thing. If they are so worried about war and people being hurt, Say Something about ukraine. Get russia out of their. Of there. If they are sincere. Host to take your point and give more scope about the conflicts across the country, in the Washington Post it details where the campus protests have led to arrests so far. Not just where they are in general. You can obviously see that there have been arrests at Columbia University, Yale University where 60 were arrested, new york university, California State Polytechnic University at humboldt, university of minnesota nine protesters arrested on trespassing charges, the university of texas at austin, and the university of southern california, ohio university, emerson college, emory university, and the list goes on. Indiana university also. Lets go to bob in st. Paul, minnesota. One place where there were arrests in protests. Bobby, what is your top new story of the week . Caller thank you for taking my call, kimberly. It is the protests going on. I am 78 years old. I went to school in the 1960s. I went through the vietnam protests. I am not not necessarily in Chronological Order you had rodney king and the beating that he took from the policeman that were acquitted. Then you have those protesters, black lives matter, vietnam, it is a racist country, you can go on and on of protests for global warming, protests for prochoice excuse me. Host what do you think of all of the protests, bobby . Caller i am getting to my point. What i think, kimberly, is this. Maybe i have been living under a rock and ive been listening to all of these protests over the years. I am the son of an immigrant and i look at all of the folks trying to get into this country legally and illegally for a better life, for food, clothing, shelter, medicine, education. And then i hear this, death to america. It was like someone stabbed me right in the chest. My friend said, you are oldfashioned, those are words. I dont think it is. Now you look at where the protests are going. It started off with, stop the bombing release the hostages. Now, it is death to america, jews go back to poland, kilda jews kill the jews. It seems like it is antiamerican. I think the president has to be more vocal about this. The fbi has to come in on this because it is absolutely orchestrated from coasttocoast. Theyre talking about funds coming in from different areas, soros and this and that. This is the tip of the iceberg, ok . Host we have James Hopkins who posted on facebook, the trump trial in new york city has to be the story of the week because it marks the first time a former u. S. President faces criminal charges in a state court. This sets a significant legal precedent and underscores the principle that no individual, regardless of their position or status, is above the law. Where the law ends tyranny begins. Bob in mooresville, new york. Good morning, bob. Caller thank you for taking my call. I would like to speak about the trump trial. I think that it is pretty obvious to the American Public what is going on here. They have tried numerous times to indict trump and they just want to keep him off the ballot. I think it is going to backfire against the democrats. We will see in november. Thank you. Host next, tampa, florida on the line for republicans. Good morning. Caller good morning, kimberly. How are you . Host i am good. Thank you. What is your top new story of the week . Caller so many of them. I want to address first of all that we set and we wave our finger at everyone else and we dont even look at the mirror. The ridiculous stuff that we are arguing about these days is always other americans. We have americans that are hating other americans and we have real problems in this world. We cannot wait to point at the other guy when this is our house. All we do is hate each other and blame the other guy for it. We have all of these protests across the nation, and there are people in those protests paid to make those other people who are there righteously look bad. It is happening everywhere. There are traitors across this nation for cash. We are turning americans against americans, and we cannot help but eat it up and it is disgusting. It is disgusting that we have a president and a courtroom who has broken so many laws. My party even refuses to watch the trial. All they do is say the devil is a good man, and they dont have a single shred of proof. All they do is say the democrats are bad because our president he is not president. He is the expresident and he broke the law. Watch the trials. I am so sick of host i want to talk about the hush money trial in new york. Here is coverage in the Washington Post. Secrets, lies, chaos laid bare in week one of the trump testimony. Trump fought mightily before and after elected president to keep secret the embarrassing details of his private life but often failed despite having a fat checkbook and wellconnected template editor in his pocket, according to the first week of evidence at his trial. Warmer president s typically spend former president s typically spend their time writing memoirs making speeches. Trump is sitting in Court Watching someone else try to define his legacy even after he campaigned for a second term in the oval office. Over four days of testimony, the former National Enquirer executive david pecker told the jury not just how deeply involved trumps team was to use the supermarket tabloids to fuel his 2016 campaign, but how celebrities and politicians generally try to buy, trade, or believe their way out of scandalous stories. The top story for scott rich who posted on facebook, it was just revealed how detached from reality the Supreme Court has become. Several grand juries have found enough evidence to charge him, referring to former president donald trump, with crimes, but the court sounded ready to twist the law again. That is referencing the Supreme Court oral arguments around trump immunity. Here is a portion of trumps attorney delivering opening arguments in the immunity claim case before the Supreme Court on thursday. [video clip] mr. Chief justice, and may it please the court, without immunity from president ial prosecution there can be no presidency as we know it. For 234 years of american history, no president was ever prosecuted for his official acts. The framers of our constitution viewed an energetic executive as essential to securing liberty. If a president can be charged, put on trial, and imprisoned for his most controversial decisions as soon as he leaves office, that looming threat will distort the president s Decision Making precisely when bold and fearless action is most needed. Every current president will face to fecteau blackmail and extortion by his political rivals while he is still in office. The implications of the courts decision here extend far beyond the facts of this case. Could president george w. Bush have been sent to prison for obstructing an official proceeding or leather delete or allegedly lying to congress to induce war in iraq. Could president obama be charged with murder for killing u. S. Citizens abroad by drone strike . Could President Biden some day be charged with unlawfully inducing immigrants to enter the coun