Day 9 of former Pres. Trump’s historic criminal hush money trial

Day 9 of former Pres. Trump’s historic criminal hush money trial

Pro Palestinian protesters and police
are growing more intense on college
campuses new video shows officers in
riot gear last night facing off with
protesters at Virginia Commonwealth
University Police making dozens of
arrests using what appeared to be pepper
spray on people throwing water bottles
at
them at the University of Texas Austin
officers also using pepper spray while
arresting dozens of protesters most of
whom are not believed to be affiliated
with the University at the University of
Florida nine protesters arrested the
school saying the University of Florida
is not a daycare and we do not treat
protesters like children they knew the
rules they broke the rules the
demonstrations Nationwide range from
sitting on campus Lawns to anti-semitic
hate speech the most entrenched protest
is at calpoly
humbled for the last week students have
occupied a campus Building that houses
the school president’s
office ATT at Columbia University in New
York the epicenter of the demonstrations
the school is now suspending students
who refuse to abide by yesterday’s
deadline to vacate an encampment it
comes as Secretary of State Anthony
blinkin meets with Arab leaders in the
Middle East calling a new ceasefire
proposal presented to Hamas
extraordinarily generous the only thing
standing between the people of Gaza and
a ceasefire is
Hamas they have to decide and they have
to decide quickly The Proposal
reportedly includes a 40-day truce
combined with the releasee of
potentially thousands of Palestinian
Prisoners the New York Times reports
Israel dropped its previous demand for
40 hostages now willing to accept
33 blinkin is also discussing a
potential deal to normalize relations
between Saudi Arabia and Israel in
return for defense and security
commitments Arab states and Washington
are pushing for Israel to agree to
Palestinian statehood which prime
minister Netanyahu has
rejected back to those protesters inside
the academic building at columb the
student newspaper reports protesters
have covered the building’s security
cameras with tape and trash bags after
reportedly breaking Windows the
protesters reportedly removed the
barricades for a moment allowing
facility workers inside to leave Andrew
all right Chan thank you former
president Trump returns to a New York
courtroom this morning for the second
week of testimony at his hush money
trial a banker who helped his former
lawyer Michael Cohen set up a shell
company used to pay off Stormy Daniels
will be back on the stand it’s not clear
when Cohen himself will testify but he’s
been cashing in with videos on Tik Tok
discussing Trump and the trial as
viewers make donations this after Cohen
promised to stop posting about the case
mandatory evacuations have been ordered
north of Houston Texas because of
concerns about extreme flooding
residents along the Trinity River in P
County were told to get out as water was
being released from a dam River levels
have been rising due to recent sustained
heavy rain in that area meanwhile the
planes are bracing for more storms today
after a tornado outbreak over the
weekend left five people dead one
twister in Oklahoma was the strongest
reported in the US so far this year with
Winds of 166 milph and new video shows a
semi- look at this being blown over in
Nebraska as a storm approached we will
check today’s forecast in just a few
moments we turn now to the family of a
teenager shot after ringing the doorbell
at the wrong house while picking up his
brothers in Missouri his family is
taking new legal action and the shooter
isn’t the only one they’re
targeting this morning the family of
Ralph yarl is demanding accountability
it’s about holding all parties involved
accountable and ensuring that steps are
taken to present prevent such tragedies
from occurring again they’re filing a
civil lawsuit nearly one year after yarl
then 16 years old was shot after showing
up at the wrong address in Kansas City
to pick up his brothers I hear the door
open I see this old man and I’m assuming
oh this is this must be like their
grandpa and then he pulls out his gun
I’m thinking there’s no way he’s
actually going to shoot right the door
is even open he’s going to shoot through
his glass door and glass is going to get
everywhere then it happened 84-year-old
Andrew Lester shot yarl in the head and
arm police say Lester reported seeing a
black male approximately 6 feet tall
pulling on his door and thought he was
being robbed but yarl is 5’8 Lester is
now awaiting trial after pleading not
guilty to first-degree assault and armed
criminal action this case is not just
about Seeking Justice for rout but about
advocating for systemic changes yarl’s
family claims prosecutors have not been
aggressive in pursuing the case their
civil suit targets Lester and his
homeowners association claiming
negligence our lawsuit will be looking
to investigate how much the neighborhood
association knew about Mr Lester’s
violent tendencies about his racial
animist the suit also claims the
association failed to Rend under Aid
after yarl was shot the homeowners
association has not commented and
Lester’s attorney says he’s not yet seen
the complaint the family says that yarl
has suffered permanent injuries
including pain and suffering the civil
lawsuit seeks unspecified compensation
Federal Regulators are now testing
ground beef in certain States for bird
flu the test will involve samples from
beef from retail stores in the nine
states where dairy cows have tested
positive officials insist though
handling and cooking meat properly will
reduce any risk to humans time now for
your Tuesday
weather good morning unfortunately
dealing with more severe weather and
some of the same areas that are cleaning
up from last week’s severe weather
eastern Nebraska into Western Iowa the
greatest threat for damaging winds large
hell even some isolated tornadoes this
afternoon this evening spotty
thunderstorms develop so that’s a risk
for severe weather a lot of that dies
down into Wednesday morning but look at
this next storm system winding up k
picks up all the severe weather into
Wednesday night so we have another risk
for severe weather as we head through
Wednesday for AI weather I’m Melissa
conster coming up Verizon T-Mobile and
AT&T paying up what they allegedly did
with customers data also ahead tractor
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among a group that got loose on
Interstate 90 you see here when a
trailer opened most were coralled a
short time later but one of them jumped
a fence and now officials are worried
about Predators we turn now to something
new coming to American highways
supporters say it will mean faster and
cheaper deliveries by truck these 18
wheelers are designed to carry all sorts
of cargo but one thing they won’t be
carrying a driver by the end of the year
Aurora tractor trailers are expected to
begin cruising the highways hauling
Freight between Dallas and Houston the
aora driver is this combination of the
hardware the stuff you can see hanging
off the side of the truck here and then
some really interesting software to
avoid crashes the self-driving semi is
outfitted with 25 sensors including
lasers Radars and cameras within the
next four years Aurora and its
competitors expect to put thousands of
these autonomous trucks on the road
transporting goods nearly Around the
Clock hoping to accelerate product
delivery times and lower costs for
consumers but critics aren’t sold on the
safety the company’s going to decide
when they think they’re safe and the
only thing that is going to do is Judge
them after the fact if something went
wrong that’s where we are but Aurora’s
CEO touting safety demonstrated the
truck’s ability to weave through
obstacles and avoid pedestrians we want
to be out there with thousands or tens
of thousands of trucks on the road and
to do that we have to be safe meanwhile
with pedestrian fatalities on the rise
Nationwide up more than 80% since 2009
new action to make cars safer a new
federal safety regulation will require
all new cars and trucks be equipped with
automatic emergency brakes breing or AE
systems which use sensors to hit the
brakes to avoid a crash when the driver
fails to beginning in 2029 AE systems
will be required to prevent collisions
with other cars at speeds up to 62 mph
and will be required to stop entirely
before hitting a pedestrian at up to 45
mph Regulators say the technology could
save hundreds of lives per year most new
vehicles already come with some form of
automatic braking automakers meanwhile
have until 2029 to adopt these new stand
well the largest Wireless carriers are
being fined nearly $200 million the FCC
accuses T-Mobile AT&T and Verizon of
illegally selling the real-time location
data of their customers without their
consent the data allegedly ended up in
the hands of bounty hunters bail bond
companies and other third parties the
carriers say they will challenge the
fines coming up a major legal settlement
involving a popular sleep aid also ahead
the unsolved killing of a Colorado
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her husband’s
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patients who inhaled potentially
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company’s sleep apnea devices as part of
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fault and now to the mysterious killing
of a Colorado mother four years after
she went missing we have some new
answers and some new
questions this morning autopsy results
are raising new questions about the
mysterious death of Colorado mother
Suzanne morw the autopsy ruling her
death a homicide finding substances
consistent with an animal tranquilizer
is in Her Bones Suzanne morphew went
missing on Mother’s Day in 2020 while
allegedly on a bike ride just 7 months
ago authorities found her remains in a
shallow grave 45 miles south of the
family home her husband Barry morphew
was initially charged with murder and
evidence tampering but charges against
him were later dropped he says he left
early that morning for a job 160 Mi
north of their home and his lawyer
claims the autopsy results boost
morphe’s case saying the toxicology
confirms that Suzanne had her morning
cup of coffee and her mountain biking
clothes were found with her remains
confirming she was either getting ready
for or was already on her morning bike
ride when she was abducted allegedly
drugged and buried adding none of
Suzanne morphe’s bones and her feet were
found in the grave nor were her shoes
and a bullet was also found in morphe’s
arrest affidavit from 2021 investigators
said a needle cap for a tranquilizer
dart was found in the drier inside bed
sheets morphe explained he had shot a
deer with a tranquilizer dart and had
disposed of the tranquilizer solution
morphe and his daughters spoke
exclusively to ABC news last summer
these charges were dropped without
prejudice which means if authorities
feel like there’s more evidence they
could charge you again do you live with
fear of that well I was innocent the
first time they arrested me so
I’m sure it’s possible but I don’t have
anything to worry about I’ve done
nothing
wrong prosecutors have said they aren’t
ruling out future charges against morw
the family is urging authorities though
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fourth law enforcement officer wounded
during a shootout in North Carolina has
died the officers were serving a warrant
when suspect opened fire Pro Palestinian
demonstrators have occupied a building
at Columbia University entering
overnight after the school begins
suspending students for defying a
deadline to leave meanwhile protesters
at Virginia Commonwealth University are
among the latest to clash with police
apparently using pepper spray King
Charles is resuming his public duties
this morning for the first time since
announcing his cancer diagnosis
fittingly he will visit a Cancer
Treatment Center in Arizona the death of
a 2-year-old in a bounce house near
Phoenix is being called a tragic
accident child died when strong winds
lifted the bounce house into the air on
Saturday today’s weather a tornado
threat from Kansas and Nebraska to
Southern Minnesota widespread rain
across the Eastern us and finally
strangers on the internet helping a
woman reunite with her dog here’s our
Danny new with this
story with a trash bag from Flor 6
why how did we miss that as we know when
the internet decides it’s collectively
going to solve a case the investigation
can be quite galvanizing so this is one
of those moments where we’re thankful
for social
media yes a few weeks ago when Hannah
here was on a business trip away from
her home in
Atlanta
y she got a call that her best good yoga
pal Hazel was nowhere to be found my
heart just like dropped basically Hazel
had eaten something not great for her
and when the dog sitter took her to the
vet according to Hannah Hazel was taken
outside um still had a catheter in her
leg taken outside without a leash Hazel
ran away from the animal hospital but
that’s when Hannah asked folks on social
media for help within hours she had
people from as far away as Australia on
the case I would call like the car wash
that was on the street that Hazel was
found on to see if maybe they had
surveillance footage and the guy was
like I just got off the phone with
someone asking me for that after 5 days
of phone calls and flyers a woman found
Hazel on her porch and you can probably
guess how she recognized her Hannah and
Hazel were finally reunited she had lost
a third of her body weight but sat on
Mom’s lap all the way to a different vet
you then Hazel immediately ate all the
treats she wanted and proceeded to sleep
around the clock for 3 days as you do
when you’re finally home safe I see just
how much so many people did it’s
incredible I reached out to that Animal
Hospital hital guys who says that they
are quote Overjoyed Hazel has been found
that’s nice and meanwhile a gof funding
that Hannah started to help find Hazel
actually raised 10 grand now she’s using
that to help others find their lost dogs
guys oh Hazel’s such a good girl and I
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live first testimony set to resume in
Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New
York why Tik Tock post from his former
fixer Michael Cohen could complicate the
case tensions are storing at more than
60 college campuses across the US now
students have barricaded themselves in a
building at Columbia University after
defying a deadline to disband we’re
there as hundreds of arrests are
happening across the
country a fourth officer has died after
shootout in North Carolina the
investigation this morning after suspect
opened fire while authorities were
serving a warrant plus a major
development in the case of the Colorado
mom who vanished on Mother’s Day four
years ago what authorities found in
Suzanne morph’s autopsy and why it could
potentially blow the case wide open
again testimony is set to resume today
in the criminal hush money trial against
former president Trump so far jurors
have heard from three Witnesses former
National inquire publisher David pecker
Trump’s longtime executive assistant Ron
graph and Banker Gary pharaoh who will
return to the stand shortly so far
Pharaoh has testified that he helped
Michael Cohen set up the shell company
that Cohen used to secretly pay Stormy
Daniels
$130,000 days ahead of the 2016 election
ABC News senior investigative
correspondent Aaron kerki has the
latest in late October 2016 3 weeks
before the election Michael Cohen was in
a hurry his Banker Gary faroh said Cohen
called repeatedly wanting to open a new
account every time Michael Cohen spoke
to me he gave a sense of urgency faraoh
said this is one of those times Cohen
opened essential Consultants LLC he was
the only authorized signer the form asks
is the entity associated with political
fundraising political action committee
Cohen answered no it was from this
account that Cohen wired
$130,000 to adult film actress Stormy
Daniels so she would stay quiet about
her alleged sexual encounter with Donald
Trump which he denies happened
prosecutors have said the payment to
Daniels amounted to a campaign expense
and charged Trump with falsifying
business records because he categorized
it as a legal fee it’s a case as to
bookkeeping which is a very minor thing
in terms of the law this is a case where
you pay a lawyer he’s a lawyer and they
call it a legal expense Trump has
attacked Cohen’s credibility so often on
social media in interviews or during
remarks in the courthouse hallway that
prosecutors have asked the judge to hold
him in contempt there’s a hearing about
that later this week but during the
trial Cohen has been appearing on Tik
Tok discussing the case hyping his own
forthcoming testimony and goating Trump
trump 2024 more like Trump 20 to 24
years viewers often donate virtual gifts
he could cash out for money Cohen told
ABC News he is elected out of respect to
the court and the prosecutors to cease
commenting on Trump and this matter
prosecutors said early on Diane that
Cohen and some of the other Witnesses
have what you might call some baggage
and they asked the jury to keep an open
mind Diane all right senior
investigative correspondent Erin kerki
thank you and we will be following this
trial all day long and we’ll bring you
updates as we get them right here on ABC
News live meanwhile Pro Palestinian
protesters are now barricaded inside a
building at Columbia University the
campus newspaper reports student broke
windows and are blocking exits with
tables and zip ties after school
officials started suspending students
who refused to leave an encampment this
has police clashed with protesters at
universities across the country ABC
Stephanie Ramos has the latest from
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columia Pro Palestinian protesters
Gathering outside Columbia University’s
Hamilton Hall and then storming the
building video capturing students
slamming desks breaking windows and
barricading themselves in inside just
after 12:30 this morning dozens of
students left the encampment and entered
the
hall students defiant refusing to
dismantle their encampment you need to
stop bombing you need to stop
indiscriminate killing Massacre of
Palestinians Ina um that’s how you end
the war at least one person arrested
Monday outside Columbia’s Gates seen
here being taken into custody let go oh
my God and at Virginia Commonwealth
University large crowd of pro
Palestinian protesters clashing with
police in riot gear this video is
showing police spraying what appears to
be pepper spray at protesters the
university telling ABC News multiple
arrests were made and claiming that many
individuals involved were not students
this as similar demonstrations and
clashes now playing out at more than 60
college campuses across the
us at the University of Texas at Austin
dozens arrested as protesters and police
in riot gear clashed there no right here
why are you here at the University of
Florida nine protesters arrested the
school saying the University of Florida
is not a daycare and we do not treat
protesters like children they knew the
rules they broke the rules Jewish
students on both sides of the issue some
who are pro-israel say they’ve been
harassed it’s not easy to stand there
alone when the whole university is
practically against us at USC
administrators cancelling their main
commencement ceremony due to to protests
many of the soon Tobe graduates missed
their High School graduation due to the
pandemic my high school just had a
drive- through graduation I personally
was really looking forward to having
this main ceremony and traditional
graduation for my whole
life and Stephanie Ramos joins me now
from Columbia University for more on
this Stephanie what’s it like there
right
now right now Diane it is pretty calm it
usually is around this time in the
morning there are still barricades
outside of the Columbia Gates just uh a
few feet behind me uh just kind of ready
for for what’s may be to come later on
in the afternoon we know we’ve seen uh
small groups of pro Palestinian
protesters and pro-israel protesters
Gathering here outside of Columbia
University uh both here at uh the
Broadway entrance and the Amsterdam
entrance on the other side uh but right
now it is calm and it’s calm on campus
as well but we of course will be
monitoring the situation throughout the
day certainly
changed now on this day in 1968 Columbia
students occupied Hamilton Hall to
protest racism against black people
hundreds were arrested and more than 100
injured can you talk about the symbolism
of this
building well this building is known for
student takeovers Hamilton Hall and as
you mentioned it has been the scene of
many student takeovers uh for decades
stating back to 19 1968 where student
protesters were protesting the Vietnam
War and then years later in 1972 more
anti-war protests and then even in
1985 uh student protesters were
demonstrating at that same building when
they were requesting that the university
divest from companies that were doing
business with South Africa and the
university later agreeing so this is
kind of what the students here want to
see they want to see the university uh
divest from companies that may be
profiting from Israel and uh that
building Hamilton Hall as you mentioned
holds a lot of symbolism and over the
last several several
decades all right Stephanie Ramos at
Columbia University thank
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you Secretary of State Anthony blinkin
is urging Hamas to accept what he calls
an extraordinarily generous ceasefire
proposal from Israel this say
negotiations reach a critical point with
the secretary saying Hamas has to decide
and has to decide quickly foreign
correspondent Tom sufy burd has the
latest from
Jerusalem the first images of US troops
off the coast of Gaza building a
floating Pier so Aid can be shipped in
it comes as negotiations for a ceasefire
in Gaza and the release of more hostages
reach a critical
point after that Hamas video of American
Israeli hostage Keith seagull his
daughter pleaded with the US and Israel
to get her dad home we are not breathing
almost s month Keith’s wife of Viva
taken hostage with him on October 7 but
she was released in November I’m not
there to give him the help Keith is a
human being with the heart and he’s
sensitive and he belongs to us he does
not belong to the Hamas Hamas now
considering a proposal which would see a
40-day ceasefire and the potential
release of thousands of Palestinian
prisoners according to a topak British
official the New York Times saying
Israel now willing to accept the release
of 33 hostages dropping its previous
demand of
40 for people in Gaza a ceasefire can’t
come soon enough the latest Israeli air
strikes killing more than 20 including
children according to a local hospital
the emergency room is very busy and full
right now people are desperate they want
to find their loved ones they want
treatment they’re hurting they’re in
pain Brenda Maldonado from Washington
State working in Gaza for the past 2
weeks telling us what she’s seen will
stay with her forever we have patients
lying on the ground anytime we get Mass
casualties which is almost every single
day the patients brought in and placed
directly on the floor and we’re treating
them a lot of blast injuries shrapnel
injuries children older people not
soldiers I haven’t seen a soldier since
I’ve been here it’s basically
civilians and Diane prime minister
Netanyahu is still threatening to launch
that ground offensive into Rafa and in
those talks Egypt saying hamas’s
negotiating team has now left Cairo and
will submit a written response to the
proposed ceasefire deal blinkin expected
here in Israel tonight as we wait to see
how Hamas will respond Diane foreign
correspondent Tom Sufi bur thank you and
an investigation is underway after a
deadly shootout in North Carolina four
officers are dead and four injured after
a suspect open fire while they were
trying to serve two warrants faith abub
has the latest from
Charlotte four officers killed and four
others injured after trying to serve
felony warrants in Charlotte North
Carolina shots fired at officer possibly
one down correction two down subjects
barricaded himself the officers part of
a US Marshal’s fugitive task force
descended on this home looking for
convicted felon 39-year-old Terry Clark
Hughes Jr authorities say Hughes opened
fire on the officers listen closely and
you can hear at least one
gunshot as a stunned bystander records
it all
oh neighbors describing the Mayhem as
police took over their house they used
one of our bedrooms to set up a US
Marshal sniper in helicopters hovered
and schools put on lock down during the
4-Hour standoff we were at the track and
we could hear a lot of gunshots
overnight officer Joshua a a six-year
veteran of the Charlotte meinberg Police
Department
succumbing to his injuries leaving
behind a wife and three-year-old son
keep your prayers keep your faith make
sure that these officers who have
families have people to reach out and
held them
up and Diane officers Sam pooi and
William Elliott also died in that
shootout a fourth officer has yet to be
identified the police chief says the
four others who were wounded are stable
and that suspect died on his front lawn
in the shootout with police Diane faith
of bouay North Carolina thank you
meanwhile a new severe storm system is
moving into the plains bringing possible
tornadoes to areas already devastated by
an outbreak over the weekend this as
Poke County Texas is under mandatory
evacuation orders amid heavy rainfall
and flooding ABC News chief
meteorologist Jinger Z is tracking it
all for us hi
Ginger the severe weather hits just keep
coming and yes the same areas are going
to be involved again but let’s first
note even though we’ve started the month
of April the tornado count for the
country was below average now it is
above and strong too Oklahoma had its
first ef4 tornado in nearly 8 years over
the weekend so they just really haven’t
been that strong as of late and that was
the case for Nebraska as well so now the
severe storms come back and some of the
same areas hit just last weekend are in
it the main threat here is large and I
mean giant hail But Central Iowa
including De Moine Kansas City um Topeka
all in that but that little extension
down into Oklahoma you’ll watch those
for damage ing winds as well because
that’s the second most threat we could
still see an isolated tornado but
tomorrow is looking not only later
because today’s threat’s more afternoon
and evening tomorrow is like late night
into even the overnight hours Salen
Kansas down into Woodward Oklahoma and
we expect this to extend and maybe even
push a little further east for the
Wednesday threat on top of all of it you
also have big time rain and so flash
flooding up to a foot of rain has
already happened in parts of North Texas
this is Poke County where the Trinity
River was too high so they let the dam
flow a little extra and that meant
Downstream there were mandatory
evacuations that’s what happens when you
get 8 to 12 Ines of rain really fast
unfortunately we’re going to add even
more to that the bullseye there of 3 to
five inches
Diane ABC News chief meteorologist
Ginger Z thank you coming up a major
development in the case of the Colorado
mom who vanished on Mother’s Day four
years ago what authorities say they
found during Susan morus are Topsy and
the former president’s criminal hush
money trial is set to resume within the
next hour Trump is headed to the
courthouse having just left Trump Tower
moments ago we have Team coverage
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Colorado mom who vanished on a bike ride
four years ago could shed new light on a
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more a stunning development in the
mysterious murder case of Colorado mom
Suzanne morphew nearly 4 years after she
vanished a just relased toxicology
report officially determining her death
was a homicide and finding a chemical
cocktail consistent with an animal
tranquilizer in Her Bones noting these
drugs are marketed as a compounded
injectable chemical mobilizer for
wildlife if they can link these animal
tranquilizers to Barry or somebody else
then that’s a real possibility that they
might have enough to charge somebody
Suzanne disappeared on Mother’s Day of
2020 while allegedly on a bike ride her
husband Barry morphew seen in this
police body camera video where is it
where’s the bike was charged a year
later with first-degree murder and
evidence tampering in the arrest
affidavit from 2021 investigators say
they found a needle cap for a
tranquilizer dart in the dryer inside
bed sheets in his defense Barry claimed
he shot a deer with a tranquilizer dart
and said he disposed of the tranquilizer
solution in a major twist prosecutors
dropping all charges against him just
before trial telling us it was not
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but because they thought authorities
were close to finding Suzanne’s body but
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he’s spoke exclusively to ABC news last
summer with his daughters Macy and
mallerie by his side these charges were
dropped without prejudice which means if
authorities feel like there’s more
evidence they could charge you again do
you live with fear of that well I was
innocent the first time they arrested me
so I’m sure it’s possible but I don’t
have anything to worry about I’ve done
nothing wrong did you have anything to
do with The Disappearance of your wife
absolutely not prosecutors say text
messages appeared to show a strained
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Jackal and Hyde and just before she
disappeared telling Barry I’m done
despite learning Suzanne was having an
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disagreements between your mom and your
dad that concerned you before
no months after our interview in
September of 2023 authorities discovered
Suzanne’s remains in a shallow grave 45
miles south of the family
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morus for their response to these
autopsy findings and they told us
through their attorney they are
skeptical about the Integrity of this
investigation Barry morphe has long
alleged prosecutorial mishandling of his
case but authorities have told us that
they are not ruling out future charges
against him and this time that could
happen in a different jurisdiction where
Suzanne’s remains were found Diane Ariel
rashev thank you and King Charles is
resuming public duties today for the
first time since announcing his cancer
diagnosis he and the queen visited
patients in a Cancer Treatment Center
ABC News foreign correspondent James
Longman has the details James yeah hi
Diane King Charles is back the king of
course had to step away from public life
to focus on his recovery after his
cancer diagnosis but today marks the
beginning of his return to public life
and here Camila visited a Cancer Center
in central London this morning I think
there were quite large crowds outside
the hospital as he and Camila arrived
they were smiling and waving at the
crowds inside they met patients some of
whom being treated with chemotherapy he
was also presented with a large bunch of
flowers by one young girl a patient at
the hospital he clearly loves this part
of the job he’s happy to be back so many
people there clearly happy for him but
another member of the family of course
with the diagnosis of cancer is Kate and
we do not know when the Princess of
Wales will will return to public life
but another member of the family who
will be back however briefly is Harry in
just over a week’s time he’ll be back in
the UK for an event to commemorate 10
years since the uh beginning of the
Invictus game which of course he started
and I think it’s fair to say every time
he does come back to this country
there’s a sense of hope that he might
reconcile with the family Diane foreign
correspondent James Longman thank you
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first testimony is set to resume today
in the criminal hush money trial against
former president Trump so far jurors
have heard from three Witnesses former
National inquire publisher David pecker
Trump’s longtime EX executive assistant
Rona graph and Banker Gary pharaoh who
will return to the stand shortly now
phoh has already testified that he
helped Michael Cohen set up the shell
company that Cohen used to secretly pay
Stormy Daniels
$130,000 days ahead of the 2016 election
ABC News senior investigative
correspondent Aon kerki joins me now
from outside the courthouse along with
ABC News executive editorial producer
John santui and ABC News legal
contributor Brian buckmire for more Aon
onetime campaign advisor for Trump
Carter pagee was spotted in the
courthouse today his ties to Russia were
scrutinized by former special councel
Robert Mueller so what’s the latest from
Cordon is there any anything to read
here for the fact that he’s
there yeah I don’t know uh and and he’s
been you know had some trouble with the
law and legal entanglements himself so
he was in the public line to get in
maybe he just wants to observe uh we’re
not sure why he’s here when we tried to
ask him he of was ushered away into the
courtroom before he could um he could
explain but he did confirm he is who he
is and so he’s here and the the this
trial has drawn a rather interesting
crowd it’s a little more lively in the
park across the street a few more
supporters of the former president than
we’ve seen uh any day beforehand soon
enough you’re going to see drive by a
big truck with a bunch of trump flags
and a very very loud horn uh and there’s
a lot of people in the public line that
are here uh just to to sit in and and
see the Curiosity so it has drawn a
rather unique U set of people here Diane
understandable Aon Banker Gary phoh is
set to resume his testimony today what
are you watching for
there he’s really going to take the jury
through the the hush money the paper
trail of the hush money that was paid to
Stormy Daniels wired by Michael Cohen
through this essential Consultants LLC
shell company
uh to her lawyer at the time Keith
Davidson and at bottom remember this was
a case about documents and so that’s
where the prosecution is focused right
now and John as uh former president
Trump was leaving Trump Tower today his
son Eric was with him so it looks like
Eric will be joining him in court today
how significant is that well it’s the
first time we’ve seen a member of the
Trump Family actually go to any of these
proceedings man you both will recall we
saw Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr
attend the Civil proceedings that were
beginning late last year into earlier
this year brought by the New York
attorney general but you know what’s
interesting is that this has been a real
a bit of a divide inside the Trump
family if you will because you know they
want to go support their father but from
what I hear Donald Trump has told many
people that look I really don’t want my
family there for much of this because
it’s embarrassing we’re talking about my
personal details my private life Etc so
I think in some ways though you know
Eric Trump as it’s been described to me
over the years is sort of that calming
presence around his father I mean
obviously we know that when Donald Trump
Trump went to the White House it was
Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr that were
you know basically given the keys to the
kingdom of the Trump organization and
asked to run it Donald Trump Jr really
leaning more into the political
atmosphere But Eric Trump really
becoming basically the steward of the
family business keeping an eye on things
basically keeping the systems afloat if
you will so I think his presence there
as we’ve heard you know we know from a
lot of reporting that’s come out that
Donald Trump has spent much of the
weekend last couple days Diane extremely
angry about this case we know that the
lawyers have talked about bringing
familiar faces to help calm him down I
think that’s what we’re seeing there
today and Brian with Eric Trump sitting
in the courtroom he’ll be listening to
testimony at least from Banker Gary
Pharaoh he said to return to the stand
the prosecution has not released a
witness list so we don’t know exactly
who will follow but what um what are you
looking to hear from Pharaoh today based
on his testimony so far and how do you
think the defense will cross-examine him
what do you think they will focus on
here well for the prosecution and
Pharaoh’s direct examination to continue
I’m hoping that the prosecution will
come forward with this with a theory
that this is not business as usual we
often hear what a shell company is I
don’t know of a non-legal reason to have
a shell company is typically used to
hide assets and I think the prosecution
has to pull that out of pharaoh to
explain why this kind of push to to
create this company through Michael
Cohen what it what was meant to do and
what it actually did and then there’s
got to be some sort of connective tissue
between Michael Cohen Donald Trump and
the bank creating this this this account
because for the defense what they’re
going to do is try to separate Donald
Trump from this this is all Michael
Cohen this was his doing Donald Trump
might have told him marching orders to
say make this happen but the devil’s in
the details and the devil isn’t Donald
Trump it’s Michael Cohen I think that’s
what the defense is going to try to do
separate Trump from this interaction Al
together and say hey Michael Cohen got
instructions but he went rogue as to how
to do it and speaking of Michael Cohen
he is the key witness in this case and
he has been live streaming about it
ahead of his testimony he might even be
getting virtual donations from viewers
on Tik toks for those live streams so
how could that impact the
trial well it certainly it can’t make
prosecutors happy that that he’s talking
about the case that he’s talking about
his own forthcoming testimony and and
maybe most annoyingly he’s goting Trump
by saying things like Trump 2024 more
like Trump 2022 24 that that’s not going
to help U the the prosecutors uh bolster
his credibility when the defense is only
going to try and and tear it down Cohen
says that he’s going to stop but as soon
as he said that he also went back on Tik
Tock and and talked about the case so it
it is a complicating Factor prosecutors
can’t really control him um but they can
suggest that he he knock it off for the
for the betterment of the case which he
says he will so we’ll just have to wait
and see but remember Diane it’s a lot of
things that are said outside the
courtroom that are complicating the case
Trump himself uh prosecutors would like
him held in contempt for for alleged
violations of the judge’s gag order
we’ll see if if the judge is prepared to
rule on that before a hearing on
Thursday Brian what’s your take on how
this affects the case potentially
legally well think about this as a
defense attorney I would be making the
same arguments as to why Donald Trump
has a gag order no party of a of a of a
trial or a case whether you’re the
defendant or an expected witness should
be speaking in this way that could
potentially paint the jury and so what
is Michael Cohen saying in in these
public Realms that a jury could hear and
then would not be evidence that they’re
supposed to be considering for the tri
I’m surprised that Donald Trump’s
defense attorneys aren’t coming forward
and saying this is an issue why doesn’t
Michael Cohen also have a gag order and
let’s maybe put that into effect well I
think what’s interesting about this is
that many people did not know that Cohen
was doing these post ABC News Diane
broke this story late yesterday and it
was because our team had gotten tipped
off that Cohen was doing these videos
around 10 p.m. at night and they just
sort of start organically like I
actually watched one uh over the weekend
myself just to see it and it’s just you
know average people piling in and it’s
almost like Cohen is doing a talk show
you know he’s taking callers who are
actually interacting with him live so I
just don’t think it’s gotten that
attention just yet I mean now it
probably will since we caught it but I
do think the fact that he’s continued to
be out there you know the comments he
made as Aron pointed out uh he made a
posting on Thursday on X formally
Twitter saying I’m going to stop but as
ABC News reviewed Diane he continued
doing these Tik Tok videos well into the
weekend including last night and Brian
is the jury allowed to be on Tik Tok if
there’s there’s a chance they could be
exposed to Media about this case so
they’re allowed to go about their daily
life but if they walk past a TV screen
and see the two of us talking about it
the court would instruct them to turn
away and and not listen to the full
report and then inform the court of
doing it but Tik Tok um X TV like people
are people family members you go out for
dinner you’re sitting next to someone
and the table says did you hear a
Michael Cohen said on on X like they’re
going to hear it and so you’re telling
me now this is recent news I would be
surprised if we don’t hear about this in
the court today or Thursday knowing that
Wednesday is a day off and John what are
you hearing from Trump’s inter circle
about how he’s reacting to the testimony
and the trial in general so far well
there’s a fascinating piece actually
this morning in the New York Times um
some of which are me and U my colleague
Katherine falers and Olivia Rubin have
heard about Trump actually being a
little upset with his legal team saying
that lead attorney Todd blanch according
to the times is not being tough enough
in this case is not you know targeting
the judge not targeting Witnesses not
even you know hitting the jury in some
cases when they went through jury
selection I think that’s pretty typical
right we know that Donald Trump believes
he’s his best spokesperson his best
campaign manager and in some ways now
his best lawyer right how many times
over the years I know I’ve heard it
we’ve reported it on ABC Donald Trump
has said to people get me my Roy con
referring to the infamous lawyer that he
had at one point in the early life of
his career and he felt that Roy con was
very good you know basically doing
everything a little bit on the line if
not jumping over the line and I think
that’s what Trump has looked for
repeatedly in his lawyers we know he has
said it to his White House Council we
know he said it to the lawyers
representing him in Robert Mueller to
think that Donald Trump would change
anytime soon dram on this is Donald
Trump so you know when I saw that story
this morning I said oh we’ve entered
that part of the movie all right so Erin
the judge has also set to hold another
hearing on Thursday about whether or not
to hold Trump in contempt for alleged
gag order violations so what are you
watching for there especially given he
will be on the campaign Trail just a day
before on
Wednesday so we’ll see if the
prosecutors come up with any additional
violations of the gag order as they see
it uh since they brought up a couple of
social media posts interviews uh hallway
remarks Trump has actually seen to have
avoided those kinds of incendiary things
about Witnesses or the jury that could
run him a foul of the gag order and
we’ll see if that continues or whether
the judge is prepared to make some kind
of a statement to set at tone that those
things wouldn’t be tolerated at this
stage prosecutors are asking for a fine
of $1,000 for each of 14 alleged
offenses of the gag order that they’ve
counted so far we’ll also see whether
the the defense is prepared to offer up
any explanation that didn’t go so well
last time where the judge said you’re
not giving me anything and in fact
you’re losing all credibility with the
court all right Aaron kki John sanui
Brian buckmeier thank you all and we
will be following this trial all day
long and we’ll bring you updates as we
get them right here on ABC News live
meanwhile Pro Palestinian protesters are
now barricaded inside a building at
Columbia University the campus newspaper
reports students have broken windows and
are blocking exits with tables and zip
ties after school officials started
suspending students who refused to leave
an encampment this as police clash with
protesters at universities across the
country ABC Stephanie Ramos has the
latest from Columbia
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pal Pro Palestinian protesters Gathering
outside Columbia University’s Hamilton
Hall and then storming the
building video capturing students
slamming desks breaking windows and
barricading themselves inside just after
12:30 this morning dozens of students
left the encampment and entered the
hall students defiant refusing to
dismantle their encampment you need to
stop bombing you need to stop
indiscriminate killing Massacre of
Palestinians in Gazza um that’s how you
end the war at least one person arrested
Monday outside Columbia’s Gates seen
here being taken into
custody oh my God at Virginia
Commonwealth University a large crowd of
pro Palestinian protesters clashing with
police in riot gear this video is
showing police spraying what appears to
be pepper spray at protesters the
university telling ABC News multip
arrests were made and claiming that many
individuals involved were not students
this as similar demonstrations and
clashes now playing out at more than 60
college campuses across the
us at the University of Texas at Austin
dozens arrested as protesters and police
and riot gear
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clashed at the University of Florida
nine protesters arrested the school
saying the University of Florida is not
a daycare and we do not treat protesters
like children they knew the rules they
broke the rules Jewish students on both
sides of the issue some who are
pro-israel say they’ve been harassed
it’s not easy to stay there alone when
the whole university is practically
against us at USC administrators
cancelling their main commencement
ceremony due to protests many of the
soon Tobe graduates missed their High
School graduation due to the pandemic my
high school just had a drive-through
graduation I personally was really
looking forward to having this main
ceremony and traditional graduation for
my whole
life back here at Columbia University
officials have not commented on the
actions of those students overnight as
for the negotiation talks between
University officials and student
demonstrators those are at a standstill
Diane Stephanie Ramos thank you coming
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former president Trump is now in a
Manhattan Court getting ready to enter
his criminal hash money trial let’s
listen thank you very much so we begin
again this is a case that uh should
never have been brought every single
major legal scholar Jonathan Turley Greg
Jared Andy McCarthy
ders witz every single scholar Mark lvin
the great Mark lvin had a whole show on
it last night said that this is a
disgraceful case it’s a disgrace to the
New York state and city court system and
all of the cases are frankly all of them
are you probably saw last night that
Jack Smith got caught with his hand in
the cookie jar it was released late last
night and it’s a big story the documents
case is a hoax
created by them for election
interference purposes and so that one
looks like it’s going
aunder uh a brilliant judge uh saw some
facts and I haven’t read what was
revealed yet it just came out but uh the
document hoax is indeed it it is indeed
a hoax the whole thing is a hoax all of
them were hoaxes including the civil
cases they’re controlled by the White
House they’re controlled by Democrat
judges and prosecutors that were put
there specifically they hate Trump and
the people are getting it that’s why we
just came out a new Emerson poll just
was released about 2 minutes ago and I’m
leading by a lot in every swing state
and leading in the general election and
you saw the CNN poll I’m sure they
aren’t too happy with it but the CNN
poll was fantastic so we’re here this is
a hoax this is a judge who’s conflicted
bad badly badly conflicted I’ve never
seen a judge so conflicted and giving us
virtually no rulings now hear I’m not
even allowed to say advice of counsel
this is a new one to me advice of
counsel when you have a lawyer and the
lawyer does something or advises you on
something you say advice of counsel he
said you’re not allowed to say that and
so you’ll all figure it out but I think
the public has figured it out because
the poll numbers are the highest they’ve
ever been and I appreciate you’ve
treated me actually I thought quite
fairly at least the people here which is
a lot of people and I appreciate that
the Biden protests that are going on are
horrible it’s all caused by him because
he doesn’t have to speak he can’t put
two sentences together he’s got to get
out and make a statement because the
colleges are being
overrun in this country the
anti-Semitism all of the problems going
on they’re being overrun I’ve never say
they like it he said he ran because of
Charlotte well if the people that know
Charlottesville when you extend the
statement it’s a big hoax what was what
they say was said and they understand
that and Charlottesville is peanuts
compared to what you’re looking at now
this whole country is is up in
arms uh breaking into colleges knocking
the hell out of Columbia University I
mean they they took over we’re watching
former president Trump speaking ahead of
entering the courtroom for Testimony
resuming in the criminal hush money a
trial against him he’s repeating claims
that the case should never have been
brought calling it a hoax and attacking
the judge today Banker Gary Pharaoh will
return to the stand and so far Pharaoh
has testified that he helped Michael
Cohen set up the shell company that
Cohen used to secretly pay Stormy
Daniels
$130,000 days ahead of the 2016 election
I want to bring in ABC News
investigative correspondent Aon kerki
who’s outside the courthouse along with
ABC News executive editorial producer
John santui and ABC News legal
contributor Brian buckmire for more uh
Ain what sticks out to you from what we
just heard from the former
president well the one thing is that the
the former president is actually
elongating the case and the time that he
has to spend in court when he says he
doesn’t want to be here the defense has
refused to stipulate to any of the
evidence and and what that means Diane
is that even things that that may seem
evident Trump appearing on a video or
documents
where you know he may have an email or a
text message or something about uh a
payment things that that you know a
check for example with his signature on
it things that seem evident uh the
defense won’t stipulate which means that
the prosecutors have to call witnesses
uh called custodial witnesses to get
these documents into evidence and what
that does is probably uh add about a
week to the to the length of the case it
also has the effect of of having this
evidence in front of the jury twice once
when it’s entered and then once again
when when another witness is asked about
it so it may in fact be working against
Trump but but the defense just won’t
seem to do it and Aaron Banker Gary
Pharaoh is expected to return to the
stand today what are you expecting to
hear from
him Gary faraoh is going to take the the
jury further through the paper trail
that led to the 13 ,000 hush payment to
to porn actress Stormy Daniels the the
banker has already testified that
Michael Cohen was in a big hurry it was
3 weeks before the election and he was
trying to get the banker Gary Pharaoh on
the phone he kept missing his calls phoh
said he was out golfing which he
admitted was a bit cliche for a banker
uh finally talks to Cohen says I want to
open up essential Consultants LLC and
the jury has seen that paperwork is any
of this involved in political
fundraising Cohen says no uh and then
the the jury has seen the wire transfer
the first bit of the wire transfer of
$130,000 and and Pharaoh’s going to go
through all of that with the jury again
today uh so they can understand that
this hush money as as as it was was
actually paid and they can see how it
was paid from this account this shell
company account to Stormy Daniels
through her lawyer and John another part
of this case making headlines today is
Michael Cohen has been live streaming on
Tik Tock about the trial even though he
set to be a key witness in it so what
are you hearing about that yeah it’s
fascinating reporting first by ABC News
Diane our team actually spent a week
going through these videos that Michael
Cohen post their live videos he goes
live around 10 p.m. every night and he’s
been talking about the trial even after
saying on X formally Twitter that he
would stop it in respect for the
proceedings um you know it’s interesting
because you know one of the things that
we all know and and Brian’s far more
capable and qualified to say this than I
am but that is that you know when you
are a witness or a party in a case
normally you’re not speaking about the
case when the proceeding is gaveled in
and that’s exactly what Michael Cohen
has done throughout these videos um it’s
very interesting I’ve watched uh some of
them my teams have been watching all of
them but Cohen is you know basically
hosting a talk show um you know he’s
giving his you know take on the day if
you will kind of like you know a host
would on a cable News Channel and then
taking viewer calls answering questions
uh there was one conversation that our
team uh caught in real time where
somebody commented on the jury and he
said well how would you know you’re not
in the room with the jury and the jury’s
paying attention etc etc it it’s it’s
almost as if you know it’s trying to
amplify the profile of Michael Cohen and
look that was something that you know
having covered Donald Trump for a long
time when Michael Cohen was working in
Trump Tower that was one thing he always
wanted was to be on TV to be commenting
on the case or case es or campaign and
look where we are and Brian this all
comes as former president Trump is
facing up to 14 or at least 14 alleged
gag order violations the judge hasn’t
ruled yet whether or not he’ll hold the
former president in contempt that ruling
is on Thursday but how could Michael
Cohen’s live streaming impact the gag
order so the 14 that’s already happened
probably not so much but if we recall
last week the judge’s main argument
against the fense was show me where he’s
punching back show me where Donald Trump
is responding to some critique to make
it some sort of political discourse and
not a violation of the gag order now
those 14s might be not an issue because
you can’t go back and say well look we
saw in the future that he’s making these
comments but tomorrow Donald Trump’s
supposed to be campaigning I’m pretty
sure we’re going to hear a lot about
Michael Cohen and the defense has the
ability to now walk in and say he’s
punching back you see all this stuff
that Michael Cohen is saying he’s
punching back Donald Trump also has the
ability to say I was right sure I might
not have seen it in the past but I know
that Michael Cohen is using this as a
platform to make himself bigger than
life he’s trying to use the downfall of
me Donald Trump to proom to promote
himself and that’s been a major theme in
this trial and probably will be uh
spoken about much louder now that
they’ve seen this so by Michael Cohen
speaking out this way he could give
Donald Trump a reason to then talk about
Michael Cohen without violating the gag
order yeah so there’s going to be more
talking about Cohen and the argument
that this is responding back like they
have in the past but also it can seep
into the trial itself because when
Michael Cohen takes a stand and his
cross-examine and asked aren’t you just
simply using this trial to promote
yourself and he says no that’s when the
impeachment comes out and you just play
all the video and you just go back and
forth and the judge can stomp his feet
and soak in the prosecution but Michael
Cohen is walking himself into a horrible
cross-examination that helps Donald
Trump so interesting John Eric Trump is
also in court with the former president
right now this is the first time we’ve
seen a trump family member in the
courtroom what does that mean especially
given the nature of some of the things
being discussed throughout the course
trial it it means that one bit of logic
outbeat the other and that is that you
know the lawyers and others have said
it’d be good to have faces and people
around Donald Trump that he knows to
help keep him calm and we know that Eric
Trump obviously you know Donald Trump
you know loves and Trust all his
children but Eric Trump you know
obviously was the one that was running
the company was trusted with keeping
things afloat for Dad he’s the only one
as I understand it right now while you
know everybody including him they’ve all
moved down to Florida but he’s the only
one that comes back and forth up to New
York where the Trump organization is
headquartered is actually dealing with a
great deal of day-to-day business for
the company Diane compared to his
brother and sister being the eldest
children but I I think where this is
outbeat the other side of logic is that
Donald Trump has told people that he
does not want his family or others in
the courtroom with him because it’s
going to be embarrassing now look maybe
you could say it’s today’s the paper
part of the case right this is the bank
on the stand so you know there’s not
much that’s going to come out there to
do about anything but we have seen and
look at Friday as a great example right
I think that last last week the early
half we spent a significant number of
time days with David pecker on the stand
but Friday I mean how fast did we see
them whip through you know got three
Witnesses up there finish pecker we saw
Rona graph now the bankers so the other
thing we have to remember is that
prosecutors know who’s coming next the
defense team does not they don’t know
the order of witnesses so if there’s
somebody that takes the stand that maybe
could cause a little bit of you know son
get out of here I don’t want you to hear
this stuff interesting to see how long
he over the day Ain it’s also been
interesting to see Trump’s demeanor and
interaction with some of the witnesses
there was sort of this gasp in the
courtroom on Friday when he tried to
greet uh Rona gra talk to me a little
bit about that and what you’ve noticed
between the smile between him and David
pecker for example how is this compared
to a usual
trial the case against Donald Trump is
being made by prosecutors using people
that in some cases Trump has known for
decades like David pecker who sat on the
witness stand he considers Trump to be a
friend and mentor and Rona graph had
been his personal assistant for 34 years
and when she descended the witness stand
Trump stood from his chair reached out a
hand to greet her uh perhaps help her
she had been walking with a cane and and
he whispered something to her that that
we couldn’t hear but it does reinforce
the idea that this case is is not being
made by political opponents of of the
former president as he often claims but
by people who have been around him uh
for for most of his adult life uh and
and that’s going to continue perhaps
later in the trial Michael Cohen worked
for him a long time op pick a trusted
Aid all of these people are now being
called as Witnesses for the prosecution
and Brian I want to ask you a little bit
more on that point about ragraph because
she is a witness for the prosecution she
testified that she stored Stormy Daniels
contact information and mcdougall’s
Karen mcdougall’s contact information
for for president Trump she even said
that she saw recollects vaguely seeing
stormmy Daniels at Trump Tower but she
also testified once the defense started
asking your questions that Donald Trump
was in her opinion a good boss he was
fair to her he was respectful to her on
days that she worked late he would tell
her to go home he gave her a good seat
at the inauguration so what does that do
for the jury to hear these kind of
positive character Witnesses even if
that’s not why they’re being called to
the stand if these people come up and
they say positive things about them and
they see these positive seemingly
positive interactions between Trump and
the witnesses what does that do for the
jury well it helps the defense immensely
I I mean think about the opening
statements when blanch came on and said
he’s a father he’s a man he’s this
they’re humanizing him to a large extent
and I think for most jurors it’s hard
for them to think that good people do
bad things uh even when I was a public
defender in Brooklyn uh I would do small
things like ask the court officer if
they can pour a a cup of water for my
client who’s accused of shooting at at a
daycare and the people be like oh well
if the officer likes him then maybe he
didn’t do this crime maybe he’s not that
bad of a guy and I’ve spoken to jurors
after some of my cases and they pick up
on that the way that the courtroom
interacts with a defendant the way that
people interact with them the way that
even Witnesses take the stand and speak
about them their their ideas are them
Skyrocket and John what’s what are you
watching for in terms of new
developments well we’re getting some
breaking news right now it looks like
according to our Peter haral Lumas judge
Maran is handed down his decision about
the gag order violations Diane so you’ll
recall this should be just that initial
group of 10 that they talked about so
remember that was the group that they
talked about over the first couple of
days and then more were ated we’re going
to find out exactly what those are the
team’s going to be sending notes in real
time the other thing we’re being told
right now is in addition to Eric trump
our team has spotted Susan WS who’s the
chairman of the Trump campaign one of
the lead senior advisers that’s the
first time she’s been in the courtroom
and again you know part of that you know
conversation that we’ve heard from from
our folks you know close to Trump’s
World Etc my sources as well is that
they have said they want to see more
people Donald Trump knows physically
around him there is no one amongst the
Trump campaign that is closer to Donald
Trump than Susie wild she is his first
call any day of the week and a reaction
to Carter pagee being in the courtroom
so I haven’t gotten reaction yet I’ve
texted a few sources of mine some want
in the no I don’t get that that’s a very
odd one I don’t know who invited him to
show up did he show up on his own I mean
it’s this is not you know it’s
interesting there are people that come
in and out of Trump World if you will
right even people that you think they
aren’t friendly with anymore suddenly
return like I think of Paul manfor as an
example right the former campaign
chairman went to jail hadn’t heard from
now he’s allegedly coming back to run
the convention coverage right Carter
pagee doesn’t fit into any of those
categories this is not someone that they
really had any dealings with he was you
know a low-level figure that was part of
a transition Committee in late
201617 never went to the White House
never held any formal roles so I think
he might have just shown up I think he
lives in the New York area if I’m not
mistaken and we have to remember this is
Court anybody can really get online
right Brian and walk in it doesn’t
matter who you are uh so Erin I know we
don’t have a witness list but what do we
expect to unfold in court
today well we uh the the the witness
list is being kept um secret by
prosecutors at least the order we know
generally who’s testifying
um but we do expect a couple more uh
custodial witnesses that is witnesses
that will help the jury understand some
of the documents or videos or or things
that um that they’re going to look at
later on in the case that is expected to
take place and and then um there’s no
telling but prosecutors I think want toy
to go in order uh understanding the
consulting company that Michael Cohen
set up the shell Company to pay the hush
money they want to see the the wire
transfer and
then take it away Diane this is a very
loud obnoxious truck Aon I’m sorry I
know it’s super loud there it sounds
like someone’s beating a drum too in
addition to honking the horn anyway
we’ll give you a second eron we also
have some breaking news judge Maran has
ruled that prosecutors met their burden
for most of the alleged gag order
violations John what are the details on
this so for the first set of allegations
merchan has fined Donald Trump $2,000
for two violations remember prosecutors
were seeking $11,000 per violation so
for those two ,000 bucks each um they
say the prosecutors did not prove one of
the three alleged violations so he’s
literally ticking through the list and
we have to really keep that in mind here
because remember these were multiple
violations different posts so the
original group of 10 if you will were
all posts Donald Trump made or reposted
on his social media platform truth
social
I would believe but I’m going to wait
for the team’s reporting here but the
way that the judge has structured this
we believe that this order is only going
to pertain to that original group we’re
not going to get into those public
statements right the ones that he made
outside of court to the camera that we
all talked about here I think you said
it first Diane that it seemed like he
was getting over the line some of those
comments we know prosecutors have
flagged that we also know they have
Flagg two interviews Donald Trump gave
one to a local radio station in
Pennsylvania the other to our station w
pvi leading up to the Pennsylvania
primary last week we do not believe that
he’s going to rule on those that’s the
separate group he’s going to hear later
this week but interesting how he’s going
one by one by one here so we’ve got
three in theory seven more to go uh
Brian that hearing on the next four is
set for Thursday does this offer any
insights on how judge Maran might rule
on those absolutely I mean I’m I’m
hoping to get a more greater breakdown
as to which ones he ruled on that the
the prosecution did carry their burden
which one he didn’t but that would give
us a road map as to what the judge’s
thinking is how he articulates e even if
I’m reading reading a tea Le so to speak
this has nothing to do with what the
defense said it’s whether or not the
prosecution met their burden it’s almost
like the defense wasn’t even the room
having a conversation or pushing back on
arguments because it seems like if we’re
again reading the tea leaves that uh
they were losing credibility in their
arguments so this will give us a road
map as to what is or isn’t and also
we’ll go back to John for the second set
cuz we’re cutting more now TV okay than
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John literally raised his hand because
he got a new piece of information Miss
May I speak so here’s we have so for the
second set of allegations judge Maran
has fined Donald Trump according to ABC
News $6,000 for violating the gag order
six times so again we’re doing math
eight total violations judge Maran
agreed with prosecutors total of $8,000
F so far we don’t believe that the other
ones he they met their burden of proof
if we’re adding up the numbers I think
the point that we’re trying to get
clarification on CU remember there was
you know the allegations kept stacking
up right we started with three then we
went to four then we got to nine then we
got to 10 so the way I’m reading the
team’s reporting right now is that he’s
ruled on I think nine eight of which he
agreed with prosecutors violation did
indeed happen so he’s fined $8,000 he
one he let go the others my sense is
that that’s going to be part of the
Thursday hearing and we’re have to wait
for that but clearly I mean let’s just
boil this all away not good for Donald
Trump obviously not something he wants
and clearly one of the things that’s
going to happen in conference here
besides the fact that Donald Trump will
explode quite literally behind the
scenes they are going to have to coach
him you got to reain this in immediately
and Brian’s raising his hand hey if it
ain’t broke also understand that that’s
the max violation when it comes to a
fine $1,000 so the judge basically said
I’m giving the prosecution what they
want I see a violation I’m rber stamping
it they get $1,000 so now the question
becomes if the prosecution ask for more
in the future will they get it or will
judge michan kind of give a little bit
less but right now he’s giving the
prosecution everything they asked for in
those violations all right we’ll see and
Michael Cohen’s former Banker Gary phoh
is now back on the stand under direct
examination for day two of his testimony
uh we’re going to keep you updated on
the latest on the courtroom Erin kerki
John sanui Brian buckmeier thank you and
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he’ll be back in the UK for an event to
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testimony is underway in the criminal
hush money trial against former
president Trump earlier the judge finded
Trump a total of $99,000 for violating
the limited gag order against him in the
case Banker Gary faroh is now back on
the stand after already testifying that
he helped Michael Cohen set up the shell
company that Cohen used to secretly pay
stormmy Daniels
$130,000 ahead of the election ABC News
investigative reporter Olivia Rubin
joins me now from outside the courthouse
along with ABC News executive editorial
producer John santui and legal
contributor Brian buckmire Olivia before
testimony resumed the judge issued this
ruling on some of the gag order
violations not even all of them but not
only did he issu these fines he also
warned that Trump could be jailed if he
continues to violate the gag order
what’s the latest on
that strong words this morning from
Judge Juan marshan on who ruled on that
first set of alleged gag order
violations remember Diane prosecutors
first went to the judge with the 10
violations so that is the ruling we got
today saying they met their burden on
nine of them $1,000 fine for each of
them totaling that $9,000 fine that
Donald Trump must pay and he also has
until 2:15 p.m. to remove the post and
then later he will hear uh uh arguments
on the next set of violations that
prosec ERS have alleged but like you
said a really strong warning from him
saying that the court will not tolerate
continued willful violations of the
order and that he could uh impose some
sort of jail punishment and remember
this is something that we already have
heard that secret service has been
preparing for the possibility that
Donald Trump could find himself in some
sort of jail cell because of his
violations of the gag order so what once
was just preparations just speculation
that maybe it could happen because
prosecutors had not yet asked for that
now appears to be a real possibility
because the judge has now put that on
the table Diane John what would that
look like if the former president gets
put in jail insane I I I mean I don’t
think there’s you know there’s a lot of
images already that have been beyond
belief Donald Trump in a courtroom last
year being a Reign Donald Trump in a
courtroom for all the proceedings Donald
Trump sitting for a trial Donald Trump
in a jail cell I don’t think anybody
could believe that if it actually does
happen but it’s very real and very
possible and I do think one of the
things we have to recognize here and
Olivia pointed this out Donald Trump has
to comply now and I think that
repeatedly over the last couple weeks
one of the things Donald Trump is
learning quite literally the hard way is
that he’s not in control here he cannot
make his own schedule we now know the
judge is saying he can go to his son’s
High School graduation so at least
there’s a win there but again the fat
that needs permission to do that and the
reality is that Donald Trump for years
years has been told by advisers since he
became a political candidate in 2015
Reign it in don’t post this don’t do
that he never listened to anybody
because quite frankly there were no
consequences and now there are $9,000
worth of consequences and let’s be clear
we may not be done there we have to wait
and see what Thursday’s hearing shakes
out of the wash we know there’s at least
four more violations on the table if
he’s there we break another 4,000 and
then the question is as we all know can
he stay on his best behavior and for how
long uh Olivia I also want to talk about
who else is in court today we have
Trump’s top campaign advisor Susan WS in
the courtroom and for the first time a
member of his family his son Eric Trump
is there by his side talk to us about
the significance
there we have seen sort of a rotating
cast of advisers to Donald Trump coming
into the courtroom every single day with
him but we have not seen until today
Diane was a member of his family none of
his children his wife has not been in
there until today Eric Trump is in the
courtroom with his father and he is
seated next to Susie WS who is one of to
Trump’s top campaign advisers helping
lead his campaign this election cycle so
it’s a significant show in the courtroom
today and just to sort of paint a
picture for you Susie and Eric are
seated next to each other essentially in
the first row behind Donald Trump and
there was a moment when they came into
the courtroom and Trump went into the
well took his position at the defense
table and then sort of pivoted and
turned back and was chatting with Eric
and chatting with Susie a little pre
Court conversation and almost was
pressed up on the barrier that separates
them which is not something that we see
Donald Trump do we have seen advisers
such as Jason Miller with him or Boris
Epstein a longtime legal adviser to
Donald Trump but he wasn’t really
chatting with them in the courtroom so a
significant show today and telling Diane
that it took until week three of this
criminal trial to see one of Donald
Trump’s family members there to support
him uh Brian right now Gary pharoh’s on
the stand he’s talking about how he
helped Michael Cohen form the shell
company that Cohen then used to pay
stormmy Daniels he hasn’t been
cross-examined yet so we’re waiting to
see what the defense will focus on but
based on the cross-examination so far in
the first week of testimony has anything
stuck out to you that you thought that
could raise Reasonable
Doubt yes and no when I think of
reasonable doubt I think of more to the
specific elements of the crime intent to
defraud and cover up separate crimes but
I think as an overarching uh concept of
reasonable doubt I do think they have
raised this idea of this is business as
usual this is and I kind of laughed at
it in the opening statements this is how
democracy Works they they brought up
that Arnold Schwarzenegger had a similar
relationship with the inquire that they
buy uh stories and they keep them from
going out that they protect um their
kind of clients so to speak from this
information coming out and so to that
degree it might not go to the elements
of the crime but I think it could go to
a jury saying why are we picking on this
one specific individual when everyone
does it uh I’m sure at some point we’re
going to hear about Bill Clinton and how
stories for him were bought and covered
up as well and so that I think drives on
the idea of selective prosecution but
that doesn’t necessarily go to any
elements of the crime but could create
at least one or two jurs saying you know
what I’m not going to let this happen
and have a hold that which is exactly
what I think Donald Trump wants and
it’ll be a major win for him so Olivia
what are you watching for next
Court we’re going to watch to see how uh
this former Banker of Michael Cohen Gary
phoh continues to testify right now this
morning he has been continuing to walk
through the jury this sort of frantic
effort from Michael Cohen in the days
before the 2016 election trying to
create this shell company and again what
has been so critical about a lot of Gary
faroh’s testimony is that he is
mentioning how uh the sort of efforts to
conceal it he talked about how Michael
Cohen said that this was a real estate
account that that’s what it was going to
be used for of course he said it had
nothing to do with real estate and that
had he known it had to do with some sort
of political funds that would have been
extra that the bank would have wanted to
take a look at and extra flags that
would have been raised on the account so
that testimony sort of spoke to one of
the critical claims from prosecutors
which is that they were trying to hide
this not just in the bank records in the
way that Michael Cohen was paid back but
now apparently in the way that Michael
Cohen set up the counts in the first
place so it’s speaking to that sort of
effort to conceal and he is continuing
to walk through the jury and lay out
irrefutable evidence here’s Michael
Cohen’s signature on the account here is
Michael Cohen’s email to me asking to
set up the account it’s really just cut
and dry Michael Cohen set up the
accounts here they
were all right Olivia Rubin John sanui
Brian Buck Meer thank you and we will be
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testimony is underway in the criminal
hush money trial against former
president Trump earlier the judge finded
Trump a total of $99,000 for viola
limited gag order against him now Banky
Banker Gary Pharaoh is on the stand
having already testified that he helped
Michael Cohen set up the shell company
that Cohen then used to secretly pay
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the latest so right now Diane as you
mentioned we’ve got those $99,000 in
violations for the gag orders of course
Donald Trump knows that there are other
violations pending and we do know that
prosecutors plan to argue for at least
four more violations later this week on
Thursday now part of that ruling by
judge mhan this morning says that Donald
Trump needs to remove those postings
from his social media platform truth
social by 2:15 p.m. this afternoon
that’s before court resumes after the
lunch break we also know that in
addition to Gary faroh prosecutors are
going to be going through their case
rather quickly now bringing other
Witnesses potentially others as soon as
later today the big Focus for today with
Gary faroh’s testimony Diane is going
through how Michael Cohen set up Essence
LLC which of course was that shell
company to payback Stormy Daniels Diane
back to you John santui thank you and we
will be following this trial all day
long and bring you updates right here on
ABC News live as we get them meanwhile
Pro Palestinian protesters are now
barricaded inside a building at Columbia
University the campus newspaper reports
students are breaking windows and
blocking exits with tables and zip ties
after school officials started
suspending students who refuse to leave
an encampment this has police clashed
with protesters at universities across
the country ABC Stephanie Ramos is at
Columbia
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University Pro Palestinian protesters
Gathering outside Columbia University’s
Hamilton Hall and then storming the
building video capturing students
slamming desks breaking windows and
barricading themselves inside just after
12:30 this morning dozens of students
left the encampment and entered the hall
Sol students defiant refusing to
dismantle their encampment you need to
stop bombing you need to stop
indiscriminate killing Massacre of
Palestinians in Gazza um that’s how you
end the war at least one person arrested
Monday outside Columbia Gates seen here
being taken into
custody oh my God at Virginia
Commonwealth University a large crowd of
pro Palestinian protesters clashing with
police in riot gear this video is
showing police Poli spraying what
appears to be pepper spray at protesters
the university telling ABC News multiple
arrests were made and claiming that many
individuals involved were not students
this as similar demonstrations and
clashes now playing out at more than 60
college campuses across the
us at the University of Texas at Austin
dozens arrested as protesters and police
in riot gear
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clashed here at the University of
Florida nine protesters arrested the
school saying the University of Florida
is not a daycare and we do not treat
protesters like children they knew the
rules they broke the rules Jewish
students on both sides of the issue some
who are pro-israel say they’ve been
harassed stand her alone when the whole
university practically against us at USC
administrators cancelling their main
commencement ceremony due to protests
many of the soon Tobe graduates missed
their High School graduation due to the
pandemic my high school just had a
drive-thru graduation I personally was
really looking forward to having this
main ceremony and traditional graduation
for my whole
life Stephanie Ramos thank you and AA
jachi joins me now from Columbia
University for more on this Ike what’s
it like there right
now well d as you know Columbia
University has essentially shut down the
campus except for one entrance and
that’s what we’re seeing right now we’re
at 116th in Amsterdam where this is is
the only entrance where students and
faculty can enter you can see right now
Colombia security they’ve essentially
set up this tent where everybody is
forced to show their ID obviously that
Columbia University ID that’s the only
way they can get in here and if that’s
of course coming after last night when
we saw those group of protesters
essentially come in a little after
midnight and barricade themselves right
here inside Hamilton Hall you know so
they came and they were being told that
uh a group of protesters broke into one
of the doors here at Hamilton Hall broke
through a window and a large line of
protesters and students came in there
and barricaded themselves using these
metal dividers as well as chairs and
tables to block all the entrances there
they’ve been there since overnight and
they’ve since hung up some flags on the
buildings as you can see there’s one
right here hanging from the window that
says free Palestine they’ve been in
there overnight and they said that
they’re not essentially going to leave
until their demands have met
Diane like I know the NYPD is on the
scene but they haven’t been called in to
assist yet so how is the school
responding to all of
this well you see right now it’s been
essentially a stark difference from what
we saw yesterday yesterday we saw at
some points the police clashing with
protesters uh just on the other block of
this uh Hamilton Hall here and we even
saw a couple people even arrested but as
you can see right now uh there’s no
protesters here at the moment rather uh
we’re in an orderly situation now where
the students and faculty are able to get
inside but there is an increased
presence of NYPD officers around this
university around this surrounding area
uh uh we do know that the university
they started suspending students those
student protesters that didn’t want to
sign that form that would say they would
abide by University policies uh we’re
being told by a university
representative that they already begun
suspending those students but in terms
of what’s happening right inside
Hamilton Hall here with those protesters
that have barricaded themselves
it’s essentially a game of wait and see
right now the ball is in the court of
Columbia University they’ve made their
demands very clear and right now it’s
behooves Columbia University to decide
how exactly they’re going to respond to
this Dian all right a Kachi at Columbia
University I thank you meanwhile a new
severe storm system is moving into the
plains bringing possible tornadoes to
areas already devastated by an outbreak
over the weekend this as Poke County
Texas is under mandatory evacuation
orders amid heavy rainfall and flood
ABC News meteorologist Samar Theodor is
tracking it all for us hi Samara hi good
morning Diane all right so let’s jump
into this so we have two rounds of
severe weather today and tomorrow and
this is going to be hitting areas
previously hit by the storms this past
weekend on the end of last week here we
are tonight at 7 pm Central Time these
storms sweeping across the Heartland now
the highest tornado threat is right here
in Orange de Moy down to Kansas City but
anywhere from witcha up to uh manato we
could see a few tornadoes damaging winds
and large hail that is tonight through
this evening remember nocturnal dor
tornadoes are extremely dangerous you
can’t see them coming so make sure your
alerts are on then tomorrow night we
have a secondary severe weather threat
and that is going to move through
Western Oklahoma Northern Texas and we
can see some storms as far north as
Nebraska highest tornado threat though
is sitting in Kansas uh from Garden City
to Selena down to wiah uh but we could
see some tornadoes as far south as
Midland Texas as well again that’s
Wednesday into Wednesday night and we’re
not even at the peak yet of the average
tornadoes we normally see for this time
of year so we’re getting ready to enter
May in the US we would normally see
around 275 tornadoes so just know we’re
still in the throws of severe weather
season so having those alerts knowing
where you’re going to go when you get
the alert that is extremely important
especially if you’re living in the
Heartland right now now it’s not just
tornadoes another major component has
been that of flooding we have seen the
videos and visuals Dallas Texas 3 to 5
in you could see in Central Texas over
the next 5 days or even more this is a
ton of rain coming down in a small
amount of time leading to flash flooding
I also want to talk about the heat
that’s been the story on the East Coast
right so it was very warm yesterday our
nation’s capital hit 91 degrees
Baltimore Maryland went for 92 and even
as far north as New Jersey we were in
the upper 80s in New Jersey and this
afternoon a few cities that got in the
warm Pockets yesterday like New York
City further north you’ve probably
noticed it’s a lot cooler today
temperatures in the upper for 60 so
adjust the Wardrobe accordingly
meanwhile a little bit farther south
along the I95 Corridor headed into DC
they’re still keeping that warm air
around Diane Samar Theodor thank you
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first former president Trump’s defense
team is now cross-examining Banker Gary
Pharaoh in his criminal hush money trial
Pharaoh testified that he helped Michael
Cohen set up the shell company that
Cohen used to secretly pay Stormy
Daniels
$130,000 days before the 2016 election
now earlier the judge also finded Trump
a total of $9,000 for repeatedly
violating a gag order in the case he
also warned that Trump could be jailed
if he continues to violate that gag
order ABC News investigative reporter
Olivia Rubin joins me now from outside
the courthouse along with ABC News
executive editorial producer John santui
and ABC News legal contributor Brian
buckmire for more Olivia defense
attorney Todd blanch is now asking Gary
faroh about his first interactions with
Michael Cohen what’s the
latest he is he is talking about his
first interactions with Michael Cohen
and Gary faroh is also talking about the
Fallout out that occurred once uh the
information about the transaction to
stormmy Daniels that he held uh helped
go through became public just to sort of
read out some of the notes from Court
here Pharaoh testified that uh Michael
Coen was removed from the account in
2017 as the details went public and
Pharaoh testified they didn’t want me to
have any communication with the client
any longer and before that what Gary
phoh had testified was that had the bank
known that they were setting up an
account to send hush money to a porn
star Stormy Daniels there would have
been an enhanced review and that maybe
the transaction would have been blocked
and it goes back to Michael Cohen
telling his Banker that that payment was
a real estate account so clearly not
true in the way that it was set up and
really documenting that Fallout and how
the bank did not know allegedly what it
was that they were helping facilitate
there and also testifying just how
quickly it went down saying that from
the time that Michael Cohen fra ically
reached out needing this account to
funding the account to outp Ping the
money occurred in about a 24-hour period
Brian how much does it matter that
Pharaoh is essentially testifying that
Michael Cohen lied to him slthe Bank in
order to set up the shell company and
send this payment through it matters in
the sense of like coloring the idea like
this was a bad thing that was done but I
think ultimately for the defense they’re
going to say okay where’s the crime
there yes your bank may have had
enhanced uh features that would have
looked at the payments more you might
have not have done it because it’s money
going to an adult film actress you might
have thought there was an issue because
you thought this was a real estate
account rather than to pay hush money
for someone but there are no illegal
actions here this is more issue of the
bank not wanting to be involved in this
ISS in in something like this less a
criminal act and so I think the defense
is going to take that stance of yeah
it’s poor form but not illegal John
former president Trump unlike the first
two witnesses doesn’t have an intimate
relationship with Gary frell how much
does that Chang things for him in the
courtroom today compared to watching
David pecker his longtime friend and
Rona graph his longtime employee there
testifying I think the reality is that
some of his proceedings are going to be
a bit boring and I think Donald Trump is
going to have to do everything he can to
stay awake and we’ve seen that’s been a
struggle for him and others in the
courtroom as this has gone on look a lot
of this is a paper case so we’re going
to see other people you know there’s
been talk about Jeff MCC the former com
troller of the Trump organization Donald
Trump knows but really it’s going to be
test about the documents and records the
Trump organization and Donald Trump kept
that’s a bit of what Gary pharoh is
doing here in his testimony explaining
what Essence LLC was this company that
Michael Cohen set up to basically pay
Stormy Daniels but I do think what’s
interesting about this and I think you
know in some ways to those of us that
have followed this for years quite
revealing it’s curious how many people
would know about these conversations
between Gary pharaoh and Michael Cohen
out outside of the two of them you know
there wasn’t a lot of people within the
Trump organization that knew this and we
know that one of the big defenses Diane
from Team Trump for their client is
going to be look Donald Trump never got
into the minutia never knew the details
so the idea that Michael Cohen was
calling urgently was saying we need this
now J man was he doing that because
someone told him to or was that just
Michael Cohen’s style and Brian John
mentions the paper trail I want to go
back to testimony from ragraph last week
because while she was a winess for the
prosecution she did under cross-
examination talk about the fact that
former president Trump was prone to
multitasking that he often took phone
calls and had conversations while
signing checks and those checks are
crucial to tying Trump directly to that
paper trail so how much do you think her
testimony may have actually helped the
defense
here I can see why a person would say
all right I’m busy I’ve got the kids in
one room and a call on this one and I’m
just signing documents I don’t know what
I’m signing but that doesn’t really hold
up in a court of law if you put pen to
paper and you signed your name on a
document you’re responsible for it I
know we all have like the um the iPhone
agreements that we just agree on and
keep moving scroll scroll scroll scroll
check that doesn’t that’s not going to
work in court doesn’t hold up in court
so sure that may gave some color as to
like how things are going on for him but
you sign it you’re responsible for it
that’s it uh Olivia the judge also
before Pharaoh got back on the stand
ruled on some of the gag order uh
violations that the prosecution is
saying that former president Trump uh
committed here and ruled in favor of
most of them saying that the the
president did in fact violate these gag
orders find him $9,000 what’s the latest
on
that a sweeping win for prosecutors
there who had presented the judge with
10 alleged violations and he came back
with a win on nine of them saying they
showed uh their allegations properly on
all but one of them and Donald Trump is
now facing a $1,000 fine for each of
them for a total of $9,000 but what’s so
fascinating about the judge’s order and
what he said is that he threatened the
possibility of jail and he said why
because in many instances $1,000 would
be enough to deter conduct but here it’s
clearly not because Diane think about it
what is $1,000 or $99,000 to Donald
Trump it’s not really anything and he
said that an incarceration might be the
only way to impose a significant penalty
here and really put Donald Trump on
notice if you continue the willful
violations that is quite possible and
it’s striking that judge Maran sort of
took that leap on his own because
prosecutors said very clearly that we
not yet seeking any sort of incarcerator
penalty so now judge Maran has sort of
taken it upon himself to put that on the
table should these violations continue
which I think John sanui will tell you
is highly likely considering someone
like Donald Trump who has a propensity
to say what he is thinking and and John
I want to get your thoughts but Brian
first I want to go to you how unusual is
it or what do you make of the fact that
the judge just laid this out on the
table the potential for jail time for a
former president even though the
prosecution was not seeking this so it’s
the judge but I would also lean more
that it’s the law because the law in
which we’re finding that Donald Trump
was in violating this gag order says
that you’re supposed to initiate any
kind of punishments to compel the
individual who has the gag order to stop
doing that action and to Olivia’s Point
yes most people people if you if you
compel them to pay $9,000 you’re going
to stop doing that thing but for Donald
Trump there might have to be a larger
punishment because $99,000 to him
financially may not be that big of an
idea big of a deal and so for the judge
he’s not looking at in terms of I want
to punish you more because of me he’s
saying the law says I must take every
action to ensure that you follow the
orders of the Court John I mean I take
both everybody’s points that you know
$9,000 is not a big deal to Donald Trump
but let’s not forget this is not the
only court that has Donal Trump on the
hook right now I mean let’s rewind the
clock a little bit if we can he’s on the
hook for nearly $100 million in the
egene Carol you know fine that he
received from that proceeding he’s also
on the hook for nearly half a billion
bucks from the New York state court that
heard everything brought by the New York
State Attorney General I mean things
start to add up at the end of the day we
know on that case in particular he had
to go to 30 different bonding companies
couldn’t get it had to then appeal to
get it lowered because they didn’t have
enough cash on hand so while I hear
everybody I do think one of the things
you just have to take in mind here is
that where these fines are different for
Donald Trump every legal fee he had in
calendar year 2023 was legal bills he
could use campaign cash to do that now
he’s got to use his personal checking
account to do these things doesn’t have
enough money cash on hand we know the
business has suffered the company that
existed in 2015 when Donald Trump went
down a golden escalator is significantly
smaller the real estate football is
significantly smaller he’s out of
business in many of the different
organizations and Enterprises he had
here in New York before he went down
that escalator I just think it’s a
little bit different and I think when
Donald Trump starts to punch the
calculator it’s a lot of money and he’s
already facing four more alleged gag
order violations the judge hasn’t ruled
on yo that so those could be additional
fines if the judge also finds him in
contempt there um but Olivia now that
Gary pharoh is back on the witness stand
being questioned by the defense what do
you watching for in terms of going
forward well it seems like what their
only option is going to be is to somehow
distance this I expect Todd blanch
Trump’s attorney who is questioning
right now will say did you ever talk to
Donald Trump on the phone did Donald
Trump ever try to set up an account with
you did he ever look into what was being
funded and it seems that the answer is
going to be no because they can’t really
refute what Gary phoh is testifying
about the account being set up it is
pretty cut and dry evidence so their
only option is going to be to distance
Donald Trump and remember when Todd
blanch gave his opening statement there
was no you know attempt to say that some
of this didn’t happen they didn’t say oh
no we didn’t catch and kill stories we
did not pay stormy Daniel’s
$130,000 what they said was it’s not
illegal they said uh NDA Agreements are
not illegal catch and kill Agreements
are not illegal hush money payments are
not illegal so while Gary phoh is is
entering in evidence that clearly
happened Todd blanch is going to likely
try to distance Donald Trump and say
that what he is testifying to is not
illegal you are allowed to pay a porn
star $130,000 which of course
prosecutors say was illegal all right
Olivia Rubin John santui Brian buckmire
thank you and the trial doesn’t appear
to be hurting Trump’s chances in the
current election cycle 5308 analysis
shows he’s essentially tied with
President Biden in National polls and
leading in key swing States let’s bring
in ABC News Deputy political director
Avery Harper for more on that Avery how
significant are these polls and what do
they say about the state of the race
right now well I I think it’s really
important to remember it’s very early
what voters feel today is likely going
to be of little importance on Election
Day but for campaigns uh they could be
gleaning information from these polls uh
finding out where their strengths and
their weaknesses are uh and putting more
money and resources where those
weaknesses
are now Trump also confirmed that he met
with Florida to Governor Ronda santis
over the weekend saying he’s very happy
to have his full and enthusiastic
support this is a cour a sharp contrast
to the insults they traded while
DeSantis was still campaigning for
president so how did we get here right
this burying of the hatchet and how much
does having disantis in his Corner help
Trump at this point right well the
intent uh on the governor desantis’s
part was to bury the hatchet we have
sources who tell ABC news that he
actually requested this meeting and I
think it’s really an effort on the part
of Governor DeSantis uh to try and
repair the relationship that he has with
uh former president Trump he understands
that Trump is the leader of this current
Republican party and if he has uh
Ambitions Beyond his current role as the
governor of Florida he’s going to want
to have Trump on his side uh Des Sanz
has privately signaled that he is going
to uh try and fund raise for former
president Trump and that could help a
former president Trump as he continues
to campaign for uh this race uh also
again an effort for on the part of
Governor Dan santis to repair that
relationship now President Biden hasn’t
said much about this trial but he did
joke about Trump’s Court appearances at
the White House correspondence dinner
this weekend calling him sleepy Don do
you think we could see the president
addressing the trial more on the
campaign Trail going forward no I think
that was more about making sure
playfully reminding uh viewers that uh
President Biden and former president
Trump are actually not that far apart in
age rather than uh talking about his
appearances uh at court or talking about
the developments happening in court uh
again I think for the campaign this has
been an effort that they have been
making over time to try and point out
Trump’s gaffs on the campaign Trail uh
to make age a vulnerability for Trump as
much as it is for Biden so Avery what
are you watching for as the campaign
season heats up and as the trial
continues to stretch into that season
right well the longer that former
president Trump is in the courtroom
that’s the longer is not on the campaign
Trail speaking with voters about his
vision uh for the country and so I’m
interested to see how he is going to
continue to navigate uh being stuck in a
courtroom while the campaign is ongoing
uh and there are lots of folks who are
going to be pointing out the fact that
he is stuck in a courtroom and not able
to travel the country and speak to
voters all right ABC News Deputy
political director Avery Harper thank
you we’ll be right back with more of the
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Gathering outside Columbia University’s
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Secretary of State Anthony blinkin is
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Israeli hostage Keith seagull his
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patients lying on the ground anytime we
get Mass casualties which is almost
every single day the patients brought in
and placed directly on the floor and
we’re treating them a lot of blast
injuries shrapnel injuries children
older people not soldiers I haven’t seen
a since I’ve been here it’s basically
civilians and Diane prime minister
Netanyahu is still threatening to launch
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negotiating team has now left Cairo and
will submit a written response to the
proposed ceasefire deal blinken expected
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Trump’s criminal hush money trial is
warning Trump could go to jail if he
violates the gag order against him again
now court is in recess after attorney’s
questioned Michael Cohen’s former Banker
Gary Pharaoh pharoh testified that he
helped Cohen set up the shell company
that Cohen then used to secretly pay
Stormy Daniels
$130,000 days ahead of the 2016 election
ABC new’s investigative reporter Olivia
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for more Olivia what’s did out to you
from Pharaoh’s testimony and from
cross-examination
today what Gary Pharaoh sort of spoke
about that was so interesting Diane was
this frantic effort this uh you know
panicked effort from Michael Cohen to
set up the shell company that ultimately
led to the payment to stormmy Daniels
just before the 2016 election now Gary
phoh also said that much of what Michael
Cohen did was a bit frantic it had some
urgency to it but this was specific in
the way that he told the jurors that
from the time he heard from Michael
Cohen about opening the account funded
the account and then paid out the
account all occurred in about 24 hours
so it tells the jury Diane about sort of
this urgent effort to pay Stormy Daniels
and speaks into prosecutors narrative
about how they were frantic to get this
payment done when they heard the
allegations that it would not come out
just before the 2016 election and
remember this is the paper trail that
Michael Coen is or excuse me that Gary
pharoh is speaking to so David pecker
told the story David pecker told the
narrative and now they have someone like
a banker like Gary farell not a name not
necessarily exciting speaking to the
nitty-gritty and the step by step of
what actually occurred the hard evidence
of the payment that is at the uh Central
of this entire case Brian phoh said that
if Cohen had disclosed that this money
was going to a porn star that the bank
would have increased its due diligence
on it and that it would be considered an
occupational risk to allow this payment
to go through otherwise how what does
that do for the prosecution’s case as
they try to prove that this payment was
illegal prosecutors especially
prosecutors in New York City uh whether
the Manhattan or the other bureaus love
this concept of what’s called
consciousness of guilt that the reason
why people do things to either deceive
or hide their actions because they know
they’re doing something guilty and so I
think the argument here on on summation
is why would you open a bank account
saying that it’s for real estate within
24 hours and move in a certain way if
you’re not trying to hide something or
trying to get an unfair Advantage I
think that’s the argument for the
prosecution but for the defense they’re
going to try to flip that and say you
know what he wanted to move quickly he
didn’t want to give all the details if
he did give the details it would have uh
delayed things but it would not have
been ultimately illegal and so I think
that’s the battle here how both sides
are able to present the same set of
facts uh John the judge also issued
these rulings before testimony started
on the 10 gag order violations initially
brought by the prosecution he found
Trump in contempt for nine of them
finding him
$9,000 but what I found interesting is
what he then said about the potential
for jail time if it happens again what
did you make really interesting I mean
basically those conversations we’ve all
been hearing and confirmed that the
Secret Service and NYPD had prepared for
this idea that if Donald Trump violated
the gag order one of the consequences
from Judge michon could be jail time
judge michan saying exactly that if you
continue to violate this gag order this
is most definitely on the table it’s
remarkable to think that that’s actually
something possible for Donald Trump but
I think we have to remember Diane he
ruled nine out of 10 but 10 wasn’t the
final number there are four more
violations judge Maran is going to be
hearing in court later this week and
those are different right so the
original 10 world post Donald Trump made
on his social media platform the new
four if you will are post and comments
he made comments he made outside of
Court two comments he made to Media
organizations leading up to the
Republican primary in Pennsylvania last
week the question though becomes is that
those four violations happened after the
initial 10 which is why they’re not a
part of today’s ruling does Donald Trump
based off of a review because you know
prosecutors are doing just that a review
of his social media platform or the
comments he’s Mak outside of court or
interviews he’s given he just gave a
massive interview to Time Magazine where
he hits on a whole bunch of different
topics is there anything in those three
different buckets where Donald Trump has
violated the order again and could we
see another additional appeal from
prosecutors here that I think will be
quite telling Brian in terms of the gag
order we’ve also reported in ABC News
broke the story about Michael Cohen live
streaming on Tik Tock about the trial he
is the key witness in this case and yet
he’s talking about it on Tik Tok
receiving donations from viewers on that
platform what does that do to the
potential for future gag order
violations against the former president
if the key witness that in many of these
cases he was speaking about is now
talking publicly about the case himself
so it operates in in different facets
one to remind people that Donald Trump
is the criminal defendant in this case
and a judge has far more control of the
actions of a criminal defendant than
they do over a witness they can advise
they can suggest the prosecutor speak to
their Witness but the witness isn’t
beholden to anyone so Michael Cohen may
be doing a lot of the stuff that he
probably shouldn’t be doing because it
could negatively affect the trial uh
there’s not much a judge can do but in
terms of your ultimate question as to
what this can do don’t forget when
Donald Trump’s attorneys came out
arguing against these 10 uh violations
of gag orders and they asked well what
is he pushing back on what is he trying
to argue against they couldn’t um
provide that information now they can
and so I think this strengthens Donald
Trump’s argument that he’s going through
political discourse rather than uh
violating a gag
John what’s the latest in court so just
based off of what you just said
ironically one of the things after the
jury left the room is that they’re going
through some procedural matters in court
one of the things that prosecutors have
just mentioned to judge Maran is that
you know in part of now that those nine
violations were affirmed by judge Maran
given the fine Ma Matthew Colangelo
who’s one of the prosecutors on the case
has told the court that if Donald Trump
ends up taking the stand here remember
we’ve been will he won’t he if he does
do and he Ops to testify that
prosecutors do intend to ask Donald
Trump about these gag order violations
so you know that actually will become
quite interesting of what he says how he
defends himself to your point but I do
think that you know in this ongoing
question of what Donald Trump will do
right remember before these proceedings
began Diane as you all know he told ABC
News twice one of them to Olivia Rubin
actually that he would like to take the
stand he would testify he also told
Rachel Scott
in subsequent interviews in just the
last couple of days he said well I would
if it’s necessary because I think one of
the things Donald Trump is learning in
real time is how complicated that
testimony could be once prosecutors have
their turn with him and Olivia I’ll let
you add to that what whatever you feel I
also want to ask about Trump’s demeanor
because we can’t see him but you can
there in court what do he like in court
today and and how significant is it that
his son Eric Trump is there with him the
first time a trump family member has
attended these proceedings
well on your first question about
testify he has been adamant as John said
that he would take the stand and when I
asked him the question if he would
testify he said he would have no problem
because he has done nothing wrong but
now that judge Marshon has sort of given
prosecutors the ability to bring in past
conduct where Donald Trump has been
found to have done something wrong by
the legal system it seems that he is
wavering again and now just this morning
he has been found to do another thing
wrong which is violate the gag order
nine times so it’s all factoring into
that decision and I think in terms of
his family being in court today it was
fascinating to see and fascinating to
see how Donald Trump was interacting
with his son Eric and his top campaign
adviser Susie Wilds just before uh the
court gabbled into session he was sort
of turned around his back to the front
of the courtroom as he was speaking with
them and as I told you earlier you know
we have seen certain advisers with him
earlier uh we saw up shine with him we
saw Jason Miller with him people have
been sort of rotating in and out who is
with him and who is elsewhere but for
the family member to have been there it
sort of carries a different weight and
you could feel that weight the same as
say the you know Civil Trial where he
also on certain days had family members
with him and it is just that sort of
extra show of support that changes that
courtroom Dynamic and changes sort of
the gravity of the room all right Olivia
Rubin John santui Brian buckmire thank
you
and attorneys have been questioning
Banker Gary Pharaoh about the shell
company that Pharaoh says he set up for
Michael Cohen for Michael to then use to
pay Stormy Daniels just ahead of the
2016 election now Pharaoh says that
Cohen wanted to create the account uh or
told him rather that he wanted to create
a new real estate consulting company to
collect fees for investment Consulting
work he does for real estate deal so
Pharaoh is saying that Cohen essentially
lied to him about the real reason for
setting up this account and I want to
bring in ABC News business repor Alexis
christopherus to pick through this and
break this down for us a little because
Alexis this is the part of the case
where we get bogged down in some
financial terms that many of us don’t
fully understand so that’s why we bring
you in so let’s just start with the
concept of a shell company how are these
usually used and when does a shell
company become illegal so shell
companies are what they sound like they
are empty companies they are existing on
paper they don’t have uh hard assets
they don’t have uh physical operation
employees uh physical uh presence
they’re designed really to have very
little transparency so they can sort of
protect the owner of of the entity H and
they’re not illegal on their face a lot
of large corporations and Wealthy
individuals do make good use and
legitimate use of these shell companies
they are seen as tax Havens for lots of
Corporations and Wealthy individuals
they’re able to set up profits um and
operations offshore or abroad where
there may be looser tax code and so
they’re able to sort of get around uh
more onerous tax codes here in this
country but in a legal way there are
other legitimate ways to use a shell
company if your company wants to invest
in foreign markets it might be easier to
do that you want to raise funds to maybe
um uh take ward off a hostile takeover
of your company um so there are
definitely ways that you can use this
legally the illegal ways to use it uh
money laundering uh hiding what they
call dark money um Contraband sales
hiding assets and of course tax evasion
uh so why is this particular shell
company so important to this case so
this is twofold when it uh comes to
Trump they want to know whether or not
he used a shell company uh for the hush
money the $130,000 that was paid to
Stormy Daniels and they also want to
know if he paid uh people to be part of
the rally January 6 at the capital which
we then know led to the capital riots
and so U it’s going to be difficult to
prove this because uh the again these
are designed not to be transparent and
to not know who the owner is so it’s
going to be an exercise in the money
Trail Follow the money to see if you can
truly and definitively uh bring it back
to Donald Trump all right business
report Alexis christopherus thanks
Alexis coming up tensions are escalating
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Why students are now barricaded inside a
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pro Palestinian protesters are now
barricaded inside a building at Columbia
University the campus newspaper says
students broke windows and are blocking
exits with tables and zip ties after
school officials started suspending
students who refuse to leave an
encampment now this has police clash
with protesters at universities all
across the country now some Republican
lawmakers are speaking out against these
universities saying anti-Semitism has
taken over while some Progressive
lawmakers say the protesters are
defending Free Speech Ike aachi joins me
now from Columbia University with more
Ike what’s it like there right
now well you know it’s a stark
difference from what we saw in the early
morning hours remember we had those
group of protesters storm Hamilton Hall
here and just as you say they were
breaking Windows using metal barricades
tables and chairs to block entrances
even went as so so far as to use zip
ties to lock the handles of the doors
now they essentially got inside the
building barricaded themselves hung
banners that said freeze Palestine
outside of the building and then here
there were hundreds of protesters
essentially forming a massive uh uh uh
group right outside the building here
now this morning completely different as
you can see right now it’s completely
calm there are no protesters here that
we’ve been here all morning uh since the
sun rose no protesters since then but
look what the NYPD did in uh campus uh
uh uh security they s up these metal
barricades here because this is the only
entrance to Columbia University all
students and faculty have to go through
this metal barricade scan and show their
student ID or their faculty ID and then
from that blue tent over there they’re
then let inside the university but uh in
terms of right now there are no protests
we did speak to some police officers
they said that they do intend to uh they
intend that there may be protests later
today but as of right now it’s a
peaceful situation as people are just
getting on with their day Di and I top
politicians are now weighing in on this
some are calling this anti-Semitism
others are calling it free speech how
are teachers there
reacting well you know there’s been
lawmakers both sides to the aisle making
their way here to the university and I
spoke to a college professor who
actually lives on campus here uh he said
he’s seen everything from the onset uh
just a couple of weeks ago he said he
saw the protest but he said the damage
and all the disruptions to the other
students are really drowning out and
clouding uh clouding the message that
these protesters initially uh sought out
to deliver and he said what we’re seeing
right now from the lawmakers essentially
trying to co-opt What’s Happening Here
on Columbia University this is according
to the professor of course uh you use
what’s happening here to uh further
whatever kind of agenda they have
according to this professor he says it’s
essentially not making the situation any
better but rather worse take a
listen I think it’s been really
problematic that Congress has gotten so
involved you know I feel like they set
up our president in a no-win situation
no matter what you said in Congress it
was going to be wrong and I think it’s
also problematic for them to then come
to campus and make things worse um you
know again each of them in the last week
we’ve had several uh several members of
congress come to
visit so again uh you heard that
Professor come out and say that the
presence of these lawmakers on campus is
essentially not making the situation any
better and he just hopes right now that
not only do he does he want the uh
presence of outside uh agitators
including those lawmakers to stop but
he’s also calling for the encampment to
stop and hopefully get the business as
usual back on track here at Columbia
University
Diane and like protesters say they would
return to the table if Colombia were
willing to discuss divestment from
Israel what’s the likelihood of that
happening at this point what and what
are you hearing from protesters about
what happens if it
doesn’t well right now we’re at a rock
and hard place right in between the
middle of that the Colombia University
have already come out and said that
divesting from Israel is off the table
that is something that they are not
going going to do they’re remaining firm
on that and that’s essentially the same
time that they announc those suspensions
for the protesters if they don’t sign
that form saying they would abide by
University policies and remove
themselves from the encampment now on
the other side we heard those protesters
specifically the ones that are currently
held up here in Hamilton Hall that they
have those demands and divesting from
Israel is part of that along with
requesting amnesty for their actions and
able to complete the semester in good
standing uh these are things that the
University said they’re not going to
abide by obviously they want them to
sign that form saying they would abide
by that policies but as of right now it
appears both sides are an impass and
really right now the ball is in Columbia
University’s Court what are they going
to do moving forward are they going to
include the NYPD get them on campus as
we’ve seen in other universities across
the country or are they going to come
back to the negotiating table and see if
they can actually restart those
conversations with the protesters but as
of right now that main Crux of their
argument divesting from Israel is just
simply something Columbia University
isn’t looking to do ik aachi at Columbia
University Ike thank you and Secretary
of State Anthony blinkin is urging Hamas
to accept what he calls an
extraordinarily generous ceasefire
proposal from Israel this has
negotiations reach a critical point with
the secretary saying Hamas has to decide
and has to decide quickly foreign
correspondent Tom Sufi burd has the
latest from
Jerusalem the first images of US troops
off the coast of Gaza building a
floating Pier so Aid can be shipped in
it comes as negotiations for a ceasefire
in Gaza and the release of more hostages
reach a critical
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Israeli hostage Keith seagull his
daughter pleading with the US and Israel
to get her dad home we are not breeding
almost s months Keith’s wife a Viva
taken hostage with him on October 7 but
she was released in November I’m to give
him the help Keith is a human being with
the heart and he’s sensitive and he
belongs to us he does not belong to the
Hamas Hamas now considering a proposal
which would see a 40-day ceasefire and
the potential release of thousands of
Palestinian prisoners according to a top
British official the New York Times
saying Israel now willing to accept the
release of 33 hostages dropping its
previous demand of
40 for people in Gaza a ceasefire can’t
come soon enough the lest Israeli air
strikes killing more than 20 including
children according to a local hospital
the emergency room is very busy and full
right now people are desperate they want
to find their loved ones they want
treatment they’re hurting they’re in
pain nurse Brenda Maldonado from
Washington State working in Gaza for the
past two weeks telling us what she’s
seen will stay with her forever we have
patients lying on the ground anytime we
get Mass casualties which is almost
every single day the patients brought in
and placed directly on the floor and
we’re treating them a lot of blast
injuries sharpnel injuries children
older people not soldiers I haven’t seen
a soldier since I’ve been here it’s
basically
civilians and Diane prime minister
Netanyahu is still threatening to launch
that ground offensive into Rafa and in
those talks Egypt saying hamas’s
negotiating team has now left Cairo and
will submit a written response to the
proposed ceasefire deal blinkin expected
here in Israel tonight as we wait to see
how Hamas will respond Diane foreign
correspondent Tom Sufi Burge thank you
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president Trump’s criminal hush money
trial has fined Donald Trump $99,000 for
nine gag order violations warning the
former president he could go to jail if
he violates that gag order again now
court is resuming after attorneys
questioned Gary Pharaoh Michael Cohen’s
former Banker Pharaoh testified that he
helped Cohen set up the shell company
that Cohen then used to secretly pay
stormmy Daniels
$130,000 days ahead of the 2016 election
ABC News executive editorial producer
John santui joins me now along with ABC
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for more John prosecutors now say that
if Donald Trump testifies in this case
they want to cross-examine him about
these nine gag order violations now what
does that tell you well that tells us
that one of the things Donald Trump
really needs to do is start to really
weigh whether or not he wants to take
the stand I think that Donald Trump’s
you know thinking on this has clearly
evolved before he entered this courtroom
telling ABC News multiple times that he
would most definitely take the stand
then recently saying well I would if
it’s necessary but I think one of the
things Donald Trump is finding in this
courtroom that quite frankly is
different than any other period of his
life is that he’s going to be held
accountable and he’s going to have to
answer questions or not do certain
things or do do certain things and you
know for Donald Trump who you know has
given many many depositions over the
course of his life I think he he Joe
once he’s probably given over 3,000
depositions cuz the guy has brought a
lot of lawsuits in his past life and has
also been privy and part of a lot of
lawsuits in life this though is
different these are questions and
circumstances that he’s probably not
going to want to answer and the gag
order violations in many cases are going
to be very hard for him to justify why
and how he attacked certain people who
didn’t attack him back uh Brian the
prosecutors are also asking to bring in
evidence about what they call a pressure
campaign by Donald Trump to intimidate
Witnesses why does that matter talk
about this guilt of Consciousness that
they’re talking about yes so it’s again
the concept of why would you do this but
to get an unfair advantage or to harm
someone and so this pressure campaign
that he has the question becomes Donald
Trump why would you do this what if you
are so innocent and this case is such a
Witch Hunt and election interference why
not just go through the process be
Vindicated be found not guilty and allow
the witnesses to play out as they are
him doing the opposite the prosecution
wants to able to argue that this is
consciousness of guilt that he knows
that he’s wrong and he’s trying to delay
and try to push these Witnesses from
testifying and and and I think that’s
what they’re trying to get at the gag
order as well some of the statements
however I do think the prosecution
should maybe hold off a little on that I
don’t think they’ll ultimately get to
have the ability to say that he violated
the gag order I think that’s a little
bit of a reach I think they might be
able to get to the contents of what he
said to violate the gag order and that
may be more of a of a proper way of
arguing that issue could they bring this
in when Michael Cohen hits the stand
even if Donald Trump doesn’t testify in
this case talking about how he tried to
intimidate Michael Cohen yeah I’m just
going to walk through the different
evidentiary ruling that would go through
that it sounds like that’s what they’re
asking the judge right now yeah so one
it would be a statement by a party
opponent it would be the defendant who’s
making that statement the only question
would be what’s the relevance to it and
whether or not Michael Cohen heard it
outside of that courtroom and what
actions that he had so you could kind of
navigate a way that you say hey I’m not
using this for hearsay or there’s a
different exception I’m using it for the
reaction of the listener but ultimately
you’re trying to ring that Bell so to
speak in the jury’s ear to say even
though Donald Trump is not taking the
stand this is what he’s saying this is
what you missed you could navigate a way
of getting that out so Brian what do
ultimately they want to show here why
would the jury care so much about
whether or not Trump violated a gag
order that one is a little difficult for
me I I don’t think it’s G to come in as
Donald Trump violated the gag order
because that doesn’t seem relevant to me
what seems more relevant to me is the
statements that he made to violate the
gag quar when he’s talking about the
witnesses credibility and he’s making
attacks on them I think the prosecution
can turn the the contents of why he
violated around and say he’s trying to
push back on this because he knows he
did something wrong I think the ultimate
uh violation that the judge ruled on it
I think that’s beyond the scope of of
questioning him uh what are you watching
for next BR next witness just like
Donald Trump’s defense but I I think uh
do you want to raise your hand I I mean
we got it so I mean you know it’s it’s
like it’s like it’s like you wish and
your wish is granted we we the next
witness is on the stand uh so uh this is
Robert Browning uh he was the executive
director of c-spans archives for the
last 30 somewhat years um one of the
things that we have heard Diane is that
there’s a lot of custodial witnesses
that are going to be part of these
proceedings people that basically
they’re up there just to enter a part of
evidence so I’m not sure what this could
be you know when I’m thinking about
C-SPAN obviously you think about you
know a lot of you know government events
if you will one of the things that we
know you know sort of triggered
prosecutors here was Michael Cohen’s
testimony up on Capitol Hill when he
talked about Donald Trump businesses and
exchange he had with AOC in one of those
committees so it could be something
along those lines that there’s a part of
you know the record they need to get in
here from something that he or others
said is part of their testimony but I
think that’s what we’re about to say so
it’s literally just getting underway
right now prosecutor is asking him this
may help so a custodial witness is
someone that either has custody of that
document or that conversation or someone
who was part of that conversation so if
John and I walk outside and have a
conversation and we write a document one
of us who either participated in that
document of the conversation would have
to take the stand and say this is a true
and accurate representation of that
conversation as it happened and they’re
bringing in that evidence for the jury
to hear and so when we talk about
custodial Witnesses they may not have
information themselves specifically but
they may be a person who either
documented it was part of the
conversation or has that paper trail
that they can provide to the court so
sorry I was going to say so it sounds
like this is video of trump uh that’s
being entered into the evidence um I
don’t think we know exactly what it is
just yet um but that is the question
it’s not disclosed just yet according to
our team so um it it again looks as
though you know this is something that
they want to include maybe something
Trump spoke about said about you know
you have to remember too you know
rewinding all of our brains to 2017 and
18 Donald Trump was commenting on
Michael Cohen in real time because
remember Michael Cohen famously at that
point in life was still loyal hanging on
to Michael you know he’s a good guy he’s
my longtime lawyer he’s great and then
flip and Donald Trump fli too and the
way he spoke about Michael Cohen so I
I’ll be curious to see what exactly this
video is Brian ultimately prosecutors
are trying to prove that Trump was a
part of this payment and that this
payment was an illegal attempt to
influence the election and that’s why
they wanted this story buried how do you
see these building blocks Rona graph
testifying that she stored contact
information for stormmy Daniels and
Karen McDougall for former president
Trump Gary Pharaoh talking about how he
set up the shell Company from from
Michael Cohen uh now we’re going to hear
from the C-SPAN official about you know
this video how do you see this as
building blocks toward what the
prosecution is ultimately trying to
prove here so I I’ll go block by block
and what John said actually kind of jog
by memory as to what a prosecutor may be
trying to do with this C-SPAN video If
Donald Trump is speaking um positively
of Michael Cohen I think you’re going
through each and every element of the
crime you’re going through this was the
the scheme this was the int so that’s
David pecker this was the intent behind
the scheme uh you have his close
assistant uh this is how Donald Trump is
in the orbit of all of these individuals
this is how Michael Cohen then
effectuates that scheme by going to the
banker and having that $130,000 in that
kind of uh that shell company and then I
think is happening here is a preemptive
attempt to try to get around Michael
Cohen’s bad character that Donald Trump
was positive of Michael Cohen when
Michael Cohen was doing the work of
Donald Trump but it’s only when Michael
Cohen stopped doing hisob job for him
that Donald Trump turned on him so any
kind of character attack I think the
prosecution is going to try to argue
this isn’t about the bad character of
Michael Cohen this is that Michael Cohen
is not doing Donald Trump’s dirty work
anymore so that’s what I think we might
be getting at some point because we know
the defense’s strongest argument or one
of the strong arguments is that Michael
Cohen should not be trusted the question
is why and when did that happen and I
think it’s important right how many
times Donald Trump would say about so
many people forget the Trump
organization but the White House itself
right remember every time he’d hire
somebody they’re the best I only hire
the best people this person’s amazing
the minute they left and you know threw
Donald Trump under the bus he would do
the same and say this person was
terrible I don’t know why I hired them
they’re they’re a rhino they they’re all
of these things so I I think to your
point and again remembering all of that
in real time there was so much of that
Donald Trump basically saying to Michael
Cohen I think he’ll do the right thing
right not talking to him directly the
way I’m looking at you but speaking to
him through that camera trying to send
him message message was not received
Cohen flipped and then we know where it
all goes so it’s was really interesting
and here we are John santui Brian
buckmire thank you
both and the trial doesn’t appear to be
hurting Trump’s chances in the current
election cycle 538 analysis shows he’s
essentially tied with President Biden in
National polls and leading in key swing
States let’s bring in ABC News Deputy
political director Avery Harper for more
on that Avery how significant are these
polls and what do they say about the
state of the race right now well I I
think it’s really important to remember
it’s very early what voters feel today
is likely going to be of little
importance on Election Day but for
campaigns uh they could be gleaning
information from these polls uh finding
out where their strengths and their
weaknesses are uh and putting more money
and resources where those weaknesses
are now Trump also confirmed that he met
with Florida Governor Ronda santis over
the weekend saying he’s very happy to
have his full and enthusiastic support
this is a course a sharp contrast to the
insults they traded while disantis was
still campaigning for president so how
did we get here right this burying of
the hatchet and how much does having
DeSantis in his Corner helped Trump at
this point right well the intent uh on
the governor desantis’s part was to bury
the hatchet we have sources who tell ABC
news that he actually requested this
meeting and I think it’s really an
effort on the part of Governor DeSantis
uh to try and repair the relationship
that he has with uh former president
Trump he understands that Trump is the
leader of this current republ Republican
party and if he has Ambitions Beyond his
current role as the governor of Florida
he’s going to want to have Trump on his
side uh Des santis has privately signal
that he is going to uh try and fund
raise for former president Trump and
that could help former president Trump
as he continues to campaign for uh this
race uh also again an effort for on the
part of Governor DeSantis to repair that
relationship now President Biden hasn’t
said much about this trial but he did
joke about Trump’s Court appearances at
the White House correspondent dinner
this weekend calling him sleepy Don do
you think we could see the president
addressing the trial more on the
campaign Trail going forward no I think
that was more about making sure
playfully reminding uh viewers that uh
President Biden and former president
Trump are actually not that far apart in
age rather than uh talking about uh his
appearances uh at court or talking about
the developments happening in court uh
again I think for the campaign this has
been an effort that they have been
making over time to try and point out
Trump’s gffs on the campaign Trail uh to
make age a vulnerability for Trump as
much as it as it is for Biden so Avery
what are you watching for as the
campaign season heats up and as the
trial continues to stretch into that
season right well the longer that former
president Trump is in the courtroom
that’s the longer he is not on the
campaign Trail speaking with voters
about his vision for the country and so
I’m interested to see how he is going to
continue to navigate uh being stuck in a
court room while the campaign is ongoing
and there are lots of folks who are
going to be pointing out the fact that
he is stuck in a courtroom and not able
to travel the country and speak to
voters all right ABC News Deputy
political director Avery Harper thank
you we’ll be right back with more of the
day’s top story stay with
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columia Pro Palestinian protesters
Gathering outside Columbia University
Hamilton Hall then storming the
building video capturing students
slamming desks breaking windows and
barricading themselves inside just after
12:30 this morning dozens of students
left the encampment and entered the
hall students defiant refusing to
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indiscriminate killing Massacre of
Palestinians in Gazza um that’s how you
end the war at least one person arrested
Monday outside Columbia’s Gates seen
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custody oh my God at Virginia
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pro Palestinian protesters clashing with
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university telling ABC News multiple
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individuals involved were not students
this as similar demonstrations and
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us at the University of Texas at Austin
dozens arrested as protesters and police
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nine protesters arrested the school
saying the University of Florida is not
a daycare and we do not treat protesters
like children they knew the rules they
broke the rules Jewish students on both
sides of the issue some who are pro is
is say they’ve been harassed it’s not
easy to stand there alone when the whole
university is practically against us at
USC administrators cancelling their main
commencement ceremony due to protests
many of the soon Tobe graduates missed
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pandemic my high school just had a
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graduation for my whole
life Stephanie Ramos thank you and I
could ji joins me now from Columbia
University for more on this Ike what’s
it like there right
now well d as you know Columbia
University has essentially shut down the
campus except for one entrance and
that’s what we’re seeing right now we’re
at 116th in Amsterdam where this is the
only entrance where students and faculty
can enter you can see right now Colombia
security they’ve essentially set up this
tent where everybody is forced to show
their ID obviously that Columbia
University ID that’s the only way they
can get in here and if that’s that’s of
course coming after last night when we
saw those group of protesters
essentially come in a little after
midnight and barricade themselves right
here inside Hamilton Hall you know so
they came and they were being told that
uh a group of protesters essentially
broke into one of the doors here at
Hamilton Hall broke through a window and
a large line of protesters and students
came in there and barric themselves
using these metal dividers as well as
chairs and tables to block all the
entrances there they’ve been there since
overnight and they’ve since hung up some
flags on the buildings as you can see
there’s one right here hanging from the
window that says free Palestine they’ve
been in there overnight and they said
that they’re not essentially going to
leave until their demands have been met
Diane like I know the NYPD is on the
scene but they haven’t been called in to
assist yet so how is the school
responding to all of
this well you see right now it’s been
essentially a stark difference from what
we saw yesterday yesterday we saw at
some points the police clashing with
protesters uh just on the other block of
this uh Hamilton Hall here and we even
saw a couple people even arrested but as
you can see right now uh there’s no
protesters here at the moment rather uh
we’re in an orderly situation now where
the students and faculty are able to get
inside but there is an increased
presence of NYPD officers around this
university around this surrounding area
uh we do know that the university they
started suspending students those
student protesters that didn’t want to
sign that form that would say they would
abide by University policies uh we’re
being told by University representative
they they already begun suspending those
students but in terms of what’s
happening right inside Hamilton Hall
here with those protesters that have
barricaded themselves it’s essentially a
game of wait and see right now the ball
is in the court of Columbia University
they’ve made their demands very clear
and right now it’s B’s Columbia
University to decide how exactly they’re
going to respond to this Dian all right
iachi Columbia University I thank you
meanwhile a new severe storm system is
moving into the plains bringing possible
tornadoes to areas already devastated by
an outbreak over the weekend this as
Poke County Texas is under mandatory
evacuation orders amid heavy rainfall
and flooding AB news meteorologist Samar
Theodor is tracking it all for us hi
Samara hi good morning Diane all right
so let’s jump into this so we have two
rounds of severe weather today and
tomorrow and this is going to be hitting
areas previously hit by the storms this
past weekend and the end of last week
here we are tonight at 700 p.m. central
Time these storms sweeping across the
Heartland now the highest tornado threat
is right here in Orange de Moy down to
Kansas City but anywhere from witcha up
to uh manato we could see a few
tornadoes damaging winds and large Hil
that is tonight through this evening
remember nocturnal Dorn tornadoes are
extremely dangerous you can’t see them
coming so make sure your alerts are on
then tomorrow night we have a secondary
severe weather threat and that is going
to move through Western Oklahoma North
Northern Texas and we can see some
storms as far north as Nebraska highest
tornado threat though is sitting in
Kansas uh from Garden City to Selena
down to Witchita uh but we could see
some tornadoes as far south as Midland
Texas as well again that’s Wednesday
into Wednesday night and we’re not even
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US we would normally see around 275
tornado so just know we’re still in the
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now it’s not just tornadoes another
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visuals Dallas Texas 3 to 5 Ines you
could see in Central Texas over the next
5 days or even more this is a ton of
rain coming down in a small amount of
time leading to flash flooding I also
want to talk about the heat that’s been
the story on the East Coast right so it
was very warm yesterday our nation’s
capital hit 91 degrees Baltimore
Maryland went for 92 and even as far
north as New Jersey we were in the upper
80s in New Jersey and this afternoon a
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cooler today temperatures in the upper
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first prosecutors are calling new
Witnesses in former president Trump’s
criminal hush money trial Robert brownie
the executive director of c-span’s
archives testified as prosecutors showed
video clips of trump denying even
knowing stormmy Daniels prosecutors also
called Philip Thompson who works for a
national Port reporting company ABC News
executive editorial producer John fuchi
joins me now along with legal journalist
senior editor at Harvard Law School
Christian faras for more John what’s the
latest from court so this witness that
was the executive director at C-SPAN is
still on the stand and they’ve been
playing videos of Donald Trump some of
his campaign rallies some of his news
conferences and based on our team’s
reporting specifically from our Olivia
Rubin Donald Trump’s demeanor is one of
the things that we’re watching right now
he’s completely changed according to our
team whispering to his attorneys um
leaning in as Olivia is reporting uh
looking rather displeased as they’re
going through this evidence the other
video that’s been turned over I don’t
believe it’s been played in court yet
but it’s a deposition Donald Trump gave
uh as part of aene Carrol’s lawsuit of
course we know there were many
depositions that took part in that case
against the former writer um that Donald
Trump had last year but I think that so
much of Donald Trump’s legal troubles
are coming back to haunt him in this
case so obviously EEG Carol being one
but then looking at the fact that
they’re playing these videos and
statements Donald Trump made as a
candidate years ago is just remarkable
and I think even Donald Trump’s a little
caught by surprise based on our team’s
Sense on it so Christian let’s talk
about those videos because one of them
from this Trump rally shows Trump saying
I have no idea who these women are
talking about stormy Daniels and Karen
McDougall how significant is that given
we’ve already heard his former assistant
Rona graph testify that she saw Stormy
Daniels in Trump Tower that she stored
contact information for both of these
women in former president Trump’s
contacts it is worth remembering that
what prosecutors are trying to do with
jurors is to tell them a story and yes
this is a business records case yes
there’s a lot of technicalities involved
with proving whether or not those false
business records were in fact produced
by Trump and concert with other people
but they’re also trying to tell the
story that in order to achieve the
purposes of the scheme they were
deceiving voters and crucial to that uh
bottom line is that Trump was trying to
conceal from them that he was engaged in
all these Affairs and obviously in order
to make that case they have to show that
Trump in fact knew who these women were
that he in fact knew
uh very well that they had incriminated
information that could have been
extremely useful to Trump’s opponents
and obviously uh you know we’re at a
time in the campaign we’re talking about
October when uh he already is on the
record with the Access Hollywood tape
and anything to tip the scales either
way or another so uh the fact that he
try to keep this on the DL as they like
to say Obviously shows that uh this was
indeed something that was calculated to
influence the election one way or the
other John jurors were also shown a
brief video of former president Trump
talking about how these stories could be
damaging to his presidential campaign
and a video of a press conference of
then president-elect PR Donald Trump
praising Michael Cohen why show that
yeah well first of all that quote in
particular is just remarkable Donald
Trump saying Michael Cohen is a very
talented lawyer what it’s trying to show
is that Donald Trump you know was all in
in you know love with Michael Cohen if
you will up until Michael Cohen in
Prosecutor’s description you know turned
Co you know suddenly reversed course
suddenly decided I’m going to speak you
know the truth now about Donald Trump
and we know that after that happened
Donald Trump’s tone and attitude towards
Michael Cohen dramatically changed you
know Michael Cohen was the guy that
would basically you know take the fire
and do the shooting on Donald Trump’s
behalf when he flipped around and
attacking Trump we know that Donald
Trump famously says that he’s a counter
puncher and that’s exactly what Donald
Trump did he started attacking Michael
Cohen repeatedly he his family his
allies Etc um it I think what they’re
trying to build and Brian buckmire
talked about this with us a little
earlier it shows they’re trying to make
clear that Michael Cohen was loyal
Michael Cohen was all in on team Trump
team Trump welcomed Michael con with
open arms and thus when he decided to
speak the truth it all flipped the other
part of your question though is multiple
statements by Donald Trump talking about
not just the stories of Karen McDougall
and Stormy Daniels but you have to
remember Diane leading up to the 2016
election many women well over a dozen
came out and made accusations about
Donald Trump and sexual misconduct
leading up to that election so all of
this is basically playing into the soup
of Prosecutor’s case here that he has
said this done that denied this but
here’s the proof he did did know these
people they did matter they were in his
life and here we are now at this trial
and and Christian jurors it sounds like
are now watching this video from Trump’s
deposition in the egene Carroll
defamation case why bring that into this
what do you think prosecutors are trying
to get at
here well they’re trying to create this
notion not so much that he has a
propensity for uh committing acts that
may be disfavorable or that people may
find disagreeable but rather that he
already is uh definitely trying to pull
strings so to speak in order to uh
basically try to discredit both people
and stories that are disfavorable for
him remember that in 2016 many people
were turning up their noses and deciding
whether or not to vote for Trump and
part of that appeal especially to social
conservatives to Many religious voters
is that Trump is a family man that
whatever he may have done in the past is
the past that he is a changed person
that he has uh people of Faith people
with morals he has their best interest
at heart and by showing all these videos
showing all this uh evidence that in
fact he uh was actively pulling strings
in order to keep uh some of these
stories from reaching the press that he
is not the family man that uh he
proclaimed that he was and even in his
trial he’s tried to make that case that
no he was not trying to silence uh these
women but rather that he was trying to
Pro protect his reputation but the
reality from both the Ean Carol K and
all these other instances is that uh
their reputation was already made and it
was public and uh Trump was simply
trying to do damage control not so much
for his family men reputation but rather
because he wanted to get elected and
John this all comes after the judge
found Trump in contempt for nine gag
order violations he find him $99,000 in
threat to send him to jail if he
continues to violate the gag order now
we’re hearing Trump’s campaign is
already fundraising off of that ruling I
mean again chapter verse this is the
Playbook right and I think look at
Donald Trump’s World colliding right now
in this courtroom the fact that the
woman who is leading Donald Trump’s
campaign Susie WS is in the courtroom is
no accident because Donald Trump and his
lawyers know they’re trying to give off
this real image that you know this case
in their opinion is nonsense doesn’t
exist it’s keeping him from the campaign
and thus going to start to see more and
more leadership of the campaign there
because in Donald Trump’s opinion we
know he says this to cameras every time
he enters Court um he you know believes
that’s where he should be not in the
courtroom on the campaign Trail I do
want to note Diane that you know we have
had a couple developments in court in
just the last couple seconds here so the
C-SPAN executive has ended uh his
testimony he there was no
cross-examination there because again
not much to fight over the videos I
suppose uh prosecutors have now called
their next witness and this is Keith
Davids Keith Davidson is extremely
important Diane in this case this was
Stormy Daniels lawyer this was the guy
that basically was in direct dialogue
with Michael Cohen and others to get
this deal for
$130,000 to you know bury her story not
full catch and kill because we know this
was different than what David pcker was
doing with the other cases but
nevertheless um Davidson also
represented Karen McDougall so he can
really talk about you know the dealings
with both David pcker Michael Cohen
though
both with the same goal by their silence
and Davidson was the person on the
receiving end of the stormy Daniel’s
payment uh so will be interesting to see
what he says about the details of how
that payment John santui Christian FAS
thank you both and earlier attorney’s
question Banker Gary Pharaoh about the
shell company Michael Cohen allegedly
used to pay stormmy Daniels just ahead
of the 2016 election now Pharaoh says
that Cohen wanted to create or or that
rather that Pharaoh that Cohen said that
this was for a real State consulting
company to collect fees for investment
Consulting
work Business Report Alexis
christopherus to pick through this and
break this down for us a little because
Alexis this is the part of the case
where we get bogged down in some
financial terms that many of us don’t
fully understand so that’s why we bring
you in so let’s just start with the
concept of a shell company how are these
usually used and when does a shell
company become illegal so shell
companies are what they sound like they
are empty companies they are existing on
paper they don’t have uh hard assets
they don’t have uh physical operations
employees uh physical uh presence
they’re designed really to have very
little transparency so they can sort of
protect the owner of of the entity H and
they’re not illegal on their face a lot
of large corporations and Wealthy
individuals do make good use and
legitimate use of these shell companies
they are seen as tax Havens for lots of
Corporations and Wealthy individuals
they’re able to set up profits um and
operations offshore or abroad where
there may be looser tax code and so
they’re able to sort of get around uh
more onerous tax codes here in this
country but in a legal way there are
other legitimate ways to use a shell
company if your company wants to invest
in foreign markets it might be easier to
do that you want to raise funds to maybe
um uh take ward off a hostile takeover
of your company um so there are
definitely ways that you can use this
legally the illegal ways to use it uh
money laundering uh hiding what they
call dark money um Contraband sales
hiding assets and of course tax evasion
uh so why is this particular shell
company so important to this case so
this is twofold when it uh comes to
Trump they wanted know whether or not he
used a shell company uh for the hush
money the $130,000 that was paid to
Stormy Daniels and they also want to
know if he paid uh people to be part of
the rally January 6th at the capital
which we then know led to the capital
riots and so U it’s going to be
difficult to prove this because uh the
again these are designed not to be
transparent and to not know who the
owner is so it’s going to be an exercise
in the money Trail Follow the money to
see if you can truly and definitively uh
bring it back to Donald Trump all right
business report Alexis christopherus
thanks
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called their sixth witness to the stand
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former president Trump ABC’s executive
editorial ucer John santui joins me now
for more John who’s the jury hearing
from now Diane we are rocking and
rolling we have already gone through
testimony from a former Banker we’ve
gone through a testimony from a former
C-SPAN executive and now Keith Davidson
who represented Stormy Daniels and Karen
McDougall is on the stand Davidson of
course brokering deals with David pcker
and Michael Cohen both with the goal of
buying the Silence of Karen McDougal and
Stormy Daniels leading up to the 2016
election all in the effort to bury their
story to not cause harm to Donald Trump
or his presidential campaign now
Davidson right now is going through just
the beginnings of his work how he would
go through non-disclosure agreements
with his clients and of course really
explain to the jury sort of those
dealings with Cohen and pcker leading
into the election now just quickly to
recap for folks that are joining us at
home we’ve had a busy day in this case
already in addition of three Witnesses
nine nine gag order violations is what
judge Maran hit Donald Trump with
earlier this morning $9,000
in fines and the judge warning Donald
Trump if he continues a jail could be in
his future Diane we’re going to keep
watching it all all right we sure will
John Cuchi thank you and representative
Margie Taylor green is indicating she
still plans to trigger a motion to
vacate Mike Johnson from his role as
house Speaker green released a statement
a short time ago railing against Johnson
saying quote if the Democrats want to
elect him speaker I’ll give them the
chance to do it this comes just hours
after house Democrats said they would
vote to save Johnson if a motion to out
the speaker was brought to the floor
ABC’s Jay O’Brien is standing by in
Capitol Hill with the latest on that Jay
this is head spinning at this point why
is Marjorie Taylor green releasing this
statement and is there any sense of when
she could bring this motion to the floor
well remember she’s held this motion to
vacate over Johnson’s head for weeks and
she was en railed a few weeks back when
the house passed that bipartisan foreign
aid package that included aid for
Ukraine which she is a staunch opponent
of but she didn’t bring the motion to
vacate then instead the house went on
break for a week week and then when they
returned last night and then into this
morning Democrats as you said released
that statement Democratic Leadership in
which they say if green does move
against Johnson they would be open and
they will vote to not vote for Johnson
but vote to table it meaning push that
motion aside procedurally that further
enrages margerie Taylor green and that
triggers the statement that she issued
moments ago in which she said uh that
Johnson is a quote unquote Democrat
speaker she also said there needs to be
a recorded vote on Johnson’s future all
of that indicating that she is going to
move to trigger a vote on her motion to
vacate but when she could do it is
really an open question because it’s not
a certainty right now Diane that Mary
Taylor green is even in the building
House Republicans had a meeting this
morning nobody saw her go in and out of
that meeting they had a vote last night
uh she wasn’t at that vote last night or
she didn’t vote and they’re voting right
now and no one has seen her on the house
floor so it’s uncertain as to whether or
not this could come in the next few
hours the next few days but green is
certainly indicating that she is going
to move ahead with calling a vote on
whether Mike Johnson should remain as
Speaker of the
House and how secure is Mike Johnson’s
seat at this point given what Democrats
said well with that Democratic move to
again not vote to uh elect in a sense
Johnson to speaker but instead table
Marjorie Taylor Green’s motion with
those Democrats plus moderate
Republicans who would vote with those
Democrats Johnson’s seat looks pretty
secure additionally Marjorie Taylor
green doesn’t even have tons of support
from the hardliners in her own party uh
before Congress left on recess she had
two other hardliners who had said yes
they would join with green in her
efforts to OU Johnson but there were
some lawmakers who were in favor of
outing Kevin McCarthy for instance who
are no longer in favor of Ting Mike
Johnson Tim burett is a good example one
of my colleagues caught up with him as
he was going into that Republican
meeting this morning and they asked him
do you think this effort to house Mike
Johnson will be successful do you
support and he said no to both of those
questions so Mary Taylor green has
enough numbers to if all the Democrats
abandon Mike Johnson uh to cause some
problems but because Democrats are have
said that they will vote to table this
motion his position looks pretty secure
for the time being all right Jay O’Brien
on Capitol Hill thanks Jay and pro
Palestinian protesters have now been
barricaded for hours inside a building
at Columbia University the campus
newspaper reports students broke windows
and are blocking exits with tables and
zip ties after school officials started
suspending students who refused to leave
an encampment this has police clashed
with protesters at universities all
across the country ABC’s M win has the
latest from
Washington today Columbia University
severely restricting access to its
campus leaving just one Gateway open for
essential staff and some students it
comes after a night of heated Pro
Palestinian
protests video capturing students sto
storming Hamilton Hall smashing windows
and barricading the doors with Furniture
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prosecutors are calling new Witnesses
and former president Trump’s criminal
hush money trial stormmy Daniels former
attorney Keith Davidson is now on the
stand he worked for both Daniels and
Karen McDougall when their hush money
payments were arranged ABC News
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Brendan Moore trial Advocacy Center at
forom University School of Law Adam
schahet Olivia let’s start with you
what’s the latest from the
court as you said Diane Keith Davidson
has just taken the witness stand this
afternoon and he is the one who
represented both Stormy Daniels and
Karen MCD McDougall in their
negotiations with Michael Cohen and Ami
to silence their stories about Donald
Trump so he is going to be able to give
some more you know interesting gripping
testimony about those negotiations we
heard a little bit from David pecker
already speaking to uh his negotiations
with Michael Cohen and Keith Davidson
and now the jury is going to get to hear
it from a second witness’s perspective
and it is likely Diane a welcome change
for the jurors who have spent the last
couple of days listening to slower
custodial Witnesses talk about records
talk about bank accounts talk about
videos and now they are going to hear
from another witness who was in the
thick of it who had personal dealings
with the characters at the center of
this case so it is likely to enter in
some more very gripping evidence for the
jury there John I want to harp on that
point a little bit more because up until
now the past few Witnesses have all been
about documents and numbers they’re
basically there to verify information
that the prosecutor just wants them to
say yes that’s true but Keith Davidson
this isn’t we’ve heard come up over and
over again in other testimony and now
here he is in person on the well and
it’s getting better by the minute Olivia
I mean it’s definitely getting gripping
as you just said so as our Peter harus
is now reporting jurors are now being
shown text messages Diane between kith
Davidson and Dylan Howard of course we
remember that name from last week David
pecker spoke a little bit about Dylan
Howard he was one of his deputies at Ami
of course when he was running the
national Inquirer and according to this
text Davidson wrote to Howard in June of
16 quote I have a blockbuster Trump
story talk first thing I will get you
more than anyone for it you know why
Howard responded so of course we know
that one of the things that David pcker
said he was but he deputized Dylan
Howard and others at the national
inquire to be the eyes and ears for
Donald Trump and the 2016 campaign for
the former president so in theory
Davidson reaching out saying I’ve got a
story I’ve got a scoop Howard basically
knows you know I can go more for this
than anybody else because you know the
original conversations we’d have with
somebody that was pitching us a story as
David pecker detailed last week was
$10,000 anything higher would be a
different conversation but because it
was Donald Trump we know that they’ve
had this agreement this Arrangement
these conversations between Cohen pcker
and Trump that if we have to go for more
money in order to not damage Donald
Trump pull out the bank account Adam how
crucial are those words from that text
message going to be you know why
I mean that’s everything because this
case is the prosecution is trying to
make this case not about witness
credibility right this is not about
whether or not Michael Cohen’s
believable because of all these things
that the defense can’t deny so things
like text messages things like
recordings things like actual bank
statements these are the things the
prosecution is going to hammer
on now Olivia earlier jurs were also
shown a video from a trump rally where
he said I have no idea who these women
are talking about Stormy Daniels and
Karen McDougall they then showed a press
conference where then president-elect
Trump was praising Michael Cohen talk to
me about the significance of those two
videos Olivia and how Trump reacted when
they were shown in
court certainly not a good moment for
Donald Trump Diane when the jury is
being shown videos of him speaking about
the alleged incidents in this case in
his own words at the time
that prosecutors were saying that these
crimes were being committed so anytime
you can use Donald Trump’s own words
against him is going to be a win for
prosecutors and also what Donald Trump
said in those videos was he appeared to
acknowledge that the claims that from
stormmy Daniels and Karen McDougall you
know could have hurt him in the election
which is exactly why prosecutors say
that he tried to bury them Donald Trump
in the jury show in the video shown to
the jury said they are trying to hurt my
campaign if even 5% of Voters if even
10% of Voters believe this I’m not going
to win so before those videos were play
played as that you know custodial
witness is getting settled into the
stand you could sort of feel the energy
draining out of the courtroom Donald
Trump slumped so far down into his chair
the back of his head was almost on the
headrest you could tell everyone was
sort of gearing up for a long slog but
then the videos played and you could see
his demeanor almost immediately changed
once they were done he was frantically
Whispering with his attorney Todd blanch
he did not look you know pleased at all
so clearly you know a bit of a moment
there when prosecutors were able to get
that video in and John we’re seeing more
of these texts being brought up in court
in this conversation what’s the latest
well I mean listen we know that Donald
Trump has told people he’d be
embarrassed at some point this is
getting right to the heart of that clear
as day so these are text messages from
Dylan Howard to Keith Davidson Howard
asking Davidson quote did he cheat on
Melania referring to Donald Trump
another question do you know if the
affair was during his marriage to
Melania Keith responding I really can’t
say it sorry Howard responding okay keep
me informed but you know couple things
to boil out here number one we are now
starting to get into the dialogue right
the conversations between really the key
players here that negotiated the deal
obviously Michael Cohen is the known
name but Keith Davidson was the lawyer
for Karen McDougall and stormmy Daniels
that brokered both of these deals one
obviously with pcker and the national
Inquirer the other as we learned earlier
from the testimony of the former bank
executive with Michael Cohen and paid
out of essence LLC directly this though
is just the beginning of what Donald
Trump has been bracing for the
embarrassment right to think that just a
couple of days ago the last time we
heard Milani’s name mentioned around
these proceedings Donald Trump was
wishing his wife a happy birthday now
there’s someone on the stand revealing
questions being asked about Donald Trump
cheating on his wife Adam how important
is Keith Davidson in in terms of being a
piece to putting this whole puzzle
together well you know the defense has
been arguing that there was no
conspiracy but the prosecution at the
end of the day will be able to argue do
you think that there was a conspiracy
between all of these people to frame
Donald Trump every single one of these
people and lock steps giving us the same
story so it’s really important every
time they can get another voice that is
consistent with pecker and what um
Michael Cohen will be saying if they’re
in lock step it’s a very very difficult
argument to make that they’re trying
that they’re making the stuff up Olivia
what are you watching for as this
testimony continues and and as the the
testimony in general
continues well I think uh what was just
said is exactly right Pro uors and the
way that they have stacked these
Witnesses are just continuing to
corroborate the previous testimony so
think about what David pecker said he
said that Keith Davidson was one of the
most valuable sources to the National
inquire and was the source of much of
their information now fast forward a few
days Keith Davidson is on the stand
testifying to being a source for this
information about Donald Trump texting
with an employee at the national inquir
to give them the story it is exactly
what David said happened and now it has
so I would also expect that Keith
Davidson is going to expand a bit uh
into some of the dialogue that occurred
because remember David pecker can only
testify to the conversations he had now
prosecutors are adding on and Keith
Davidson is going to uh you know start
speaking to the conversations that he
had so it is just going to keep evolving
and getting closer and closer to Donald
Trump and we’re now hearing from the
courtroom that they’re saying Howard
told that he want said said that he
wanted to return to New York and run it
up the flag poll I’m sure attorneys are
going to want to know more about what
that comment meant Adam what do you
think of what we’re hearing so far from
Davidson I mean it’s fascinating I think
that a lot of people are going to be
very interested in this gu’s testimony
because he was dealing directly with
McDougall and directly um with Ms
Daniels and uh you know every lawyer has
like a niche in terms of what they do
for a living I think people are going to
be very interested how do you get a
niche representing women who’ve had
affairs with incredibly rich men and
then try to get ndas to get money from
them all right Olivia John Adam thank
you all we will have much more on the
Trump hush money child throughout the
day stay with us and the governor of
North Carolina is speaking out about a
deadly shootout that killed four
officers Roy Cooper says the officers
were trying to serve two warrants when
the suspect open fire and that he’s now
in touch with federal agencies our faith
abub is in Charlotte with the lat
safe yeah hi Diane I just spoke with a
chief of police here and he talks about
the Heartbreak that this entire
Community has been feeling in the last
24 hours you can imagine these officers
who passed away uh their fathers their
sons they they’re just husbands and so a
lot of people in this community mourning
right now there are no plans right now
to announce in terms of any memorials
but what we do know are the names of
those officers who passed away and those
who were injured in that shooting
yesterday uh we are told that officer
Sam pooi Officer William Alden Elliott
Joshua a and officer Thomas weeks they
were all U deceased from that shooting
yesterday and then four other officers
who were injured three of them have been
released from the hospital uh one of
them suffered a broken foot he was
treated and released from the hospital
uh two others who suffered gunshot
wounds were also released and another
one Chris tally suffered a gun shot
wound he’s recovering after surgery and
he’s still in the hospital but he is
stable at this point investigators are
still piecing together what happened
here I asked earlier uh the chief of
police how one suspect was able to shoot
so many officers in this just one
incident uh the deadliest incident this
area has seen and law enforcement has
seen in this country in more than eight
years or nearly eight years has should
say and so uh the chief of police
explained that when they arrived there
the officers from the task force arrived
at that residency yesterday they were
approaching the door the suspect
apparently may have seen them coming and
positioned himself on the top floor of
that house and then started firing at
those officers we were told he had an
AR15 style rifle he also had a 40
caliber handgun and just started
shooting at those officers and so you
can imagine somebody shooting down below
at those officers there was not a lot of
room there for them to take cover they
were also trying to help their injured
um Partners there on that scene as well
and so it was a very chaotic scene and
officers again are just trying to parse
through all the video uh footage they
got all the evidence they got at the
scene we’re told there were more than a
hundred rounds of uh of ammunition that
were fired yesterday uh between the
officers and the suspect there so a lot
to go through there were also two people
in that house two females one about 17
years old and one just a little older
who were taken out of that house police
tell us they have not been charged at
this point they are cooperating with
this investigation but police were still
not ruling out the possibility that
there may possibly have been a second
shooter because of just the amount of
gunfire that was coming from that home
and it was coming from all sides of that
house and so they’re looking into all
those details at this point but again it
comes down to the family the human
element these are people these officers
know in this community they’re back at
work this morning but they’re still
mourning their Partners who died just
serving this community trying to make
sure that everybody was safe and they
gave their lives uh the governor here
the mayor here and local officials all
calling them Heroes those who died as
well as those who were wounded in this
incident back to you Diane all right
Faith abou in Charlotte North Carolina
thanks Faith coming up tensions are
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protesters are now barricaded inside a
building at Columbia University the
campus newspaper reports students have
broken windows and are blocking exits
with tables and zip ties after school
officials started suspending students
who refused to leave an encampment this
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Columbia Pro Palestinian protesters
Gathering outside Columbia University’s
Hamilton Hall then storming the
building video capturing students
slamming desks breaking windows and
barricading themselves inside just after
12:30 this morning dozens of students
left the encampment and entered the
hall students defiant refusing to
dismantle their encampment you need to
stop bombing you need to stop
indiscriminate killing Massacre of
Palestinians in Gazza um that’s how you
end the war at least one person arrested
Monday outside Columbia’s Gates seen
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University a large crowd of pro
Palestinian protesters clashing with
police in riot gear this video showing
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university telling ABC News multiple
arrests were made and claiming that many
individuals involved were not students
this as similar demonstrations and
clashes now playing out at more than 60
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us at the University of Texas at Austin
dozens arrested as protesters and police
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nine protesters arrested the school
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not easy to stand there alone when the
whole university is practically against
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graduation due to the pandemic my high
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I personally was really looking forward
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officials have not commented on the
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Diane Stephanie Ramos thank you and
Secretary of State Anthony blinkin is
urging Hamas to accept what he calls an
extraordinarily generous ceasefire
proposal from Israel this has
negotiations reach a critical point with
the secretary saying Hamas has to decide
and has to decide quickly foreign
correspondent Tom Sufi burd has the
latest from
Jerusalem the first images of US troops
off the coast of Gaza building a
floating Pier so Aid can be shipped in
it comes as negotiations for a ceasefire
in Gaza and the release of more hostages
reach a critical point then he will tell
after that Hamas video of American
Israeli hostage Keith seagull his
daughter pleading with the US and Israel
to get her dad home we are not breeding
almost seven month Keith’s wife of Viva
taken hostage with him on October 7 but
she was released in November I’m not
there to give him the help Keith is a
human being with the heart and he
sensitive and he belongs to us it does
not belong to the Hamas Hamas now
considering a proposal which would see a
40-day ceasefire and the potential
release of thousands of Palestinian
prisoners according to a top British
official the New York Times saying
Israel now willing to accept the release
of 33 hostages dropping its previous
demand of
40 for people in Gaza a ceasefire can’t
come soon enough the latest Israeli air
strikes killing more than 20 including
children according to a local hospital
the emergency room is very busy and full
right now people are desperate they want
to find their loved ones they want
treatment they’re hurting they’re in
pain nurse Brenda Maldonado from
Washington State working in Gaza for the
past two weeks telling us what she’s
seen will stay with her forever we have
patients lying on the ground any time we
get Mass casualties which is almost
every single day the patients brought in
and placed directly on the floor
and we’re treating them a lot of blast
injuries shrapnel injuries children
older people not soldiers I haven’t seen
a soldier since I’ve been here it’s
basically
civilians and Diane prime minister
Netanyahu is still threatening to launch
that ground offensive into Rafa and in
those talks Egypt saying hamas’s
negotiating team has now left Cairo and
will submit a written response to the
proposed ceasefire deal blinkin expected
here in Israel tonight as we wait to see
how herass will respond Diane foreign
correspondent Tom Sufi bur thank you and
King Charles is resuming public duties
today for the first time since
announcing his cancer diagnosis he and
the queen visited patients in a Cancer
Treatment Center ABC News foreign
correspondent James Longman has the
details hi
James yeah hi Diane King Charles is back
the king of course had to step away from
public life to focus on his recovery
after his cancer diagnosis but today
marks the beginning of his return to
public life and here in Camila visited a
Cancer Center in central London this
morning I think there were quite large
crowds outside the hospital as he and
Camila arrived they were smiling and
waving at the crowds inside they met
patients some of whom being treated with
chemotherapy he was also presented with
a large bunch of flowers by one young
girl a patient at the hospital he
clearly loves this part of the job he’s
happy to be back so many people there
clearly happy for him but another member
of the family of course with the
diagnosis of cancer is Kate and we do
not know when the princess of Welles
will return to public life but another
member of the family who will be back
however briefly is Harry in just over a
week’s time he’ll be back in the UK for
an event to commemorate 10 years since
the uh beginning of the Invictus game of
course he started and I think it’s fair
to say every time he does come back to
this country there’s a sense of hope
that he might reconcile with the family
Diane foreign correspondent James
Longman thank you coming up Britney
Griner is sharing her story for the
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Kira Phillips our top story getting to
the truth while he’s still running his
mouth Donald Trump continues to test the
judge in his criminal trial who now says
he’s in contempt of court for railing
against his foes Trump now having to pay
nine grand in fines for violating that
gag order chump change to the hundreds
of millions of dollars he already owes
in civil judgments and while Trump keeps
talking well the lawyer representing the
Playboy Playmate and the porn star that
Trump wanted to keep quiet Keith
Davidson to take the stand to talk nd’s
as Trump continues to deny any
wrongdoing whatsoever here he is outside
Court holding Court once
again I’m going to go into the ice box
now
and sit for about 8 hours or 9 hours I’d
much rather be in Georgia I’d much
rather be in Florida I’d much rather be
in states that
are in play states that uh you know I’d
like to be able to
campaign leading us off ABC News senior
investigative correspondent Aon kerki he
is outside the courthouse there along
with our legal contributor and trial
attorney Brian buckmeyer so Aaron how
does Davidson help the prosecution
here he’s explaining the circumstances
that went into the decision to pay her
$150,000 when the the Ami the parent
company of the national Inquirer ended
up deciding to make a deal Davidson
according to text messages that he read
aloud from uh June of 2016 told the
editor of the national inquire I have a
blockbuster Trump story and over the
next several weeks they continue to
negotiate for Karen McDougall to get
paid
$150,000 become a Fitness contributor
for the magazine and really according to
prior testimony it was all meant to help
the Trump campaign to bury her
story so from the salacious to the
mundane let’s talk about why we’re going
to hear from this other new witness
Aaron c-span’s arist uh Robert Browning
who wasn’t even involved in this
drama briefly only so the the
prosecution
could show the jury a few video CS of
trump from the
201 and then from a news conference uh
uh in 2017 after he had become
president-elect the defense has refused
to stipulate that it was even Trump in
those videos Kira so the um so so the
the prosecution is forced to call these
Witnesses simply to get them into the
record so Brian weigh in on Davidson
Andor Browning who’s most interesting to
you
today unfortunately neither are that
much again as Aaron is saying uh these
Witnesses are supposed to be bringing in
evidence that the defense would not
otherwise uh stipulate to if anything
the interesting aspect of is we’re
hearing Donald Trump from his own words
with these videos that are being played
and the question becomes how do either
side get to intertwine their narrative
and their themes into this case I think
hearing from the president himself
talking about how some of these uh
interactions went about but also hearing
the background as to how nda’s work how
uh catch and kill operates that’s giving
the jury an understanding of a world
that they might not otherwise have
understood coming into this trial once
they understand that world then they can
apply their judgment based on the
evidence and the laws that the judge is
ultimately going to give them all right
something that we’ve all been talking
about this morning Aaron the elephant
not in the room but all over Tick Tock
Michael Cohen uh cashing in on the Trump
trial with live streams now what do you
think could his social media Antics hurt
the case
here I’m not sure they hurt the case
they don’t help the prosecution any with
uh with bolstering his his credibility
perhaps if the defense tries to use
those Tik Tok videos as evidence that
this guy is just out to get Trump has
animous towards him so you can’t believe
anything he says because he only has one
motivation um and and the judge uh while
not making specific reference to what
Cohen was has been saying on on these
videos he did say in his cont attt order
today fining Donald Trump for saying
disparaging things about Cohen you know
he said if if Cohen’s saying all these
things about Trump and Trump is just
responding well then Cohen doesn’t
necessarily need the protection of a gag
order uh so in a in a sense Cohen may be
hurting his own cause here uh so far
these things have not really seeped into
the into the trial but Kira Cohen’s
testimony Is Yet To
Come and his testimony Is Yet To Come
Brian Cohen has already been found
guilty for lying and fraud in a separate
case but these Witnesses coming forward
are giving him a pretty good shot here
at more
credibility yes the witnesses coming
forward are able to corroborate some of
the evidence that we’re expecting
Michael Cohen to testify uh but just a
backtrack a little this Tik Tock uh
situation that we found ourself in with
Michael Cohen that’s not helping every
little bit that can take away from his
credibility whether it be pleading
guilty to lying or other types of fraud
or or falsities that’s not helping him
it’s also feeding into the narrative
that Donald Trump and his defense
attorneys are putting forward that this
is all about just getting more Limelight
on Michael Cohen and being able to make
more money and profit off of Donald
Trump so yeah in some ways good do
whatever you want there’s no gager for
you but it it affords the defense a lot
more ammunition to come at Michael Cohen
they star witness Brian aarin thanks
guys that of the developing crisis on
College campuses Nationwide beginning
with occupied Colombia dozens of
protesters at the University storming
the historic Hamilton Hall barricading
themselves inside it came just hours
after the university started suspending
students for not leaving their
encampment and it got pretty ugly video
showing the students covering up
surveillance cameras then slamming desks
and breaking Windows to get in less
chaotic but still a challenge on other
campuses across the country as
administrators are grappling with how
how to clear hundreds of protesters
ahead of graduation ceremonies USC in
Southern California already canceling
its main ceremony something students say
they’ve been waiting for their entire
life my high school just had a
drive-through graduation I personally
was really looking forward to having
this main ceremony and traditional
graduation for my whole
life and then in Virginia police using
tear gas to break up protest there at
Commonwealth University several people
arrested and in North Carolina at least
30 people arrested at the University of
North Carolina Chapel Hill as they
refused to disperse our aachi is
actually at the epicenter of the protest
just outside Columbia University in New
York so Ike you are near uh that
building Hamilton Hall where students
are still barricaded inside this hour
what’s the
latest well essentially what we’re
learning right now is Columbia
University has limited access to the
morning site campus which is exactly
where we are the people who are allowed
inside are only students who live in the
residential dorms here and faculty
that’s considered uh essential faculty
they’re the only people who are allowed
here and the way they get in is from
showing their ID their student ID their
faculty ID right here behind me in this
blue tent you can see University
security they’ve essentially set up this
point right here this is the only way
into the campus and the only way out of
the campus and as you see as you can see
right now everybody is presenting their
Columbia ID they’re actually scanning it
at a machine that they have right here
and they’re being checked before they
can allowed on campus now again this is
all happening uh following what happened
earlier this morning on Hamilton Hall
when you said those protesters were
essentially breaking into Hamilton Hall
with those metal barricades they were
using those wooden tables those wooden
chairs even zip ties to tie those door
handles on so no one can get in or get
out at that time we were also being told
that there were counter protesters who
were somewhat clashing with them all
last night uh they were eventually
pushed out of that area and ever since
then they’ve been held up right here
inside Hamilton Hall and if you could
take a look right now they’ve already
erupted two banners from that building
one of them saying free Palestine and
the other one to the right that says
Glory uh that was essentially put up
within the past hour right now so what
we’re seeing right now is those
protesters still hold held up here in
Hamilton Hall and they’re saying they’re
not going to come out they’re refusing
to come out until Columbia University
acquiesces to their demands one of the
main ones being the University divesting
from Israel something said something
Colombia said that they will never do so
right now we’re seeing these talks
between the two sides essentially
stalled at the moment K well it looks
like we got a little action within those
uh talks or maybe lack of talks Ike um I
I just was handed um an email this is
from the University spokesperson there
at Columbia Ben Chang it’s probably in
your email as well it just started
circulating we regret that protesters
have chosen to escalate the situation
through their actions our top priority
is restoring safety and order on our
campus we made it very clear yesterday
that the work of the University cannot
be endlessly interrupted by protesters
who violate the rules continuing to do
so will be met with clear consequences
protesters have chosen to escalate to an
untenable situation vandalizing property
breaking doors and windows and
blockading entrances and we are
following through with the consequences
we outlined yesterday and now the
statement goes on but here’s one last
line I want to read Ike it says students
occupying the building face expulsion so
Ike there was a lot of uh criticism um
by the way as we are these live pictures
or is this tape of Hamilton Hall all
right we are we we have live pictures
actually of Hamilton Hall Ike I don’t
know we could keep those up if we want
um if we see any action there I mean you
can’t see much from the outside of the
building it was a totally different
story clearly when they occupied
Hamilton Hall but Ike there was a lot of
talk about why isn’t the university
doing more that this has gotten out of
control they’re now occupying buildings
it’s it’s gotten violent there were
janitors that felt like they were being
held hostage when this all went down so
it looks like U this statement from the
university is making it pretty clear
that if things don’t change the students
inside that building uh face expulsion
now that’s right Kira and that note that
we just got it says that essentially the
university offered those people in the
encampment many opportunities to
voluntarily leave and abide by the rules
that they set out but of course this new
message that we’re getting just now just
shows just at length where the
university is standing after these
negotiations that have been stalled and
now they’re resulting to expulsion if
you remember yesterday yesterday they
were suspending students who didn’t who
decided not to leave that encampment now
that has been elevated to expulsion and
it’s here in writing they are ready to
essentially start to remove these
protesters from the encampment now the
question remains is how that will happen
we do know that there is University
security here but there’s also
NYPD now we’re being told the NYPD they
are here on the outside they have not
entered the campus we’re being told that
they will only enter the campus campus
if Columbia University tells them to
obviously this letter could essentially
be uh the groundwork for what could be
an inevitability for the uni for the uh
NYPD to step on campus if we look at the
University of Utah uh a similar step
happened there we saw that University
essentially tell that encampment that
listen this is not right this is illegal
and we are going to use whatever means
possible to get you out of here and
shortly after that was delivered to that
encamp
then we saw the uh authori step in and
start to remove that we’re seeing a
parallel image here right now where the
Columbia University have met that point
where the negotiations have broken down
and now they’re ready to essentially
step in and uh finish this protest in
terms of removing everybody and even
expulsion and again we spoke to somebody
who said uh last night uh they were even
fearful from those protests so again
this is causing a lot of turmoil not
only here for the faculty but a lot of
the students too who are being infected
by this casid
all right keep us updated uh there from
Columbia University Ike thank you so
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much as we head overseas an urgent plea
now from Secretary of State Anthony
blinkin for Hamas to quickly accept
Israel’s new ceasefire offer blinkin
says that proposal that could bring some
hostages home is extremely generous but
now prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is
pledging to launch an incursion into the
southern city of Mora with or without a
deal hundreds of thousands of
Palestinians are Sheltering there
sources also telling ABC news that
Israel will not send a delegation to
talks in Cairo until Hamas provides an
answer on that proposal foreign
correspondent Tom Sufi Burge has the
latest for us from Jerusalem Tom what
are the details of the proposal and can
we see Hamas accepting
it well look uh the White House kir is
certainly urging Hamas to accept that
deal that’s on the table and they’re
saying that time is of the Ence they’re
saying they’re not overly confident the
White House but they’re saying they’re
being pragmatic what’s in the deal we’re
not quite clear I mean look the British
foreign secretary with about 24 hours
ago was saying it could involve the
release of thousands of Palestinian
prisoners uh we’re hearing other reports
that are saying hundreds potentially in
that deal uh the New York Times is
saying could remain 33 hostages being
released uh but we’re just not clear of
the exact number there and we’re not
sure also about what would happen to
Israeli Defense Forces it’s Israeli
troops inside the Gaza Street would they
be withdrawn right out of the Gaza Strip
or would they have to withdraw to
certain areas of the strip look the
process is the following we know that
there were talks in Cairo a Hamas
delegation have now left Cairo according
to an Egyptian official uh Hamas will
submit a written response to that deal
which is on the table and we’re hearing
from an Israeli Source saying the
Israeli delegation will not go to Cairo
before Hamas
response so if Netanyahu sticks to his
word on an attack in Rafa what could be
the major impact of
that well I think the most important
thing to try and think about here Kira
is is Netanyahu threatening a incursion
into Rafa now I.E before a potential
deal I.E blowing a deal out of the water
or is he saying we could and will still
go into Rafa at some point in the future
I.E Beyond a deal maybe weeks or months
into the future the other major caveat
in this is that before the IDF launches
a military incursion into that southern
city in Gaza uh the IDF is committed to
trying to move hundreds of thousands of
civilians displaced Palestinian
civilians out of that City now that
would be a hugely complicated task
Israeli officials previously are telling
us that would take six to8 weeks it
might not even succeed so I think in a
way we’ve got to take netanyahu’s
comments today with a pinch of salt uh
he might be talking to his base his
supporters remaining hard line and also
keeping that threat of military action
hanging over Hamas while this process
continues Kira all right our Tom sui
Burge their forest and Israel appreciate
it Tom another round of severe storms
back here at home threatening millions
of Americans that are still recovering
from that deadly tornado outbreak
torrential rain now triggering flash
flooding in Texas P County near Houston
and it’s under mandatory evacuations
this hour tomorrow another storm system
moving into the plains the biggest
threats damaging winds baseball-sized
hail and possible tornadoes as well our
meteorologist Samar Theodore is tracking
the forecast for us so what’s the latest
Samara yes you know we’re seeing an area
that is already reeling from the
previous storms this weekend so I want
to prepare them for what’s coming next
it’s really this afternoon into this
evening overnight this is when we’re
going to see the first threat and look
where it’s situated so just outside of
Omaha including de Moy just north of
Kansas City they’re down to witchat the
Aran orange is the region that has the
highest threat for tornadoes but that
doesn’t mean that as far north as sou
Falls and as far south as wichan enan we
couldn’t see tornadoes so keep that in
mind this evening then we have our next
severe threat really starting to take
shape really come into formation
Wednesday afternoon into Wednesday night
you can see that this threat is situated
over the Western portions of Oklahoma
parts of Western Texas and right on into
Kansas there they have the highest
threat for tornadoes and uh any of the
tornadoes that we see could be on the
strong side this is Wednesday into
Wednesday night so it’s today and
tomorrow here’s a cool or interesting
fact to look at you know we’re leaving
the month of April heading into May and
we average about 275 tornadoes in the
month of May across the US keep in mind
we’re still in the throws of severe
weather season so it’s a perfect time to
not only have those alerts on on your
phone especially if you live in the
Heartland but make sure you know where
you’re going in the event that you get a
tornado warning okay the next 5 days we
are anticipating some heavy rain so
these storms aren’t just bringing the
threat for tornadoes but heavy rainfall
that has been leading to so many visuals
of flooding 3 to 5 plus inches of rain
is what we’re anticipating over the next
couple of days in parts of Northern
Texas there so something to keep in mind
if you’re going to be hitting the road
and then finally I have to end on the
record heat it was so warm on the East
Coast yesterday Baltimore Maryland hit
92 degrees 91 in DC there’s been a bit
of a change if you live in New York City
or farther north you’ve noticed it it’s
much cooler out there today but they’re
keeping the warmth around this afternoon
in the Mid-Atlantic Kira all right
Samara thank you and coming up four cops
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live GL you’re streaming with us four
law enforcement officers were shot and
killed and four more were injured after
a massive shootout while they were
trying to serve two warrants in
Charlotte North Carolina our faith abou
is on the scene there in Charlotte Faith
what’s the latest on the invest
vation well Cara We heard from the chief
of police and other the governor here
and other local officials here talking
about where this investigation stands
right now they’re still going through a
mountain of evidence after that shootout
yesterday uh just east of downtown
Charlotte we’re told that as officers
were approaching that house yesterday to
serve a felony warrant on a convicted
felon for illegally possessing a firearm
apparently that suspect may have seen
seen them set himself up on the top
floor of that house and then aimed at
them shooting them and that’s where we
we had four officers uh who passed away
from that incident four others were
wounded at this point police tell us
that again they recovered uh an AR-15
style rifle and a handgun at that scene
uh they did take two people out of that
house a 17-year-old uh female and
another female who’s a little older at
this point police tell us that no
charges have been found against them
they are cooperating with this in a but
they are not ruling out the possibility
that there may have been a second
shooter just because of the magnitude of
the ammunition and and the shots that
were fired there we’re told there were
well over a 100 shots that were fired
there at that scene again those officers
four of them passed away and four others
tonight are recovering from their
injuries one of them still in the
hospital but all of them are stable so
Faith the the governor and chief of
police uh just held a pretty emotional
news conference Prince um tell us about
it yeah and it was when um the police
chief was talking about the kind of
people uh who bravely went into that
situation they were going there to serve
a warrant a felony warrant on someone
who is a convicted felon who had a long
rapi and also they were going there to
serve him a warrant for illegally
possessing a firearm but they bravely
went in there these were people that the
police chief uh knows for example uh
officer Joshua a he’s one of the
officers who died there just a few weeks
ago the police chief said that he was
shaking his hand commending him for
being officer of the month this was just
a few weeks ago just this month and now
that officer has passed away these are
people who are husbands who are fathers
and who are loved by so many people in
this community and now this entire
Community is mourning their loss let’s
take a listen at that
moment it’s just been very tough
and knowing that you have families
that are hurting right
now we’ll get through it
though and uh as we know right now this
is the deadliest shooting of police
officers since the 2016 incident where
five dos police officers were killed so
this is hitting this community hard it’s
also hitting the law enforcement
Community very hard we’ve now identified
the um the officers in this in this case
Joshua a who’s one of the officers who
passed away Alden Elliott as well as Sam
peloi and Thomas Weeks of course the
condolences are pouring in from all
across the country no plans yet have
been announced for their memorials Cara
we’ll follow it faith for sure thank you
so much and coming up the sword stabbing
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face lock up that’s what the judge in
New York is telling Donald Trump now
after ruling that the former president
did indeed violate a gag order tied to
his hush money trial judge Juan Maran
ordering the former president and
presumptive Republican nominee to remove
the post in violation from his truth
Social account and campaign website by
215 today as well as pay a $9,000
penalty by Friday and while Trump keeps
talking well the State calling their six
witness to testify Keith Davidson he’s
the lawyer who represented the Playboy
Playmate and the porn star that Trump
allegedly wanted to keep quiet
proceedings are currently on a lunch
break but is set to resume with Davidson
back on that stand around uh in about 15
minutes or so leading us off our senior
investigative correspondent Aon kki he’s
outside the courthouse along with
political director Rick Klein and
criminal defense attorney and former
prosecutor Bernarda viona all right
Aaron with court on lunch break now what
stood out so far to
you editor of the national Inquirer that
he had a blockbuster Trump story to tell
and he’s taking the jury through some of
the
negotiations resulted in the 15
$150,000 payment to uh to to Karen
McDougall to bury her story but I think
even perhaps more interesting for
prosecutors was their ability to play
some videos of trump in his own words
during the 2016 campaign when a number
of women were coming forward accusing
him of sexual misconduct and Trump uh
denied the allegations called all the
women liars but perhaps it was a subtle
way for prosecutors to to show the jury
How concerned Trump and his campaign
were becoming about these women coming
forward perhaps later teeing up why he
decided to pay stormmy Daniels some hush
money to keep her allegations of of a
sexual trist from coming out Aon sorry
about that audio uh mix up there I think
we’re uh able to hear each other okay
now I apologize for the disruption
Bernarda who do you think has been the
strongest witness for the prosecution so
far in helping prove the
case absolutely hands down because David
pecker gives you the conspiracy David
pecker sets the scene for you as to the
urgency of this conspiracy to conceal
these crimes the urgency of this catch
and kill scheme we his testimony you
don’t have the underlying crime and
remember what bumps this up to a felony
is that concealment of a crime or
attempt to commit a crime and David
pecker set that scene for us and it was
quite clear from his testimony that
there was an agreement between Donald
Trump and Michael Cohen as well as David
pecker that any stories that came in
that they will catch it and they will
kill it as well as give a heads up to
Donald Trump of anything that they plan
on posting on opponents and also on
Donald Trump himself so Rick let’s talk
about who’s in court with Trump today
his son Eric showed up uh the first
family member that we’ve seen at this
trial so far also uh for the first time
we saw his campaign adviser Susie WS
what do you think about about this is it
significant that he has a couple allies
with him today frankly I think it’s
mostly about improving Donald Trump’s
mood going into and out of court to see
some friendly faces behind him to be
able to talk to some of them during the
breaks uh before and after court uh we
saw last week uh his campaign put
together a little uh impromptu mini
rally at a construction site with some
uh some Union uh some union members uh
in New York just to kind of boost the
morale of the of the defendant himself
uh we know that some of his actions have
not been particularly welcomed by his
own uh defense attorneys and this might
just be a way to to make him feel a
little bit better about the proceedings
frankly there’s no formal role for his
son or for a top campaign Aid to be to
be there but they’re they’re showing
their support for him and again maybe
just improving his mood a bit got it
Bernardo Rick Aaron thank you all
appreciate an attorney spent the morning
questioning Banker Gary pharoh as you
remember he admitted setting up that
shell company that Michael Cohen used to
pay Stormy Daniels just ahead of the
2016 election phoh said that Cohen
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real estate consulting company to quote
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more so Alexis I feel like we’re kind of
going back in time when Michael Cohen
started talking about creating this
shell company let’s just remind folks
what they are how they are used um and
when it is and isn’t legal absolutely U
Kira because I think there’s a lot of
confusion here what is a shell company
it is a lot like what it sounds like
it’s an empty company it’s a company
just on paper it does not have
operations significant assets it usually
doesn’t have a physical location or
employees instead it is designed to have
very little transparency where you don’t
necessarily know who the owner of this
shell company is um now it’s not illegal
on its face though it sounds a little
shady but a lot of large corporations
and Wealthy individuals make good use of
these shell companies for legitimate
reasons and I just want to run through
some of the pros for this first of all
there is anonymity if the person who
owns uh this shell company does not want
to be known it can help them raise funds
for a startup it can help them fight a
hostile takeover it can make investing
in foreign markets a little bit easier
and it could also protect assets like
International or or intellectual
property for instance on the downside
sometimes these shell companies are used
for bad things like tax evasion money
laundering Contraband sales and to hide
assets from the
government all right business
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Kira Phillips our top story getting to
the truth while he’s still running his
mouth Donald Trump continues to test the
judge in his criminal trial who now says
he’s in contempt of court for railing
against against his foes Trump now
having to pay n Grand in fines for
violating that gag order chump change to
the hundreds of millions of dollars he
already owes in civil judgments and
while Trump keeps talking well the
lawyer representing the Playboy Playmate
and the porn star that Trump wanted to
keep quiet Keith Davidson to take the
stand to talk nd’s as Trump continues to
deny any wrongdoing whatsoever here he
is outside Court holding Court once
again I’m going to go into the ice box
now and sit for about 8 hours or 9 hours
I’d much rather be in Georgia I’d much
rather be in Florida I’d much rather be
in states that
are in play states that uh you know I’d
like to be able to
campaign leading us off ABC News senior
investigative correspondent Aon kerki he
is outside the courthouse there along
with our legal contributor and trial
attorney Brian buckmire so Aaron how
does Davidson help the prosecution here
he’s explaining the circumstances that
went into the decision to pay her
$150,000 when the the Ami the parent
company of the national Inquirer ended
up deciding to make a deal Davidson
according to text messages that he read
aloud from uh June of 2016 told the
editor of the national inquire I have a
blockbuster Trump story and over the
next several weeks they continue to
negotiate for Karen McDougall to get
paid $150,000
become a fitness contributor for the
magazine and really according to prior
testimony it was all meant to help the
Trump campaign to bury her
story so from the salacious to the
mundane let’s talk about why we’re going
to hear from this other new witness
Aaron c-span’s archist uh Robert
Browning who wasn’t even involved in
this
drama briefly only so the the
prosecution could show the jury a few
video clips of trump from the
2016 and then from a news conference uh
uh in 2017 after he had become
president-elect the defense has refused
to stipulate that it was even Trump in
those videos Kira so the um so so the
the prosecution is forced to call these
Witnesses simply to get them into the
record so Brian weigh in on Davidson
Andor Browning who’s most interesting to
you
today unfortunately neither are that
much again as Aaron is saying uh these
Witnesses are supposed to be bringing in
evidence that the defense would not
otherwise uh stipulate to if anything
the interesting aspect of it is we’re
hearing Donald Trump from his own words
with these videos that are being played
and the question becomes how do either
side get to intertwine their narrative
and their themes into this case I think
hearing from the president himself
talking about how some of these uh
interactions went about but also hearing
the background as to how ndas work how
uh catch and kill operates that’s giving
the jury an understanding of a world
that they might not otherwise have
understood coming into this trial once
they understand that world then they can
apply their judgment based on the
evidence and the laws that the judges
ultimately going to give them all right
something that we’ve all been talking
about this morning Aaron the elephant
not in the room but all over Tick Tock
Michael Coen uh cashing in on the Trump
trial with live streams now what do you
think could his social media Antics hurt
the case
here I’m not sure they hurt the case
they don’t help the prosecution any with
uh with bolstering his his credibility
perhaps if the defense tries to use
those Tik Tok videos as evidence that
this guy is just out to get Trump has
animus towards him so you can’t believe
anything he says because he only has one
motivation um and and the judge uh while
not making specific reference to what
Cohen was has been saying on on these
videos he did say in his his contempt
order today fining Donald Trump for
saying disparaging things about Cohen
you know he said if if Cohen’s saying
all these things about Trump and Trump
is just responding well then Cohen
doesn’t necessarily need the protection
of a gag order uh so in a in a sense
Cohen may be hurting his own cause here
uh so far these things have not really
seeped into the into the trial but Kira
Cohen’s testimony Is Yet To
Come and his testimony is yet to come
Brian Cohen has already been found
guilty for lying and fraud in a separate
case but these Witnesses coming forward
are giving him a pretty good shot here
at more
credibility yes the witnesses coming
forward are able to corroborate some of
the evidence that we’re expecting
Michael Cohen to testify uh but just a
backtrack a little this Tik Tock uh
situation that we found oursel in with
Michael Cohen that’s not helping every
little bit that can take away from his
credibility whether it be pleading
guilty to lying or other types of fraud
or or falsities that’s not helping him
it’s also feeding into the narrative
that Donald Trump and his defense
attorneys are putting forward that this
is all about just getting more Limelight
on Michael Cohen and being able to make
more money and profit off of Donald
Trump so yeah in some ways good do
whatever you want there’s no gagar for
you but it it affords the defense a lot
more ammunition to come at Michael Cohen
their star witness Brian Aaron thanks
guys now of the developing crisis on
college campuses Nationwide beginning
with occupied Colombia dozens of
protesters at the University storming
the historic Hamilton Hall barricading
themselves inside it came just hours
after the university started suspending
students for not leaving their
encampment and it got pretty ugly video
showing the students covering up
surveillance cameras then slamming desks
and breaking Windows to get in less
chaotic but still a challenge on other
campuses across the country as
administrators are grappling with how to
clear hundreds of protesters ahead of
graduation ceremonies USC in Southern
California already canceling its main
ceremony something students say they’ve
been waiting for their entire
life my high school just had a drive-
through graduation I personally was
really looking forward to having this
main ceremony and traditional graduation
for my whole
life and then in Virginia police using
tear gas to break up protest there at
common Health University several people
arrested and in North Carolina at least
30 people arrested at the University of
North Carolina Chapel Hill as they
refuse to disperse our iachi is actually
at the epicenter of the protest just
outside Columbia University in New York
so IQ are near uh that building Hamilton
Hall where students are still barricaded
inside this hour what’s the
latest well essentially what we’re
learning right now is Columbia
University has limited access to the
morning side campus which is exactly
where we are the people who are allowed
inside are only students who live in the
residential dorms here and faculty
that’s considered uh essential faculty
they’re the only people who are allowed
here and the way they get in is from
showing their ID their student ID their
faculty ID right here behind me in this
blue tent you can see University
security they’ve essentially set up this
point right here this is the only way
into the campus and the only way out of
the campus and as you see as you can see
right now now everybody’s presenting
their Columbia ID they’re actually
scanning it at a machine that they have
right here and they’re being checked
before they can allowed on campus now
again this is all happening uh following
what happened earlier this morning on
Hamilton Hall when you said those
protesters were essentially breaking
into Hamilton Hall with those metal
barricades they were using those wooden
tables those wooden chairs even zip ties
to tie those door handles on so no one
can get in or get out at that time we
were also being told that there were
counter protesters who were somewhat
clashing with them all last night uh
they were eventually pushed out of that
area and ever since then they’ve been
held up right here inside Hamilton Hall
and if you could take a look right now
they’ve already erupted two banners from
that building one of them saying free
Palestine and the other one to the right
that says Glory uh that was essentially
put up within the past hour right now so
what we’re seeing right now is those
protesters still hold held up here in
Hamilton Hall and they’re saying they’re
not going to come out they’re refusing
to come out until Columbia University
acquiesces to their demands one of the
main ones being the University divesting
from Israel something said something
Colombia said that they will never do so
right now we’re seeing these talks
between the two sides essentially
stalled at the moment Kira well it looks
like we got a little action within those
uh talks or maybe lack of talks I um I I
just was handed um an email this is from
the University spokesperson there at
Colombia Ben Chang it’s probably in your
email as well it just started
circulating we regret that protesters
have chosen to escalate the situation
through their actions our top priority
is restoring safety and order on our
campus we made it very clear yesterday
that the work of the University cannot
be endlessly interrupted by protesters
who violate the rules continuing to do
so will be met with clear consequences
protesters have chosen to escalate to an
untenable situation vandalizing property
breaking doors and windows and
blockading entrances and we are
following through with the consequences
we outlined yesterday and now the
statement goes on but here’s one last
line I want to read Ike it says students
occupying the building face expulsion so
Ike there was a lot of uh criticism um
by the way as we are these live pictures
or is this tape of Hamilton Hall all
right we are we we have live pictures
actually of Hamilton Hall I got I don’t
know we could keep those up if we want
um if we see any action there I mean you
can’t see much from the outside of the
building it was a totally different
story clearly when they occupied
Hamilton Hall but Ike there was a lot of
talk about why isn’t the university
doing more that this has gotten out of
control they’re now occupying buildings
it’s it’s gotten violent there were
janitors that felt like they were being
held hostage when this all went down so
it looks like this statement from the
university is making it pretty clear
that if things don’t change the students
inside that building uh face expulsion
now that’s right K and that note that we
just got it says that essentially the
university offered those people in the
encampment many opportunities to
voluntarily leave and abide by the rules
that they set out but of course this new
message that we’re getting just now just
shows just at length where the
university is standing after these
negotiations that have been installed
and now they’re resulting to expulsion
if you remember yesterday they were
suspending students who didn’t who
decided not to leave that encampment now
that has been elevated to expulsion and
it’s here in writing they are ready to
essentially start to remove these
protesters from the encampment now the
question remains is how that will happen
we do know that there is University
security here but there’s also
NYPD now we’re being told the NYPD they
are here on the outside they have not
entered the campus we’re being told that
they will only enter the campus if
Columbia University tells them to
obviously this letter could essentially
be uh the groundwork for what could be
an inevitability for the UN for the uh
NYPD to step on campus if we look at the
University of Utah uh a similar step
happened there we saw that University
essentially tell that encampment that
listen this is not right this is illegal
and we are going to use whatever means
possible to get you out of here and
shortly after that was delivered to that
encampment then we saw the uh authori
step in and start to remove that we’re
seeing a parallel image here right now
where the Columbia University have met
that point where the negotiations have
broken down and now they’re ready to
essentially step in and uh finish this
protest in terms of removing everybody
and even expulsion and again we spoke to
somebody who said uh last night uh they
were even fearful from those protest so
again this is causing a lot of turmoil
not only here for the faculty but a lot
of the students too who are infected by
this Kira all right keep us updated uh
there from Columbia University Ike thank
you so
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law enforcement officers were shot and
killed and four more were injured after
a massive shootout while well they were
trying to serve two warrants in
Charlotte North Carolina our faith abub
is on the scene there in Charlotte Faith
what’s the latest on the
investigation well Cara We heard from
the chief of police and other the
governor here and other local officials
here talking about where this
investigation stands right now they’re
still going through a mountain of
evidence after that shootout yesterday
uh just east of downtown Charlotte we’re
told that as officers were approaching
that house yesterday to serve a felony
warrant on a convicted felon for
illegally possessing a firearm
apparently that suspect may have seen
seen them set himself up on the top
floor of that house and then aimed at
them shooting them and that’s where we
we had four officers uh who passed away
from that incident four others were
wounded at this point police tell us
that again they recovered uh an AR-15
style rifle and a handgun at that scene
uh they did take two people out of that
house a 17-year-old uh female and
another female who’s a little older at
this point police tell us that no
charges have been founded against them
they are cooperating with this
investigation but they are not ruling
out the possibility that there may have
been a second shooter just because of
the magnitude of the ammunition and and
the shots that were fired there we’re
told there were well over a hundred
shots that were fired there at that
scene again those officers four of them
passed away and four others tonight are
recovering from their injuries one of
them still in the hospital but all of
them are stable car so Faith the the
governor and chief of police uh just
held a pretty emotional news conference
um tell us about
it yeah and it was when U the police
chief was talking about the kind of
people uh who bravely went into that
situation they were going there to serve
a warrant a felony warrant on someone
who is a convicted felon who had a long
rapi and also they were going there to
serve him a warrant for illegally
possessing a firearm but they bravely
went in there these are people that the
police chief uh knows for example uh
officer Joshua a he’s one of the
officers who died there just a few weeks
ago the police chief said that he was
shaking his hand commending him for
being officer of the month this was just
a few weeks ago just this month and now
that officer has passed away these are
people who are husbands who are fathers
and who are loved by so many people in
this community and now this entire
Community is mourning their loss let’s
take a listen at that moment
it’s just been very
tough
and knowing that you have families
that are hurting right
now we’ll get through it
though and uh as we know right now this
is the deadliest shooting of police
officers since the 2016 an incident
where five Dallas police officers were
killed so this is hitting this community
hard it’s also hitting the law
enforcement Community very hard we’ve
now identified the um the officers in
this in this case Joshua AER who’s one
of the officers who passed away Alden
Elliot as well as Sam peloi and Thomas
Weeks of course the condolences are
pouring in from all across the country
no plans yet have been announced for
their memorials Cara we’ll follow it
faith for sure thank you so much and
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more good afternoon everyone I’m Kira
Phillips our top story this ER getting
to the truth while he’s still running
his mouth Donald Trump continues to test
the judge in his criminal trial who now
says he’s in contempt of court for
railing against his foes judge Juan
Maran ordering the former president and
presumptive Republican nominee to remove
the posts in violation from his true
Social account and campaign website by
2115 today we are keeping a close eye on
that deadline this hour he must also pay
a $9,000 penalty by Friday chump changed
to the hundreds of millions of dollars
he radios in civil judgments and while
Trump keeps talking well the lawyer
representing the Playboy Playmate and
the porn star that Trump wanted to keep
quiet Keith Davidson is going to talk
nda’s proceedings are currently on a
lunch break but set to resume with
Davidson back on the stand soon let’s
bring in our investigative reporter
Olivia Rubin along with criminal defense
attorney and former prosecutor Bernarda
viona Olivia let’s talk about what what
we will be looking out for as we
approach this 215 deadline looks like we
are about well 13 minutes or so
away 13 is correct here and that also
coincides with when lunch court is
supposed to resume after the lunch break
so clearly when judge Maran gave his
order in the morning and he gave that
deadline of 215 he said hey we’re going
to get through the morning session and
then when we go into that lunch break
you guys better take those posts down so
teams are looking through those feeds
right now to see if the post have come
down and then remember he also faced
says the next deadline which is to put
up the $99,000 and once he does both of
those things that is going to resolve
the first uh set of 10 gag order
violations that prosecutors were
alleging the judge found him in contempt
for nine and then looking forward to
Thursday he is facing another potential
four contempt violations and $4,000 more
dollars and then moving on from that
even Kira because yes it is still going
the judge has threatened that if it
comes up again if there are more willful
violations Donald Trump instead of
facing a financial penalty could soon be
looking at a potential pen penalty of
jail so Bernarda I don’t know if we’re
going to ever really see Trump and cuffs
going to jail I don’t know I mean
correct me if I’m
wrong I don’t know but let’s be clear
for judge marant to have put that in his
order you know he’s going to have to
back that up so he gave Donald Trump a
warning so by him put it in that order I
wonder whether Donald Trump is going to
call his bluff but it’s definitely a
possibility the arrangement will have to
be made of what to do with secret
service because as you know Donald Trump
is entitled to secret service for the
rest of his life so what do we do with
Secret Service are they also going to be
doing time with Donald
Trump and Olivia we are now learning
that Donald Trump has actually deleted
the social media post that the judge
said violated that gag order um so how
does that sort of change the dynamic
here well just in the nick of time 203
in the post ABC News can report are
starting to come down just ahead of that
2115 deadline so once they are all down
that would mean that Donald Trump would
be in compliance with that order and
then the question remains to be you know
seen does he remain in compliance with
the gag order that he cannot talk about
specifically Witnesses in the case and
those are most of what the uh posts that
issue are Kira they are posts that
discuss the Witnesses in the case and
that is what he is not allowed to be
doing and Donald Trump has defended
himself saying that you know he was just
merely responding in some cases to
attacks against him and the judge did
take note of that in the order saying it
is meant to be a shield for Witnesses
not a sword for people such as Michael
Cohen and stormmy Daniels but he noted
that as they are continuing those
witnesses to make public comments on
their own about Donald Trump there is
the potential that he could modify that
gag order moving forward saying maybe
they don’t need the protection at all so
some really interesting Dynamics going
on with that gag order
Kira okay stay tuned Olivia Bernarda
thank you both now to the developing
crisis on college campuses Nationwide
beginning with occupied Colombia dozens
of protesters at the University storming
the historic Hamilton Hall barricading
themselves inside and it came just hours
after the the university started
suspending students for not leaving
their encampment and it got ugly video
shows the students covering up the
surveillance cameras then slamming desks
and breaking Windows to get into
Hamilton Hall The University released a
statement uh not long ago saying that if
protesters continue to violate the rules
they will be met with clear consequences
and they will be expelled less chaotic
but still a challenge on other campuses
across the country as administrators are
grappling with how they should clear
hundreds of protesters ahead of
graduation ceremonies USC in Southern
California already cancelling its main
ceremony and it’s something that a lot
of students are saying they’ve been
waiting for their entire life clearly my
high school just had a drive through
graduation I personally was really
looking forward to having this main
ceremony and traditional graduation for
my whole
life in Virginia police using tear gas
to break up protest at Virginia
Commonwealth University several people
arrested there and then in North
Carolina at least 30 people arrested at
the University of North Carolina Chapel
Hill as they refused to disperse our
iachi is still there at the epicenter of
the protest just outside Columbia
University not far from Hamilton Hall so
what’s the latest to sour
Ike well Kira we saw what the scene
outside Hamilton Hall was it was very
orderly there were no protests on that
side because that was the main entrance
an eress for the entire University right
now remember the campus is closed down
now we just went over a block over to
Broadway and as you can see the pro
Palestine protesters have call us here
in front of the gates at Columbia
University and have are holding a
smaller protest than yesterday
nevertheless a protest calling obviously
for the demands that we’ve been hearing
about from those individuals in the
encampment now they are still in
Hamilton Hall right now they’re all held
up we’ve been there all morning we’ve
seen them put out more banners on the
side of that building and we’ve heard
them reiterate their demands calling on
Columbia University to divest from
Israel and also asking for amnesty we
now know the Columbia University is not
going to do that they released that
letter saying that they want to restore
order and safety to the campus and that
the fact that the protesters have raised
their actions to an untenable situation
which is why they’re resulting to
possible compulsion for anybody located
inside Hamilton Hall now to get an
understanding about how this is
affecting the larger student body on a
whole I spoke to a couple uh uh
counter-protesters earlier today who
said that this entire environment on
Columbia University has moved away from
the original purpose and has since
caused nothing but disruption I’ve spoke
to one individual here who actually came
on campus last night around 1:30 in the
morning as the protests were swelling we
saw uh as as they were you know
essentially crescendoing and she said
that she was harassed by some of those
Pro Palestine protesters and she didn’t
feel safe something that has been a
common theme throughout the past couple
of weeks here on campus and all in all
she said that these protests have
significantly changed her college
experience take a
listen I was deeply upset um I was more
than anything I’m upset at school
administration while they’re not doing
anything and it escalated with uh
overtaken and one of the halls and still
police has not been called nothing’s
doing nothing’s happening I me I feel
like I’m deprived of my education I
cannot go to the gym we cannot even use
food hauls that be paid for my finals
have been cancelled it’s just it’s a
really sad way to end the school
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year now you heard her talk about how
the NYPD isn’t doing anything well they
just had a press conference not too long
ago and there are New York Police
Department officers on all around here
essentially waiting uh you heard mayor
mayor Eric Adams say that they’re not
going to go on to the campus here at
Columbia University unless Colombia
specifically ask them to now they’ve set
up perimeters around here they’ve had
those barricades on the street making
sure that the protest doesn’t slip into
the street but they’ve said time and
time again that they will come on campus
and try to restore order only if they’re
asked to Kira I you know the the
University was getting a lot of heat
because because there were critics
around the country saying why isn’t
Colombia doing more and then it took
barricading and taking over Hamilton
Hall for the school now to put out this
new statement uh saying that if these
students don’t leave the building
they’re going to be expelled um should
they take this seriously is that what
you think is going to happen because
there were threats made but is it going
to act will the university follow
through on this
well we don’t have to look far I mean
this isn’t the only this isn’t an
isolated incident we’re seeing these
encampments and these protests pop up
all across the country and the road map
the essential design of how this goes
has already happened just look at the
University of Utah 17 protesters there
in their encampment were arrested and
what happened before that the university
said that their actions aren’t right
they go against their University
policies and that they’re going to have
to take actions to remove them and
that’s exactly what happened and that’s
happening all across the country so here
at Columbia University where this entire
movement started we’re seeing them
follow the same blueprint we saw them
try to work out some kind of
conversation with the protesters that
stalled we saw them try to give them
time to see if they will remove
themselves voluntarily that didn’t
happen now we’re seeing them take that
step that so many other universities
have taken by saying that listen you’re
actions are not tenable they go against
University policies and we will take
action to remove you which now has
elevated to expulsion now if that
doesn’t work if they’re not removing
there we already heard that those
protesters in Hamilton Hall say that
they’re in this for the long hul they’re
not leaving that Hall until they get
their demands met which one of them is
the University divesting from Israel
something that they will not do so the
question here is will this Elevate to
the university asking the NYPD to come
on campus and handle that we don’t know
what’s going to happen yet however time
will tell here stay tuned all right Ike
we’ll keep checking in with you thank
you another round of severe storms now
threatening millions of Americans still
recovering from that deadly tornado
outbreak torrential rain now triggering
flash flooding in Texas P County near
Houston Under mandatory evacuations and
then tomorrow another storm system moves
into the PLS the biggest threats
damaging winds baseball-sized hail and
possible tornadoes our meteorologist SM
Theodore is track at the forecast for us
tomorrow what’s the latest yes Cara We
are in the throws of severe weather
season and areas previously hit hard
this past weekend at the end of last
week are gearing up for another round so
let me time this out bring you up to
speed here we are Tuesday 8:00 P.M
that’s tonight notice where the line of
storms is stretching from IA down into
Missouri uh parts of Kansas as well it’s
this region here in Orange that has the
highest threat for tornadoes do you live
there in deoy do you have friends and
family that live in Kansas City and
parts of Northeastern uh Kansas go ahead
and make sure they have their alerts on
they’re ready to go because tonight we
could see some storms that will produce
tornadoes and it’s those nocturnal
tornadoes that can be so deadly and so
dangerous all right so then we have the
second round of severe weather this time
I’m talking to my friends out in
Oklahoma if you live in Western Oklahoma
and if you live in Central Kansas you
have another round coming in Wednesday
and Wednesday night so notice how Kansas
is getting hit twice but then we see the
stretch as far south as Midland Texas we
can see more tornadoes there a damaging
winds large Hill and from these visuals
you can see uh that the rain has really
been uh coming down in copious amounts
as a result flooding is a big issue
there flash flooding is something we’re
concerned about and in the next 5 days
we have more rain on the way this hot
spot that you’re looking at that area
shaded in orange and red right over
Central Texas including Dallas even
farther north in Oklahoma City Kansas
City 3 to 5 Ines is possible even more
remember when we see rain coming down
that fast in that small amount of time
that’s when we have a lot of flash
flooding and I’ll wrap here on the
temperatures because in the Northeast
things have been relatively quiet but it
has been a numbers game hasn’t it
Northeast we’ve been really warm New
York City it’s cooled down a bit when
you step outside I know a lot of you
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we are going to warm up nicely by the
end of the week 76 uh on Thursday DC
Kira where you are you’re headed back to
about 90 degrees by
Thursday all right maybe I am sort of
missing winter Samar thank you I know
I’m so fickle
stop all right well coming up our Devon
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line well let’s take it to this uh
actually I’m going to take you to it
this is the line Donald Trump says he
thinks he has identified a crucial
mistake of his first term he was too
nice oh yeah that’s exactly what Trump
said as he laid out his vision in an
interview with Time Magazine and one of
the most notable Parts came when he said
he would leave it up to States whether
to monitor women’s pregnancies and
prosecute them for having abortions
Trump also added that it’s irrelevant
whether he was comfortable with that
policy and he also wouldn’t even commit
to vetoing a federal abortion ban saying
that it’ll just never happen joining me
now for more our Deputy political
director Avery Harper Avery Trump was
pretty vague shall we say with his
answers on abortion trying to avoid
actually taking a position and saying
over and over again that it’s a state’s
issue can he keep doing that well I I
think he’s certainly going to try look I
can’t tell you that there’s any uh
specific strategy around this uh but I
know that uh the former president is
looking for a way to navigate a very
tricky issue for Republicans uh and uh
sometimes I think that has him saying
things that are politic expedient for
him at the time again he’s trying to to
find a winning issue or or rather an
issue or or rather a message on this
issue that isn’t going to drive voters
away from him at the polls so Trump was
also asked about federal laws outlawing
abortion pills like M prone and while he
said he has pretty strong views on that
topic he wouldn’t explain them he said
he’d make an announcement over the next
week or two and that was two weeks ago
and then he said he didn’t have an
answer in two weeks it was just back and
forth back and forth so is everything
two weeks away right well I I I think
this is really an attempt for uh former
president Trump to try and be able to
craft a message on his issue that is
within uh his control this is why we saw
him do a pre-recorded video when he uh
put out his stance on abortion and so I
I think we are probably going to see him
uh answer this question and talk about
mffa priston but it’s going to be on his
own terms again because Trump knows that
abortion has been a losing issue for
republicans and he’s going to try to
tread a bit carefully around this all
right if he wins just you see it right
there on the cover of the magazine he
was also asked about the threat of
political violence in November he said
he didn’t think violence is likely if he
wins but also said it depends on the
fairness of an election I mean he’s not
even ruling out violence here yet again
right former president has former
president Trump has not uh been afraid
to raise the Spectre of political
violence if things don’t go his way and
so it’ll be interesting to see how he
continues uh to speak about this issue
uh but uh we know that this messaging
has really been the Crux of his campaign
this entire uh cycle he has been
claiming uh that he has been uh treated
unfairly uh that the last election was
stolen from him but it wasn’t
Deputy political director Avery Harper
thank you Avery well the US Supreme
Court is preparing to release major
rulings in a historic series of cases
this spring and now ABC News is getting
a unique perspective ahead of those
decisions retired associate Supreme
Court Justice step Brer sat down with
our Devin DWI Brier is pulling back the
curtain on the embattled institution in
an exclusive interview that airs tonight
on ABC News Prime Deon joins me now to
talk about it all right this was pretty
awesome I know how hard you’ve been
working on all these interviews and I
know this will just be the beginning um
but let’s let’s go to the Brier
interview and and talk about I guess
first of all what did he have to say
about the Trump appointed justices it’s
so fascinating just to take a step back
kir retired justices usually run from
the spotlight after they leave you know
David sudor went and lived in a cabin in
the woods Justice Kennedy you know it
was very popular guy has been in hiding
so Steven Brer has something to say he’s
been making the rounds he’s got lots to
say in fact about his former
conservative colleagues on the Supreme
Court bench those in the majority
especially the three Trump justices I’ve
talked to Brier before he was unusually
direct he and one of the reasons why he
said he KN wrote this new book here
which is why he’s making the rounds is
because he has a message directed at
them take a listen
Okay you talk about the dobs case in the
book um Justice Thomas has explicitly in
his concurrence in dobs called for the
revisiting of some other decisions
same-sex marriage
contraception I mean could those kinds
of things do you think be at risk with
this new l i to think over time they are
less at risk Than People worry about at
the
moment all right let’s take a reset he
was talking there about these precedents
which the conservative majority targeted
in this most recent term and a
fascinating answer he’s optimistic that
this is a court that will back away from
its most um aggressive impulses and in
fact his message to me AK Kira and to
the conservatives the newest
conservatives is slow down slow down
slow your role walk it back a little bit
you got plenty of time you don’t need to
be so aggressive and Brier talks to us
in depth about why he thinks not only
it’s important for them to do that for
The credibility of the court but that he
thinks they will and in fact he puts a
time limit it three to four years he
thinks this conservative majority and
these new Trump justices will begin to
in his words modify their position on
some of these very explosive issues
fascinating we talked to him about that
we talked to him about the ethics crisis
at the Supreme Court the role of
Justice’s spouses in the political
sphere a lot of controversy about
Clarence Thomas’s wife in January 6 we
talk about political influences on the
court not just Republican and Democratic
politics but what about all these
outside groups that are lobbying around
the court and I asked Brier who was
famously pushed From the Bench you
remember those uh Republican liberal
activists rather driving Billboards
around the Supreme Court we ask him did
you see the Billboards did it give you a
pause from leaving the Supreme Court and
why did you leave when you did
fascinating answer so you have to catch
that tonight but a really interesting
interview from a guy who uh does a lot
of interviews we were surprised by some
of the things we heard he was actually
pretty Dynamic he had all the topics I
mean samesex marriage contraception
there was not one issue you left out and
very pointed uh answers directed at the
current Court which just in itself is
fascinating we don’t normally see
justices who retire then turn around and
use the media to address his former
colleagues to try to shape their
opinions really fascinating and a lot of
opinions as you know coming out in the
next two months big issues ahead guess
we’ll have to read the book or watch I’m
going to start with yourview yeah
exactly start there all right so Deon
DWI thank you so much and you can of
course catch the full interview tonight
on ABC News live Prime with lindsy Davis
that’s at 700 p.m. Eastern also coming
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Donald Trump caving in the former
president now removing social media post
that he violated his gag order after the
judge in the case threatened jail time
judge Juan Maran ordering Trump earlier
today to delete those posts in violation
from his true Social account and
campaign website by 215 as well as pay a
$99,000 penalty by Friday while the
state’s six witness is back on the stand
now after lunch Keith Davidson he’s the
lawyer who represented the Playboy
Playmate and the porn star that Trump
wanted to keep quiet quiet let’s bring
you updated with our senior
investigative reporter Olivia Rubin
she’s outside the courthouse along with
political director Rick Klein executive
editorial producer um no Rick Klein is
not our executive editorial producer
that’s John santui is that right do we
have
John I think I have the wrong lineup
folks show me who’s there and I’ll just
tell you who we have do we have Tim
Jansen okay John let’s start with you
because I saw your happy little face
okay um let’s start with shall we Trump
claiming that this gag order is election
interference well Kira I mean look not
surprising there that Donald Trump is
obviously saying everything as part of
these proceedings is harming his
campaign and we know look Kira the
reality Donald Trump is not able to get
out on the campaign Trail he is stuck in
that courtroom look at the fact that
Susie WS who is running the Trump
campaign she’s not out talking to voters
supporters or fundraisers she’s sitting
right behind her boss in the front row
of that courtroom on the 15th floor of
the Supreme Court here in New York it’s
just this constant reminder that Donald
Trump right now is hamstrung Cara look
he he wants to not be in this courtroom
we know it’s the worst place that he
wants to be right now and I think those
gag orders this morning even though you
know look you me and everybody else that
saw those posts that Donald Trump made
on Truth social obviously it was quite
clear that he violated the gag order but
nevertheless for the judge to not only
agree with prop prosecutors and hand
down a
$99,000 fine against Donald Trump but to
say the words if you do this again you
could potentially be in jail I mean that
is just remarkable so on the criminal
side of the Lector not good for Donald
Trump but on the political side we know
that Donald Trump has used these cases
to continue to benefit his political
career and obviously once again the
least surprising thing of the day is
that he sent out a fundraising email
after the ruing Hera no surprise Tim I
got to have the legal side of things
here though Trump claiming that a gag
order is election interference does he
have anything there or is he once again
throwing spaghetti at the wall hoping it
sticks well you know on one part he does
because some of the issues and this the
charges that have been manipulated into
a state charge he can argue that um
contacting and talking about the
witnesses that’s not really campaign
interference because you know Cohen
didn’t bring these charges um he’s got a
gag order it’s a it’s a broad one he has
to comply with it as a defendant in the
courtroom but of course on the other
side he’s saying I’m should be running
for president this trial should not be
going on so he can make an argument that
it’s interfering with his campaign which
is correct but he’s got to do it within
the limits of the gag order or he needs
to file an appeal and get the gag order
more tailored to what he can do which he
has not
done so Rick Trump deleted his post is
he getting
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soft and and I’m sure his lawyers
prevailed on him to do just that I mean
look the damage or any potential damage
that’s done was long since out there I
mean these posts have been widely
circulated for for for weeks now the
idea of going back in there and deleting
doesn’t really change much but it does
signal uh that at the end of the day for
all he’s saying outside of court for all
he’s saying in fundraising appeals that
he is is going to comply with any
lawfully uh uh tendered orders um the
expectation would be that he would he
would pay the fine uh and deleting the
posts avoids further damages so he he
does at times seem to be provoking
people but there are limits to to what
he’ll do the judge made the order he
complied with it all right Olivia uh
before we go we heard from a number of
witnesses today clearly what stuck out
to
you the state is now on their sixth
witness kir with uh one of the attorneys
who worked for stor Daniels and Keith
Davidson and what is sort of standing
out is the way that he is taking the
jury even deeper into the negotiations
that occurred between the national
Inquirer and Karen McDougall to buy
these stories so the jury is getting
just about as deep as they can into this
process which at times wasn’t going too
well they saw text messages with Keith
Davidson and someone at the national
Inquirer where they were asking for a
million dollars for Karen mcdougall’s
story and they said oh you know what we
think it’s going to be more in the
hundreds of thousands not the millions
but what’s key here is Keith Davidson
said the reason this National inquire
was so uh appealing to Karen McDougall
was because she didn’t want to tell her
story and with the deal with the
national inquir she wouldn’t have to
because it was silencing the claim so
just feeding more into Prosecutor’s
claims the whole purpose was so that it
would never come out all right Olivia
John Tim Rick thank you all so much the
developing crisis on college campuses
Nationwide beginning with occupied
Colombia dozens of protesters at the
University storming the historic
Hamilton Hall barricading themselves
inside and it came just hours after the
university started suspending students
for not leaving their encampment and it
got ugly video shows the students
covering up the surveillance cameras
then slamming desks and breaking Windows
to get into Hamilton Hall The University
released a statement uh not long ago
saying that if protesters continue to
violate the rules they will be met with
clear consequences and they will be
expelled less chaotic but still a
challenge on other campuses across the
country as administrators are grappling
with how they should clear hundreds of
protesters ahead of graduation
ceremonies USC and Southern California
already cancelling its main ceremony and
it’s something that a lot of students
are saying they’ve been waiting for
their entire life clearly my high school
just had a driveth through graduation I
personally was really looking forward to
having this main ceremony and
traditional graduation for my whole
life in Virginia police using tear gas
to break up protest at Virginia
Commonwealth University several people
arrested there and then in North
Carolina at least 30 people arrested at
the University of North Carolina Chapel
Hill as they refus to disperse our iachi
is still there at the epicenter of the
protest just outside Columbia University
not far from Hamilton Hall so what’s the
latest
ik well Kira we saw what the scene
outside Hamilton Hall was it was very
orderly there were no protest on that
side because that was the main entrance
and eress for the entire University
right now remember the campus is closed
down now we just went over a block over
to Broadway and as you can see the pro
Palestine protesters have call us here
in front of the gates at Columbia
University and have are holding a
smaller protest than yesterday
nevertheless a protest calling obviously
for the demands that we’ve been hearing
about from those individuals in the
encampment now they are still in
Hamilton Hall right now they’re all held
up we’ve been there all morning we’ve
seen them put out more banners on the
side of that building and we’ve heard
them reiterate their demands calling on
Columbia University to divest from
Israel and also asking for amnesty we
now know the Columbia University is not
going to do that they released that
letter saying that they want to restore
order and safety to the campus and that
the fact that the protesters have raised
their actions to an untenable situation
which is why they’re resulting to
possible expulsion for anybody located
inside Hamilton Hall now to get an
understanding about how this is
affecting the larger student body on a
whole I spoke to a couple uh uh
counter-protesters earlier today who
said that this entire environment on
Columbia University has moved away from
the original person
and has since caused nothing but
disruption I spoke to one individual
here who actually came on campus last
night around 130 in the morning as the
protests were swelling we saw uh as they
were you know essentially crescendoing
and she said that she was harassed by
some of those Pro Palestine protesters
and she didn’t feel safe something that
has been a common theme throughout the
past couple of weeks here on campus and
all in all she said that these protests
have significantly changed her college
experience take a list
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I was deeply upset um I was more than
anything I’m upset at school
administration while they’re not doing
anything and it escalated with uh
overtaken on one of the halls and still
police has not been called nothing’s
doing nothing’s happening I mean I feel
like I’m deprived of my education I
cannot go to the gym we cannot even use
food halls that we paid for my finals
have been cancelled it’s just it’s a
really sad way to end the school year
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now you heard her talk about how the
NYPD isn’t doing anything well they just
had a press conference not too long ago
and there are New York Police Department
officers all around here essentially
waiting uh you heard Mary mayor Eric
Adams say that they’re not going to go
on to the campus here at Columbia
University unless Colombia specifically
ask them to now they’ve set up
perimeters around here they’ve had those
barricades on the street making sure
that the protest doesn’t slip into the
street
but they’ve said time and time again
that they will come on campus and try to
restore order only if they’re asked to k
i you know the the University was
getting a lot of heat because there were
critics around the country saying why
isn’t Colombia doing more and then it
took barricading and taking over
Hamilton Hall for the school now to put
out this new statement uh saying that if
these students don’t leave the building
they’re going to be expelled
um should they take this seriously is
that what you think is going to happen
because there were threats made but is
it going to act will the university
follow through on
this well we don’t have to look far I
mean this isn’t the only this isn’t an
isolated incident we’re seeing these
encampments and these protests pop up
all across the country and the road map
the essential design of how this goes
has already happened just look at the
University of Utah 17 protesters there
in their encampment were arrested and
what happened before that the university
said that their actions aren’t right
they go against their University
policies and that they’re going to have
to take actions to remove them and
that’s exactly what happened uh that’s
happening all across the country so here
at Columbia University where this entire
movement started we’re seeing them
follow the same blueprint we saw them
try to work out some kind of
conversation with the protesters that
stalled we saw them tried to give them
time to see if they will remove
themselves voluntarily that didn’t
happen now we’re seeing them take that
step that so many other universities
have taken by saying that listen your
actions are not tenable they go against
University policies and we will take
action to remove you which now has
elevated to expulsion now if that
doesn’t work if they’re not removing
there we already heard that those
protesters in Hamilton Hall say that
they’re in this for the Long Hall
they’re not leaving that Hall until they
get their demands met which one of them
is the University divesting from Israel
something that they will not do so the
question here is will this Elevate to
the university asking the NYPD to come
on campus and handle that we don’t know
what’s going to happen yet however time
will tell here stay tuned all right Ike
we’ll keep checking in with you thank
you another round of severe storms now
threatening millions of Americans still
recovering from that deadly tornado
outbreak torrential rain now triggering
flash flooding in Texas P County near
Houston Under mandatory evacuations and
then tomorrow another storm system moves
into the plains the biggest threats
damaging winds baseball siiz hail and
possible tornadoes our meteorologist
Samar Theodore is tracking the forecast
for us Samar what’s the latest yes Cara
We are in the throws of sever weather
season and areas previously hit hard
this past week and at the end of last
week are gearing up for another round so
let me time this out bring you up to
speed here we are Tuesday 8:00 p.m.
that’s tonight notice where the line of
storms is stretching from iWood down
into to Missouri uh parts of Kansas as
well it’s this region here in Orange
that has the highest threat for
tornadoes do you live there in deoy do
you have friends and family that live in
Kansas City and parts of Northeastern uh
Kansas go ahead and make sure they have
their alerts on they’re ready to go
because tonight we could see some storms
that will produce tornadoes and it’s
those nocturnal tornadoes that can be so
deadly and so dangerous all right so
then we have the second round of severe
weather this time I’m talking to my
friends out in ok okahoma if you live in
Western Oklahoma and if you live in
Central Kansas you have another round
coming in Wednesday and Wednesday night
so notice how Kansas is getting hit
twice but then we see the stretch as far
south as Midland Texas we can see more
tornadoes there a damaging winds large
Hill and from these visuals you can see
uh that the rain has really been uh
coming down in copious amounts as a
result flooding is a big issue there
flash flooding is something we’re
concerned about and in the next 5 days
we have more rain on the way this hot
spot that you’re looking at that area
shaded in orange and red right over
Central Texas including Dallas even
farther north in Oklahoma City Kansas
City 3 to 5 Ines is possible even more
remember when we see rain coming down
that fast in that small amount of time
that’s when we have a lot of flash
flooding and I’ll wrap here on the
temperatures because in the Northeast
things have been relatively quiet but it
has been a numbers game hasn’t it
Northeast we’ve been really warm New
York City it’s cooled down a bit when
you step outside I know a lot of you
like oh man we want the heat back well
we are going to warm up night L by the
end of the week 76 uh on Thursday DC
Kira where you are you’re headed back to
about 90 Dees by
Thursday all right maybe I am sort of
missing winner Samara thank you I know
I’m so fickle
stop all right well coming up our Devin
dwire with a big exclusive he goes
one-on-one with recently retired Supreme
Court Justice Steven Brier to learn how
the court works these days and how it’s
changed since he started on the bench
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we are getting an inside look as to what
a second Trump term could look like let
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line well let’s take it to this uh
actually I’m going to take you to it
this is the line Donald Trump says he
thinks he has identified a crucial
mistake of his first term he was too
nice oh yeah that’s exactly what Trump
said as he laid out his vision in an
interview with Time Magazine and one of
the most notable Parts came when he said
he would leave it up to state whether to
monitor women’s pregnancies and
prosecute them for having abortions
Trump also added that it’s irrelevant
whether he was comfortable with that
policy and he also wouldn’t even commit
to vetoing a federal abortion ban saying
that it’ll just never happen joining me
now for more our Deputy political
director Avery Harper Avery Trump was
pretty vague shall we say with his
answers on abortion trying to avoid
actually taking a position and saying
over and over again that it’s a state’s
issue can he keep doing that well I I
think he’s certainly going to try look I
can’t tell you that there’s any specific
strategy around this uh but I know that
uh the former president is looking for a
way to navigate a very tricky issue for
Republicans uh and uh sometimes I think
that has him saying things that are
politically expedient for him at the
time again he’s trying to to find a
winning issue or or rather an issue or
or rather a message on this issue that
isn’t going Drive voters away from him
at the polls so Trump was also asked
about federal laws outlawing abortion
pills like M prone and while he said he
has pretty strong views on that topic he
wouldn’t explain them he said he’d make
an announcement over the next week or
two and that was two weeks ago and then
he said he didn’t have an answer in two
weeks it was just back and forth back
and forth so is everything two weeks
away right well I I I think this is
really an attempt for a former president
Trump to try and be able to craft a
message on his issue that is within his
control this is why we saw him do a
pre-recorded video when he uh put out
his stance on abortion and so I I think
we are probably going to see him uh
answer this question and talk about Mya
priston but it’s going to be on his own
terms again because Trump knows that
abortion has been a losing issue uh for
republicans and he’s going to try to
tread a bit carefully around this all
right if he wins just you see it right
there on the cover of the magazine he
was also asked about the threat of
political violence in November he said
he didn’t think violence is likely if he
wins but also said it depends on the
fairness of an election I mean he’s not
even ruling out violence here yet again
right former president has former
president Trump has not uh been afraid
to raise the Spectre of political
violence if things don’t go his way uh
and so it’ll be interesting to see how
he continues uh to speak about this
issue uh but uh we know that this
messaging has really been the Crux of
his campaign this entire uh cycle he has
been claiming uh that he has been uh
treated unfairly that the last election
was stolen from him but it
wasn’t Deputy political director Avery
Harper thank you Avery well the US
Supreme Court is preparing to release
major rulings in a historic series of
cases this spring and now ABC News is
getting a unique perspective ahead of
those decisions retired associate
Supreme Court Justice Steven Brier sat
down with our Devon dwier rer is pulling
back the curtain on the embattled
institution in an exclusive interview
that airs tonight on ABC News Prime Deon
joins me now to talk about it all right
this was pretty awesome I know how hard
you’ve been working on all these
interviews and I know this will just be
the beginning um but let’s let’s go to
the Brier interview and and talk about I
guess first of all what did he have to
say about the Trump appointed justices
it’s so fascinating just to take a step
back kir retired justices usually run
from the spotlight after they leave you
know David sudor went and lived in a
cabin in the woods Justice Kennedy you
know it was very popular guy has been in
hiding so Stephen Brier has something to
say he’s been making the rounds he’s got
lots to say in fact about his former
conservative colleagues on the Supreme
Court bench those in the majority
especially the three Trump justices I’ve
talked to Brier before he was UN usually
direct he and one of the reasons why he
said he know wrote this new book K which
is why he’s making the rounds is because
he has a message directed at them he’s
optimistic that this is a court that
will back away from its most um
aggressive impulses and in fact his
message to me Kira and to the
conservatives the newest conservatives
is slow down slow down slow your role
walk it back a little bit you got plenty
of time you don’t need to be so
aggressive and Brier talks so in depth
about why he thinks not only it’s
important for them to do that for The
credibility of the court but that he
thinks they will and in fact he puts a
time limit on it three to four years he
thinks this conservative majority and
these new Trump justices will begin to
in his words modify their position on
some of these very explosive issues
fascinating we talked to him about that
we talked to him about the ethics crisis
at the Supreme Court the role of
Justice’s spouses in the political
sphere a lot of controversy about
Clarence Thomas wife in January 6 we
talk about political influences on the
court not just Republican and Democratic
politics but what about all these
outside groups that are lobbying around
the court and I asked Brier who was
famously pushed From the Bench you
remember those uh Republican liberal
activists rather driving Billboards
around the Supreme Court we ask him did
you see the Billboards did it give you a
pause from leaving the Supreme Court and
why did you leave when you did
fascinating answers you have to catch
that tonight but a really interesting
interview from a guy who uh does a lot
of interviews we were surprised by some
of the things we heard he was actually
pretty Dynamic he had all the topics I
mean same-sex marriage contraception
there was not one issue you left out and
very pointed uh answers directed at the
current Court which just in itself is
fascinating we don’t normally see
justices who retire then turn around and
use the media to address his former
colleagues to try to shape their
opinions really fascinating and a lot of
opinions as you know coming out in the
next two months big issues ahead guess
we’ll have to read the book or watch
theie I’m going to start with yourview
yeah exactly I’m going to start there
all right so Deon DWI thank you so much
and you can of course catch the full
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Phillips and I’m Terry Moran and our top
story this hour former president Donald
Trump has now removed social media posts
that violated the gag order imposed on
him by the judge in this case who has
threatened jail time judge Juan masan
ordered Trump to delete the posts that
are in violation of his gag order from
his truth from Trump’s truth Social
account and his campaign website by 2:15
p.m. uh as well as pay $9,000 penalty by
Friday well the state six witness is
back on the stand after lunch now Keith
Davidson he’s the lawyer who represented
the Playboy Playmate and the porn star
that Trump uh wanted to keep quiet
leading us off our senior investigative
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Kim Let’s Start uh or eron let’s let’s
take it to you first I mean you’ve been
outside that Courthouse prosecutors
resumed direct examination of Keith
Davidson by asking him about those text
messages that exchange between uh him
and the former National inquir editor
Dylan Howard what are we learning about
these interactions and how does it play
in to court today well I just came out
of court and there now Keith Davids in
his starting to explain the operative
relationship that he had in this case
and that’s the one representing Stormy
Daniels and he told the jury that that
relationship began in 2011 when a blog
post first uh surfaced about a story
that Stormy Daniels had some kind of a
physical relationship with Donald Trump
and at the time 2011 he said there was a
cease and desist letter he got this blog
to take down the story not before
getting an earful from Michael Co
thinking that Stormy Daniels was the
source of the story said it wasn’t true
but you’re already getting a sense that
this was a big deal uh inside Trump
Tower because Michael Cohen according to
Keith Davidson just unloaded uh on him
about this particular item uh which you
know no one really had heard of or maybe
sort of forgot about until 2016 and he’s
about to tell the jury the circumstances
of getting her this hush payment
$130,000 okay Aaron that’s thanks very
much that’s very clear so Kim I want to
go to you hush money payments not
illegal Donald Trump probably not the
first wealthy New York City businessman
to pay hush money to a woman who he
doesn’t want the world to find out about
so what’s the significance of of this
step by step that Aaron has just laid
out how the money was
paid it’s all about the timeline I think
Terry because Susan uh Karen McDougall
her payment was in August of 2016 the
Access Hollywood tape came out I think
August or October 7th of 2016 and then
stormmy Daniels was paid at the end of
that month so it’s about the election
the hush money payments yes as you
indicate that kind of thing is not
itself illegal the government’s Theory
here is that there were was
falsifications of business records
that’s really the crime um but they were
done to basically Keep information from
the voters in violation a federal and
state election law and what was that
information it was this second alleged
affair with stormmy Daniels right at the
time when the Trump campaign was very
concerned about the Access Hollywood
tape breaking and that potentially
breaking uh his chances of actually
winning the White
House so Ain it’s not often that Donald
Trump follows the rules voluntarily or
otherwise um now he’s claiming that the
gag order is election interference
does he have anything
here well it’s his view perhaps Kira but
the judge said that he violated the gag
order on nine different occasions fined
him $1,000 for each of those violations
and made him take down the offending
social media posts which uh I think at
last check he had taken down all but one
so even if he thinks it’s election
interference he’s certainly complying
perhaps at the direction of his lawyers
and then later on this week on Thursday
before testimony resumes for the day
there’s going to be a hearing on
additional potential gag order
violations and so more fines may be in
the offing for Donald Trump he may not
like it but the judge certainly believes
that his attacks on Witnesses the jury
and others associated with the case do
cross a
line uh Kim just taking that to you very
quickly uh he’s running for president
does he have a right to go out to the
people and say this is a persecution not
a prosecution they’re coming after me
all that stuff
uh or is that under the gag order as
well because that does seem like it’s
getting into First Amendment
territory yeah well there is a First
Amendment right tol political speech but
that’s balanced against the Integrity of
the judicial process and the his his
rights as a criminal defendant as well
as protecting the witnesses and the
jurors the gag order is narrow in that
narrower than that it it protects again
the witnesses the jurors and their
families families of the prosecution um
but I think this is a really important
moment because the the fact that he took
these down signals he might comply with
this and that’s really better for
everybody not just the people involved
in the trial but for Americans watching
this uh we need to have faith in our
judicial system and his rhetoric around
the judge being somehow biased against
him is not true this judge is doing a
you know by the book job so
far all right Kim wayy Aaron kerki
thanks very much now of the developing
crisis on college campuses Nationwide
beginning with occupy Colombia dozens of
protesters there at the University
storming the historic Hamilton Hall
barricading themselves inside it came
just hours after the university started
suspending students for not leaving
their encampment and and it did get ugly
video shows the students covering up
surveillance cameras uh and then
slamming desks breaking Windows to get
inside that building an University
representative now says that if the
protest testers continue to violate
campus rules they will be met with clear
consequences and they’ll be expelled
then you get the students say they’re
upset that this is all disrupting their
college
experience um it’s been uh talk that
these protests are peaceful but people
that are on the ground have seen how not
peaceful Jewish students had been harass
or anyone that doesn’t agree with them
we’re not allowed to speak we are not
allowed to enter it’s just a huge huge
um it’s it’s sad it’s sad to see this
happening at such a good Institution
and across the country administrators
are grappling with how to clear hundreds
of protesters ahead of graduation
ceremonies police used tear gas to break
up protests in Virginia at the
Commonwealth University and several
people were arrested there then in North
Carolina at least 30 people were
arrested at the University of North
Carolina Chapel Hill because they
refused to disperse our I Kachi is at
the epicenter of those protest outside
Columbia University in New York and
you’re actually near the building Ike I
know where those students are still
still barricaded inside hamilt Hamilton
Hall this hour are you able to get any
type of insight from the students this
is actually Chapel Hill North Carolina
not uh Columbia University where you are
Ike I apologize um but are do we have
any update are they leaving the building
are they going to be expelled when when
are we going to see some
action well that’s what everyone’s
waiting for right now essentially time
is the determining Factor as to what
will happen to those individuals inside
Hamilton Hall the time for negotiations
are over they’re not looking to try to
speak to anybody on the University or
anything of that nature right now the
whole biggest thing is removing them
from the encampment and if you can see
take a look right behind me and you can
see right now that protests have
actually gathered in front of those
gates at Columbia University here these
are pro Palestinian protesters that are
essentially demanding the same thing of
those individuals in the encampment but
as We Know right now Columbia University
has taken Swift action right now the
students occupying the building they
face expulsion now protesters were
informed that their participation in the
encampment had violated numerous
University policies and essentially the
university said that they gave those
people in the encampment several
opportunities to leave peacefully by
committing to abide by University
policies that they’ll be able to commit
uh complete the semester the students
did not commit to those terms and now
they are being suspended those students
will be restricted from all academic and
recreational spaces and they can only
access their individual residents
seniors will be ineligible to graduate
now this is exactly the outcome that was
essentially expected we’ve seen this
outcome at universities all across the
campus uh specifically University of
Utah they arrested 17 protesters that
didn’t decide to disperse when they were
asked to that’s where we are right now
the Columbia University putting their
foot down asking them to remove now
again these are pro Palestinian uh uh
protest supporters behind me uh today we
spoke to counter protesters I know you
heard one of them earlier in in that
sound by saying that this has ruined her
college experience she’s not allowed to
use the dining hall she can’t even use
the gym that she pays for here on
Columbia University because she’s
restricted access from getting on to the
school premises now we also spoke to a
professor a professor who actually lives
on campus right now and he tells us that
the original
uh support for what these protests were
essentially trying to accomplish has
been lost in all of this and essentially
has been reduced to violence and Chaos
something that he says will defeat the
purpose of what they’re trying to
achieve take a
listen I understand uh student protest
but I think the encampment um has really
escalated in a way that’s not good I
think both for the cause of the folks
that are protesting but it’s also been
extremely disrupted the campus and
created a extremely hostile environment
I think for all students um and faculty
staff and also very problematic for
visitors so essentially you heard him
right there that this has been causing a
headache and A disruption for faculty
students and so many staff here on the
campus here in
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Terry well let me let me follow up on
that Ike I really appreciate that you
talk to people student Professor not
involved in the protest we always put
you because it’s a great picture right
in front of the protesters what’s the
size of that what’s the what’s the size
of this movement given that there are
8,000 undergraduates I think 20,000 more
graduate students coming in and out of
that campus have you got a sense of how
representative this protest is of the UN
University student
Community well we’re getting a good
sense right now exactly how many people
are involved on both sides listen there
are are subway stops on both ends of
this entire block here and all day we’ve
been seeing people Pro palisadium
protesters emerged from the Subways
obviously protesters who are not uh
affiliated with Columbia University
essentially join protests just like this
one calling for the same demands of the
uh uh the members of the encampment that
are still in Hamilton Hall right now now
in terms of the anti- protesters they’re
a little bit few and far between on this
campus you have to understand a lot of
those students aren’t able to come back
on campus so they’re essentially back on
uh wherever they came from in terms of
before they got to the university or
some kind of housing in and around the
city but their their presence here as of
right now is certainly a lot smaller
than the pro Palestinian protesters that
we’re seeing here right behind me today
and of course the protesters that we saw
yesterday
Terry all right backy J Jos you there
for us at the Columbia University uh
let’s head overseas now and that urgent
plea from Secretary of State Anthony
blinkin for Hamas to quickly accept
Israel’s new ceasefire offer blinkin
says the proposal uh which could bring
some hostages home is extremely generous
but now Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu is pledging to launch an
incursion an invasion really into the
southern city of Rafa in Gaza quote with
or without a deal hundreds of thousands
of Palestinians are Sheltering there
they were told to go to Rafa to settle
uh for safety and now they’re facing an
invasion sources tell ABC News Israel
will not send a delegation to these
talks in Cairo until Hamas provides an
answer on their overall proposal so
foreign corres correspondent Tom Sufi
Burge has the latest from
Jerusalem yeah kir there’s a lot of
moving parts right now Secretary of
State Anon Anthony blinkin has just
touched down here in Tel Aviv he’ll meet
prime minister Netanyahu tomorrow we
know that Hamas delegation has now left
Cairo according to an Egyptian official
Hamas will submit a written response to
that proposed deal which is on the table
and tonight the White House is saying
that Hamas should accept this deal
they’re saying time is of the essence
they’re saying they’re not overly
confident that there will be a deal but
they say they’re remaining pragmatic we
don’t know the precise detail of that
deal uh we’re hearing different numbers
for example about the potential number
of Palestinian prisoners that could be
released in that deal uh we’re here
hearing uh from The New York Times that
it could be 33 hostages released what we
believe and this is in line completely
with all of the reporting we’ve done on
these negotiations over a period of
months is that initially the most likely
hostages to be released will be the
elderly uh they will be injured hostages
and also potentially uh non- combatant
females so non uh women who are not
members of the IDF now look we don’t
know this deal is going to go through uh
we know that Secretary of State Anthony
blinker is going to meet prime minister
Netanyahu tomorrow we know that there’s
a massive massive diplomatic push and we
know that still prime minister Netanyahu
is keeping the threat of an incursion a
military operation into that city of
Rafa in southern Gaza hanging over the
process now on the face of it
netanyahu’s comments today sound like
he’s going to go into Rafa whatever the
distinction here is will he be willing
to go into Rafa now and that would
really blow the whole process out of the
water and there wouldn’t be a deal well
there’ be very unlikely to be a deal or
is he saying I will go into Rafa at some
point in the future and the two things
are very very different before any
military operation into Rafa the IDF
needs to move hundreds of thousands of
Palestinian civilians out of that area
and that would we’re told in the past by
Israeli officials take up to 8 weeks so
look there’s a lot of things to happen
before a military operation into Rafa
would take place Kira all right Tom Sufi
Birds there for us in Tel Aviv Tom
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Trump laid out his vision in an
interview with Time Magazine and one of
the most notable Parts came when he said
he would leave it up to the states
whether to monitor women’s pregnancies
and prosecute them for having abortions
Trump also added that it’s irrelevant
whether he was comfortable with that
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news Deputy political director Avery
Harper so Avery Trump he was vague a
little bit with his answers although he
did say his own uh feeling was it it’s
not up to him but he owns those policies
if States and they are adopt policies
like tracking women’s menstrual cycles
or Prosecuting women who do uh get an
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because he’s saying that’s okay as far
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it well it’ll be interesting to see how
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issue uh the fact is that uh he has
actually said a lot of different things
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that for Republicans they have been on
the losing side and so a lot of times he
is saying things that are politically
expedient for him uh as he tries to
navigate to find a message that could be
a winning message or rather one that’s
not going to drive voters away from him
come November so Trump was also asked
about federal laws outlawing abortion
pills like M prone and while he’s said
he was pretty had pretty strong views on
the topic he wouldn’t explain them he
said he’d make an announcement over the
next week or two two weeks ago he said
he’d have an answer in two weeks so it
seems like everything is two weeks away
Avery right everything is two weeks away
and I think that is uh because he is
trying to uh give answers that uh
deflect uh from him having to directly
and definitively answer that question or
any question related to abortion because
he is trying to again navigate this
issue very carefully uh trying to put
out his answers in a form and in a way
that he has complete control that’s why
we saw the Trump campaign release that
uh pre-recorded statement about his
stance on abortion rather than having it
uh come out in some sort of interview
this again uh is an acknowledgement of
just how fraught the politics are around
abortion for Trump and for Republicans
more broadly uh I just want to add to
that I remember in 2017 he told our
George Stephanopoulos that he would have
his own Comprehensive Health Plan so
much better than Obamacare the best that
anyone has ever seen in two weeks from
that date that was in 2017 seven years
ago but anyway so in this interview with
Time Magazine outline outlining what
he’s looking at in his prospective
second term he was asked about the
threat of political violence in November
if he loses he said he doesn’t think
violence is likely because he thinks
he’s going to win but he also says quote
it depends on the fairness of an
election Here We Go Again MH yes he is
not ruling out the uh Spectre of
political violence he’s never been
afraid to raise a spectre of political
violence as he uh speaks about things
not going his way and that’s really been
the Crux of his campaign uh is to say
that he is being unfairly treated that
he is being politically persecuted and
to say that uh he had the 2020 election
stolen from him we know that’s not the
case well anything from President Biden
in response to the interview uh
particularly on the issue of abortion
the Biden campaign has come out they
have put the blame squarely on former
president Trump for this current uh
landscape that we’ve seen regarding
abortion bans in several States we’re
going to see uh Florida six we abortion
ban take effect tomorrow uh vice
president KLA Harris is going to be out
uh in the state talking about
reproductive Freedom they are saying
that abortion rights and Reproductive
Rights are on the line in this November
election and they’re hoping that it
turns voters out for Democrats up and
down the ballot Deputy political
director Avery Harper Avery thank you
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lives in
this well three members of the
Marshall’s task force were shot and
killed one of them Deputy US Marshall
48-year-old Thomas Weeks he leaves a
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Sam Pelos and Alden Elliot both 14-year
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few weeks ago President Biden we know uh
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our top story at this
hour uh day five of witness testimony in
the trial of former president Donald
Trump in this trial uh the state’s sixth
witness is back on the stand his name is
Keith Davidson uh he was the lawyer who
represented the Playboy Playmate and the
porn star both of whom allegedly
received uh payments hush money payments
from the former president this all comes
as as Donald Trump has now removed
social media posts that violated the gag
order imposed on him by the judge in
this case who has now threatened him
with jail time uh Trump also must pay a
$99,000 penalty by Friday after judge
Juan Maran fined him for violating that
gag order let’s bring in a news
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along with legal contributor and law
professor Kimberly Wy so John first
Keith Davidson uh he’s the lawyer he’s
the goet basically he testified that uh
the national inquire would not run carck
Karen mcdougall’s story because it might
harm Donald Trump’s electoral hopes
that’s crucial testimony what do you
make of it it’s unbelievable testimony
actually Terry and what’s remarkable
about it is not so much what Keith
Davidson has said on the stand but the
text messages the conversation he was
having with AMI and David Pecker’s
Deputy Dylan Howard along with others
leading into the conversations both with
pecker and Ami to buy Karen mcdougall’s
story but also the conversations he was
having with Michael Cohen to buy stormy
Daniel’s story because we have to
remember uh here Terry both come to the
same ending but different paths and what
I mean by that is Karen McDougall story
as we know was caught and killed via
David pecker and Ami but storm Daniel’s
story was purchased and killed via
Michael Cohen and Essence L LLC which of
course we heard testimony to earlier
today I I think what’s interesting about
Keith Davidson is that he’s one of very
few in this story that is involved in
both of these cases because he did
represent Karen McDougall and he did
represent Stormy Daniels so he is one of
the very few people that can really
shine light on both the dealings with
Donald Trump’s favorite publishers being
David pcker and the national Inquirer
and Donald Trump’s one-time fixer
Michael Cohen all right Michael Cohen
all of that very crucial Kim I want to
go to you on this gag order that we’re
talking a lot of people who are
following this trial for all kinds of
reasons they may not be familiar
certainly with with gag orders and how
they work and they may feel wait a
minute H why is why is the judge trying
to stop Trump from saying
anything on what basis have these gag
orders been issued what’s their purpose
and is it kind of standard procedure or
is nothing standard in this
draw well they’re not standard procedure
because most people comply with the
judges orders and and there isn’t really
this kind of national profile um and
Donald Trump pushes the envelope so
there is a First Amendment right uh to
speech and it’s at its apex really when
it comes to political speech so his
argument here is listen I want to talk
about the election uh you know the
presidential election how how more
important does speech get but you know
Terry I appreciate the question because
I I don’t think Americans fully
understand uh first amendment is not
unlimited there’s lots of speech that we
cannot engage in like defamation Donald
Trump knows that from the egene Carol
trial and you can’t engage in speech or
the judge made the determination here
that could affect the Integrity of the
trial that could influence the witnesses
they might not want to speak uh TR
truthfully if they’re worried about
their safety for example or if they’re
speaking he speaks about the witnesses
he tweets about Michael Cohen and Stormy
Daniels will that have an impact on the
juror um and also with Donald Trump’s
track record in the in the last election
with election workers Ruby Freeman and
sheay Moss um there’s some safety
concerns here uh if he starts get gets
out of hand he could actually put some
of these people in some Jeopardy given
uh he’s got a very large following and
some of them are willing to use violence
as we saw from January 6 so the judge is
balancing those two things safety
integrity and allowing Donald Trump to
speak and the gag order is narrow so
he’s getting out every day saying this
is unprecedented not so the judge is but
the judge is you know threatening a very
fine needle here Terry um between
ensuring Donald Trump complies with the
rule of law um but also not impinging on
his rights right that that is a tough
line to walk and John you know it feels
to me like like the judge is gradually
now turning up the volume ratcheting up
the pressure I think is the better
metaphor there on Trump we’ve got a
hearing on Thursday I guess on more
potential Gago how do you read the judge
and what are we expecting I mean listen
Terry this judge is not messing around
right nine out of 10 is not good for
Donald Trump that’s how many violations
he was hit with this morning and that
$9,000 fine that you and Kim were
talking about I think what’s different
though about those violations that
prosecutors cited and the four that are
going to be heard by judge Maran on
Thursday is that the original group of
10 Terry were posts Donald Trump made on
social media or post that you know he
retweeted or wre truth I’m not sure what
the actual verb is for it given it’s a
new social media platform but you know
what I’m talking about the other four
are comments Donald Trump made either to
cameras or radio two of the comments are
actually comments he made leading up to
the Republican presidential primary that
happened a week ago today actually in
Pennsylvania now one of those comments
was actually made to our station wpbi
and it’s very clear as day that it’s a
violation of the G order to most people
because what he’s saying is attacking
Michael Cohen and we know the comments
that any comments that Donald Trump is
making about Witnesses are a violation
of the gag order and that’s exactly what
those comments are now I do think the
other thing that we should take note of
here is that obviously one of the other
of the four that cited are comments
Donald Trump made to that camera we’re
showing our viewers right now Terry
comments he made outside of court about
some of the people that are protecting
by this gag Gorder the reality is and I
think we’ve seen this change in Donald
Trump over the last week is that he has
been sticking more to the script if you
will he is sticking to the guard rails
and I think that’s just a reminder to
him because prosecutors are clearly
watching everything Donald Trump is
doing meticulously so if there is
another violation and judge michon said
this today if there’s another violation
you know obviously we got the money of
it but judge M said I wouldn’t hold back
from putting you in jail and even though
that sounds pretty farfetched let’s not
forget as ABC News reported a week ago
the Secret Service the NYPD and others
Terry already had preliminary
conversations preparing for just that
possibility wow that that is a a wild
possibility although in this case and
with this defendant you never know right
John satui Kim wayy thanks very much
well now we’re going to turn to the
developing crisis on college campuses
some college campuses across the country
uh at occupy Columbia University in New
York City dozens of protesters at that
University storming the historic
Hamilton Hall on campus barricading
themselves inside it came just after the
university started suspending students
for not leaving the encampment in the
middle of the campus there and it did
get ugly video shows the students
covering up surveillance cameras and
then slamming desks and breaking Windows
to get inside that building the
university released a statement saying
if the protesters continue to violate
the rule
they will be met with clear consequences
and they will be expelled we spoke to a
student who was at the protests last
night and she says she’s upset that this
is disrupting her college experience
take a listen um it’s been uh talk that
these protests are peaceful but people
that are on the ground have seen how not
peaceful Jewish students had been
harassed or anyone that doesn’t agree
with them we’re not allowed to speak we
are not allowed to enter it’s just a
huge huge
um it’s it’s sad it’s sad to see this
happening at such a good
institution and across the country
administrators are grabbling with how to
clear hundreds of protesters ahead of
graduation ceremonies Police use tear
gas to break up protests at Virginia
Commonwealth University several people
have been arrested there and in North
Carolina at least 30 people have been
arrested at the University of North
Carolina Chapel Hill as they’re now
refusing to disperse and clashing with
police ABC’s aachi is at the epicenter
of the protest right out outside
Columbia University in New York uh
you’re right there tell us what’s going
on
today well Terry we’ve had some
developments since just the 30 minutes
that we spoke last uh we were on the
other side of Hamilton Hall on Broadway
Avenue and just from the last time that
we spoke as soon as we were off the
protesters started to March down the
street and around the block to the other
side of the gate right here at Amsterdam
Avenue that’s because we were told that
some of the protesters inside Hamilton
Hall have actually gotten out of the
building and made their way outside here
right outside of the Amsterdam gate and
that’s exactly what’s happening right
now if we could take a look right now
and bu it around we could see those
protesters on the other side of the gate
waving those Palestinian flags were
being told reportedly that those were
some of the individuals that were inside
Hamilton Hall since last night now as
you can see right here we’re seeing
several other protesters have since
coales right in front of the gates here
at the Amsterdam Avenue here at Columbia
University and they joined those other
protesters from the other side of the
campus now again we marched all the way
here now and what we’re seeing right now
is essentially almost like a pep rally
now we also saw some individuals inside
Hamilton Hall actually make their way to
the roof of the building and essentially
wave that Palestinian flag again
essentially marking their flag on
Hamilton Hall now we do know that
Columbia University said that they are
facing expulsion for staying inside
there we don’t know if them coming out
is the beginning of them starting to
leave the campus or if they’re coming
out just to Rally up the rest of the
protesters here but again it’s important
to know that the NYPD is on the
outskirts they’re right there if you
want to take a look and move the camera
around you can see a lot of NYPD
officers right there lining up right
outside the Amsterdam AB Gates now they
don’t have right gar on they’re in
regular uniform but we are being told
that a Columbia University asks them to
come on to campus to help disperse some
of those protesters that have been in
Hamilton Hall that is something that are
ready and willing to do Terry and have
you seen a lot of uh non students I
guess people not with the Columbia
University Community uh entering the
campus and partic participating in these
protests and I should say the school has
put out a new statement if students
don’t leave Hamilton Hall they will be
expelled but you can’t do that if
somebody isn’t even at the
University and that’s why you’re seeing
all of the entrances and exisits on the
campus essentially shut down the only
way to get on campus is right here where
we are at the Amsterdam Avenue gate
students are going to have to show their
ID get it scanned in order to go in but
that’s obviously paused right now
because the tent where that’s supposed
to happen is right here now I do still
see some students trying to check their
IDs right in front of me right now
they’re still trying to get in mind you
these are residence Halls here a lot of
students and faculty actually live here
so there’s still a line of them if you
could take a look right now them
checking their IDs you can see the
campus security trying to talk to them
am missst this protest that’s going on
right now and they’re still trying to
just maintain those normal campus
activities and mean meaning that they’re
trying to just get into the campus
they’re trying to essentially find their
in there to either get to their dorm
halls or what have you but nevertheless
those individuals who aren’t affiliated
with the university I have seen many of
those file in again I want to tell you
the 116 subway station is right across
the street from here all morning I’ve
seen so many individuals literally
dressed like this come out from the
subway I spoke to spoke to a lot of them
they aren’t affiliated with Columbia
University but they are affiliated with
the movement that’s been happening here
on campus for over two weeks again we’re
being told right now that they are no
plan on leaving the campus we don’t know
of them coming out here talking to the
rest of the protesters or their initial
plan to leave but as we know right now
it’s still a situation that’s unfolding
ter got it and I I just want to ask you
one one more question that’s sometimes
these protests are described in in
various places as violent so do do you
see do you sense violence there what’s
the security situation like for you
personing for the
students Terry I’ve been here since
yesterday I’ve been here all day today
uh the term the adjective violence is a
little too harsh for the the attitude
that we see seen here now there’s a
Charged attitude there are some shouting
matches between the pro Palestinian
protesters and the anti-protesters here
but elevating that shouting to violence
is a little premature there hasn’t
necessarily been violence here but there
are charged emotions and that has led
some people to get into some Screaming
matches but in terms of physical
violence Terry it’s been rather peaceful
that is exactly my my impression from a
distance look free Americans can get
pretty heated uh in their opinions but
violence is something else altogether I
Kachi thanks very much at Columbia
University well now overseas an urgent
plea from the Secretary of State Anthony
blinkin for Hamas to quote quickly
accept Israel’s new ceasefire officer
offer blinkin says this proposal which
could bring some hostages home is quote
extremely generous but now Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pledging
to launch an invasion into the southern
city of Rafa quote with or without a
deal hundreds of thousands of
Palestinians are Sheltering there they
were told to shelter there for safety
sources tell ABC News Israel will not
even send a delegation to those talks in
Cairo until Lamas has provided answers
on the overall proposal forign
correspondent Tom Sufi Burj has the
latest from Tel
Aviv hey Terry yeah secret State Anthony
blinkin flying in from Jordan uh in
talks there about the wider agreements
uh The Wider deal which is going on
America driving that process between
Arab Nations and of course Hamas and the
Palestinian Authority in the West Bank
they’re all involved in terms of the
deal we know that Hamas delegation
according to the Egyptians has now left
Cairo uh we are expecting a response but
we don’t know when from Hamas on that
proposed deal on the table and we’re
hearing from an isra official that an
Israeli delegation will not go to Cairo
before Hamas responds we are just not
clear right now what is in that proposed
deal how many Palestinian prisoners
could be released in that deal exactly
how many hostages could be released and
what would happen to Israeli forces in
Gaza would they withdraw completely or
would they be redeployed within the Gaza
Strip look the White House Tonight is
saying they’re not overly confident
they’re remaining pragmatic but they are
are urging Hamas to accept the deal and
saying time is of the essence Terry all
right Tom Sufi birs there in Tel Aviv
Israel thanks very much on Capitol Hill
at this hour Republican infighting over
the house speakership Democrats are
vowing to block congresswoman Marjorie
Taylor green if she pushes forward a
motion to remove the speaker of the
house right there with her Mike Johnson
ABC’s J O’Brien is following the story
on Capitol Hill Jay what’s going on yeah
what that’s a loaded question Terry if I
could say so
uh so it all started well it didn’t all
start but today it unfolded because
Democrats put out a statement Democratic
Leadership in the house hakee Jeff Etc
saying that they would in a way come to
Mike Johnson’s defense if green actually
did call a vote to OU him they would
vote to table that motion and
essentially procedurally push it aside
that angered Marjorie Taylor green and
she put out a statement saying that this
motion to vacate that she’s been holding
over Mike Johnson’s head for weeks that
she got even more interested in calling
to a vote after he passed that 4 and a
package with the help of Democrats that
she believes there needs to be a
recorded vote on it and she indicated
she would bring it to a vote in the
coming days so that means depending upon
when margerie Taylor green and if
Marjorie Taylor green does call this for
a vote as she has very much threatened
to do there will be or could be a vote
on Johnson’s future as Speaker as early
as this week potentially next week we
know that green has called a press
conference for for tomorrow morning uh
at 9:00 we’re just not certain exactly
what she is going to say but she has
given every indication Terry that she’s
going to call that vote uh this week if
not early next week she’s done it before
she’ll she’ll do it again it sounds like
so Jay Speaker of the House very
important position house can’t really
conduct Business Without a speaker are
Democrats going to help Mike Johnson the
Republican Speaker of the House stay in
power well without that Assurance from
Democrat leadership it would have been a
lot more difficult for Mike Johnson
because Democratic Leadership put out
that statement this morning in which
they said they would vote with
presumably moderate Republicans to table
Green’s motion that means that Johnson
on paper has the votes to remain as
Speaker uh when green ultimately calls
this vote on his future and Green’s
numbers are still somewhat unclear we
know that as of two weeks ago uh the
last time Congress was in session she
had two other further right Hardline
members who had come to her side and
said they too wanted to see Mike Johnson
removed but we’ve talked to some further
right Republicans who even they say that
while they don’t agree with some of the
decisions that Johnson has made they
don’t want to see him go right now they
don’t want to see the house thrown into
the kind of chaos as you alluded to that
happened when Kevin McCarthy was outed
and there were those 22 days without a
speaker there’s in fact even one
Republican Tim burett who’s a pretty
Hardline Republican he voted to Al Kevin
McCarthy who said to my colleagues and I
this morning that he doesn’t believe
it’s time for Mike Johnson to go just
because of and I’m paraphrasing him here
but the chaos that that would throw the
house into Terry yeah we’ve seen that
movie uh the Republicans didn’t like the
way it ended and I don’t think they’re
in for a rerun uh J O’Brien thanks very
much well coming up why the family of a
teenager who was shot after ringing the
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arm police say Lester reported seeing a
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family claims prosecutors have not been
aggressive in pursuing the case their
civil suit targets Lester and his
homeowners association claiming
negligence our lawsuit will be looking
to investigate how much the neighborhood
association knew about Mr Lester’s
violent tendencies about its racial
animist the suit also claims the
association failed to render Aid after
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the ongoing Pro Palestinian protest on
college campuses from coast to coast
some resulting in in arrests the
situation at Columbia University
intensifying overnight school officials
there say protesters broke Windows
barricading themselves inside a campus
Building just hours after some students
who refused to vacate an encampment were
suspended and joining us now is ABC’s
Stephanie Ramos with the latest from
Columbia
University hi DeMarco despite warnings
of suspensions or expulsions for any
student involved in the encampment here
at Columbia University many pro
Palestinian student demonstrators set up
more tents overnight and even broke into
an academic building take a look at this
video overnight Pro Palestinian
protesters Gathering outside Columbia
University’s Hamilton Hall and then
storming that building video capturing
students slamming desks breaking windows
and barricading themselves inside just
after 12:30 this morning dozens of
students left the encampment and entered
that Hall students defiant refusing to
dismantle their encampment we spoke with
a student who has been in talk with
University officials and he tells us the
bombing in Gaza needs to stop that’s how
he says the war will end officials have
not commented yet on the actions of the
students who broke into that building
overnight but we know right now that
those negotiation talks between
University officials and student
demonstrators who say they want the
university to divest from companies that
are profiting from Israel those talks
are at a standstill Eva and thanks to
Stephanie for that let’s go now to Ohio
State University where we find ABC News
correspondent Alex pet Alex there were a
number of arrests at a protest there
where do things stand right
now well Eva so we’re less than a week
away from graduation ceremonies and the
reality is that a number of students
that were arrested at that protest are
now dealing with arraignments a batch
arraigned yesterday another will be
arraigned tomorrow and now we’re seeing
protest at City Council meetings and and
also uh the state capital in the
courthouse to to have those charges
dropped meanwhile we’ve heard calls from
students here uh that kind of echo what
we’ve heard across the country
specifically from from Jewish students
that there’s a concern an increased
concern about campus safety and Alex
again you just said you got a chance to
talk to those students what else have
they sent about this whole
ordeal yeah DeMarco so it it depends
obviously on who you talk to but there
are a number of really thoughtful
students here on each side of this issue
they talked about the necess the the
necessity for discourse and how that’s
playing out on college campuses take a
listen students protesting is not
something that’s new um and it has
always been met with criticism and with
violence and in 2024 some people at
least are allowed to look are able to
look back in the past and go of course
they were right or of course that was
important or how could we let that
happen and I think it’s really important
to to keep that in mind you feel like
there’s active peaceful discussions
between the two sides
um I think there’s a lot of emotion
involved when it comes to the topic
because obviously it is there are a lot
of people affected on this campus I know
people personally who’ve been affected
who’ve had family die during not only
this war but in the past due to bombings
I I would love there to be like I I am
not a hateful person I would love for
there to be peace on our campus and walk
out of my classroom walk out of my house
and feel comfortable wearing the star
around my neck and being proud to be
Jewish and walking up to someone who’s
Muslim and being proud to share about my
culture and have them share their
culture with me um I just think tensions
are so high right now Administration and
people who have like Authority in the in
the community should invite younger
people to speak on it to talk about it
to have conversations to collaborate to
meet the needs of the community as a
whole what can we do what do you want
what is the problem instead of waiting
until students are protesting and then
you’re combating that what these
universities don’t realize especially at
these bigger universities like Columbia
like Harvard like Yale is that these are
the people the future of this country
these are the people who are going to be
in government these are the people who
are going to have control in the future
so if you’re not even willing to listen
to our voices now they’re eventually
going to be the ones in power and
they’re eventually going to be the ones
to right now they’re asking for the
change they will be the ones creating
the change in the future I I do think we
need to find a way to meet in the middle
ground I think on both sides we’ve been
looking for too much support towards one
end or the other and I I think in the
end what’s going to bring us together is
compromise and willing to hear the other
side and willing to move on and accept
our differences and be together as
students well and so tensions here on
campus have certainly kind of died down
uh since the weekend but there is a
recognition that this issue is still
very a a hot button right and and in
certainly people are passionate uh the
one thread that was continuous from the
students that we talked to was that
there needs to be a safe place for uh
this discussion and this dialogue to
continue there should be a safe place
all right Alex thank you very much we
appreciate it all thanks to Alex P and
Stephanie Ramos when we come back Camp
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our top story at this hour day five of
witness testimony has concluded in the
trial of former president Donald Trump a
New York state prosecutor prosecution
sixth witness was back on the stand
today his name is Keith Davidson and
he’s the lawyer who represented Playboy
Playmate Karen McDougall and porn star
Stormy Daniels uh
who Trump allegedly paid to keep quiet
prosecutors grilled lawyer Davidson over
the hush money payments that were sent
to these two women this comes as former
president Donald Trump has now removed
social media posts that violated the gag
order imposed on him by the judge in
this case who’s now threatened him with
jail time as well Trump must pay a
$9,000 penalty for the violations found
today by Friday let’s bring an AB news
investigative reporter Olivia Rubin
okay well Donald Trump is speaking out
now we’ll take a listen to what he has
to
say
constitutional I’m the Republican
candidate for president of the United
States I receive this honor in record
time nobody’s ever gone faster it’s
never happened nobody’s ever got the
numbers that we got and I’m sitting in a
courthouse all day long listening to
this stuff and everybody knows
as far as everybody is concerned if you
read the great legal Scholars and
experts everybody said this is a trial
that is nonsense it should have never
been brought that’s that’s showing loud
and
clear but you have a judge who’s totally
conflicted totally absolutely conflicted
and he’s rushing this case through I’ll
tell you what some people somebody just
told me they had never sat for such a
long period of time at a cour house
before it’s ridiculous I’m supposed to
be in Georgia I’m supposed to be in New
Hampshire I’m supposed to be in Ohio and
lots of other places and they have me
sitting here for a Biden trial it’s a
Biden trial and I never saw so many
prosecutors they’re all sitting in the
room over nothing over absolutely
nothing there’s no crime there’s no
anything here and that’s what these
legal Scholars say how can you bring a
case like this brag didn’t want to bring
it brag is the guy bringing it and he
didn’t want to bring it went to every
agency just about in law enforcement
they all turned it down as a joke and
I’m sitting here because that’s exactly
what they want they don’t want me on the
campaign Trail but it’s a real a real
disgrace and the whole world is watching
it’s a disgrace to New York and just
like en Goran is a disgrace to New York
we won that case because we wanted on
statute of limitations and he turned
down the appell div div Vision that’s
another case it’s all the same he turned
down the pellet decision theel
division’s decision they gave a decision
that gave me mostly a win just about the
whole thing was a win and he turned it
down he’s a corrupt judge and this judge
is terrible and Kaplan is terrible gave
a person I have no idea who she is $91
million this is a corrupt system we’re
in and I think the people are
understanding it if you look at the
polls the people of our country are
understanding it thank you very much
what do
you okay there you have it Donald Trump
at the end of the day of testimony you
hear the frustration in him in his voice
obviously he doesn’t think this is a
legitimate trial he blames President
Biden forth this is being brought by uh
New York City uh Manhattan district
attorney Alvin Bragg there’s no
connection to the Biden Administration
that he’s proven at all but he’s clearly
frustrated that he can’t do uh what the
Republican party wants him to do is is
run for president uh because he says
this trial uh is getting in the way and
it certainly is although this trial has
also helped his campaign in many ways as
well let’s bring an investigative
reporter producer Olivia Rubin just
outside the court executive editorial
producer John sanui legal contributor
and law professor Kimberly Wy as well so
Olivia uh let’s talk about Keith
Davidson’s lawyer on the witness stand
uh what’s he been testifying about uh
and how relevant is it to the to the
prosecution’s
case just gripping testimony Terry from
Keith Davidson this afternoon who on the
stand is talking about being right in
the middle of the efforts to broker that
deal for Stormy Daniels to get paid
$130,000 and what he was telling the
jury just this afternoon was the ways in
which Michael Cohen frantically tried to
delay the payment the $1 $30,000 that
they had already signed and said that
they owed her and missed the deadline to
pay her in mid October just weeks before
the 2016 election and he said that
Michael Cohen was coming up with
essentially every excuse in the book he
was blaming the Jewish holiday he was
blaming Secret Service being in the
computer system he was even blaming
Donald Trump’s schedule out on the
campaign Trail for reasons that he could
not get Keith Davidson the money that
they already agreed that they owed and
it led him to believe Terry which is
very key here that Michael Cohen
actually was not the one calling the
shots and he did not actually have the
authorization to give over this money
and he thought it was Donald Trump who
was going to be paying the money and he
told the jury that he thought that they
were trying to delay the payment until
after the 2016 election so prosecutors
have successfully walked Davidson right
into the path that they wanted him tying
the story of Stormy Daniels and the
payments directly to the 2016 election
and Davidson told the jury that after a
while because he did not get the payment
Michael Cohen eventually just said fine
uh I’ll handle it myself and of course
we know Michael Cohen ultimately did
handle the payment himself so very
gripping testimony Terry thank you
Olivia let me go to Kim on that so that
that is the the The crucial part of the
case what Olivia just described to us at
the end there the link to the election
for all the sorted and and the story did
get out right and Cohen was Furious
about it he paid the money and it still
got out in a blog post for the election
but that’s really the key part of the
case it’s not that he paid hush money
it’s not that he had sex with a porn
star it’s not that he was embarrassed
about it it’s that according to
prosecutors he tried to deeps it to keep
it from
voters yeah actually I think this is new
information uh publicly the idea that
Michael Cohen wasn’t really supposed to
be the intermediary potentially to
actually pay it that it was originally
going to be Donald Trump and let’s not
forget Michael Cohen went to prison for
this so Michael Cohen he pleed guilty
but he’s paid his dues for stepping in
essentially to ease the tension uh
because we were moments before the
election Donald Trump did not according
to the prosecutors want this information
public but maybe once there was a deal
thought he could drag it out and then
maybe not pay later kind of a very very
uh precarious moment uh for the former
president if all of this uh the jury
believes this and the jury can I think
can pick up on the instincts and the
tension of what’s happening and and a
very interesting gripping tail but as
you indicate uh Terry it’s not the hush
money payment it’s this timing Access
Hollywood stormmy Daniels election uh
keeping it from the voters and
convincing the jury that that is
something that matters that we shouldn’t
we should have this information in the
public and not doing it uh should be
something that Donald Trump should be
held accountable for right that’s the
this is it’s hard to remember sometimes
an election law case the the theory the
prosecution is that the payments were
essentially an illegal campaign
contribution purchasing silence uh and
benefited Trump in ways that the
campaign Finance laws don’t allow for
that’s the theory of the prosecution
John you’ve been reporting on Trump
World for so long we saw one of Trump’s
Sons Eric Trump in there as well as well
as one of his top uh campaign advisers
uh as well what’s going on there this
seems to be a different maybe a show of
support for a guy who sounding baguer uh
you know it’s interesting it’s one of
the things that we have heard for some
time Terry that when eventually we got
into the weeds of this trial that the
legal team wanted to have people that
were familiar to Donald Trump in court
for two reasons one to give Comfort to
the former president you know obviously
anybody sitting at a defense table is a
human at the end of the day and it’s not
comfortable for anyone to be sited there
but also to do a little bit there with
the jury to humanize Donald Trump to
show him talking to people that he knows
and you know could have a real reaction
or dialogue with and I think that many
people on that jury probably recognizing
Eric Trump obviously you know Donald
Trump’s sons and daughter of Anka you
know famous in part because of the
campaign that he launched in 2016 the
first time he ran for president but also
let’s not forget each one of the
children had a role on the Celebrity
Apprentice with Donald Trump so they
were household figures for quite some
time and people that again are
recognizable now another person that was
notable several people actually notable
in the courtroom today included the head
of Donald Trump’s campaign Susie wilds
and of course a reminder as you’ve well
said Donald Trump would rather be
anywhere in that courtroom on the
campaign Trail being won so it’s no
surprise that eventually we would have
seen somebody as part of his campaign
we’ve seen a spokespeople but to see
Wilds other leadership is interesting
another name and Olivia Rubin actually
flagged this to us right in real time
Ken Paxton the you know Attorney General
of Texas a longtime supporter of Donald
Trump who’s had his own legal troubles
over the years that’s something that I
think Terry this is just the beginning
we’re going to see more and more of
these faces that have been around the
former president for the last several
years enter that courtroom it’s part of
something that is really in some ways
it’s only just begun as this trial is
only on witness number six if we can
believe it yeah and it’s only trial
number one John I think that’s a great
point it may be a a a badge of honor and
an electoral Advantage for Republicans
to show up in court to support Trump you
may just be right we’re going to see
more of it John Olivia Kim thanks very
much and thank you for streaming with us
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New York Times bestselling authors of
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here their book connects the dots
between the root of anti-Semitism
decades long stereotypes and the
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Community please welcome Emanuel AO and
Noah tishby everybody good to see you
yes good to see you guys and
congratulations on the book but you
can’t help but think about what’s going
on overseas and here in this country so
you actually were having this
conversation with Noah before all of
this came about started this book two
years ago I I identified the fact that
we often fight in silos black people
fight for black people Jewish people
fight for Jewish people women fight for
women but what would happen if we
collectively waged war against hate
against marginalization against
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collectively as a society if rather than
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little over two years ago thankfully she
said yes but a lot of that comes with
understanding the issues and I feel like
we really just don’t understand this
conflict that goes back hundreds and
hundreds of years it’s nuanced I mean
one that’s why we wrote the book and two
that’s why I’m so grateful for Noah
because to try to empathize with someone
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that person how can I be heartbroken for
something that I don’t even know and
Noah so brilliantly and so eloquently
took incredibly complex topics and broke
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tension going on in the world but not
realizing it’s going on in your world so
educate yourself on it so you can speak
on it I I believe that like it’s it’s
unfortunate to be ignorant but it’s
morally irresponsible to stay ignorant
and I think no and I beautifully try to
unveil ignorance and writing of the book
and it’s very unique for somebody who’s
not from the Jewish community at the
time to notice the rise in anti-Semitism
cuz a lot of people didn’t obviously the
Jewish Community have and we knew we it
was brewing underneath the surface so
everything that’s happening right now is
not entirely surprising but Emanuel was
one of those people who is an ally a
true Ally of the Jewish community and I
couldn’t have said yes faster and talk
about that because very timely
anti-Semitism isn’t new it is a
continuing problem what are you hoping
people walk away with when they read
this book it’s a great great question so
first of all we have to understand that
anti-Semitism is the oldest form of hate
and discrimination that is still being
practiced today so it’s been around for
as long as Jews have been around for
thousands and thousands of years so
first of all when I talk about my work I
always say jokingly that I don’t expect
anti-Semitism to stop or to go away
because it never has but what I would
like to do is to make it a little less
fashionable again if possible because it
became acceptable again so what we hope
people are getting from this book is
first of all to learn everything you
need to know about the current cultural
moment which is so important there’s so
many things that are happening right now
that people are not really versed in so
this is a great opportunity to learn
about that and be entertained while
doing that and honestly to be able to
have these uncomfortable conversation is
something that our society really needs
so what’s the first step to starting
this conversation do we do it in the
barber shop is that are oneon-one when
we have dinner I believe that if your
life does not look as diverse as you
want it intentional about making it more
diverse so the first step in having a
conversation sit down with somebody who
doesn’t look like you sit down with
somebody who doesn’t believe what you
believe in sit down with somebody who
may not have the same religious Affinity
or religious beliefs often we sit in
silos but if we were to actually sit
down with somebody who looks and thinks
and feels differently than we do then we
can start to feel how they feel and it
helps us navigate this world a little
bit better because everybody has a
different experience and your life
experience it shapes your future
experience so to me the very first first
step is sitting down with somebody that
doesn’t look like you and having a truly
meaningful conversation where you’re
slow to speak and you’re quick to listen
that’s it because listening of course
protest comes about you know from one
side not listening to the other 100% And
you see all the conflict in the world
right now I mean the both sides feel so
incredibly passionate about what they
believe in when it comes to this these
issues how do you how do you encourage
people how do you comfort people how do
you have that conversation with someone
when it’s going to be difficult this is
a great question as well so I always say
and we talked about that in the book as
well um the only way out is through so
in order to get to the other side of
something you have to go through the
fire and in order to grow it’s not
called growing Pleasures it’s called
growing pains for a reason and I think
that today in our society so many people
are very invested in safe spaces and
Trigger warnings and all that and it’s
all fun and fine and and good and I
respect that but I believe Less in safe
spaces and More in real spaces and I
really think that in order to learn
about each other you have to have these
conversations and you have to come from
a place like Emanuel did from a place of
love and empathy and honesty and a
willingness to have these conversations
we were butting heads in the book we
weren’t it wasn’t always easy or lovey
Dy like we actually went there we put
everything on the table and I think a
lot of the time people feel like un they
don’t want to they don’t want to go
there and we we really want went there
cuz you don’t want to isolate people
either or feel isolated cuz people are
quick to be offended I think that’s more
so people are afraid to offend somebody
and they’re afraid to say the wrong
thing and when we when you’re friends
with somebody when we’re sitting
together I said to Emanuel there’s
nothing wrong you can say you can ask me
anything so we can talk about
stereotypes and we can talk about
Zionism we can talk about Jesus we can
talk about anything you’re not going to
offend me and I’m not going to offend
you and as a result we learned so much
about each other and we hope people will
learn about uh about all of this too
through the book I want have coffee with
you guys so
bad cool crew right here thank you guys
we appreciate it thanks to Emanuel and
Noah for being with us uncomfortable
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founder of the popular blog apartment
bartender and author of let’s doep
drinks Elliot
Clark super excited to be here we are so
excited to have you so you have recipes
in your book but you say that like you
just need to learn a couple of skills to
make a good drink absolutely so you know
drinks are like anything else once you
learn the classics the foundations you
know you can play from there and plug
and play a lot of different ingredients
which is what we’re going to do here
actually so with this this is a tropical
daquiri um obviously I love aged rum in
it but this is converted to a
non-alcoholic daquiri so with this it’s
really easy to just combine really fresh
flavors so here we have some lime juice
some coconut water which is actually one
of my favorite hydrating Hydra super
hydrating
one of my favor
ingredients with any um and then here we
have some fresh pineapple syrup which
yeah which is my favorite syrup to make
at home I love you know it’s it’s one of
those things that I’ve always believed
being a home bartender making syrups at
home is the easiest way to infuse really
fresh flavors into your drinks without
breaking the bank on you know a bunch of
stuff I’m curious how you apartment
Bender as you’re shaking it up actually
by total accident do you do this for
your friend sorry I do this for everyone
everyone uh but yeah apartment bartender
started on accident I took a cocktails
101 class when I was here in New York
and so it’s really full circle moment
being here mixing up drinks in the city
that my love for cocktails started all
right let’s try this bad boy so this is
a tropical
daquiri again I’ll give the fresh one to
even a gentleman you know what I’m
saying I’m going to try we got a toast
we got a toast first S I wanted to taste
it ooh
yummy m m
amaz about this it’s actually not that
sweet but you get that little kick of
the pineapple exactly and that and
that’s the beautiful thing about
cocktails you can tailor to your palette
right so if you don’t like sweet you can
kind of go less on the syrup or if you
do like sweet you can go more so you
know what’s next so what’s next is
another one of my favorite cocktails you
know a spritz yeah this is I mean it’s
Spritz season as we’re getting into
Springtime so this is an amazing drink
again this this cocktail is something
that you can incorporate really any
spirit that you want but for this uh
particular drink we’re incorporating
some green tea okay which again you know
if you’re choosing not to embibe you
know you can sub out any spirit for uh
green tea coconut water there are some
great non-alcoholic Spirits add it in a
fresh lavender syrup again syrups are a
really great way to you know Infuse
different flavors we have some fresh
grapefruit juice fresh lime juice and
again a shake Eva would you like to do
the honors wait how did Shake want for
me so I can see I’ll try it again yeah
make sure you
yeah cool I have to open it now perfect
so I’m going to go ahead and add a
splash of soda water and you can pour
alongside me m look at that there we go
look at Eva bartend Eva I never
bartended it’s easy it’s easy you don’t
offend people who don’t drink alcohol no
definitely I think I think you know
cocktails don’t have to include booze
right I think you know with
non-alcoholic cocktails it’s more than a
trend it’s here to stay you know this is
something about inclusivity and a great
drink again doesn’t have to include
alcohol garage though I mean that’s real
lavender that is real lavender you know
fresh grapefruit thing in there so you
know in my opinion a drink is never done
until it’s garnished I think that’s part
of the presentation and the beauty of
you know the intentionality behind a
drink I would think I would like
lavender to be cuz I’ve I’ve never been
a fan of like mocktails because I always
feel like you know Bland this is good
yeah perfect well like I said you can
always swap it out for any Spirit
tequila Jin and all that but you know if
you’re not doing that green tea works
this as well look how bougie this looks
like you have your friends over you
throw in a lavender throw in a
grapefruit everyone thinks you’re
real like you know I dream of being
Martha Stewart one day yeah what you’re
going for is that
wow that love a lot and the best of luck
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well congratulations to the both of you
so excited for you you weren’t even
around when this series started of
course and now you’re the 15th doctor
making history how does it feel surreal
very very very surreal it’s a it’s a
cultural institution uh Doctor Who and
so to now be at the helm of it feels
just mad exciting yeah incredible you do
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what can viewers expect and what did you
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for Ruby Sunday which is my companion’s
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platform to kind of explore this new
personality and this world with the
doctor and yeah I’m absolutely loving it
should have to ask cuz a lot of people
know you from sex education but also
Barbie
cuz you’re one of the Ken were you
surprised at the insanity the obsession
with Barbie that happened uh yes and no
I mean we knew like we were making
something special and Greta to have
someone like Greta creating that film we
knew that it was going to be
incredible but to have that reaction was
just we couldn’t have expected it it’s
phenomenal there what has it been like
for you two to work together oh yeah a
lot of fun a lot lot some you can share
and some you care right exactly yeah
yeah a lot of Mischief uh a lot of
Mischief on setet on and off um on and
offet on and offset yeah but Milly was
it a dream come true for you to be a
part of the series I mean it’s been
around like we said for six decades
exactly I mean I I watched it as a
little girl with my dad and I used to be
so fond and connected with the companion
when I watched it which was Amy Pond and
Matt Smith and to be even an inch close
to joining the universe is like crazy to
me so yeah I’m still pinching myself a
little bit yeah so when you work on a
project like this and then it goes to
bed it gets created and you have to
promote it what’s been one of the um the
response in the promotion that’s kind of
surprised you guys there’s uh there’s a
lot of anticipation there’s a lot of
anticipation um a lot of fan theories
that we’re disproving as well um
but yeah daunting as well these are
serious fans like like these people are
di hards about this story know
everything everything so what is it
about it that keeps him coming
back uh I don’t know I don’t think you
can like place the magic quality that
doctor who has something that’s been
entertaining audiences for 60 years yeah
I think it generates with its audience
as well as the show regenerates the
audience regenerates and it kind of gets
passed down from families so yeah I
think that’s what keeps everyone coming
back um also I have to just ask because
your skin is Flawless yes it is can you
see Dr J
her perfect what do you do like how do
you have skin like it’s like glass in
youth she is 19 years old wait minute
okay I think
all at least she’s she that’s a
medically accurate
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thank you shy God BL Millie Gibson thank
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right now on ABC News live new testimony
about Donald Trump’s alleged Affairs
taking center stage at his hush money
trial what a former attorney for Karen
McDougall and Stormy Daniels told the
court about her claims and the deal to
keep her silent plus how the judge’s
warning to the former president while
holding him in contempt also campus
demonstrations escalating further in
response to the Israel Hamas War the
punishments announced today for dozens
of protesters barricaded inside a
building at Columbia University and
Marjorie Taylor green threatening to
move forward with her push to try to out
speaker Mike Johnson new house de how
house Democrats could be coming to his
rescue but we begin here with the new
testimony about Donald Trump’s alleged
Affairs taking center stage at his hush
money trial this is the former president
blast his gag order in the case Trump
sounding off while leaving Court in
lower Manhattan just a short time ago
slamming the prosecution take a listen
I’m supposed to be in Georgia I’m
supposed to be in New Hampshire I’m
supposed to be in Ohio and lots of other
places and they have me sitting here for
a bing trial it’s a bing
trial well the former president back at
the defense table though earlier with
his son Eric in the gallery behind him
as a former attorney for Playboy model
Karen McDougall and porn star Stormy
Daniels took the stand his name is Keith
Davidson and he described how he says he
helped negotiate a hush money deal with
the parent company of the national
inquire to keep McDougall quiet about an
alleged Affair that she claims she had
with Trump Davidson testifying the deal
was attractive in part because McDougall
didn’t want to share the story in the
first place he also told the court about
how he says in 2011 former Trump
attorney Michael Cohen berated him over
the phone when allegations involving
Daniels became public now Trump denies
claims from both women Also earlier the
judge in this case threatened to throw
him in jail holding him in contempt for
repeatedly violating his gag order in
this case and finding him
$9,000 Trump going on to slam the judge
on his social media platform later that
afternoon so I want to bring in our
investigative reporter Olivia Rubin
who’s live outside the court there in
lower Manhattan for us along with our
criminal defense attorney and former
Federal prosecutor Tim Jansen so thank
you both for being here and Olivia uh
the testimony today from Keith Davidson
I mean really shedding light on the
dealings with Michael Cohen and as you
have described it Olivia Cohen’s frantic
efforts to delay payments to stormy
Daniel so Olivia tell us more about how
he described that payment eventually
taking
shape it was gripping testimony Kana
truly as he walked the jurors through
stepping into that deal with Stormy
Daniels late in the game saying that the
national inquir was essentially backing
out of paying stormy Dan’s
$120,000 and tossed it over to him so
that he could get it done and get it
done with Michael Cohen and they had
come to an agreement of the date that
they were going to pay Stormy Daniels by
it was mid October weeks before the 2016
election and what happens Kaa The Trump
team and Michael Cohen misses the
deadline for the payment and what ensues
as Davidson told the jury was excuse
after excuse after excuse as to why
Michael Cohen was saying they could not
get the payment over he said that
Michael Cohen came up with excuses such
as a Jewish holiday Secret Service being
involved in the computer system and even
Donald Trump’s campaign schedule out on
the campaign Trail those were all
reasons Michael Cohen said it was not
happening and ultimately Keith Davidson
delivered a line to the jury that was
key for prosecutors he said that I
believed they were trying to kick that
payment to after the election and that
is so critical because prosecutors have
alleged this is an election case they
were trying to make sure it did not come
out and there you have Keith Davidson
saying they were trying to do everything
they could to not
pay that is a key line and as we know
the payment completed about 12 days
before that election so Tim in your
opinion after you hear that from Olivia
I mean what if any evidence do you think
at this point the prosecution has really
presented uh that shows actual evidence
of a crime here you know I really
haven’t seen any evidence and as a
defense lawyer if I’m in trial for three
weeks and they haven’t inter produce any
evidence I’m like great this is good let
them let them do what they’re doing you
know it’s like going to a baseball game
you can go out there and watch the guys
do batting practice and they hit home
run after home run but eventually they
have to go up to plate when the other
team is pitching and then they strike
out so what was all that batting
practice for the state has got to buffer
insulate Michael Cohen every witness so
far that they put on the stand has said
that they’ve dealt directly with Michael
Cohen not with Donald Trump Michael
Cohen in fact Packer said when he asked
Trump about the the money he didn’t know
what he was talking about now stormy’s
lawyers saying they were dealing with
Michael Cohen this whole trial is going
to come down to the meat of it it’s
going to be Michael Cohen is he credible
and can he carry the ball or did Michael
Cohen orchestrate this on his own and is
now trying to go after the president the
the state needs to focus on the case not
the salacious
details right and Michael Cohen’s
credibility has in been in question even
before this all started as we know uh
also Olivia though in terms of uh
humanizing the former president if you
will we saw someone from the Trump
Family actually in courtroom today his
son Eric who else was in there in court
today and what is the significance of
them joining
now well it took until week three of the
trial Kaa but today we saw Eric Trump
Donald Trump’s son in the courtroom with
him he was seated in the front row right
behind Donald Trump and at times Trump
would sort of turn around and chat with
Eric in the beginning of the day
separated only by that small barrier
that separates the defense table and the
gallery and also next to Trump was
Trump’s top campaign adviser who
essentially leads his campaign Susie
wild so it was a show of force in the
courtroom today and like you said a show
of sort of humanity because remember
this it’s not just the press that is in
the room it’s not just others members of
the public in the room it is the jury
that is watching someone and hearing
allegations of salacious Affairs and now
while they are hearing this they’re
seeing a member of his family and
something that prosecutors have tried so
hard to do is say that Donald Trump
wasn’t trying to hide these stories
because he was concerned about his
family he was doing it because of the
election and Donald Trump’s own attorney
has also tried to humanize him saying
you know he is a father he is a man he
is a person so this could be part of
that effort here is his son here is his
family here is who he
is interesting Olivia and Tim back to
you look Trump already blasting the
judge after he was held in contempt uh
is the former president sort of Towing
the line here as well again a reminder
also to everyone that he did delete uh
some of those posts on Truth social as
well as
ordered you know lawyers and defendants
do the same thing you in court and
you’re fighting and the judge gives you
parameters and then you realize you’re
about to cross line somehow you always
seem not to cross the line it looks like
President Trump deleted the post maybe
his lawyers are finally get in control
of him and he pushed it I’m not sure he
wants to push it further with this judge
because this judge may do more than just
find him in the
future yeah certainly I mean threatening
potential jail time as well uh Tim and
Olivia thank you so much for covering
this developing story with us and we
know we’ll be talking with you uh
throughout the evening uh now to the
Raging protest on college campuses
across the United States in response to
the Israel Hamas War Columbia University
in New York City the epicenter of all of
it dozens of protesters now occupying
the school’s Hamilton Hall after
storming the historic building overnight
video showing protesters covering up
surveillance cameras they were slamming
desks and breaking Windows to get in the
University responding today that if
protesters don’t leave Hamilton Hall
they could be expelled uh now to the
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
administrators restoring the US flag
this afternoon after protesters had
replaced it with the Palestinian flag
more than 30 demonstrators were arrested
there earlier today for refusing to
disperse and in California I want to
show you what the remnants of the
encampment at calp humble looks like
this is this morning after dozens were
arrested in an overnight protest sweep
uh joining me for more and this is ABC
News AA Jai who’s live for us outside
Columbia University there in New York so
Ike first of all can you just tell us
you’ve been out there for hours now uh
how is this unfolding what does it look
like right
now well Kana this entire scene here has
went to one of uh extremely docile
environment to one right now that is
very charged with emotions we are at the
Amsterdam AB gate here at Columbia
University right in front of Hamilton
Hall where those protesters from the
encampment have been Hol Up since early
this morning now the protests were
essentially bifurcated between here and
the other side of the camp
but about 2 hours ago they started
marching the way around the block and
coalescing right here in front of the
amam gate to Columbia University and if
you could take a look you could see
several Pro Palestinian protesters lined
up here they’ve been here for about 2
hours now chanting nonstop and they’ve
been following the lead of the
organizers of that encampment that
happened to come out of Hamilton Hall
and speak to them through that megaphone
right Beyond those Gates now I want to
tell you something right now we do know
that there are still some members inside
Hamilton Hall as a matter of fact about
a half hour ago I witnessed some Pro
Palestinian protesters essentially
deliver food items water I saw them
deliver bananas granola bars to those
inside there they actually passed those
food items off through the gate so they
can hopefully get it inside to those
encampment protesters that are still
held up right here at Hamilton Hall as a
matter of fact not that long ago we saw
some more food items be delivered to
them actually through a rope and into a
window All Above there now I spoke to
several individuals uh who were a part
of this uh protest here and they said
that they want their demands to be met
they want Columbia University to divest
from Israel and they also want to be
offered amnesty to make sure that they
can graduate in good standing we also
know Columbia University said that’s a
non-starter they wanted them to sign
that form saying that they would abide
by University policies however that’s
not happened now I spoke to PM ERS on
both sides and they told me how this
entire day has been affecting them take
a listen um I think the naming of the
hall the renaming of the hall and the
Reclamation of the hall um in the name
of Palestine in the name of Gaza shows
how committed students are to their
solidarity uh with gazin it’s been 12 13
days that this has been going on and a
lot of students who are not even Jewish
um are starting to feel unsafe at this
school and what happened last night is
really a testament to
that now again we’re telling you right
now the university is ready to expel
those who don’t follow their
instructions to leave the campus bring
all their things with them and get rid
of this encampment k k and so like it
sounds like the NYPD is there on scene
uh but they haven’t been called in by
Colombia to clear the building yet so
essentially they’re waiting to hear from
the University to go in uh what is
Columbia
saying well they’re essentially saying
that they’re ready to take that next
step they’ve informed those members of
the encampment that they have officially
been breaking University policies and
they want to restore safety and order to
this University and they’re saying their
actions have risen to a level that’s
considered untenable the fact that they
were demolishing the inside of Hamilton
Hall by breaking the Windows using the
wooden chairs and tables the barricade
the entrances even zip tying the door
handles so no one can get in that’s the
untenable situ ation that Columbia
University is referencing and now
they’re saying that they’re going to
expel them now the NYPD they’re on the
outskirts of this entire block they’re
all around here lining up they’re not
going in there but they’re waiting for
the word of Columbia University to tell
them to go in there and help with
clearing that encampment but again that
hasn’t happened at the moment yet
Kaa and also I I want to ask you we’ve
been hearing a lot at Colombia and some
of these other protests across the
country that not all of the
demonstrators are students some of them
coming in even our agitators is how
they’re described what can you tell us
about
that well I saw some of those
individuals come up that had no
affiliation with Columbia University you
got to understand there’s a subway
station right outside this area and all
day I was seeing him individuals clearly
not members of Columbia University come
out here dressed as if they were
supporting the pal Pro Palestine
protesters and essentially grow uh join
this growing protest here but I also
spoke to some members of the encampment
earlier today and they said those
individuals have been the one causing
problem those are the individuals they
say that were causing the violence
causing the damage and they’re saying
that there’s not part of their movement
unfortunately from the people who I
spoke to it seems it doesn’t matter
because they’re saying right now that
the actions of those individuals have
diminished the message that those in the
encampment have been trying to deliver
K all right aachi thank you so much also
now uh police and the community of
Charlotte warning the deaths of four
officers killed in a terrifying shootout
with a felon yesterday uh this felon was
wanted for possessing a firearm and
authorities now today are saying that
they did recover an AR-15 rifle along
with a th 40 caliber handgun from that
scene they say that the officers were
surveying a warrant for the shooter at
the home when he opened fire that
suspect is now dead a police today
identifying those slain officers as
Thomas Weeks Jr a 13-year veteran of of
the US Marshals also correction officers
William Alden Elliott and Samuel peloi
along with Charlotte meinberg Police
Officer Joshua a the local police chief
speaking out about their deaths during
an emotional news conference
today they’re
Heroes they’re Heroes because they face
dangers that most humans should not have
to face and they accept that danger and
not a single one of them backed away
from that challenge
yesterday well four other officers were
also injured in that shootout police say
that a teenager and a woman were in the
home and that they are now cooperating
with investigators and now to a
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officials are saying they’re
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The Police Department officials are
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yesterday about multiple overdoses in
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confirming at least four people have
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cases most of those affected responded
well after they were given Naran but
police are saying they usually get two
or three overdose calls a day but
yesterday’s outbreak was a
1,000% increase in call volume something
they say they haven’t seen in years and
we turn our attention now to the Middle
East where negotiations for a ceasefire
in Gaza and the release of more hostages
is reaching a critical point today
Israel now saying it will not send a
delegation to Cairo until Hamas responds
to the current proposal which includes a
40-day pause in the fighting and the
release of some of the remaining
hostages held in Gaza that’s in addition
to the potential release of thousands of
Palestinian prisoners that’s according
to a top British official but prime
minister Benjamin Netanyahu is now
pledging to launch an incursion into the
southern city of Rafa with or without a
deal despite international calls for
restraint ABC News foreign correspondent
Tom Sufi Burge has the latest
yeah K I think this is crunch time uh in
these talks uh we know that there’s a
deal on the table we know that a Hamas
delegation has left Cairo uh we’re
expecting according to an Egyptian
official a response at some point but we
don’t know when from Hamas on that deal
we’re told by an Israeli official
Israelis will not go to Cairo before
Hamas response Secretary of State
Anthony blinc now here in Tel Aviv
meeting Israeli Prime Minister tomorrow
Benjamin Netanyahu Netanyahu is still
hanging that threat of going into Rafa
in the south of Gaza but look is he
threatening to go at some point in the
future into Rafa or is he saying I’ll go
in now and if he did that then there’ be
very little chance of a deal a hostage
deal and getting more hostages out and a
ceas far so look that threat has been
there for months the threat of a
military incursion to Rafa and the IDF
says that they have to move thousands of
Palestinian civilians out of that area
before the military operation could
begin and moving civilians that huge
number of civilians it might not succeed
even if it does it could take 6 to 8
weeks for now the White House is saying
they’re focused on the deal they’re not
overly confident right now that there
will be a deal but they’re remaining
pragmatic and they’re saying time is of
the essence and they’re urging Hamas to
accept the deal
Kaa all right Tom our thanks to you as
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Capitol Hill as questions surround
whether or not congresswoman margorie
Taylor green will force a vote on a
motion to vacate house Speaker Mike
Johnson and in a surprising move here
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said plans are still developing her push
to remove Johnson comes after a vote to
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want to bring in ABC News Jay O’Brien
who’s live for us on Capitol Hill and is
following all of this so uh look Jay
we’ve been hearing Marjorie Taylor green
talk about this a lot she announced a
time has she announced a really a
timeline on when this could actually
happen when it could hit the house floor
I mean it’s any moment now Kaa the
earliest it could be called to a vote um
uh would be tonight the vote wouldn’t
happen tonight they have two legislative
days to schedule it if she does in fact
take that procedural step to call this
vote uh but it’s looking like tomorrow
is where our window really begins and
that’s because margerie Taylor green has
called a 9:00 a.m. press conference with
one more Hardline Republican who is also
said he wants Johnson gone that’s Thomas
Massie Thomas Massie has tweeted that
this press conference is going to to be
about the motion to vacate that is again
at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow and what has to
happen then is Marjorie Taylor green
would call this vote on Johnson’s future
but to your point Democrats have said
that they would vote to bail Johnson out
if that were to happen they would vote
to procedurally push Green’s motion
aside that is one of the things that
green said has made her want to call
this vote because she wants Democrats
and Republicans on the record about
this oh she wants to force them to make
their decisions and how they feel about
all this very public so uh that kind of
brings me to my next question here Jay
if we’re hearing the Democrats might
save him what are we hearing from
Republican lawmakers I mean is there a
massive push to want to OU him here or
is everybody remembering the very recent
issue we had with Kevin McCarthy yeah
remember it took 22 days to elect a
speaker after Kevin McCarthy was ousted
and the house floor was paralyzed and
Republicans remember that well even some
Republicans who wanted Kevin McCarthy
gone like Tim burett who is a hardliner
said earlier today that he doesn’t want
Mike Johnson out said he believes and
I’m paraphrasing him here that it would
throw the house into chaos marrey Taylor
green has in addition to Thomas Massie
who I mentioned one more hardliner who
was in her camp on aing Johnson that’s
three which is a fatal number if
Democrats didn’t vote to baale Johnson
out but Democratic Leadership as I noted
have said today that they would they
wouldn’t vote to elect Johnson as
Speaker they would instead vote to table
Marjorie Taylor Green’s motion which
would mean for procedurally push it
aside but it would save Johnson if/ when
that were to happen
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responding of course we begin here with
today’s big story new testimony about
Donald Trump’s alleged Affairs taking
center stage at his hush money trial as
the former president blasts his gag
order in the case Trump sounding off
while leaving Court in lower Manhattan
just a short time ago slamming the
prosecution I’m supposed to be in
Georgia I’m supposed to be in New
Hampshire
I’m supposed to be in Ohio and lots of
other places and they have me sitting
here for a biten trial it’s a bing
trial well the former president back at
the defense table with his son Eric in
the gallery behind him as former
attorney for Playboy model Karen
McDougall and porn star Stormy Daniels
took the stand Keith Davidson describing
how he says he helped negotiate a hush
money deal with the parent company of
the national inquire to keep McDougall
quiet about an alleged Affair that she
claims she had with Trump Davidson
testifying that the deal was attractive
in part because McDougall didn’t want to
share the story in the first place he
also told the court about how he says in
2011 former Trump attorney Michael Cohen
berated him over the phone when
allegations involving Daniels became
public Trump denies claims from both
women and earlier the judge in the case
threatened to throw him in jail holding
him in contemp for repeatedly violating
his gag order in the case and finding
him
$99,000 Trump going on to slam the judge
on his social media platform later that
afternoon so joining us for more on this
is our investigative reporter Olivia
Rubin who’s live for us outside Court
there in lower Manhattan so Olivia thank
you so much for being here with us and
look let’s start here uh with Keith
Keith Davidson uh this crucial testimony
here uh he talked about as you described
it Michael Cohen’s frantic nature
surrounding these hush money payments
how else did he characterize the
prosecution’s key witness
here well he came off as incredibly uh
incredible quite frankly Kaa as he
walked the jury through being directly
involved with the payments to Stormy
Daniels he was her representative he was
sending the contracts he was dealing
with Michael Cohen and what he told the
jury was new information about how the
Trump team actually missed the deadline
to pay stormmy Daniels the
$130,000 just before the election in an
effort he said he thought was trying to
kick it down the road and he told the
jury he thought that they were trying to
make it so that they did not have to pay
until after the election so prosecutors
took him right where they wanted tying
this entire effort right back to the
election which again that is what they
say this is it was an effort to hide
damaging information before the election
and Keith Davidson gave them that yeah I
mean it’s really this timeline right
that they’re trying to get to the core
of and they also used uh Michael Cohen’s
former Banker to testify about that
timeline as well so how did he explain
when this all
happened another frantic effort he
described getting this frantic call from
Michael Cohen saying that he needed this
you know shell company set up
immediately because he needed to pay out
this money but of course Gary phoh the
banker said that’s not what Michael
Cohen told him he told the bank that it
was a real estate uh shell company for
real estate transactions and the banker
said that had they known that they were
funneling money to a porn star it
probably would have raised some extra
red flags but it goes into the narrative
again Kaa about the timeline this
frantic effort the banker said that from
the time that Michael Cohen called to
set up the account funded the account
and paid out the payment it was just
about 24
hours wow so in the end it moved pretty
quickly though also Olivia we have to
talk about Michael Cohen and what he’s
doing on Tik Tok I mean he’s going on
Tik Tock to talk about all of this to
talk about Trump uh this is a man whose
credibility is already in question
what is the response to this
been well he is doing exactly what
prosecutors probably don’t want him to
do he is talking about the case in a
scenario that is not the courtroom he’s
going on Tik Tok he’s going on Twitter
he’s calling for Trump to be put in jail
he’s saying how he is excited to testify
and he is making money off of these
streams that he is hosting on Tik Tok
ABC News reviewed hours of them which
showed that he’s accepting these gifts
that he can transfer for money but it’s
not clear how much he is making and it
sort of feeds right into Donald Trump’s
defense of why he has been violating the
gag order he says that you know he has
been responding to attacks from
Witnesses such as Michael Cohen and the
judge seemed to indicate today that what
Michael Cohen is doing is not all that
acceptable and he took notice of it and
said that perhaps the gag order could be
modified because maybe all of the
witnesses don’t need protection
Kaa all right so if the judge is
considering modifying that gag order can
you bring us up to speed on what’s going
on with the former president’s gag order
right
now held in contempt today Kaa nine gag
order violations $1,000 fine for each of
them for a total of $99,000 but of
course as you and I know that’s no real
issue for Donald Trump he can pay $9,000
easily and that is what made the judge
uh what he said so key which is that
these may not be enough and if the
continued violations continue he will
consider throwing Donald Trump in jail
so it is a stunning escalation of a Poss
penalty that we have seen for former
president Donald Trump but remember he
is also facing more potential violations
already there is going to be a hearing
on Thursday where prosecutors are going
to present evidence of potentially four
more violations so he could be held in
contempt yet again if judge Juan Maran
finds that prosecutors yet again held up
their burden and were able to prove that
Donald Trump violated the order
certainly an ongoing problem there for
the former president Olivia Rubin you’ve
done an extraordinary job covering this
for us and we know we’ll be relying on
you in the future thank you so much
Olivia I want to bring our big story now
to our panel joining us today here’s our
ABC News political contributor and
former Democratic North Dakota Senator
Heidi heid Camp along with ABC News
contributor and former Republican
Virginia congresswoman Barbara comto ABC
News contributor and serus XM radio host
Mike Muse and criminal defense attorney
and former Federal prosecutor Tim Jansen
uh thank you all for being here
surrounded by such smart people here
today Tim let’s start here with you uh
first of all what is your take Tim on on
this former Banker Gary far’s testimony
uh did he provide information in your
opinion that truly helps the prosecution
in this case oh I think he he did help
that he discussed Michael Cohen’s abil
ability to lie uh the fact that he he
put up this false account to use for
what he did um it’s not going to like
carry the day but it’s it’s a a detail
they needed to
introduce um it’s funny you talk about
the lawyer who is trying to negotiate a
hush money deal as if his credibility is
so much higher and he’s trying to
negotiate a hush money deal but and they
were all using the leverage of the
election they did it because the the
election was their leverage right that’s
how they would have got the most money
if there wasn’t an election they
probably wouldn’t have answered their
phone calls so it goes both ways really
the
timeline right as Keith DAV said it was
almost like they were trying to kick the
can down the road a little bit in in
terms of that and Heidi to you it took
several weeks as Olivia noted but for
the first time we saw someone from
Donald Trump’s family in the courtroom
today uh why join him now well because I
think that Donald Trump understands that
even though this may not be the
strongest legal case that he’s taking
some real hits with a with a lot of
people out there who now are hearing
details of all of these affairs and and
the nefarious kinds of dealings that he
had and he needs somebody from his
family to stand next to him and so I I
you know that the the big coup would be
Melania I don’t think we should expect
her to show up but I think he needed
someone
there and Barbara to you uh there was
some testimony today here from a C-SPAN
executive uh they played these videos of
trump from 2016 2017 and in the videos
he’s heard sort of you denying that he
even knew JY Daniels and Karen McDougall
what do you make of those
videos well they are bringing the jury
right back to what was going on
following those Access Hollywood tapes
and it is so sedy and you’re just seeing
Donald Trump it is lying best you know
telling the jury what we now know of
course is false and why they were
running around trying to concoct all
these criminal Enterprises and why
Michael Cohen was trying to set up all
of this because it really would have
been disastrous and of course Trump was
saying I will lose if this becomes known
and of course they tried to concoct a
whole alternative reality that oh
everyone knew that I did all of this now
and of course that was not the reality
in October 2016 I was there on the
ballot and they did not want those kind
of things
known and there was testimony that it
was that that Access Hollywood tape in
particular that sort of reinvigorated
the interest in stormy Daniel’s story
itself uh Mike to you all right let’s
talk about this gag order here so we
know that Trump complied essentially
today deleted everything off truth
social in the time that was required uh
but then he went back online and you
know sort of said some things about the
judge today of course he addresses
camera at the end of Court every day as
well what are your thoughts going
forward here on how he’s going to manage
himself in terms of this gag order or
will he that’s a really great question
and I love the exchange that you and
Olivia was having in regarding the
$9,000 that Trump needs to pay in fin
for violating ini show gag order I think
what the judge Maran was indicating was
that he is willing to call former
president Trump’s Bluff on continuing to
violate the gag order but in doing that
what the judge is is St saying that he
is willing to find him in order to
restrain former president Trump from
talking which could potentially endanger
or could put Witnesses at harm or make
Witnesses feel uncomfortable and so I
think what the judge did was he outlined
and qualified why he is issuing these
violations and why he will continuously
use all the legal Authority that he has
to restrain him more with possible jail
time or any other further violations and
so I really do think that what we saw
with the judge is that he is willing to
find former president Trump yeah he
certainly made that clear you’re
absolutely right and Trump uh saying
that this gag order is unique and
unconstitutional so I have a feeling
we’ll be hearing a lot more language
like that in the future Heidi Barbara
Mike and Tim thank you as always coming
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hot button issue of abortion is playing
out on the campaign Trail former
president Donald Trump telling Time
Magazine he would leave it up to States
whether to monitor women’s pregnancies
and prosecute them for having abortions
adding quote it’s irrelevant whether he
was comfortable with that policy Trump
also wouldn’t commit to vetoing a
potential Federal abortion ban saying
it’ll never happen now the Biden
campaign releasing a statement about
Trump’s position this afternoon said
saying quote he’ll see what women think
about that in November so I want to
bring back my panel here Heidi Barbara
and joining us is our ABC News Deputy
political director Avery Harper and ABC
News contributor and LA Times oped
columnist LZ Granderson thank you all
for being here so Avery let’s start here
with you look we know president Trump
he’s been trying to avoid taking a solid
position on abortion we also know that’s
a bit of a strategy here but Avery I
mean is that working to his Advantage
he’s a bit all over the map on the issue
you know I would counter that the fact
that he is all over the map on the issue
is not a strategy at all uh when you see
him asked about specific uh issues
pertaining to abortion like in This Time
Magazine interview he was asked about
his stance on mistone the abortion pill
he said oh you can wait a couple of
weeks and I’m going to make an
announcement on that we saw him do
something similar uh when he was asked
about his overall stance on abortion and
and what he does is he sort of kicks the
can down the road it’s an effort to
deflect uh to be able to craft a message
on his own own terms and so earlier this
month we saw him make that pre-recorded
video recasting his stance and it’s
because his team understands that this
is a fraught issue politically for
republicans and they’re trying to find a
way and a message that is politically
expedient right the always the effort of
striking this balance somehow but Heidi
I mean do you think a significant chunk
of Voters will somehow punish Trump at
the polls in
November yeah I think that U Suburban
women that he needs to regain their
support are going to step back and say
look you you put the Supreme Court in
those chairs that decided to reverse Roy
Wade you own this issue now you’re
trying to dodge it and you know as
Russell Moore said falling poll numbers
are not uh the reason why you should
take an unprincipled stand and so he’s I
think he’s just all across the map he’s
hoping it goes away the abortion pill
issue I think he’s hoping the court will
take care of and he won’t have to deal
with it and so he owns it he bought it
he’s going to have to figure it out well
and we’ll see what they say here in a
couple of weeks uh with that but Barbara
to you look a six week abortion ban is
going into effect tomorrow in Trump’s
home state of Florida he hasn’t wanted
to talk about how he’ll vote on an
abortion ballot initiative this fall
what are your thoughts on
that well this is where Trump is at his
misogynistic worst um he doesn’t you
know when he talks about the issue he
doesn’t care care about women and the
impact on them or their health and you
know if you talked to pro-life people
they would tell you they never want to
prosecute women that is not something
pro-life people ever want to do but all
he cares about is his own political
viability so that’s why he is such a
mess with this issue and he doesn’t know
you know he just doesn’t care about
anything but himself so he certainly
should be political ly punished on this
as I believe he will be and you know
it’s it’s going to be a problem issue
for him because he doesn’t care about
the women or you know their health care
involved and this and he only cares if
it’s in a swing state that might hurt
him and well I mean time will tell we’ll
see how the votes play out in November
we also know there potentially could be
several ballot issues and measures in
several Battleground States uh trying to
either preserve the rights to abortion
or we’ve been hearing sort of muddy the
waters and some other states as well but
LZ I mean for the White House for
President Biden to come out immediately
today uh with a statement I mean clearly
Democrats are capitalizing on this
issue well it’s one that’s easy to kind
of Trace even for Republicans who may
love Donald Trump because they voted for
him because he was in support for a
federal ban in fact we go back to 2015
the house actually voted for a federal
ban and he began to talk in support of a
federal ban man because he thought it
was a good issue and in 2015 it probably
was but here we are in 2024 the
Republican party needs to Pivot and so
does the GOP nominee Trump but
unfortunately it’s easier to run at when
you don’t have a record than when you do
and when he was president of the United
States He supported a federal ban so
it’s been very difficult in my opinion
to convince not Democrats because likely
they weren’t going to vote for him
anyway but for the moderates who are
actually paying attention they have to
ask themselves do I honestly believe he
won’t do what he said he won’t do when
before he said he would do it and if
that sounds confusing that’s because
that’s exactly his stance in this
issue right you’re saying if that sounds
confusing it’s because it is yeah LZ
Heidi Barbara and Avery are thanks to
all of you coming up in our last call
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Heidi Mike we all thank you all so much
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let’s just get your take here I mean
what do you make of the the casting in a
blue IV I’m here for it I’m definitely
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listen the Apple doesn’t fall very far
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this is an incredibly talented family
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what I keep thinking about Barbara how
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mom in this movie and to really like see
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about Donald Trump’s alleged Affairs
taking center stage at his hush money
trial what a former attorney for Karen
McDougall and Stormy Daniels told the
court about their claims and the deals
to keep them silent plus the judge’s
warning to the former president while
holding him in contempt also Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowing
to push ahead with an invasion in Rafa
with or without a deal to release
remaining hostages from Gaza how this
could impact ongoing ceasefire talks
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but we do begin with new testimony about
Donald Trump’s alleged Affairs taking
center stage at his hush money trial as
the former president blast his gag order
in this case Trump sounding off while
leaving Court in lower Manhattan just a
short time ago slamming the
prosecution I’m supposed to be in
Georgia I’m supposed to be in New
Hampshire I’m supposed to be in Ohio and
lots of other places and they have me
sitting here for a bing trial it’s a
bing
trial well the former president back at
the defense table here with his son Eric
in the gallery behind him as a former
attorney for Playboy Mo model Karen
McDougall and porn star Stormy Daniels
took the stand Keith Davidson is his
name and he described how he says he
helped negotiate a hush money deal with
the parent company of the national
Inquirer to keep McDougall quiet about
an alleged Affair that she claims she
had with Trump Davidson testifying the
deal was attractive in part because
McDougall didn’t want to share the story
in the first place he also told the
court about how he says in 2011 former
Trump attorney Michael Cohen berated him
over the phone when allegations
involving Daniels became public now
Trump denies claims from both women and
earlier the judge in the case threatened
to throw him in jail holding him in
contempt for repeatedly violating his
gag order in that case and fining him
$99,000 Trump going on to slam the judge
on social media this afternoon ABC News
investigative reporter Olivia Rubin has
more from outside the court in lower
manatt Olivia gripping testimony from
attorney Keith Davidson who represented
both Karen McDougall and Stormy Daniels
in their hush money deals that they were
paid out for and critically Keith
Davidson spoke about the final days of
the storm meat Daniel’s payment he spoke
about coming into the deal late how the
national inquire essentially handed over
payment saying okay keth Davidson you
handle this now with Michael Cohen and
he spoke about how him and Michael Cohen
came to an agreement they picked a date
for the final date that payment could be
made of the
$130,000 and what did Michael Cohen do
he missed the payment and he told the
jury about the repeated excuses he got
from Michael Cohen issues with the
Jewish holiday issues because of Donald
Trump’s campaign schedule at one point
saying my guy is all over the country
how do you expect me to get this done
and it led Keith Davidson to tell the
jury what he believed was the true
intent there that they were try trying
to kick off that payment until after the
election and that is key testimony for
prosecutors because remember their
theory is that this was an election
effort they were trying to keep the
story quiet until after the election and
here you have the attorney directly
involved in the efforts to make the
payment saying they were trying to kick
it down the road so it’s key testimony
for the juries to hear and what they
will hear more of when Keith Davidson
resumes his testimony on the stand on
Thursday Kaa all right Olivia ruin our
think say always to you and joining me
now with more analysis is Christian FAS
legal journalist and Senior editor at
Harvard Law so Christian thank you so
much for being here with us and actually
what I’d like to do is read you an
analysis here from our incredible
investigative team including Olivia that
essentially that Keith Davidson’s
testimony cut to the core of the
District Attorney’s case that tethers
what Michael Cohen did or didn’t do uh
to Trump’s political Ambitions what’s
your assessment
there uh indeed uh there’s two aspects
to this case one is the business records
case all the maneuvering that that
happened with accounting with monies
being transferred or exchanging hands
and on the other hand you have the
Electoral aspects of the case uh the
district attorney does not have
jurisdiction over election crimes he
only has jurisdiction over uh the
business side of Trump’s dealings and
for that reason he needs to tell this
electoral this broader electoral
campaign scheme to the jurors so that
one their eyes don’t glaze over and they
get completely bored but also to
underscore that Trump didn’t just uh
want his interest in maintain his
maintaining his uh vision of him being a
family man front and center but rather
that he was trying to do this uh in
coner with others to help his campaign
and what Keith Davidson did was connect
the business aspect of this Saga uh so
to speak with the Electoral aspect and
the fact that the reality was that if
this story had come out at the time this
would have hampered his campaign
prospects and so when you say that and
you look at how this has all played out
so far and what the prosecution is
trying to present uh do you think that
the jury is still perceiving this here
as is this an election interference case
or is this a business records
case it’s interesting because the DA has
to thread that needle in the end the law
and the facts have to point to a
fraudulent business deal that happened
in which uh Cohen Trump and others were
involved in an effort to uh falsify
business records that’s the allegation
in the indictment but he needs to tell
this broader story about election
interference and show that indeed uh
Trump is alleged to have been super
scared of this story coming out uh one
because at that moment uh in the weeks
right before the election uh there were
lots of other allegations of other women
coming forward and he wanted to maintain
that image especially with social
conservatives especially with those
voters who were perhaps kind of doubtful
of him his ability to deliver for them
so he needed to present this squeaky
clean image which of course was
undermined by the release of the axis
Hollywood tape but he needed to contain
that damage some more because if he
didn’t his Pro his prospects for uh
clinching the presidency were
doomed right and again there was
testimony today that said that aess
Hollywood tapee sort of reinvigorated
the interest in stormy Daniel story uh
Christian FAS thank you so much for
being with us today we appreciate it now
to the Raging protest on college
campuses all across the United States in
response to the Israel Hamas War
Columbia University in New York City the
epicenter of all of it uh dozens of
protesters now occupying the school’s
Hamilton Hall after storming that
historic building overnight video
showing protesters covering up
surveillance cameras slamming desks
breaking Windows to get in the
University responding today that if the
protesters don’t leave Hilton Hall they
could be expelled at the University of
North Carolina in chap in Chapel Hill
administrators there restoring the US
flag this afternoon after protesters had
replaced it with the Palestinian flag
more than 30 demonstrators were arrested
there earlier today were for refusing to
disperse also in California uh we want
to show you what remains now of an
encampment at cow poly humble this is
this morning after dozens were arrested
overnight in a protest sweep joining me
now is ABC News AA Jai who live at
Columbia University there in New York
and Ike I know you’ve been out there all
day uh it seems like the crowd has not
dissipated in any manner what’s going on
right
now well as you can see right now there
is an active protest as we are standing
here right now and if you want to take a
look right now you can see the massive
protest actually moving across Amsterdam
AB right now these are pro Palestinian
protesters who are siding with members
of the encampment they have been all
around here all day and I remember I’ve
been talking about some of those
individuals who have no affiliation with
Columbia University essentially coming
out of the woodwork and joining this
protest and that’s exactly what we’re
seeing here right now on both sides of
the street large amounts of people here
protesting in solidarity with those
members of the encampment members of
which have been here since late last
night SL early this morning now I’ve
spoke to members of that CIT as well as
other people who are
anti-protesters uh and they tell us
right now that this entire movement has
affected their college experience some
for the good and believe it or not some
for the bad uh take a listen though some
of the individuals we spoke to earlier
today um I think the naming of the hall
the renaming of the hall and the
Reclamation of the hall um in the name
of Palestine in the name of Gaza shows
how committed students are to their
solidarity uh with Gins it’s been 12 13
days that this has been going on and a
lot of students who are not even Jewish
um are starting to feel unsafe at this
school and what happened last night is
really a testament to
that now again right now this is a very
live scene over here in the moment it’s
only crescendoed since the last time we
spoken do the these protested calls have
become louder and essentially what we’re
seeing is a larger group here supporting
those individuals in the encampment who
have yet to leave Hamilton
Hall and so I it sounds like look the
NYPD is at least on the scene nearby
they haven’t been called in by the
university to clear that building yet so
what’s the plan there what is the school
saying well the NYPD right now they have
been on the outskirts of this entire
protest they’re actually in the street
right now maintaining order making sure
that this protest doesn’t spill into the
city streets now we’re being told that
they’re not going on Columbia University
right now we’re being told that they’re
waiting for Columbia University to tell
them to come inside to help clear me
members of the encampment out from the
school now again that is a decision that
is only going to come from Columbia
University and at this moment right now
we haven’t been informed whether or not
the university will make that decision
Kan all right AA jachi our thanks to you
as always we want to turn now to the
Middle East where negotiations for a
ceasefire in Gaza and the release of
more hostages is reaching a critical
point Israel now saying it will not send
a delegation to Cairo until Lo response
to the current proposal which includes a
40-day pause in the fighting and the
release of some of the remaining
hostages held in Gaza that’s in addition
to the potential release of thousands of
Palestinian prisoners that’s according
to a top British official but prime
minister Benjamin Netanyahu is now
pledging to launch an incursion into the
southern city of Rafa with or without a
deal despite international calls for
restraint ABC News foreign correspondent
Tom Sufi burd has the latest for us
Tom yeah okay now I think this is crunch
time uh in these talks uh we know that
there’s a deal on the table we know that
Hamas delegation has left Cairo uh we’re
expecting according to an Egyptian
official a response at some point but we
don’t know when from Hamas on that deal
we’re told by an Israel official the
Israelis will not go to Cairo before
Hamas response Secretary of State
Anthony blinkin now here in Tel Aviv
meeting Israel prime minister tomorrow
Benjamin Netanyahu Netanyahu is still
hanging that threat of going into Rafer
in the south of Gaza
but look is he threatening to go at some
point in the future into Rafa or is he
saying I’ll go in now and if he did that
then there’ be very little chance of a
deal a hostage deal and getting more
hostages out and a ceasefire so look
that threat has been there for months
the threat of a military incursion to
Rafa and the IDF says that they have to
move thousands of Palestinian civilians
out of that area before the military
operation could begin and moving
civilians that huge number of civilians
it might not succeed even if it does it
could take 6 to 8 weeks for now the
White House is saying they’re focused on
the deal they’re not overly confident
right now that there will be a deal but
they’re remaining pragmatic and they’re
saying time is of the essence and
they’re urging Hamas to accept the deal
Kana all right Tom thank you so much I
also want to bring in ABC News National
Security and defense analyst Mick mroy
uh Mick thank you for being here with us
and actually can you just our respon
quickly to what we just heard from Tom
there uh that the White House at this
point not overly confident that a deal
can be met because we also heard from
Secretary of State Anthony blinkin that
what Israel has put on the table here is
extraordinary that’s right Kanan I do
think Tom is right this is crunch time
this is why secretary blink’s in Israel
to probably put the maximum pressure he
can uh to uh to uphold this agreement if
Hamas comes back and agrees to it it is
in their Court they stand in the way or
they could open the way for a ceasefire
I think uh what prime minister Netanyahu
is saying uh is essentially uh if this
doesn’t happen we will go into rafet and
that’s putting maximum pressure on it
it’s not really helpful to say one way
or the other right now uh from the Prime
Minister and it’s probably going to be a
discussion behind the scenes with
secretary blankin but right now it
really is going to come down to whether
Hamas accepts this agreement and we go
into at least a temporary ceasefire
where we can see hostages be released in
humanitarian Aid increase
substantially and Mick do we have any
details about what these negotiations
entail I mean do you think that
potentially there is enough to actually
reach a deal here especially if
Netanyahu is putting that kind of
pressure
on K I do think that this agreement
could be reached by both sides the
Israelis have come down on the numbers
that they expect of hostages to be
released unfortunately I think that’s
because they believe a lot of the
remaining hostages have already passed
away and and that of course is something
that they’ve conceded and now uh it’s up
to Hamas to decide whether that is uh
something they can do and of course they
need to produce these hostages and there
will be a lot of Palestinians released
from custody as a result and of course
there will also be this ceasefire which
could lead to an extended ceasefire and
it is in their interest and obviously
the people of
Gaza and Mick twofold here I mean do you
have any idea of the timeline here when
we might get this written response here
uh from Hamas because we also are
hearing from Aid agencies and just
International leaders alike that an
incursion into Rafa could be
catastrophic it absolutely could to
Tom’s point it takes a long time quite
frankly to move 1.3 million people out
of Rafa so there that’s a time frame the
Israeli military has two divisions one
paratrooper division one armor division
ready to go under Rafa and of course
we’re going to see uh the US military’s
uh jots their peer is going to be set up
next week to help deliver Aid so there’s
a lot of things happening at the same
time uh but it is critical I think that
Hamas comes back with an agreement uh
that Israel will accept so doesn’t
change the terms if they don’t then this
is likely to start happening all at
once and just quickly any any word on
time like this
week well in order to comply and it does
seem the Israelis do want to move
civilians out of Harm’s Way that could
take weeks uh depends on how fast they
move and of course once the once the
military uh machine starts moving and
coming toward Rafa that will likely
expedited but they need to do one before
the other or we’re going to see a lot of
civilians get caught caught in the
crossfire we’ve already seen uh tens of
thousands uh quite frankly and that
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Angeles and that’s today’s big story new
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responding of course we begin here with
today’s big story new testimony about
Donald Trump’s alleged Affairs taking
center stage at his hush money trial as
the former president black pass his gag
order in the case Trump sounding off
while leaving court and Lower Manhattan
just a short time ago slamming the
prosecution I’m supposed to be in
Georgia I’m supposed to be in New
Hampshire I’m supposed to be in Ohio and
lots of other places and they have be
sitting here for a bing trial it’s a
viking
trial well the former president back at
the defense table with his son Eric in
the gallery behind him as former
attorney for Playboy model Karen
McDougall and porn star Stormy Daniels
took the stand Keith Davidson describing
how he says he helped negotiate a hush
money deal with the parent company of
the national inquire to keep McDougall
quiet about an alleged Affair that she
claims she had with Trump Davidson
testifying that the deal was attractive
in part because McDougall didn’t want to
share the story in the first place he
also told the court about how he says in
2011 former Trump attorney Michael Cohen
berated him over the phone when
allegations involving Daniels became
public Trump denies claim from both
women and earlier the judge in the case
threatened to throw him in jail holding
him in contempt for repeatedly violating
his gag order in the case and finding
him
$99,000 Trump going on to slam the judge
on his social media platform later that
afternoon so joining us for more on this
is our investigative reporter Olivia
ruin who’s live for us outside Court
there in lower Manhattan so Olivia thank
you so much for being here with us and
look let’s start here uh with Keith
Keith Davidson uh this crucial testimony
here uh he talked about as you described
it Michael Cohen ‘s frantic nature
surrounding these hush money payments
how else did he characterize the
prosecution’s key witness
here well he came off as incredibly uh
credible quite frankly Kaa as he walked
the jury through being directly involved
with the payments to Stormy Daniels he
was her representative he was sending
the contracts he was dealing with
Michael Cohen and what he told the jury
was new information about how the Trump
team actually missed the deadline to pay
stormmy Dan
the
$130,000 just before the election in an
effort he said he thought was trying to
kick it down the road and he told the
jury he thought that they were trying to
make it so that they did not have to pay
until after the election so prosecutors
took him right where they wanted tying
this entire effort right back to the
election which again that is what they
say this is it was an effort to hide
damaging information before the election
and Keith Davidson gave them that yeah I
mean it’s really this timeline right
that they’re trying to get to the core
of and they also used uh Michael Cohen’s
former Banker to testify about that
timeline as well so how did he explain
when this all
happened another frantic effort he
described getting this frantic call from
Michael Cohen saying that he needed this
you know shell company set up
immediately because he needed to pay out
this money but of course Gary phoh the
banker said that’s not what Michael
Cohen told him he told the bank that it
was a real estate uh shell company for
real estate transactions and the banker
said that had they known that they were
funneling money to a porn star it
probably would have raised some extra
red flags but it goes into the narrative
again Kaa about the timeline this
frantic effort the banker said that from
the time that Michael Cohen called to
set up the account funded the account
and paid out the payment it was just
about 24
hours wow so in the end it moved pretty
quickly though also so Olivia we have to
talk about Michael Cohen and what he’s
doing on Tik Tok I mean he’s going on
Tik Tok to talk about all of this to
talk about Trump uh this is a man whose
credibility is already in question uh
what is the response to this
been well he is doing exactly what
prosecutors probably don’t want him to
do he is talking about the case in a
scenario that is not the courtroom he’s
going on Tik Tok he’s going on Twitter
he’s calling for Trump to be put in jail
he’s saying how he is excited to testify
and he is making money off of these
streams that he is hosting on Tik Tok
ABC News reviewed hours of them which
showed that he’s accepting these gifts
that he can transfer for money but it’s
not clear how much he is making and it
sort of feeds right into Donald Trump’s
defense of why he’s been violating the
gag order he says that you know he has
been responding to attacks from
Witnesses such as Michael Cohen and the
judge seemed to indicate today that what
Michael Cohen is doing is not all that
acceptable and he took notice of it and
said that perhaps the gag order could be
modified because maybe all of the
witnesses don’t need protection
Kaa all right so if the judge is
considering modifying that gag order can
you bring us up to speed on what’s going
on with the former president’s gag order
right
now held in contempt today Kaa nine gag
order violations $1,000 fine for each of
them for a total of $99,000 but of
course as you and I know that’s no real
issue for Donald Trump he can pay $9,000
easily and that is what made the judge
uh what he said so ke which is that
these may not be enough and if the
continued violations continue he will
consider throwing Donald Trump in jail
so it is a stunning escalation of a
possible penalty that we have seen for
former president Donald Trump but
remember he is also facing more
potential violations already he there’s
going to be a hearing on Thursday where
prosecutors are going to present
evidence of potentially four more
violations so he could be held in
contempt yet again if judge Juan rashan
finds that prosecutor yet again held up
their burden and were able to prove that
Donald Trump violated the order
certainly an ongoing problem there for
the former president Olivia ruin you’ve
done an extraordinary job covering this
for us and we know we’ll be relying on
you in the future thank you so much
Olivia I want to bring our big story now
to our panel joining us today here is
our ABC News political contributor and
former Democratic North Dakota Senator
Heidi heid Camp along with ABC News
contributor and former Republican
Virginia congresswoman Barbara comto ABC
News contributor and Series XM radio
host Mike Muse and Criminal defense
attorney and former Federal prosecutor
Tim Jansen uh thank you all for being
here surrounded by such smart people
here today Tim let’s start here with you
uh first of all what is your take Tim on
this former Banker Gary far’s testimony
uh did he provide information in your
opinion that truly helps the prosecution
in this case oh I think he he did help
that he discussed Michael Cohen’s abil
ability to lie uh the fact that he he
put up this false account to use for
what he did um it’s not going to like
carry the day but it’s it’s a a detail
they needed to
introduce um it’s funny you talk about
the lawyer who’s trying to negotiate a
hush money deal as if his credibility is
so much higher and he’s trying to
negotiate a hush money deal but and they
were all using the leverage of the
election they did it because the the
election was their leverage right that’s
how they would have got the most money
if there was an election they probably
wouldn’t have answered their phone calls
so it goes both ways really the
timeline right as Keith DAV said it was
almost like they were trying to kick the
can down the road a little bit in in
terms of that and Heidi to you it took
several weeks as Olivia noted but for
the first time we saw someone from
Donald Trump’s family in the courtroom
today uh why join him now well because I
think that Donald Trump understands that
even though this may not be the
strongest legal case that he’s taking
some real hits with a with a lot of
people out there who now are hearing
details of all of these Affairs and and
the nefarious kinds of dealings that he
had and he needs somebody from his
family to stand next to him and so I I
you know the the the big coup would be
Melania I don’t think we should expect
her to show up but I think he needed
someone
there and Barbara to you there was some
testimony today here from a C-SPAN
executive uh they played these videos of
trump from 2016 2017 and in the videos
he’s heard sort of you denying that he
even knew Stormy Daniels and Karen
McDougall what do you make of those
videos well they are bringing the jury
right back to what was going on
following those Access Hollywood tapes
and it is so sedy and you’re just seeing
Donald Trump and is lying best you know
telling the jury what we now know of
course is false and why they were
running around trying to concoct all
these criminal Enterprises and why
Michael Cohen was trying to set up all
of this because it really would have
been disastrous and of course Trump was
saying I will lose if this becomes known
and of course they tried to concoct a
whole alternative reality that oh
everyone knew that I did all of this now
and of course that was not the reality
in October 2016 I was there on the
ballot and they did not want those kind
of things
known and there was testimony that it
was that Access Hollywood tape in
particular that sort of reinvigorated
the interest in stormy Daniel’s story
itself uh Mike to you all right let’s
talk about this gag order here so we
know that Trump complied essentially
today deleted everything off truth
social in the time that was required uh
but then he went back online and you
know sort of said some things about the
judge today of course he addresses
camera at the end of Court every day as
well what are your thoughts going
forward here on how he’s going to manage
himself in terms of this gag order or
will he that’s a really great question
and I love the exchange that you and
Olivia was having in regarding the
$9,000 that Trump needs to pay in F for
violating ini show gag order I think
what the judge Maran was indicating was
that he is willing to call former
president Trump’s Bluff on Contin to
violate the gag order but in doing that
what the judges is St saying that he is
willing to find him in order to restrain
former president Trump from Talking
which could potentially endanger or
could put Witnesses at harm or make
Witnesses feel uncomfortable and so I
think what the judge did was he outlined
and qualified why he is issuing these
violations and why he will continuously
use all the legal Authority that he has
to restrain him more with possible jail
time or any other further violations and
so I really do think that what we saw
with the judge is that he is willing to
find former president Trump yeah he
certainly made that clear you’re
absolutely right and Trump uh saying
that this gag order is unique and
unconstitutional so I have a feeling
we’ll be hearing a lot more language
like that in the future Heidi Barbara
Mike and Tim thank you as always coming
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the hot button issue of abortion is
playing out on the campaign Trail former
president Donald Trump telling Time
Magazine he would leave it up to States
whether to monitor women’s pregnancies
and prosecute them for having abortions
adding quote it’s relevant whether he
was comfortable with that policy Trump
also wouldn’t commit to vetoing a
potential Federal abortion ban saying
it’ll never happen now the Biden
campaign releasing a statement about
Trump’s position this afternoon saying
quote he’ll see what women think about
that in November so I want to bring back
my panel here Heidi Barbara and joining
us is our ABC News Deputy political
director Avery Harper and ABC News
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LZ Granderson thank you all for being
here so Avery let’s start here with you
we know president Trump he’s been trying
to avoid taking a solid position on
abortion we also know that’s a bit of a
strategy here but Avery I mean is that
working to his Advantage he’s a bit all
over the map on the issue you know I
would counter that the fact that he is
all over the map on the issue is not a
strategy at all uh when you see him
asked about specific uh issues
pertaining to abortion like in This Time
Magazine interview he was asked about
his stance on mistone the abortion pill
he said oh you can wait a couple of
weeks I’m going to make an announcement
on that we saw him do something similar
uh when he was asked about his overall
stance on abortion and and what he does
is he sort of kicks the can down the
road it’s an effort to deflect uh to be
able to craft a message on his own terms
and so earlier this month we saw him U
make that pre-recorded video recasting
his stance and it’s because his team
understands that this is a fraught issue
politically for republicans and they’re
trying to find a way and a message that
is politically expedient
right the always the effort of striking
this balance somehow but Heidi I mean do
you think a significant chunk of Voters
will somehow punish Trump at the polls
in
November yeah I think that U Suburban
women that he needs to regain their
support are going to step back and say
look you you put the Supreme Court in
those chairs that decided to reverse
roie Wade you own this issue now you’re
trying to dodge it and you know as
Russell Moore said falling poll numbers
are not uh the reason why you should
take an unprincipled stand and so he’s I
think he’s just all across the map he’s
hoping it goes away the abortion pill
issue I think he’s hoping the court will
take care of and he won’t have to deal
with it and so he owns it he bought it
he’s going to have to figure it out well
and we’ll see what they say here in a
couple of weeks uh with that but Barbara
to you look a six week abortion ban is
going into effect tomorrow in Trump’s
home state of Florida he hasn’t wanted
to talk about how he’ll vote on an
abortion ballot initiative this fall
what are your thoughts on
that well this is where Trump is at his
misogynistic worst um he doesn’t you
know when he talks about the issue he
doesn’t care about women and the impact
on them or their health and you know if
you talk to pro-life people they would
tell you they never want to prosecute
women that is not something pro-life
people ever want to do but all he cares
is his own political viability so that’s
why he is such a mess with this issue
and he doesn’t know you know he just
doesn’t care about anything but himself
so he certainly should be politically
punished on this as I believe he will be
and you know it’s it’s going to be a
problem issue for him because he doesn’t
care about the women or you know their
healthc care involved in this and he
only cares if it’s in a swing state that
might hurt him
and well I mean time will tell we’ll see
how the votes play out in November we
also know there potentially could be
several ballot issues and measures in
several Battleground States uh trying to
either preserve the rights to abortion
or we’ve been hearing sort of Muddy the
waters in some other states as well but
LZ I mean for the White House for
President Biden to come out immediately
today uh with a statement I mean clearly
Democrats are capitalizing on this
issue well it’s one that’s easy to kind
of Trace for Republicans who may love
Donald Trump because they voted for him
because he was in support for federal
ban in fact we go back to 2015 the house
actually voted for a federal ban and he
began to talk in support of a federal
ban because he thought it was a good
issue and in 2015 it probably was but
here we are in 2024 the Republican party
needs to Pivot and so does the GOP
Nomine Trump but unfortunately it’s
easier to run at when you don’t have a
record than when you do when he was
president of the United States He
supported a federal ban so it’s be very
difficult in my opinion to convince not
Democrats because likely they weren’t
going to vote for him anyway but for the
moderates who are actually paying
attention they have to ask themselves do
I honestly believe he won’t do what he
said he won’t do when before he said he
would do it and if that sounds confusing
that’s because that’s exactly his stance
in this
issue right you’re saying if that sounds
confusing it’s because it is yes LZ
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Ivy I’m here for it I’m definitely here
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Apple doesn’t fall very far from the
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