Ainsley lets turn to c. B. Cotton with latest live report from Columbia University in new york city. Actually, you are looking at ucla. It looks like something is. Brian yeah, we have breaking news here, i guess. They are trying to bring some semblance of order back to ucla. Thats a flat screen or something in the square. It looks like its outdoors. You see it pull out and that reveals where the chaos was taking place throughout the night, ainsley. I thought we would be talking about columbia today this was the story when we walked in. Ainsley columbia happened last night and this morning there was a lot of chaos. Lots of fighting breaking out at ucla campus. Thats in front of the royce hall. Royce quad where everyone was camping out. I think g. G. Is live there for us. Steve i think we will have her in just a moment. Ainsley this is all breaking. [laughter] brian thats an apt term. Steve 4 01 as you can see the right the calls have been called in by the mayor and the administration of
President biden Opening Statements being read in the trial of our former president. Liberal District Attorney alvin] brought this case against donald trump on those charges. Trump faces 34 counts related to payments made to sex film worker Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 president ial election. All of it has people asking why now . District attorney alvin bragg, why now . Today a hearing on trumps 175 million new york civil fraud bond, remember the money he had to come up with in order to go forward with an appeal in that case. No victims in the case. You know how it goes. Tomorrow a hearing on trumps new york gag order is set. Thursday u. S. Supreme Court Arguments on Whether Trump can claim immunity on the case in georgia. Critics are claiming all these antitrump efforts are politics. We are dealing with a case that is really a House Of Cards built on quicksand. This is a case that should have never been brought and would never have been brought if it wasnt that the defendant was do
Good to have you with us today, may. Thanks, martha. Dana fox news alert. Opening statements in the Hush Money Trial against former President Trump are underway in New York City. Moments ago the judge read his decision on what prosecutors can bring up from trumps Previous Court cases if he testifies in his own defense at the trial. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom, im dana perino. Bill hemmer is off and thankfully i have martha with me here today. Martha great to be with you. Im martha maccallum. For the first time in history prosecutors are set to present the firstever criminal case against a former United States president and the Manhattan District Attorney has accused the former President Trump of illegally hiding payments, Hush Money Payments theyve been called in this case, and he claims that those payments, which trump says were legal expenses, were done in order to effect the outcome of the 2016 election. Dana we have this just in from our reporter that are there. We d
I have to ask so weve heard several times now that the university of columbia has to make decisions about who they want on their campus, about the tents, thats what they are talking about now. Whatever internal rules are about the tents. Police can only step in when there is a crime being made. My question to you, andrew, is when do words become dangerous or a crime . People wanting to extinguish other people, death to jews, death to when do those words constitute a crime . I know how important the first amendment is to you and how important the first amendment is to all americans. But the idea of the first amendment is not limitless. When it amounts to threats. When it amounts to intimidation, it can be it reaches its limits. More than that, though, when you look at columbia it is a private university. You have civil laws like trespassing and certain laws that limit the time and place of
Group can all be potentially liable to that. I have deep concerns about what is going on on the upper west side. Ive heard time and time again jewish students being intimidated and essentially pushed around. It is just something the first amendment does not protect. Harris we are talking to many of those people here and we are in the center of the cities. You are closer to where some of the action is. Well watch all of it. I appreciate your legal expertise and your time today, andrew, always, thank you. Critics are going after president bidens newly released Title Ix rules taking effect in august. And will roll back several Trump Administration policies on Sexual Misconduct in schools and on college campuses. The new rules expand protections to pregnant, gay and transgender students. They also broaden the definition for sexual harassment. But they leave out the issue of transgender athletes and girls in womens sports. That leaves former ncaa swimmer