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The socalled hush money payments. I call them a Legal Expense. A Legal Expense. Norah the Cbs Evening News now. Good evening. Im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us. We want to begin tonight with those fireworks inside a manhattan courtroom. After a day he was dreading, donald trump left his criminal trial defiant this afternoon after nearly four hours of testimony by Stormy Daniels. Daniels testified under oath about an alleged sexual encounter she had with trump back in 2006, and at times it was graphic. Trump denies any such encounter took place and his legal team aimed to paint the porn star as a greedy liar today. But it is the alleged coverup of the 130,000 hush money payment to daniels just days ahead of the 2016 election that is at the heart of this case. Prosecutors claim that trump falsified his companys Business Records to hide the payment by recording it as a Legal Expense to his former personal attorney and fixer michael cohen. And let me tell you, it is not ov
Former president and wants them held accountable in the case of the socalled hush money payments. A Legal Expense. A Legal Expense. Norah the Cbs Evening News right now. Good evening. Im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us. We want to begin tonight with those fireworks inside a manhattan courtroom. After a day he was dreading, donald trump left his criminal trial defiant this afternoon after nearly four hours of testimony by Stormy Daniels. Daniels testified under oath about an alleged sexual encounters she had with trump back in 2006 and at times it was graphic. Trump denies any such encounter took place and his legal team aims to paint the porn star as a greedy liar today. But it is the alleged coverup of the 130,000 hush money payment to daniels just days ahead of the 2016 election that is at the heart of this case. Prosecutors claim that trump falsified his companys Business Records to hide the payment by recording it as a Legal Expense to his former personal attorney a
Look at that case too. Norah. For now hes in jail. Jericka duncan, thank you. Well, now to those growing propalestinian demonstrations embroiling college campuses. Today weve seen tensions rise at more than a dozen schools from coast to coast. Since last week, hundreds of campus protesters have been arrested. One Major University today canceling its graduation. Cbss jason allen has new details tonight on the campus chaos. Reporter campus crackdown at atlantas emory university, police tore down tents erected this morning, and some appeared to be tased by police. Some students and faculty were led away in handcuffs. Here at the university of texasaustin, dueling protests. Propalestinian and proisraeli protesters facing off on campus with security watching. It is my understanding that the university of texasaustin Funds Research that israel directly benefits from. Reporter on the campus of usc, the lapd used their batons to disperse a large crowd of protesters late last night. The school
Fighting russian invaders, quote, as soon as possible. Zelenskyy also praised the house of representatives for approving billions in foreign aid this weekend that will unleash a flood of American Military equipment. But it didnt happen without a fight from hard right republicans. Cbss skyler henry is on capitol hill tonight. Skyler, as we know, the senate is expected to pass this bill in the coming days. Reporter yeah, jericka, good evening to you. They could pass this as soon as tuesday. But the victory lap comes following six months of republican infighting that could put the house speakership in jeopardy again. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the 95 billion bipartisan foreign aid package passed in the house on saturday will help keep the war with russia from expanding. Translator this aid will strengthen ukraine and send the kremlin a powerful signal that it will not be the second afghanistan. Reporter theres more than 60 billion in assistance set aside for kyiv, includ