Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper what were going to start today with our Law And Justice lead a stern warning for donald trump today from the bench. Keep violating your gag order and your Hush Money Cover of case, and you may well end up in jail. Judge juan merchan, Finding Today The Trump via lord, violated that gag order for the 10th time. He find a trump 1,000 which is the maximum penalty. But judge, where shine went on to tell the former president , quote, at the end of the de, i have a job to do and part of that job is to protect the dignity of the judicial system and compel respect as much as i do not want to impose a jail sanctioned and ive done everything i can to avoid doing so i want you to understand that i will if necessary, and appropriate, unquote. Today weve also heard testimony from two witnesses who went through check by check, the payments made by donald trump to his former attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen. Those payments are at the very heart of this case because
Is c cnn hello, again, everyone thank you so much for joining me. Im for take a whitfield. Were following new developments in the College Campus unrest. Weve seen across the country today propalestinian protesters interrupted the Commencement Ceremony at the University Of Michigan the event was briefly delayed as police its guided those demonstrating graduates away from the ceremony. It is the latest in weeks of unrest gripping americas colleges process gesture has have been calling for an end to the war in gaza and for schools to divest from the israeli linked entities. So far, police have arrested more than 2,100 people on about 40 university campuses. Cnns whitney wild is on the University Of Michigan campus where there was a disruption at the ceremony. There well it was interesting when we were here earlier app before this armani began, we walked around the entirety of Michigan Stadium and we did not see any indication there would be protest we did not see protesters. We didnt see
Felt as though it was an embarrassment wow, thats Pretty Amazing to think about that. All right, jason, thank you very much. Thanks to all of you, anderson starts now good evening welcome to our continuing special coverage. The trumps new york Hush Money Trial how they ten saw prosecutors, but for more alleged gag order violations before the judge and the Defense Paint paint expected witnesses, Michael Cohen and current witness, Keith Davidson is the true culprits in this case, not trump. Davidson, as you know, represented Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougal and secure deals for their silence about alleged affairs with trump in the crucial months before the 2016 election. But any effort to make them the villains and donald trump, the victims countered by prosecutors who played the Phone Conversation, Michael Cohen secretly recorded and seen in next lucidly obtained, featuring donald trump taking an active role in the Karen Mcdougal deal need to open up a company for the transfer of water
Are three 60 bodycam footage youll see first on three 60 of new york Police Moving in on protesters at Columbia University that a new details from cnns Julia Vargas Jones, who brought us Exclusive Reporting Last Night from campus. As it all went down. Also tonight, libre from coast to coast. These protests spread to more schools with communities and police struggling over how to respond and with his trial and recess today, the former president goes campaigning, trying to make Student Unrest of voting issue. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. We begin again tonight with the latest from University Campuses nationwide, where in just the last 24 hours, hundreds of demonstrators have been arrested the lions share at new yorks Columbia University late last night. Last night we brought you an exclusive look as it happened from cnns Julia Vargas Jones and our photographer, were the only Television Crew broadcasting live from campus now tonight, another exclusive seen as john miller himself,
Entertaining, but they oftentimes really dont get out. They really dont go anywhere in the polls. Harry enten, thank you very much. Thank you. And thank you for watching news night. Laura coes live starts right now cnn Breaking News we are breaking night, waking news tonight out of Los Angeles Police at ucla are preparing to order proPalestinian Protesters to end their encampment. We are seeing a Massive Police presence begin to arrive at the campus. And it seemed that might seem very familiar to all of us to the nypd show of force just last night at columbia class that ucla, were already canceled today after a violent confrontation broke out between protesters and counter protesters overnight. And now were told that classes will be remote for the rest of this week. I want to go right to cnn and nick watt on the ucla campus. Nick, what are you seeing . Were seeing a Crowd Gathering right now and were hearing chants. Tell me whats going on what laura, we have just seen about dozen or tw