You up. A lot has happened already. And well continue to bring you moment by moment coverage. Keep an eye on the right box on your screen when this resumes. Whatever were doing, that is where you are going to see whats popping up now and whats popping up next. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in The Faulkner Focus. A dramatic and disturbing statistic. More than 2,000 arrests tied to the Campus Protests and hating jews and hating american movement, whatever it is. All part of the crackdown on campus hate spreading like wildfire. Look at this. [shouting] harris so theyve arrested two plus thousand people and in new york nypd officers have taken apart another antiisrael encampment just this morning. This time at new york university. So they are hitting every campus they can at this point. Does it feel organized . Well get into it. Absolutely you bet. The departments Deputy Commissioner posted pictures of the signs at nyu. They call for death to america, death to israel. And it also released
Designers, like get your heart racing. Had inside a prices new every day, hurry. Therell be gone in a flash design, a sales at up to 70 or shop guilt. Com today its friday, may 3, right now on cnn this morning, donald trump back in court this morning for his criminal hush money trial, insisting he is very happy with how things are going president , biden making it clear he will not change his israel Policy Protests or not and heavy rain and flooding forcing mandatory evacuations in texas, residents told if they dont leave, therell be stranded for dates i, am here in washington, dc. A live look at your capitol on this friday morning good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Happy friday. Its wonderful to have you with us, with Donald Trumps hush money trial. Set to resume in just a few hours. We are waiting on the judge, juan merchan to rule on new allegations that the former president violated his gag order. Again, in a Pretrial Hearing yesterday, prosecutors pointed to four of trumps com
Im going back to the courtroom tomorrow. I will be back here tomorrow at 10 00 p. M. , on the last word, to report it all again tomorrow night. The 11th hour with Stephanie Ruhle starts now. Start tonight, dramatic moments in Donald Trumps Criminal Trial as his lawyers go after a key prosecution witness. What happened in the courtroom and why trump says he might not testify anymore. Plus, todays surprise speech from President Biden. What he said about the unrest on college campuses. And later, im talking to you, Robert De Niro. The legendary actor sounds the alarm about another trump term, as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. Good evening once again. I am Stephanie Ruhle. We are 187 days away from the election and today Donald Trumps attorneys were on attack mode in his new york Criminal Trial. They went after key witness keith davidson, the lawyer who negotiated Hush Money Deals for Stormy Daniels and karen mcdougal, attacking his testimony and using him to go after
Weve just seen donald trump leave the courtroom in manhattan. Donald trump back in court today at the Hush Money Trial in ny. The former president is accused of falsifying Business Records to conceal damaging stories that would have undermined his bid for the white house. Back on the stand today was the lawyer who negotiated a payment for porn star stormy s daniels. Keith davidson has been detailing how that 130,000 payment was arranged. But in the course of his testimony, prosecutors took him back to the election night, in 2016. And a text message he sent at 3 in the morning to the editor of the national enquirer. What have we done . He wrote. 0ur North America correspondent Nada Tawfikjoins us from new york. The suggestion being that their efforts to quash these stories had in no small part assisted Donald Trumps route to the white house. Thats exactly right, christian. He was asked to say but that text message meant. He said the understanding was all of their efforts had in some way
Over the years. Again, im not a Law Enforcement tactician, but it is strange that how long we have waited here and decisionmaking protocols a part of that. The unfolding situation as they discover more intelligence about the way the encampment is set up, what if any weapons are in the encampment. Law enforcement are confused as to why this is taking so long. That is the bottom line. Its taking a long time. More than 24 hours since we saw a riot in that very spot take place and nothing in effect has been done since then. Todd were all confused. Jonathan hunt, thank you. 2 01 pacific time. This is thursday morning, you are looking live at campus of ucla, right now lapd and california Highway Patrol are c confronting protesters on the campus of ucla. The most recent information it appeared the lapd was retreating after initially moving in on some of the ucla protesters. Bring in william at the ucla campus for the latest on what hes seeing. William. Todd, they might be redeploying, weve be