Washington in this is cnn yeah im here on the east coast welcome to cnn this morning. Im kasie hunt. We have Breaking News right now. Violence on the Ucla Campus A crowd of proisraeli demonstrators clashing with members of a propalestinian encampment on campus after School Officials declared the encampment illegal in video from the scene, you can see protesters throwing a wooden pallet, fireworks, parking cones, a scooter. These classes lets have been ongoing for hours. There had been minimal police intervention, but we are told that the lapd is now on seeing that from tweets from the lapd and from the la Mayors Office joining me now is denial hartmann. He is with georgetown universitys emergency and Disaster Management at department and ill good morning to you. How would you assess the response here we know that there has been some reluctance on the part of these universities to call police for fear of escalating the situation. But the violence that were seeing at ucla does seem uniqu
this is what he said. as to who is gonna try the case, i know that joe has certain potential conflict issues given his prior contacts with stormy daniels. so who is the right attorney to take it to trial is something that the client will have to decide. yeah. that didn t go over well. i think the other thing to consider is that trump has been very unhappy with all the investigations into him privately, especially the documents investigation because he has paid a lot of attorneys a lot of money and been asking people privately why is this still going on. obviously, it s complicated. but it is notable that tim parlatore is leaving his legal team. he was on that case and testified before the grand jury. let s talk about this news that kaitlan brouge be with our political director and also the host of the cnn political briefing podcast. what s your take, david? first of all, it s an awkward thing when you are the legal representation and also a witness in the case that has to
destroy america. justice is not treating president trump blindly they re treating president trump has somebody else say it again wanted dead or alive. it looks pretty political. so without seeing the indictment without knowing anything behind it. the motivation was there long before the evidence was the case. and then what changed? doesn t trump announces he s running for president. sam. joining us now is cnn political director and host of cnn political briefing podcast. they have a challenge and cnn senior political commentator and former senior adviser to former president obama. david axelrod. good morning, guys. um so, david, this david david to my right. it. it s notable. that s what republican lawmakers think hutchinson who are going to have on next hour, who s running for the gop nomination, is one of the few republicans not to jump on the bandwagon in that respect, but when you ask the voters what they think morality actually do think that president trump should postpone his
appointment of a special counsel to investigate documents found at joe biden s residence. we want to note this poll was conducted before the revelations of mike pence and his classified documents. so joining us now with the numbers, cnn political director and host of cnn political briefing podcast mr. david challon. good morning. good morning. what do americans think here? you showed the first top line number, just huge. the vast majority of americans, 84% approve of the appointment of a special counsel looking into the biden classified documents situation. only 16% disapprove. look at that broken out by party. this is something you don t see in american politics often. broad agreement, 88% of republicans approve of the appointment of a special counsel, 84% of independents, 80% of democrats. so that s broad agreement across party lines. we ask people how serious of a problem do you think this is?
violent mob. tonight, the committee is also going to show some never before seen outtakes of this moment, where trump, the day after the capitol attack, reluctantly condemned what happened. i would like to begin by addressing the heinous attack on the united states capitol. like all americans i am outraged by the violence, lawlessness, and mayhem. we re told one of the only reasons trump actually made that video was aides warned him about the fact that his own cabinet might be preparing to use the 25th amendment to remove him from office. tonight, we will hear from some of his former aides, two of them, matthew pottinger and sarah matthews who quit in the immediate aftermath of january 6th. joining us now is cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider and cnn senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor elie honig, and david chalian, cnn political director and host of the cnn political briefing podcast. we got a lot to talk about this