Thank you all. That is all in on this tuesday night. Today donald trump was back in a court where hes facing 34 Felony Counts related to the Hush C Money Payments he paid t adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about an alleged affair and specifically to keep ms. Daniels quiet in the leadup to the 2016 election. Today the lawyer that negotiated that T Hush Money Agreement for Stormy Daniels, keith davidson, took the stand. And were going to get to that in justto a minute, but the big news out of todays trial happened before any witnesses actually b testified. Today the judge in this case, judge juan merchan, ruled on two matters pertaining to trump himself. One is that trump will be allowed to attend his very tall son barons graduation on may 17th, so he can look forward to that. The other matter was also somewhat of a win for donald trump. Today judge merchan found trump in Criminal Contempt for violating his gag order. The judge ruled that trump violated the gag order nine tim
Out protesters from its campus. Well show you how it happened and bring you the latest on demonstrations across the nation. Plus, israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has more defiant comments on a possible invasion of Southern Gaza ahead of his meeting today with americas topay diplomat. Plus well get expert legal analysis on everything that happened in court yesterday in Donald Trumps ongoing hush money trial. Good morning and welcome to way too early on thisgo wednesday, may 1st. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And well begin this morning with the nypd clearing a Columbia University building that wasng seized by protesters. Dozens of officers arrived on campus late last nightwearing riot gear. They used a ramp to get inside hamilton hall, the main Academic Building which was occupied by protesters overnight on monday. Video shows special police units entering the building through a second story window. Officers say about 40 people were arrested inside.