breaking news this hour on the 2024 race. the gop field is about to get more crowded. florida governor ron desantis set to announce his candidacy. we have new details on exactly how he plans to do it and with whom. plus a teenager now charged with threatening to kill or harm a president. the suspect set to make his first appearance in front of a judge. we ll take you live outside the courthouse. and texas lawmakers scheduled to vote today on a bill that would require the ten commandments be posted in every classroom in the state. it s all part of a national effort to insert religion into public life. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. well, the race to become the next republican presidential nominee is about to get more crowded, heated, and interesting. after months of speculation, we now know that florida governor ron desantis will announce his 2024 white house campaign on twitter with elon musk
Columbia university has just set a new rule. It is now telling students who do not leave the Protest Tents on campus by 2 00 p. M. Eastern today they will be suspended. Now you know ive had students on this program tell me that its not just students inside those tents who are antiisrael and hateful. Some of them prohamas savage killers. Some of them are insurgents who come onto the campus and now inside the tents. So what about those . They cant be suspended. What will you do with them . Today the school failed to reach an agreement with protestors who have taken over part of the campus for more than ten days now. Boy, columbia is really patient with the protestors and the haters. Amazing. The university has not said whether it will call in the police. Growing calls for greater crackdowns on campuses. Agitators in some places are digging in despite efforts by schools and police to clear them out. Columbia now becomes, oh, kind of the example for everybody else. If there are no conseque
Harassment of jewish students at College Campuses across the country. David pecker is no saint. The former National Enquirer testified at Donald Trumps trial that he willingly used his Tab Tabloid Empire to help the campaign chute colluding the outright manufacturing of fake muse. And while he tied trump and his henfixer Michael Cohen to these unsavory claims, pecker was eager to play along. Cohen would ask for a negative piece on an opponent, and the inquirer would embellish it. Look at this, a totally bogus story. And this ludicrous piece tying cruzs father to Lee Harvey Oswald and the Jfk Assassination tone by photo manipulation. Most of the media a praised peckers performance while others trashed t. A. Alvin braggs d. A. Alvin braggs case. Trumps relationship with the National Enquirer was even sleazier than it looked in 2016. David pecker was not a significant witness for the prosecution. And ill tell you why. Because there is no crime. David pecker is very composed, a credible wi
Good morning to you. Welcome to see you this morning. Its saturday, april 27th. Im Victor Blackwell imam or a walker. Heres what were working on for you this morning, door to door searches a flattened homes are happening right now in nebraska, just one of five states had, by a terrifying tornado outbreak. We are live there were also tracking the Severe Weather threat for nearly 55 Million People from the texas to michigan. Tabloid king, david pecker lays out the paper trail and former president Donald Trumps Criminal Hush Money Trial in new york, the major takeaways from his four days of testimony. And whats next in the trial. And President Bidens candid conversation with shock jock, how stern his rod, and emotional comments about losing his first one why and young daughter and what he says about going toetotoe with donald trump on a debate stage, more propalestinian protests are expected on College Campuses across the country this weekend, the new calls for calm and deescalation but w
Sweeping across American College campuses at Arizona State police say theyve arrested 69 people for trespassing after a large group formed in an authorized encampment to protest the war in gaza, according to the school, most of the people were not a su students faculty, or staff at Northeastern University in boston. The campus is all clear and has resumed normal operations police, theyre detaining about 100 people this morning in a statement, northeastern Officials Say they believe professional organizers join the ranks of students protesters, and police in washington, dc are also keeping a close eye on demonstrators at George Washington university earlier today, they blocked a street but remained in peaceful lets go now to other campuses across the country. Cnns Camila Bernal and Polo Sandoval. Are with us right now. Camila, youre at ucla. Whats happening there . Hey, bright, its relatively peaceful and quiet here at ucla. But as you can see behind me, the encampment is here and it do