History of athletics the Us Justice Department is saying about its deal to try to close the books on its investigation into the Larry Nassars sexual abuse case against girls and women in gymnasts next, were going to get reaction from the attorney representing the Gymnast Survivors of Larry Nassars abuse, and leaning this our amajor de and the New York City pasha funny coverup case. A key witness for the prosecutors was back on the stand. His name . David pecker, the former tabloid publisher, and he detailed how he says donald trump used the national so enquirer tabloid to help his 2016 president ial campaign cnns paula reid has a look now at todays Task Testimony as former Tablet Executive Pecker went from killing damaging stories about trump to spilling all on the Witness Stand. Former National Enquirer publisher, david pecker, back on the Witness Stand today, where he shared details of his decadeslong friendship with donald trump and how he eventually used his position to help trump
The judge and gag order. The unconstitutional gag order by a highly conflicted judge. President biden. The worst president in history of our country. And the courtroom. Its reason, by the way. The Cbs Evening News starts now. Good evening, and thank you for being with us. I maurice dubois. Norah is on assignment. We begin tonight with a 2 of testimony in the criminal trial of former president donal donald trump. Former National Enquirer publisher david pecker was back on the stand where he said he worked with trump and his longtime fixer Michael Cohen to heighten negative stories about him during the 2016 campaign. The prosecution claims it was all a part of a conspiracy to influence the election. Before todays testimony, there was a tense hearing over whether trump repeatedly violated a gag order by attacking witnesses and jurors on social media. Prosecutors urged the judge to find Trump Thousands of dollars and hold him in contempt, while the former president complained that his righ
A former american president and his fixer and a big time ally of his in the tabloid media. It was a plan crafted to cast then candidate donald trump in a positive light in the allimportant tabloids. Using stories that were favorable to him and silencing ones that werent and smearing everybody that got in the way. The witness on the stand today on the Hush Money Trial, details exactly how this scheme worked on a daytoday basis. David pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer described a relationship with donald trump that dated back to the late 1980s and noted that trump was one the first people to call him and congratulate him when he bought the National Enquirer back in 1999. So tlir friendship was already long standing by the time donald trump decided so to run for president. The questioning today was the details an the operational aspects of that explicit agreement between trump, his lawyer Michael Cohen, and david pecker. And what they did to boost trumps campaign. And
Antiisrael protestors upending some of americas elite university. Columbia has switched all of its main Campus Classes to what are called hybrid learning. For the rest of the semester. These hatefilled protests are spreading like wildfire. The fear among jewish students is growing as well. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. This is america where you can say what is protected speech. This is america where you cannot threaten to kill people and get away with it. And threaten to put people in spaces where they cant have their freedom. That is not free speech. Antiisrael demonstrations and encampments have expanded to schools across america. This scene in reaction to arrests at New York University just last night. [shouting and chanting] harris there they are hating. Hating israel, and some of them chanting they stand with hamas. The blood thirsty raping, killers on october 7th on our streets in America Armed with flares and waving palestinian flags descending On Nypd He
Former Tabloid Publisher david well be back with wolf blitzer in situation breaking news tonight, The Trump Trial Testimony Begins and the official transcript was just released for the next hour. Well take you inside the courtroom from gavel to gavel. As this historic hush money criminal case unfolds the prosecutions first key witness takes the stand after both sides start to lay out their cases in Opening Statements are reporters and experts are standing by to break down all of todays most important developments and look ahead to whats next. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and arnd the world. Im wolf blitzer with a Special Report in this Room Trump Trial today lets get right to the breaking news on the Opening Statements and testimony in the first criminal trial of a former president of the United States, donald trump. At the Defense Table as prosecutors and his lawyers began cutting to the heart of the hushmoney case against him cnns Kara Scannell is joining us live