so, my call to action today is simple. tear off a small piece from your commencement program, and write life is for service on it. yes, we gave you the pens to really do it. up and on that no, i wish you a good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with, us i will see you next week. thanks for staying up late doctor anthony fauci, joining us later on. we ll be asking, him how do we understand this rise in covid cases, across the country? how worried should we be that new funding, to fight covid, is still, bottled up in congress? let me start tonight with the story picked up last week in western michigan. sources tell the nbc affiliate at the town hall, more of the communities they covered, were like raided by law enforcement. if your reporter, and here the town hall is rated, your mind goes to corruption, graft, or some small town embezzlement scheme. these things happen, at all levels of government. but, that wasn t w
Possibility, but now were getting to the point where its put up or shut up now his. Attorneys say that they dont call it. Im going to call any more witnesses. And so based on that, it seems like theyre not going to call them. But in trump world, you really dont know until the very last second, do you . And they really dont have to tell us du that very last second. Now, if he doesnt, it will put a lot more weight on Michael Cohens testimony. And today cohens credibility, its quite another hit with the revelation that he had stolen money from the Trump Organization more on that in a new york minute. But there was another person on the hot seat today this time and i rolling sayyed, giving witness who annoyed the judge so much . The judge cleared the courtroom to dress him down. Im talking about robert costello, a former adviser and Michael Cohen and took the stand for the defense today and describe an april 2018 meeting that he had with cohen about the Stormy Daniels payments. Now, from t
Going to start in the us. Protests over the war in gaza have come to a head, with angry and sometimes violent scenes at campuses on both the east and west coasts. Take a look at these pictures. These are clashes at the university of california, los angeles campus. This was the early hours of wednesday morning, just a a few moments ago. A pro palestinian encampment has grown in size in recent days, as has the group of pro israeli protesters. There have been clashes between the two sides. These pictures are not live but we have been watching these pictures over the last couple of hours as they have been fed into us here at the bbc. Violence escalated around 11pm here at the bbc. Violence escalated around pm local time. It is now a around pm local time. It is now a a few hours after that. These are some of the most recent pictures we have. Dylan winward is a Student Journalist at the daily bruin, uclas student newspaper. He told me more about what has happened on campus. From 10. 50 this
Multiple occasions where fireworks were thrown inside the camp. We dont have any handle yet on the number of injuries or the number of arrests or the seriousness or nature of any damage but you can see clearly at large groups of people involved in those protests. We will be keeping across those images, as well as what has been happening in Columbia University through the night, which is in new york. Lots and lots of arrests as the police went into one of the University Buildings after the university called the police in because they said it was an escalation to far to be occupying a building. Arrests have been made. The demands of the pro Palestinian Groups of students in universities right across the us is, of course, their primary focus is, of course, their primary focus is what is happening in gaza but also demanding their own universities take actions on things like untangling any financial or academic links they have with israel. Also want an amnesty in many cases for anyone invol
These are the pictures right now. The Vice Chancellor of the University Says there have been horrific acts of violence, adding the police have been called in. Fireworks were reportedly thrown at one of the camps and pepper spray has been used as barriers surrounding the south were torn down. A Pro Palestinian encampment has grown in size in recent days, as has the group of pro israeli protesters. Dylan winward is a Student Journalist at the daily bruin, uclas student newspaper. He told me more about developments on campus. From 10. 50 this evening, Counter Protesters turned up as they have been doing for the last couple of days to disrupt the encampment. We know as well they fired off fireworks towards the encampment and there has been tear gas used on site. One of our reporters got tear gassed this evening as well. So that is what is currently going on there. We know that campus has requested a Police Presence from across the city to come in and from the latest ive just heard, they ar