When he was called up by the bronx bombers, he replaced a 19 year old mickey mantle, who was optioned for aaa and he became roommates with yogi berra. Hows that for friday ticker. Thanks to our panel. Tnks to you for joining us. Im kasie hunt, Cnn News Central starts right now f is four friday and breaking this morning, damage control, Donald Trumps lawyers try to mitigate the dramatic, tawdry testimony from the first witness in the criminal hush money is it possible adult film star Stormy Daniels takes the stand today protests and golfing College Campuses, College Professors getting arrested and now one university is canceling their main Graduation Ceremony at tiktok fights back the wildly social media app does. It will not be sold out through a law that could lead to a nationwide ban. Real that bad happened. Im sorry, sided with john berman and kate bolduan. This is Cnn News Central this morning. How much damage was done, how much can be undone . A critical moment in the falsified documents, Criminal Trial against donald trump shortly we will. See david pecker, the man who ran the National Enquirer back on the stand. This will be the meat of the crossexamination after pecker testified in vivid detail how he buried bad stories about donald trump in vivid detail about how trump would keep asking about the Playboy Playmate with whom he allegedly had an affair and in vivid detail, a conversation that trump had about Stormy Daniels with david pecker. Now, remember, trump is charged with Falsifying Business Documents to hide Hush Money Payments to daniels today, we expect that offense to question peckers memory and also suggests that there was nothing unusual about the catch and kill arrangement he had with trump. We can also see the next witness today. Will it be Stormy Daniels herself and really any moment now, trump could be found in contempt for violating the gag order. Lets get right to cnns kaitlan, polands for the latest on what we will see this morning. Kayla well, john, we dont know who the next witness will be, but we have more testimony from david pecker first, there will be more questioning of him from Donald Trumps defense team, and then the prosecutors will get another shot to ask him little bit more of his their questions for him but in his initial round of testimony, the prosecutors used him to lay out the full ark of the scheme and the motivation of donald trump to catch negative stories about him before the 2016 election and kill them, catch and kill in this ark, we her learned quite a bit about Karen Mcdougal that is the first woman that came to the National Enquirer or with a story to tell about an alleged affair that trump and his team denied. David pecker testified that he had Michael Cohen in the loop. He had a conversation with donald trump about Karen Mcdougals story, and then the National Enquirer to the bosses pleasure thats trump decided to pay for that story and bury it so it would not be published before the 2016 election. He then testified about another type of very similar situation with a different outcome, where Stormy Daniels hills came to the National Enquirer pecker looped in Michael Cohen, let them know. Hes not going to be paying for that. The National Enquirer wouldnt be buying Stormy Daniels story and he testified that Michael Cohen told him that donald trump would be furious the National Enquirer wasnt helping underlining all of this is david pecker testifying over and over again that he clearly understood trump had motivations to protect his campaign at that time. That their relationship shifted, that the way that they were buying stories and burying them shifted once donald trump came a president ial candidate, and that he understood at the National Enquirer as the former chairman of the Company Running that that buying Karen Mcdougals could potentially be problematic for Campaign Finance reasons. A key point for the prosecutors case and where are we in the gag order . Donald trump could be held in contempt odyssey caitlyn yeah. Well, the prosecutors wanted donald trump held in contempt. Have that hearing earlier in the week because of ten violations that they had collected that they believe when beyond what the judge is allowing donald trump to say publicly about witnesses and jurors specifically, we dont ever resolve on that yet because the judge hasnt said what hes going to do. If trump is held in contempt, if he should be fined or have some other punishment or sanction then prosecutors yesterday it came into court and said he keeps doing it. Heres an example about david pecker on the stand as trump walked into court or was in manhattan speaking to reporters yesterday morning all right you lot of david peckers testimony so far one last time very nice david been very nice and nice guy. Theres going to be a hearing next thursday about this, and prosecutors say that is an example of Donald Donald trump using his platform to make it clear hes going to comment on witnesses as they come through the courtroom. Jon, katelyn polantz. Thank you very much for that report. It promises to be an interesting morning. Slowly and on top of that, theres also the question and the issue of donald trump potentially testifying himself. He said last week he wants to unsurprisingly, though he is now this morning entering more of a gray area on well hear wonky and while that isnt clear, what is clear is donald trump would like the crowd outside the courthouse to be bigger cnns Alayna Treene is following this one. Shes joining us now what is donald trump saying about on this question of testifying that what is actually changing his to tibet, as you pointed out, Kate Last Night while speaking during an interview on newsmax, donald trump said that he would testify if it was necessary, and that is a shift from what he said in the past last week, he said that he wanted to testify. He repeated that the week before. And so clearly, i think there are conversations happening behind the scenes about whether or not his testimony would actually benefit him. Now, take a listen to how he put it in that interview well i if its necessary right now, i dont know if you heard about today. Today was just incredible people are saying the experts, im talking about legal scholars, an experts. They say, what kind of a cases is, there is no case now, kate, i do just want to give you some context here. We have heard donald trump in several of his trials. And also when speaking about his criminal indictments, more generally, saying that he wants to testify, he did this in his civil fraud trial. In other trials with the e v. E jean carroll defamation case, saying that he wants to take the stand and at some points he did briefly, but for the most part, he normally says this and then backs off and thats kind of what were seeing happen here. You attorneys have repeatedly told him this might not be a good idea, and especially in this case where you have this gag order in place, it could complicate things for him further on this one, staying true to form at least for now, alumina hes also complained about not being able to campaign because he has to be in the courtroom. But now Campaign Stops are being planned. Yeah they are. So next wednesday, donald trump is expected to hold to rallies on wednesday, one of the days that he is not required to be in core. Hes expected to travel to wisconsin first and then to michigan of course two, very crucial joel battlegrounds and its interesting because we havent really seen him campaign that much so far. Weve heard donald trump repeatedly criticized the judge, criticize this trial for what he says is keeping him off the campaign trail. However, there are days that he has been able to travel. Wednesdays, saturdays and sundays. He is not in court or forced to be in new york, but he hasnt really used that opportunity too much to campaign. He tried to do one rally last weekend in North Carolina and they had to cancel that at the last minute because of weather, but otherwise, he hasnt been campaigning that much. So i think well see whether these trips on wednesday and to being more of a regular thing for him. But as of now, hes really trying to maximize as much on the trail as he can, while also being in new york we will say its great to see you. Thank you so much, sir. All right. Coming up, professors are among those arrested and dramatic video from the campus of Emory University in atlanta protests over the war in gaza expand to colleges nationwide. We are live at Columbia University where the Police Presence there has tripled overnight were also getting our first Satellite Image of the us militarys effort to build a pier to deliver desperately needed aid in gaza. Details on when that it will be operational. And it was a quest for quarterbacks for the First Time Ever five quarterbacks got picked in the top ten of the nfl draft. 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Two professors were among those detained the protest are resonating overseas as well with students and parents staging a sitin in solidarity and usc in los angeles has now canceled its main stage Graduation Ceremony over Safety Concerns as its campus remains closed, cnns Polo Sandoval is live outside Columbia University in new york city where the sweeping protests Movement Began and got quite entrenched. Polo, the New York Times reporting this morning, the University President faces a Faculty Senate vote over the handling of this crisis. What can you tell us about that . You are really important points, sarah days into this and hes wide sweeping protests in it all really started here. Now, after some initial ports about the potential deadline between the negotiations that are happening between the leaders of the propalestinian and cabinet and university officials. We heard a little bit more clarity from some of those students yesterday saying that thats really more of a timeline versus a deadline in these ongoing negotiations. And i should add negotiations at both sides maintain progress is active surely being made, so they have not reached a stalemate days into this, its important to remind viewers what the objectives are here when you hear from the students, they insist that divestment and also so looking for amnesty for the students that have been punished for participating in some of these demonstrations. Thats one of the key goals. The university really just wants us and cabinet just mantle feared that could potentially interfere with activities on campus, especially as we get closer to commitment next month in terms of what weve heard from some of those participating in this, she goes seasons, we are told that they are focused and they are also quite friendly according to when negotiators and then some new reporting from our colleague, abbey washer that suggested that there really tells us a little bit more about what happened last night at the encampment that students participating in that in cabinet were told that part of negotiations include a possible statement it may be issued by the University President , possibly addressing the events of last week. You recall thats when columbia actually reached out to the nypd are helping clearing out any cash but ill see has reached out to Columbia University for more, but that really paints a little bit of a clearer picture in terms of where Negotiation Stand between, between both parties here and what may be in the way that again, some positive news what we heard from both sides, youre saying that they are making progress then in the lessons in terms of what weve actually heard from the university, they are very clear in saying we have our objective victims and they have theirs. And as we heard from the university, sarah, they also said that the president of diversity certainly hopeful negotiations are successful. That same time, they are also preparing to consider other options in restoring calm. Now, finally, i should mention, weve been allowed on campus everyday for a couple of hours since it is st