The first night of passover. Any violence will not be tolerated, any Property Damage will not be tolerated. The Cbs Evening News starts now. Good evening, and thank you for being with us, i am maurice dubois, norah is on assignment, we will get to the protest on College Campuses in just a moment but we begin with the first witness taken the stand in the historic criminal trial of a former president of the united states. Donald trump, the Presumptive Republican nominee is charged with 34 Felony Counts of falsifying Business Records linked to socalled Hush Money Payments to cover up an alleged affair with an adult porn star. In opening statements, prosecutors accused trump of taking part in a criminal conspiracy to interfere with the 2016 election, but Defense Attorneys to claim that did nothing wrong and claimed that the prosecution are liars with bias against the former president. Robert costa was inside the courthouse and starts us off tonight. Its a very, very sad day in america. Reporter former President Trump falsely claimed he was the target of election and the parents, the democrats in washington had orchestrated his indictment to keep him off the campaign trail. I should be in georgia now, i should be in florida now. But prosecutors told the jury that donald trump had forced a scheme to interrupt the 2016 election. Pointing to the 2015 meeting as trump and Michael Cohen and then National Enquirer publisher david packer where they worked out a plan to conceal Public Information with former adult film star stormy daniels, all of which trump denies. And you had sex with him . Yes. Where you physically attracted to him . Reporter cohen admitted paying Daniels Money To prosecutors today called it to the porn star payoff. Its k says to bookkeeping, which is a very minor thing. Reporter in court his attorney said that trump committed no crime, saying i have a spoiler alert, theres nothing wrong with trying to influence an election. Its called democracy. Cbs news legal analyst Rikki Klieman said that today was one of the most important moments in the criminal trial. There are studies that say that 80 of jurors minds are made up at the end of the opening statements. Reporter is the prosecutions first witness, and buried brief testimony did not discuss the 2015 2015 Meeting H Trump and cohen, but acknowledge to pay for storied calling checkbook journalism. Instead the courtroom to the was austere and grim with trump mostly mom as he watched the proceedings, but inside his inner circle there is real fear that this jury could convict h him. Maurice. And robert costa at the criminal courthouse in lower manhattan, thank you. Now to those escalating protests on College Campuses across the country. The president of Columbia University taking the extraordinary step of moving Classes Online due to Safety Concerns for jewish students. The white house condemning the unrest calling it blatantly antisemitic and dangerous. Cbss meg oliver reports. Tension and concerns about safety continue to embroil Columbia University with classes remote only, some jewish students and faculty save the environment has only escalated. The jewish students are petrified to go to campus. Reporter for the past six days, hundreds of propalestinian demonstrators including jewish students have occupied the school squad demanding the school divest from Companies Funding israel. Antisemitism is a huge problem in the united states, but antizionism and antisemitism are two different things. Reporter late this afternoon President Biden denounced antisemitism. I deny antistepanek protest, thats why i have set up a program to deal with that. And also understand those not understanding what is going on and the palestinians. Reporter it has spread to multiple universities including the university of michigan, mit, and why you and ambers in a ball stand. 60 people have been arrested at yale since the start of the protest. Orthodox jew, the editor in chief of the yale free press says demonstrators surrounded her on campus while she was reporting over the weekend. So they started taunting me and giving me their Middle Finger and yelling in my face, and until one of them waved his palestinian flag in my face and then jabbed me with it in my left eye. Reporter with passover starting at sundown, columbia has more than doubled its security presence, the nypd has also stepped up controls outside and for the foreseeable future only students and staff are allowed on campus after scanning their ids. Maurice. Maurice meg oliver, thank you. Moving overseas, the head of israels Military Intelligence resigned over the Security Failures that led to the hamas attack last fall. It is the first highlevel resignation stemming from the deadliest attack in that countrys history, meantime israeli officials are criticizing an expected move by the Biden Administration to blacklist one of its army battalions. Here cbss debora patta. Reporter the u. S. Is investigating the battalion made up of ultraolder docs soldiers who are accused of Human Rights Violations in the Israeli Occupied waistband. After 87yearold american Palestinian Omar assad was found dead after being detained at a Checkpoint By israeli soldiers. Mahmud abu a dude was also arrested, he said he found him face down in the dirt blindfolded. They called for help from the village dr islam abuzaher, eventually presuming him dead. He cannot walk probably come he did not make any kind of risk for soldiers. Reporter the possibility of blacklisting has intensified its guarantee of the Israeli Military since october 7, 5 million palestinians have been killed in the west bank. This idf footage shows a Counterterrorism Operation that killed 14 militants. After the idf pulled out, this is what they left in their wake. This massive destruction, and residents here say they have seen nothing like this before. Israeli bulldozers smash their homes and shops, tour of roads, severed pumps and power lines cutting cutting off electricity and water. A decision on the Netsvah Yehuda Battalion is expected this week, Secretary Blinken denied double standards when it came to israel and said that there were ongoing investigations into allegations of Human Rights Violations in gaza. Maurice. Its been on many things to debora patta and Eastern Jerusalem become night. There is a proposed new gun law and tenancy that has both people fired up and speaking out. Cbss Mark Strassmann reports from nashville on the controversial plan to allow teachers to carry guns. This is what democracy looks like reporter tennessee schoolers skip school to take protest at a proposed gun law they say takes aim at them that would allow teachers to carry guns in the classroom. The future of our state is at stake. Reporter they have the poses, but they dont have the votes. Earlier this month, Tennessee StateSenate Approved a bill allowing teachers and school staff to carry handguns. To reporters its a deterrent. We are not trained astute student, but protect them from an active shooter. Reporter it took a dramatic turn when london lamar spoke out while cradling her eightmonth son. Im mad because this puts my child at risk. Reporter there are prohibited laws from carrying guns, but they come in a city still reeling from last years horrific Mass Shooting at the covenant school. Three students and three Staff Members were killed. It ignited calls for the reform of state gun laws, but opponents say, not with this law. You feel that students are at risk with this bill . Absolutely, absolutely. We are putting a job on the teacher that they should never have. Reporter but tennessees republican lawmakers are sticking to their guns. Where they may only have two deputies on shift, this bill tries to fix that problem and protect children. Reporter if the bill passes, the republican Super Majority in the house, tennessees governor seems poised to sign it. Maurice. Maurice intensity on both sides, Mark Strassmann, thank you. Now to a Supreme Court case that could have an impact on more than the 650,000 americans experiencing homelessness. The justices heard arguments today on anticamping laws and grants pass oregon to make it illegal to sleep in public places. The courts liberal justices suggested the city is criminalizing homelessness while several conservative justices suggested lawmakers should be the one setting the rules. The decision is expected in june. Tonight a cbs news investigation into the dark and dangerous side of Online Dating. This week we will look at the threat affecting Tens Of Thousands of americans largely in secret. Cbss jim axelrod meets a daughter whose mother was ensnared in a romance scam that cost are far more than her life savings. Reporter gao is a daughter of searching for answers. I have an appointment with detective jeff phillips. Reporter with what happened to her mother laura kowal, 57yearold retired Health Care Executive who was widowed in 2015 and move from chicago to the small town of galena, illinois, to start her next chapter. I love you, honey. She had all of these buckets full in her life, but there was one bucket that was missing of having a relationship. Relationship. Reporter so laura like three in ten adults have done turn to Online Dating, creating a profile on match. Com. Reporter it felt safer to do it that way then to go to a bar and meet somebody. Reporter Online Dating felt safer. Yes. Reporter she match with someone who called themselves frank borg and chose these two pictures stolen from a Chill Leyland doctor. He claimed to be a swedish businessman. Clearly my mom felt the emotions of feeling loved and i know that there are a lot of people out there, saying, how could that happen . Reporter 64,000 americans were taken by more than A Billion Dollars by Romance Scammers last year. More than double the 500 million it was just four years before. Reporter im calling in regards to your mother. Reporter when kelly got a call from a federal investigator who may have been involved in a fraud scam kelly, deputy sheriff, its nice to meet you. She raced to her moms home only to find a mt. You mustve been freaking out. I was. Age search for a missing woman was seen on friday. Reporter turning the house upside down, kelly found emails detailing a fraudulent Investment Scheme involving a fake Company Called guice investments. Cbs news reviewed hundreds of emails from the scammer laying out an elaborate scheme over the course of nearly two years, frank convinced laura to send him a million and a half dollars, but Goose Investments was not real. Frank was not real. And buried in a file cabinet was this note from kellys mom. Ive been living a double life, yes, it involves frank, i tried to stop this, but i knew i would end up dead. Lauras body was found in the Mississippi River more than 200 miles away, somewhere kelly said she had never been, the medical examiner called it death by drowning, never ruling homicide or suicide. I had a lot of questions for the Sheriffs Department down in missouri that was responsible for the recovery of her body. Reporter dissatisfied with the response from law enforcement, kelly began investigating herself, tracing the possible routes of where her mothers car was seen on surveillance tape. Reporter the Service Station here captured your moms vehicle. Yes. Reporter getting answers is now kellys lifes work. Reporter it was not until i learned that i was going to be a mom myself, and have a daughter that i knew that one day she would know the full story of how her grandmother passed away and ultimately, her grandmother story could save someones life. Maurice so many questions, as kelly asks, how could her smart successful mom be scammed out of her life savings, tomorrow on cbs mornings from what authorities believe was franks home base, we will meet a former Romance Scammer and west africa. And tomorrow night on the Cbs Evening News we will have a sinister twist when the victim actually becomes complicit in the crime. Maurice so many questions is right, looking forward to it, jim, thank you. A woman facing possible criminal charges after a horrific chat dont crash into a Childs Birthday Party. We will have the details next. Looking for a smarter way to mop . Try the swiffer powermop. An allinone cleaning tool, with a 360degree swivel head that goes places a regular mop just cant. Mop smarter with the swiffer powermop. Shingles. Some describe it as an intense burning sensation, or an unbearable itch. This painful, blistering rash can disrupt your life for weeks and could make it hard to be there for your loved ones. 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