new york grand jury has voted to indict the former president of the united states. donald trump. this is the first time in us history the first time in us history that criminal charges have been filed against anyone who has served as president of the united states. the charges coming after the investigation of hush money paid to former adult film star stormy daniels to cover up her alleged affair with trump. this has huge implications not only for trump but also for the nation as the former president makes another run for the white house right now, our correspondents, analysts and contributors are all standing by as we cover this breaking story and what comes next paris canal is on the scene for us. let s go to your first year there in new york. you re watching all of this unfold. tell our viewers what else you re learning. well, that s right. we learned that in manhattan grand jury has returned an indictment against former president donald trump. as you said, the first time
Right. Thank you all for being with us this morning. A lot cnn Breaking News youre following Breaking News out of madison wisconsin. This is the scene at the University Of Wisconsin right now where police are clashing with protesters alleged show you what happened there just moments ago all right. Lets bring in chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst john miller. John, your reaction to what were looking at right now, we should show our viewers or point out to our viewers. Youre looking at live pictures of what looks like protesters sort of locking arms outside the Campus Library there at the campus of the University Of Wisconsin, madison, john, your sense of things as youre looking at all of this . Well, i think the theme of the de seems to be emerging as the University Fights back. We saw the Police Action last night in New York City, the retaking of a season hes building at Columbia University a couple of hundred arrests there and city college. And when you look at whats happe
Daily news who say officers announce they would arrest and suspend anyone who cannot leave campus after an antiisrael protest. There are also reports of arrests at Unc Chapel Hill and at Columbia University, Public Safety officers say only students who live on campus and essential workers are allowed on the School Grounds this after protesters took over Academic Building called Hamilton Hall, smashing the windows and bare cationd themselves inside. Lawrence according to reports, about a dozen protesters made it into the building with at least 200 blocking the entrance. Some hanging banners. Including one calling for intifada. Student protest group says they will continue investigating and occupy that building until the school meets their demands, which they already said they wont, which includes divesting Financial Holdings linked to israel. The president says no we are not going to do it. Brian thats not going to happen. What will happen. Bryan llenas joins us outside of columbias cam
Brian unbelievable. Protesters at Columbia University taking over an Academic Building on campus called Hamilton Hall. Smashing windows. Barricading themselves inside. Steve thats some of it right there. Happened a little after midnight. According to reports, about a dozen protesters made it into the building with at least 200 blocking the entrance linking arms and blocking the entrance. Some Hanging Banners including ones calling for in inintifada. Lawrence divest in Financial Holdings linked to israel. Ainsley bryan llenas joins us live now. Is he right outside of the campus. You can see him behind the gates. What are you experiencing . Ainsley, guys. Good morning. We are as close as we can get, unfortunately to Hamilton Hall. I would like to bring people right there but unfortunately this is a Private School with the gate. This is as close as we are right now. This is Hamilton Hall that has now been occupied by dozens of students. You can see one of those signs unfurled. It says fre
police officers in the nypd and large groups of them that are specially trained in disorder control. so this is something that they would want to maintain command and control over in a linear way, without bringing in outside entities, especially from outside the city. government manpower in new york has significant, so it s going to be a little tense. the next at least the next few days. is that right, john? well i think what you re going to have is the watching the intelligence bureau will be looking at social media to see what s gathering any kind of numbers. are around demonstrations that people say they re going to attend. they ll be looking at groups, of course, because you know, we learned lessons from january 6th. groups like the proud boys, the three percenters, the oath, keepers and so on. but, um i think that they re going to deploy precaution. precaution it li you know, around the courthouse for