Speaker. She bluffing lets go out front and good evening. Im Erin Burnett Outfront tonight. The Breaking News Protesters and police facing off as tensions are running high at universities across the United States tonight colleges and universities are now cracking down and propalestinian protesters who have taken over some of the campus this is let me just show you some of the dramatic live pictures what youre looking at here. This massive crowd is in texas, police in riot gear can be seen moving in earlier, tearing down barriers and forcefully arresting students. This was the university of texas at austin. Those students have been camped out on campus and at least 40 students we understand at ut austin were reportedly taken into custody meantime, in new york, protesters are defining a mandatory deadline to tear down bear and camp min and Columbia University it gave the students until 2 00 this afternoon to pack it in, and they did not they defied that order. So now we are learning this
Like this isnt normal. This isnt what college is supposed to be. And we need to finally get the diminishes to remember a small fringe shouldnt ruined the experience for everyone. Even as we do that, ill just say, lets keep in mind, weve got to have fears, hope for these hostages were still being held in gaza, as well as deep compassion for the Palestinian Civilians are suffering jonathan greenblatt. Thank you. The news continues right here on cnn outright. Next, the Breaking News, police, a protest or spacing off tonight doesnt arrest in austin, texas. Columbia university in Chaos Hundreds right now, defying a deadline to vacate the encampment plus trumps Favorite Network backtracking. Now pulling a salacious story about two major witnesses and trump Hush Money Trial. Could the false story impact the case . And shes back. Marjorie Taylor Greene returning to the capital tonight, promising to kick out like johnson as speaker she bluffing. Lets go out front and good evening. Im Erin Burne
With different degrees of success, there are juggling a lot. Freedom of expression students safety, alumni pressure, and of course, all of it driven by one of the worlds truly intractable conflicts. Wanna go first to cnns ed lavendera, the university of texas in austin. Were please just apparently using pepper spray on some in the crowd within the last hour. And whats the latest where you are just explain whats happening around you. Well, all of the protesters that were taken into custody, but we dont have an official number yet in a number of people arrested. But what we witnessed with several dozen protesters taken into custody once those people were moved off campus, Law Enforcement officers have now moved away from the scene. And this is what his left the massive Protest Scene there are still a few people here gathered in the exact same spot where much of this protest started earlier in the day. It was incredibly tense for some time We Saw State Troopers once again return here to t