Thank you all so much for joining us. Well see you back here tomorrow for special coverage of trumps trial. 9 30 a. M. Eastern, right now seen a news night with abby phillip starts echoes of the vietnam era for this generations protest movement. Thats tonight on newsnight good evening. Im abby phillip in new york tonight, americas universities are losing control of their campuses suspensions, arrest, tear gas. Schools across the map are cracking down now on propalestinian protests but should they or by doing so, are they setting a precedent that undercuts a Fundamental American Tradition and an american right. Breaking tonight, cnn, with this dozens of arrests at the University Of Texas Austin Campus were officers are apparently using force to take people into custody students from inside and encampment. There are alleging that Police Deployed mace and other socalled chemical munitions. Now, take a look at where this is happening. Just over the last two weeks, columbia is the epicenter
Country could use a good shutdown. This is one of those deals where the president doesnt want to shut down, republicans dont want to shut down. The house passed a bill to prevent a shutdown, and its solely up to Senate Democrats led by senator schumer who used to call this governmental chaos. I think if i had to say what the main hold up in all of this is the lack of willingness on the part of republicans in congress to support a domestic agenda increase as they support a military increase. And the president himself piling on this morning with an attack on democrats, tweeting, quote, government funding bill passed last night in the house of representatives now democrats are needed if it is to pass in the senate. But they want illegal immigration and weak borders. Shutdown coming . We need more republicans in 2018. Joining us for the latest on where things stand, jeff bennett is with us from the white house, and eric is with us from capitol hill. At the table the New York Times politica
Turning 50. Lets go outfront. Outfront out of control, secret society exists in congress is there. Spread publicly a story about two fbi officials who were having an affair texting about a secret society. Heres the text between fbi lawyer lisa page and fbi agent peter strzok. Are you even going to give tout your calendars . Seems kind of depressing. Maybe it should be the first meeting of the secret society. Well, if you are not sure exactly what the two officials are talking about, you are not alone. Because that lacked so much context. It did not, however, stop many republicans from going hog wild about what they thought or hoped the text meant. There is a Text Exchange between these two fbi agents, these two supposed to be objective fact centric fbi ates saying perhaps this is the first meeting hft secret society. So of course im going to want to know what secret society are you talking about. The Text Messages between strzok and page which you just mentioned in the intro are very d
130,000 payment . Bombshell details the lengths and expense Attorney Michael Cohen went to protect the president. Plus, back fire from Rudy Giuliani may have exposed the president to even more legal risks. In addressing the nra, president trumble touts protecting the Second Amendment and then doubles down on the protecting the schools. Lets get right now to the new pictures getting them out of cleveland. The president arriving just a few minutes ago. Hes going to spend the day campaigning ahead of tuesdays hotly contested primary elections there. But the president leaves behind in washington the fall jot over the alleged payment to Stormy Daniels. Now two people familiar with the payment arrangement told the New York Times that President Trump knew about it months before he denied to reporters on air force one last month. Although it was not immediately clear when exactly the president learned of the payment. We have several reporters in place with all of the latest developments. Nbcs