President biden and netanyahu of israel are expected to speak by phone about rafah today. Well bring you any news of that as it happens. Taking away my constitutional rights. Im not allowed to answer that question. This has never happened in this country before. It is a ridiculous thing. A ridiculous case. I did nothing wrong. The judge is totally conflicted. And you want to take a look at it. Im not supposed to be talking about it. But i am allowed to say that the judge has a conflict like nobody has ever had before. You have to take a look at it. He has taken away my constitutional right to speak. Dana former President Trump entering Court Minutes ago. The judge already threatening him with jail saying the 1 thousand fines for violating his gag order dont seem to be working. Now we have that to think about. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom, im dana perino. Good morning. Good morning. Im bill hemmer. Good morning at home. Waiting to see who the witness will be. Jeff mcconnie
Courtroom right now. We do anticipate at some point Michael Cohen will take the stand. We say that each day because we dont have the witness list but we know he is a prime one for them and it could be any moment. Or another day. A former Trump Organization executive is on stand at this moment. And we will bring you all the details as they unfold during our coverage on The Faulkner Focus all hour long. Keep a close watch on that box on your right because it has some realtime notes and things that are coming out of the courtroom for our journalists and producers. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in The Faulkner Focus. Breaking right now, Columbia University has capitulated to the mob. Theyve caved. Can you imagine paying 588,000 for four years for your kid to go to school there for four years and they cancel commencement . We still dont know what they are doing with the end of the year school tests, the finals. It is still a mystery, all of it. But today those kids will not have a Graduati
After having his 2020 rape conviction overturned on appeal last week. Weinstein s conviction was seen as a historic milestone for the me too movement, which saw hundreds of men accused of sexual misconduct. Floridas six week abortion ban has come into force, closing the door for now on the last major Abortion Access point in the us south. The new legislation replaces an existing 15 week law. Pro choice campaigners say the ban will push an overstretched system to the brink. Parliament in georgia has provisionally approved controversial new legislation, despite violent protests and clashes with police. The foreign agents law requires organisations to state whether theyre funded from abroad. Welcome to the programme. The Student Protests in america are not the anti apartheid protests of the 80s this isnt 1968, either. Yes, the university of columbia, has an honoured place in the history of american protest but in previous protests, the students were in it together, this is something diff
They should have seen it. Antiisrael protesting on campuses across america are not so peaceful after all. Explosion of violence and destruction after days of Building Tension and encampments blew its top. Police sweeping in to restore order but many agitators, protestors, students and whoever is there as a big old crowd has vowed they are coming back. So some questions now. How exactly we got here. And to whom do we hold acceptable and how . What about accountability . I can tell you none of it is acceptable. Lets find out who is paying for it. Im harris faulkner. You are in the faulkner focus. A look at the chaos, just last night. The university of california los angeles, lets start there. [shouting] harris Protest Groups are fighting among themselves. People can get killed like this. We all know that. The adults in the room that the left is talking about. They arent out there. Thats for certain. So as that was going on fireworks ignited People Wielding sticks University Leaders calle
All of those stories coming up in a moment. Before we go to ben thompson, i want to show the live pictures from washington because he seemed pretty much set up there, we are expecting about four or five senators in the next few minutes to come to the microphone to condemn those protests we have seen at Different University campuses, certainly of the last few weeks, but more focused on what we saw overnight, both at ucla and at Columbia University in new york. So when that starts we will obviously return to washington. That gives us time to bring in ben thompson. He is herewith todays business needs. Good afternoon, what do you have for us . Lets move these things out of the way, i can actually see you extract thanks very much. Yes, we will start in washington, actually, and we will keep an eye on the stories you are talking about there as well, but we are looking at the worlds most powerful central bank of the big question of whether it will cut the cost of borrowing this year. That ha