After officers began tearing down encampment on the campus of George Washington university. Todd demonstrators can be heard calling police pigs, shoving into them as d. C. Metro force tries to keep the situation calm. Police had to use pepper spray. Things started to spiral. Carley pepper spray there. Dozens of protesters caught in chaos throughout the night. Lucas tomlinson joins us with all the details. Lucas. Lucas good morning, carley and todd, this began about 3 30 this morning after weeks of this encampment on the campus of George Washington university. Police rolled in to clear the encampment. Spray was deployed and tents cleared out. Protesters have moved from the gw campus, one block away at western mark on the corner of opinion pen and 20th street, five blocks from the nations capitol. This is ahead of congressional testimony today. George Washington University president , mayor bowser are supposed to appear before james comer this afternoon. Before they go to capitol hill, t
Its 6 00 a. M. On the east coast. May 8th, 2024. Our lead story this morning is a fox news alert. Cops in d. C. Clashing with protesters, arresting at least close to 3 dozen as they clear the encampment at George Washington university. [bleep] [bleep] [shouting] [bleep] [bleep] of course, all this happened just hours before d. C. s mayor and police chief head to capitol hill to testify about why they didnt clean things up. Steve, its just a coincidence. Probably right. Plus, a fox weather alert, tornadoes causing all kinds of chaos for our friends in the midwest, for a second day in a row. Even trapping 50 people inside a fedex facility and in a bit of a segue stretch. Stormy on the stand. The judge denying a mistrial but warning prosecutors during her prejudicial testimony and that the view by the way is giddy over the thought of donald trump going behind bars. I dont want this to sound like im doing wishful thinking. Yes. But, which prison would be best . What about Guantanamo Bay .
Politics. The Us Government could runs out of money at midnight saturday, House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy unable to contain the most fervent trump republicans in his caucus. Is donald trump pulling the strings, intent on Sewing Dysfunction . The former president is in South Carolina this hour, emboldened by new polling which shows him getting stronger. We will put that to our panel the guardians Whitehall Editor Rowena Mason and ian bremmer, the president and founder of the eurasia group. Theyll give us a view on the crisis facing armed policing on both sides of the pond. And Industrial Action in the midwest, more train strikes here britain. Is it purely a cost of living crisis or is the system rigged against the ordinary worker . Good evening. There is no disputing that, despite all his legal problems, President Trump is the front runner in the republican president ial primary and running joe biden close in National Polling 14 months out. This poll has them neck and neck, both at 46 . Th
Manafort faces. The judge told them to get back to work though. So could it mean we are any closer to a verdict. But we start with some Breaking News. An nbc news exclusive. Former trump personal Attorney Michael Cohen is discussing a plea deal with federal prosecutors. One that could come as early as this afternoon. Thats according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke with nbc news. Tom winter is the nbc news investigations reporter who helped break the story. Our guest is a former u. S. District attorney for the Southern District of new york which is conducting the cohen investigation. Let me begin with you, tom, lay this out. What else did the sources say . How close the possibility of seeing some kind of deal emerge today . Sure. So ayman, as ellie can probably well tell you, no prosecutor counts their chickens and counts a plea deal until they have it. Then insigned. And the person is in court. I think were still a little a ways away from that, based upon
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himself is wanting to pursue it further. he has asked for a leak inquiry to try to establish how his wife s tax status became public, we understand that we league inquiry is now under way, and sources close to the chancellor went there could be legal implications for making someone a s tax status public like that. whatever happens with this league inquiry going forward, there are still questions about how the chancellor handled this entire situation. despite the fact that he did tell the cabinet office when he became a minister that his wife had this non dom status, that the treasury was aware in case of conflict of interest. many questioning if it was right for his wife to have these arrangements, his family to have these arrangements, at a time that he was increasing tax on everyone across the uk. a point put to the policing minister at mulhouse this morning, speaking to the bbc, and he did say, he was stressing, that all rules were followed by akshata murthy, but he did feel that pe