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today, my friend. court is in recess. that does it for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. i ll see you back here for katy tur reports. chris jansing reports starts right now. good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. a price to be paid in triplicate. today, the judge tells donald trump you re in contempt, slaps him with a $9,000 fine and threatens jail. and that s even before witness and documents are offered as proof of the payments at the heart of the felony charges against trump. plus, with big names like michael cohen and stormy daniels still expected to take the stand, where exactly are we in the story that prosecutors are weaving and which witnesses are key to advancing it? and an attorney who argued cases in that same courthouse will explain. and as trump s legal issues grow, will the political peril expand with it? trump and his allies now face trial in a majority of november s battleground states as he continues the ....
so, at times we have heard from this president. we haven t heard from him in recent days. don t know if he will pop up to a microphone during this break. but we will be all over it if and when that should happen. earlier, the defense and prosecution teams were questioning michael cohen s former banker and previous to that, the judge issued the president with a hefty fine, a thousand dollars per violation for that the judge said happened per his gag order. he also threatened possible jail time for any further violations of a gag order. the president is the only one under a gag order in this entire case. not the convicted professional liar, michael cohen, former president trump is. it s day nine of the trial. trump faces 34 counts of falsifying business records and those counts are in connection with to payments back in 2016 allegedly to cover up an extramarital affair earlier today at the courthouse. not on the campaign trail. six months is pretty close. november 5th i ....
good morning, it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific, i m josé diaz-balart. we begin this busy hour with escalating tensions across college campuses nationwide. hundreds of demonstrators have been arrested as students across the country protest israel s war against hamas in gaza. local police moved in on some of the student encampments as some universities urged protesters to disperse. the university of georgia confirmed police arrested protesters who had set up tents on that campus. there s no sign these demonstrations are slowing down. just this morning, the president of columbia university in new york said the school will not divest from israel. she added, quote, one group s rights to express their views cannot come at the expense of another group s right to speak, teach, and learn. joining us now, nbc s antonia hylton live from columbia s campus. good morning, what s it like on campus to today? reporter: good morning, jose. well, there s a standoff really ha ....
meanwhile, those who need it most have little faith and lawmakers, i would say most likely than not going to do anything beacon past things with a drop of a dime. it afters on both sides of the party and you know, both parties agree there should be zero resistance and this should have been done yesterday. instead of people fearing rather losing this one day. jason carroll, cnn, eureka illinois breaking overnight arrests on college campuses as pro-palestinian protests grow across the country. the only thing standing between the people well, gaza and a ceasefire is hamas. new comments from secretary of state antony blinken after israel proposed what he calls an extremely for narrowly generous ceasefire deal, the damage is unbelievable. what one governor is saying as deadly, severe storms the country. sara is out, i m john berman with kate bolduan. this is cnn news central this morning, college graduations or right around the corner with pro-palestinian can t-miss set ....
and the debate over campus debates in a moment. but first, here s what s happening right now. columbia university is trying to clear the encampment on its main lawn to prepare for graduation ceremonies. it gave students a 2:00 p.m. deadline to leave or risk suspension. so far they have not left. with columbia s president saying in a statement, one group s rights to express their views cannot come at the expense of another group s right to speak, teach and learn. let us get right to the campus. joining us now is nbc news correspondent guad venegas. no, it s antonia hylton, i m sorry about that. also nbc news digital senior white house reporter, peter nicholas. sorry. antonia, talk to me about what you have seen. so far it doesn t look like anybody has left? reporter: they have not left, and if anything, they re emboldened at this point. as you can see behind me here, the encampment is still very much in tact. i have not seen a single tent come down. and actually, there ....