not going to be tolerated. any property damage will not be tolerated. maurice: the cbs evening news starts now. good evening, and thank you for being with us. i am maurice dubois. nor is on assignment. we will get to those growing clashes and protest on college campuses in just a moment, but we begin tonight with the first witness taken the stand in the historic criminal trial of a former president of the united states. donald trump, the presumptive republican presidential nominee is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records linked to so-called hush money payments to cover up an alleged affair with an adult porn star. in opening statements, prosecutors accuse trump of taking part of a criminal conspiracy to interfere with the 2016 election. but defense attorneys claim trump did nothing wrong and argued that some of the prosecution witnesses are liars and biased against the former president. cbs s robert costa was inside the courthouse, and starts us
ukraine. let s make sure we are helping them win the war but certainly we need to track where those dollars are going. let s do the right thing, all come together in our own national defense interest. if republicans refuse to fund ukraine and russia takes that country they will be to blame. be like afghanistan was for joe biden. absolutely. brian: senator, thanks so much. i appreciate it? thank you, brian. go army. brian: i heard you taking a side there you are supposed to be fair and balanced. second hour of fox & friends begins right now what s up, guys? [cheers and applause] what s up? what s happening? how are you all doing? it s good to be in north carolina. okay. so, i have to ask you guys. how are we doing under joe biden with a show of hands who thinks we are doing a great job? [boos] lawrence: who thinks we are not so oak job. who was better off four years ago? [cheers and applause] that s why we hear donald trump is going to be doing a big town h
& friends with a fox news alert, again. the israeli defense forces say they have raided hamas general security headquarters overnight. they are now surrounding other areas of interest in northern gaza. ainsley: this comes as the israeli government is reportedly considering flooding the terrorist group s tunnels with the mediterranean sea water. brian: you just want to find out if the hostages are there though, right? trey yingst is live in southern israel. trey? yeah, hey, guys, good morning. we are following this report from the wall street journal indicating that israel is considering flooding the tunnel network at least of northern gaza with sea water from the mediterranean sea. they have reportedly placed five large pumps near the camp in the northern part of gaza. and they are waiting to see if they will actually move forward with this plan. but it is significant to discuss because, if they do this, it would destroy the tunnel network but it also risks damaging
but don t worry there are going to be good people who come back up and put those signs up after her. steve: i know i was thawing to somebody upstairs in the newsroom. i know there are people here in new york city. they are trying to keep the city clean. historically they just take down posters and stuff like that. but this is different. yeah. this is obviously very different. steve: not like a dog missing or call this person for chinese food or something like that people feel they can rip down posters of kidnapped people. a classmate of mine, her cousin kidnapped. see students and crazy lady tearing down these signs, it s insane. steve: and you have been with us talking about the atmosphere on campus in the green room you just told me that at hunter college, and here in the new york city area, a number of college female students have transferred out of their school to go to a specifically jewish university because it s safer there. yeah. that s right women s school