speaker. she bluffing let s go out front and good evening. i m erin burnett outfront tonight. the breaking news protesters and police facing off as tensions are running high at universities across the united states tonight colleges and universities are now cracking down and pro-palestinian protesters who have taken over some of the campus this is let me just show you some of the dramatic live pictures what you re looking at here. this massive crowd is in texas, police in riot gear can be seen moving in earlier, tearing down barriers and forcefully arresting students. this was the university of texas at austin. those students have been camped out on campus and at least 40 students we understand at ut austin were reportedly taken into custody meantime, in new york, protesters are defining a mandatory deadline to tear down bear and camp min and columbia university it gave the students until 2:00 this afternoon to pack it in, and they did not they defied that order. so now we are
like this isn t normal. this isn t what college is supposed to be. and we need to finally get the diminishes to remember a small fringe shouldn t ruined the experience for everyone. even as we do that, i ll just say, let s keep in mind, we ve got to have fears, hope for these hostages were still being held in gaza, as well as deep compassion for the palestinian civilians are suffering jonathan greenblatt. thank you. the news continues right here on cnn outright. next, the breaking news, police, a protest or spacing off tonight doesn t arrest in austin, texas. columbia university in chaos hundreds right now, defying a deadline to vacate the encampment plus trump s favorite network back-tracking. now pulling a salacious story about two major witnesses and trump hush money trial. could the false story impact the case? and she s back. marjorie taylor greene returning to the capital tonight, promising to kick out like johnson as speaker she bluffing. let s go out front and g
news out of columbia university in protests across the country are breaking news is going to continue here on sienna anand don t go anywhere. i m kasie hunt cnn news central it s right now breaking overnight here at columbia university, protesters breached an academic building. they are now inside barricading the doors as this protest here continues into a second week and back in core, donald trump returns to a manhattan courtroom just as there are new reports trump is mad at his lead attorney in lives shattered after four officers are killed in north carolina, we have new reporting on what put them in the line of fire i m john berman with kate bolduan and sarah sinnner. this is cnn news central cnn breaking news what again, with breaking news here at columbia university where things have ratcheted up because dozens of students were able to reach an academic building that you re seeing there, just behind me that is hamilton hall with guns are inside at the moment occupy t
university in many other colleges to divest them selves from can doing business with south africa these protests, outright next, the breaking news police and protesters facing off tonight dozens arrested at austin, texas columbia university and chaos. hundreds right now, defying a deadline to vacate the encampment. plus trump s favorite network back-tracking. now pulling a salacious story about two major witnesses in trump s hush money trial. could the false story impact the case and she s back, marjorie taylor-greene returning to the capital tonight, promising to pick out mike johnson as speaker. she bluffing. let s go out front and good evening. i m erin burnett outfront tonight. the breaking news protesters and police facing off as tensions are running high at universities across the united states tonight, colleges and universities are now cracking down and pro-palestinian protesters who have taken over some of the campuses. let me just show you some of the d
following these stories and so much more lead with jake tapper starts right now these cnn s breaking news walkability. and i m jake tapper. we start with breaking news stark scenes of division protest, arrests, and the time in this blatant antisemitism sweeping college campuses will bring you to the university of texas in austin in just a minute. we re police in riot gear just encircled a group of protesters. summer grass tebor reportedly been made, but first this afternoon at columbia university in new york, student protesters just blew past 2:00 p.m. deadline to clear the encampment or risk suspension or even expulsion, according to columbia administrators students circled the tenths as a group of student leaders addressed the crowd. take a listen you can see outside you now that are mobilized there s hundred of them here today. they will not be weak divest we will not be moved on rough by force right now, the new york police department is on standby waiting for an offici