Thank you all. That is all in on this tuesday night. Today donald trump was back in a court where hes facing 34 Felony Counts related to the Hush C Money Payments he paid t adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about an alleged affair and specifically to keep ms. Daniels quiet in the leadup to the 2016 election. Today the lawyer that negotiated that T Hush Money Agreement for Stormy Daniels, keith davidson, took the stand. And were going to get to that in justto a minute, but the big news out of todays trial happened before any witnesses actually b testified. Today the judge in this case, judge juan merchan, ruled on two matters pertaining to trump himself. One is that trump will be allowed to attend his very tall son barons graduation on may 17th, so he can look forward to that. The other matter was also somewhat of a win for donald trump. Today judge merchan found trump in Criminal Contempt for violating his gag order. The judge ruled that trump violated the gag order nine tim
I want to thank those for all they did to make this such a success. Not just this panel, but the entire event. I think it has been a wonderful example of how to commemorate a painful episode in this citys history. Thanks especially to jessica whose idea it was to do something for this commemoration. We met over lunch, and from there it grew. We partnered with Historic Columbia. Sponsoring this event also is the History Center at the university of South Carolina. Another contributor was the graduate school at the university of South Carolina. Thank all of you for your help and support. We brought four scholars together. We are meeting almost exactly at the time, 150 years ago, that the union troops were crossing the river and coming towards the city, toward that moment at 10 00 in the morning when the city was formerly surrendered. We are meeting right here on market street. I am not an expert on this event in civil war history. I have written a book on the civil war called the cause of