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dozens of people
detained earlier in Atlanta a State
Trooper was seen repeatedly tasing a man
at Emory University the Georgia
Department of Public Safety says the man
was resisting arrest after responding
officers were met with protesters who
threw bottles and refused to leave
adding Troopers deployed pepper balls to
control the unruly crowd but did not use
tear gas I saw police knock students to
the ground dozens of people also
detained at Emory including this
professor can you call theop
an office and tell them I’ve been
arrested across the country more than
400 people were detained yesterday on
dozens of campuses as Pro Palestinian
protesters demand schools divest from
companies that profit from ties to
Israel protesters near Chicago Now
setting up tents at Northwestern
University officials say school policy
prohibits the encampment but protesters
formed a human chain to prevent police
from pushing through in Southern
California an encampment at UCLA has
grown to hundreds of
people and you USC has now canceled
their main graduation ceremony due to
the
protests these protests started at
Columbia University last week the
school’s deadline for protesters to
disperse has passed talks are still
going on overnight the Biden
Administration has decided not to
sanction three Israeli military
battalions accused of human rights
violations in the West Bank Secretary of
State Anthony blinkin made the Assurance
in a letter to house Speaker Mike
Johnson linkoln says Israel is taking
steps to address the alleged abuses so
us Aid will not be held back now to the
Supreme Court and the arguments over
former president Trump’s claim of
immunity in the January 6th election
interference case all of this playing
out during his criminal trial in New
York ABC’s J obrien has the latest J Jay
good morning Ranna good morning that
criminal hush money trial continues
again today in New York but it’s Trump’s
battle at the Supreme Court that’s
likely to have far-reaching legal
consequences after Supreme Court former
president Trump’s lawyers argued
presidents cannot face criminal
prosecution for anything they do in
office linked to their official duties
without presidential immunity from
Criminal prosecution there can be no
presidency as we know it several
justices acknowledged the high stakes if
the potential for criminal liability is
taken off the table wouldn’t there be a
significant risk that future presidents
would be emboldened to commit crimes
with abandon while they’re in office
Trump says that because of absolute
presidential immunity he cannot be
prosecuted by special counsel Jack Smith
for his alleged efforts to overturn the
2020 election the liberal justices
pressed Trump’s lawyers on where that
argument could lead if the president
decides that his
rival is a corrupt
person and he orders the military or
orders someone to assassinate him is is
that within His official acts that for
which he can get immunity but the
conservative justices made the case that
presidents need some protection
presidents have to make a lot of tough
decisions about enforcing the law and
they have to make decisions about
questions that are unsettled did I
understand you to say well you know if
he makes a mistake he makes a mistake
he’s subject to the criminal laws just
like anybody else you don’t think he’s
in a special a a peculiarly precarious
position the takeaway from yesterday’s
arguments expect a delay in the election
interference case against Trump it’s
clear that at the end of the day here
the justices majority of them want
presidents to have some protection from
prosecution but not as much as Trump
wants and that likely means a
complicated opinion more litigation in
the lower courts and an almost certain
delay of any trial in this case until
after the November election Mr Trump do
you still like P meanwhile playing out
at the same time Trump’s hush money
trial in New York where former National
Inquirer publisher David pecker was back
on the stand detailing how the magazine
bought the story of former Playboy model
Karen mcdougall’s alleged sexual
relationship with Trump before the 2016
election and quashed it a tactic known
as catch and kill pecker described a
thank you dinner at the White House in a
meeting at Trump Tower where Trump said
I want to thank you for handling the
McDougall situation then asking how’s
our girl pecker says he replied she’s
quiet things are going fine pecker also
testified that Trump’s lawyer Michael
Cohen informed him before the election
that pornstar stormmy Daniels was
shopping her story about an alleged
Affair but in this case pecker says he
refused to buy It ultimately Cohen
himself paid Daniels
$130,000 to keep quiet and prosecutors
claimed Trump paid Cohen back falsely
labeling it as legal expenses Trump has
pleaded not
guilty on the stand yesterday pecker ALS
o testified about other stories he
claimed the magazine purchased about
other celebrities including allegedly
Arnold schwarzeneger and Tiger Woods no
comment from either of those men this
morning Andrew all right Jay thank you
fire engulfed this historic War outside
of San Diego smoke and Flames surrounded
the Oceanside Pier some restaurants were
damaged but no one was hurt the fire
broke out inside a building that used to
be a diner it was a case that helped
launch the me too movement years ago
Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein
convicted of sexual assault and rape
sentenced to 23 years in prison but now
a court is thrown out as conviction
prompting a backlash and uncertainty
about what comes next this is what it’s
like to be a woman in America this
morning new reaction and new questions
after a New York appeals court
overturned the 2020 rape conviction of
former Hollywood Mogul Harvey Weinstein
Ashley Jud was one of the first first to
go on record with accusations against
him often times survivors say that the
Betrayal and the moral injury we suffer
within the system is worse than the
sexual body Invasion we experienced in
the first place but the appeals court
says the judge who oversaw the trial
committed egregious errors unfairly
allowing testimony based on prior
allegations against Weinstein that were
not part of the case this was not about
the witnesses or the victims who who
testified against Mr Weinstein this was
about a strategy the prosecutor used
bringing uh people to speak about him
and with not charging for those crimes
that’s what this is about it’s not in
any way detriment to their credibility
the court that overturned the conviction
has ordered a new trial the Manhattan da
saying we will do everything in our
power to retry this case but now
questions linger over Weinstein’s
conviction in California where in 2022
he was sentenced to 16 years in a
separate rape case Weinstein’s lawyer in
that case claims his client fa the same
fundamental unfairness saying the judge
let the jury hear about four uncharged
allegations of sexual assault and adding
the case should be reversed for the same
reasons the New York case was reversed
the Los Angeles da claims that
California allows the type of evidence
that got Weinstein’s New York conviction
overturned either way Weinstein remains
behind bars as the appeal in California
moves forward the FDA says one out of
every five samples of milk it recently
tested contains traces of the bird flu
experts say that suggests More Cows may
be infected than originally thought
officials say pasteurized milk remains
safe to drink so far bird flu has been
detected in 33 herds across eight states
now the concern is that the virus could
mutate and potentially pose a larger
risk for people all right it is time for
a look at your Friday weather
good morning we’re following multiple
days of severe weather first up today
into tonight the risk for tornadoes as
well as hail large hail possible
especially across Iowa and portions of
Missouri as storm system number one
moves into Canada there’s a second storm
system that’s going to produce another
high risk for severe weather as we head
through Saturday afternoon into Saturday
night eastern Kansas Northeastern
Oklahoma into places like Joplin
Missouri and then these thunderstorms
move East with severe weather Sunday for
a weather I’m Mula con
there coming up new crash tests
involving SUVs and they did not go well
also had the school staff are accused of
using artificial intelligence to frame
the school principal with a fake racist
rant a wakeup call about the dangers of
AI and later the gator who went
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bad news for several popular SUVs 10
models were tested at speeds up to 43
mph to see how their front crash
avoidance systems would perform seven of
the SUVs were rated poor to the Honda
CRV and the Toyota Rav 4 passed with
acceptable ratings the only SUV with a
good rating was the new Subaru Forester
now in Maryland where a school official
is accused of using artificial
intelligence to frame his boss it’s
really a wakeup call about AI technology
and how it could easily be used to ruin
lives here’s ABC’s Andrea fuii this
morning an example of the growing risk
posed by artificial intelligence the now
former athletic director of this high
school in Maryland is accused of trying
to retaliate against his boss the school
principal with the recording of a racist
rant but it turns out police say the
recording wasn’t entirely real the
recording was generated through the use
of artificial intelligence technology
police say daone Daren who was arrested
at Baltimore’s airport had been angry
over the principal investigating his
potential mishandling of school funds
they say Darion used Ai and some human
editing to make the recording in which
the voice that sounded like the
principal claimed that black students
are unable to test their way out of a
paper bag and that Jewish individuals
and two teachers at the school should
have never been hired police say Darien
shared those recordings which then
spread through social media sparking a
fierce backlash including threatening
calls to the school eventually leading
to the principal’s removal experts say
these kind of fake recordings are
becoming more common it’s pretty easy to
replicate someone’s voice nowadays it
only takes about 3 to 10 seconds of
someone’s voice uploaded into a tool
online and you can make that person say
anything that you want them to say and
there are few options when it comes to
protecting yourself there’s very little
we can do right now unless there’s
legislation passed on a federal level
there’s any version of yourself that
exists online meaning your voice your
face or your likeness anyone right now
can take it and use it to make you say
or look like you did something you
didn’t do Daren who denies involvement
in the recording faces several charges
including stocking reckless endangerment
and disrupting School operations if
convicted he faces up to 20 years in
prison ranan Andrew Andrea thank you
some customers with ring doorbells and
security systems will now get a share of
a $5.6 million settlement ring which is
owned by Amazon is accused of violating
customer privacy the FTC claims the
company allowed employees to access
customer videos without consent and use
the video to train its algorithms coming
up Tik tock respond to a potential ban
right here in the US also ahead the big
moments and surprises at this year’s NFL
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Hulu this morning Tik Tok is officially
responding to that potential us ban
signed into law by President Biden this
week it requires Tik tok’s Chinese
parent company bite dance to sell the
app within 9 months due to National
Security concerns but overnight bite Dan
says it has no plans to sell the app
it’s planning to fight the ban in court
New Revelations about one of the biggest
stars in pro basketball 76ers star Joel
embiid scored 50 points beating the
Knicks last night but it was after the
game he revealed he is being treated for
Belle’s paly the condition is affecting
the left side of his face and even his
vision his recovery could take weeks now
to football’s big night the glitz the
Glamour and the dreams come true at the
NFL draft our Danny new has the
highlights the 2024 NFL draft kicked off
in the Motor City Thursday with Mr
Michigan himself Marshall mats AKA
Eminem was that enough
M’s come on
150,000 people reportedly in attendance
many of whom had to engage in the draft
day tradition of booing the commissioner
Roger
gell plenty of other Staples to enjoy
such as the fashion statements reigning
Heisman winner Jaden Daniels from LSU
sporting a baby blue suit while the
Heisman winner from two years ago Caleb
Williams of USC wearing a Navy double
breasted zip up as he called it
intentionally that Navy coordinated
perfectly with the Bears navy and orange
as Williams then got taken first overall
by Chicago as expected but still Bears
fans were quite elated to maybe finally
have their quarterback of the future and
Williams’s father was understandably
emotional taking it all in it’s been a
long time you know from uh hotel room in
San Antonio to to uh 12 13 14 years
later just doing the same thing over and
over dreams do come true Jaden Daniels
but Williams was not even close to the
only QB taken no for the first time ever
six of the first 12 picks were
quarterbacks one draft day ritual
actually had a little speculation coming
in the hug you know usually players are
so excited they may squeeze the
commissioner as tightly as possible but
Goodell actually had back surgery a few
weeks ago well careful now here we
go guess Alabama offensive lineman Lam
didn’t hear as he hoists his Future boss
with all of his 66
342b frame here’s what gell had to say
about it after the
draft he took it like a champ we got to
give him credit there right guys hey
rounds two and three of the NFL draft
air later today on ABC guys all right
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with a runin with police for Jazelle
bunin the supermodel was pulled over
near Miami in the officer’s body camera
video It Doesn’t reveal the traffic
violation but does reveal some other
things bunin got emotional telling the
officer that Paparazzi were following
her I understand who you are I know I’ll
give you a cred there’s nothing I can do
about that nobody like St nothing
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their job which is to take pictures well
she was let off with a warning next
Southwest May soon be going first class
the airline is known for its open
seating which means no assigned seat but
a CEO now says they are considering
making some changes the company posted a
first quarter loss yesterday and
charging extra for more leg room could
be a money maker but no changes just yet
and next chicken is back on the menu for
workers at Chipotle they were asked to
choose another protein for their work
meals last week in order to save the
chicken for guests who’ve been ordering
a popular dish but now concerns about a
shortage of pass so workers can have
their chicken and eat it too next
baseball star Bryce Harper came back to
to work and brought his dad strength
with him Harper missed three whole days
for the birth of his third child he came
back yesterday and he had a home run it
is the second time he’s gone deep when
returning from fraternity leave finally
an unexpected delay on the golf course
check out the gator at the t- boox on
the 17th hole during the Zurich Classic
the slow moving reptile delayed Sam
Stevens shot for seven minutes it’s a
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checking more top stories now a new
round of arrest overnight as Pro
Palestinian demonstrators continue to
clash with police at Ohio State
University more encampments are popping
up on campuses Nationwide with students
handcuffed at schools including Emerson
College and Emory University USC has now
canell its main graduation ceremony the
death of a man in police custody has
sparked an investigation in Canton Ohio
offic officers struggled with Frank
Tyson after a car crash last week before
wrestling him to the ground one then
seems to place a knee in Tyson’s back
while Tyson is heard saying I can’t
breathe minutes later he was dead two
officers are now on leave while an
investigation is underway the former
publisher of the national Inquirer
returns to the stand today for
cross-examination at former president
Trump’s hush money trial he’s been
testifying about a scheme to buy and
bury stories about Trump including
claims of an alleged Affair mortgage
rates have continued their climb past
the 7% threshold meanwhile stocks sank
yesterday amid concerns about a slowing
economy and stubborn inflation today’s
weather chilly in the Northeast this
morning a risk for tornadoes later today
from Kansas City to De Moine and severe
storms from Texas and Oklahoma to
Arkansas and finally the Tiny But Mighty
little girl she’s inspiring an entire
town in North Carolina this morning the
family of 18-month-old doia Morris has a
slogan to descri Des cribe their little
girl’s toughness Tiny But Mighty and
that is her she was Tiny but very Mighty
doia received a heart transplant after
doctors diagnosed her with
cardiomyopathy a rare heart condition
she faced um eight months in the
hospital um waiting for uh a heart and
she was connected to what they call a
Berlin heart that pumped for her heart
for her the transplant was 6 months ago
but Dalia still has a compromised immune
system which limits the number of people
with whom she can have contact so the
family found a way to cheer on Dalia as
she returned home to recover I decided
let’s put together a driveby parade so
we all could at least drive by see her
wave at her and give her and the family
lots of love and
support members of the family’s Church
the local police and fire departments
even the county sheriff’s office took
part in the parade she is just a joy and
and everyone just wants to see her be a
joy organizers of the parade called the
response overwhelming and say it’s
inspired them even when the odds may
seem against you if you stay strong
think positive and still believe then
something good can come out of it look
at that little fighter yeah amazing
she’s so inspiring and just to just a
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everyone right now in America this
morning tension flaring on more college
campuses as the Crackdown on Israel
Hamas War protesters escalates the
clashes with police
overnight the Supreme Court considers
Donald Trump’s claim that former
presidents have absolute immunity to
takeaway from the arguments in court and
what it could mean for Trump’s
trial a school staff member accused of
using artificial intelligence to frame
his boss the principal with a fake
racist rant why experts say it’s a
wakeup call about the real life dangers
of
AI former Hollywood Mogul Harvey
Weinstein’s victory in court his rape
conviction in the case that launched the
me2 movement is overturned the backlash
and the questions about what happens
next plus the multi-million dollar
settlement involving alleged privacy
violations involving ring doorbell
cameras football’s big night the glitz
the Glamour and the dreams come true at
the NFL draft and later do planes really
need a first class section the changes
now being considered a Southwest a sign
of the
times from ABC news in New York this is
America this morning Good Friday morning
everyone I’m Andrew dber good morning to
you I’m ran and Al we want to begin with
Rising tensions on college campuses
across the country overnight protests
over the Israel Hamas War have escalated
and in some cases they’ve even turned
violent overnight clashes between police
and pro Palestinian protesters
intensifying on college
campuses at Ohio State University Police
in riot gear approaching hundreds of
protesters some of them fighting with
officers
dozens of people
detained earlier in Atlanta a State
Trooper was seen repeatedly tasing a man
at Emory University the Georgia
Department of Public Safety says the man
was resisting arrest after responding
officers were met with protesters who
threw bottles and refused to leave
adding Troopers deployed pepper balls to
control the unruly crowd but did not use
tear gas I saw police knock students to
the ground dozens of people also
detained at Emory including this
professor call the philosophy Department
office and tell them I’ve been arrested
across the country more than 400 people
were detained yesterday on dozens of
campuses as Pro Palestinian protesters
demand schools divest from companies
that profit from ties to Israel
protesters near Chicago Now setting up
tents at Northwestern University
officials say school policy prohibits
the encampment but protesters formed a
human chain to prevent police from
pushing through in Southern California
an encampment at UCLA has grown to
hundreds of people
and USC has now canceled their main
graduation ceremony due to the
protests these protests started at
Columbia University last week the
school’s deadline for protesters to
disperse has passed talks are still
going on overnight the Biden
Administration has decided not to
sanction three Israeli military
battalions accused of human rights
violations in the West Bank Secretary of
State Anthony blinkin made the Assurance
in a letter to house Speaker Mike
Johnson blinkin says isra is is taking
steps to address the alleged abuses so
us Aid will not be held back now to the
Supreme Court and the arguments over
former president Trump’s claim of
immunity in the January 6th election
interference case all of this playing
out during his criminal trial in New
York ABC’s Jay O’Brien has the latest J
Jay good morning Ranna good morning that
criminal hush money trial continues
again today in New York but it’s Trump’s
battle at the Supreme Court that’s
likely to have far-reaching legal
consequ
quences at the Supreme Court former
president Trump’s lawyers argued
presidents cannot face criminal
prosecution for anything they do in
office linked to their official duties
without presidential immunity from
Criminal prosecution there can be no
presidency as we know it several
justices acknowledged the high stakes if
the potential for criminal liability is
taken off the table wouldn’t there be a
significant risk that future presidents
would be emboldened to commit crimes
with abandoned while they’re in office
Trump says that because of absolute
presidential immunity he cannot be
prosecuted by special counsel Jack Smith
for his alleged efforts to overturn the
2020 election the liberal justices
pressed Trump’s lawyers on where that
argument could lead if the president
decides that his
rival is a corrupt
person and he orders the military or
orders someone to assess inate him is
that within His official acts that for
which he can get immunity but the
conservative justices made the case that
presidents need some protection
presidents have to make a lot of tough
decisions about enforcing the law and
they have to make decisions about
questions that are unsettled did I
understand you to say well you know if
he makes a mistake he makes a mistake he
subject to the criminal laws just like
anybody else you don’t think he’s in a
special a a peculiarly precarious
position the takeaway from yesterday’s
arguments expect a delay in the election
interference case against Trump it’s
clear that at the end of the day here
the justices majority of them want
presidents to have some protection from
prosecution but not as much as Trump
wants and that likely means a
complicated opinion more litigation in
the lower courts and an almost certain
delay of any trial in this case until
after the November election Mr Trump do
you still like peer meanwhile playing
out at the same time Trump’s hush money
trial in New York where former National
Inquirer publisher David pecker was back
on the stand detailing how the magazine
bought the story of former Playboy model
Karen mcdougall’s alleged sexual
relationship with Trump before the 2016
election and quashed it a tactic known
as catch and kill pecker described a
thank you dinner at the White House and
a meeting at Trump Tower where Trump
said I want to thank you for handling
the McDougall situation then asking
how’s our girl pecker says he replied
she’s quiet things are going fine pecker
also testified that Trump’s lawyer
Michael Cohen informed him before the
election that porn star Stormy Daniels
was shopping her story about an alleged
Affair but in this case pecker says he
refused to buy It ultimately Cohen
himself paid Daniels
$130,000 to keep quiet and prosecutors
claimed Trump paid Cohen back falsely
labeling it as legal expenses Trump has
pleaded not guilty
on the stand yesterday pecker also
testified about other stories he claimed
the magazine purchased about other
celebrities including allegedly Arnold
Schwarzenegger and Tiger Woods no
comment from either of those men this
morning Andrew all right Jay thank you
fire engulfed this historic Warf outside
of San Diego smoke and Flames surrounded
the Oceanside Pier some restaurants were
damaged but no one was hurt the fire
broke out inside a building that used to
be a diner it was a case that helped la
the me too movement years ago Hollywood
producer Harvey Weinstein convicted of
sexual assault and rape sentenced to 23
years in prison but now a court is
thrown out his conviction prompting a
backlash and uncertainty about what
comes next this is what it’s like to be
a woman in America this morning new
reaction and new questions after a New
York appeals court overturned the 2020
rape conviction of former Hollywood
Mogul Harvey Weinstein Ashley Jud was
one of the first to go on record with
accusations against him often times
survivors say that the Betrayal and the
moral injury we suffer within the system
is worse than the sexual body Invasion
we experienced in the first place but
the appeals court says the judge who
oversaw the trial committed egregious
errors unfairly allowing testimony based
on prior allegations against Weinstein
that were not part of the case this was
not about the witnesses or the victims
who who testified against Mr Weinstein
this was about a strategy the prosecutor
used bringing uh people to speak about
him and would not charging for those
crimes that’s what this is about it’s
not in any way detriment to their
credibility the court that overturned
the conviction has ordered a new trial
the Manhattan da saying we will do
everything in our power to retry this
case but now questions linger over
Weinstein’s conviction in California
where in 2022 he was sentenced to 16
years in a separate rape case
Weinstein’s lawyer in that case claims
his client faed the same fundamental
unfairness saying the judge let the jury
hear about four uncharged allegations of
sexual assault and adding the case
should be reversed for the same reasons
the New York case was reversed the Los
Angeles da claims that California allows
the type of evidence that got
Weinstein’s New York conviction
overturned either way Weinstein remains
behind bars as the appeal in California
moves forward FDA says one out of every
five samples of milk it recently tested
contains traces of the bird flu experts
say that suggests More Cows may be
infected than originally thought
officials say pasteurized milk remains
safe to drink so far bird flu has been
detected in 33 herds across eight states
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Subaru Forester now in Maryland where a
school official is accused of using
artificial intelligence to frame his
boss it’s really a wakeup call about AI
technology and how it could easily be
used to ruin lives here’s ABC’s Andrea
fij this morning an example of the
growing risk posed by artificial
intelligence the now former athletic
director of this high school in Maryland
is accused of trying to retaliate
against his boss the school principal
with the recording of a racist rant but
it turns out police say the recording
wasn’t entirely real the recording was
generated through the use of artificial
intelligence technology police say daone
Darion who was arrested at Baltimore’s
airport had been angry over the
principal investigating his potential
mishandling of school funds they say
Darion used Ai and some human editing to
make the recording in which the voice
that sounded like the principal claimed
that black students are unable to test
their way out of a paper bag and that
Jewish individuals and two teachers at
the school should have never been hired
police say Daren shared those recordings
which then spread through social media
sparking a fierce backlash including
threatening calls to the school
eventually leading to the principal’s
removal experts say these kind of fake
recordings are becoming more common it’s
pretty easy to replicate someone’s voice
nowadays it only takes about 3 to 10
seconds of someone’s voice uploaded into
a School online and you can make that
person say anything that you want them
to say and there are few options when it
comes to protecting yourself there’s
very little we can do right now unless
there’s legislation passed on a federal
level there’s any version of yourself
that exists online meaning your voice
your face or your likeness anyone right
now can take it and use it to make you
say or look like you did something you
didn’t do Daren who denies involvement
in the recording faces several charges
including stocking reckless endangerment
and disrupting School operations if
convicted he faces up to 20 years in
prison ranan Andrew Andrea thank you
some customers with ring doorbells and
security systems will now get a share of
a $5.6 million settlement ring which is
owned by Amazon is accused of violating
customer privacy the FTC claims the
company allowed employees to access
customer videos without consent and use
the video to train its out algorithms
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treated for Bell’s paly the condition is
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weeks now to football’s big night the
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the 2024 NFL draft kicked off in the
Motor City Thursday with Mr Michigan
himself Marshall mats AKA M&M was that
enough
M’s come on
150,000 people reportedly in attendance
many of whom had to engage in the draft
day tradition of booing the commissioner
Roger
gell plenty of other Staples to enjoy
such as the fashion statements reigning
Heisman winner Jadon Daniels from LSU
sporting a baby blue suit while the
Heisman winner from 2 years ago Caleb
Williams of USC wearing a Navy double
breasted zip up as he called it
intentionally that Navy coordinated
perfectly with the Bears navy and orange
as Williams then got taken first overall
by Chicago as expected but still Bears
fans were quite elated to maybe finally
have their quarterback of the future and
Williams’s father was understandably
emotional taking it all in it’s been a
long time you know from uh hotel room in
San Antonio to to uh 12 133 14 years
later just doing the same thing over and
over dreams do come true Jaden Daniels
but Williams was not even close to the
only QB taken no for the first time ever
six of the first 12 picks were
quarterbacks one draft day Ral actually
had a little speculation coming in the
hug you know usually players are so
excited they may squeeze the
commissioner as tightly as possible but
Goodell actually had back surgery a few
weeks ago well careful now here we come
guess Alabama offensive lineman JC leam
didn’t hear as he hoists his Future boss
with all of his 66
342b frame here’s what gell had to say
about it after the
draft he took it like a champ we got to
give him credit there right guys hey
rounds two and three of the NFL draft
air later today on ABC guys all right
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bunin the supermodel was pulled over
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things bunin got emotional telling the
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last week in order to save the chicken
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baseball star Bryce Harper came back to
work and brought his dad strength with
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the birth of his third child he came
back yesterday and he hit a home run it
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round of arrests overnight as Pro
Palestinian demonstrators continue to
clash with police at Ohio State
University more encampments are popping
up on campuses Nationwide with students
handcuffed at schools including Emerson
College and Emory University USC has now
canel its main graduation ceremony the
death of a man in police custody has
sparked an investigation in Canton Ohio
officers struggled with Frank Tyson
after a car crash last week before
wrestling him to the ground one then
seems to place a knee in Tyson’s back
while Tyson is heard saying I can’t
breathe minutes later he was dead two
officers are now on leave while an
investigation is underway the former
publisher of the national Inquirer
returns to the stand today for
cross-examination at former president
Trump’s hush money trial he’s been
testifying about a scheme to buy and
bury stories about Trump including
claims of an alleged aair mortgage rates
have continued their climb past the 7%
threshold meanwhile stocks sank
yesterday amid concerns about a slowing
economy and stubborn inflation today’s
weather chilly in the Northeast this
morning a risk for tornadoes later today
from Kansas City to De Mo and severe
storms from Texas and Oklahoma to
Arkansas and finally the Tiny But Mighty
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town in North Carolina this morning the
family of 18-month-old doia Morris
has a slogan to describe their little
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doia received a heart transplant after
doctors diagnosed her with
cardiomyopathy a rare heart condition
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system which limits the number of people
with whom she can have contact so the
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we all could at least drive by see her
wave at her and give her and the family
lots of love and
support members of the family’s Church
the local police and fire departments
even the county sheriff’s office took
part in the parade she is is just a joy
and everyone just wants to see her be a
joy organizers of the parade called the
response overwhelming and say it’s
inspired them even when the odds may
seem against you if you stay strong
think positive and still believe then
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morning tensions flaring on more college
campuses as the Crackdown on Israel
Hamas War protesters escalates the
clashes with police
overnight the Supreme Court considers
Donald Trump’s claim that former
presidents have absolute immunity to
take away from the arguments in court
and what it could mean for Trump’s
trial a school staff member accused of
using artificial intelligence to frame
his boss the principal with a fake
racist rant why experts say it’s a
wakeup call about the real life dangers
of
AI former Hollywood Mogul Harvey
Weinstein’s victory in court his rape
conviction in the case that launched the
me2 movement is overturned the backlash
and the questions about what happens
next plus the multi-million dollar
settlement involving alleged privacy
violations involving ring doorbell
cameras footballs big night the glitz
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America this morning Good Friday morning
everyone I’m Andrew dber good morning to
you I’m ran and Aly we want to begin
with Rising tensions on college campuses
across the country overnight protests
over the Israel Hamas War have escalated
and in some cases they’ve even turned
violent overnight clashes between police
and pro Palestinian protesters
intensifying on college
campuses at Ohio State University Police
in riot gear approaching hundreds of
protesters some of them them fighting
with
officers dozens of people
detained earlier in Atlanta a State
Trooper was seen repeatedly tasing a man
at Emory University the Georgia
Department of Public Safety says the man
was resisting arrest after responding
officers were met with protesters who
threw bottles and refused to leave
adding Troopers deployed pepper balls to
control the unruly crowd but did not use
tear gas I saw police knock students to
the ground dozens of people also
detained at including this professor can
you call the philosophy Department
office and tell them I’ve been arrested
across the country more than 400 people
were detained yesterday on dozens of
campuses as Pro Palestinian protesters
demand schools divest from companies
that profit from ties to Israel
protesters near Chicago Now setting up
tents at Northwestern University
officials say school policy prohibits
the encampment but protesters formed a
human chain to prevent police from
pushing through in Southern California
an encampment at UC La has grown to
hundreds of
people and USC has now cancelled their
main graduation ceremony due to the
protests these protests started at
Columbia University last week the
school’s deadline for protesters to
disperse has passed talks are still
going on overnight the Biden
Administration has decided not to
sanction three Israeli military
battalions accused of human rights
violations in the West Bank Secretary of
State Anthony blinkin made the Assurance
in a letter to house speaker mik Johnson
linkoln says Israel is taking steps to
address the alleged abuses so us Aid
will not be held back now to the Supreme
Court and the arguments over former
president Trump’s claim of immunity in
the January 6th election interference
case all of this playing out during his
criminal trial in New York ABC’s Jay
O’Brien has the latest J Jay good
morning Ranna good morning that criminal
hush money trial continues again today
in New York but it’s Trump’s battle at
the Supreme Court that’s likely to have
far-reaching legal
consequences at the Supreme Court former
president Trump’s lawyers argued
presidents cannot face criminal
prosecution for anything they do in
office linked to their official duties
without presidential immunity from
Criminal prosecution there can be no
presidency as we know it several
justices acknowledged the high stakes if
the potential for criminal liability is
taken off the table wouldn’t there be a
significant risk that future presidents
would be emboldened to commit crimes
with abandon while they’re in office
Trump says that because of absolute
presidential immunity he cannot be
prosecuted by special counsel Jack Smith
for his alleged efforts to overturn the
2020 election the liberal justices
pressed Trump’s lawyers on where that
argument could lead if the president
decides that his
rival is a corrupt
person and he orders the military or
order someone to assassinate him is that
within His official acts that for which
he can get immunity but the conservative
justic has made the case that presidents
need some protection presidents have to
make a lot of tough decisions about
enforcing the law and they have to make
decisions about questions that are
unsettled did I understand you to say
well you know if he makes a mistake he
makes a mistake he’s subject to the
criminal laws just like anybody else you
don’t think in a special a a peculiarly
precarious position the takeaway from
yesterday’s arguments expect a delay in
the election interference case against
Trump it’s clear that at the end of the
day here the justices majority of them
want presidents to have some protection
from prosecution but not as much as
Trump wants and that likely means a
complicated opinion more litigation in
the lower courts and an almost certain
delay of any trial in this case until
after the November election Mr Trump do
you still like
meanwhile playing out at the same time
Trump’s hush money trial in New York
where former National Inquirer publisher
David pecker was back on the stand
detailing how the magazine bought the
story of former Playboy model Karen
mcdougall’s alleged sexual relationship
with Trump before the 2016 election and
quashed it a tactic known as catch and
kill pecker described a thank you dinner
at the White House in a meeting at Trump
Tower where Trump said I want to thank
you for handling the McDougall situation
then asking how’s our girl pecker says
he replied she’s quiet things are going
fine pecker also testified that Trump’s
lawyer Michael Cohen informed him before
the election that pornstar Stormy
Daniels was shopping her story about an
alleged Affair but in this case pecker
says he refused to buy It ultimately
Cohen himself paid Daniels
$130,000 to keep quiet and prosecutors
claimed Trump paid Cohen back falsely
labeling it as legal expenses Trump has
pleaded not
guilty on the stand yesterday pecker
also testified about other stories he
claimed the magazine purchased about
other celebrities including allegedly
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tiger Woods no
comment from either of those men this
morning Andrew all right Jay thank you
fire engulfed this historic Warf outside
of San Diego smoke and Flames surrounded
the Oceanside Pier some restaurants were
damaged but no one was hurt the fire
broke out inside a building that used to
be a diner
it was a case that helped launch the me
too movement years ago Hollywood
producer Harvey Weinstein convicted of
sexual assault and rape sentenced to 23
years in prison but now a court is
thrown out his conviction prompting a
backlash and uncertainty about what
comes next this is what it’s like to be
a woman in America this morning new
reaction and new questions after a New
York appeals court overturned the 2020
rape conviction of former Hollywood
would Mogul Harvey Weinstein Ashley Jud
was one of the first to go on record
with accusations against him often times
survivors say that the Betrayal and the
moral injury we suffer within the system
is worse than the sexual body Invasion
we experienced in the first place but
the appeals court says the judge who
oversaw the trial committed egregious
errors unfairly allowing testimony based
on prior allegations against Weinstein
that were not part of the case this was
not about the witnesses or the victims
who who testified against Mr Weinstein
this was about a strategy the prosecutor
used bringing uh people to speak about
him and with not charging for those
crimes that’s what this is about it’s
not in any way detriment to their
credibility the court that overturn the
conviction has ordered a new trial the
Manhattan da saying we will do
everything in our power to retry this
case but now questions linger over
Weinstein’s conviction in California
where in 2022 he was sent SED to 16
years in a separate rape case
Weinstein’s lawyer in that case claims
his client faced the same fundamental
unfairness saying the judge let the jury
hear about four uncharged allegations of
sexual assault and adding the case
should be reversed for the same reasons
the New York case was reversed the Los
Angeles da claims that California allows
the type of evidence that got
Weinstein’s New York conviction
overturned either way Weinstein remains
behind bars as the appeal in California
moves forward the FDA says one out of
every five samples of milk it recently
tested contains traces of the bird flu
experts say that suggests More Cows may
be infected than originally thought
officials say pasteurized milk remains
safe to drink so far bird flu has been
detected in 33 herds across eight states
now the concern is that the virus could
mutate and potentially pose a larger
risk for people all right it is time for
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Missouri as storm system number one
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system and that’s going to produce
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we head through Saturday afternoon into
Saturday night eastern Kansas
Northeastern Oklahoma into places like
jolyn Missouri and then these
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is accused of using artificial
intelligence to frame his boss it’s
really a wake-up call about AI
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used to ruin lives here’s ABC’s Andrea
Fuji this morning an example of the
growing risk posed by artificial
intelligence the now former athletic
director of this High School in Maryland
is accused of trying to retaliate
against his boss the school principal
with the recording of a racist rant but
it turns out police say the recording
wasn’t entirely real the recording was
generated through the use of artificial
intelligence technology police say daone
Daren who was arrested at Baltimore’s
airport had been angry over the
principal investigating his potential
mishandling of school funds they say
Darion used Ai and some human editing to
make the recording in which the voice
that sounded like the principal claimed
that black students are unable to test
their way out of a paper bag and that
Jewish individuals and two teachers at
the school should have never been hired
police say Darien shared those
recordings which then spread through
social media sparking a fierce backlash
including threatening calls to the
school eventually leading to the
principal’s removal experts say these
kind of fake recordings are becoming
more common it’s pretty easy to
replicate someone’s voice nowadays it
only takes about 3 to 10 seconds of
someone’s voice uploaded into a tool
online and you can make that person say
anything that you want them to say and
there are few options when it comes to
protecting yourself there’s very little
we can do right now unless there’s
legislation passed on a federal level
there’s any version of yourself that
exists online meaning your voice your
face or your likeness anyone right now
can take it and use it to make you say
or look like you did something you
didn’t do Darian who who denies
involvement in the recording faces
several charges including stocking
reckless endangerment and disrupting
School operations if convicted he faces
up to 20 years in prison ranan Andrew
Andrea thank you some customers with
ring doorbells and security systems will
now get a share of a $5.6 million
settlement ring which is owned by Amazon
is accused of violating customer privacy
the FTC claims the company allowed
employees to access customer videos
without consent and and use the video to
train its algorithms coming up Tik Tock
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by Chicago as expected but still Bears
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long time you know from uh hotel room in
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later just doing the same thing over and
over dreams do come true Jaden Daniels
but Williams was not even close to the
only QB taken no for the first time ever
six of the first 12 picks for
quarterbacks one draft day ritual
actually had a little speculation coming
in the hug you know usually players are
so excited they may squeeze the
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weeks ago well careful now here we
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leam didn’t hear as he hoists his Future
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president is more than a title it might
be a get out of jail free card we start
here
the Supreme Court wrestles with a
question they’ve never had to answer are
there certain things for which a
president can never be prosecuted
whatever we decide is going to apply to
all future presidents what a potential
ruling could mean for Trump and his many
trials it was the conviction that
shocked the entertainment world now it’s
been thrown out bringing up things that
Harvey Weinstein was accused of that he
wasn’t actually charged with why Harvey
Weinstein is no longer a convicted felon
in New York and yes we can ask
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I’m brde
milky former president Donald Trump
spent his Thursday in New York City
sitting in court as a jury hears
evidence against him for allegedly
falsifying business records but where he
really wanted to be yesterday was in
Washington because the Supreme Court was
considering a landmark case involving
the former president this is the federal
case revolving around January 6th and
what prosecutors say were Trump’s
attempts to subvert the 2020 election
and while all these cases are important
all the cases carry potentially enormous
consequences that’s why Trump had to
stay in New York this one stands alone
because it really has to do with
democracy itself and the specific
question the Supreme Court was
addressing here here was can someone be
held criminally responsible for what
they do while they are president when
you’re in office can your decisions
conceivably land you in prison because
if the answer is no there might not be a
case against him here so special councel
Jack Smith needs an answer before any of
this goes further let’s start today with
ABC senior National correspondent Terry
Moran who covers the court Terry this
seemed like a really big deal cuz we’re
effectively talking about what whether a
US president is in any way above the law
that is sure what it’s sounds like and
many of the liberal justices said that’s
exactly what this claim was and it is an
extraordinary claim no president has
ever come to the court and said what
Donald Trump had his lawyers say that
Trump is absolutely immune from Criminal
prosecution can never be prosecuted for
anything he did while president that was
within the far outer boundaries of His
official duties the framers of our
constitution viewed an energetic
executive as essential to securing
Liberty and of course when it comes to
his attempts to overturn the 2020
election he says those were official
acts he was he was trying to ensure
election integrity and so he cannot be
prosecuted for anything he did well
attempting to defend the Integrity of
the election I mean that’s the defense
the allegation is that he was attempting
to
overthrow an election essentially
exactly right in neither allegation of
what the purpose is should make it
determinate should make a difference as
to whether it’s immune was a
breathtaking claim and you could hear
the justices kind of try to deal with
the weight of it this case has huge
implications for the presidency for the
future of the presidency for the future
of the country in my view I mean even
some of the conservatives Justice
Kavanaugh at one point talking about how
it has huge implications for the
presidency Justice Alo saying you know
that that what we’re going to do is
going to apply to all future presidents
what is before us of course does involve
this particular case which is immensely
important but whatever we de
is going to apply to all future
presidents the gravity of the
Constitutional moment hung in that
courtroom it was quite dramatic and I I
I remember back in the January 6th
Congressional hearings the position from
some of Trump’s lawyers there was
essentially you know he’s not the
president anymore you guys so this whole
issue should only be addressed by the
criminal justice system now here they
are saying actually there are things
that the criminal justice system should
not be able to touch I mean what does
this case end up sort of boiling down to
well it does boil down to that line
there is a sense that presidents are
different under the law because the
entire executive branch rests in that
one person the executive power shall be
vested in a president of the United
States is what the Constitution says and
so president’s already have absolute
immunity from any civil lawsuit you
can’t sue the president for anything the
president does officially it’s because
basically presidents are signing laws
and doing things all the time that
affect everyone so they can’t have
everyone suing them for something that
goes wrong criminal Li ability that’s
something different without presidential
immunity from Criminal prosecution there
can be no presidency as we know it and
there was this argument from Trump’s
lawyer John sour who fought his corner
you know very fiercely that presidents
naturally need some kind of protection
from prosecution for things that they do
that are right on the line and he
mentioned things like President Barack
Obama’s decision to order the killing of
an American citizen anir Al alaki in
Yemen who was working with Al-Qaeda
Obama based that on the law that gave
him authority to use military force
after 911 it was old by that time but
could he be prosecuted for murder that
was raised in the courtroom also the way
George W bush misinformed the Congress
and the country about the nature of the
threat from Iraq could he be prosecuted
for some kind of Fraud and so these are
issues that that the president will
decide I I me the president have to make
a lot of tough decisions about enforcing
the law and they have to make decisions
about questions that are unsettled many
of the justices said they get it they
get that presidents have to make
decisions fully swiftly and efficiently
in the best interests of the country and
if they’re always looking over their
shoulder at is there going to be some
partisan prosecutor coming after me that
will not be good for the country uh and
you could hear that Justice is wrestling
with that this court has never
recognized absolute Criminal immunity
for any public official and from the
prosecutor side from the government side
special counsel Jack Smith Michael dban
his lawyer was in there saying this is
this is crazy basically said the the law
has never recognized absolute immunity
for presidents his novel Theory would
immunize former presidents for criminal
liability for bribery treason sedition
murder and here conspiring to use fraud
to overturn the results of an election
and perpetuate himself in power and that
idea really hit the liberal justices
heart they were having none of it Sonia
s mayor some of the other justices were
raising a parade of horribles of things
that presidents could do that that must
be as Sodom mayor put it protected
against an assassination a coup that
kind of thing if the president
decides that his
rival is a corrupt
person and he orders the military or
order someone to assassinate him is that
within His official acts that for which
he can get immunity it would depend on
the hypothetical that we can see that
could well be an official act it could
and prosecutors pointed out that
President Ford pardoned President Nixon
so clearly both of those guys thought
that presidents could be indicted that
Warren Harding was facing a possible
indictment and nobody was before he
conveniently died or I guess
inconveniently for him uh because of a
scandal in his administration no one was
standing up saying you can’t indict
Warren Harding it was unheard of such
presidential immunity has no foundation
in the
Constitution the framers Knew Too Well
the dangers of a king who could do no
wrong he said presidents have always
been known to be subject if they have
real wrongdoing to criminal prosecution
so so where do the justices seem to land
then as you’re hear like you said you’re
almost hearing them thinking out loud
you were it was fascinating Brad you
were hearing them think out out they are
looking clearly for a middle line here
they are looking for a way to draw a
line between the president’s purely
private acts which can be the basis for
prosecution and those official acts
which as many of them acknowledged need
to be shielded simply for the good of
the country from prosecution petitioner
turned to a private attorney was willing
to spread knly false claims of election
fraud to spearhead his challenges to the
election results private as at ledge I
mean we just the allegation but that
sounds private to me sounds private and
it was Amy con Barrett sort of who led
the way there she said that what could
be done is they could write the general
principle here’s what constitutes an
official act here’s what constitutional
constitut private act and send this case
back down to the trial court to sort it
out with the facts in front of the court
there that would mean a delay in this
case it’s going to be hard to write that
opinion for the Supreme Court there will
be dissents it’ll take weeks before
there’s a ruling here and and then
they’ll send it down for further
proceedings and it is highly unlikely
that there would be a trial before the
election which what a delay that delays
the trial past the election that sounds
like it’s a decent outcome for Donald
Trump at this point well um one of his
major legal strategies in all these
cases is delay delay delay uh this
however is is a
delay but this is really a delay that
the justices I think feel they need
sometimes you can feel the conservatives
hard into a conservative outcome
sometimes the Liberals too in in their
Direction this was one of the justices
generally and genuinely felt that they
were wrestling with a huge issue that
will have an impact for you know long
after this particular case and they want
to get it right and that’s going to take
time well huge ramifications not only
because it’s sometimes unclear like what
is privately benefiting the president
and what is like part of his job duties
it’s also just unclear like is every
official act now legal just because it
was classified an official act uh I
guess we will have our answer or at
least a delay that someday gives us an
answer by late June is what we might be
expecting Terry Moran thank you so much
thanks
Brad next up on start here if Harvey
Weinstein hadn’t been convicted in
multiple cases he might have been
released from prison yesterday the
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now there are a lot of court cases
making headlines right now but the one
no one was expecting to talk about this
week was the case of Harvey Weinstein
remember the disgraced movie producer
has been convicted of rape and sexual
assault in two different states New York
then California and he was expected to
spend the rest of his life in a prison
cell well then yesterday morning we
learned that the New York state supreme
court has thrown out those New York rape
charges saying the trial was unfair from
the start ABC senior investigative
correspondent Aaron kki is with us he
covered this whole trial Aaron what
happened here it was what 5 years ago
when Harvey Weinstein was convicted of
sex crimes based on the allegations of
three women who said that he effectively
normalized the casting couch he was a
well-known powerful man within the
entertainment industry prosecutors said
he abused that power took advantage of
aspiring actors to coerce them into
these unwanted sexual encounters
counters and there were always going to
be questions that the defense raised
about the appropriateness of bringing up
things that Harvey Weinstein was accused
of that he wasn’t actually charged with
and that’s where according to the court
of appeals this case went astray now was
it a surprise his defense attorneys
expressed surprise we did not expect the
decision to come out today so we were in
shock that the decision first of all
came out and then relieved what the
decision was they didn’t think that this
was NE necessarily going to be the
outcome although after it occurred they
ended up praising it as a win for the
rule of law why I mean what was the
rationale from the state supreme court
it was a guilty verdict the decision
said based on supposition rather than
proof now look that may not be entirely
true and it was a close decision 43 but
really what the the opinion focused on
was what’s known in New York as moleno
Witnesses and what in other
jurisdictions are often called prior bad
act Witnesses these are claims that are
made against a defendant that don’t form
the basis of the underlying charges but
that prosecutors try to introduce in
order to show some kind of pattern of
behavior and here uh the court of
appeals said that just wasn’t proper in
this particular case you’re calling
witnesses to show he’s a certain type of
guy when the actions involved might not
be proven crimes anyway the prosecutors
introduced evidence that was not part of
the underlying criminal case against
Harvey Weinstein they thought they could
do it the judge had allowed it but the
New York Court of Appeals the state’s
highest court said that ended up being
an egregious error because it
eviscerated what the majority opinion
called the – tested rule against
propensity evidence meaning the jury in
the majority’s view found Harvey wein
being guilty because he had a propensity
to commit the crimes charged not because
he was actually guilty of them what
happens next for winstein himself Harvey
Weinstein has been in prison in New York
he’s also convicted in California so
what happens next is a little uncertain
the Manhattan District Attorney’s office
said it wants to retry Harvey Weinstein
and in that case he would be transferred
uh into a different kind of custody he’d
have to go through an arraignment all
over again and they would have to ask to
hold him without bond so he could remain
in New York custody or he could be
transferred to serve his sentence in
California hey Aaron just more broadly
I’m thinking of like Bill Cosby’s
conviction that was overturned that was
a slightly more complicated case but
again it had to do with sort of what
kind of information you’re allowed to
use in
court are prosecutors showing that maybe
they’re so aggressive in responding to
these cases years after the fact where
like there’s so much public outrage and
there’s so many people being like why
wasn’t anything done at the time that
they’re then getting so aggressive with
these cases that they’re almost less
equipped to get convictions that
actually hold up on appeal in fact Brad
that’s exactly the argument that the
defense was making you can’t throw out a
100
Years of legal precedent because someone
is unpopular you can only convict based
on the charged conduct and and that’s
where the opinion seems to rest but
there is now a move at least in New York
to join several other states that want
to be more permissible when it comes to
sex crimes and allow prosecutors to show
this kind of pattern of past conduct
even if it doesn’t constitute the
underlying crimes that the defendant is
charged
with we are devastated for the survivors
who are connected to this case and the
survivors who had found some soless some
Solus and catharsis in the original
verdict around Harvey
Weinstein remember Brad tales about
Harvey Weinstein sparked the me too
movement and scores of women had come
forward to accuse Weinstein of sexual
misconduct or even worse and many of
those women reacted to the decision by
the New York Court of Appeals and saw it
as a setback that’s interesting because
patterns of behavior like can often
straddle the line between criminal and
not Criminal
uh and here though that has gotten
Harvey wi scen this case for now tossed
out of court big decision here Aaron kki
thanks for breaking it down thank you
Bren okay one more quick break when we
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thing Venice Italy venetsia the queen of
the
Adriatic a place where the canals weave
through the city like streets tourists
paid dearly to glide through these
ancient waterways but should they be
paying to stand on the sidewalk as well
Maggie where are you right I’m always so
jealous of where you are shockingly I’m
here on a news assignment Brad could you
not this is ABC’s foreign correspondent
Maggie Ry who went to Venice on the same
day they instituted a new policy Venice
has just become the first and only city
in the entire world to start charging
day Trippers to enter its City Limits
between the hours of 8 and 4 they’re now
charging Outsiders a fee to enter the
historic City Center to enter Venice
right now it’s going to set you back 5
this applies to foreign tourists but
also Italians who live outside the
metropolitan area if you want to go into
Venice you will have to go online and
register with the city where you’ll
receive a special QR code for the day
you enter the city and there are
inspectors set up that are checking QR
codes and if they check for yours and
you don’t have it then you get hit with
actually a pretty hefty find it’s up to
€300 so how did it get to this point
where you got to pay to walk around
Maggie says it all makes sense when you
start looking at how the population
swells throughout the
day imagine you know trying to walk into
a place like St Mark Square the iconic
St Mark square of Venice and you’re just
packed with thousands of
people everyone trying to take selfies
huge tour groups would paying a fee have
stopped you from coming to Venice no not
at all not all and many are saying that
it takes away from the charm and the
uniqueness of Venice to which you might
say so what these tourists are the
reason so many locals have jobs they
stay in your hotels they eat at your
restaurants Maggie says actually not as
many of them as you think I spoke with
simy venturini he’s the Venice City
councelor for tourism Venice is very
small it’s very small City they said you
know day Trippers are often people that
they come in huge groups and they don’t
spend a lot of money in the local
economy they come in and then they leave
Denis will be here always and they will
choose another days versus people who
stay overnight at a hotel are paying the
locals they’re then going out to dinner
but we don’t want to discourage them
americ because we love American and the
most majority of American sleeps in
Venice so the most common thing to
happen is a cruise ship comes in they
dock a few towns away they enter town
just to take a few hundred photos to
show their family and they get back on
their boat no time for lunch they can
eat the buffet on board or there are
also Italians who pack their lunches
Drive in see the sites and just leave
their trash behind this the city council
said is why it’s going to be a $5 entry
fee not enough to convince someone not
to travel there it doesn’t even apply to
someone staying at a local hotel but
perhaps enough to make a Day Tripper
think about their plans and give local
officials a sense of how many visitors
are coming in today maybe using also
Dynamic pricing uh principle so the more
the
reservation Maggie says this is actually
just a test run a pilot program that
will end later this year it’s just a
chance to see if it helps anything at
all but for locals the stakes are high
the first problem now is the price for B
apart I is too much expensive locals are
getting priced out and in fact the the
number of locals living there have
dropped dramatically 100,000 just of a
couple of decades ago is now down to
about under 50,000 locals today BR I
even spoke to a gond do you think that
over tourism is a problem in Venice yeah
we have uh too much tourist yes and he
said he loves tourists you know his job
depends on them but the way that the
city is is overrun by tourists right now
just isn’t sustainable maximum 20 years
all the Venetian people Liv outside and
V become like to the Disneyland Miss
Gondolier says we have lots of airbnbs
for tourists but the Venetian people
have nowhere to live and I was struck
hearing this because you might remember
last year we did a whole special on home
rentals in New Orleans with service
workers saying they can’t even afford to
live in the city they serve now you’re
hearing the same sentiment in a world
heritage site on the other side of the
planet meanwhile the Venice city council
says they’re getting calls from leaders
of other tourist hotspots asking to keep
them updated so much so you might see
this kind of tourist congestion pricing
in other cities too we have a lot of
discussion with Amsterdam with Barcelona
even in Belgium even Kyoto in Japan is
experiencing some related to over
tourism lots of Italians don’t like this
some even came to Venice to protest
yesterday after all who wants to be told
you can’t enter a city in your own
country but if it is smooth sailing
along these canals you could see more
programs like this and they might not
stop at 5
Euros I want to know can we start
charging people if they come back from
Italy and all of a sudden start
pronouncing stuff like they’re giad
deenus like oh maybe I’ll whip up some
spaghetti or maybe some macaroni like
cool at Marco Polo I know you’ve been
exploring but sheesh start here is
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tension flaring on more college campuses
as the Crackdown on Israel Hamas War
protesters escalates the clashes with
police
overnight the Supreme Court considers
Donald Trump’s claim that former
presidents have absolute immunity to
takeaway from the arguments in court and
what it could mean for Trump’s
trial a school staff member accused of
using artificial intelligence to frame
his boss the principal with a fake
racist rant why experts say it’s a
wakeup call about the real life dangers
of
AI former Hollywood Mogul Harvey
Weinstein’s victory in court his rape
conviction in the case that launched the
me2 movement is over return the backlash
and the questions about what happens
next plus the multi-million doll
settlement involving alleged privacy
violations involving ring doorbell
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America this morning Good Friday morning
everyone I’m Andrew dber good morning to
you I’m ran and Ali we want to begin
with Rising tensions on college campuses
across the country overnight protests
over the Israel Hamas War have escalated
and in some cases they’ve even turned
violent overnight clashes between police
and pro Palestinian protesters
intensifying on college
campuses at Ohio State University Police
and riot gear approaching hundreds of
protesters some of them fighting with
officers dozens of people
detained earlier in Atlanta a State
Trooper was seen repeatedly tasing a man
at Emory University the Georgia
Department of Public Safety says the man
was resisting arrest after responding
officers were met with protesters who
threw bottles and refused to leave
adding Troopers deployed pepper balls to
control the unruly crowd but did not use
tear gas I saw police knock students to
the ground dozens of people also
detained at Emory including this
professor can you call the philosophy
Department office and tell them I’ve
been arrested across the country more
than 400 people were detained yesterday
on dozens of campuses as Pro Palestinian
protesters demand schools divest from
companies that profit from ties to
Israel protesters near Chicago Now
setting up tents at Northwestern
University officials say school policy
prohibits the encampment but protesters
formed a human chain to prevent police
from pushing through in Southern
California an encampment at UCLA has
grown to hundreds of
people and USC has now canceled their
main graduation ceremony due to the
protests these protests started at
Columbia University last week the
school’s deadline for protesters to
disperse has passed talks are still
going on overnight the Biden
Administration has decided not to
sanction three Israeli military
battalions accused of human rights
violations in the West Bank Secretary of
State Anthony blinkin made the Assurance
in a letter to house Speaker Mike
Johnson blinkin says Israel is taking
steps to address the alleged abuses so
us Aid will not be held back now to the
Supreme Court and the arguments over
former president Trump’s claim of
immunity in the January 6th election
interference case all of this playing
out during his criminal trial in New
York ABC’s J obrien has the latest J Jay
good morning ran and good morning that
criminal hush money trial continues
again today in New York York but it’s
Trump’s battle at the Supreme Court
that’s likely to have far-reaching legal
consequences after Supreme Court former
president Trump’s lawyers argued
presidents cannot face criminal
prosecution for anything they do in
office linked to their official duties
without presidential immunity from
Criminal prosecution there can be no
presidency as we know it several
justices acknowledged the high stakes if
the potential for criminal liability is
taken off the table wouldn’t there be a
significant risk that future presidents
would be emboldened to commit crimes
with abandon while they’re in office
Trump says that because of absolute
presidential immunity he cannot be
prosecuted by special counsel Jack Smith
for his alleged efforts to overturn the
2020 election the liberal justices
pressed Trump’s lawyers on where that
argument could lead if the president
decides that his
rival is a corrupt
person and he orders the military or
orders someone to assassinate him is
that within His official acts that for
which he can get immunity but the
conservative justic has made the case
that presidents need some protection
presidents have to make a lot of tough
decisions about enforcing the law and
they have to make decisions about
questions that are unsettled did I
understand you to say well you know if
he makes a mistake he makes a mistake he
subject to the criminal laws just like
anybody else you don’t think he’s in a
special a a peculiarly precarious
position the takeaway from yesterday’s
arguments expect a delay in the election
interference case against Trump it’s
clear that at the end of the day here
the justices majority of them want
presidents to have some protection from
prosecution but not as much as Trump
wants and that likely means a
complicated opinion more litigation in
the lower courts and an almost certain
delay of any trial in this case until
after the November election Mr Trump do
you still like P meanwhile playing out
at the same time Trump’s hush money
trial in New York where former National
Inquirer publisher David pecker was back
on the stand detailing how the magazine
bought the story of former Playboy model
Karen mcdougall’s alleged sexual
relationship with Trump before the 2016
election and quashed it a tactic known
as catch and kill pecker described a
thank you dinner at the White House in a
meeting at Trump Tower where Trump said
I want to thank you for handling the
McDougall situation then asking how’s
our girl pecker says he replied she’s
quiet things are going fine pecker also
testified that Trump’s lawyer Michael
Cohen informed him before the election
that pornstar Stormy Daniels was
shopping her story about an alleged
Affair but in this case pecker says he
refused to buy It ultimately Cohen
himself paid Daniels
$130,000 to keep quiet and prosecutors
claimed Trump paid Co back falsely
labeling it as legal expenses Trump has
pleaded not
guilty on the stand yesterday pecker
also testified about other stories he
claimed the magazine purchased about
other celebrities including allegedly
Arnold schwarzeneger and Tiger Woods no
comment from either of those men this
morning Andrew all right Jay thank you
fire engulfed this historic War outside
of San Diego smoke and Flames surrounded
the Oceanside Pier some restaurants were
damaged but no one was hurt the fire
broke out inside a building that used to
be a diner it was a case that helped
launch the me too movement years ago
Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein
convicted of sexual assault and rape
sentenced to 23 years in prison but now
a court is thrown out his conviction
prompting a backlash and uncertainty
about what comes next this is what it’s
like to be a woman in America this
morning new reaction and new questions
after a New York Appeals Court
overturned the 2020 rape conviction of
former Hollywood Mogul Harvey Weinstein
Ashley Jud was one of the first to go on
record with accusations against him
often times survivors say that the
Betrayal and the moral injury we suffer
within the system is worse than the
sexual body Invasion we experienced in
the first place but the appeals court
says the judge who oversaw the trial
committed egregious errors unfairly
allowing testimony based on prior
allegation
against Weinstein that were not part of
the case this was not about the
witnesses or the victims who who
testified against Mr Weinstein this was
about a strategy the prosecutor used
bringing uh people to speak about him
and with not charging for those crimes
that’s what this is about it’s not in
any way detriment to their credibility
the court that overturned the conviction
has ordered a new trial the Manhattan da
saying we will do everything in our
power to retry this case but now
questions linger over wein conviction in
California where in 2022 he was
sentenced to 16 years in a separate rape
case Weinstein’s lawyer in that case
claims his client fa the same
fundamental unfairness saying the judge
let the jury hear about four uncharged
allegations of sexual assault and adding
the case should be reversed for the same
reasons the New York case was reversed
the Los Angeles da claims that
California allows the type of evidence
that got Weinstein’s New York conviction
overturned either way Weinstein remains
behind bars as the appeal in California
moves forward the FDA says one out of
every five samples of milk it recently
tested contains traces of the bird flu
experts say that suggests More Cows may
be infected than originally thought
officials say pasteurized milk remains
safe to drink so far bird flu has been
detected in 33 herds across eight states
now the concern is that the virus could
mutate and potentially pose a larger
risk for people all right it is time for
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today into tonight the risk for
tornadoes as well as hail large hail
possible especially across Iowa and
portions of Missouri as storm system
number one moves into Canada there’s a
second storm system that’s going to
produce another high risk for severe
weather as we head through Saturday
afternoon into Saturday night Eastern
Kansas Northeastern Oklahoma into places
like Joplin Missouri and then these
thunderstorms move East with severe
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now in Maryland where a school official
is accused of using artificial
intelligence to frame his boss it’s
really a wakeup call about AI technology
and how it could easily be used to ruin
lives here’s ABC’s Andrea fui this
morning an example of the growing risk
posed by artificial intelligence the now
former athletic director of this high
school in Maryland is accused of trying
to retaliate against his boss the school
principal with the recording of a racist
rant but it turns out police say the
recording wasn’t entirely real the
recording was generated through the use
of artificial intelligence technology
police say daone Daren who was arrested
at Baltimore’s airport had been angry
over the principal investigating his
potential mishandling of school funds
they say Darion used AI and some human
editing to make the recording in which
the voice that sounded like the
principal claimed that black students
are unable to test their way out of a
paper bag and that Jewish individuals
and two teachers at the school should
have never been hired police say Darien
shared those recordings which then
spread through social media sparking a
fierce backlash including threatening
calls to the school eventually leading
to the principal removal experts say
these kind of fake recordings are
becoming more common it’s pretty easy to
replicate someone’s voice nowadays it
only takes about 3 to 10 seconds of
someone’s voice uploaded into a tool
online and you can make that person say
anything that you want them to say and
there are few options when it comes to
protecting yourself there’s very little
we can do right now unless there’s
legislation passed on a federal level
there’s any version of yourself that
exists online meaning your voice your
face or your likeness anyone right now
can take it and use it to make you say
or look like you did something you
didn’t do Daren who denies involvement
in the recording faces several charges
including stalking reckless endangerment
and disrupting School operations if
convicted he faces up to 20 years in
prison ranan Andrew Andrea thank you
some customers with ring doorbells and
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a $5.6 million settlement ring which is
owned by Amazon is accused of violating
customer privacy the FTC claims the
allowed employees to access customer
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to train its algorithms coming up Tik
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signed into law by President Biden this
week it requires Tik tok’s Chinese
parent company bite dance to sell the
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Security concerns but overnight bite
dance says it has no plans to sell the
app it’s planning to fight the ban in
court New Revelations about one of the
biggest stars in pro basketball 76ers
star Joel embiid scored 50 points
beating the Knicks last night but it was
after the game he revealed he is being
treated for Bell’s paly the condition is
affecting the left side of his face and
even his vision his recovery could take
weeks now to football’s big night the
Glitz the Glamour and the dreams come
true at the NFL draft are Danny new has
the
highlights the 2024 NFL draft kicked off
in the Motor City Thursday with Mr
Michigan himself Marshall mats AKA
Eminem was that enough
M’s come on
150,000 people reportedly in attendance
many of whom had to engage in the draft
day tradition of booing the commissioner
Roger
Goodell plenty of other Staples to enjoy
such as the fashion statements reigning
Heisman winner Jaden Daniels from LSU
sporting a baby blue suit while the
Heisman winner from two years ago Caleb
Williams of USC wearing a Navy double
breasted zip up as he called it
intentionally that Navy coordinated
perfectly with the Bears navy and orange
as Williams then got taken first overall
by Chicago as expected but still Bears
fans were quite elated to maybe finally
have their quarterback of the future and
Williams’s father was understandably
emotional taking it all in it’s been a
long time you know from uh hotel room in
San Antonio to to uh 12 13 14 years
later just doing the same thing over and
over dreams do come true Jaden Daniels
but Williams was not even close to the
only QB taken no for the first time ever
six of the first 12 picks were
quarterbacks one draft day ritual
actually had a little speculation coming
in the hug you know usually players are
so excited they may squeeze the
commissioner as tightly as possible but
Dell actually had back surgery a few
weeks ago well careful now here we
come guess Alabama offensive lineman JC
leam didn’t hear as he hoists his Future
boss with all of his 66
342b frame here’s what gell had to say
about it after the
draft he took it like a champ we got to
give him credit there right guys hey
rounds two and three of the NFL draft
air later today on ABC guys
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bunin the supermodel was pulled over
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violation but it does reveal some other
things bunin got emotional telling the
officer that Paparazzi were following
her I understand who you are I know I’ll
give you a CR there’s nothing I can do
about that
no nothing protects me he’s like I can’t
do nothing I just want to leave my life
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baseball star Bryce Harper came back to
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the birth of his third child he came
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is the second time he’s gone deep when
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round of arrest overnight as Pro
Palestinian demonstrators continue to
clash with police at Ohio State
University more encampments are popping
up on campuses Nationwide with students
handcuffed at schools including Emerson
College and Emory University us C has
now canell its main graduation ceremony
the death of a man in police custody has
sparked an investigation in Canton Ohio
officers struggled with Frank Tyson
after a car crash last week before
wrestling him to the ground one then
seems to place a knee in Tyson’s back
while Tyson is heard saying I can’t
breathe minutes later he was dead two
officers are now on leave while an
investigation is underway the former
publisher of the national Inquirer
returns to the stand today for
cross-examination at former president
Trump’s hush money trial he’s been
testifying about a scheme to buy and
bury stories about Trump including
claims of an alleged Affair mortgage
rates have continued their climb past
the 7% threshold meanwhile stocks sank
yesterday amid concerns about a slowing
economy and stubborn inflation today’s
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morning a risk for tornadoes later today
from Kansas City to De Moine and severe
storms from Texas and Oklahoma to
Arkansas and finally the Tiny But Mighty
little girl she’s inspiring an entire
town in North Carolina this morning the
family of 18-month-old doia Morris has a
slogan to describe their little girl’s
toughness Tiny But Mighty and that is
her she was Tiny but very Mighty doia
received a heart transplant after
doctors diagnosed her with
cardiomyopathy a rare heart condition
she faced um eight months in the
hospital um waiting for uh a heart and
she was connected to what they call a
bird Berlin heart that pumped for her
heart for her the transplant was 6
months ago but Dalia still has a
compromised immune system which limits
the number of people with whom she can
have contact so the family found a way
to cheer on Dalia as she returned home
to recover I decided let’s put together
a driveby parade so we all could at
least drive by see her wave at her and
give her and the family lots of love and
support members of the family’s Church
the local police and fire departments
even the county sheriff’s office took
part in the parade she is just a joy and
everyone just wants to see her be a joy
organizers of the parade called the
response overwhelming and say it’s
inspired them even when the odds may
seem against you if you stay strong
think positive and still believe then
something good can come out of it look
at that little fighter yeah amazing
she’s so inspiring do just a toddler
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live first dramatic testimony in Donald
Trump’s New York criminal trial this
this morning former National Inquirer
boss David pecker returns to the stand
now facing the defense what he’s
revealed so far and the implications
involving the former
president new college campus crackdowns
police and riot gear made dozens of
arrests at Ohio State University plus
many more arrests at other schools
around the country now one University
says it’s cancelling
graduation dangerous storms are bringing
lands spout tornadoes huge hail and
damaging winds where the threat is
heading next and and your weekend
forecast and Jazelle bunin stopped by
police what she told the officer as she
burst into
tears we begin with testimony set to
resume in the criminal hush money trial
against former president Trump former
National Inquirer publisher David pecker
will face more cross-examination from
Trump’s attorneys after he described a
scheme to help bury embarrassing stories
that Trump feared could hurt his 2016
presidential campaign ABC News senior
investigative correspondent Aon kki has
the
latest 6 months after Donald Trump
became president he invited National
Inquirer publisher David pecker to the
White House as the two men walked to
dinner pecker recalled Trump asking
how’s Karen doing pecker said he told
the president Karen’s quiet all’s going
good according to pecker The Inquirer
had paid Playboy model Karen McDougall
$150,000 to keep her claim of a sexual
relationship with Trump out of print
Trump denies the affair but pecker
testified I believe the story was true
it would have been very embarrassing to
Trump and also to his campaign peka
recalled visiting Trump Tower after
Trump was elected around his desk he had
James Comey Sean Spicer Ryan prous and
Michael Pompeo Trump wanted to talk
about Karen McDougall how’s our girl
doing peka recalled Trump saying I want
to thank you for handling the McDougall
situation months later McDougall
appeared on television pecker said Trump
called him to complain I thought you had
and we had in agreement with Karen
McDougall that she can’t give any
interviews pcker said top White House
AIDS hope Hicks and Sarah Huckabee
Sanders called him too pecker testified
both of them said that they thought that
it was a good idea for The Inquirer to
extend mcdougall’s contract the defense
portrayed these kinds of arrangements as
routine standard operating procedure for
a tabloid and under cross-examination
pecker testified he paid to spike a
story about Rah Emanuel during his run
for mayor of Chicago and strong armed
Tiger Woods into appearing in one of his
Fitness magazines by using an
unflattering story as leverage was
breathtaking and uh amazing testimony
the defense argues Trump wanted a bury
salacious stories to protect his family
but pecker testified otherwise once
Trump started running for president did
he ever say anything to you that
indicated that he was concerned about
what Melania Trump or Ivanka Trump would
think prosecutors asked no pecker
replied it was basically what would the
impact be to the
campaign Diane David pecker
cross-examination caps the first week of
testimony in this historic trial and
we’re still waiting on the judge to
decide whether to hold Donald Trump in
contempt prosecutors have said they’ve
identified four additional violations of
the gag order there’s going to be a
hearing about this here next week
Diane senior investigative correspondent
Aon kerki thank you and we will be
following the story all day long and
bring you the latest right here on ABC
News live and the Supreme Court is
considering whether former president
Trump should immune from prosecution
over his alleged attempts to overturn
the 2020 election the justices heard
historic arguments yesterday over
Trump’s CLA of absolute immunity for any
official acts he made while in office
their potential ruling could affect when
or whether Trump will stand trial for
his actions on an around January 6th and
set a precedent for future presidents
senior National correspondent Terry
Morin has the
latest the Supreme Court Justices are
now weighing Donald Trump’s
unprecedented claim that presidents have
absolute immunity from Criminal
prosecution for any actions tied to
their official duties without
presidential immunity from Criminal
prosecution there can be no presidency
as we know it Trump argues that because
of that absolute immunity claim he
cannot be prosecuted by special counsel
Jack Smith for his efforts to overturn
the 2020 election the Court’s decision
in this case could significantly delay
the special council’s already stalled
trial even pushing its start past the
November election during the nearly
three hours of arguments liberal
justices were deeply skeptical just as
Sonia Sodor pressing Trump’s lawyer on
where his argument could lead if the
president
decides that his
rival is a corrupt
person and he orders the military or
orders someone to assassinate him is
that within His official acts that for
which he can get immunity it would
depend on the hypothetical but we can
see that could well be an official
Justice katangi Brown Jackson asking if
there is no accountability what would
stop a president from quote turning the
Oval Office into the seat of criminal
activity in this country if the
potential for criminal liability is
taken off the table wouldn’t there be a
significant risk that future presidents
would be emboldened to commit crimes
with abandon while they’re in office but
conservative justices while not fully
embracing Trump’s argument made the case
that presidents need some protection
from Criminal prosecution presidents
have to make a lot of tough decisions
about enforcing the law and they have to
make decisions about questions that are
unsettled did I understand you to say
well you know if he makes a mistake he
makes a mistake he’s subject to the
criminal laws just like anybody else you
don’t think he’s in speci Special A A
peculiarly precarious position much of
the argument centered around what
constitutes a personal ACT versus an
official act by a president the justice
has hinted they might send the whole
case back down to the lower court to
sort that question out you say even if
the court were inclined to recognize
some immunity for a former president’s
official acts it should remain for trial
because the indictment alleges
substantial private conduct yes not lost
on the bench the stakes of this
constitutional moment we’re writing a
rule for yes for the
ages at the end of the day it was clear
that majority of the justices want
presidents to have some protection from
prosecution though not as much as Trump
wants and that likely means a
complicated opinion more litigation
about all this in the lower courts and
an almost certain delay of any trial in
this case until after the November
election Diane senior National
correspondent Terry Moran thank you and
Secretary of State Anthony blinkin is in
China for a high stakes meeting with
President xiin ping lincol says he’s
aiming to deepen areas of cooperation
and responsibly manage the differences
between the US and China Chief Global
Affairs correspondent Martha Ritz has
that story this is one of the most
consequential relationships the US has
and often the most contentious but now
Secretary of State Anthony blinkin has
met with Chinese leader xiin pink for
nearly an hour with both men working to
make progress on a slew of issues from
China’s support for Russia to Taiwan to
trade and while more fractious issues of
National Security and trade showed
little sign of change after the the
meeting blinkin did say there was
progress in restoring military to
military communication which had come
out to a halt after the Chinese spy
balloon swept across the US and he also
acknowledged China’s role in helping to
dissuade Russia he said from possibly
using a tactical nuclear weapon in
Ukraine but president XI insisted the
two countries should stop engaging in
vicious competition and until that
happens he said the relations will not
truly stabilize and by the way Tik Tock
did not come up in the meetings Diane
Chief Global Affairs correspondent
Martha Raditz thank you and the NYPD is
now guarding the gates at Columbia
University as anti-war protests there
enter day nine New York City officials
say student protesters have started to
dismantle some tents as negotiations
with the university officials progress
meanwhile police say more than a dozen
people were arrested at Ohio State
University overnight after
demonstrations there ABC Stephanie Ramos
has the latest from Columbia here in New
York
police clashing with protesters in the
heart of Ohio State’s
campus at least 30 people arrested after
protesters formed a circle refusing to
let police into the encampment at
Columbia University the epicenter of
growing student desent against the war
in Gaza face a deadline to dismantle
their encampment as protests and arrests
intensify Across the
Nation this morning the gates to
Columbia remain locked surrounded by
NYPD but just just hours ago at least
half a dozen groups mostly non- students
marching outside those Gates the pro
Palestinian movement growing across
college and university campuses with
more than 400 people detained Thursday
alone at Emory University in Atlanta a
State Trooper repeatedly tasing a man as
protesters clashed with police I go to
this school I have a right to be here
one woman who says she’s a philosophy
Professor also taken into
custody philosophy Department office and
tell them I’ve been arrested at Indiana
University Police warning students to
remove their tents or face suspension or
expulsion you’ve been given two warnings
later taking at least 30 people into
custody at Northwestern University our
Chicago station WLS capturing video of
students setting up a new encampment
vowing to occupy the area until the
university stop supporting Israeli
occupation after days of protests at
California universities USC announcing
it’s cancelling its main graduation
ceremony in May at nor Eastern
University Police and Boston police
officers surrounding protesters and
their tents the university saying the
student protesters are violating the
code of student conduct we spoke to a
Jewish student at Columbia University
who says she joined the pro Palestinian
protests with the goal of creating peace
between the Jewish community and those
supporting Gaza I know that if we see a
free Palestine within our lifetime I am
one step closer to the Jewish safety
that myself all my peers are looking for
as of right now we understand student
negotiators are in talks with University
officials about their demands as the
university tries to dismantle the tent
encampment that is still on campus Diane
Stephanie Ramos thank you and a jur in
Harvey Weinstein sexual assault trial is
speaking out after the Hollywood mogul’s
conviction was overturned by the New
York Court of Appeals the High Court
ruled that the judge should not have
allowed other Weinstein accusers to
testify now the juror tells ABC news
she’s appalled by that decision as the
Manhattan District Attorney’s office is
vowing to retry the case ABC’s Eva
Pilgrim has the
latest the Manhattan District Attorney’s
office vowing to attempt to retry the
case against disgraced Hollywood Mogul
Harvey Weinstein after a state court of
appeals overturned his 2020 rape
conviction Weinstein was convicted of
sexual crimes against two women in New
York to the survivors of Harvey
Weinstein I owe and we all owe an
immense debt to you he was sentenced to
23 years behind bars but in a 4-3
decision the New York Court of Appeals
overturning that verdict citing what it
called egregious errors and finding the
judge erroneously allowed women who
weren’t part of the case to testify
Amanda brainer known as juror 11 voted
to convict Weinstein she tells ABC News
she was appalled by the ruling we took
our Ro very seriously we focused on the
charges which was our job so it seems to
me that to overturn a verdict based on
witnesses that really were not that
relevant to our discussion is insane
Caitlyn Delaney an actress who was not
involved in the case but accused
Weinstein of sexually assaulting her in
a hotel room in 1996 says she was
shocked by the decision while this is a
setback all of us who work in this field
are still moving forward and do believe
that change will happen Weinstein was
once considered one of the most powerful
men in Hollywood accused of using his
power to either Advance or destroy
women’s careers based on how they
responded to his sexual advances
accusations he’s denied accusations that
help spark the me tooo movement more
than 80 women have accused wiin scene of
sexual assault or harassment including
actresses Uma Thurman Gwyneth paltro
Rose McOwen and Ashley Jud who blasted
the decision to overturn his conviction
this is what it’s like to be a woman in
America living with male entitlement to
our bodies Lauren oconor worked for
Weinstein from 2013 to 2016 it was an
internal memo she wrote to Studio
Executives that led to the 2017 New York
Times article outing accusations against
her former boss
and I remember the day that he was
convicted in New York was a tremendous
Victory and surreal and I think you know
sitting here today reading the news the
sad thing I’ll say is I’m not surprised
Weinstein remains at a prison near
Albany still behind bars for a sexual
assault conviction in LA in 2022 that
his lawyer says they plan to appeal that
appeal has not been even filed yet let
alone heard so I’m sure he is anxious to
get the the ball rolling the Manhattan
District Attorney’s Office says it
intends to retry Weinstein and that
means his accusers could be forced to
retell their stories again on the
witness stand Diane all right Eva
Pilgrim thank you and ABC News legal
contributor and partner at the Cochran
firm shaa lyd joins me now for more on
this Shanda the appeals court ruled that
the judge erroneously admitted testimony
of uncharged alleged prior sexual acts
against persons other than the
complaintants of this case what did you
make of their reasoning here so Diane
when we look at this reasoning it is a
basic fundamental right that your prior
bad acts are not brought in unless they
speak to motive mistake other specific
things so what they’re saying is that
just because you did something in your
past you can’t use that because it can
be overly prejudicial to the jury and
they could convict based on those prior
acts and so that’s what they’re saying
violated his due process rights now the
Manhattan district attorney says that
the office says they want to retry this
case
how hard is it to bring a case like this
all over again a case of this magnitude
requires a lot of judicial resources so
it is not an easy feat so that shows
their commitment to Seeking Justice in
this case that they’re willing to retry
it now Weinstein was also sentenced to
16 years in a separate rape case in
California where the judge also allowed
other accusers to testify now his
lawyers in that case say it should be
overturned just like the New York case
was do you think that’ll happen you know
I don’t know that that’s going to happen
in the LA case because with these
Witnesses the reason they brought them
in was a little bit more tenuous it
wasn’t as for one of the specified
reasons and La it was a little different
so I don’t know that that one will be
overturned all right we’ll be watching
that closely ABC News legal contributor
sha lyd thank you always a
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the threat is heading next and your
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Trump is back in court for his criminal
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serir weather is on the Move bringing
threats of tornadoes to the Heartland
four land spout tornadoes hit the planes
along with huge hail and damaging winds
the Oklahoma City area has already been
under a tornado warning this morning our
chief meteorologist Ginger Z is tracking
where that threat is headed now hi
Ginger Diane got a big weekend of severe
weather it all starts today but we’re
going to start with the pictures of what
happened just yesterday this is a land
spout tornado so it forms differently
different uh thunderstorm this one has a
high base and it’s not connected as much
but you can see it still could do damage
even though they’re weaker than
traditional tornadoes but here Oklahoma
City woke up with the thunderstorms lots
of lightning and some damaging winds an
excess of 60 to 70 mph so that’s the
type of event we’re going to see through
the weekend it’s just going to today
open up in a much more populated area
than it was yesterday so Kansas City and
Overland Park up through De Moine parts
of Nebraska down into northeast Kansas
so that’s the big threat for tornado but
the damaging wind threat goes all the
way to Dallas through tonight then new
storm pumps up the atmosphere again and
Saturday opens up again Iowa Kansas City
down through Witchita and and this time
even further south into Oklahoma and
Texas and then on Sunday you still have
got it all the way over to Little Rock
so just watch because this is an
expansive one a lot of people have
outdoor plans on Saturday and remember
it can start very nice you get Sunshine
that’s the heat that’s required for a
tornado so easily can change quickly
highest risk for fles flooding also
comes right in the middle there they
could end up with 3 to 5 Ines on top of
all those other threats so big weekend
right there in the plains Diane chief
meteorologist Ginger Z thank you come up
gelle bunin stopped by police what she
told the officer as she burst into tears
also ahead the criminal hush money trial
against the former president is set to
get underway today former National
inquir Boss David pecker returns to the
stand now facing the defense we have
Team coverage all day long right here on
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in tears explaining to the officer why
she’s crying Victor Kendo is in Miami
with the
details why are you crying I’m tired
everywhere I go I have guys after me
nothing police body camera footage
showing supermodel Jazelle bunin pulled
over for a traffic stop after she says
Paparazzi was following her watch as the
officer approaches her gray Mercedes SUV
I’ll give you a courtesy today thank I
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top story former National inquir
publisher David pecker will be back on
the stand today in the criminal hush
money trial against former president
Trump pecker will face more
cross-examination from Trump’s attorneys
after describing a scheme to help bury
embarrassing stories that Trump feared
could hurt his 2016 presidential
campaign ABC News senior investigative
correspondent Aon kerki has the
latest 6 months after Donald Trump
became president he invited National
Inquirer publisher David pecker to the
White House as the two men walked to
dinner pecker recalled Trump asking
how’s Karen doing pecker said he told
the president Karen’s quiet all’s going
good according to pecker The Inquirer
had paid Playboy model Karen McDougall
$150,000 to keep her claim of a sexual
relationship with Trump out of print
Trump denies the affair but pecker
testified I believe the story was true
it would have been very embarrassing to
Trump and also it his campaign pecker
recalled visiting Trump Tower after
Trump was elected around his desk he had
James Comey Sean Spicer Ryan prous and
Michael Pompeo Trump wanted to talk
about Karen McDougall how’s our girl
doing pcka recalled Trump saying I want
to thank you for handling the McDougall
situation months later McDougall
appeared on television pecker said Trump
called him to complain I thought you had
and we had an agreement with Karen
McDougall that she can’t give any
interviews pecker said top White House
AIDS hope Hicks and Sarah hakabe Sanders
called him too pecker testified both of
them said that they thought that it was
a good idea for The Inquirer to extend
mcdougall’s contract the defense port
these kinds of arrangements as routine
standard operating procedure for a
tabloid and under cross-examination
pecker testified he paid to spike a
story about ranuel during his run for
mayor of Chicago and strong armed Tiger
Woods into appearing in one of his
Fitness magazines by using an
unflattering story as leverage was
breathtaking and uh amazing testimony
the defense argues Trump wanted a bury
salacious stories to protect his family
but pecker testified otherwise once
Trump started running for president did
he ever say anything to you that
indicated that he was concerned about
what Melania Trump or Ivanka Trump would
think prosecutors asked no peka replied
it was basically what would the impact
be to the campaign stand by watch
out and ABC News senior investigative
correspondent Erin kerki joins me now
from outside that courthouse in New York
City along with ABC News executive
editorial producer John santui and
attorney and former prosecutor Emily
Bradford eron David pecker also
described yesterday how he learned about
Stormy Daniels and why he instructed
Michael Cohen to pay her directly for
her silence unlike the other stories
that pecker says he helped kill for
Trump so what stood out to you from that
part of his testimony and how do you
expect the defense to
respond David pecker was at dinner with
his wife one Saturday evening in October
of 2016 when he said he got a frantic
phone call from one of his top editors
informing him that storm Daniels had a
story to sell about an alleged affair
with Donald Trump and when he told
Michael Cohen about it pecker testified
that Co Cohen told him to buy it and
pecker said I’m not a bank he had
already paid $30,000 to bury a door Man
story of a trump L child he had paid
$150,000 to Karen McDougall and he said
he didn’t want to get involved with a
porn star and Michael Cohen was the one
who ended up wiring Stormy Daniels the
money that’s what’s at the center of
this
whole case the way Trump reimbursed
Cohen prosecutors say falsified business
records now John Trump denied having an
affair with Daniels he also denied
having an affair with Karen McDougall
but David pecker testified yesterday
that he believed Karen mcdougall’s story
was true and that it would embarrass
Trump and hurt his presidential campaign
the details coming out on this case and
that will continue to come out on this
case how do they affect Trump not just
legally but also personally so on the
personal front the thing to remember
here is is that you know Donald Trump
has said and told people according to my
sources this whole thing is embarrassing
for him right because it is getting into
his personal life his sex life right
things that you know nobody would ever
really want to be talked about in any
type of setting let alone a public court
and somebody who is so forward facing
right at the end of the day everyone
does get to have a private life if you
will so put that aside for a second on
the political front of things you know
what Donald Trump has been calculating
here he and his team is that you know
they wanted to delay this thing as we’ve
talked about forever and always right
they didn’t want to be in this courtroom
period okay now they’re in the courtroom
so that’s over the thing that they know
is problematic based on all the polling
that’s come out is God forbid if they
get a conviction because what the data
has shown so far is that there is a
small but nevertheless significant
portion of Voters that have said if he’s
convicted in any four of these criminal
cases it could sway their vote and we
know based on all the pollings so far
everything between Biden and trump it is
super super close and Emily 6 months
after Trump became president he hosted
this thank you dinner for David pecker
and some of his business associates the
jury saw a photo of pecker and Trump
walking outside the white house that day
where pecker says they had another
conversation about Karen McDougall how
important is it to the prosecution to
draw attention not only to that
conversation but to the
setting well I think it’s important
because obviously the main issue here is
the intent so what were the purpose what
was the purpose of these payments um
Donald Trump’s going to argue that is
about his personal rep reputation about
his family not finding out about these
Affairs but um we have evidence of what
the communications were at the time
which I think are going to be the
strongest as far as what the intent was
but then these subsequent conversations
in the white house obviously that’s a
setting that’s highly political um
following up on it in that context tends
to support the the idea that the purpose
of these pain all along was election
related and political Aaron the judge
also rescheduled a hearing for next week
on several additional alleged gag order
violations uh for former president Trump
he could be held in contempt what are
you watching for
there the prosecutor said they
identified four additional instances
When Donald Trump violated the gag order
that prevents him from attacking
Witnesses the jury and they talked about
some of his remarks in the hallway where
the former president frequently speaks
before and after court uh they also said
he gave a couple of interviews in which
he disparaged Michael Cohen and so they
want Trump to be fine for each of these
instances the judge still hasn’t decided
about the 10 prior alleged violations so
there’s going to be a hearing on this
next Thursday morning and prosecutors
will be pushing him to hold Trump in
contempt all right Aaron kki John santui
Emily Bradford thank you and we will be
following this case all day long we’ll
bring you the latest right here on ABC
News live keep it here meanwhile the
Supreme Court is considering whether
former president Trump should be immune
from prosecution over his alleged
attempts to overturn the 2020 election
the justices heard historic arguments
yesterday over Trump’s claim of absolute
immunity for any official acts he made
while in office their potential ruling
could affect when or whether Trump will
stand trial for his actions on and
around January 6th and set a precedent
for future presidents senior National
correspondent Terry Moran has the
latest the Supreme Court Justices are
now weighing Donald Trump’s
unprecedented claim that presidents have
absolute immunity from Criminal
prosecution for any actions tied to
their official duties without
presidential immunity from Criminal
prosecution there can be no presidency
as we know it Trump argues that because
of that absolute immunity claim he
cannot be prosecuted by special counsel
Jack Smith for his efforts to overturn
the 2020 election the Court’s decision
in this case could significantly delay
the special council’s all already
stalled trial even pushing its start
past the November election during the
nearly 3 hours of arguments liberal
justices were deeply skeptical just as
Sonia Sor pressing Trump’s lawyer on
where his argument could lead if the
president
decides that his
rival is a corrupt
person and he orders the military or
orders someone to assassinate him is
that within His official acts that for
which he can get immunity it would
depend on the hypothetical but we can
see that could well be an official act
Justice katangi Brown Jackson asking if
there is no accountability what would
stop a president from quote turning the
Oval Office into the seat of criminal
activity in this country if the
potential for criminal liability is
taken off the table wouldn’t there be a
significant risk that future presidents
would be emboldened to commit crimes
with a in while they’re in office but
conservative justices while not fully
embracing Trump’s argument made the case
that presidents needs some protection
from Criminal prosecution presidents
have to make a lot of tough decisions
about enforcing the law and they have to
make decisions about questions that are
unsettled did I understand you to say
well you know if he makes a mistake he
makes a mistake he’s subject to the
criminal laws just like anybody else you
don’t think he’s in a special a a
peculiarly precarious position much of
the argument centered around what
constitutes a personal ACT versus an
official act by a president the justices
hinted they might send the whole case
back down to the lower court to sort
that question out you say even if the
court were inclined to recognize some
immunity for a former president’s
official acts it should remand for trial
because the indictment alleges
substantial private conduct yes not lost
on the bench the stakes of this
constitutional moment we’re writing a
rule for yes for the ages
senior National correspondent Terry
Moran joins me now for more on this case
Terry Trump’s attorney conceded that
personal or private act should not get
immunity in their opinion we heard a lot
of hypotheticals then around what could
be considered an official act justices
asked about assassinating political
Rivals accepting bribes to nominate
ambassadors pushing fraudulent electors
and many more if they do side with Trump
here how could the justices deal with
them trying to separate personal from
official acts Diane that is the heart of
the case that is the toughest question
the justi has faced and it’s clear
they’re going to Grapple with it they
believe a majority of the justices it’s
clear after that argument believe that
presidents need some protection from
prosecution not as much as Trump wants
he wants absolute immunity for anything
that he does that could be remotely tied
to official acts any president does and
the justice has looked beyond the Trump
presidency and all the Trump controversy
we’re looking for and they say what
impact would this have on future
presidents if they don’t have some
protection from prosecution so they will
go back it seems pretty certain and
write an opinion that tries to delineate
uh what counts as an official act from
what counts as a private act and that’s
not easy you know the question of
staging a coup the president is allowed
obviously to give orders to the military
how do you delineate a lawful order from
an unlawful one that can be prosecuted
not just subject to impeachment but
criminally prosecuted that’s not easy to
write and it will take some time Terry
this decision is expected to have a big
impact not only directly here but also
for future presidents but right now you
have special Council Jack Smith waiting
to bring this case the original trial
date was set for March 4th how does this
ruling affect what happens next there
yeah the trial is not going to go
forward anytime soon because this is a
genuinely hard question uh this is a
difficult question the just spring
courts wrestled with it before back to
the Civil War and before right up
through the
1970s the scope of Presidential Power
and the immunities that presidents need
in order to act fully efficiently
swiftly confidently in the for the good
of the country that’s always been a
tough question and so it seems almost
certain that what will happen is a
complicated opinion in a few weeks from
the Supreme Court more litigation in the
courts below as they try to figure out
how to apply the fact of the Trump case
to the law the Supreme Court’s going to
give them and an almost certain delay of
any trial in this case beyond the
November election yeah Terry we did hear
one exchange with the justices though
where even Trump’s attorney admitted
that in the indictment in this case
there are many personal acts included so
can this case go forward even if the
Supreme Court sides with Trump in this
uh in this case it can Diane it’ll be up
to the trial judge now to take the law
that the Supreme Court will give uh that
that judge around presidential immunity
and apply to the facts in the case Trump
says all the facts in the case were
official acts he says he was simply
trying to faret out uh problems with the
election ensure an election Integrity so
everything he did slates of FL fake
electors calling up the justice
department calling up the officials in
Georgia and say fellas I got to find
11,000 votes all those things he says
are official acts the Jud the trial
judge in the first instance will say
okay well here are some things that you
did you made you know asked the justice
department to look at potential fraud
that’s official here are other things
maybe that phone call fellas find me
11,000 x maybe that’s a private thing a
personal thing that you did for your own
personal interest as a candidate not the
president of the United States for all
the people ensuring in election
Integrity that’ll be a process uh that
will take more time this case is a ways
from being tried all right senior
National correspondent Terry Moran thank
you coming up new college campus
crackdowns police and riot gear made
dozens of arrests at Ohio State
University plus many more arrests at
other schools around the country now one
University says it’s cancelling
graduation and president Trump has
arrived at a New York courthouse as the
criminal hush money trial against him
resumes in just a little while former
National inquir publisher David pecker
is due to face more cross-examination
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Columbia University the epicenter of
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in Gaza face a deadline to dismantle
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this morning the gates to Columbia
remain locked surrounded by NYPD but
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groups mostly non- students marching
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people detained Thursday alone at Emory
University in Atlanta a State Trooper
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clashed with police I go to this school
I have a right to be here one woman who
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Department office and tell them I’ve
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Police warning students to remove their
tents or face suspension or expulsion
you’ve been given two warnings later
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at Northwestern University our Chicago
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setting up a new encampment vowing to
occupy the area until the university
stops supporting Israeli occupation
after days of protests at California
universities USC announcing it’s
cancelling its main graduation ceremony
in May at Northeastern University Police
and Boston police officers surrounding
protesters and their tents the
university saying the student protesters
are violating the code of student
conduct we spoke to a Jewish student at
Columbia University who says she joined
the pro Palestinian protests with the
goal of creating peace between the
Jewish community and those supporting
Gaza I know that if we see a free
Palestine within our lifetime I am one
step closer to the Jewish safety that
myself all my peers are looking for as
of right now we understand student
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encampment that is still on campus Diane
Stephanie Ramos thank you an a juror in
Harvey Weinstein sexual assault trial is
speaking out after the Hollywood mogul
conviction was overturned by a New York
Court of Appeals the High Court ruled
the judge should not have allowed other
Weinstein accusers to testify now the
juror tells ABC news she’s appalled by
that ruling as the Manhattan District
Attorney’s office is vowing to retry the
case ABC’s Eva Pilgrim has the
latest the Manhattan District Attorney’s
office vowing to attempt to retry the
case against disgraced Hollywood Mogul
Harvey Weinstein after a state court of
appeals overturned his 2020 rape
conviction
Weinstein was convicted of sexual crimes
against two women in New York to the
survivors of Harvey Weinstein I owe and
we all owe an immense debt to you he was
sentenced to 23 years behind bars but in
a 43 decision the New York Court of
Appeals overturning that verdict citing
what it called egregious errors and
finding the judge erroneously allowed
women who weren’t part of the case to
testify Amanda Brainard known as juror
11 voted to convict Weinstein she tells
ABC News she was appalled by the ruling
we took our rule very seriously we
focused on the charges which was our job
so it seems to me that to overturn a
verdict based
on witnesses that really were not that
relevant to our discussion is insane
Caitlyn Delaney an actress who was not
involved in the case but accused
Weinstein of sexually assaulting her in
a hotel room in 1996 says she was
shocked by the decision while this is a
setback all of us who work in this field
are still moving forward and do believe
that change will happen Weinstein was
once considered one of the most powerful
men in Hollywood accused of using his
power to either advance or destroy
women’s careers based on how they
responded to his sexual advances
accusations he’s denied accusations that
help spark the me toooo movement more
than 80 women have accused wein scene of
sexual assault or harassment including
actresses Uma Thurman Gwyneth paltro
Rose mcgaan and Ashley Jud who blasted
the decision to overturn his conviction
this is what it’s like to be a woman in
America living with male entitlement to
our bodies Lauren o Conor worked for
Weinstein from 2013 to 2016 it was an
internal memo she wrote to Studio
executives that led to the 2017 New York
Times article outing accusations against
her former boss and I remember the day
that he was convicted in New York was a
tremendous Victory and surreal and I
think you know sitting here today
reading the news the sad thing I’ll say
is I’m not surprised Weinstein remains
at a prison near Albany still behind
bars for a sexual assault conviction in
LA in 2022 that his lawyer says they
plan to appeal that appeal has not been
even filed yet let alone heard so I’m
sure he is anxious to get the the ball
rolling the Manhattan District
Attorney’s Office says it intends to
retry Weinstein and that means his
accusers could be forced to retell their
stories again on the witness stand Diane
Eva Pilgrim thank you coming up
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welcome back former president Trump is
speaking outside of Manhattan courtroom
as he gets ready to enter his criminal
hush money trial let’s listen thank you
very much everybody appreciate it uh I
want to start by wishing my wife Melania
a very happy birthday be nice to be with
her but I’m at a courthouse for a rick
Tria it’s a rig Tria terrible but we’re
doing very well in this rig tra
everybody knows it
yesterday was a big day but I do have to
begin by wishing elania happy birthday
she’s in Florida I’ll be going there
this evening after this case finishes up
this
horrible unconstitutional case when it
finishes up uh we have a uh report that
was just put out by house Judiciary on
the District Attorney’s office this was
done by Congress and so I guess it just
came out a little while ago a few
moments ago I I haven’t seen it yet
haven’t read it but it should be
interesting I think yesterday went very
well in this courthouse uh it
was uh it should be over the case is
over you heard what was said and the
case should be over but uh you’ll have
to make that determination I think we
have a judge that will never allow this
case to be over in a positive way it’s
he’s highly conflicted the most highly
conflicted judge I’ve ever seen
and uh yesterday I think in the Supreme
Court having to do with immunity I heard
the argument was brilliant uh I listened
to it last night I thought it was really
great I thought the judge’s questions
were great and all presidents have to
have immunity it has nothing to do with
me absolutely nothing all presidents
have to have immunity if you don’t have
a president certainly not a president
that the founders wanted so we have
another day of court in a freezing
Courthouse it’s very cold there for on
purpose I believe they don’t seem to be
able to get the temperature up it
shouldn’t be that complicated but we
have a freezing courthouse and that’s
fine that’s just fine let him keep
handing it out there’s a rick Dr thank
you very
much to jail Mr Trump you think be to
make you uncomfortable as former
president Trump heading into a Manhattan
courtroom for his criminal hush money
trial he wished his wife Melania a happy
birthday and then complained about
several aspects of this this case
including the temperature in the
courtroom calling it freezing he also
addressed the Supreme Court arguments on
immunity yesterday saying the justice
has asked good questions and reiterated
his argument that presidents have to
have immunity I want to bring in our ABC
News senior investigative correspondent
Aon cury outside the courthouse along
with abs news executive editorial
producer John santui and attorney and
former prosecutor Emily
Bradford John what do you make of
Trump’s comments because he has now
gotten in trouble and been accused of
order violations for some comments he
has made before those very cameras this
time he seemed to sort of stay in a lane
talking about the case but focusing on
the judge who is not included in the gag
order versus talking about the witnesses
yeah and the other thing not included in
the gag order is talking about the
temperature in the room so as long as he
stays on those topics he’s quite all
right Diane I think look I think that
Donald Trump knows already based on all
the warnings he’s gotten so far and
nothing’s been you know ordered yet by
this judge but the reality is that you
know as his attorneys and others have
said just you got to rain in you got to
rain in you just got to be careful what
you’re saying outside we now know that
at least two times because of the
additional gag order violations
prosecutors have cited in court before
judge Maran two of those involve Donald
Trump’s statements that he made to that
very camera so he’s definitely staying
well within the lines I do think that
you know look this is the only Outlet
Donald Trump has right now he’s not able
to go out and do interviews he’s not
able to go out and campaign his schedule
is very much fixed and I do think
yesterday if you will was the first
quote unquote real day we had of these
proceedings in the sense that the
beginning half of the week as we both
know we had half days right there’s
something different about sitting in a
courtroom for about four to six hours
versus 8 n hours and that’s what Donald
Trump went through yesterday I also
think that look we know this Supreme
Court case is Weighing on him quite
heavily because whatever those judges
decide that’s going to set the rules for
that ball game because if they Grant him
any form of immunity or tailor the case
or narrow it it means that he gets the
delay he was seeking if not and they say
green light doj keep going that means
there maybe could be another trial this
year very very very very difficult to
imagine that happens but nevertheless
could be possible Aaron we also heard
the former president saying he thought
yesterday quote went very well David
pecker returns to the stand today he’s
under cross-examination now most of
yesterday he was questioned by the
prosecution what were some key points
that stuck out to you from his test
today and what do you expect to hear or
yesterday rather and what do you expect
to hear from him
today well I think the defense Diane is
trying to normalize the relationship
between the Tabloid the national
Inquirer that David pecker published and
the 2016 Trump campaign after pecker
sort of raised the curtain a little bit
about the Dark Art of catch and kill
helping the campaign by quashing
negative Stories the defense under
cross-examination really sought to
portray that as routine as as Amel Bo
the defense attorney said standard
operating procedure and gave all these
examples of of David pecker buying up
other celebrity stories only to bury
them one about ranuel when he was
running for mayor of Chicago one about
Tiger Woods that he then used as
leverage to get the golfer on the cover
of Men’s Fitness magazine and and pecker
is probably going to be asked about
other instances when he put catch and
kill to use uh and and make that try to
seem for the jury like it was normal and
not something special for Donald Trump
Emily how strong is that argument is it
enough for the defense to show that this
was kind of standard operating procedure
if they’re able to do that if pecker is
admitting to doing this for Trump
specifically because Trump was concerned
about the 2016
election well it could be very important
for the defense and I think it depends
on what standard operating procedure
means if standard operating procedure is
I mean look catch and kill by itself is
not illegal what’s illegal here um
alleged is that these were Undeclared
campaign contributions and expenditures
specifically for Donald Trump’s campaign
so the more the defense can show that
this tactic is employed in other
contexts you know Tiger Woods is an
important example that’s has nothing to
do with an election um I think that
starts to distance this from being about
the election and that’s what the
prosecution really needs to prove Ain
pecker also described how he came to
learn about Stormy Daniels and why he
instructed Michael Cohen to pay her
directly unlike the other stories that
pecker says he helped kill for Trump
what stood out to you from that part of
his testimony and how’s the defense
going to
respond David pecker said that he’s not
a bank he he didn’t have any more money
to to start keep buying up these stories
to bury them he paid
$30,000 to Dina sajudin the doorman who
said that Trump fire F fathered a child
out of wedlock he paid $150,000 to Karen
McDougall the Playboy model and he told
Michael Cohen he didn’t want to be
associated with a porn star so he told
Cohen he testified you pay her and that
went back and forth and ultimately when
uh you know Coen was on the fence pecker
told him you know if this gets out it’s
going to be really embarrassing and the
boss meeting Trump is going to be really
angry so Cohen wired her
$130,000 and when Trump reimbursed Cohen
that’s when prosecutors say he falsified
business records by booking the
reimbursement payments as legal expenses
uh so that’s really at the heart of the
case and pecker uh helps I think try to
soften the blow when Michael Cohen gets
up there and the the defense tries to
hammer his
credibility now John Trump has denied
having an affair with Daniels he also
denied having an affair with Playboy
model Karen McDougall how much does he
care that these details are now coming
out in the court of law but also for the
public to hear horrible it’s honestly
something that’s Weighing on him so much
he you know I think the body language of
Donald Trump is just a whole fascinating
case study and and of itself what
everyone describes as seeing him in
these proceedings both our folks and
then sources close to the former
president that have gone with him one
person said that’s just the best to me a
couple weeks ago he literally hates
walking into this building more than
anything because it’s the case among all
of them Diane that really gets to a part
of Donald Trump’s life that he doesn’t
want out there or talked about and it is
his personal is his private life look I
remember now I’m really rewinding my
brain I remember when Stormy Daniels and
Karen McDougall gave sitdown interviews
one uh was with 16 minutes I think that
was Stormy Daniels the other spoke to a
cable news outlet and in both instances
I think it was like a Thursday and a sun
day Melania Trump famously left the
White House she went down to maralago
wouldn’t come back because it was
talking about their personal life and
Affairs he allegedly had while they were
married it bothered her it it messed up
their marriage for a period of time they
actually weren’t together for several
weeks because of it that’s a real
reaction to a marriage right if if that
ever happened to our spouses we would be
living on something like that would want
to talk to them that’s what’s happening
in Donald Trump’s life right now it’s a
reminder of salt on the wound right
that’s part of the reason why he has
told people even though his children
said I’ll come with you the sons anyway
I’ll come with you to court because it
keep him calm you know at least make him
feel like somebody’s there supporting
him don’t come he doesn’t want them
there he’s told people this is
embarrassing for him so I do think that
there’s a lot of different you know ways
we can look at this right politically if
this came out years ago wouldn’t have
been good for Donald Trump financially
business-wise wasn’t good for Donald
Trump personally also not good for
Donald Trump Emily during opening
statements it seemed like the defense
was going to use that angle in this case
they pointed out during opening
statements that Trump is not just a
former president he’s not just the man
you’ve seen on TV he’s a he’s a man he’s
a husband he’s a father sort of implying
that they were going to argue that he
wanted these stories killed for the sake
of his family and to spare just the
general personal embarrassment can they
still go in that direction given how
clear pecker has been so far about the
timeline here that he never did catch
and kill for Trump until he started
running for president and that in all
their conversations Trump’s concerns
were always about the campaign never
mentioning his
family I I think they still can I mean
the David pecker is not actually not
able to speak directly about this Stormy
Daniels um case he he essentially
decided that he had he drew a line at
paying off porn stars for whatever
reason um so his direct dealings there
he says let’s let’s go through Cohen um
that’s really the one that matters here
the most um I do think it’s going to be
difficult for the defense to overcome
the timeline that David pecker has laid
out and you know all the conversations
that he’s laid out that indicate that
this really was about the election but
um you know I I also think it’s just
intuitive and obvious to people that
have any details of um you know sexual
relations with somebody who is not your
wife while you’re a public figure is
going to be damaging potentially
personally to your business to your
relationships um clearly that’s on
display now so I I definitely think
that’s a live argument that the defense
can make that this was what was really
motivating Donald Trump Ain we’re also
awaiting a ruling on whether or not the
judge will hold former president Trump
in contempt for alleged gag order
violations now the judge has rescheduled
another hearing on these new four uh
extra uh alleged violations for next
week uh what are you watching for
there judge Juan rashan has to decide
whether this matters whether uh Donald
Trump’s comments about Witnesses like
Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels is
having the kind of chilling effect on
participation in this trial that
prosecutors say it has and he also has
to weigh whether Trump’s comments about
the jurors have any potential impact
here and so he scheduled a hearing on
Thursday but he’s already heard
arguments on 10 prior alleged violations
of the gag order and has not made a
decision whether to hold Trump in
contempt and it was almost as if during
the prior hearing he wanted the defense
to give him some reason not to do this
not to take this step and he told
defense attorney Todd blanch you’ve
presented nothing you’re losing all
credibility but still no ruling yet
prosecutors at this point are seeking a
fine for each offending post or remark
we’re up to 14 now so perhaps
$144,000 all right Aaron kerki John
santui Emily Bradford thank you and we
will be following this case all day long
we’ll bring you the latest right here on
ABC News live meanwhile the Supreme
Court is considering whether former
president Trump should be immune from
prosecution over his alleged attempts to
overturn the 2020 election the justices
heard historic arguments yesterday over
Trump’s claim of absolute immunity for
any official acts he made while in
office the ruling could affect when or
whether Trump will stand trial for his
actions on and around January 6th and
set a precedent for future presidents
senior National correspondent Terry
Moran has the
latest the Supreme Court Justices are
now weighing Donald Trump’s
unprecedented claim that presidents have
absolute immunity from Criminal
prosecution for any actions tied to
their official duties without
presidential immunity from Criminal
prosecution there can be no presidency
as we know it Trump argues that because
of that absolute immunity claim he
cannot be prosecuted by special counsel
Jack Smith for his efforts to overturn
the 2020 election the Court’s decision
in this case could significantly delay
the special council’s already stalled
trial even pushing its start past the
November election during the nearly 3
hours of arguments liberal justices were
deeply skeptical just as Sonia Sor
pressing Trump’s lawyer on where his
argument could lead if the president
decides that his
rival is a corrupt
person and he orders the military or
orders someone to assassinate him is
that within His official acts that for
which he can get immunity it would
depend on the hypothetical but we can
see that could well be an official act
Justice katangi Brown Jackson asking if
there is no accountability what would
stop a president from quote turning the
Oval Office into the seat of criminal
activity in this country if the
potential for criminal liability is
taken off the table wouldn’t there be a
significant risk that future presidents
would be emboldened to commit crimes
with abandon while they’re in office but
conservative justices while not fully
embracing Trump’s argument made the case
that presidents need some protection
from Criminal prosecution presidents
have to make a lot of tough decisions
about enforcing the law uh and they have
to make decisions about questions that
are unsettled did I understand you to
say well you know if he makes a mistake
he makes a mistake he’s subject to the
criminal laws just like anybody else you
don’t think he’s in a special a a
peculiarly precarious position much of
the argument centered around what
constitutes a personal ACT versus an
official act by a president the justi
has hinted they might send the whole
case back down to the lower court to
sort that question out you say even if
the court were inclined to recognize
some immunity for a former president’s
official acts it should remain for trial
because the indictment alleges
substantial private conduct yes not lost
on the bench the stakes of this
constitutional moment we’re writing a
rule for yes for the
ages at the end of the day it was clear
that a majority of the justices want
presidents to have some protection from
prosecution though not as much as Trump
wants and that likely means a
complicated opinion more litigation
about all this in the lower courts and
an almost certain delay of any trial in
this case until after the November
election Diane our senior National
correspondent Terry Moran thank you and
I want to bring an ABC News contributor
polit presidential historian Mark upd
grve for more Mark Trump’s attorney
argued before The Supreme Court
yesterday that presidents have to be
immune in order to do their job
effectively but Justice Jackson pushed
back on that assertion that previous
presidents have operated under the
assumption of immunity saying she
believed they operated under the
assumption that they could be prosecuted
for unlawful acts what did you make of
that exchange well I think that’s
absolutely right past presidents have
not believe that they would have
immunity for their actions and you only
have to go back to Watergate to see that
that’s the case why would Richard Nixon
have resigned the office for the good of
the nation in the face of obstruction of
justice charges relating to the
Watergate scandal if he thought he would
be immune from prosecution that was the
reason that that he resigned and frankly
it was a time Diane when the syst was
considered to work that was Gerald Ford
in taking the office after Richard Nixon
as his successor said this system works
we are a nation of laws and not men Hear
the People rule so this would change
that this would mean that one man is
above the law and can interpret for
himself what is proper behavior in the
official capacity of President and
commanderin-chief of our nation Diane
the Justice Department’s attorney also
made a comment that was interesting
saying the reason prior presidents
haven’t been charged is because they
didn’t commit crimes while in office
what do that how does that sound to you
as a historian well I think it’s right
Justice Gorsuch said this is
a a rule for the ages he’s looking at
the future and how it changes the nature
of the presidency but we have to look at
the past too we have a system that has
worked to this point because presidents
do believe that they are not immune from
prosecution for things that they do in
an official capacity so I I you know the
it has worked to this point we have had
good presidents who are able to function
effectively in the position of President
of the United States with the system as
it is clearly Donald Trump is pressing
this case because he wants to be immune
from charges that he had fomented a
surrection around January 6 if this goes
forward would this allow Donald Trump
and his successors to do those same
things with immunity that’s the big
question here Diane how would that
precedent Set uh if the justices do go
in that direction how would that
precedent change the office of the
presidency and and the way future
presidents operate well I think what it
depends on what they consider a
president immune for what we what is
considered an official capacity so
there’s a lot of nuance here Diane but I
I think that it it certainly expands the
power of the presidency and we work with
a system that has checks and balances
there there are balances between the
different branches of Government
judicial legislative and executive this
would significantly expand the power of
the executive branch of government make
it more powerful and there would there
be a check to ensure that presidents are
are acting on in the best interest of
our country and not for personal gain
that’s the big that that’s the big
question here Diane all right ABC News
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what’s the latest from the courtroom so
right now we are back in
cross-examination of David pecker so
Donald Trump’s team is up there asking
him questions right now walking through
a little bit actually which is
fascinating of the
2015 presidential campaign the beginning
of the 2016 campaign focusing on a lot
of Donald Trump’s opponents at that time
Marco Rubio Ted Cruz and one of the
thing that’s been very interesting uh
going through the notes from our team in
court right now Diane is that they’re
asking David pcker about stories that
were published by the national Inquirer
about those opponents of Donald Trump
and one of the things that the defense
team is asking is saying look did you do
these stories because Donald Trump told
you to would you have done them if you
had spoken to him or not you know where
was your head at and he says very
clearly I would have done them
regardless whether or not I spoke to
Donald Trump and in one case he talks
about a story that you know was a
headline that prosecutors showed
involving um Ben Carson and he said well
wait a second yes but it was a recycled
Story another Outlet published at first
I followed them there wasn’t a
conversation there I had about Donald
Trump so a little bit of the minutia
right now about you know the business of
the national Inquirer if you will but
nevertheless fascinating Bernardo pecker
also testified yesterday to killing
stories or using them as leverage with
other public figures including Iger
woods and Rah Emanuel how critical is it
for the defense to try to show that this
was a widespread practice and not just
something done for Donald
Trump well with the defense going
through this strategy they’re trying to
show that look this is widespread it’s
not the special to Donald Trump so I
wasn’t doing any favors for Donald Trump
Donald Trump didn’t have much to gain
out of this I wasn’t acting at the
direction of Donald Trump but more of
this is something that I was doing in
common with other people as well so this
is important in terms of the charges
that he’s facing of falsifying business
records because if you can’t show that
there’s a gain some kind of campaign
Finance interest to it then it’s not
criminal so that’s how the defense is
attacking David pecker but I don’t think
they’re being much successful with
it and John we heard Trump wish his wife
melan a happy birthday before going into
court today it’s hard to ignore how much
of this case revolves around alleged
Affairs which he denies uh but Milani
also in famously left the White House
for maral Lago when these allegations
against him first came out so what are
you hearing from Trump’s Inner Circle
about how this is all affecting him
right now it’s embarrassing I mean
that’s really the word I hear repeatedly
from Top AIDS and allies to the former
president this is stories that he did
not want out there years ago I remember
being on the phone with senior AIDS when
both Karen McDougall and Stormy Daniels
eventually did tell their stories in
very extensive lengthy sitdown
interviews with two media outlets and I
remember one8 at the time close to
Melania Trump say I asked the person I
said is she watching this they said
don’t know can’t approach her like
that’s how much it was affecting the
family in real time I’m as you know I’m
sitting here re jogging my brain to
years ago and it’s just fascinating to
think about how much of an impact that
had then and it’s really reopening Old
Wounds if you will the fact that we are
here in court today and I also think in
some ways you know it’s nice that he’s
wishing Melania a happy birthday but
nevertheless a little odd given the
setting and the subject matter Bernardo
could the defense use that to their
advantage could they look back at how
these stories going public affected the
family and try to point to that as
Donald Trump’s motive for trying to keep
them
silent well that’s a strategy that
they’re trying to go with but the
problem is when talking to David pecker
nothing having to deal with Donald
Trump’s family came up that wasn’t part
of the conversation that he needed to
protect his family from learning this
information so they’re going to have to
counter that with the lack of
information of evidence out there of him
saying that I need to protect Melania
from hearing these devastating
accusations John yesterday pecker also
described how he came to First learn
about Stormy Daniels and her story how
he encouraged Michael Cohen to pay her
directly why he decided not to kill her
story directly the way he did with some
of these others what did what stood out
to you from that test and how do you
think the defense is going to respond to
that it’s interesting there was a phrase
from David pecker that just caught my
attention and it was I’m not a bank
because remember the stormy Daniel story
came right around the same time they
were also dealing with Karen McDougall
and David pecker testified that Trump’s
team had claimed he’d be reimbursed for
that he was never reimbursed for that
payment so then to then get if you will
hit up again to spend another six
figures to catch and kill another story
pecker basically said no guys I’m not
doing this one you have to do it so I
think any bit about those conversations
as they further get into the minutia of
what happened there and why it went this
way instead of that way and look it
could be as we were just talking about
the reason Trump stepping up to do it
you know the defense can say well you
know he was going to do it for us but we
just didn’t want to you know cause harm
to Milani or others so that’s why we did
it but again where they do have a very
big problem here if you will is just
that timeline it coming literally weeks
before the 2016 election all right John
sanui Bernardo viona thank you both and
we will be following this case all day
long we’ll bring you the latest right
here on ABC News live and the Supreme
Court is considering whether former
president Trump should be immune from
prosecution over his alleged attempts to
overturn the 2020 election the justices
heard historic arguments yesterday over
Trump’s claim of absolute immunity for
any official acts he made while in
office the ruling could affect when or
whether Trump will stand trial for his
actions on and around January 6th and
said a precedent for future presidents
senior National correspondent Terry
Moran has the
latest the Supreme Court Justices are
now weighing Donald Trump’s
unprecedented claim that presidents have
absolute immunity from Criminal
prosecution for any actions tied to
their official duties without
presidential immunity from Criminal
prosecution there can be no presidency
as we know it Trump argues that because
of that absolute immunity claim he
cannot be prosecuted by special counsel
Jack Smith for his efforts to overturn
the 2020 election the Court’s decision
in this case could significantly delay
the special council’s already stalled
trial even pushing its start past the
November election during the nearly 3
hours of arguments liberal justices were
deeply skeptical just as Sonia Sor
pressing Trump’s lawyer on where his
argument could lead if the president
decides that his
rival is a corrupt person
and he orders the military or ORD
someone to assassinate him is that
within His official acts that for which
he can get immunity it would depend on
the hypothetical but we can see that
could well be an official act Justice
katangi Brown Jackson asking if there is
no accountability what would stop a
president from quote turning the Oval
Office into the seat of criminal
activity in this country if the
potential for criminal liability is
taken off the table wouldn’t there be a
significant risk that future presidents
would be emboldened to commit crimes
with abandon while they’re in office but
conservative justices while not fully
embracing Trump’s argument made the case
that presidents need some protection
from Criminal prosecution the presidents
have to make a lot of tough decisions
about enforcing the law and they have to
make decisions about questions that are
unsettled did I understand you to say
well you know if he makes a mistake he
makes a mistake he’s subject to the
criminal laws just like anybody else you
don’t think he’s in a special a a
peculiarly precarious position much of
the arguments centered around what
constitutes a personal ACT versus an
official act by a president the justi
has hinted they might send the whole
case back down to the lower court to
sort that question out you say even if
the court were inclined to recognize
some immunity for a former president’s
official acts it should remain for trial
because the indictment alleges
substantial private conduct yes not lost
on the bench the stakes of this
constitutional moment we’re writing a
rule for yes for the
ages at the end of the day it was clear
that a majority of the justices want
presidents to have some protection from
prosecution though not as much as Trump
wants and that likely means a
complicated opinion more litigation
about all this in the lower courts and
an almost certain delay of any trial in
this case until after the November
election Diane senior National
correspondent Terry Moran thank you
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on Donald Trump’s criminal hush money
case happening right now Trump returned
to court early this morning wishing his
wife Melania a happy birthday as he
entered and continued to attack the
judge in the case now on the stand yet
again David pecker the former publisher
of the national Inquirer continuing
cross-examination Trump’s defense
lawyers questioning pecker about some of
the other stories he published leading
up to the 2016 campaign focusing right
now on stories published about Trump’s
Republican primary opponents asking
David pecker if he would publish those
stories whether or not he spoke with
Donald Trump pcker saying he would in
multiple cases now interestingly to note
also outside of Court Donald Trump gave
a court gave an interview to a
conservative media Outlet overnight
saying that well I would if necessary
referring to testimony in this case
you’ll recall Donald Trump has said
repeatedly he would take the stand in
this case sounds like he’s changing his
tune just a bit Diane back to you all
right John thank you and the NYPD is now
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Stephanie Ramos thank you and
investigators in Ohio are looking into
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Diane Alex Perez thank
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story former president Trump is back in
the Manhattan courtroom for his criminal
hush money trial former National inquir
publisher David pecker is on the stand
again this time for cross-examination so
far pecker has testified to being part
of a scheme to help bury embarrassing
stories that Trump feared could hurt his
2016 presidential campaign ABC News
investigative reporter Alivia Rubin
joins me now from outside the courthouse
along with ABC News executive editorial
producer John santui and criminal
defense attorney ABC News legal
contributor Kim wayy Olivia today pecker
mentioned some other public figures in
some catch and kill arrangements with
the Tabloid he named Bill Clinton Ted
Cruz he even talked about Tiger Woods
yesterday and a trump attorney said the
national inquirer’s arrangement with
Trump was not unique so what’s the
latest from the
courtroom today uh Trump’s attorney is
continuing with David pecker and what he
is essentially trying to do today is
water down the significance of the
information that Trump passed along to
David pecker to damage his opponents
remember prosecutors said that this was
a mutually beneficial relationship that
David pecker was going to hide negative
information about Donald Trump and push
out POS uh negative information about
his opponent so what prosecutor or sorry
Trump’s attorney is doing now is saying
that you were going to do this anyway
David pecker conceded that he was that
if he had gotten negative information
about Bill and Hillary Clinton he would
have published it regardless if he had
had this meeting with Donald Trump
because they had discussed about how
Bill and Hillary Clinton came up at the
original meeting with Donald Trump the
Trump Tower meeting where they entered
into this Arrangement so it’s seeming to
try to take down the significance of
what they agreed to at that meeting and
they are also talking about that first
catch and kill story with Trump’s
doorman and essentially framing it as a
business decision nothing that had to do
with Donald Trump or their agreement
they said that uh you know it was so
valuable that David pecker would have
paid $30,000 to lock it down anyway
because he didn’t want it going
elsewhere and David pcker conceded that
that was true it was such a valuable
story he paid the $30,000 on his own
because he did not want a publication to
be able to get a hold of it so he is
trying to essentially Donald Trump’s
attorney is trying to water down as I
said the significance of this agreement
that it was information that would have
been published anyway and had nothing to
do with that Trump Tower agreement Kim
how uh what do you make of this strategy
by the defense how strong is this if
they can show that pcker a did this for
a lot of other people and B sort of
would have published these stories or
hold them
anyway I actually think the first
defense is stronger the idea that well
this wasn’t really about the election we
would have done it anyway it’s probably
fairly well establish Donald Trump was
in this and it was it was important
around the election particularly given
the Access Hollywood tape that that blew
up the campaign and that was a became a
high concern to stop the bleeding with
that bad press but I do think to
Olivia’s point this argument that listen
this is just what famous people in the
spotlight do and it might be a little
bit sleazy but it’s not illegal I think
that’s going to be the through line that
even if the prosecution proves
everything they claim they’re going to
prove this is really about making false
entries in internal business documents
and it doesn’t really amount to
something that’s uh significant enough
to put a former president potentially
Behind
Bars John Trump leading up to this trial
had said a few times that he would
absolutely testify in a new interview
he’s now saying he would if necessary
what do you make of that I make that
never think Donald Trump is decided one
way or another and listen I also think
that there’s a difference between saying
something before it happens then when
you’re in it you know you get a sense of
the room the mood the vibe the way the
testimony is going Donald Trump like our
team is sitting in that court room he’s
listening to all of this some of it not
so bad for him some of it not good for
him so he’s taking all of that in and I
also think that you know listen the
reality of this story this is going to
be a long trial so there could come a
moment close to you know when it’s time
to wrap up that Donald Trump hears
something and says you know what I need
to respond to that put me on this stand
or there could be you know taking the
whole picture in and hearing the way
prosecutors are really taking their time
ticking through the questions the
allegations I mean Donald Trump is not
new to be you know on a witness stand or
sit for depositions Donald Trump brought
you know thousands of lawsuits while he
was in business he’s quite good at the
depositions and knowing I don’t know I
don’t remember I don’t recall Etc but
there’s a difference when you’re on the
stand and also a difference where there
are certain questions that Donald Trump
quite literally does not want to be
asked right did this affair happen did
you have this phone call those are
things that’s going to be very hard to
say the words I don’t recall so Kim do
you think he should
testify no I’m I think none of his
lawyers would suggest that in part
because the judge held what’s called a
sand Deval hearing where essentially if
he testifies then more in damaging
information comes in for example about
the egene Caroll uh verdicts as well as
um the the fraud fraud the Civil fraud
half a billion dollar judgment uh to to
impeach him so if he sits down this
trial then goes beyond this catch and
kill scheme and the fraudulent records
and the alleged attempts to to basically
thwart the election illegally by
violating Federal campaign laws and this
other bad stuff comes in which can’t
possibly be good uh for his case Olivia
we’re also hearing that upon entering
the courtroom when the judge said good
morning to everyone that Trump didn’t
respond and what do you make of his
demeanor in court
today well he didn’t respond yesterday
either Diane he sort of just sat in his
seat when judge Juan Marshon gave him
the standard good morning Mr Trump of
course he’s not calling him president
Trump he’s calling him Mr Trump but so
far uh Donald Trump seems a bit more
relaxed in the courtroom today uh
yesterday you could definitely see how
engaged he was with that testimony he
seemed to be hanging almost on every
word that David pcker was saying and was
really really uh pay close attention to
his own attorney’s
cross-examination of David pcker but
today he seems a little bit more relaxed
he’s more slumped in his chair at one
point his eyes did appear to be closed
uh so a bit of a calmer scene inside of
the courtroom today uh where he is
usually you know chatting quite
frequently with his attorneys passing
notes none of that yet but it again long
day ahead on this Friday after a long
week of court so there is still much to
come uh with that today and John Trump’s
attorneys is in questioning now seem to
be trying to distance Trump from this
catch and Killam talk me through that
this is a really interesting piece of
reporting from our Aaron cury that’s
just come out in our system um what
they’re doing right now and Olivia
detailed this quite well earlier as
they’re going through timelines and
different stories and whatnot we are now
progressing further and further into
2015 and based off of this reporting
they’re now walking through a
conversations around um one of the three
stories that was at questioner the one
involving a doorman who suggested
information about um a love child Donald
Trump allegedly had story ended up not
being true but what pcker is saying here
and in the questioning back and forth
Trump’s defense team is that um the
subject the Dorman had threatened to go
elsewhere if they did not catch and buy
and kill the story Etc and the quote
here that’s just fascinating from the
defense lawyers that quote that is why
you you paid him $30,000 the lawyer asks
pecker responds yes yes and it would
have been too great of a loss if it went
elsewhere the attorney questions pecker
says yes again so again this idea that
sometimes you know what pecker and I
think they’re trying to move the
conversation this way is that you know
maybe they bought the stories you know
just because they didn’t want them to go
elsewhere to have that Competitive Edge
because they were as pecker talked about
a great length yesterday not in the
business of you know ethical journalism
they were in checkbook journalism so Kim
how do you think they square that on the
one hand pecker testifying you know
yesterday the day before that this was
done on behalf of former president Trump
because he was worried about the impact
of his presidential campaign and now you
have pecker saying literally it would be
too great a loss to Ami to lose the
story that’s the question that he said
yes to Ami being the parent company of
the national
Inquirer well the question is will the
jury see a distinction between the
Stormy Daniels payoff and the doorman
payoff with the Stormy Daniels really
being the centerpiece of the case that
it’s that that 130
and uh Michael Cohen uh basically being
paid more so that he would not have to
or he would could book it as income with
additional money for taxes I think
that’s another one of the underlying
potential predicate crimes that were
detailed by the government prior to
trial it wasn’t just the uh election uh
interference allegations but it was also
the a question potentially of tax fraud
so you know the government had to make a
decision is it better to put this
evidence in to show this scheme or
conspiracy this catch and kill idea that
moved into the election once the ex has
Hollywood tape or will the jury say
listen this just looks like what people
like Donald Trump do all right Olivia
Rubin John santui Kim wayy thank you all
and we will continue the Supreme Court
is considering whether former president
Trump should be immune from prosecution
over his alleged attempts to overturn
the 2020 election the justices heard
historic arguments yesterday over
Trump’s claim of absolute immunity for
any official acts he made while in
office the ruling could affect when or
whether Trump will stand trial for his
actions on and around January 6th and
set a precedent for future presidents
senior National correspondent Terry
Moran has the
latest the Supreme Court Justices are
now weighing Donald Trump’s
unprecedented claim that presidents have
absolute immunity from Criminal
prosecution for any actions tied to
their official duties without
presidential immunity from Criminal
prosecution there can be no presidency
as we know it Trump argues that because
of that absolute immunity claim he
cannot be prosecuted by special Council
Jack Smith for his efforts to overturn
the 2020 election the Court’s decision
in this case could significantly delay
the special counsel’s already stalled
trial even pushing its start past the
November election during the nearly 3
hours of arguments liberal justices were
deeply skeptical just as Sonia Sodor
pressing Trump’s lawyer on where his
argument could lead
if the president
decides that his
rival is a corrupt
person and he orders the military or
orders someone to assassinate him is
that within His official acts that for
which he can get immunity it would
depend on the hypothetical but we can
see that could well be an official act
Justice katangi Brown Jackson asking if
there is no accountability what would
stop a president from quote turning the
Oval Office into the seat of criminal
activity in this country if the
potential for criminal liability is
taken off the table wouldn’t there be a
significant risk that future presidents
would be emboldened to commit crimes
with abandon while they’re in office but
conservative justices while not fully
embracing Trump’s argument made the case
that presidents needs some protection
from Criminal prosecution presidents
have to make a lot of tough decisions
about enforcing the law and they have to
make decisions about questions that are
unsettled did I understand you to say
well you know if he makes a mistake he
makes a mistake he’s subject to the
criminal laws just like anybody else you
don’t think he’s in a special a a
peculiarly precarious position much of
the argument centered around what
constitutes a personal ACT versus an
official act by a president the justice
has hinted they might send the whole
case back down to the lower court to
sort that question out you say even if
the Court were inclined to recognize
some immunity for a former president’s
official acts it should remand for trial
because the indictment alleges
substantial private conduct yes not lost
on the bench the stakes of this
constitutional moment we’re writing a
rule for yes for the
ages at the end of the day it was clear
that a majority of the justices want
presidents to have some protection from
prosecution though not as much as Trump
wants and that likely means a
complicated opinion more litigation
about all this in the lower courts and
and an almost certain delay of any trial
in this case until after the November
election Diane our senior National
correspondent Terry Moran thank you and
I want to bring an ABC News contributor
polit presidential historian Mark upov
for more Mark Trump’s attorney argued
before The Supreme Court yesterday that
presidents have to be immune in order to
do their job effectively but Justice
Jackson pushed back on that assertion
that previous presidents have operated
under the assumption of immunity saying
she believed they operated under the
assumption that they could be prosecuted
for unlawful acts what did you make of
that exchange well I think that’s
absolutely right past presidents have
not believe that they would have
immunity for their actions and you only
have to go back to Watergate to see that
that’s the case why would Richard Nixon
have resigned the office for the good of
the nation in the face of obstruction of
justice charges relating to the
Watergate scandal if he thought he would
be immune from prosecution that was the
reason that that he resigned and frankly
it was a time Diane when the system was
considered to work that was Gerald Ford
in taking the office after Richard Nixon
as his successor said the system works
we are a nation of laws and not men here
the people rule so this would change
that this would mean that one man is
above the law and can interpret for
himself what is proper behavior in the
official capacity of President and
commanderin-chief of our nation Diane
the Justice Department’s attorney also
made a comment that was was interesting
saying the reason prior presidents
haven’t been charged is because they
didn’t commit crimes while in office
what does that how does that sound to
you as a historian well I think it’s
right Justice Gorsuch said this is
a a rule for the ages he’s looking at
the future and how it changes the nature
of the presidency but we have to look at
the past too we have a system that has
worked to this point because presidents
do believe that they are not immune from
prosecution for things that they do in
an official capacity so I I you know the
it has worked to this point we have had
good presidents who are able to function
effectively in the position of President
of the United States with the system as
it is clearly Donald Trump is pressing
this case because he wants to be immune
from charges that he had fomented a
surrection around January 6th if this
goes forward would this allow Donald
Trump and his successors to do those
same things with immunity that’s the big
question here Diane
how would that precedent Set uh if the
justices do go in that direction how
would that precedent change the office
of the presidency and and the way future
presidents operate well I think what it
depends on what they consider a
president immune for what what is
considered an official capacity so
there’s a lot of nuance here Diane but I
I think that it certainly expands the
power of the presidency and we work with
a system that has checks and balances
there there are balances between the
different branches of Government
judicial legislative and executive this
would significantly expand the power of
the executive branch of government make
it more powerful and there would there
be a check to ensure that presidents are
are acting on in the best interest of
our country and not for personal gain
that’s the big that that’s the big
question here Diane all right ABC News
contributor presidential historian mark
upter grve thank
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story former president Trump is back in
the Manhattan courtroom for his criminal
hush money trial former National inquir
publisher David pecker is back on the
stand for cross-examination after
testifying to being part of a scheme to
help bu embarrassing stories that Trump
feared could hurt his 2016 presidential
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Olivia Rubin joins me now from outside
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legal contributor Kim wayy Olivia what’s
the latest from inside
Court Diane Trump’s attorneys are still
going at David pecker trying to pick
apart much of his answers that he gave
on Direct examinations with the
prosecutors and what we are seeing sort
of uh is twofold in defense today first
they are talking about the negative
negative stories Donald Trump allegedly
fed to David pecker before the 2016
election to harm his opponents we heard
about Ben Carson we heard about Marco
Rubio and that allegedly prosecutor said
was part of this agreement this catch
and kill agreement but now on
cross-examination David pecker has
testified that he essentially would have
run many of those stories anyway
regardless of the meeting he spoke about
stories on Bill and Hillary Clinton on
Ted Cruz and how had he heard about them
regardless of that meeting he still
would have run them so it’s distancing
some of the uh tabloid information from
that agreement a positive for Donald
Trump and what his attorneys are also
trying to do the second thing is make it
seem like some of those catch and kill
agreements were a business decision
think about the agreement that $30,000
paid to the Trump doorman what David
pcker has now testified is that
essentially he didn’t want the story to
go elsewhere remember Donald Trump never
paid him that $30,000 back so what his
attorney is framing here is that the
story was too valuable for it to go
elsewhere and that is why David pecker
purchased it and David pecker agreed he
said yes it would have been one of the
most valuable stories to the National
Inquirer since the death of Elvis
Presley had it been true and he did not
want it to go elsewhere so again
distancing Trump distancing from the
stories from the original Trump Tower
meeting which is the Crux of prosecutors
argument
here now Kim a trump defense attorney
asked David pecker about this meeting at
Trump Tower in 2015 where pecker
previously testified that he agreed to
be the eyes and ears of the TR campaign
but he now says a catch and kill
Arrangement was not discussed then what
do you make of that line of questioning
by the defense and Pecker’s answer so
far yeah well that’s the critical
meeting almost like it was that was the
meaning of the minds to have this
conspiracy uh un unfold but there are
three things really at play here one is
they have to show Donald Trump had an
intent to defraud uh and so I think
Defense number one is listen he wasn’t
really part of it so he couldn’t have
had the intent it was other folks number
two is have to show intent to commit
some other crime or conceal another
crime and that would be the a violation
of election laws and they’d say listen
even if Donald Trump was part of it this
was just what people do and it had
nothing to do with the election and then
I think the third defense is even if you
show intent by Donald Trump and he was
part of it even if you link it to the
election it’s not a meaningful crime
that that it’s not really a crime or
nothing that you should put a former
president potentially in jail for so I
think they’re going Diane in all three
of those angles in their various ways of
get getting at Mr Pecker’s testimony
John pecker also mentioned other public
figures in catch and kill arrangements
with the national Inquirer Bill Clinton
and Ted Cruz among them how significant
is that well it’s significant in the
sense that they’re trying to paint this
idea this was business as usual for the
national inquir and I think a phrase
that’s really important just to explain
to our viewers there’s a difference
between journalism and checkbook
journalism and it’s quite simply that
journalism you don’t pay people for
stories checkbook journalism you do and
that’s what David pecker says was the
business operations of the national
inquire that repeatedly they would write
checks at one point during testimony
yesterday he talked about you know to
start buying a story conversations would
begin at
$10,000 and if it had to go higher if it
had to go to more significant amounts of
money that’s when he and other
leadership of Ami American Media
Incorporated that owned the the national
Inquirer would step in and that’s
obviously would happen when you get into
the stories like Karen McDougall and
others that were talking six figures so
really what he’s doing with going
through all these examples and the
defense team is really leading him
through this testimony Diane is to
basically say look yeah we did buy the
doorman story we did buy the Karen
McDougall story but we did a lot of
other buying of other stories of other
people Donald Trump Trump wasn’t
necessarily special Kim leading up to
this trial Trump had been saying that he
would absolutely testify now he’s saying
in a new interview that he would if it’s
necessary how could testifying help or
hurt him and what does he have to
consider here hard to think how it could
help him I mean it’s he’s in a position
to potentially pjer himself uh and but
the bigger issue is
cross-examination because if he decides
to testify then the evidence the the
evidentiary rules open the door to the
government being able to cross-examine
him on subject matters that they cannot
get into evidence otherwise including
for example the egene Carol defamation
case and the Civil fraud case that
produced a half a billion dollar
judgment so I mean John knows more about
sort of the ephemeral ways uh that this
man operates but my sense is it’s
probably more Bluster than an actual Le
legal strategy and he’s obviously
invested in in conveying to the world
that this is unfair and that he did
nothing wrong and Olivia what’s Trump’s
demeanor like in court today and what
are you watching for
next it’s much calmer today Diana it’s
much more laid-back I think I mentioned
to you earlier at one point I saw his
eyes appearing closed he’s much more
slump back in his chair he doesn’t
appear to be as gripped by the testimony
that is underway today and I as I said
to you before again he is usually uh
very engaged he has been passing notes
with attorneys he’s been scribbling down
you can see him sort of at times lean in
on that little monitor on the defense
table that’s in front of him so he can
keep up with the exhibits or whatever
they’re putting on there stacks of
papers in front of him but today it does
appear a little bit more checked out and
I think something that Donald uh that
John zuchi has uh mentioned is that
Donald Trump has had a busy week he’s
been going to campaign events he’s been
doing these little uh events in the
morning and after court and now we’re
getting to Friday and it is quite GR
ruling to sit inside of that courtroom
for nearly 8 hours a day you for any
criminal defendant let alone a man like
Donald Trump so it is difficult and I
think that we’re starting to see that
wear on him a little bit after a long
week all right Olivia Ruben John sanui
Kim wayy thank you all meanwhile the
Supreme Court is considering whether
former president Trump should be immune
from prosecution over his alleged
attempts to overturn the 2020 election
the justices heard historic arguments
yesterday over Trump’s claim of absolute
immunity for any official acts he made
while in office some justices seem
skeptical but others appear to agree
that presidents need some protection
from Criminal prosecution their
potential ruling could affect when or
whether Trump will stand trial for his
actions on and around January 6th and
set a precedent for future presidents
ABC News Supreme Court contributor Kate
Shaw joins me now for more on that Kate
earlier today outside the Manhattan
Criminal Court uh former president Trump
said he thought the argument at the
Supreme Court yesterday went well saying
the justices asked good questions what
did you make of the arguments and the
justices
reactions well Diane I understand why he
said that I think that going into this
argument many people myself included
thought that these arguments had a very
uphill battle at the Supreme Court so
Trump is asking for a really novel
ruling from the court that ex-presidents
are absolutely immune for from Criminal
prosecution for anything they do as
president and that’s not something the
court has ever endorsed or even hinted
at previously typically when you’re
asking for a totally novel ruling the
burden is on you to convince the court
of the correctness of your position but
a lot of the justices seem to approach
this argument with skepticism about the
idea of Prosecuting an ex- president
rather than skepticism about the idea of
immunity so I do think that at least as
to the conservative justices uh most of
them Amy Cony Barrett might have been an
exception but most of the bench was at
least moderately and some of the
justices very sympathetic to Trump and
his arguments yesterday now K Trump’s
attorney did concede that personal or
private acts should not get immunity in
their opinion we then heard a lot of
hypotheticals around what could be
considered an official ACT versus a
private act and I want to play for you
an exchange that Trump’s attorney had
with Justice Sonia
Sodor if the president
decides that his
rival is a corrupt
person and he orders the military or
orderers someone to assassinate him is
that within His official acts that for
which he can get immunity it would
depend on the hypothetical but we can
see that could well be an official
act Kate what did you think of that
argument that even assassinating a
political rival according to Trump’s
attorney could be considered an official
act immune from Criminal
prosecution that was a pretty stunning
moment Diane there was a similar moment
when Justice Elena Kagan asked about a
president directing his military to
Stage a coup and similarly Trump’s
lawyer said that depending on the facts
could be an official act so just to take
a minute to think about what that means
if the court Embraces some version of
immunity a future president could order
an assassination could direct a coup and
this rule would mean that President even
after leaving office could never be
criminally prosecuted for that conduct
so it’s really a chilling assertion the
court hasn’t embraced it yet but that
certainly is the argument and it could
have profound ramifications for every
future American president at least as to
acts that can be characterized as
official which as we saw from this
argument the position that Trump was
taking is that’s a really broad category
of even unbelievably disturbing and
anti-democratic conduct that said I
think it was Justice Alo brought up that
you know with a creative prosecutor you
could see presidents facing you know
wrongful prosecutions left and right
especially now that the door has been
open with this case do the justices have
to consider the impact that the
existence of this very case could have
on future
presidents oh absolutely and I think it
was clear from the arguments that the
justices are thinking not just about
this January 6th prosecution and not
just about Donald Trump but all future
American presidents and Alo and a couple
of other justices did seem quite
concerned about the prospect of kind of
the threat of prosecution hanging over
future presidents and chilling them in
their ability to you know fully exercise
the powers of the presidency and maybe
you know a world of tit fortat coming
where every president prosecutes their
predecessor and those kinds of concerns
were very front of mind for Alo and a
couple of the other justices but far
less front of mind at least as the
argument suggested were the consequences
of announcing immunity right the
consequences of insulating presidential
misconduct from any future criminal uh
you know consequences and so there was a
real asymmetry I thought in some of the
concerns that the justices were voicing
about what you know what what a ruling
might mean for for fut American
Presidents all right ABC News Supreme
Court contributor Kate Shaw thank you
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the latest on Donald Trump’s criminal
hush money case right now David pecker
the former publisher of the national
Inquirer is continuing his testimony
being questioned by Donald Trump’s
lawyers about the activities and
relations he had with Donald Trump and
Michael Cohen leading up to the 2016
election now fascinating for the last
couple of moments now prosecutors have
been zoning in on Stormy Daniels and of
course now the defenses up that is
exactly where they are in
cross-examination defense lawyers for
Donald Trump asking about the Stormy
Daniels payment and why he did not make
it pecker saying that he made the
payments to a former doorman at Trump
Tower another woman who had an affair
with Donald Trump allegedly Karen
McDougall but when asked about Stormy
Daniels he said quote I am not a bank
and of course as we know prosecutors in
their presentation have already outlined
that payment was made by Michael Cohen
leading of course those false business
records and a 34 criminal count
indictment pecker still on the stand
we’re going to keep watching it Diane
back to you John thank you and a juror
in Harvey Weinstein sexual assault trial
is speaking out after the Hollywood
mogul’s conviction was overturned by a
New York Court of Appeals the High Court
ruled that the judge should not have
allowed other Weinstein accusers to
testify now the juror tells ABC News
she’s appalled by that decision as the
Manhattan District Attorney’s office is
vowing to retry the case ABC’s Eva
Pilgrim has the
latest the Manhattan District Attorney’s
office vowing to attempt to retry the
case against disgraced Hollywood Mogul
Harvey Weinstein after a state court of
appeals overturned his 2020 rape
conviction Weinstein was convicted of
sexual crimes against two women in New
York to the survivors of Harvey
Weinstein I owe and we all owe an
immense debt to you he was sentenced to
23 years behind bars but in a 4-3
decision the New York Court of Appeals
overturning that verdict citing what it
called egregious errors and finding the
judge erroneously allowed women who
weren’t part of the case to testify
Amanda Brainard known as juror 11 voted
to convict Weinstein she tells ABC News
she was appalled by the ruling we took
our role very seriously we focused on
the charges which was our job so it
seems to me that to overturn a verdict
based
on witnesses that really were not that
relevant to our discussion is insane
Caitlyn Delaney an actress who was not
involved in the case but accused
Weinstein of sexually assaulting her in
a hotel room in 1996 says she was
shocked by the decision while this is a
setback all of us who work in this field
are still moving forward
and do believe that change will happen
Weinstein was once considered one of the
most powerful men in Hollywood accused
of using his power to either Advance or
destroy women’s careers based on how
they responded to his sexual advances
accusations he’s denied accusations that
help spark the me too movement more than
80 women have accused wiin scene of
sexual assault or harassment including
actresses Uma Thurman Gwyneth paltro
Rose McOwen and Ashley Jud who blasted
the decision to overturn his conviction
this is what it’s like to be a woman in
America living with male entitlement to
our bodies Lauren oconor worked for
Weinstein from 2013 to 2016 it was an
internal memo she wrote to Studio
Executives that led to the 2017 New York
Times article outing accusations against
her former boss and I remember the day
that he convicted in New York was a
tremendous Victory and surreal and I
think you know sitting here today
reading the news the sad thing I’ll say
is I’m not surprised Weinstein remains
at a prison near Albany still behind
bars for a sexual assault conviction in
LA in 2022 that his lawyer says they
plan to appeal that appeal has not been
even filed yet let alone heard so I’m
sure he is anxious to get the the ball
rolling the Manhattan District
Attorney’s office says it intends to
retry Weinstein and that means his
accusers could be forced to retell their
stories again on the witness stand Diane
AA Pilgrim thank you meanwhile new data
out today shows mortgage rates are
climbing and if you’re looking to get
your Halloween deor very early one
popular store already has you covered
ABC News business reporter Alexis
Christoper says more on that and your
other business headlines Alexis I love
Halloween but April may be a little
early even for I’m just smid early right
even for the retailers right want to
start though with the housing market
because unfortunately it is more
expensive to finance a home this week
mortgage rates are now back above 7%
That’s putting pressure on home buyers
during what is typically the housing
Market’s busiest time of year according
to Freddy Mack the average rate on a
30-year fixed rate mortgage now
7.17% that is the highest level we have
seen since late last year meantime home
sales in March fell
4.3% as home prices remain near record
highs a persistently low supply of homes
for sale has pushed the average price to
just under
$394,000 organized shoplifting continues
to be a big challenge for retailers
costing them billions of dollars in Lost
Revenue in an exclusive interview I sat
down this week with the CEO of Walmart
US John ferer who told me retail theft
is just one of the factors driving
inflation higher for the industry the
concern is it causes prices to go up up
and it can cause stores to close now for
Walmart uh the last few years we’ve seen
what we call shrinkage which is
inventory unaccounted for go up it was
higher in 2023 than 2022 2022 was higher
than 21 so we we saw this rise and what
we’re concerned about at a time of
inflation is this keeps inflation going
retailers need to work together on
retailers need to work together they
need to work with state and local law
enforcement they need to work with
Federal enforcement and we need to work
together to keep our community safe now
I also asked for an about the future of
self checkout counters at Walmart where
a lot of theft takes place he said
they’ve been selectively removing self-
checkout counters from some locations
where there are more instances of
shoplifting and Mis scanned items but he
assured me that self checkout is not
going away at Walmart all right
Switching gears it’s not even summer yet
right but it’s not stopping Home Depot
from scaring up sales for Halloween a
full 6 months before the holiday and
Halloween decorations are already
popping up at some Home Depot stores
including a 12-ft skeleton you didn’t
know you needed it right and his 7 foot
skeleton dog I don’t know it is a little
too too early to bust out the Halloween
you thinke I think so all right but you
can get a deal apparently I do love a
deal and I love Halloween I might have
to go to dep today all right Alexis
Christophers thank you for that and if
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story former president Trump is back in
the Manhattan courtroom for his criminal
hush money trial former National inquire
publisher David pecker is on the stand
again for cross-examination pecker has
testified to being part of a scheme to
help bury embarrassing stories that
Trump feared could hurt his 2016
presidential campaign ABC News executive
editorial producer John S joins me now
along with criminal defense attorney
former prosecutor Bernardo viona and
John David pecker just testified that
the national Inquirer limited
involvement in the Stormy Daniels story
and that whole situation was unrelated
to the agreement that he had with former
president Trump about the campaign and
and the stories that he wanted to bury
for him yeah it sounds like that what
was going on is that Stormy Daniels
actually was shopping her story out
there leading up to the November
election other media organizations were
also engaging those conversations and it
sounds like you know pecker along with
many others was someone that just heard
about it and when a conversation began
about how to pay her off to buy her
silence pecker simply said listen I’m
not a bank you didn’t reimburse me for
Karen McDougall he didn’t reimburse me
for the doorman payment I’m out
basically I’m not doing it which is why
Michael Cohen then as we know made an
LLC did the reimbursement himself and
thus we ended up frankly in this whole
legal mess for Donald Trump what else
stands out to you from Pecker’s
testimony so far I I think what’s
interesting so far is that as we’ve gone
through the different um months and
really years of the 2016 campaign to
hear him talk about the other stories
involving Republican primary candidates
that Donald Trump was up against and you
know we both remember we both covered it
that Republican primary field in 2015
when it got started was massive I think
it was what 17 18 candidates at the end
of the day there were so many stories
about all of them obviously Donald Trump
was the center of the universe but there
was the stories about you know Ben
Carson and Ted Cruz many of which Donald
Trump vehemently attacked on the
campaign Trail and there was one story
that prosecutors brought up during their
direct examination of pecker about Ben
Carson and it turns out in his telling
anyway in cross-examination pecker said
that you know listen that was a story I
would have done anyway it was done by
another organization and I was simply
repeating it because it was just so
interesting you know basically though
it’s a print publication it really is
you know clickbait if you will Bernardo
what do you make of the defense’s
strategy here and how they are asking
pecker these
questions well the defense I’m sure
wants to get David peket off of the
stand as quickly as possible and the
reason I say this is because he’s a good
witness for the prosecution and when you
have a good witness for the prosecution
on one that’s unsteady one that’s not
nervous about testifying one that’s
relatable to the jury then you want to
get them off the St because it’s not a
good witness for your side the defense
is trying as much as they can to try to
distance David pcker from actually what
happened between Michael Cohen and
Donald Trump but the problem is is that
there is documentation you have the
photos of David pecker at the White
House you know that David pecker was
there when Donald Trump announced his
candidacy so you know that there was a
close relationship not just at that time
in 2015 and 2016 but they had a close
relationship for over a decade so he
does come off as credible now John Trump
also posted on social media that Maga
will not be able to attend this trial
yesterday in court he said that the
court was so locked down I think was the
term that he used that his supporters
weren’t allowed essentially to come and
show their support outside the
courthouse how does that square with
what your team is seeing outside cour
that’s just simply not true so let’s be
clear there has been an area that has
been you know protected for protesters
our team is standing just feet away from
it Diane unfortunately that was the area
that an individual set himself on fire
on Friday it’s an open area just as that
individual did anybody can come and show
up in court you know show up outside of
Court this is a zone that has been
protected and let’s also be you know
triply clear here that for every one of
the four criminal cases Donald Trump is
facing right now and we know that there
have been you know hearings that have
happened around all of them all of those
cour houses have main accommodations for
protesters or supporters of the former
president
as they did at the Supreme Court just
yesterday Bernardo going back to the
Stormy Daniels payment Trump’s attorneys
are really trying to distance him from
that payment as much as possible here
how do you think they’re doing in that
so
far well because David pcker wasn’t
really present there for the payment
itself because he said look I don’t want
anything to do with having to pay
stormmy Daniels especially since he
didn’t get repayment for what he paid
Karen McDougall so they’re not going to
get much information out of this witness
having to deal with David pcker they’re
going to have to wait until Michael
Cohen actually testifies and also Stormy
Daniels when she testifies because she’s
not going to be able to say Donald Trump
personally gave me
$130,000 and that’s something that the
defense will want to share doing closing
arguments and say like look this didn’t
come from Donald Trump this came from
Michael Goen who was acting on his own
but we just have to wait and see with
each and every witness how much they can
get out of each and every witness in
order to argue It ultimately doing
closing arguments and Bernard in a new
interview Trump also said that he would
testify in this case if necessary now
previously he had said that he
absolutely would testify what does he
have to consider here in making this
decision so when it comes to a defendant
testifying the decision is solely on the
defendant so at the end of the trial
once the defense uh I’m sorry once the
prosecution has rested and the defense
has put on whatever Witnesses they are
going to put on there comes a point in
time when judge Maran is going to ask
Donald Trump directly do you wish to
testify because only the defendant can
make that decision interestingly enough
doing opening statements guess what you
didn’t hear you didn’t hear the defense
attorney saying Donald Trump is going to
testify even though Donald Trump had
said publicly that he would testify but
now as the days are going in he’s
starting to back away from that and says
if he needs to testify he will testify
first off if I were his attorney there’s
no way I’m putting Donald Trump on his
stand because he cannot be controlled
one you can’t control the
cross-examination but I think a person
like this a client like this Donald
Trump you probably won’t even be able to
control him doing direct examination
there’s just too many areas that he’s
exposed in that the prosecutor is going
to be able to cross-examine him on and
the best bet is to keep him off the
stand so the jury does not see that or
hear what he has to say John this is all
happening as we also await a ruling from
the judge on whether or not not he will
hold former president Trump in contempt
for alleged gag order violations now
they’ve scheduled a new hearing for four
more alleged gag order violations next
week where does that all stand so we had
three originally plus 710 we had another
one that was outside of Court 11 we have
the four that you just mentioned so
we’re somewhere in the neighborhood of
15ish violations at this point so he
hasn’t ruled on the ones that he’s heard
so far that being the original 10 the
new group of them interestingly enough
is where we are actually sort of expand
where Donald Trump made the violations
cuz you’ll recall the 10 were just
postings he made on his social media
platform truth social the new violations
are comments he made outside of Court
comments he made in radio interviews
even a comment he made to our station
wpv leading up to the Pennsylvania
Republican primary earlier this week
Diane so we’re going to wait and see
what happens in those proceedings but we
know one of three things could happen
one he gets a warning and told knock it
off otherwise something’s going to
happen two monetary punishment we know
they want $1,000 per violation so thank
God we can do math 15 time 1,000 could
be $15,000 fine or the third we know
that there have been conversations
between the Secret Service and NYPD that
if he was thrown in jail for a small bit
of time they’re ready to do it it’s
interesting to think that that could
even be a possibility absolutely John
what are you watching for in terms of
the rest of the day and how this plays
out well it’s interesting so our team
right now is reporting that David pcker
is back on the stand it sounds like
cross-examination about to end and then
prosecutors will get the opportunity to
redirect basically follow up with him on
any points that were made in Cross that
they want to clarify because it’s their
witness if they finish with David pcker
in theory because we’re going to go a
full day we could see the next witness
so wonder who that would be all right
John santui Bernardo viona thank you
both thanks Di and we will be following
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live and the Supreme Court is
considering whether former president
Trump should be immune from prosecution
over his alleged attempts to overturn
the 2020 election the justices heard
historic arguments yesterday over
Trump’s claim of absolute immunity for
any official acts he made while in
office the ruling could affect when or
whether Trump will stand trial for his
actions on and around January 6th and
set a precedent for future presidents
senior National correspondent Terry
Moran has the latest
the Supreme Court Justices are now
weighing Donald Trump’s unprecedented
claim that presidents have absolute
immunity from Criminal prosecution for
any actions tied to their official
duties without presidential immunity
from Criminal prosecution there can be
no presidency as we know it Trump argues
that because of that absolute immunity
claim he cannot be prosecuted by special
counsel Jack Smith for his efforts to
overturn the 2020 election the Court’s
decision in this case could
significantly the special council’s
already stalled trial even pushing its
start past the November election during
the nearly 3 hours of arguments liberal
justices were deeply skeptical just as
Sonia Sodor pressing Trump’s lawyer on
where his argument could lead if the
president
decides that his
rival is a corrupt
person and he orders the military or
orders someone to assassinate him is
that within His official acts that for
which he can get immunity it would
depend on the hypothetical but we can
see that could well be an official act
Justice katangi Brown Jackson asking if
there is no accountability what would
stop a president from quote turning the
Oval Office into the seat of criminal
activity in this country if the
potential for criminal liability is
taken off the table wouldn’t there be a
significant risk that future presidents
would be emboldened to commit crime
with abandon while they’re in office but
conservative justices while not fully
embracing Trump’s argument made the case
that President needs some protection
from Criminal prosecution presidents
have to make a lot of tough decisions
about enforcing the law and they have to
make decisions about questions that are
unsettled did I understand you to say
well you know if he makes a mistake he
makes a mistake he subject to the
criminal laws just like anybody else you
don’t think he’s in a special a a
peculiarly precarious position much of
the argument centered around what
constitutes a personal ACT versus an
official act by a president the justi
has hinted they might send the whole
case back down to the lower court to
sort that question out you say even if
the court were inclined to recognize
some immunity for a former president’s
official acts it should remand for trial
because the indictment alleges
substantial private conduct yes not lost
on the bench the stakes of this
constitutional moment we’re writing a
rule for yes for the
ages at the end of the day it was clear
that a majority of the justices want
presidents to have some protection from
prosecution though not as much as Trump
wants and that likely means a
complicated opinion more litigation
about all this in the lower courts and
an almost certain delay of any trial in
this case until after the November
election Diane senior National
correspondent Terry Moran thank you
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story former president Trump is back in
the Manhattan courtroom for his criminal
hush money trial former National inquir
publisher David pecker is on the stand
again for cross-examination after
testifying that he was part of a scheme
to help bury embarrassing stories that
Trump feared could hurt his 2016
presidential campaign ABC News senior
reporter kathern falers joins me now
along with criminal defense attorney
former prosecutor Bernardo viona
Katherine what’s the latest from the
courtroom so we know that David pcker
here is still on the stand he’s being
cross-examined by Trump’s defense team
and and we’re hearing a lot of the same
narrative what Trump’s lawyers are doing
is trying to distance of course Trump
and Ami from this stormy daniels’s
payment they’re trying to say look this
was not unusual it was business as usual
they’re trying trying to bring in other
examples of stories where this has
happened and that’s continuing on the
stand so we are continuing obviously to
hear from pecker pecker has also said
that the National enquire limited
involvement in the stormy Daniel’s hush
money payment was unrelated to that
Infamous August 15th meeting that we’ve
heard about where pecker allegedly vowed
to serve as the quote unquote eyes and
ears of Trump’s presidential campaign so
that’s where we are from inside Court
he’s still on the stand unclear if they
call any other Witnesses today we’ll
just have to wait and see Bernardo David
pecker testified that the national
inquirer’s limited involvement in Stormy
Daniels hush money payment was unrelated
to the 2015 meeting where pecker agreed
to serve as the eyes and ears of Trump’s
presidential campaign why does that
matter given pecker wasn’t the one who
paid Stormy
Daniels because it still gives some
background information it gives
Foundation as to how we got to Stormy
Daniels and remember this is just a
precursor to when Michael Cohen
testifies and where you’re going to get
the complete story of how it came about
that the payment to stormmy Daniels
actually happened because remember still
David pecker is the one who brought this
information through Michael Cowen as
well as to Donald Trump curious and what
we need to note is that remember either
way David pecker did pay Cameron
McDougall the
$150,000 so even though that’s not part
of the charges it still gives us some
insight as to why they engag in the
patterm of conduct that they did ALS
also to note that there is a recording
of Michael Cohen making mention to
Donald Trump about the payment to Karen
McDougall which again it comes into the
same line of action as this having to
deal with Stormy
Daniels Katherine Trump is hitting the
campaign Trail next week just a day
before a hearing about his alleged gag
order violations in this case how
careful does he have to be about what he
says on the campaign Trail about this
case and what’s at stake for Trump’s
campaign if the judge does hold him in
contempt well he has to be very careful
every time most every time he appear
appears in front of a camera he’s
violating the gag order in some way so
this is certainly something that his
lawyers are worried about when he goes
out campaigning and he does big speeches
or he talks to reporters and gaggles
that you’ve seen in terms of how it
affects his campaign look I think this
is only one of the days where he is
allowed to get on the campaign Trail he
has to sit in that court room and be
there every day so I think he’s going to
make that point very clear to his
supporters a lot of that same narrative
that we’ve heard heard for quite some
time that he’s being held in there that
he can’t campaign he’s hoping that this
resonates with his supporters and
essentially that that’s made clear in
the polls in
November Bernardo defense attorneys are
also trying to distance Trump from this
payment suggesting this was pecker and
micro Cohen freelancing pecker also
admitted that the inquirer’s parent
company Ami purchased a negative story
about Trump from a doorman because it
would be too great a loss to Ami to lose
that Story how significant is
that it’s significant to the sense that
that is the best that the defense can do
is try to distance himself and try to
say that David pcker was acting acting
on his own but does it make sense with
the timeline of how things came about
does it make sense from the release of
the axis Hollywood Video and then the
this payment to stormmy Daniels it just
doesn’t make sense and again this is
just direct examination and cross
examination at the close of this case
both parties especially the prosecution
is going to be able to put these
arguments together to let this jury know
how it makes sense and how it’s relevant
to these charges that look what happened
between David pcker Michael Cohen and
Trump was an actual conspiracy to affect
the campaign now Katherine Trump has
been saying he would absolutely testify
now in a new interview he’s saying he
will testify if it’s necessary if he
does take the stand in this case does
what he say there could that potentially
impact the other cases against him it’s
a good question it it probably won’t
impact the other cases against him
because I know at least behind the
scenes his legal team doesn’t totally
mind if he testifies in this one maybe
some of those other cases it’s different
obviously there’s a different fact
pattern in all of these but Diane this
is what Trump has said previously when
he said that he’s wanted to testify in
other investigations or other trials he
always does seem to at the end of the
day walk it back so whether or not he
really testifies or takes the stand
we’ll have to see but it is certainly a
change in tune one that’s not surprising
at least from covering Trump for all
this time and all the investigations all
right Katherine falers Bernardo viona
thank you both and we will be following
the story all day long we’ll bring you
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live meanwhile the Supreme Court is
considering whether former president
Trump should be immune from prosecution
over his alleged attempts to overturn
the 2020 election the justices heard
historic arguments yesterday over
Trump’s claim of absolute immunity for
any official acts he made while in
office some justices seem skeptical but
others appeared to agree that presidents
need some protection from Criminal
prosecution their potential ruling could
affect when or whether Trump will stand
trial for his actions on and around
January 6th and set a precedent for
future presidents ABC News Supreme Court
contributor Kate Shaw joins me now for
more on that Kate earlier today outside
the man Criminal Court uh former
president Trump said he thought the
arguments at the Supreme Court yesterday
went well saying the justices asked good
questions what did you make of the
arguments and the Justice’s
reactions well Diane I understand why he
said that I think that going into this
argument many people myself included
thought that these arguments had a very
uphill battle at the Supreme Court so
Trump is asking for a really novel
ruling from the court that ex-presidents
are absolutely immune for from Criminal
prosecution for anything they do as
president and that’s not something the
court has ever endorsed or even hinted
at previously typically when you’re
asking for a totally novel ruling the
burden is on you to convince the court
of the correctness of your position but
a lot of the justices seem to approach
this argument with skepticism about the
idea of Prosecuting an ex- president
rather than skepticism about the idea of
immunity so I do think that at least as
to the conservative justices uh most of
them Amy con Barrett might have been an
exception but most of the bench was at
least moderately and some of the
justices very sympathetic to Trump and
his arguments yesterday now Trump’s
attorney did concede that personal or
private acts should not get immunity in
their opinion we then heard a lot of
hypotheticals around what could be
considered an official ACT versus a
private act and I want to play for you
an exchange that Trump’s attorney had
with Justice Sonia sod
mayor if the president
decides that his rival
is a corrupt
person and he orders the military or
orders someone to assassinate him is
that within His official acts that for
which he can get immunity it would
depend on the hypothetical but we can
see that could well be an
official Kate what did you think of that
argument that even assassinating a
political rival according to Trump’s
attorney could be considered an official
act immune from Criminal
prosecution that was a pretty stunning
moment Diane there was a similar moment
when Justice Elena Kagan asked about a
president directing his military to
Stage a coup and similarly Trump’s
lawyer said that depending on the facts
could be an official act so just to take
a minute to think about what that means
if the court Embraces some version of
immunity a future president could order
an assassination could direct a coup and
this rule would mean that President even
after leaving office could never be
criminally prosecuted for that conduct
so it’s really a chilling assertion the
court hasn’t embraced it yet but that
certainly is the argument and it could
have profound ramifications for every
future American president at least as to
acts that can be characterized as
official which as we saw from this
argument the position that Trump was
taking is that’s a really broad category
of even unbelievably disturbing and
anti-democratic conduct that said I
think it was Justice Alo brought up that
you know with a creative prosecutor you
could see presidents facing you know
wrongful prosecutions left and right
especially now that the door has been
open with this case do the justices have
to consider the impact that the
existence of this very case could have
on future
presidents oh absolutely and I think it
was clear from the arguments that the
justices are thinking not just about
this January 6th prosecution and not
just about Donald Trump but all future
American presidents and Alo and a couple
of other justices did seem quite
concerned about the prospect of kind of
the threat of prosecution hanging over
future presidents and chilling them in
their ability to you know fully exercise
the powers of the presidency and maybe
you know a world of tit fortat coming
where every president prosecutes their
predecessor and those kinds of concerns
were very front of mind for Alo and a
couple of the other justices but far
less front of mind at least as the
argument suggested were the consequences
of announcing immunity right the
consequences of insulating presidential
misconduct from any future criminal uh
you know consequences and so there was a
real asymmetry I thought in some of the
concerns that the justices were voicing
about what you know what what a ruling
might mean for for future American
Presidents all right ABC News Supreme
Court contributor Kate Shaw thank you
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Hulu juror in Harvey Weinstein sexual
assault trial is speaking out after the
Hollywood mogul’s conviction was
overturned by a New York Court of
Appeals the High Court ruled that the
judge should not have allowed other
Weinstein accusers to testify now the
juror tells ABC news she’s appalled by
that decision as the Manhattan District
Attorney’s office is vowing to retry the
case ABC’s Eva Pilgrim has the
latest the Manhattan District Attorney’s
off office vowing to attempt to retry
the case against disgraced Hollywood
Mogul Harvey Weinstein after a state
court of appeals overturned his 2020
rape conviction Weinstein was convicted
of sexual crimes against two women in
New York to the survivors of Harvey
Weinstein I owe and we all owe an
immense debt to you he was sentenced to
23 years behind bars but in a 4-3
decision the New York Court of Appeals
overturning that verdict C what it
called egregious errors and finding the
judge erroneously allowed women who
weren’t part of the case to testify
Amanda brainer known as juror 11 voted
to convict Weinstein she tells ABC News
she was appalled by the ruling we took
our role very seriously we focused on
the charges which was our job so it
seems to me that to overturn a verdict
based on witnesses that really were not
that relevant to our discussion is
insane Caitlyn Delaney an actress who
was not involved in the case but accused
Weinstein of sexually assaulting her in
a hotel room in 1996 says she was
shocked by the decision while this is a
setback all of us who work in this field
are still moving forward and do believe
that change will happen Weinstein was
once considered one of the most powerful
men in Hollywood accused of using his
power to either Advance or destroy
women’s careers based on how they
responded to his sexual advances
accusations he’s denied accusations that
help spark the me too movement more than
80 women have accused Weinstein of
sexual assault or harassment including
actresses Uma Thurman Gwyneth paltro
Rose McGowan and Ashley Jud who blasted
the decision to overturn his conviction
this is what it’s like to be a woman in
America living with male entitlement
to our bodies Lauren oconor worked for
Weinstein from 2013 to 2016 it was an
internal memo she wrote to Studio
Executives that led to the 2017 New York
Times article outing accusations against
her former boss and I remember the day
that he was convicted in New York was a
tremendous Victory and surreal and I
think you know sitting here today
reading the news the sad thing I’ll say
is I’m not surprised Weinstein remains
at a prison near Albany still behind
bars for a sexual assault conviction in
LA in 2022 that his lawyer says they
plan to appeal that appeal has not been
even filed yet let alone heard so I’m
sure he is anxious to get the the ball
rolling the Manhattan District
Attorney’s Office says it intends to
retry Weinstein and that means his
accusers could be forced to retell their
stories again on the witness stand Diane
Ava Pilgrim thank you meanwhile new data
out today shows mortgage rates are
climbing and if you’re looking to get
your Halloween decor very early one
popular store already has you covered
ABC News business reporter Alexis
Christopher has more on that and your
other business headlines Alexis I love
Halloween but April maybe a little early
even for me I I’m just a smid early
right even for the retailers right want
to start though with the housing market
because unfortunately it is more
expensive to finance a home this week
mortgage rates are now back above 7%
That’s putting pressure on home buyers
during what is typically the housing
Market’s busiest time of year according
to Freddy Mack the average rate on a
30-year fixed rate mortgage now
7.17% that is the highest level we have
seen since late last year meantime home
sales in March fell
4.3% as home prices remain near record
highs a persistently low supply of homes
for sale has pushed the average price to
just under
$394,000 organized shoplifting continues
to be be a big challenge for retailers
costing them billions of dollars in Lost
Revenue in an exclusive interview I sat
down this week with the CEO of Walmart
US John ferner who told me retail theft
is just one of the factors driving
inflation higher for the industry the
concern is it causes prices to go up and
it can cause stores to close and now for
Walmart uh the last few years we’ve seen
what we call shrinkage which is
inventory unaccounted for go up it was
higher in 2023 than 2022 2022 was higher
than 21 so we we saw this rise and what
we’re concerned about at a time of
inflation is this keeps inflation going
retailers need to work together on
retailers need to work together they
need to work with state and local law
enforcement they need to work with
Federal enforcement and we need to work
together to keep our community safe now
I also asked fer about the future of
self checkout counters at Walmart where
a lot of theft takes place he said
they’ve been selectively removing self
checkout counters from some locations
where there are more instances of shop
liting and Miss scanned items but he
assured me that self checkout is not
going away at Walmart all right
Switching gears it’s not even summer yet
right but it’s not stopping Home Depot
from scaring up sales for Halloween a
full six months before the holiday and
Halloween decorations are already
popping up at some Home Depot stores
including a 12-ft skeleton you didn’t
know you needed it right and his 7 foot
skeleton dog I don’t know it is a little
too too early to bust out the Hallow
you think I think so all right but you
can get a deal apparently I do love a
deal and I love Halloween I might have
to go to dep today all right Alexis
Christophers thank you for that sure and
if you have any Finance questions for
Alexis leave a message on our Instagram
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top story former president Trump is back
in the Manhattan courtroom for his
criminal hush money trial Trump’s
defense team is seeking to undermine the
testimony of the prosecution’s lead
witness former publisher of the national
inquire David pecker who testified that
he was part of a scheme to help very
embarrassing stories that Trump feared
could hurt his 2016 presidential
campaign Trump has pleaded not guilty to
charges of falsifying business records
to cover up a hush money payment made to
stormmy Daniels through his then
attorney Michael Cohen criminal defense
attorney and former Federal prosecutor
Tim Jansen joins me now for more Tim
defense attorneys are trying to distance
Trump from the national inquirer’s
purchases of negative stories about
Trump during that election season
suggesting pecker and Michael Cohen were
freelancing pecker did admit that the
Inquirer parent company Ami purchased a
negative story about Trump from a
doorman because he says it would be too
great a loss to Ami to lose that story
what do you make of that well I think
there was a mutual benefit between Ami
pecker and Trump trump sold papers and
what did pecker sell he sold papers it
was a mutually beneficial relationship
for about 30 years uh and I think he
admitt understand that Trump was one of
his top selling uh persons on on his
magazine so sure they had a relationship
and I think the prosecution has proven
that but what have they proven really
more than that what have they proven
they proved that Packer and Cohen and
got involved in a relationship in the
mou case where pecker ends up paying the
money and Trump didn’t even know about
it and was unaware of
it so how strong do you think Pecker’s
testimony is so far for the
prosecution well I I think it was a a a
scalpel cross-examination right not the
sledgehammer like you’re gonna get with
Cohen he admitted certain things that
were favorable to Trump he admitted that
when he talked to Trump about the the
money he had no idea about the payment
he he admitted that him and Trump had
been doing this for 30 years and then at
the end where they wanted to
cross-examine him they talked about a
302 which is an FBI interview where he
never mentioned some things in his 302
that he testified at the trial then they
also talked about him meeting with the
prosecutors and getting the prosecu the
non-prosecution agreement which was
really important because he was trying
to sell some of his magazines and he
wanted that done before he could sell
the magazines so he had a personal stake
from Criminal aspect and financial to
cooperate with the feds now if I’m the
defense lawyers in my closing and other
Witnesses well Mr peker you talked to
the FBI you were talking always to the
FBI the federal government that’s a key
point they’re going to make in the
future because they’re going to say this
should have been a federal case not a
state case now David pecker testified
that the national inquirer’s limited
involvement in the stormy Daniel’s hush
money payment was unrelated to that 2015
meeting where pecker promised to serve
as the eyes and ears of Trump’s
presidential campaign why does that
matter given pecker wasn’t the one who
made that payment to stormmy Daniels
well he’s trying to distance himself
from it because I think that the one
where he thought he might have been
violating some campaign Finance laws
because remember McDougall was a little
different relationship with Trump they
had a longer relationship and Trump
cared about her and McDougall wasn’t
trying to extort money right she didn’t
want the story to go out she wanted to
build her career and at Stormy Daniels
it was all about money it was extortion
it was money she wanted 200 something
,000 so that’s why Pecker’s trying to
get away from that one all right Tim
Jansen we appreciate your time today and
we will be following this trial all day
long and bringing the latest right here
on ABC News live meanwhile the Supreme
Court is considering whether former
president Trump should be immune from
prosecution over his alleged attempts to
overturn the 2020 election the justices
heard historic arguments yesterday over
Trump’s claim of absolute immunity for
any official acts he made while in
office their potential ruling could
affect when or whether Trump will stand
trial for his actions on and around
January 6th and set a precedent for
future presidents senior National
correspondent Terry Moren has the
latest the Supreme Court Justices are
now weighing Donald Trump’s
unprecedented claim that presidents have
absolute immunity from Criminal
prosecution for any actions tied to
their official duties without
presidential immunity from Criminal
prosecution there can be no presidency
as we know it Trump argues that because
of that absolute immunity claim he
cannot be prosecuted by special counsel
Jack Smith for his efforts to overturn
the 2020 election the Court’s decision
in this case could significantly delay
the special council’s already stalled
trial even pushing its start past the
November election during the nearly
three hours of arguments liberal
justices were deeply skeptical just as
Sonia Sor pressing Trump’s lawyer on
where his argument could lead if the
president decides
that his
rival is a corrupt
person and he orders the military or
order someone to assassinate him is that
within His official acts that for which
he can get immunity it would depend on
the hypothetical but we can see that
could well be an official act Justice
katangi Brown Jackson asking if there is
no accountability what would stop a
president from quote turning the Oval
Office into the seat of criminal
activity in this country if the
potential for criminal liability is
taken off the table wouldn’t there be a
significant risk that future presidents
would be emboldened to commit crimes
with abandon while they’re in office but
conservative justices while not fully
embracing Trump’s argument made the case
that presidents need some protection
from Criminal prosecution presidents
have to make a lot of tough decisions
about enforcing the law and they have to
make decisions about question that are
unsettled did I understand you to say
well you know if he makes a mistake he
makes a mistake he’s subject to the
criminal laws just like anybody else you
don’t think he’s in a special a a
peculiarly precarious position much of
the argument centered around what
constitutes a personal ACT versus an
official act by a president the justi
has hinted they might send the whole
case back down to the lower court to
sort that question out you say even if
the court were inclined to recognize
some immunity for a former presidence of
official acts it should for trial
because the indictment alleges
substantial private conduct yes not lost
on the bench the stakes of this
constitutional moment we’re writing a
rule for yes for the ages at the end of
the day it was clear that a majority of
the justices want presidents to have
some protection from prosecution though
not as much as Trump wants and that
likely means a complicated opinion more
litigation about all this in the lower
courts and an almost certain delay of
any trial in this case until after the
November election Diane senior National
correspondent Terry Moran thank you and
the NYPD is now guarding the gates at
Columbia University as anti-war
protesters there entered day ninth of uh
demonstrations New York City officials
say student protesters have started to
dismantle some tense as negotiations
with the university officials progress
meanwhile police say more than a dozen
people were arrested at Ohio State
University overnight after
demonstrations there ABC 7 MOS has the
latest from
Colombia police clashing with protesters
in the heart of Ohio State’s
campus at least 30 people arrested after
protesters formed a circle refusing to
let police into the encampment at
Columbia University the epicenter of
growing student descent against the war
in Gaza face a deadline to dismantle
their encampment as protests and arrests
intensify Across the
Nation this morning the gates to
Columbia remain locked surrounded by
NYPD but just hours ago at least half a
dozen groups mostly non-students
marching outside those Gates the pro
Palestinian movement growing across
college and university campuses with
more than 400 people detained Thursday
alone at Emory University in Atlanta a
State Trooper repeatedly tasing a man as
protesters clashed with police I go to
this school I have a right to be here
one woman who says she’s a philosophy
Professor also taken into custody call
the philosophy Department office and
tell them I’ve been arrested at Indiana
University Police warning students to
remove their tents or face suspension or
expulsion you’ve been given two warnings
later taking at least 30 people into
custody at Northwestern University our
Chicago station WLS capturing video of
students setting up a new encampment
vowing to occupy the area until the
university stops supporting Israeli
occupation after days of protests at C
CN universities USC announcing it’s
canceling its main graduation ceremony
in May at Northeastern University Police
and Boston police officers surrounding
protesters and their tents the
university saying the student protesters
are violating the code of student
conduct we spoke to a Jewish student at
Columbia University who says she joined
the pro Palestinian protests with the
goal of creating peace between the
Jewish community and those supporting
Gaza I know that if we see a free
Palestine within our lifetime I am one
step closer to the Jewish safety that
myself all my peers are looking for as
of right now we understand student
negotiators are in talks with University
officials about their demands as the
university tries to dismantle the tent
encampment that is still on campus
Diane Stephanie Ramos thank you and a
juror in Harvey Weinstein sexual assault
trial is speaking out after the
Hollywood mogul’s conviction was
overturned by the New York Court of
Appeals the high court ruled that the
judge should not have allowed other
Weinstein accusers to testify now the
juror tells ABC news she’s appalled by
the decision as the Manhattan District
Attorney’s office is vowing to retry the
case ABC’s Eva Pilgrim has the
latest the Manhattan District Attorney’s
office vowing to attempt to retry the
case against disgraced Hollywood Mogul
Harvey Weinstein after a state court of
appeals overturned his 2020 rape
conviction Weinstein was convicted of
sexual crimes against two women in New
York to the survivors of Harvey
Weinstein I owe and we all owe an
immense debt to you he was sentenced to
23 years behind bars but in a 4-3
decision the New York Court of Appeals
overturning that verdict citing what it
called egregious errors and finding the
judge erroneously allowed women who
weren’t part of the case to testify
Amanda Brainard known as juror 11 voted
to convict Weinstein she tells ABC News
was appalled by the ruling we took our
role very seriously we focused on the
charges which was our job so it seems to
me that to overturn a verdict based on
witnesses that really were not that
relevant to our discussion is insane
Caitlyn Delaney an actress who was not
involved in the case but accused
Weinstein of sexually assaulting her in
a hotel room in 1996 says she was
shocked by the decision while this is a
setback all of us who work in this field
are still moving forward and do believe
that change will happen Weinstein was
once considered one of the most powerful
men in Hollywood accused of using his
power to either advance or destroy
women’s careers based on how they
responded to his sexual advances
accusations he’s denied accusations that
help spark the meoo movement more than
80 women have accused wein scene of
sexual assault or harassment including
actresses Uma Thurman Gwyneth paltro
Rose McGowen and Ashley Jud who blasted
the decision to overturn his conviction
this is what it’s like to be a woman in
America living with male entitlement to
our bodies Lauren oconor worked for
Weinstein from 2013 to 2016 it was an
internal memo she wrote to Studio
Executives that led to the 2017 New York
Times article Ting accusations against
her former boss and I remember the day
that he was convicted in New York was a
tremendous Victory and surreal and I
think you know sitting here today
reading the news the sad thing I’ll say
is I’m not surprised Weinstein remains
at a prison near Albany still behind
bars for a sexual assault conviction in
LA in 2022 that his lawyer says they
planed to appeal that appeal has not
been even filed yet let alone heard so
I’m sure he is anxious is to get the the
ball rolling the Manhattan District
Attorney’s Office says it intends to
retry Weinstein and that means his
accusers could be forced to retell their
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secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs
chairman C Q brown are speaking after
meeting with allies on support for
Ukraine let’s
listen as you know I convene what would
become the Ukraine defense contact group
for the first time at Ramstein Airbase
exactly two years ago today and some of
you were there at that
meeting and to underscore the historic
achievements of the contact group over
the past two years we were joined this
morning virtually by President Z
I now at that first Ramstein
meeting Ukraine’s Defenders had beaten
back the far larger Russian army for 62
days Ukraine has now fought back against
the kremlin’s aggression for
793
days that’s more than two and a half
times as long as the Battle of Verdun
during the first world war it’s also
more than two and a half times as long
as the Soviet Union’s BL
of Berlin during the Cold
War Ukraine is still in the
fight and still showing incredible skill
courage and
resilience and this
Coalition is still standing
strong over the past two years this
contact group has shown its
Unity its impact and it’s staying
power and we’ve made history and we’ve
changed
history this contact group includes some
50 members of our allies and partners
from all around the planet and We Stand
United in marshalling military
assistance for
Ukraine we’ve surged in critical
capabilities again and
again and this contact group has made a
huge
difference contact group members have
committed more than 95 billion dollar in
security assistance to
Ukraine and I’m very proud of America’s
leadership and
contributions and I’m glad that
President Biden could sign into law
additional life saving assistance for
Ukraine as well as more funding for
Israel Taiwan and our defense industrial
base and that will let the United States
move out immediately to send Ukraine
critical air defense capabilities and
artillery and armor and from our
military stocks as President Biden
announced on
Wednesday I’m also pleased to announce
today an additional commitment of $6
billion through our Ukraine security
assistance
initiative that will allow us to procure
new capabilities for Ukraine from us
industry this is the largest security
assistance package that we’ve committed
to
date it will include critical
interceptors for Ukraine’s Patriot and
n’s air defense systems
more counter drone systems and support
equipment significant amounts of
artillery
ammunition and air to ground
Munitions and maintenance and
sustainment
support and so the announcements this
week
underscore America’s enduring commitment
to Ukraine’s
defense I’m also proud of all the
capabilities that our allies and
partners have provided to
Ukraine our contact group Partners have
contributed most of the counter uas
systems provided to Ukraine and most of
the 155 M millimeter artillery
systems most of the tanks most of the
armored personnel carriers most of the
Infantry fighting vehicles and
more and throughout Putin’s war of
choice these these contributions have
been crucial and they save countless
Ukrainian
lives so two years
later this contract group Stands
Strong and this
Coalition stands
together and we will not
falter we will not
flinch and we will not
fail together we’ll continue to work on
two
tracks rushing Ukraine the capabilities
to meet its urgent Battlefield needs and
helping Ukraine to build the future for
Force to Stave off and deter Russian
aggression over the longer
term on that first track we pushed
especially hard today to rush in more
air defense systems and
interceptors and on the second this
contact group is working with Ukraine to
help it move
forward help it move toward a robust
efficient and self-reliant defense
industry now much of this work is taking
place in the contact group’s new
capability
coalitions these coalitions are looking
for ways to further strengthen Ukraine’s
capabilities and they’re identifying
where and how to boost Ukraine’s
capabilities in such areas as air
defense air power artillery Maritime
security armor Information
Technology de Mining and uavs
I’m grateful to all the countries
heading up the eight cap capability
coalitions that are now up and
running now when this contact group
first met at
Ramstein I said that Putin never
imagined that the world would rally
behind Ukraine so
swiftly and
surely and I said that this Coalition
reflects a galvanized
World it still does
the nations of goodwi that gather today
understand what’s at
stake for
Ukraine for
Europe for the United States and for the
world the outcome in Ukraine will
determine the tra the trajectory of our
times if Putin prevails in Ukraine the
security consequences would be grave and
Global Europe would face a security
threat that hasn’t seen in our
lifetimes as President Biden has noted
Russia will not stop in Ukraine if
Kremlin gets its
way if Putin’s war of imp Imperial
aggression
succeeds every Tyrant on Earth will take
note so we’ve got a rare chance to shape
the kind of world that our children and
grandchildren live
in Putin’s war is a frontal assault on
the very idea of an open world of rules
rights and
responsibilities and over the Long Haul
the cost of standing fir would be D
would be dwarfed by the price of caving
in as we saw again today that’s clear to
this extraordinary contact group and to
our galvanized
world with that let me turn turn it over
to General Brown
uh thank you Mr secretary uh good
afternoon everyone in moments of
challenge history uh can uh reflect
insights that inform the
present shortly after the Korean War
Armes George Marshall accepted a Noble
Peace Prize for the Marshall Plan and
said for the moment the maintenance of
Peace in the present hazardous World
situation does depend in a very large
measure on military power together with
Al light cohesion
Marshall believed that military power
was necessary but not sufficient he
continued I believe there is however a
Readiness to
cooperate which is one of the great and
hopeful factors of the world today you
must stand together
strongly these principles military
strength and international
cooperation are more important than ever
and serve as a Cornerstone of our
commitment to uphold the somary of
Nations such as Ukraine
the work of the Ukraine defense contact
group is firmly rooted in these
principles once again I want to thank
secretary Austin for your leadership and
stiring this International Coalition
which has been meeting for two years
thanks also to defense minister Umar and
general cerski who joined us today for
their resilient leadership of Ukraine’s
armed
forces and to All Nations attending uh
the UDC today their efforts remain
invaluable to this coalition’s work
supporting
Ukraine Russia’s war in Ukraine
endangers the sovereignty of Nations and
the rule of law remind us that unchecked
aggression Against One Nation threatens
the sovereignty of all as Marshall said
the role of military power in this case
a strong Ukraine combined with support
from a unified
Coalition is crucial to responding to
unprovoked
hostility Russia’s ongoing R against
Ukraine Ukraine’s fight for somy is a
matter of international
significance a direct challenge to
Global Security and that of NATO and the
United
States Ukrainian forces are facing
severe challenges their operational
Temple is hindered by not by lack of
will but by dwindling
supplies Ukrainian soldiers continue
fortifying defenses against significant
odds KN that their armament cannot stop
a resurgent Russia Russian Force without
sustained Military Support to
Ukraine meanwhile Russia is aggressively
reconstituting its military force using
its numerical advantage to wear down
Ukrainian resolve and
resources in the US military we often
say hope is not a effective course of
action yet Ukraine has been left hoping
for Urgent replenishments of Air Defense
Artillery and armor and that is why we
all need to operate with a sense of
urgency
the recently passed us nation Security
Supplemental provides a vital Lifeline
of to Ukraine at a critical Junction in
this conflict and two days ago the
United States announced a very
significant $1 billion security
assistance package that will provide
much needed Munitions and support to
Ukraine this package includes
capabilities weapon systems and
Munitions that will help Shore up
Ukrainian defenses and provide critical
air defense
Munitions protecting Ukrainian for
critical National infrastructure and
population Center helping to counter
Russian’s plan of outlasting
Ukraine leadership of the UDC matters
it’s absolutely critical it drives
action leaders don’t stand on on the
sidelines this support to Ukraine is not
just for Ukraine our efforts to assist
Ukraine sets an example should Russia
win the repercussions will be felt well
outside Ukraine’s borders risking
further
escalation the fight in Ukraine is not
just a distant battle it’s about
preventing a wider conflict that could
potentially draw others deeper into
prolonged armed
engagement what happens in one corner of
the world doesn’t stay in one corner of
the
world this is what George Marshall knew
peace and security are achieved through
military Venus and Collective effort the
efforts of this Coalition help uphold an
international order that been benefits
the population of all countries who seek
Freedom democracy and the rule of law
thank you and I look forward to your
questions thank you both gentlemen our
first question will go to Associated
Press L hi good afternoon thank you so
much um Mr secretary president zalinsky
this morning made it clear that his
country needs Patriot systems not just
the initials that go with it uh can you
say how much if any progress you all
made today on that considering a number
of allies have expressed reluctance in
sending these systems that they just
don’t have very many of and Mr chairman
uh if I could switch to a different
topic for you on on Gaza a lot of SEC of
the aid agencies are very concerned
about Security in and around the port
particularly as things move ahead to
distribution of Aid what assurances have
you gotten from the Israelis about
security at the Port including from
their own troops who have had incidents
and where they’ve killed Aid workers can
you just talk a little bit about
that well thanks ler um in terms
of Patriots and what we’ll they be able
to do going forward it’s left to be seen
but I can tell you that uh we continue
to work on this uh in in a very Earnest
manner
um all of the countries that have
Patriots certainly value uh that
capability
but uh but I think uh going forward
we’ll be able to hopefully work with a
number of countries to to put together
additional Patriot cap billion you may
have noticed that uh in the last several
days I’ve been talking uh one on-one uh
with uh some of my European counterparts
actually discussing this issue and other
issues but uh but again um we’re going
to continue to work at this until we we
have the right kinds of capability now I
would point out that it’s not just
Patriot that uh that you know they need
they need other types of systems and
interceptors as well and
so I would caution us all in terms of
making Patriot the Silver Bullet uh I
would say that it’s going to it’s going
to be the integrated ER in missile
defense as we said so many times before
that really uh turns a tide and so there
are other capabilities that they need
that that we really pushed hard to get
and we may be able to get to uh to the
ukrainians uh a bit faster but this work
continues on and and uh
and you know that Yen stoltenberg talked
to all the Ministers of Defense on this
very same issue a week ago um and in
addition to the point-to-point work that
I’m doing with my colleagues uh you know
we’ll continue to emphasize that uh that
countries uh are going to have we’re
going to ask them to accept a little bit
more risk so that we can do what’s
necessary uh in uh in Ukraine
so I appreciate the question one of the
areas that as we’ve been focused on uh
as we uh move down the path of bringing
our joint Logistics over the shore and
and build the port on the uh uh beaches
of Gaza there is uh not only the
security of the port itself the security
of our forces but also the security of
uh the distribution and also uh the
eight workers and uh a couple things
that we’ve done is engaged uh not only
with the our Israeli counter Parts but
also with some of the eight agencies as
well and so as I’ve engaged with my
counterpart uh we’ve talked specifically
about uh security for the the uh uh the
port area as well as the distribution
after the unfortunate incident that
killed uh the weight air workers from
the uh World Central Kitchen um I’ve
talked uh to my Israeli counterpart
about uh the incident itself uh the
investigation they did and the
corrective actions they were putting in
place and that was been part of the
discussion between between uh as un
united states C Central Command um
leadership has been engaging uh with the
various uh agencies that will help with
the distribution to bide them uh the
confidence uh that we’ve worked with
closely with the Israelis to provide for
their protection as uh and uh ensure
that they have the procedures in place
so you don’t have an in that uh very
similar to what uh occurred um
previously Mr secretary some critics say
the US strategy in Ukraine has been to
give Ukraine enough assistance not to
lose but not enough to win uh for fear
of provoking Russia because Russia is a
nuclear power will there be any
restrictions on the new weapons that are
being sent the attacks and others where
they can be used where they cannot be
used and what would you say to
Republicans who voted against Aid to
Ukraine who say that you don’t have a
strategy what is your
strategy um Thanks Jen you said from the
very beginning you heard the president
say that our goal is to
see um a
democratic uh
independent uh and Sovereign Ukraine
that has a capability to defend itself
and deter aggression uh going forward
and so you see us working towards that
end with not only the capability that
we’re providing Ukraine in the current
battle but the kinds of things that
we’ll build we building helping Ukraine
build for the future and pointing back
to the capability coalitions
um
so in terms of what Ukraine needs on a
day-to-day basis as you know I talk to
minister umov every week and we talk
about what his requirements are what’s
what’s most needed what’s most
critical uh and when you know in in days
gone by when others were saying were
talking about different types of uh
systems we were focused on providing
Ukraine adequate air defense
capabilities
and we’ve seen how important that was uh
over over time and it will continue to
be important going forward uh and
without that focus without that kind of
capability Ukraine would be in much
worse shape because of the capability
that the that the uh that that’s
resident in the uh Russian Air Forces um
so I would caution anyone in saying that
you know in in in believing that one
type of system uh is going to be Silver
Bullet it’s going to be a combination of
a number of systems it’s going to uh be
dependent upon whether or not Ukraine
can uh effectively employ uh these
systems and sustain those systems uh and
whether or not Ukraine can uh can
mobilize the an adequate number of
troops uh to replenish its uh its its
ranks and so we continue to work on all
those things uh simultaneously and uh
and we we really want Ukraine to be
successful we’ve invested a lot this is
really important not just for Ukraine
but for the world and for all the
reasons that you heard me talk about in
my opener so and general Brown can
Ukraine
win well you know the key part here is
to make sure Ukraine can defend itself
and uh as a secretary highlight and I’ve
talked about here recently is that uh
you know unchecked aggression leads to
more aggression and so this is why it is
so important for us to put Ukraine in
place that it can defend itself and that
uh we don’t have this broaden um to a
much brighter uh conflict than when I
think about how World War II started or
previous world wars um this is why this
is so important that we have Ukraine
defense contact group and and all the
nations around the world that are
focused on ensuring Ukraine successful J
Ukraine can be successful if it has the
right amount of security assistance so
we are all very grateful for Congress
passing uh uh the
supplemental uh and uh and again if you
think about what Russia intended to do
early on what its strategic objectives
were and the fact that it failed to ACH
achieve any strategic objectives uh and
two years later 793 Days Later Ukraine
is still fighting it’s still holding its
ground and that’s quite remarkable and
it’s holding that ground even in the
face of uh you know a question as to
whether or not we were going to continue
to support them that that question is
off the table now and that has uh that
has reassured the ukrainians but also
it’s reassured our allies and partners
around the globe as well so let’s go to
Washington Post Dan lont um Mr secretary
thanks for your time today uh National
Security adviser Sullivan uh raised the
concern this week about there being a
catch-up period uh in terms of getting
interceptors and some of this new Aid uh
to Ukraine uh can you speak to I guess
the vulnerabilities the the concerns uh
that that we’re in in this particularly
sensitive time uh and then Mr chairman
um there’s reporting out this week
suggesting that Ukraine has had to pull
the Abrams uh tanks uh that the United
States sent uh in part cons uh due to
concerns about the fpv Drone threat uh
can you confirm if that’s true and put
it into uh I guess a larger context of
what it means in the
battlefield thanks for the question
um I would say that the commitment that
the United States has made is material
it’s real it’s substantial
uh and we’re going to do everything we
can to get um that security assistance
to the ukrainians as quickly as possible
you heard us talk about you heard
General Ryder uh mention u a couple of
days ago that we had done some things to
preposition uh stocks in uh in Europe so
that we could cut buy down the amount of
time that it took to uh to get certain
types of things into the hands of the
Ukrainian but even with that this is not
instantaneous it’s going to take uh some
time to get uh to get things in the
country and then most importantly
distributed to the point of need uh but
you know if you consider the fact that
even without that the ukrainians were
able to hold their own for a period of
time uh with the with this capability we
expect that they’ll be able to do uh a
lot better and uh and as I may have
indicated earlier they are doing some
additional things to mobilize additional
troops uh to to to replenish their their
uh their ranks and I think all of those
things are going to come together to uh
uh to to put them in a much better place
but it it will take a little time
uh as I talk to Ukrainian leadership
they’re confident that they can continue
to hold their own and then uh and then
as they get a bit stronger they’ll have
options available to
them Dan I appreciate the question I’ll
just uh I’ll defer the ukraini on how uh
how they use their aens U but I will
highlight the the use of firstperson
view uh drones by both sides uh and The
Innovation that has occurred uh in this
conflict with that capability and
there’s something that I think we can
all learn from uh you know how we’re
able to adapt in uh in conflict and that
the character War using uh different
various weapon systems uh being through
Innovation uh this is why as a as a Air
Force chief of staff and as a chairman I
been very focused about how we bring
Innovation and how we move much more
quickly to ensure we can adapt any type
of battlef environment and and you’re
watching that happen uh in uh in the
battle there in Ukraine let’s go to Tony
Bloomberg couple questions one on the $6
billion usia commitment can you flush
that out a little bit what types of
systems are you talking about and we’re
talking about years now not signed
contracts going out today is that
accurate and for the chairman a reality
check on the package that went out the
other day what will it roughly allow
Ukraine to do will it allow them to
start an a mini offensive or is it more
to be become more on parody with the
Russians now in terms of 155s uh cluster
Munitions that you’re
sending def more defense versus
offense thanks Tony in in terms of um
how long it will take to deliver the
capability that we’re investing in with
usai funds it depends it depends on uh
the type of system as as you know some
of the platforms have a much longer lead
time to uh uh to construct
uh and as well as some of the Munitions
at um so it it depends you can rest
assured that we’re going to move as fast
as we can to get them the capability as
fast as as uh as industry can produce
but we will move at the speed of
industry and we’re investing in Industry
as well so that they can expand their
capacity and and some of what’s in that
that supplemental allows us to uh uh to
do that um the types of things that uh
that we’re investing in are the same
types of things that you heard us talk
about earlier you know they need air
defense interceptors they need uh
artillery systems and Munitions uh they
need uh you know armored vehicles they
need they need maintenance and
sustainment so all of those kinds of
things are in are in included in that
usai
package an Tony um you know what this
package allows the uh uh gives the
ukrainians is a bit more flexibility as
you might imagine uh not aning when this
supplement we very much appreciate that
the supplemental was approved um they
they’ve had to actually ration conserve
uh Munitions over time and so with this
package and the follow on package
because of the supplemental uh gives
them a bit more flexibility to be able
to operate and use that capability
effectively but we can’t shape the
feature and that’s exactly what this
suppo has been able to do is to help
shape the feature and I think you asked
about uh how long we will have effect I
think there’s some near-term effect
because now uh the ukrainians don’t
necessarily have to ration what they
have because they know uh things are
coming out of this this package and
there’ll be followon packages because of
the supplemental which gives again gives
themit more uh flexibility and options
to be able to execute the one thing I
would to highlight to you even uh during
this time frame uh the Russians have uh
you know had incremental games at
tremendous costs tremendous costs and
loss of personnel uh loss of uh of
combat capability and so um uh I do see
the ukrainians with this additional
support not only from our supplemental
but as uh as I’ve engaged with the
matter of fact engag with a number of my
counterparts this morning um they
highlighted how important our
supplemental was to actually help um
lead and as I said in my opening remarks
leaders don’t stand on the sidelines and
the fact that we step up and provide
this supplemental helps to energized and
we saw some of that today as we engage
with the counterparts in the UDC and so
the Russians have increased their U
production of uh of artillery Munitions
and and other
things um but they’re also being propped
up by the likes of North Korea and Iran
uh and they had to go that direction
because of the the damage to the
Chairman’s point the damage that the
ukrainians had inflicted on on on the
land forces there so um I I think you
know with the capabilities the resources
that will be provided uh hopefully
Ukraine will have the ability to uh not
only hold its own but uh but uh
regenerate uh additional capability and
then uh create options for itself going
forward we have time for just a few more
we’ll go to El monitor then
CNN thank you gentlemen um two questions
one on Iran’s April 14th attack against
Israel um I’m wondering if you could
share some takeaways what has the
department learned operationally and
what does this attack say about Israel’s
qualitative military Edge uh in relation
to Iran’s capabilities um secondly on
the Gaza humanitarian Pier operation how
confident are you in this Integrated
Security plan with the Israeli military
and do you have any concerns that close
proximity of the IDF to onshore
Logistics May draw Hamas fire and
potentially put Aid workers at
risk thanks um I’ll take the first
question and um give the chairman a
chance to swing at the second question
unless if if you don’t want to Chairman
I’ll take the second one as well but but
he wants to I can
tell uh um what have we learned well a
lot of things have have been
learned um I think uh the Israelis were
uh fairly confident going into this that
they had the uh the
means uh in the technology to defend
themselves and I think what we saw kind
of prove that um there were in excess of
a hundred ballistic missiles fired at uh
at Israel uh only a couple got through
um what we saw was a significant display
of U combined uh um cooperation uh
between uh between partners and allies
uh to uh to work together uh to make
that a bit easier to make uh it uh it a
bit easier for Israel to defend itself
and all of that came together about like
we thought it would because of the fact
that we uh we train together we we
rehearsed on various things together
with uh with with allies and partners
and uh and I think what you saw was a
result of that now what the Iranians
learned I’m not really sure but what
they should learn is that
um first of all they’re they their
systems don’t work as advertised that
they employed a lot of uh a lot of
Munitions uh with the uh with the intent
on on creating significant damage uh in
Israel and none of that worked uh so
that should give them pause and they
should be they should be questioning the
uh the
effectiveness of their weapon systems
and their planning and uh and I’m sure
that some of that’s probably going on
right now if it’s not if not it should
be so uh hopefully they don’t walk away
from this overconfident that they can do
this uh at will because I think uh
Israel has demonstrated that it has a
significant ability to defend itself
so Mr director I appreciate you
deferring the second question to me but
uh anytime I can help no but the uh even
for the first question um we won’t
falter Flinch or fail SE def Floyd
Austin alongside the chairman of the
joint Chief CQ brown right there
addressing reporters talking about the
largest ever Ukraine security assistance
initiative package ever for Ukraine
including interceptors for Ukraine’s
Patriot systems air defense systems
counter drone systems a significant
amount of support for Ukraine as it
takes on uh now months and months of a
pretty brutal war war initiated by
Russia let’s bring in our our Louis
Martinez um who covers the Pentagon for
us also Mick mroy uh our security and
defense analyst um let’s start with with
you Louie and just talk about this Aid
package clearly this is a part of that
massive foreign aid package uh that we
announced uh or President Biden
announced uh just days ago um now
getting into the nitty-gritty of exactly
what this means uh for Ukraine and
Israel no you’re right car it’s been a
really busy week with regards to Ukraine
and the funding levels the 95 billion of
which 60 billion of it was intended for
Ukraine and immediately after that we
saw the billion dollars in immed Aid
these are weapons in the US inventory
that are being provided immediately uh
to Ukraine but there’s another portion
of that money which goes towards Future
Weapons buys um and that’s where the $6
billion do that secretary Austin
announced just came in um this is $6
billion do at the United States will
provide so that Ukraine can purchase
additional new weapons and of course the
key Focus here is on air defense you
heard him talking specifically about
more artillery ammunition you heard
specifically talking about more missiles
for those Patriot systems he also heard
defense secretary Austin talking about
how um the United States and other
countries are going toen it seems like
try to provide more Patriot systems
those launchers that Ukraine is so
desperately asking for as Russia keeps
launching more attacks on Ukraine cities
the question is when will they arrive
given that they’re in such dire need and
make let’s just add a little more
context here Ukrainian president vadir
zalinski um actually today uh calling
for those additional air defense systems
to be sent to keev to help uh protect uh
his his men from those Russian strikes
saying that this pause in US funding had
really helped Moscow seize the
initiative he goes on to say that his
Ukrainian troops were at a 10 to1
disadvantage in artillery ammunition he
said as you can imagine what our
soldiers feel when they simply have
nothing to respond to enemy fire it just
inspires Putin to fight on so let’s just
talk about uh what zilinski says he
needs here
and how this is going to help him fight
against the
Russians absolutely Cara so this
National Security Supplemental obviously
should have been passed a long time ago
but it’s still going to have a massive
impact as you said uh they were outgun
literally 10 to one and they’re already
outnumbered uh substantially when it
comes uh to the fight against the
Russians that said most analysts
predicted three days and Kei would fall
we’re now at
792 days I believe and Russia’s only
taking 18% of the country so this shows
the fighting tenacity of the Ukrainian
Soldier now it’s going to be matched
with the type of equipment I think they
need to win to turn the tides to start
taking back terrain these f-16s figh
aircraft these long range artillery a
attacks the longest uh of which could
reach every place uh in Ukraine main
battle tanks and of course as you
mentioned uh the air missile defense
system which they desperately need not
just for their troops but Russia aims
directly at civilian population which of
course is a a violation of the law of
armed conflict but these systems are
incredibly important I think this sends
the right message and as you quoted they
will not falter they will not flinch
they will not flail uh the US that is in
supporting Ukraine and that sends the
exact right message to Russia MC mroy
Louis Martinez gentlemen thank you take
a quick break we’ll be right back more
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at the defense table former president
Trump back in court for the fourth day
of witness testimony with tableid exec
David pecker back on the stand now for
redirect from the prosecution Trump’s
lawyers attempting to poke holes in the
former National inquir Publishers
testimony about that dark art of catch
and kill journalism earlier during
cross-examination prosecutors say that
he was part of that scheme to bury those
stories about alleged affairs with
pornstar stormmy Daniels and Playboy
model Karen McDougall all in an effort
to keep voters in the dark about those
fairs today proceedings coming just 24
hours after a historic day at the
Supreme Court also our nation’s top
justices now weighing Trump’s
unprecedented claim of absolute
presidential immunity centering around
his attempts to overturn the 2020
election today Trump continuing to
assert his argument that a President
should never face criminal prosecution
for any official action that they take
in
office all presidents have to have
immunity this has nothing to do with me
absolutely nothing all presidents have
to have immunity if you don’t have a
president certainly not a president that
the founders
wanted leading us off our senior
investigative correspondent aaroni he is
outside Court he’s joined by senior
reporter kathern falder is also attorney
and director at forom law school’s
voting rights and democracy project
Jerry goldfeder so Aaron bring us up to
date the prosecution up again after the
defense finished cross-examination
what’s the
latest and on cross-examination of David
pecker the defense tried to suggest that
this whole checkbook journalism
practiced by the national Inquirer was
not solely for the benefit of the Trump
campaign the way prosecutors described
it but was rather standard operating
procedure for the Tabloid and they got
David pecker to concede that the
Inquirer paid for hundreds of thousands
of stories but then on redirect
assistant district attorney Joshua
steinglass asked pecker you know how
many of these other stories involved a
presidential candidate and all sorts of
money and no others pecker said because
paying
$150,000 say for Karen mcdougall’s story
was an unheard of sum normally it was
between $ 250 and
$5,000 so the prosecution on redirect
really sought to turn the tables on this
idea that there was anything regular or
normal or routine about what the
national Inquirer and David pecker were
doing all right so Jerry let’s talk more
about the defense uh trying to poke
whole after whole uh into uh Mr Pecker’s
claims that the inquir paid Karen
McDougall $150,000 to keep her uh quiet
about this alleged sexual relationship
with Trump uh and to keep it out of
print did they do a good job I think the
prosecution did a very good job because
was very straightforward and even if
they were engaged in catch and kill for
other reasons with with celebrities
other than Trump Pecker’s testimony made
it very clear that they did adhere for
the purpose of protecting Trump and
preventing voters from understanding uh
his tortury conduct from preventing
voters from getting the facts
interfering with an election and he puts
Trump at the heart of this catch and
kill scheme that related to Trump it’s
not as if uh the fact that they did it
for other people uh obliterates or
eliminates this particular scheme it
didn’t so Katherine David pecker has
also been bringing up a lot of other
names uh hope Hicks Sarah hucke Sanders
these were two of Trump’s closest AIDS
um that he he trusted with everything
that he had
is it possible that we could hear from
them could they show up in a courtroom
look it’s possible we’ve previously
reported that we expect that hope Hicks
could be called at some point along with
other senior advisers to Trump while he
was in the White House and also other
top aids for example at the Trump
organization we don’t know exactly who
they plan to call but certainly people
like hope Hicks people like his longtime
secretary at the Trump organization are
on our list of people we ultimately
expect prosecutors to call and while
these people might not have been Central
to any of of the decisionmaking on the
meetings that were a hearing about for
example that 2015 meeting they’re people
who had access to all the paperwork who
were sitting there on the sidelines and
privy to what was going on so certainly
there they are some of those people at
least that we could see down the road in
this trial well Jerry we’ve heard more
from David Becker in the last four days
than we have throughout his decades long
career in publishing uh also because
he’s been a longtime Ally of Donald
Trump too He’s just never gone against
him so what do you make of all this I
mean are you buying his story no pun
intended well actually he’s he’s a great
witness for the prosecution because it’s
it’s extra uh extra testimony than just
Michael con Michael con has is
problematic as a witness because of his
uh his history uh as a liar admittedly
so pecker is not that way and pecker is
not vindictive uh to uh about Trump uh
in a way that Michael con might be pcker
uh has a longtime relationship with uh
Donald Trump and he did this because
Trump wanted him to do this in fact he
testified that he was afraid that people
were afraid if uh they didn’t go along
with Trump’s uh demands so this catch
and kill scheme that pecker talked about
that he testified with that he was at
the center of shows that Trump wanted
him to do it demanded that he did it and
that testimony has not been
impeached so Aaron Trump of course
fundraising off today’s proceedings and
the trial just in general what are you
sensing from voters are they responding
are they outside Court like they have
been then uh for other
cases you know he’s been saying on
social media hasn’t he that the the
whole courthouse is locked down and his
supporters can’t get here but that’s
just not true there’s a park right
across the street uh it’s fully open and
there’s a one woman two people maybe
holding Flags in support of trump
they’re free to to be here they just
aren’t U and and really the the focus
for the former president seems to be on
his remarks in the hallway that’s where
he’s waged the bulk of his political C
campaign over the last several months
from Courthouse hallways and in this
particular case it it may be working
against him at least the way prosecutors
see it because he’s violated the gag
order they say several times in those
remarks by verbally attacking Witnesses
or questioning the Integrity of jurors
so next week here of the judge is going
to hold a hearing he still up has to
decide as prosecutors have asked whether
to hold Trump in contempt and
potentially F him $1,000 for each of now
14 alleged violations of the gag
order just more the fines just keep
piling up millions millions I don’t know
how he even keeps up with it Aaron
Katherine Jerry thank you all very much
so anti-war protest at colleges and
universities are now sweeping the nation
and hundreds of people have now been
arrested several people were taken into
custody at Arizona State University
while some schools are now negotiating
with student protesters to dismantle the
growing number of tent encampments well
the NYPD is also guarding the gates to
Columbia University in New York now
where protests are in their 10th day and
discussions with protesters are ongoing
here in DC dozens of protesters at
George Washington University now
remaining in their encampments for a
second day and defying an order by
campus police to move our White House
correspondent Mar Alis Parks is actually
there on the campus of GW so Mar Alis
tell us about the situation there and
what are you hearing from
students yeah here the students we’ve
talked to said that they very much
erected this encampment in solidarity
with those other protests that you’ve
been talking about around the country
they wanted to be a part of this and
they see it as a national movement uh
they made an interesting decision here
in DC which was to make a collective
Citywide statement so there are actually
students behind the barricades from uh
Georgetown University American
University the University of Maryland as
well as uh G
and it was interesting to me today uh
that they talked about sort of how that
Spirit of a sort of a Citywide movement
was important to them to stand together
as one now these barricades though only
went up this morning uh sort of in the
middle of the night actually uh so th
those who camped out who stayed
overnight that were sort of stuck inside
and those who left um who haven’t been
able to get back in So this morning
we’ve been here for a few hours and it’s
been a real mix only about a few hundred
people I would say that have gathered on
the street and that’s been a mix of
Faculty students um other activists from
the area that wanted to lend their
support on the inside about about 301 i’
I’ve seen about 50 students and the
students like you said they have a very
clear message they want the universities
to divest from any uh Financial
engagements with Israel they they view
Israel as engaging in genocide there in
Gaza they think the US is absolutely
complicit in that war and they want um a
real sort of financial um divestment
from Israel I I put the question of
anti-Semitism to those supporters here
specifically to two faculty members who
had actually walked from Georgetown
University here to G GW you know here
you know the city it’s over a mile and
they wanted to show solidarity with
their students and I asked them about
those those claims of anti-Semitism the
Jewish students we’ve heard around the
country who say that they feel unsafe
and take a listen to what the faculty
members said in response to
me expressing uh support for Palestine
Liberation is not anti itic um these
students uh believe in uh the right of
all human beings uh to dignity and
equality um and uh so it’s just
factually not true that the that the
protesters the students uh the faculty
and the staff that are here together um
are expressing anti-semitic views or
that expressing uh views in support of
Palestinian Liberation uh or calling for
a ceasefire uh that it is an expression
of that
belief now the facult you know the
faculty told me that they were
absolutely appalled by some of the
scenes they had seen at campuses
elsewhere around the country they
thought it was truly a a Crackdown on
free speech that was not okay they said
that it was wrong that it was dangerous
and they really wanted to stand up
against any use of law enforcement on
their students yeah that’s interesting
Mary Alice because I know you’ve been
following all the other protests across
uh the country we’ve got New York’s
Columbia University right that remains
still the epicenter of these protest and
now Colombia’s president faces a key
vote of censure from faculty uh I know
you’ve been following the latest on that
what do we
know I mean a lot of that push back uh
from faculty has been about the use of
law enforcement I think that it’s easy
to conflate these issues because of
course we’ve seen some criticism from
the right some criticism from Republican
members of Congress here in Washington
saying that that the universities
haven’t done enough to crack down on the
protest they’ve been critical of of
University administrations uh be from
that direction from that sort of
political stand but what we’ve seen from
faculty at columia and then what I you
know the faculty that I’ve spoken to
from Georgetown and here at GW a real
push back from the other direction a
real concern over uh their students
their students ability to protest their
students ability to peacefully protest
and a worry that that has been a h that
that has been um you know really
disrupted and disrupted dangerously Kira
I’m Mar Ellis Parks appreciate it to the
extreme weather now and dangerous storm
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tornado watches and warnings are popping
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in Colorado it was on the ground for
several minutes Downing trees knocking
out power at least four tornadoes were
spotted in four states in the last 24
hours and then there’s 20 million people
that are on alert today for tornadoes
hail and damaging winds from Texas to
Iowa our Meteorologist Melissa Griffin
is tracking the forecast for us Melissa
what do we know hey Cara we already have
a tornado watch in effect for
Northeastern Texas this is really day
two of 4 days of severe weather we’ll be
tracking but this is where the storms
are firing up right now we’ve had
several tornado warnings just south of
Dallas look at Waco that cell there has
been capable of producing a tornado over
the last two hours or so we’ll watch
that closely as all these storms
progress Northeast Dallas you’re in the
crosshairs Arkansas as well but look at
the large area 20 million Americans you
mentioned from Texas to Iowa with this
enhanced region this area highlighted in
Orange that’s where we’re expecting the
highest threat for tornadoes that’s
throughout this afternoon evening I’m
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400 p.m. and 900 p.m. so if you’re going
out to eat dinner and you’re in any of
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this one moves out later tonight into
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sound like a broken record here because
the same cities could see more tornado
through the weekend we’re talking about
Kansas City Omaha into De Moine back
through Witchita Oklahoma City and
Witchita Falls that’s where we could see
tornado Saturday and it all moves East
on Sunday Cara so a very dangerous
weekend ahead for the Midwest okay we’ll
track it Melissa thank
you coming up the king is back on the
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London Buckingham Palace announcing that
King Charles will return to some public
duties following his cancer diagnosis
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still undergo cancer treatment and each
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Case basis our Marcus Moore joins us now
from London so Marcus the palace has
been under some pretty intense scrutiny
uh following the King’s cancer diagnosis
also Princess Kate and her cancer
Revelation so what exactly does this
announcement say and what does it mean
yeah certainly Aira a lot going on but
this really this feels like good news
for for King Charles the Buckingham
Palace releasing a statement today as
you just mentioned saying that really
the doctors uh are sufficiently pleased
uh with the progress the King has made
so far in his treatment so much so that
the king is uh due to return to a number
of his his public duties um and they
also said that the king is greatly uh
encouraged by this uh he’s will be glad
to be back out in the public uh um
meeting with people and and and carrying
on with these duties and also that he’s
very grateful to the medical team for
their continued uh care and also their
expertise and and Kira as his mother
used to say to be seen is to be believed
so the king will very much want to be
back out in uh the public meeting people
and really fulfilling his role as
king so it remains a mystery uh what
exactly the type of cancer that the King
has right which is kind of raising its
own set of questions for the Royal
Family do we know anything
more yeah Cara still so many unanswered
questions and Beyond the the statement
they have released today very little
else is is really known about his
condition we don’t even know the type of
cancer he is fighting or the stage and
we also don’t know what type of
treatment he is having but um it is
known that this cancer was actually
discovered in the midst of preparations
or in the midst of surgery for or
treatment I should say for an enlarged
prostate that’s when they found the
cancer but uh beyond that we don’t know
the king wanting some of his health
matters to remain private uh but what we
did also find out today from the
Majesty’s um uh treatment program that
it will continue
and but again the doctors are pleased
with the progress that he’s made uh so
far again uh so much so that he’s able
to resume resume some of these these
duties but Kira we don’t know how much
longer he will be uh receiving treatment
and uh the spokesperson uh said today
though uh that they are encouraged uh by
that progress so far and really that it
remains positive uh for the king and his
recovery at this point all right Marcus
Moore appreciate it thank you coming up
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role in a tragic killing that gripped
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of criminally negligent homicide in the
death of el Liah mlan the 23-year-old
black man died after police slammed him
to the ground and put him in a choke
hold while paramedics injected him with
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is the last of four defendants to be
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suing the city of Aurora saying Elijah
did nothing wrong and justice has not
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Detroit what up the NL draft having its
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like a shock through my body when it
happened um and now been standing here
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as a number one pick um it makes me more
excited um it makes me more ready the
number one pick celebrating not just his
new team but his new teammate the Bears
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the first
round it’s time baby let’s do it baby
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of emotion it was a quarterback heavy
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selections a record the Washington
Commander select Jaden Daniels reigning
Heisman winner Jaden Daniels going to
the Washington commanders with the
second pick the New England Patriots
taking North Carolina a QB Drake May
number three Michael penx Jr going
number eight and national champ JJ
McCarthy number 10 to the Vikings his
announcement extra special the family of
Fallen US Army Sergeant Zachary Ying
doing the honors with the 10th pick in
the 2024 NFL draft the Minnesota Vikings
select JJ McCarthy quarterback
Michigan you saw the emotion that Caleb
Williams showed when he came out on
stage and in The Green Room beforeand
and hugging his mom I asked him what he
was feeling and what he said he said
I’ve been working 12 years to achieve
this goal I told her we did it we’re
here it’s time I love you it’s time for
so many of these NFL draft picks to
achieve their dreams and even more
tonight rounds two and three coming up
at 7 Eastern on ABC and ESPN Kira all
right can’t wait will thank you so much
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we’ll say uh the draft tomorrow starting
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here right now on ABC News live pecking
away at David Pecker’s credibility
defense lawyers cross-exam examining the
former tabloid boss as we enter day four
in Donald Trump’s criminal Hutch money
trial we are live outside the courtroom
plus Biden and a baba Buie the president
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Phillips our top story this hour Deja Vu
at the defense table former president
Trump back in court for the fourth day
of witness testimony with tabloid exec
David pecker back on the stand now for
redirect from the prosecution Trump’s
lawyers attempting to poke holes in the
former National inquire Publishers
testimony about the Dark Art of catch
and kill during cross-examination well
prosecutors say he was part of that
scheme to bury those stories about
alleged affairs with porn star Stormy
Daniels and Playboy model car McDougall
all in an effort to keep voters in the
dark about those Affairs today’s
proceedings coming just 24 hours after a
historic day at the Supreme Court our
nation’s top justices now weighing
Trump’s unprecedented claim of absolute
presidential immunity that’s all Senate
around his attempts to overturn the 2020
election leading us off our
investigative reporter Olivia Rubin
she’s outside Court along with attorney
and director at forom law school’s
voting rights and democracy project
Jerry gfet so Olivia uh a lot of back
and forth over David pcker and his
actions on behalf of Donald Trump and
whether they were nothing more than
standing operating procedure in the
Tabloid
industry yep yeah attorney for the
prosecutors here trying to walk back
some of the ground that Donald Trump’s
attorneys picked up on cross-examination
where they did sort of paint this as
standard operating procedure for a
tabloid uh in a certain way they tried
to distance it from the election saying
this was something that happened for
decades and had nothing to do with the
election that this was something David
pcker had done with other celebrities
and politicians such as Rah Emanuel and
Arnold Schwarzenegger and that this is
something that he would have done
regardless of the election or his
meeting with Donald Trump that these
were stories he would have published
anyway or stories he may not have
published anyway so prosecutors trying
to Reign David pecker back in and they
said to him very clearly on recross so
you said you had many other ndas David
pecker said that’s correct and they
looked at him clearly and said how many
of those involved you personally the CEO
of Ami coordinating with a presidential
candidate for a story related to the
election and he said that was the only
one so trying to pour some cold water um
on that theory that this was standard
and trying to reiterate to the jurors
that an
$130,000 payment around an election was
anything but standard
procedure so Jerry Trump’s lawyers
attempted to distance him from the catch
and kill scheme by suggesting that David
pecker and Trump’s former fixer Michael
Cohen may have been freelancing what did
you make of that
strategy well I don’t think they touched
David Becker I don’t think they
impeached him I think the story that
David pecker told is consistent with
what Michael con has uh said publicly
and what he’ll testify to uh pcker was
involved with this catch and kill uh
scheme directly with Donald Trump and it
was clear from Pecker’s testimony that
Trump wanted this done and he wanted
this done in order to interfere with the
election and I don’t think the defense
was able to impeach him on that at all
it’s up to the jury to decide if the
story holds and if they believe it but I
think that the testimony that pecker
gave was pretty
powerful so what’s Trump been like
Olivia um what was he like when one of
his long time
allies with whom he hasn’t spoken to in
quite a while um was up there and you
know the jury reacting to Trump kind of
give us some
color he’s been very gripped by the
testimony remember David Becker has been
on the stand for days now so we’ve seen
sort of a a different dynamic between
the two of them when David pecker first
took the stand he actually had a huge
smile on his face and proceeded to speak
glowingly about his relationship with
Donald Trump something that Trump
appeared to enjoy and listen to
carefully when I was in the courtroom
yesterday morning uh David pcker could
also be seen leaving during a break and
smiling at Trump and his attorneys
smiling at some of the agents and seated
in the first row on his way out but
Donald Trump has appeared quite gripped
by his testimony just today when uh
Trump’s own attorney uh had his own
crack at David pecker he sort of shifted
his chair and was looking right at David
pecker as they were doing their back
back and forth and his attorney was
trying to land some punches on David
pecker not that many of them landed but
he was certainly paying attention and
then you have the jurors who have also
appeared gripped by this testimony they
are taking notes yesterday they were
sort of looking up at pecker looking
down at their notepads looking back at
Joshua Stein glass and really keeping up
with this sort of pingpong back and
forth going on in the
courtroom all right Olivia Jerry thank
you we’ll continue to touch base
throughout the day till Court wraps up
meanwhile anti War protests at colleges
and universities are now sweeping the
nation and hundreds of people have been
arrested several people were taken into
custody at Arizona State University
today while some schools are negotiating
with student protesters to try and
dismantle the growing number of those
tent encampments the NYPD is now
guarding the gates at Colombia
University in New York where those
protests are now in the 10th day and
discussions apparently with the students
are also ongoing here in DC dozens of
protest ERS now at George Washington
University remaining in their
encampments for a second day and defying
an order by campus police to move our
White House correspondent Mari Alis
Parks is on the campus of GW what’s the
situation like this hour Mar
Alis yeah K it’s a calm scene here we
have only seen really peaceful protest
so far look the students here set up
this Camp yesterday morning like you
said the students we talked to really
talked about being a part of a
collective movement a national movement
they wanted to set up their own Camp to
be a part of and and support the protest
that they saw taking place around the
country like you said it’s also really a
collective movement here on this campus
it’s not only students from George
Washington University where we are but
there are students from Georgetown
University American University the
University of Maryland uh several DC uh
schools coming together their students
coming together uh they set up these
tents yesterday morning over night
police moved in and set up the
barricades they did not uh sweep the
campus there have been threats of that
there have been threats of suspension
but so far we haven’t seen any movement
like that these barricades went up so
those students that are in are in uh
they say they can’t even leave to go to
the bathroom those students that are out
are very much out and cannot get in and
join but there have been a few hundred
uh uh sort of supporters here over the
course of the today uh chanting um and
and and and those that aren’t just
affiliated with the university I should
say here you can imagine they are
activists from all Stripes we’ve talked
to Veterans we’ve talked to faculty
members who have come to support the
students who are camped out right and
and then you’ve got New York’s Columbia
University it Still Remains kind of the
epicenter of these protests it sort of
started there and then kind of had this
domino effect now the president of that
University is facing a key vote of
censure from faculty uh you know that
the Speaker of the House Mike Johnson
was there on the campus speaking to
reporters demanding that she resign um
the pressure is building clearly at
Colombia building but I would say really
Nuance I mean we’re talking about um a
criticism of of administr administration
officials at Columbia and elsewhere from
two different sides and like you said
we’ve heard of Republicans uh the
Speaker of the House calling on on
administrators to do even more to crack
down on these protests but I got to tell
you K The Faculty members that I have
talked to here and that I’ve talked to
at other universities including at
Columbia have said exactly the opposite
they are frustrated with school
administrators for the fact that law
enforcement has been called and used at
all you know I talked to two faculty
members uh the school of for service at
Georgetown they said that they were
appalled by the use of law enforcement
on other college campuses they have been
here and wanting to be very present uh
physically present to help protect their
students they think it is so important
that students be able to peacefully
protest and they think that it’s a real
problem if a law enforcement in any way
is used to crack down on that you know
before we go I don’t know if we have
time here I just wanted I thought it was
important to be able to hear from these
protesters themselves what they are
demanding we can play a little little
bit of my interview with one of the
students who’s still barricaded behind
the who’s still camped out Behind These
barricades so we’re staying here until
our universities divest uh until they
divest from alphabet until they divest
from Amazon which are companies that
directly support uh the Israeli Defense
Forces they’re companies that fund
Israeli defense and we are sick of
seeing a genocide unfold with our
tuition money
we’ve we’ve heard calls for divestment
like you heard there and of course the
fire Kira yeah and you know it’s an
important conversation to have our
Elizabeth schully will be joining us
actually Mary Ellis to talk about uh
specific companies and that it’s
actually a very small fraction of money
uh from certain companies that are put
toward the I IDF so it’s a good
conversation to have um as students
bring it up we’re going to take a look
at it from a financial perspective as
well with one of our experts Mar Alis
Parks appreciate you very
much so talk about a shock President
Biden on the radio in a surprise
interview with Howard Stern but that’s
not the only surprise the president now
says he’s open to debating his opponent
Donald Trump Biden didn’t confirm when
he just said to Howard Stern I’m happy
to debate him it’s the first time Biden
has said that he will debate the former
president uh in this election cycle and
it comes after 12 News organizations are
urging both presidential nominees to do
it former president Trump moments ago
pouring cold water on the idea though
that Biden will actually debate him
saying he doesn’t really mean it all
right so what’s the truth let’s go to
our senior White House correspondent
Selena Wang for more so Selena first of
all what do we make of uh Biden’s
surprise confirmation here that he would
debate Trump yeah Cara well I will say I
was just on the phone with the Biden
campaign and they are not weighing in
one way or another on whether or not
this was a confirmation that he would
debate Trump but this was a more direct
answer as the Biden team they’ve been
sort of dodging this question for the
past few months and I just want to read
to you specifically what the president’s
response was when radio host Howard
Stern asked him if youd debate Trump he
said quote I am somewhere I don’t know
when but I am happy to debate him now
before those new comments we had from
Trump the Trump campaign jumped in
saying okay let’s set this up and as you
say this comes after we’ve had pressure
from the Trump team to hold this debate
even though Trump did not participate in
any of the primary presidential debates
and this also comes on top of pressure
from TV organizations to hold this
debate so again no confirmation one way
or another from the Biden campaign but
they are referring and just
reemphasizing that the president’s
comments speak for themselves didn’t it
surprise you that he did Howard Stern a
shock jock of all the journalists all
the radio shows all the interviews he
could have done and he and he kept it a
secret it wasn’t even on the official
itinerary what was the deal with that
well K the Biden campaign they’re not
explaining why they made that decision
but we have seen that this president has
been somewhat skeptical of traditional
media we have seen the president give
interviews to Media personalities and to
more untraditional media Outlets
believing that the current media
landscape is more fractured so that they
need to take other approaches to reach
the voters that they want to reach but
again they’re not explaining why this
was such a surprise interview with
really no heads up yeah I think it it
shocked everybody of all people to sit
down with seemed to be pretty calm
though for a Howard Stern interview um
so while we have you and we just showed
the the video a minute ago clearly it
wasn’t Howard Stern it was actually the
Chinese president um what did you make
of secretary blinken’s meeting with him
yeah look it’s a big deal that this
meeting even even happened it comes on
the backs of a flurry of high Lev
meetings between the US and their
Chinese counterparts but really this is
about stabilizing ties and trying to
make really incremental improvements in
a relationship that’s very competitive
very tense it’s about avoiding the worst
case scenario there is some progress in
areas like artificial intelligence and
trying to stopping the fentanyl
trafficking and the US side was very
clear blinket was very clear that he
doesn’t want China to continue
supporting Russia as it continues its
campaign its aggression against Ukraine
that was a key point of tension notably
Kira Tik Tok was not brought up but we
do have bite dance Tik tok’s Chinese
owner weighing in saying that they have
no intention to sell Tik Tok this has
become a critical issue in China the
Chinese government’s not going to let go
of Tik Tok very easily they’ve already
signaled that they do not want to sell
it so this is going to be really
interesting as it plays out just another
Wrinkle in the US China
relationship all right Selena Wang
appreciate it thanks so much now to the
extreme weather and dangerous storms uh
taking aim at millions of Americans
right now take a look at this tornado
the touchdown in Colorado the Twister on
the ground there for several minutes
Downing trees knocking out power at
least four tornadoes spotted in four
states in the last 24 hours 20 million
people on alert today for those
tornadoes hail and damaging winds now
from Texas to Iowa our Meteorologist
Melissa Griffin tracking the forecast
for us tornado watch already in effect
for what Northeast Texas now yeah that’s
right Cara we’ve been watching these
storms firing up in Northeast Texas
especially these cells south of Dallas
you can see here those tornado warnings
those red boxes between Waco and
coracana several radar indicated tornado
warnings so very severe storms popping
up there but a new tornado watch has now
just been issued for Nebraska already a
confirmed tornado on the ground in parts
of a Sherman County Nebraska but this
watch extends all the way into Omaha
into parts of Iowa and back into parts
of Missouri as well so that is in effect
through about 7:00 central time tonight
this is where I also expect extremely
large hail we’re talking golf ball
baseball softball size hail so that can
also do damage as well as those
tornadoes but look at the enhanced
threat area it’s a narrow line from
Texas all the way into parts of Eastern
Oklahoma Arkansas this includes
Springfield and Kansas City Missouri and
up there where that tornado watch is in
effect for parts of Nebraska and Iowa
the main time frame for these storms is
really going to be this afternoon and
evening through about 9:00 tonight and
as this system moves out we’re not done
with severe weather yet because another
system moves in this weekend it’s going
to bring more threats of tornadoes to
the Plains and the Midwest the same
areas that are dealing with severe
weather today so very active weather
over the next couple of days right into
the weekend Cara all right Melissa
appreciate you thank you and coming up
you’re not imagining things your
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is out showing that mortgage rates are
once again Rising they have soared back
way above 7% now the highest level since
late last year meaning it’s much more
expensive to try and buy a home our
business correspondent Alexa Christoper
is joining us now to tell us why the
heck this is happening why are mortgage
rates up so much and talk about bad
timing Kira because the spring is
usually the time a bus time for the
housing market when folks are going out
and looking at homes to buy but they are
dealing once again with mortgage rates
that are on the rise uh as you said
mortgage rates now above 7% averaging
actually
7.17% we haven’t seen rates that high uh
since November of last year big reason
why the Federal Reserve right it had
said it was going to start cutting
interest rates this year which would
have helped mortgage rates but now it’s
sort of changed its tune because
inflation is proving to be more stubborn
than we first thought and so the Federal
Reserve may be holding off on those
interest rate Cuts possibly Kira for the
rest of the year so what does this mean
for home buyers this is typically the
busiest time of the year for the housing
market right so home buyers are dealing
with two things not only are mortgage
rates higher but the prices of homes not
coming down still near a record high
you’ve got the uh median price now for
uh an existing home in this country
nearly $400 ,000 putting it Out Of Reach
for so many folks especially those
first-time home buyers so here’s how it
breaks down if you were to buy a
$400,000 home at today’s uh mortgage
rate your monthly payment would be about
$2,700 if you had bought that same home
uh three years ago before the had
started hiking interest rates and rates
were about 3% your monthly payment would
have been about $1,000 cheaper at about
$1,700 that’s a real savings for folks
and I think the bottom line here Kira is
that experts I to say expect mortgage
rates to probably remain high for the
rest of the year it’s important to shop
around uh check out different lenders
and see the best rate uh that you can
negotiate for yourself great advice
Alexis thank you and coming up it’s been
a decade and Flint is still doesn’t have
clean drinking water what residents are
now saying we take you to Michigan
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following this hour new developments in
the death of a 26-year-old Dexter Reed
who was shot 13 times during a traffic
stop in Chicago in March medical
examiners now ruling the a homicide
police say Reed was pulled over for an
alleged seat belt violation and
investigators said he fired first Reed’s
families following a wrongful death suit
claiming that the traffic stop was
illegal said and later or rather in
Flint Michigan it still doesn’t have
clean drinking water even after that big
investigation an unelected City official
back in 2014 decided to change the
city’s drinking water source to save
money well lead and other contaminants
as you know completely ruined the city’s
water Supply causing National outrage
while many service lines have been
replaced some residents say they still
can’t drink bathe or even brush their
teeth thanks to all the brown tinted
liquid coming out of their faucets gross
and it’s a birdie no it’s a plane no
wait it’s an alligator golfers playing
in the zerk classic in Louisiana forced
to put their play on pause well that
alligator slowly trudge through the game
down the Fairway
pulled out of three iron just kidding
the Critter crawled by whole 17 then
just continued on its way the most
interesting
Interruption by
par well only one human case thank
goodness has been confirmed right now in
the US this year but it’s definitely
gotten the attention of our Public
Health officials CDC FDA and the USDA
say a strain of the Aven flu known as
h5n1 has sickened several mammals this
year with several dairy cows infected
resulting in commercial milk samples
showing inactive remnants of the virus
those same Health officials say now that
the food supply is safe and that the
risk to the general public is currently
low our medical contributor Dr Alo Patel
who usually is coming to us via FaceTime
the hospital his office is in Set uh on
set rather in studio with us today great
to see see you here are you Legend it’s
an honor to be here it’s so great to
have you here um always nice to have a
doctor in the house so this is how the
segment came about and I knew you were
going to be here so I asked for you to
join me on set there have been all these
headlines about oh my gosh bird flu
found in our milk and we had this
conversation okay back up a minute let’s
talk about really what has been
discovered what kind of milk where is it
should be we be worried about this hence
this is why you’re here so put it into
perspective what what do we know right
now absolutely and there’s a lot to
unpack with what you’re mentioning and
obviously people are paying attention to
headlines because of what we went
through with covid so if we just take a
quick step back yes this this strain of
this highly pathogenic Aven influenza is
highly contagious and can be severe in
animals human cases are extremely rare
we’ve only had two cases in the past two
years of h5n1 first identified in 1996
Birds then passed it all over the world
in about 2005 and then we started seeing
cases here in 2020 too now what we’re
paying attention to right now this
spring is that there are outbreaks
amongst dairy cows and the FDA just
released a statement saying that they
found samples in retail pasteurized milk
about one out of five of those samples
one out of five yeah I was just looking
at exactly what was released and
Brittney thank you for bringing that to
me so put that into perspective because
when we heard bird flu and milk you know
my first immediate reaction was oh my
gosh my kids have to drink at least
three glasses of milk a day they’re
growing they need their milk but so so
explain these samples and where it was
found and you know when we’re going to
the grocery store tomorrow morning is
this something we need to worry about
when we open up you know and buy our
milk that is what everyone is asking and
worried about so if we look at the
actual test what they were looking at is
are their fragments of the virus in this
milk sample and they’re using a test
called PCR which can basically amplify
really really small amounts of a virus
and then say this may have been part of
the h5n1 after pasteurization so long
story short small amounts of virus the
milk according to the FDA is still safe
to drink there we go bottom line it safe
to drink thanks Doc great to see you bir
United us and hopefully more topics that
are less scary will in the future amen I
look forward to it all right thanks so
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Kira Phillips our top story this half
hour Deja Vu at the defense table former
president Trump back in court for the
fourth day of witness testimony court is
currently on a lunch break but
proceedings are expected to resume
shortly with tabloid exec David pecker
back on the stand for more redirect
prosecutors getting once last chance to
question the former National inquire
publisher about the Dark Art of the
catch and kill scheme to bury those
stories about Trump’s alleged Affairs
all in an effort to keep voters in the
dark today’s proceedings coming just 24
hours after a historic day at the
Supreme Court as well our nation’s top
justices now weighing Trump’s
unprecedented claim of absolute
presidential immunity catering around
his attempts to overturn the 2020
election let’s bring in our senior
reporter Katherine fers along with
criminal defense attorney and former
prosecutor Bernarda viona so Katherine
David pcker testified the catch and kill
scheme wasn’t discussed uh at a meeting
with Trump and his allies at Trump Tower
in 2015 that was a specific question
that he was asked why why that date why
that meeting and that was the meeting
that was significant K between pecker
Cohen and Trump where he was allegedly
pecker was allegedly going to be the
eyes and ears of of the Trump World and
this catch and kill scheme overall that
2015 meeting has been a focus here and
as you just said who specifically asked
that question did you specifically use
the words catch and kill during that
meeting that’s what one of the
prosecutors asks David pecker pecker
says no I did not now at the end of the
day I’m not sure how significant that
will be overall here given that
prosecutors have painted this picture of
catch and kill and David pecker has
reaffirmed um Trump’s involvement or
that these catch and kill schemes were
too benefit Trump but the defense has
tried to broaden this out to say this
was business as usual this was happening
long before 2016 we’ll see Kira how that
comment specifically resonates with the
jury so Bernardo Trump’s lawyers
attempted to damage uh David Pecker’s
credibility memory character all of that
during
cross-examination um how did they
do well I don’t think the defense has
been successful in damaging David
Pecker’s credibility you have to think
they have been trying to poke holes in
testimony about some inconsistencies
about what he said years past and what
he’s saying on the stand now but nothing
significant that stands out to say that
you can’t believe anything David pcker
says so in terms of the
cross-examination and the redirect
examination I think is clear to point
out that we should point out is that
David pecker was able to get out look I
paid
$150,000 to miss McDougall and why is
that important because that’s not
business as usual because he had never
paid that amount to any other story that
he catched and killed for other
people so what’s sticking out to you
Katherine from the prosecutions
redirect reinforce that this was Central
to Trump’s campaign for example Kira
they’re trying to obviously it’s the
rebuttal to the defense that tried to
broaden this out and the defense also
brought up other celebrities for example
we heard about Tiger Woods Arnold
Schwarzenegger so that is now the
prosecutions job job to bring it back to
where they started here that David
pecker was Central and that he uh
essentially you know Michael Cohen as
we’ve talked about a lot will be a
central witness here of course he does
have some credibility issues pecker is
obviously to reinforce The credibility
of a lot of these meetings what was
going on so that’s the prosecution’s
goal here now I’m curious to see uh it’s
already 2:30 about it’s it’s in the
afternoon I’m curious to see if they do
end up calling another witness to the
stano we know that some of his Trump’s
former top AIDS at the White House at
the Trump organization people who have
worked there forever they’re likely to
be called curious if they call somebody
else before court ends this week or if
they wait till next week Berard the list
of alleged violations continues to grow
as well we’re now at 14 when it comes to
this gag order by the time we get the
judge’s decision he’ll probably have
even more what’s the point of all
this well I’m hoping that judge Maran
does issue a order soon because we have
a weekend coming up and we know with the
weekends now it’s unfettered uh
discussion for Donald Trump to make
statements about the case about the
jurors about the witnesses about what’s
going on and how unfair all of this is
and it’s just going to keep stacking up
judge Maran needs to take his time and
he has been taking his time to issue a
decision that’s going to be one
thoughtful one that’s not going to be
considered political but also another
thing that’s going to send a message to
Donald Trump that this type of behavior
is not going to be tolerated so here the
sanction that he’s going to give Donald
Trump is one for him to open up his eyes
and be like we not playing any games
here and that this needs to stop because
we’re still talking about five more
weeks of testimony in this
case seems like forever Bernarda
Katherine thank you both meanwhile
anti-war protests at colleges and
universities are now sweeping the nation
and hundreds of people have been
arrested several people were taken into
custody at Arizona State University
today while some schools are negotiating
with student protesters to try and
dismantle the growing number of those
tent encampments the NYPD is now
guarding the gates at Columbia
University in New York where those
protests are now in the 10th day and
discussions apparently with the students
are also ongoing here in DC dozens of
protesters now at George Washington
University remaining in their
encampments for a second day and defying
an order by campus police to move our
White House correspondent marielis Parks
is on the campus of GW what’s a
situation like this hour Mary
Alice yeah K it’s a calm scene here we
have only seen really peaceful protest
so far look the students here set up
this Camp yesterday morning like you
said the students we talked to really
talked about being a part of a
collective movement a national movement
they wanted to set up their own Camp to
be a part of and and support the protest
that they saw taking place around the
country like you said it’s also really a
collective movement here on this campus
it’s not only students from George
Wasington University where we are but
there are students from Georgetown
University American University the
University of Maryland several DC uh
schools coming together their students
coming together uh they set up these
tents yesterday morning overnight police
moved in and set up the barricades they
did not uh sweep the campus there have
been threats of that there have been
threats of suspension but so far we
haven’t seen any movement like that
these barricades went up so those
students that are in are in uh they say
they can’t even leave to go to the
bathroom those students that are out are
very much out and cannot get in and join
but there have been a few hundred uh uh
sort of supporters here over the course
of today uh chanting um and and and
those that aren’t just affiliated with
the university I should say here you can
imagine there are activists from all
Stripes we’ve talked to Veterans we’ve
talked the faculty members who have come
to support the students who are camped
out right and then you’ve got New York’s
Columbia University it Still Remains
kind of the epicenter of these protests
it sort of started there and then kind
of had this domino effect now the
president of that University is facing a
key vote of censure from faculty uh you
know that the speaker the house Mike
Johnson was there on the campus speaking
to reporters demanding that she resign
um the pressure is building clearly at
Colombia building but I would say really
Nuance I mean we’re talking about um a
criticism of of administrated uh
Administration officials at Columbia and
elsewhere from two different sides when
like you said we’ve heard of Republicans
uh the Speaker of the House calling on
on administrators to do even more to
crack down on these protests but I got
to tell you K The Faculty members that I
have talked to here and that I’ve talked
to at other universities including at
Columbia have said exactly the opposite
they are frustrated with school
administrators for the fact that law
enforcement has been called and used at
all you know I talked to two faculty
members at the school of Foreign Service
at Georgetown they said that they were
appalled by the use of law enforcement
on other college campuses they have been
here and wanting to be very present uh
physically present to help protect their
students they think it is so important
that students be able to peacefully
protest and they think that it’s a real
problem if a law enforcement in any way
is used to crack down on that you know
before we go I don’t know if we have
time here I just wanted I thought it was
important to be able to hear from these
protesters themselves what they are
demanding we can play a little bit of my
interview with one of the students who’s
still barricaded behind the who’s still
camped out Behind These
barricades so we’re staying here until
our universities divest uh until they
divest from alphabet until they divest
from Amazon which are companies that
directly support
uh the Israeli Defense Forces they’re
companies that fund Israeli defense and
we are sick of seeing a genocide unfold
with our tuition
money we’ve we’ve heard calls for
divestment like you heard there and of
course the fire Kira yeah and you know
it’s an important conversation to have
our Elizabeth schully will be joining us
actually Mary Alis to talk about uh
specific companies and that it’s
actually a very small fraction of money
uh from certain companies that are put
toward the IDF so it’s a good
conversation to have um as students
bring it up we’re going to take a look
at it from a financial perspective as
well with one of our experts Mary Alice
Parks appreciate you very
much so talk about a shock President
Biden on the radio and a surprising
interview with Howard Stern but that’s
not the only surprise the president now
says he’s open to debating his opponent
Donald Trump Biden didn’t confirm when
he just said to Howard Stern I’m happy
to debate him it’s the first time Biden
has said that he will debate the former
president uh in this election cycle and
it comes after 12 News organizations are
urging both presidential nominees to do
it former president Trump moments ago
pouring cold water on the idea though
that Biden will actually debate him
saying he doesn’t really mean it all
right so what’s the truth let’s go to
our senior White House correspondent
Selena Wang for more so Selen first of
all what do we make of uh Biden’s
surprise confirmation here that he would
debate Trump yeah K well I will say I
was just on the phone with the Biden
campaign and they are not weighing in
one way or another on whether or not
this was a confirmation that he would
debate Trump but this was a more direct
answer as the Biden team they’ve been
sort of dodging this question for the
past few months and I just want to read
to you specifically what the president’s
response was when radio host Howard
Stern asked him if You’ debate Trump he
said quote I am somewhere I don’t know
when but I am happy to debate him now
before those new comments we had from
Trump the Trump campaign jumped in
saying okay let’s set this up and as you
say this comes after we’ve had pressure
from the Trump team to hold this debate
even though Trump did not participate in
any of the primary presidential debates
and this also comes on top of pressure
from TV organizations to hold this
debate so again no confirmation one way
or another from the Biden campaign but
they are referring and just
reemphasizing that the president’s
comments speak for themselves didn’t it
surprise you that he did Howard Stern a
shock jock of all the journalists all
the radio shows all the interviews he
could have done and he and he kept it a
secret it wasn’t even on the official
itinerary what was the deal with that
well care the Biden campaign they’re not
explaining why they made that decision
but we have seen that this president has
has been somewhat skeptical of
traditional media we have seen the
president give interviews to Media
personalities and to more untraditional
media Outlets believing that the current
media landscape is more fractured so
that they need to take other approaches
to reach the voters that they want to
reach but again they’re not explaining
why this was such a surprise interview
with really no heads up yeah I think it
it shocked everybody of all people to
sit down with seemed to be pretty calm
though for a Howard Stern interview um
so while we have you and we just showed
the the video a minute ago clearly it
wasn’t Howard Stern it was actually the
Chinese president um what did you make
of secretary blink’s meeting with him
yeah look it’s a big deal that this
meeting even even happened it comes on
the backs of a flurry of high Lev
meetings between the US and their
Chinese counterparts but really this is
about stabilizing ties and trying to
make really incremental improvements in
a relationship that’s very competitive
very tense it’s about avoiding the worst
case scenario there is some progress in
areas like artist arcial intelligence
and trying to stopping the fentanyl
trafficking and the US side was very
clear blinkin was very clear that he
doesn’t want China to continue
supporting Russia as it continues its
campaign its aggression against Ukraine
that was a key point of tension notably
Kira Tik Tok was not brought up but we
do have bite dance Tik tok’s Chinese
owner weighing in saying that they have
no intention to sell Tik Tok this has
become a critical issue in China the
Chinese government’s not going to let go
of Tik Tok very easily they’ve already
signal that they do not want to sell it
so this is going to be really
interesting as it plays out just another
Wrinkle in the US China
relationship all right Selena Wang
appreciate it thanks so much now to the
extreme weather and dangerous storms
taking aim at millions of Americans
right now take a look at this tornado
the touchdown in Colorado the Twister on
the ground there for several minutes
Downing trees knocking out power at
least four tornadoes spotted in four
states in the last 24 hours 20 million
people on alert today for those
tornadoes hail and damaging winds now
from Texas to Iowa our Meteorologist
Melissa Griffin tracking the forecast
for us tornado watch already an effect
for what Northeast Texas now yeah that’s
right Cara we’ve been watching these
storms firing up in Northeast Texas
especially these cells south of Dallas
you can see here those tornado warnings
those red boxes between Waco and
coracana several radar indicated tornado
warnings so very severe storms popping
up there but a new tornado watch has now
just been issued for Nebraska already a
confirmed tornado on the ground in parts
of a Sherman County Nebraska but this
watch extends all the way into Omaha
into parts of Iowa and back into parts
of Missour as well so that is in effect
through about 7:00 central time tonight
this is where I also expect extremely
large hail we’re talking golf ball
baseball softball size hail so that can
also do damage as well as those
tornadoes but look at the enhanced
threat area it’s a narrow line from
Texas all the way into parts of Eastern
Oklahoma Arkansas this includes
Springfield and Kansas City Missouri and
up where that tornado watch is in effect
for parts of Nebraska and Iowa the main
time frame for these storms is really
going to be this afternoon and evening
through about 9:00 tonight and as this
system moves out we’re not done with
severe weather yet because another
system moves in this weekend it’s going
to bring more threats of tornadoes to
the Plains and the Midwest the same
areas that are dealing with severe
weather today so very active weather
over the next couple of days right into
the weekend Cara all right Melissa
appreciate you thank you and coming up
you’re not imagining things things your
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why this is the first time you are
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left home and things would never really
be the same Britney are you ready
so you reached down cuz you’ve been told
to go through your bag and you felt felt
the cartridge what were you thinking
that moment when you felt that and had
to bring it out my life is over right
here had you ever brought cannabis no
before into Russia had you never there
people who say come on how did you not
know that you had cartridges in your
luggage what do you say to the Skeptics
you’ve just been told you’re going to be
9 years in a penal
colony one of the worst prisons in
Russia I was just so scared for
everything cuz there just so much on
know it was a huge knife sitting on the
table and I was just like
no this is going to be a ride got do
what you got to do to
survive the mattress had a huge blood
stain on it I had no soap no toilet
paper that was the moment where I just
felt less than a
human there were times that you felt
like let me just end it yeah just I
didn’t think I could get through what I
needed to get
through I feel
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data is out showing that mortgage rates
are once again Rising they have soared
back way above 7% now the highest level
since late last year meaning it’s much
more expensive to try and buy a home our
business correspondent Alexa christofer
is joining us now to tell us why the
heck this is happening why are mortgage
rates up so much and talk about bad
timing Kira because the spring is
usually the time a busy time for the
housing market when folks are going out
and looking at homes to buy but they are
dealing once again with mortgage rates
that are on the rise uh as you said
mortgage rates now above 7% averaging
actually
7.17% we haven’t seen rates that High uh
since November of last year big reason
why the Federal Reserve right it had
said it was going to start cutting
interest rates this year which would
have helped mortgage rates but now it’s
sort of changed its tune because
inflation is proving to be more stubborn
than we first thought and so the Federal
Reserve may be holding off on those
interest rate Cuts possibly Kira for the
rest of the year so what does this mean
for home buyers this is typically the
busiest time of the year for the housing
market right so home buyers are dealing
with two things not only are mortgage
rates higher but the prices of homes not
coming down still near a record high
you’ve got the uh median price now for
uh an existing home in this country
nearly
$400,000 putting it Out Of Reach for so
many folks especially those first-time
home buyers so here’s how it breaks down
if you were to buy a $400,000 home at
today’s a mortgage rate your monthly
payment would be about
$2,700 if you had bought that same home
uh three years ago before the had
started hiking interest rates and rates
were about 3% your monthly payment would
have been about $11,000 cheaper at about
$1,700 that’s a real savings for folks
and I think the bottom line here Kira is
that experts I talked to say expect
mortgage rates to probably remain high
for the rest of the year it’s important
to shop around uh check out different
lenders and see the best rate uh that
you can negotiate for yourself great
advice Alexis thank you and coming up
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some other top headlines that were
following this hour new developments in
the death of a 26-year-old Dexter Reed
who was shot 13 times during a traffic
stop in Chicago in March medical
examiners now ruling the death a
homicide police say Reed was pulled over
for an alleged seat belt violation and
investigators said he fired first Reed’s
families following a wrongful death suit
claiming that the traffic stop was
illegal said and later or rather in
Flint Michigan it still doesn’t have
clean drinking water even after that big
investigation an unelected City official
back in 2014 decided to change the
city’s drinking water source to save
money well lead and other contaminants
as you know completely ruined the city’s
water supply causing National outrage
while many service lines have been
replaced some residents say they still
can’t drink bathe or even brush their
teeth thanks to all the brown tinted
liquid coming out of their faucets gross
and and it’s a birdie no it’s a plane
Noe wait it’s an alligator golfers
playing in the zerk classic in Louisiana
forc to put their play on pause well
that alligator slowly trudged through
the game down the
Fairway pulled out a three iron just
kidding the Critter crawled by ho 17
then just continued on its way the most
interesting
Interruption by
par well only one one human casee thank
goodness has been confirmed right now in
the US this year but it’s definitely
gotten the attention of our Public
Health officials CDC FDA and the USDA
say a strain of the avien flu known as
h5n1 has sickened several mammals this
year with several dairy cows infected
resulting in commercial milk samples
showing inactive remnants of the virus
those same Health officials say now that
the food supply is safe and that the
risk to the general public is currently
low our medical contributor Dr Alo Patel
who usually is coming to us uh via
FaceTime the hospital his office is in
Set uh on set rather in studio with us
today great to see you here are you
Legend it’s an honor to be here it’s so
great to have you here um always nice to
have a doctor in the house so this is
how the segment came about and I knew
you were going to be here so I asked for
you to join me on set there have been
all these headlines about oh my God bird
flu found in our milk and we had this
conversation okay back up a minute let’s
talk about really what has been
discovered what kind of milk where is it
should be we be worried about this hence
this is why you’re here so put it into
perspective what do we know right now
absolutely and there’s a lot to unpack
with what you’re mentioning and
obviously people are paying attention to
headlines because of what we went
through with covid so if we just take a
quick step back this this strain of this
highly pathogenic Aven influenza is
highly contagious and can be severe in
animals human cases are extremely rare
we’ve only had two cases in the past 2
years of h5n1 first identified in 1996
Birds then passed it all over the world
in about 2005 and then we started seeing
cases here in
2022 now what we’re paying attention to
right now this spring is that there are
outbreaks amongst dairy cows and the FDA
just released a statement saying that
they found samples in retail pasteurized
milk about one out of five of those
samples one if I yeah I was just looking
at exactly what was released and Britney
thank you for bringing that to me so put
that into perspective because when we
heard bird flu and milk you know my
first immediate reaction was oh my gosh
my kids have to drink at least three
glasses of milk a day they’re growing
they need their milk but so so explain
these samples and where it was found and
you know when we’re going to the grocery
store tomorrow morning is this something
we need to worry about when we open up
you know and buy our milk that is what
everyone is asking and worried about so
if we look at the actual test what they
were looking at is are there fragments
of the virus in this milk sample and
they’re using a test called PCR which
can basically amplify really really
small amounts of a virus and then say
this may have been part of the h5n1
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top story at this hour Donald Trump is
back in court for the the fourth day of
witness testimony in his trial
prosecutors have called their second
witness to the stand the former
president’s longtime executive assistant
Ronda
graph so this is coming after four days
of intense examination of Tabet exec
David pecker prosecutors and defense
both questioning the former National
inquire publisher about the Dark Art of
that catch and kill scheme to bury all
those stories about Trump and his
Affairs all in an effort to just keep
voters in the dark let’s bring in our
investigative correspondent Olia ruin
just outside Court also criminal defense
attorney and former prosecutor Bernarda
viona all right Olivia what do we know
about uh Rona graph why did the state
choose her as the second
witness well Rona graph has now been on
the witness stand for about five minutes
Kaa or excuse me Kira and she has
already delivered some fascinating test
testimony that we did not already know
and she has just testified that she saw
Stormy Daniels at Trump Tower timeline
is a little murky but she described
seeing her sort of in that Reception
Area she did say that she knew she was
an adult film star and that’s
significant because Donald Trump has
said that uh stormy Daniel’s claims were
not true so it’s a serious uh piece of
evidence just entered in there from Ron
graph and I think to your question why
did they call her it is now clear that
she knew so much about Donald Trump who
he was talking to who he was meeting
with as you know our John santui has
described on the air she is only one of
two executive assistants that Donald
Trump ever had he described her as sort
of the gatekeeper even David pecker
testified that when he wanted to talk to
Donald Trump he called R graph or he
emailed R graph so if this is an
indication of the sort of testimony that
she is going to be giving it is
significant because she is going to be
providing an inside window into what
Donald Trump was doing who he was
talking to and who he was meeting
all right Olivia thank you for that now
Bernardo the first witness David pecker
he took jurors inside the scheme and in
fact most crucially said it was a scheme
primarily designed to keep information
from voters which is a crucial part of
what the prosecutors are charging here
how about how about Ron graph how how
does she fit into what the prosecutors
are trying to
accomplish so this is very interesting
because R graph is someone who’s inside
of Donald Trump’s Inner Circle so being
inside of Trump’s inner Circle she’s
going to be able to give us some inside
information that other people don’t know
especially thinking Donald Trump he
didn’t send emails so in terms of Miss
grab she was in charge of making his
schedules his calendars talking to
people on the phone getting scheduling
meetings so she’ll be able to make some
confirmation for us of who he was
meeting with how many times he was
meeting with that purpose with that
person for what purpose he was meeting
with them and I wonder whether she even
listened into some of these phone calls
or some of these meetings and also what
was the extent of the relationship that
Donald Trump did have with stormmy
Daniels that Donald Trump did have with
camon McDougall because she said that
she still maintained contact with those
two
individuals so thank you thank you for
that Berard Olivia let me ask you about
R gra how long is her testimony going to
go on and what can the defense do well
Bernardo just described the value that
she has in this case what do we expect
from the
defense well another little plot twist
for you here Terry our team inside the
court Luke bugman and Peter haralo
saying that the direct examination of R
graph has already ended so she was on
direct examination for about 10 minutes
and so it appears what prosecutors
wanted to get into the record from her
was the fact that Stormy Daniels was at
Trump Tower she also spoke to uh the
contact information that Donald Trump
had for stormy d he was just in there as
uh stormy and again she also testified
that she knew that stormmy was an adult
film actress so they have already handed
her over to uh Donald Trump’s team for
cross examination so we’ll have to see
what it is exactly they tried to do with
her but this again is a very uh personal
close connection to Donald Trump that
they just put on the witness stand for
just a few minutes to get a key detail
out of her all right so Bernarda let me
ask you about the list of alleged
violations that just continue to grow
here we’re now at what 14 um so by the
time we get the judge’s decision Trump
will probably have a lot more than that
so what’s the point of all
this well eventually judge Maran is
going to render decision and the whole
point of it is the whole point of a
contemp paring the whole point of a gag
order is to try to preserve the
Integrity of the criminal system to try
to preserve the Integrity of the trial
itself he doesn’t want outside factors
influencing what’s going on in the
courtroom and influencing the decision
of the jury so that’s why at some point
judge Maran is going to issue a decision
the question is when will he issue this
decision are we going to continue adding
on violations to these 14 te that we
have right now before we hear from
him all right Olivia Bernardo thank you
both so much preciate it well anti-war
PR protests and arrest at colleges and
universities are now sweeping the ation
several people were taken into custody
at Arizona State University now while
some schools are in the middle of
negotiating with student protesters to
try and dismantle the growing number of
all those tent encampments and the NYPD
is now guarding the gates to Columbia
University in New York an extraordinary
site where those protests are now in
their 10th day discussions with
protesters are ongoing in North Carolina
protesters from schools across that
state formed encampments at the UNC
Chapel Hill Duke University as well uh
their students say they hope joining
together will amplify their
message we want to make sure that this
isn’t just a here’s a school encampment
type situation this is about more than
just our schools more than just the
triangle it’s about the schools that
we’ve lost in glaza the students and
Scholars that we’ve lost the mothers
children fathers family that we’ve lost
so by banding together we’re hoping that
our voice can be Amplified and that we
can get the message out have people keep
their eyes on Palestine Keep Their Eyes
on Gaza and we can all fight for a
change that
way so let’s bring in the editor and
Chief and president of Columbia’s
student newspaper the Columbia spectator
Isabella Ramirez Isabella glad to have
you with us you know these protests are
now forcing classes to be online Jewish
students say that they don’t feel safe
there’s calls for your President to
resign so what exactly do you think
these protests are achiev
right so I mean the the protesters have
U made it very clear from the beginning
that their ultimate goal uh from this is
they will not leave the encampment until
uh there is divestment on behalf of the
University from companies with
connections to Israel now we know um
sort of how these negotiations are
progressing there’s been some stalls
there’s been some continuations
extensions and so you know there is some
lack of clarity in terms of where we go
from here recently the most uh recent
campus update that we received from The
Office of the President was that uh that
there has been some progress with those
negotiations but there was some a very
clear line that said we have our demands
and they have theirs so there’s still
this understanding that uh what the
university sort of wants out of the
situation which is of course they want
to be able to clear the encampment they
want to be able to not um you know have
this disruption to Student Life to
academic life to now what’s coming up on
finals week and graduation and
commencements um and but the students
also have their demands as to what uh
their parameters for wanting to leave
this space uh is Isabelle let me ask you
then Isabelle you know you talk about
the the demands on behalf of these
students to divest but what exactly um
do you do they want the university to
divest from let me start there sure um
so there have been some like specific
Target companies uh that the protesters
have cited specifically uh those on the
boycott divestment sanctions list um
particularly the Investments that they
point to there’s actually something
interesting here too because they’re
demanding both divestment but also
Financial transparency um they made
several posts and also several
announcements about the fact that even
what they have access to see right from
990s from the University are only a
sliver of the potential Investments that
the University have um a lot of them
have pointed to investments in Black
Rock and appointed to investments in
companies um with other sort of ties and
so there’s sort of a level of there are
different levels to the connection um
with which these companies have to
Israel but the main targets are those
that are on the boycott divestment
sanctions list and uh those that they’ve
identified to have some sort of
connections to perhaps US military
operation or other sort of um weapons
manufacturing and other potential
connections to um us uh involvement in
Israel
and Isabella this is we’re really glad
to have you there’s a huge story for
your newspaper the Columbia spectator
and you cover the whole university the
whole student body 8,000 undergrads uh
many thousands more at graduate school
so give me a sense of of how the entire
population the the whole Community there
is responding what is it is it
universally obviously not universally
nothing is but but is this is is this a
minority of students would you say do
they or or is growing how do you give me
a sense of the scale of what’s happening
at Colombia given the the the student
population
there well it’s very challenging in the
sense that Columbia is very very big
right we’re we’re talking about a
population of 30,000 students across
graduate and undergraduate schools were
a community of over 17 were 17 schools
and also um other affiliate schools
including barard and so we’re a very
very large community and so it’s really
challenging to try to place it in in
that scale but I think scale-wise of
course the disruption has been very
significant and and that’s sort of part
of the message there um different
factions of the University believe
different things about how we should be
handling the encampment how we should be
handling the issues the encampment is
attempting to address but I do think
that there is some sort of perhaps not
Universal but there is growing ideas of
the fact that of of of sort of this
student and faculty and administrative
dichotomy so so students perhaps being
pinned against the administration and
faculty having some tension as well with
the administration and so what I mean by
that is although students may be coming
from different angles as to why they
have frustrations with some of the
handling um on behalf of uh the office
of the president or just senior
administration of this issue uh they
might be coming from different ways as
to why they’re frustrated but there is
still kind of in a unified sense a
feeling that Colombia is not doing
enough now why is Columbia not doing
enough I think many people would answer
that very differently uh but that does
seem to be a sense that is pretty
widespread uh and it has been I think
very challenging to try uh for the
administration to try to tackle um
especially when you know that is a very
significant part of our community as
well as the faculty who are also
involved in this whether they’re in
solidarity with the encampment or
they’re um against it in some regards or
wherever they fall in that Spectrum uh
there there seems to be just a
frustration of who makes up Columbia’s
community and what Columbia perhaps the
university senior Administration um
represents that is very helpful thank
you Isabella and now I’m going to ask
the really hard question uh and ask as a
journalist what do you say about the
the the way that some people view what’s
going on
as uh anti-semitic or uh not
sufficiently anti Hamas do you see
protest against h how do you how do you
uh report on that and deal with that
yeah yeah it it is incredibly
challenging to navigate especially
considering our Newsroom is you know
spanning 18 to 21 year olds about that
age and we’re talking about young people
trying to tackle these ginormous ideas
and so how we’ve really tried to do that
is precision and accuracy in our
language um identifying actors really
serving as what we’ve always said in
described ourselves as right as spec as
a spectator right as a pillar of
accountability for our community so when
we’re referring to instances such as
anti-semitic incidences or incidents um
or other incidents of of hate um we try
to be very precise as to who are we
speaking about are we speaking about
outside protesters are we speaking about
protesters that are in our campus um you
know who are these attacks being leveled
against right I think all of those
minute details are incredibly incredibly
important to capturing the picture and
also avoiding um overgeneralizations
that sometimes we can have the
Temptations to make now often when we’re
reporting on these incidents we identify
patterns right if we have a sufficient
amount of information as to something is
repeatedly happening right we’re going
to as journalists analyze that and see
that as a pattern that is emerging from
our community and from that we’ve of
course been able to gauge there has been
a rise of anti-Semitism since October
7th on Colombus campus but I’m sure
across the and across universities
Across the Nation there has also been a
rise in other forms of hate and there’s
also been a very complicated
conversation about where does freedom of
speech fall into all of this so I think
that what we really try to do as as
journalists as student journalists who
again we report not only from a place of
of carrying um national standards but
we’re peer-to-peer right who we’re
reporting on are the people we go to
class with people who are our professors
people are very close to and so our goal
with all of that is to really um hone in
on who are the actors here how can we be
as precise as possible and how can we
practice um you know Integrity in this
process Isabella I tell you as as we let
you go Terry and I are sitting here
thinking this is such a great
conversation you you have a 10-part
series for your newspaper you really do
you could go all the way back to the
history of the the Israel Palestinian
conflict and you can work your way all
the way up to right now and just you
know the rise of hate and terrorism and
all the different factions and I mean
this is such a great conversation and
I’ll tell you what we’re going to be
looking for that 10p part Series in your
newspaper and you’re going to come back
and you’re going to tell us about it and
I I just thank you very much we really
learned a lot from from that after you
graduate come look for a job at ABC
exactly we’ll hire you thank thank you
Isabella thank you thanks very much
thank you so much really appreciate it
all right well let’s continue the
conversation cuz she talked about
divestment right so protesters at
Columbia University Isabella was just
telling us they’re demanding their
schools cut the financial ties to Israel
divestment they’re asking schools to
divest from businesses they say are
actively profiting from Israel’s war in
Gaza but as kir was asking what does
that exactly mean and and why are
schools investing like this in the first
place is there a problem there right our
Elizabeth schy is here to break that all
down for us Elizabeth you and I were
talking early today we’ve been talking
about this issue we need you to sort of
um you know explain to us exactly what
the protesters are demanding and and how
the schools would actually make the
changes if they even wanted to right
okay so we’ve been digging into this
idea of divestment that these these
universities would cut their financial
ties when you look at Colombia
specifically and I think this is helpful
because it’s a continuation of the
conversation you guys were just having
there are three big tech companies
specifically that the protesters are
singling out they’re looking at alphabet
which is the parent company of gole
Google they’re looking at Amazon and
they’re looking at Microsoft the
argument they say is that those
companies provide digital infrastructure
so in the case of Amazon and Microsoft
Amazon and alphabet that is cloud
infrastructure in a project called
project Nimbus that basically gives
cloud services to Israel’s government
and the Israeli Army and the Israeli
military so they’re not giving weapons
but they are providing that digital
infrastructure we did actually ask
Google about this guys we got a
statement back a couple minutes ago from
Google and they confirmed that they do
provide those cloud services to Israel
but they made a point of telling us that
this work they do is not highly
sensitive it’s not classified the
military workloads are not relevant to
weapons or intelligence services so the
point is these businesses do have ties
to Israel and the reason why Colombia
has invested in them is because the
stock in those companies make them a lot
of money if you look at Google’s stock
it’s up more than 20% this year and that
has helped boost Colombia’s endowment
their endowment is now almost $14
billion that number is up 8% in the past
decade so the university wants to have
Holdings in these companies because it
makes their pot of money grow so far we
have not seen the university back down
we asked them we reached out to them
they’re still holding on to those
companies for now and they say that this
is a way that they can continue to grow
those Investments while you know
potentially still having those ties at
least indirectly with Israel too right I
do wonder if the if the fedu AR duty of
of that company and certainly the Board
of Trustees to you know grow the
endowment comes in there but let me ask
you about uh the like what’s the
likelihood that Columbia will actually
start divesting from those specific com
companies and I’ve also seen calls for
them to get out of index funds these
massive funds which are constantly
churning the stocks to make the get the
best return does that make sense exactly
and and you know Terry there is some
precedent for this and it’s important to
know there’s a basically a fund that
manages all of these Investments but
then that Fund invests in other funds so
index funds ETFs there are a lot of
people involved in this decision- making
but it is not unprecedented to make that
decision to cut ties altogether and as
we were reporting this out this
afternoon we saw the example of Russia
remember two years ago when Russia
invaded Ukraine a lot of companies and
universities included cut ties with
Russia and explicitly on the page of
this trust for Colombia’s Investments
they say they have done due diligence
they’ve checked with all of the funds
that they are invested in and no
business they are invested in has ties
with Russia so there is a way to do this
it’s been done in the past and even if
you go further back in history the way
that this started was back in the 1980s
when B when universities including
Colombia basically said that they were
not going to invest in company in
businesses that did uh business with
South Africa during apartheid that was
an incredibly effective way for the
universities to divest of those
companies that uh had those
relationships we see this happening
again so there this is not uh totally
without historical precedent either guys
H there we go back to back that was good
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our top story at this hour Donald Trump
is back in court for the fourth day of
witness testimony in his trial
prosecutors have just finished
questioning their second witness former
president’s longtime executive assistant
R graph proceedings are currently on a
short break graph’s short testimony
coming after four days of intense
examination of Tabet exec David pecker
prosecutors and defense both questioning
the former National inquire publisher
about the Dark Art of the catch and kill
scheme that buried those stories about
Trump’s Affairs all in an effort to keep
voters in the dark let’s bring in our
senior reporter kathern falers along
with criminal defense attorney and
former prosecutor Bernardo viona uh
Katherine let’s start with you uh Ron
graph I mean she testified that she saw
Stormy Daniels uh on the 26th floor of
the Trump Tower information that we’ve
never heard before um I mean this was
someone that was with him long before he
became president Kira that’s exactly
right Rona graph think of her as a
gatekeeper to Trump essentially for many
many years she worked for Donald Trump
and Trump Tower for over 30 years so
she’s a significant witness and knows
him probably better than a lot of people
um that is new news that Stormy Daniels
was spotted on that floor in Trump Tower
that 26 floor is a very small floor on
Trump Tower only Executives in his
office now on cross-examination the
defense team Trump’s defense team was
saying that she was just there because
there was some conversation about a slot
on The Apprentice for example there was
nothing nefarious um but anyway it was
very short testimony she was on and off
the stand and now we’re waiting to see
what happens next all right so uh Ron I
want to go back to the first witness
they they let off with a bang there uh
with David Becker right who’s the key
one of the key figures the guy right at
the center of the catch and kill scheme
couple questions about that it’s not
illegal to pay people to for their s
silence catch and kill and on
cross-examination of David pecker it
looked like Trump’s lawyers were trying
to say well this was a scheme that
pecker cooked up with David Cohen sorry
Michael Cohen and there’s not enough
evidence to link Trump to Cohen what
what do you think of all of
that well you got to think uh he’s only
just the first witness so he were going
to wait on the testimony of Michael
Cohen to be able to put that testimony
together and once you put the testimony
together of Jacob pecker as well as
Michael Cohen then you’ll be able to
make out the charges here falsifying
business records as well as testimony
about the business records themselves
but you needed David pecker to be able
to set the stage to set the importance
of this catch and kill scheme and how do
we eventually get to Stormy Daniels
being paid off and Michael Cohen being
the person to pay her off so you needed
that testimony in terms of it this is
something that Michael Cohen cooked up
once you put everything together you
look at the timing of all of this it’s
going to be highly unlikely that a jury
is going to find that this is something
that just Michael Cohen cooked up
especially when you look at the
credibility of David pcker a longtime
friend of Donald Trump
speaking of Donald Trump Katherine I
mean Trump was saying I’ll testify I’ll
testify I’m going to testify now he’s
sort of backtracking saying only if I
need to yeah Kira and you’ve heard this
with me a lot throughout multiple
investigations into Donald Trump we
remember during the White House with
special counsel Robert Muller he was
essentially saying oh I’ll testify I’ll
sit down with him I’ll answer questions
that didn’t end up happening he said
that in a lot of these cases and a lot
of these trials he took the stand once
briefly uh before
but this is something that doesn’t
surprise me at all he’s said this
multiple times that he’d be willing to
talk and then backtracks so his lawyers
aren’t advising him privately actually
against testifying they say if you want
to you you can in this case they
probably wouldn’t say the same in the
other cases but at the end of the day
given that he’s already backtracking and
we’re really not too far into this trial
I think there’s a high possibility that
you won’t see him take the stand but
again who knows yeah who knows if Donald
Trump but generally a bad idea for
defendants to take the witness stand
it’s just there’s too much risk for them
and you never know what he’s going to
say his lawyers will be clinching there
in the courtroom uh Katherine Bernarda
thank you both very much anti-war
protests and arrest at colleges and
universities are now sweeping the nation
several people were taken into custody
at Arizona State University now while
some schools are in the middle of
negotiating with student protesters to
try and dismantle the growing number of
all those tent encampments and the NYPD
is is now guarding the gates to Columbia
University in New York an extraordinary
site where those protests are now in
their 10th day discussions with
protesters are ongoing in North Carolina
protesters from schools across that
state formed encampments at the UNCC
Chapel Hill Duke University as well uh
their students say they hope joining
together will amplify their
message we want to make sure that this
isn’t just a here’s a school encampment
type situation this is about more than
just our schools more than just the
triangle it’s about the schools that
we’ve lost in glaza the students and
Scholars that we’ve lost the mothers
children fathers family that we’ve lost
so by banding together we’re hoping that
our voice can be Amplified and that we
can get the message out have people keep
their eyes on Palestine Keep Their Eyes
on Gaza and we can all fight for a
change that
way so let’s bring in the editor and
Chief and president of Colombia’s
student newspaper the Columbia spectator
is Isabella Ramirez Isabella glad to
have you with us you know these protests
are now forcing classes to be online
Jewish students say that they don’t feel
safe there’s calls for your President to
resign so what exactly do you think
these protests are
achieving right so I mean the the
protesters have U made it very clear
from the beginning that their ultimate
goal uh from this is they will not leave
the encampment until uh there is is
divestment on behalf of the University
from companies with connections to
Israel now we know um sort of how these
negotiations are progressing there’s
been some stalls there’s been some
continuations extensions and so you know
there is some lack of clarity in terms
of where we go from here recently the
most uh recent campus update that we
received from The Office of the
President was that uh that there has
been some progress with those
negotiations but there was some a very
clear line that said we have our demands
and they have theirs so there’s still
this understanding that uh what the
university sort of wants out of the
situation which is of course they want
to be able to clear the encampment they
want to be able to not um you know have
this disruption to Student Life to
academic life to now what’s coming up on
finals week and eventually graduation
and commencements um and but the
students also have their demands as to
what uh their parameters for wanting to
leave this space uh is Isabelle let me
ask you then Isabelle you know you talk
about the the demands on behalf of these
students to divest but what exactly um
do you do they want the university to
divest from let me start there sure um
so there have been some like specific
Target companies uh that the protesters
have cited specifically uh those on the
boycott divestment sanctions list um
particularly the Investments that they
point to there’s actually something
interesting here too because they’re
demanding both divestment but also
Financial transpar Cy um they’ve made
several posts and also several
announcements about the fact that even
what they have access to see right from
990s from the University are only a
sliver of the potential Investments that
the University have um a lot of them
have pointed to investments in Black
Rock and have pointed to investments in
companies um with other sort of ties and
so there are sort of a level of there
are different levels to the connection
um with which these companies have to
Israel but the main targets are those
that are on the boycott divestment
sanctions list
and uh those that they’ve identified to
have some sort of connections to perhaps
US military operation or other sort of
um weapons manufacturing and other
potential connections to um us uh
involvement in Israel got it and
Isabella this is we’re really glad to
have you there’s a huge story for your
newspaper the Colombia spectator and you
cover the whole university the whole
student body 8,000 undergrads uh many
thousands more at graduate school so
give me a sense of of how the entire
population the the whole Community there
is responding what is it is it
universally obviously not universally
nothing is but but is this is is this a
minority of students would you say do
they or or is it growing how do you give
me a sense of the scale of what’s
happening in Colombia given the the the
student population
there well it’s very challenging in the
sense that Columbia is very very big
right we’re we’re talking about a
population of 30,000 students across
graduate and undergraduate schools where
a community of over 17 were 17 schools
and also um other affiliate schools
including barard and so we’re a very
very large community and so it’s really
challenging to try to place it in in
that scale but I think scale-wise of
course the disruption has been very
significant and and that’s sort of part
of the message there um different
factions of the University believe
different things about how we should be
handling the encampment how we should be
handling the issues the encampment is
attempting to address but I do think
that there is some sort of perhaps not
Universal but there is growing ideas of
the fact that of of of sort of this
student and faculty and administrative
dichotomies so so students perhaps being
pinned against the administration and
faculty having some tension as well with
the administration and so what I mean by
that is although students may be coming
from different angles as to why they
have frustrations with some of the
handling um on behalf of uh the office
of the president or just senior
administration of this issue uh they
might be coming from different ways as
to why they’re frustrated but there is
still kind of in a unified sense a
feeling that Colombia is not doing
enough now why is Colombia not doing
enough I think many people would answer
that very differently uh but that does
seem to be a sense that is pretty
widespread um and it has been I think
very challenging to try uh for the
administration to try to tackle um
especially when you know that is very
significant part of our community as
well as the faculty who are also
involved in this whether they’re in
solidarity with the encampment or
they’re um against it in some regards or
wherever they fall in that Spectrum uh
there there seems to be just a
frustration of who makes up Columbia’s
community and what Columbia perhaps the
university senior Administration um
represents that is very helpful thank
you Isabella and I’m gonna ask the
really hard question uh and ask as a
journalist
what do you say about the
the the way that some people view what’s
going on as uh anti-semitic or uh not
sufficiently anti- Hamas do you see
protest against Hamas how do you how do
you uh report on that and deal with that
yeah yeah it it is incredibly
challenging to navigate especially
considering our Newsroom is you know
spanning 18 to 21 year olds about that
age and we’re talking talking about
young people trying to tackle these
ginormous ideas and so how we’ve really
tried to do that is precision and
accuracy in our language um identifying
actors really serving as what we’ve
always said and described ourselves as
right as spec as a spectator right as a
pillar of accountability for our
community so when we’re referring to
instances such as anti-semitic
incidences or incidents um or other
incidents of of hate um we try to be
very precise as to who are we speaking
about are we speaking about outside
protesters are we speaking about
protesters that are in our campus um you
know who are these attacks being leveled
against right I think all of those
minute details are incredibly incredibly
important to capturing the picture and
also avoiding um overgeneralizations
that sometimes we can have the
Temptations to make now often when we’re
reporting on these incidents we identify
patterns right if we have a sufficient
amount of information as to something is
repeatedly happening right we’re going
to as journalists analyze that and see
that as a pattern that is emerging from
our community and from that we’ve of
course been able to gauge there has been
a rise of anti-Semitism since October
7th on Columbia campus but I’m sure
Across the Nation and across
universities Across the Nation there has
also been a rise in other forms of hate
and there’s also been a very complicated
conversation about where does freedom of
speech fall into all of this so I think
that what we really try to do as as
journalists as student journalists who
again we report not only from a place of
of carrying um national standards but
we’re peer-to-peer right who we’re
reporting on are the people we go to
class with people who are professors
people are very close to and so our goal
with all of that is to really um hone in
on who are the actors here how can we be
as precise as possible and how can we
practice um you know Integrity in this
process Isabella I tell you as as we let
you go Terry and I are sitting you’re
thinking this is such a great
conversation you you have a 10-part
series for your newspaper you really do
you could go all the way back to the
history of the the Israel Palestinian
conflict and you can work your way all
the way up to right now and just you
know the rise of hate and terrorism and
all the different factions and I mean
this is such a great conversation and
I’ll tell you what we’re going to be
looking for that 10p part Series in your
newspaper and you’re going to come back
and you’re going to tell us about it and
I I just thank you very much with we
really learned a lot from from that
after you graduate come look for a job
at ABC exactly we’ll hire you thank you
thank you is thank you very much thank
you so much really appreciate it all
right well let’s continue the
conversation because she talked about
divestments right so protesters at
Columbia University Isabella was just
telling us they’re demanding their
schools cut the financial ties to Israel
divestment they’re asking schools to
divest from businesses they say are
actively profiting from Israel’s war in
Gaza but as kir was was asking what does
that exactly mean and and why are
schools investing like this in the first
place is there a problem there right our
Elizabeth schy is here to break that all
down for us Elizabeth you and I were
talking early today we’ve been talking
about this issue we need you to sort of
um you know explain to us exactly what
the protesters are demanding and and how
the schools would actually make the
changes if they even wanted to right
okay so we’ve been digging into this
idea of divestment that these C these
universities would cut their financial
ties when you look at Colombia
specifically and I think this is helpful
because it’s a continuation of the
conversation you guys were just having
there are three big tech companies
specifically that the protesters are
singling out they’re looking at alphabet
which is the parent company of Google
they’re looking at Amazon and they’re
looking at Microsoft the argument they
say is that those companies provide
digital infrastructure so in the case of
Amazon and Microsoft Amazon and alphabet
that is cloud infrastructure in a
project called project Nimbus that
basically gives cloud services to
Israel’s government and the Israeli Army
and the Israeli military so they’re not
giving weapons but they are providing
that digital infrastructure we did
actually ask Google about this guys we
got a statement back a couple minutes
ago from Google and they confirmed that
they do provide those cloud services to
Israel but they made a point of telling
us that this work they do is not highly
sensitive it’s not classified the
military workloads are not relevant to
weapons or intelligence services so the
point is these businesses do have ties
to Israel and the reason why Colombia
has invested in them is because the
stock in those companies make them a lot
of money if you look at Google’s stock
it’s up more than 20% this year and that
has helped boost Colombia’s endowment
their endowment is now almost $4 billion
that number is up 8% in the past decade
so the university wants to have Holdings
in these companies because it makes
their pot of money grow so far we have
not seen the university back down we
asked them we reached out to them
they’re still holding on to those
companies for now and they say that this
is a way that they can continue to grow
those Investments while you know
potentially still having those ties at
least indirectly with Israel too right I
do wonder if the if the fiduciary duty
of of that company and certainly the
Board of Trustees to you know grow the
endowment comes in there but let me ask
you about uh the like what’s the
likelihood that Colombia will actually
start divesting from those specific com
companies and I’ve also seen calls from
for them to get out of index funds these
massive funds which are constantly
churning the stocks to make the get the
best return does that make sense exactly
and and you know Terry there is some
precedent for this and it’s an important
to know there’s a basically a fund that
manages all of these Investments but
then that Fund invests in other funds so
index funds ETFs there are a lot of
people involved in this decision-making
but it is not unprecedented to make that
decision to cut ties Al together and as
we were reporting this out this
afternoon we saw the example of Russia
remember two years ago when Russia
invaded Ukraine a lot of companies and
universities included cut ties with
Russia and explicitly on the page of
this trust for Colombia’s Investments
they say they have done due diligence
they’ve checked with all of the funds
that they are invested in and no
business that they are invested in has
ties with Russia so there is a way to do
this it’s been done in the past and even
if you go further back in history the
way that this started was back in the
1980s when when universities including
Colombia basically said that they were
not going to invest in and businesses
that did uh business with South Africa
during apartheid that was an incredibly
effective way for the universities to
divest of those companies that uh had
those relationships we see this
happening again so there this is not uh
totally without historical precedent
either
guys there we go back to back that was
good television smart and informative
television Elizabeth schy thank you so
much welcome thanks well let’s keep it
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President Biden joining Howard Stern of
all people in a surprise radio interview
uh but that’s not the only shock the
president now says he’s open to debating
his opponent Donald Trump take a
listen can I tell you what fantasy I had
if you I don’t know if you’re going to
debate your uh your opponent I am
somewhere I don’t know when I’m happy to
him well that uh the first time fantasy
yeah I I want I’m not sure I want to he
how but that’s the first time Joe Biden
has said he will debate Donald Trump in
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the idea that Biden will actually debate
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really mean it our senior White House
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it was kind of an off-hand comment and
Joe Biden has been known to make those
from time to time in his career but is
this confirmation is he going to debate
Trump yeah Terry those were very much
off the Record comments in a very long
interview with Howard Stern which was
mostly focused on the entire Arc of his
life now when it comes to the campaign I
just got off the phone with them and
they are not confirming one way or
another whether or not this is a
confirmation that they are in fact going
to debate they’re not saying when or
where or how this might happen they’re
just saying that the president’s
comments speak for themselves and that
he was directly answering a question
from Howard Stern but look this is a big
deal because for months the Biden team
they’ve really been dodging this
question and this is the most definitive
direct answer we’ve heard yet from the
president on this now Trump as you know
he declined to participate in any of the
primary debates however for weeks he’s
been needling Biden trying to get him to
debate him and prior to this last month
when the president was asked this
question he was very vague about it and
he he said it depends on Trump’s
Behavior so this is definitely a shift
why Howard stur though why accept a
conversation with him specifically
softball well I mean there’s been some
some criticism from some that this White
House this Administration has not done
as many interviews with traditional
media outlets and instead they’ve
decided to go with these more
non-traditional Outlets with media
personalities with celebrities I know
that the Biden campaign believes that
this is a very fractured media
environment
and that in order to reach the voters
those swing voters they need to go to
more less traditional places where they
can be more targeted and reach very
specific audiences Howard Stern he’s got
a loyal following and this was a very as
I said long ranging interview that this
was just one short part of it where the
president he spoke about his life his
upbringing the loss of his first wife
his daughter and he got very emotional
and choked up when he was talking about
Bo Biden so this was a very long
interview we’re talking about more well
over an hour H well that part is is very
interesting but the news obviously is
that at least he says he’ll debate
Donald Trump Selena Wang thanks very
much coming up see you in Chicago de
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R graph also called as the second
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in Trump Tower all of this happening
Just 4 days after intense examination of
tabloid exec David pecker prosecutors
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my friend happy to be here so let’s talk
talk about this the FDA has announced
even more weight loss drugs shortages
this seems to be uh more and more of a
chronic problem so here’s what we know
in terms of the injectable medications
used for weight loss right now that
supply seems to be ongoing specifically
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zban and wovi now we have different
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all great to see you we begin with
former president Trump’s hush money
trial in New York Trump’s attorneys are
taking another crack at tabloid
publisher David pecker in
cross-examination in his third day on
the stand pecker testifying on details
about a meeting he claims he and Trump
had at the White House 6 months after
Trump’s election and conversations
pecker said they had on the possible
impacts of unflattering Stories on the
election campaign but not on Trump’s
family Trump has denied all wrongdoing
Pro Palestinian protests are in their
ninth straight day in New York City with
officials students and faculty trying to
come to an agreement to safely end those
demonstrations demonstrators in law
enforcement clashing in Ohio overnight
has tensions Run High on a number of
other campuses across the country and no
mention of Tik Tok in Beijing at the
high stake sitdown between the US
Secretary of State and China’s president
Xian ping report from reuter says
Chinese owner bite dance may consider
not selling Tik Tok and may opt to
possibly shut down the popular app
instead if an agreement can’t be reached
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that covers ABC senior National
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stake in this Blockbuster case now Terry
the Supreme Court spent hours yesterday
debating Trump’s immunity claim what
were the key
takeaways the main takeaway Eva was that
this is a good this was a good day for
Donald Trump and the reason for that is
is that the court really came to grips
with a hard problem that has been you
know part of our law for a long time the
president is is a special character
under the Constitution all the executive
power rests in the presidency so what
kind of protections does the president
need from maybe the regular processes of
law that the rest of us has to face for
example presidents have total immunity
from civil lawsuits you cannot sue the
president for something the president
does in his or her official capacity and
that’s because president signs every
Bill does all kinds of things affects
every person in America can’t be subject
to lawsuit for that what about criminal
liability can the president be
prosecuted for acts taken in accordance
with his or her official duties that was
the question in court Trump says
everything he did to uh uh try to
overturn the 2020 election he did in His
official capacity is just trying to
ensure electoral Integrity uh the
prosecutor differs and what the court
came to grips with was well where’s the
line between Trump’s personal interest
as a candidate and his official
responsibilities as a president that was
really an issue in the case and they
came out essentially sympathetic to
Trump’s argument that he needs some
protection from prosecution so Terry the
former president is claiming absolute
protection for what he claims were
official acts though he denies any
wrongdoing so why is the conversation
focused on that
point because what the court is going to
do is try to draw a line between what a
president does in his or her official
capacity and what they do as in their
personal capacity and let me give you an
example so the president can’t just
murder someone right obviously but if
the president feels that there’s
somebody who is a threat to National
Security as Barack Obama did with a a a
terrorist leader of al-Qaeda named anoir
Al alaki who was a US citizen living in
Yemen Obama thought National Security
required uh that that person be
eliminated he ordered a a missile strike
and and killed anoir alaki without any
due process of law now do could Barack
Obama be prosecuted for murder the
answer is no since it was done under the
color of National Security Law and in
his official capacity that’s the kind of
line that the Supreme Court is looking
to draw in this case what was Trump
doing as president what was he doing as
candidate what was he doing for the
public what was he doing for his
personal gain that’s going to be sorted
out first by the Supreme Court and then
by a jury I know it’s hard but I’m going
to ask you to kind of read the tea
leaves here looking at the current
makeup of this court how could this all
break
down well I think the bottom line is
that they are going to write a
complicated opinion that will require
more litigation by the lower courts and
therefore and here’s really the bottom
line This there it is almost certain
that this case will be delayed there
will be no trial before the November
election because they got to sort
through this issue and so I think for a
lot of people that was an important
question Will trump go on trial for this
case alleged to have tried to overturn
the 2020 election before this election
the answer given what we heard in court
yesterday is no the Supreme Court’s
going to go to work it’s going to take a
while they’re going to require more work
there’ll be more litigation and more
delay all right Terry so if Trump is
considered immune for his actions on
January 6th what will this mean for the
Office of the President as we knew it
and what could it mean for future
transfers peaceful transfers of power
yeah that that’s the concern certainly
that the liberal justices and a lot of
legal Scholars have they can’t give a
president too much uh protection from
prosecution some people think they
shouldn’t have any uh but the the court
said that the president needs some
protection the Jud the conserves did uh
because they need to be free to
efficiently safely fully and and
aggressively act for the public good if
they’re always looking over their
shoulder that some partisan prosecutor
is going to uh bring a against them down
the line they won’t be able to do that
and so the the concern is you know
they’ll give presidents too much
protection from prosecution at the end
of the day I think they’re going to try
to draw some general principles and let
uh let the facts fall within those
general principles trying and have
judges and juries figure out when a
president has gone too far senior
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I had lost my mom we’re coming up on I
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this year she passed away in 2018 to
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we all want better lives for all
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what two weeks after your mom passed yes
why was it important to get it off the
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time is of the essence with pancreatic
cancer it’s the number three leading
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support system that they really really
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that people are being hopeless because
it’s so rapid I mean the second that you
hear that someone has pancreatic cancer
you’re like oh my it’s just a matter of
time before they’re gone yeah I mean my
mom passed away less than 9 months after
she was diagnosed and she was 41 and so
that was really tough to hear especially
since we didn’t have cancer history in
our family she was healthy she wasn’t a
smoker she wasn’t in any of these risk
categories so it’s terrifying and I
don’t want any other family to go
through what my mom did I don’t want him
to go through what my siblings and my
dad had had to go through watching the
most important person in our life pass
away because we’re not willing to put in
more at the Congressional level we’re
not willing to put in more research
those people are worth it to me everyone
deserves a chance and a shot at survival
and if I can be a voice for those that
can no longer be a voice that is what
what I want to dedicate my entire life
to because they deserve it and every day
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story out there because her name and the
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Daren taking a look at a new small
survey that finds that two-thirds of
parents here in the US feel lonely and
isolated especially moms many people
probably relate to this so this is from
a new study from Ohio State University a
survey of parents and it found that over
60% reported feeling lonely the majority
of which were mothers and it’s something
that seems to be spreading in our
country when you look at the reports in
terms of overall loneliness not just
affecting our emotional health but also
physical health loneliness is associated
with increased risk of heart disease and
even later in life an increased risk of
dementia so what can you do because the
thing with raising children is it sort
of sucks all your time you’re the career
so then you don’t really have a whole
lot of time for yourself or other people
you know I think number one remembering
that to be the best parent you have to
take care of yourself and when we
identify loneliness it’s not just about
not seeing people around you we were
talking about this backstage how you
identify loneliness how many people in
your life can you talk about your
insecurities with your bad moments with
those are the people that are important
so focusing on quality rather than
quantity of friends and doing small
things that can be as simple as taking a
walk at getting some coffee and for
those who might not have time to get
outside I think that this is an
opportunity for social media and online
support groups are really really helpful
for many parents I was about to ask for
advice especially single moms who have
to work two and three jobs and still
take care of the kids and they feel like
they don’t have any time for themselves
you know I think that’s when you have to
reach out to again those other creative
ways when we talk about online but also
reaching out to your close friends and
being honest I’m a type of person as we
were talking we all are that keeps a
small tyght group of friends sometimes
saying hey I don’t have time this month
but I would love to just have an
hourlong conversation with you on the
phone just to talk about my day that can
go a long way and it’s not just about
being that or looking for that friend
it’s about being that friend as well
being that friend absolutely do thank
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it looks like a court just WRA for for
Donald Trump in the fourth day of
witness testimony prosecutors have just
called uh or wrapped up their third
witness on the stand that was Flagstar
Bank employee Gary farro the former
president’s longtime executive assistant
R graph also was called To The Stand she
was the second witness today and graph
actually testified that Trump did indeed
keep contact information for two women
who he had sexual relationships with she
said they are known as Stormy Daniels
and Karen McDougall we have Team
coverage ABC News investigative reporter
Olivia Rubin is just outside Court also
our senior reporter Katherine falers has
been following all the ins and outs
today and legal contributor and law
professor Kimberly Wy okay so we just
got word um that Court wrapped which
means at any moment now uh Trump will
walk out and address the cameras so
we’ll see what he has to say today but
Olivia let’s let’s start with Gary farro
not everybody knows who this is uh close
associate to Michael Cohen uh for former
president Trump’s uh former fixer who is
in the middle of this entire mess uh
starting from the very
beginning well he is getting on the
stand sort of as a custodial witness kir
which means he’s going to be working
with the prosecutors to get in a lot of
records that they need to get into this
case and before the jury specifically
Financial records and that is who this
newest witness is he is someone that
worked at First Republic Bank in 2016
where Michael Cohen was a client he said
that Michael Cohen was transferred over
to him when another associate left and
he speculated that it was because he
could uh have the ability to deal with
difficult clients so a bit of a job at
Michael Cohen there but I suspect what
he is going to be doing because he has
started talking about a specific LLC and
how he opened the accounts for Michael
Cohen and that is the LLC that Michael
Cohen used to uh funnel the payments to
stormy Daniels and uh potentially do the
payment to Karen McDougall so he is
going to speak to some of the
nitty-gritty of the payment so it’s not
necessarily that he is a close associate
of Michael Cohen but he was a banker for
Michael Cohen and he was in charge of
opening these accounts and it is some of
the more pain Stak to
Trump
cour this is all a biting indictment
it’s in order to try and win an election
political opponent and nothing like this
has ever happened days as you know the
economy is falling apart now now you’re
seeing it very little growth it’s going
to get worse oil prices are going up and
you have the college campuses all over
closed down our country is going to hell
and we sit here day after day after day
which is their plan because they think
they might be able to eek out an
election but I doubt it because the poll
numbers are very good for us I just want
to say that I’ve invited Biden to debate
he can do it anytime he wants including
tonight I’m ready here we are I invited
him to the courthouse that he has us
tied up in with his administration this
is all being done through Washington
it’s a Well coordinated attack on a
political opponent but I’m here I’m
ready willing and able and if he wants
I’ll do it on Monday night Tuesday night
or Wednesday night we’ll be in Michigan
and state that he’s destroyed because of
the Auto industry we’re not going to
have any jobs left in Michigan no water
jobs left in Michigan they’re all going
over to China and other places with this
ridiculous EV mandate electric vehicle
mandate but we’re willing to do it
Monday night Tuesday night Wednesday
night Thursday night or Friday night on
National Television we’re ready just
tell me where now we’ll do it in the
white house that would be very
comfortable actually but you tell me
where but we’re ready he’s obviously not
showing up now we heard nothing but he
said today that oh I’d left him to bate
but he won’t debate I don’t think he’ll
debate maybe he will maybe he will I’m
not sure he has a choice but that’s the
story so here we are we’re ready willing
and able and we don’t see him and I
don’t think he’ll be here but maybe next
week he’ll do it I doubt it but maybe
next week so I just want to thank
everybody for being here I know you have
to suffer through this like everybody
else uh nothing has come this is a case
that should have never been brought
every legal scholar every legal expert
Andy
McCarthy Jonathan Andy every single one
Jonathan jley came out with a scathing
report of this trial today Andy McCarthy
scathing report Mark lvin can’t believe
this is happening in our country there
is no case here there’s no case
whatsoever it’s a disgrace we have a
conflicted judge and it shouldn’t be
happening not in this country thank you
very much do you think you’d be finding
a de Bate
the witnesses so far all right there you
heard it uh former president of course
every day he comes out of court and he
goes to the cameras pretty much says the
same thing I’m not going to bother
factchecking anything he said because
everything he said wasn’t true this is
not happening because of Biden but the
one thing that he did say uh after we
heard about the surprise interview with
the with President Biden and Howard
Stern on Howard Stern’s radio show today
the former or President Biden saying
that he would debate Trump let’s go he
he said he didn’t know where when but
he’s happy to debate uh the former
president now you heard clearly uh the
former president has been keeping up on
what the president has been saying uh
today saying that he will debate Biden
he said let’s do it Monday Tuesday
Wednesday Thursday Friday let’s do it
let’s debate well we can we can even do
it at the White House he says so it’ll
be interesting to see if indeed we do
see former president Donald Trump and
Joe Biden have some type of date debate
before the uh November election so maybe
Katherine I I start with you because it
is kind of the freshest thing here we
can backtrack and talk about quickly
with everybody what happened in court
today court today um but wouldn’t that
be interesting uh these two gentlemen
finally coming together and uh having
the debate everybody’s been waiting for
that neither of them said they were
going to do but I guess now they they
say they will who knows what’s
ultimately going to happen here and in
what format you just said that what
Trump said there we could do it Monday
Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday we
could do it next week at the White House
he said that we could even do it at the
courthouse for example so look who knows
ultimately what will happen here and if
they will debate of course that comes on
the heels of Biden saying earlier that
he will want to debate but K you
followed all of the the ins and outs of
of this with me over the years really uh
are they going to agree on a format
where is it going to be Trump will
probably say I don’t want to do it that
way then who knows so I’m not so sure
they’re both saying that they want to
debate each other that they could um
let’s ultimately see what happens here
but look I guess you could see something
soon between the two of them stay tuned
must watch television that’s for sure
it’ be a lot more exciting than what
we’ve been doing on a daily basis here
uh with this hush money trial but there
was a couple interesting things to come
out of uh out of this Kim wayy uh ra
graph um who has been Trump’s I mean she
doesn’t work for him anymore but long
time uh right-hand woman I mean she’s
the one you dealt with if you wanted any
interviews uh way before he became
president of the United States she
actually got up there um and talked
about seeing Stormy Daniels on the 26th
floor of Trump Tower and that the uh
former president kept her information I
mean that goes totally against what the
former president has been
saying well he said that there was no
relationship and of course she’s
maintained that they did have a sexual
relationship and that the hush money
payment was related to keeping that
quiet um of course a a witness like this
is very credible and she said some nice
things about having been work worked for
him and having a boss like him and did
establish as you indicate that there was
a relationship between stormy D Daniels
and Donald Trump that was maintained and
ongoing and it was it was personal it
was it was in person now his lawyers
could say well that had to do with his
TV show or something else um but
remember and this the new witness that
just came up the financial witness they
have to demonstrate uh falsification of
financial records that is actually the
crime that’s the primary crime and it
it’s a felony if they can Loop it into
covering up campaign Finance uh
violations and so they’re they’re having
to thread all these needles but they’re
establishing the predicate for the
elements of that primary crime of Fraud
and intented Def frud and false
Financial records and that’s why some of
the more tedious things are are are
happening now with this Banker uh this
latest witness well Olivia I mean
that’s I guess that’s the next the move
here is to hear from Michael Cohen I
mean when this story first broke uh
years back this is what he told me he
told me this is how it worked he went
and he opened up these bank accounts and
that’s where the money was funneled and
he was paid and then he paid off Stormy
Daniels I mean that’s exactly the story
that Michael Cohen uh told me and told
our Network years back and now you
actually have the flag our bank employee
who said that’s indeed uh what he did he
came in here opened up these accounts
and so they’re starting to to put all
the pieces together and we’re hearing
from people that we couldn’t get
interviews uh from years back when this
story first
broke absolutely and I think Kim just
said at best they’re at the point where
they’re having to lay that nitty-gritty
groundwork and we’re kind of past some
of the more salacious uh gripping
testimony because this is what they need
to get in and to your point about
Michael Cohen certainly uh will be
coming to the witness stand soon and
we’ve already seen what Donald Trump and
his team’s defense is going to be and a
huge part of it is attack The
credibility of Michael Cohen they said
in their opening statements that Michael
Cohen was obsessed with Donald Trump
that he was a criminal uh that Donald
Trump was not aware of that fact and
they tried to shift a lot of the blame
onto him here and even I will say here
when David pecker was testifying you
could see those little nuggets from the
Trump team trying to put distance
between Michael Cohen and Donald Trump
highlighting that David pcker was often
dealing with Michael Cohen not Donald
Trump and they did something key with d
David pecker which is that they said
that he often could be prone to
exaggeration and that David pcker
actually didn’t believe some of what
Michael Cohen was telling him allegedly
came from Donald Trump so we’re starting
to see that strategy of what they’re
going to do with Michael Cohen when he
gets on the witness stand which no doubt
is is going to be just attack his
credibility up down left right in any
way they can all right Katherine Kim
Olivia ladies thanks so much and thanks
for streaming with us I’m Kira Phillips
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right now on ABC News Donald Trump
wrapping up another week of his criminal
hush money trial a former longtime
assistant of his taking the stand today
what she told the court about seeing
Stormy Daniels in Trump Tower and campus
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down but we begin with the new dramatic
Revelations during day four of testimony
in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money
trial the former president blasting the
case a short time ago after wrapping his
second week in
court this is a case that should have
never been brought there is no case here
there’s no case whatsoever it’s a
disgrace and we have a conflicted judge
and it shouldn’t be happening not in
this
country prosecutors today calling a
second witness to the stand Rona graph
Trump’s former longtime executive
assistant she testified that on one
occasion she recalls seeing porn star
Stormy Daniels in a reception area on
the 26th floor of Trump Tower just
outside the former president’s office
and former taboy publisher David pecker
also resuming his testimony earlier and
reaffirming his claim that the
underlying goal of his alleged catch and
kill agreement with Trump was to help
Trump’s 2016 campaign that is a critical
argument of prosecutors in the case who
were seeking to prove that Trump’s
motivations were political joining us
for more is investigative reporter
Olivia Rubin she’s been live outside the
court in lower in Manhattan all day and
ABC News legal contributor and law
professor Kim Wy so Olivia how close was
ragraph to Trump she’s been described as
a critical gatekeeper for years and what
did we learn from her testimony
today I think gatekeeper uh Selena is
the exact word to use she was by Donald
Trump’s side for decades she was one of
only two executive assistants that he
had during his entire career as a
businessman so it was fascinating to see
her take this stand and like you said
very quick very short prosecutors
clearly had an agenda with her they
wanted her to testify that she saw
Stormy Daniels on the 26th floor of
Trump Tower which puts Trump and Stormy
Daniels right together and she also
testified that Donald Trump had the
contact information in his contacts for
both Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougall
so if his defense team was going to try
to put some space between Trump and
stormy and Karen that’s going to be a
little bit more difficult now but I also
just want to say Selena just in those
few minutes that she was on the stand it
appeared to be sort of emotional for
Donald Trump think about the
relationship that they have he was
paying very close attention to her
testimony he was watching her and when
she got off the witness stand he did
something that he has not done yet which
is stand up from the defense table as
she passed him and tried to greet her on
her way out appearing to try to grab or
shake her hand uh as she left yeah all
of those fascinating details and also
Olivia the prosecution calling in a
third witness today as
well mhm a banker who worked at First
Republic Bank in relation to Michael
Cohen because prosecutors now Selena are
having to get into the Nitty Gritty of
the accounts that Michael Cohen opened
and created for his shell companies in
which he was funneling the payments to
Stormy Daniels and was going to funnel
the payment to Karen McDougall but did
not end up doing so so some laborious
more a nitty-gritty testimony that is
not the riveting stuff of David pecker
but essential nonetheless as prosecutors
are bringing here a financial case a lot
more documents to come and Kim David
pecker testifying that he believed the
underlying goal of that deal to bury
negative stories about Trump was
political so just how far does that go
in advancing the proc utions case here I
think it goes very far that is because
that he has established first of all
that Donald Trump was part of the scheme
and he’s established secondarily that
Donald that the scheme was to cover up
the the the the that the transaction was
to affect the election those are
critical elements of it but as Olivia
said the primary crime here are
falsification of business records it’s
that link to the election that bumps a
misdemeanor up to a felony so it’s
important to establish that I think with
this new testimony knowing Michael Com
Cohen is coming the prosecution’s trying
to lay the groundwork the foundation
through financial documents through uh a
very credible witness saying that surmy
Daniels was in the building laying the
the groundwork to verify what Michael
Cohen is is going to say to basically
say this isn’t just believing Michael
Cohen you’ve seen the documents you’ve
seen other Witnesses he’s telling you
what you already know through
authenticating
evidence Olivia and Kim thank you for
walking us through all of the twists and
turns now let’s move to the protests
raging on college campuses across the
country in response to the Israel Hamas
war on the East Coast students at
Columbia University in New York
demonstrating on campus both Pro
Palestinian and pro-israeli groups
showing up in force as faculty listen to
student demands and in the midwest
dozens of students were arrested in
clashes with police at Ohio State
universities Pro protesters they charged
with trespassing after refusing to leave
a pro Palestinian encampment and in Los
Angeles protesters standing firm at UCLA
just one day after USC closed its doors
to the public following a massive
oncampus demonstration ABC News Chris
John Corda has more from encampment
protests at George Washington University
in the heart of the nation’s capital to
Arizona State University near Phoenix
the tension on college campuses
Nationwide ASU ASU
You Can’t Hide You Can’t Hide You Can’t
Hide You Can’t Hide is a history lesson
happening in real time at UCLA several
dozen people closed off a section of its
student quad organizers there are
calling for more transparency from
University officials pointing out where
our money is being kept uh these are all
things that give give students the power
to Target the UC as an institution and
to to put pressure on them to divest the
word divest has echoed throughout the
campus encampment movement some
protesters want the institutions to
break ties with any company that sends
weapons to Israel to be used in Gaza the
movement’s epicenter Colombia University
is now in its ninth day of protests
today a response just outside its gates
from pro-israeli
demonstrators several schools including
Columbia have moved to hybrid or online
classes citing safety concerns for
students and staff offensive and
anti-semitic rhetoric during the
protests have made some Jewish students
feel unsafe on campus to Unity
administrations across the country find
your backbone enforce your rules do not
leave your students to fend for
themselves and chrisan Cordo now joins
us live here from Washington so chrisan
what exactly is happening in these
negotiations between Colombia the
student protesters and what might happen
to the University’s president yeah hey
there Selena so at last update the
conversations between the university
officials and the student organizers are
making progress but they are ongoing and
one key word that they’ve gone away from
that really changes the dynamic of all
of this is the word deadline they’ve
started to talk more about a timeline
than a deadline which suggests that
they’re having the meaningful
conversations instead of saying you need
to get out by this time and you know uh
this day or else or else what because
that has basically been ineffective not
just at Columbia but around the country
um on other college campuses as for
Columbia University’s president you know
she’s sh faced sharp criticism since she
testified in front of uh on Capitol Hill
about a week and a half ago and within
the faculty Senate on Columbia
University they are admonishing her and
some of the decisions that she’s made
mostly you know focused around the call
to bring in police to try to disperse
this encampment which again we know was
ineffective so they’re trying a little
bit of a different tactic here um and
she is under intense pressure to now get
it right they’re trying to clear this
encampment by May 15th which is
commencement day at Columbia we know how
that has manifested at other schools
around the country Selena yeah exactly
and those protests now spreading to
other areas including here in Washington
so what exactly is going on here yeah
mostly around George Washington
University that has kind of been the um
epicenter here at the nation’s capital
and it’s really interesting you know
we’ve talked about the um solidarity I
think is the word that they would use
between these different University
groups and so at George Washington
University today you know you saw dozens
of tents dozens of protesters if not
hundreds and it’s not just George
Washington University students and
faculty it’s also Georgetown we’ve seen
University of Maryland um at College
Park you know have their presence shown
and so um it it is the delicate balance
that both these student organization
groups and the university are trying to
find right now because the university is
saying we need to find a way forward and
there will be disciplinary action but
what does that look like and how are
they effectively going to pull that off
is uh yet to be determined yeah an in
incredibly difficult balance Christian
thank you so
much and the US is sending more Patriot
missiles to Ukraine to help its fight
against Russia it’s part of A6 billion
doll military aid package unveiled by
defense secretary Lloyd Austin today and
comes just hours after Ukrainian
president volodimir zalinski pressed an
American Le Coalition for more weapons
the money is coming from the Ukraine
security assistance initiative which
lets the US buy new military equipment
for Ukraine directly from American
defense manufacturers instead of drawing
from US Stock now this is on top of the
$1 billion dollar in military aid for
Ukraine approved by President Biden
Wednesday which is part of the foreign
aid bill that passed the Senate last
weekend and now to a high stakes meeting
in Asia Secretary of State Anthony
blinkin wrapping up his multi-day trip
after meeting with Chinese president Xi
Jinping today both men speaking for
nearly an hour working to make progress
on critical issues from China’s support
of Russia tensions with Taiwan in the
South China Sea global trade and even
artificial intelligence Lincoln speaking
after that meeting saying these talks
come out a time of profound tension
between the US and China now even as we
seek to deepen cooperation where our
interests align the United States is
very cleare eyed about the challenges
posed by the PRC and about our competing
Visions for the future America will
always defend our core interests and
values let’s bring in ABC News White
House correspondent Mary Alice parks for
more so Mary Alice obviously this
relationship in incredibly tense to me
it’s about really avoiding the worst
case scenario here but what do you think
blinkin actually accomplished are there
any concrete outcomes
here I wouldn’t say concrete outcomes
what they accomplish is keeping the
lines of communication open I think that
that was the primary goal and at least
that was achieved like you said the two
men met for nearly an hour uh they
discussed a wide range of topics
everything from Taiwan to trade to
artificial intelligence like you said
and this key issue over China
potentially giving any kind of material
support to Russia as Russia continues
its war in Ukraine mean that was the big
focus of the Secretary of State’s
statements after the meeting you know he
said that that the Chinese government
can’t try to have better relations with
Europe but at the same time helping to
fuel what is the biggest threat to
Europe’s security since the end of the
Cold War I there have been some uh talk
of of increasing military to military
Communications making sure that that
someone is on the other end the phone in
in an emergency situation making sure
there are some lines of communication
still open but these are baby steps we
were not talking about any big
breakthroughs today Selena yeah
absolutely baby steps there and then I
thought it was interesting that Tik Tok
was not a part of the conversation of
course there were plenty of big issues
to discuss but this is something that
the Chinese government does care about
they’ve signaled they would not allow a
sale and bite dance the Chinese owner
also coming out today and saying they
have no intentions of selling Tik Tok I
mean what do you think it says that it
wasn’t even discussed
it says these two countries have a lot
on their plate and this is a hot button
issue that is still new and I think that
uh it was a little bit of a game of
chicken around that issue I mean look we
have long understood that the courts
would probably get the final say in this
matter we’ve heard threats from Tik Tok
that they would bring the uh litigation
around this new law they didn’t believe
that it was constitutional the way the
bill was written singling them out uh
and so we imagine that that is where
this will go and I think that both sides
uh sort of worried about about showing
their cards too much as we will likely
see pending litigation but you’re
exactly right so far no signs of a
pending sale obviously millions of
Americans who use Tik Tok every single
day for news for their own businesses
are very curious about what’s going to
happen this next year and Mary Alice you
and I as the rest of us were all
surprised that President Biden was going
to be sitting down with Howard Stern for
an interview lasting more than an hour
I’m just curious what were your
takeaways from that convers ation and of
course that little nugget of news he
made there about the debate
possibility I mean that was really the
big headline it seemed like President
Biden was really calling uh former
president Trump’s Bluff saying tell me
where that we will debate these are two
men that so far haven’t really committed
to the possibility of debating uh we
have seen in the past uh Trump say that
he was challenging Biden to the debates
Biden for his part and his team have
really hedged they’ve said Trump is
someone that doesn’t follow the rules
obviously didn’t debate any of his
Republic repan primary opponents uh they
don’t believe that Trump is going to
agree to an actual time and place and
set of rules or at least they say so far
they’re not convinced that he’s going to
but a big part uh big headline like you
said out of this interview was Biden
saying that he was up for the challenge
I mean we will see it’s one thing to to
say that and it’s another to actually
set a time in place and of course it’s
another for these two teams to agree I
do think that President Biden would
probably absolutely uh love and feel
ready to debate uh Trump whether or not
his team will agree to a set of rules
with the other team uh remains to be
seen yeah and Trump said he’s willing to
after leaving court but you make a very
very good point that he had refused to
debate his GOP opponents during the
primary so we’ll just have to see all
how all of this plays out Mary Alice
Parks thank you very
much and the Biden Administration today
indefinitely postponing a rule that
would have banned menthal flavored
cigarettes this is after a lobbing push
from civil rights groups some sponsored
by big tobacco who argued the move would
unfairly Target black smokers the
postpone it marking a major defeat for
health Advocates who accuse tobacco
companies of aggressively marketing
menthal cigarettes in Black
communities and let’s move to the
extreme weather now we’ve seen 25
tornadoes reported in three states so
far today with 20 million Americans on
alert for severe weather from Texas up
to Iowa and check this out what’s known
as a land spout tornado hitting Aran
Colorado yesterday ABC’s Meteorologist
Melissa Griffin is tracking the forecast
for us
Selena what an active day of severe
weather it’s been we’ve had confirmed
tornadoes in both Northeastern Texas and
into central Nebraska and we still have
tornado watches in effect across Six
States stretching from Texas to Iowa and
that will last through this evening you
can see some of these major cities in
there Dallas up through Tulsa Oklahoma
Kansas City you’re in a flood watch so
it’s not just tornadoes but also
flooding we’ll be watching for tonight
and into the weekend Omaha you’re in
there as well and these storms will
continue to progress East through this
evening as this system moves out though
another system right behind it with
another severe weather threat for both
Saturday and Sunday it will bring some
snow to the mountains but again it’s the
same areas that just got hit with severe
storms yesterday and today they’re going
to get hit yet again and this Orange
area that’s the enhanced threat for
tornadoes some of these same cities that
are dealing with it today will’ll deal
with it again on Saturday night Oklahoma
City Witchita up through Omaha and
Kansas City all in that risk and this
risk lasts through Sunday so a very
dangerous couple of days ahead through
the weekend Selena Melissa Griffin thank
you very much and coming up mortgage
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today’s big story Trump back at the
defense table today as more witnesses
took the stand what a former longtime a
of his told the court about seeing
stormmy Daniels in Trump Tower and in
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but we begin with our big story new
dramatic Revelations during day four of
testimony in Donald Trump’s criminal
hush money trial the former president
blasting the case a short time ago after
wrapping his second week in
court this is a case that should have
never been brought there is no case here
there’s no case whatsoever it’s a
disgrace and we have a conflicted judge
and it shouldn’t be happening not in
this
country prosecutors today calling a
second witness to the stand Rona graph
Trump’s former longtime executive
assistant she testified that on one
occasion she recalls seeing pornstar
Stormy Daniels in a reception area on
the 26th floor of the Trump Towers just
outside the former president’s office
and former tabl publisher David pecker
also resuming his testimonial earlier
and reaffirming his claim that the
underlying goal of his alleged catch and
kill agreement with Trump was to help
Trump’s 2016 campaign that is a critical
argument of prosecutors in this case who
are seeking to prove that Trump’s
motivations were political so joining us
today ABC News legal contributor and law
professor Kim wayy Kim thanks for being
with us again I want to understand so
Trump’s attorneys they were
cross-examining Rona graph and they were
suggesting that this whole idea of the
reason why Stormy Daniels was spotted in
Trump Tower was because she was being
considered for The Apprentice so just
kind of explain that why that’s
significant and do you think that is um
a likely scenario that will be
bought all right so three big pillars to
this case number one falsification of
business records we haven’t really seen
that yet but the other two pieces are
Donald Trump’s knowledge of the hush
money scheme which I think this
testimony today establishes he did have
a relationship with stormmy Daniels and
then the third piece is the hush money
was to impact the 2016 campaign now I
think what the defense tried to do to
is suggest that well maybe he did have
or if the government does prove there’s
a relationship with Stormy Daniels that
is the jury believes that it was had
nothing to do with covering up the
campaign if there was a hush money
situation here if she was paid off it
had something to do with other things
like his wife perhaps or maybe he was
actually engaged in some business
transaction with her relating to his
Apprentice so that goes to sort of one
of the three legs of the stool so to
speak for this case and then Kim you
also have David Pecker’s testimony he
claims he believed that the underlying
goal of that deal to kill negative
stories about Trump was political so
just how damaging is that for the
defense
team there again so false records intent
to cover them up and the cover up was
because of the 2016 election so David
pecker sat down and said yeah that’s why
we did it and really the timeline is
pretty critical here because remember
and I think we’ll see more of this the
access Hollywood tape came out right
around the time right before the Stormy
Daniels payment and well if you go back
in time that was a very fraught moment
for the Trump campaign they were very
worried about the Access Hollywood tape
derailing the entire candidacy so you
put that on top of Stormy Daniels that
story and it’s going to look the
government will argue much more likely
that the reason she got that payment was
to keep her quiet so the voters didn’t
know about that relationship leading up
to going to The Ballot Box in November
then we also today had a former Banker
for former Trump attorney Michael Cohen
taking the stand as a prosecution is
trying to establish the trail of this
alleged hush money to Stormy Daniels can
you just explain how significant his
testimony
was that’s important to number one
establishing how those financial TR
transactions were were made laying the
groundwork the foundation to getting
those documents in they they have to
establish that but also so I think many
of much of this testimony is is
establishing later a a predicate for
Michael Cohen’s testimony because Donald
Trump’s lawyers are going to try to make
Michael Cohen out to be a liar or
perjurer the government’s going to say
listen all Michael Cohen is doing is
telling what you you’ve already heard
you’ve seen the documents you saw his
secretary say he had a relationship with
stormy D Daniels she was in Trump Tower
he had her in her in his uh you know his
contact book so to speak and St and
Michael Cohen’s just going to tie all
the things together that we’ve already
established in in a credible way I think
that’s what what they’re laying the
groundwork with with this uh this Banker
which is otherwise kind of boring not as
interesting testimony because it’s
technical to satisfy the Rules of
Evidence in New York and and Kim on that
point I mean Michael Cohen he’s yet to
take the stand he’s expected to be a
star witness and today Trump’s lawyers
for Trump using Pecker’s
cross-examination to attack Cohen’s
credibility as you were talking about I
mean just how reliable of a witness uh
do you think he’s going to be for the
prosecution you know I think it’s he’s
going to have a hard time on
cross-examination but my guess is he
will be uh fairly credible it’ll really
be up to the jury to make that
determination but remember Michael Cohen
pleaded guilty to the very election
crime that the prosecution is saying
Donald Trump committed by by falsifying
records so there’s Michael Cohen agreed
to that crime he was not he didn’t put
the government to the test he you know
he didn’t ask to go to trial or he
agreed to to plead guilty but he is he
went to jail for the very thing that the
prosecution is trying to establish
Donald Trump uh falsified records around
so I think he is a pivotal witness for
that reason but it could go badly for
the government if they do a great job on
cross-examination and he gets flustered
and the jury just thinks listen this
isn’t a a trustworthy guy we’re going to
side with Donald Trump on on this whole
story okay Kim stay with us and let’s
bring in now the rest of our panel
joining us today with Kim our ABC News
contributor and serus XM radio host Mike
Muse ABC News contributor and former
Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign official
Amanda Ria and ABC News contributor and
former Republican New York congressman
John katco so John I just want to get
your broad takeaways from what we saw
today and what do you think are the
political implications for Trump to have
him you know stuck in cord in for the
few times in his life unable to really
control
anything well uh before I came to
Congress I was an organized crime
prosecutor for 20 years so I’ve done
cases with very bad Witnesses like
Cohen’s going to be the key is to uh
corroborate them and they’re going to
corroborate him up and down and the fact
that he pled guilty he’s going to say
I’m guilty and he was one I played
guilty for and uh that’s very powerful
and I think that overcome his salacious
past but uh the fact of the matter is
from a political standpoint this is a
terrible case to start the prosecutions
of trump with uh if they started with
January 6 and I was there on January 6
and the American people heard chapter
and verse how bad things were in January
6 and how bad his conduct were I think
it would be fatal for him politically by
the time that trial starts I think that
the Americans are going to be toned
after for because of this trial and
that’s
unfortunate amander and I kind of want
to get your take on that and what this
could mean for the Biden campaign he’s
been out there he’s been crisscrossing
in the swing States while Trump’s been
stuck in a
courtroom it matters right this is the
time where you’re building the
foundation for your mobilization making
sure you’re getting your message out
there and so it is a critical time but I
will say Trump does have a platform so
while he can’t say anything in court he
is saying things out of court and so I
think that we have yet to see or
determine whether this is going to end
up helping Trump because he does have a
platform or not um but certainly we’re
looking at it very
closely Mike what do you make of that I
mean he has limited amount of time to
speak but you know he does make
remarks he does make remarks I think he
can use this to his political Advantage
if if you think about this it’s
wall-to-wall coverage of former
president Donald Trump on every news
station every news cycle uh every print
magazine every digital magazine for good
or for bad uh his name is out there um
the idea of him and the idea of him
running is out there this is as good as
earned media as it gets and one thing
that former president Trump understands
well is how to strategically leverage
the media for his own advantages what’s
interesting though on my morning radio
show in SiriusXM I actually ask my
audience are you thinking about this
case does this case matter to you you
know what the answer was overwhelmingly
when the call lines lit up on our live
show yes they are paying attention they
are following and they are interested in
this and the more that the prosecutors
can Define this more from a porn star
hush money into what Kim said earlier in
her brilliant interview with you about
election interference then that is going
to be very sticky with the voter come
November at least with the audience that
I have okay that’s very interesting and
if we have time I’m going to circle back
to you on that but first Kim the judge
rescheduled a hearing for next week on
several additional alleged violations of
that limited gag order Trump is under so
where do things stand on
that the judge has to do something there
not a lot the judge can do and I think
there’s some pressure on his lawyer uh
Donald Trump’s lawyer to get his client
in line The Next Step would be a fine
and then in theory I guess remitting him
to custody I think that politically
could be a great great Advantage for
Donald Trump uh but the judge does not
only have to ensure the Integrity of the
trial but to protect the witnesses and
the jurors and with a man like this that
that’s serious business uh so when
Donald Trump goes after the judge and
says he’s unfair I think that itself is
unfair we need to establish that this
judge is doing an excellent J job so far
okay Mike I’m going to need to follow up
with you on that later my question is
really I mean how does this impact those
swing voters not just those who already
have their established views on Trump
anyways Mike Amanda John and Kim thank
you to you
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wrapping up his trip to China where he
met with Chinese president Xi Jinping in
a high stakes meeting both men spoke for
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on critical issues including China’s
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looms over Tik Tok which China opposes
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topic did not come up so let’s bring
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last time blinkin was supposed to go to
China I was actually living in Beijing
and that got killed well postponed
because of that spy balloon incident so
clearly relations have recovered from
the lowest of lows but what do you think
was actually accomplished concretely on
this visit well and it’s a great Point
Selena because we’re coming from a
pretty low Point here but you heard it
from secretary blinkin the point is to
keep this line of communication open the
world’s two biggest economies the US and
China need to try to have at least a
little bit of stability in that
relationship according to Blink and what
he said is they want to be able to have
that communication going and at the same
time there was a clear effort on the
part of the us to put pressure on China
specifically as it relates to China’s
support for Ukraine we’ve seen China
kind of try to play this role where it
is not explicitly endorsing Russia but
it’s also hasn’t taken the side that the
US wants it to and backing off of its
support entirely that’s something that
the US is putting clear pressure on as a
result of this visit and you know of
course part of a broader effort by the
Biden Administration to try to keep this
relationship open we saw a couple weeks
ago treasury secretary Janet Yellen was
in China and of course as you point out
the meeting between President Biden and
she uh last fall yeah this is clearly
coming off the back of a flurry of
highlevel meetings and John blinkin
urged Chinese leader Xi Jinping to cut
back on China’s support for Russia’s
defense industry blinkin said that
Russia would struggle to sustain its war
in Ukraine without China’s support so do
you think blinkin was successful in
pressuring China on
this well I think blinkin was successful
because he got the meeting and I really
the reason I said it I completely agree
with Elizabeth’s analysis but LBJ always
said you keep your friends close and
your enemies closer and I think
basically China is an enemy China does
major sov attacks against us they’re
involved in major counter Espionage they
steal our Trade Secrets and they’re
supporting people who are trying to harm
us like Russia and Iran so you know you
got to talk to him the only thing worse
than having someone like that is someone
like that you have no communication with
as who’s a powerful person so it’s good
that he talked to him it’s good that
they had this discussion it generally
seemed respectful and that can only help
relations going forward yeah John I take
that point that it is a big win that
they’re even talking to each other that
is a big deal coming off of the very
very low Point um and Mike I just want
to get your thoughts that Tik Tok didn’t
come up but bite dance has already said
it has no plans to sell TI Tik Tok you
know the Chinese government’s not going
to let go of this very easily not to
mention all the legal battles I just
want to get your take on how you see
this potentially playing
out I think that was actually good for
secretary linkoln not to engage on bite
dance and ticktock on this conversation
because of the fact of what John just
mentioned the importance of being in
regular communication uh with China from
a strategic purposes is very key we all
know that you know China isn’t pleased
uh with our US government and engagement
with Tik Tok and wanting it to and to
divest um and so I think that would have
interrupted The geopolitical Diplomatic
conversations uh that we need to be
having right now on very important
issues uh that are facing the globe uh
as different allies are forming and
different treaties are being reexamined
and so it’s really important that they
stayed away from that and focus on the
bigger picture at hand yeah exactly I
mean there’s no shortage of issues Tik
Tok is just one area of concern but
Amanda I wanted to get some of the
political implications of this you know
the president has been very clear he
sees Tik Tok as a national security risk
but at the same time his campaign is on
the platform and in a presidential
election to say that you’re in support
and that you signed into law legislation
that could ban Tik Tok I mean do you
think that’s significant in an election
year so I think he’ll have a great way
of both saying hey I’m on Tik Tok I
understand it and I don’t think we need
to have China have all of our
information I actually think it gives
him a way to talk about it but I’ll also
say it was very important for him to be
there for him to be showing Global power
right now not only politically but for
the administration going forward as we
get deeper into the election to say hey
I’m going to continue to lead on foreign
policy even as we go through an election
cycle that’s really important for Biden
to do
throughout and Elizabeth I know you’ve
been covering this topic and I’ve been
covering Tik Tok for a long time and
some of the sources I talk to say it’s
going to be so hard to find a buyer just
because of the price tag on this this
could be tens of billions it could be a
hundred billion plus you know what’s
your take on the buyer acquisition route
here well and I think it’s really
interesting that bite dance came out
overnight kind of breaking its silence
and saying it’s not for sale but that
was in response to this question of
could Tik Tok be sold to a buyer in the
US without the algorithm the algorithm
is really the Crown Jewel of the
platform analysts who I talked to say
that the company’s valued at about a
hundred billion dollars with the
algorithm without it it could be closer
to 30 or $40 billion and that’s a much
more pable price tag for a company
whether it’s a Microsoft or a Walmart so
the of course issue is you still want to
acquire Tik Tok if it doesn’t have the
algorithm a little bit less valuable but
still has 170 million users still has a
lot of data people who are really
engaged a really hot demographic so that
is maybe a conversation that could start
happening even if B dance isn’t saying
it would right now once we get through
this kind of legal battle that’ll play
out over the next couple months that’s
really really interesting Elizabeth
because what is Tik Tok without the
algorithm that makes it so addictive and
sticky can they keep all those users if
they don’t have the algorithm anyways
thank you Mike Amanda John and Elizabeth
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President Joe Biden telling Howard Stern
yes the Howard Stern that he is planning
to debate Donald Trump Biden previously
said that a debate with Trump quote
depends on his behavior dodging the
question Trump responding to the
interview as he left court this
afternoon saying he would debate Biden
anywhere any time any place let’s bring
back my panel so Elizabeth I just want
to get your reaction to this surprise
announcement that was made on the Howard
Stern Show of all places yeah it’s not
something we’ heard from the president
before in fact news out of a rest of an
interview that didn’t have a lot of news
the president saying he’s open to this
look I think the fact is neither of
these candidates wants to be the one
that’s openly saying they won’t do the
debate both of them now say they will
there still has not been a date or a
time set and you know Selena we’ve seen
ABC News and other networks try to
encourage this to actually take place so
let’s see if what the candidates are
saying publicly in interviews and on the
trail actually follows through into a
concrete date so John was it a wise
choice to choose Howard Stern as he has
you know kind of Taken these more
untraditional media places instead of
going with mainstream
media yeah I think it was a great move
and uh anybody that’s running for
national office would love to have a
little spot on Howard Stern he’s got a
huge following his demographics are very
diverse and it’s a and it’s a
demographic that b needs to cut into a
little bit more so I that was a smart
move by him to do it and uh you know I
hope that the debate doesn’t turn into a
train rack but I’m not confident in that
regard Amanda is it beneficial more
beneficial for who to have this debate
Biden or Trump and do you actually buy
Trump’s claims that he really wants to
debate because remember he refused to
debate in the
primaries I think they are both
competitors and want a debate now I also
get that it’s gonna be a very
interesting thing to watch um I also
think it was very smart to say it on a
Howard Stern radio talk show because
everybody can hear it and Mike you get
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to your Serious XM colleague Howard
Stern yeah what a big day for serus XM
I’m so excited for how we’re Landing
that interview what incredible interview
that it was Howard CERN is a brilliant
interviewer um and I am excited for
these two presidential candidates to
debate uh it will be a shame for
democracy um if we don’t keep up with
the tradition of having our presidential
candidates debate each other so we can
hear the attent of what they would be
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