If it's Tuesday, the White House denounces violence and hate speech on college

campuses.

House Speaker Johnson vows action in Congress to combat anti-Semitism and pro-Palestinian

demonstrators occupy a building at Columbia University.

Plus, the judge presiding over former President Trump's historic hush money trial holds him in

criminal contempt and threatens him with jail time for violating a gag order as four witnesses take the stand.

And Florida's six-week abortion ban is set to take effect just hours from now,

forcing patients to travel hundreds of miles

for the procedure as former President Trump tries to deflect questions on the abortion

issue in a new interview. And welcome to meet the press now. I'm Erin Gilchrist in Washington where

congressional leaders and President Biden are condemning hate speech from

the pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University. That as demonstrations spurred by the Israel-Hamas War,

are royal in college campuses across the country.

The protests at Columbia University escalated last night

with students storming and occupying a

building on the main campus. Protesters can be seen in video here

smashing windows as they entered the building and flying banners from the

windows unfurling one banner with what the White House is

calling quote dangerous hate speech. President Biden rebuked the demonstrators

saying protests must be quote peaceful and lawful.

Testifying on Capitol Hill today education secretary Miguel Cardona

He called the hateful rhetoric from some of the protests unacceptable.

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