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Day two of testimony in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial resumed

with the longtime publisher of the tabloid The National Inquirer back on the stand.

David Packer telling jurors he had promised to be Trump's eyes and ears

during his 2016 presidential campaign,

agreeing to help suppress harmful stories even arranging to purchase a dormant silence.

M. Biazemano Bastio has been covering the trial, she says court proceedings began

with a heated exchange between the trial judge and Trump's lead lawyer over a gag order which

prosecutors maintain Trump's violated.

Prosecutors asked Mershaun to impose a $10,000 penalty and ask them to be removed and

warn Trump that incarceration is an option for violating the order.

Trump's lawyer argued that Trump was simply defending himself.

Now, Mershaun has not issued an order yet,

but he did seem impatient with Trump's team,

at one point warning that they were losing credibility when they kept insisting

that Trump is just trying to be careful with the order.

NPR's Jimenez Haminabosteo. Demonstrations against Israel's war in Gaza

continue across the country in New York.

Protesters are criticizing the rest of more

than 100 students at faculty at NYU.

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