Protesters Occupy Columbia / Trump Held in Contempt

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Anti-Israel protesters at Columbia University escalate by seizing an academic building in the middle of the night and barricading themselves inside. What should President Minouche Shafik do now, and where are the school's trustees in what has quickly turned into an institutional crisis for Columbia? Plus, New York Judge Juan Merchan holds Donald Trump in contempt and fines him $9,000 for violating a gag order by attacking the jury and witnesses in the New York hush-money trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.4	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:35.0	Anti-Israel protesters at Columbia University escalate by taking over an academic
0:41.0	building leading to an effective shutdown of the New York campus.
0:45.2	Plus the judge in Donald Trump's hush money case finds him in contempt for violating a gag
0:49.8	order, finding him
0:55.0	Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.
0:58.0	We are joined today by my colleagues,
1:00.0	columnist Kim Strassal and Bill McGurn.
1:03.3	Columbia President Manus Chafique had given the Gaza encampment on campus,
1:08.0	a deadline of 2 PM Monday to disperse,
1:10.3	which the protesters duly ignored, then in the middle of the night or early Tuesday
1:15.0	morning they broke into Hamilton Hall and barricaded themselves inside while
1:19.5	unfurling a banner saying into FADA from the facade. The administration's response was to
1:26.3	effectively shut down the campus limiting access to students that live in
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