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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Protestors Storm Columbia Building, Barricade Themselves Inside

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

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3.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Campus protests are hitting a whole new level at Columbia University with violence and vandalism and anti-war demonstrators barricading themselves in a university building. The university is warning people to stay away from campus. Plus, the major move coming from the Biden administration aiming to reclassify marijuana after criminalizing for nearly 90 years.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is

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is CNN Breaking News.

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The end, welcome to the Lean, I'm Jake Tapper.

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We're following Breaking News out of New York

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where Donald Trump's hushmoney cover-up trial is currently underway.

0:14.0

Right now, attorney Keith Davidson is on the stand.

0:16.8

He is the lawyer who represented both, 1998 Playboy Playmeated of the Year, Karen

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McDougal, who alleged an affair with Donald Trump, and

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the corn actress and director Stormy Daniels who alleged a brief dalliance with Trump, Trump denies

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both.

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This afternoon Davidson has testified about his negotiations with National

0:35.9

Inquirer, editor-in-chief Dylan Howard to sell the women's stories to that

0:40.9

august publication and how interest in buying Stormy Daniels accounts spiked after the Access Hollywood tape was released in early October 2016.

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Before today's testimony got underway, Judge Juan Mershahn ruled that

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Donald Trump had violated the gag order against attacking members of the

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jury and witnesses with nine distinct posts on his truth social page as well as his

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a website.

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He fined, the judge, fined the former president $9,000.

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Trump has now, or somebody acting in his behalf

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has now removed those posts.

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But Judge Rashan's ruling also came with a warning

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that if Trump continues to violate the gag order,

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