where in that hour in washington square park a couple of blocks there to reflect, debrief, and strategizeccording to their post. let's bring an arkansas republican senator tom cotton on breaking news as we watch these pictures, senator, what are your thoughts as you see this happening and now to think you have classes canceled at columbia university? why can't they get a hold of the situation? >> sandra, i gather there are about 100 people arrested last night at nyu it seems they need to be more arrests today. these university presidents need to ask the mayor and the chief of police in new york to send in new york city's finest to arrest anyone breaking the law squatting on private property when they've been told to disperse. who is harassing or intimidating jewish students and demand students actually do it they are supposed to do which is go to school. by the way any of the students who are foreigners on visas should have their visas provoked by the by demonstration and be deported. they have no right to be here and especially not spewing anti-semitic and anti-israel spiel. >> we know i

this is washington square park here in new york city. why are the crowds going there, john, hello and welcome everyone i am sandra smith in new york right to be with you. >> john: great to be with you as well i am john roberts in washington and this is "america reports." we start this afternoon in lower manhattan were former "national enquirer" david -- publisher david pecker was back on the stand today in donald trump's criminal trial record detailed with the former president in years. >> sandra: outside of the u.s. supreme court what came from today's testimony? >> sandra court wrapped up in the past minutes we will keep an eye out for president trump to see if he speaks but one of the most notable moment so far today is prosecutor joshua steinbach identifying the so-called "other crime" president trump is told was committing and identify the law that reads "conspiracy to promote or prevent election any turtle or more persons who conspired to prevent the election of someone by unlawful means in which conspiracy is acted upon by one or

in january, musicians gathered in new york city's washington square park.when you're down and troubled, an event like that is really generating a lot of positivity that hopefully can cross border declamation helps organize the piano events. >> when you see the musicians playing on it, you can feel the amount of energy and the strength of music really focus is not about politics, and it's about the fact that they're in captivity right now and we cannot forget about them. >> edith is hoping the power of music will transcend people's differences. hallelujah >> it's about unity without people coming together, no matter who you are, where you're from, what religion you are, despite everything, how do you stay so optimistic? you have to be positive. because if you have this energy, something positive will will come back after six months in captivity, edith believes her son's love for music is giving him strength. you know, it's a hostage in gaza . i think he's thinking about the music alone, has this special heart. he's a musician. a person who. who plays, gives

also, in new york city, students at nyu took their protest to nearby washington square park today. they were forced to move to this location after the school put up a plywood wall denying access to the area where demonstrators gathered last night. that's why nypd came in and arrested 120 people. the school also moved all classes online through the end of the semester. here in california, classes are also going remote at cal poly humboldt. pro-palestinian protesters occupied buildings and barricaded themselves inside those buildings last night. they also set up tents and makeshift beds, triggering a large police response. students of the university of michigan are doing the same thing, at 10 encampments have been set up on the campus in ann arbor. we told you about some of those calls to divest from companies that support israel. here in the bay area, and tonight, a protesting cam at at uc berkeley is getting bigger. >>> students have been camped out in sproul plaza since yesterday. dozens of tents are now pitched. students and others will be camping out for a second straight night.

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now somebody said that was a demonstration, 3 weeks ago it was a washington square park and then happen was pouring green. and it was a saturday. and there were about 50000 people there. and um, they were all around $25.00. i was an age cohort of one, and then there was a gap memory that was a gap of 40 years ago. and then after was over, lot of people went down to the subway to go home. and so in the subway platform on this side of the, of the train tracks and then the other side of the change of everyone's still chatting. everyone still jeremy, if you know the scene from the civil rights movement united states, when they were in jail, they kept singing, and they kept shutting and they kept sinking and they kept chanting. i don't know, it's like these young people, except there's one difference. the people in the civil rights movement were funding for their own rights by these are young people finding forgotten. so you know, 2000000 people in the some go where you are in the middle, at least it's a visually inspiring. so there's every reason on those grounds, both to be proud of you kn

>> reporter: -- students gathered in nearby washington square park. >> it's really frustrating because they say they're for free speech and they say they're for academic freedom. >> reporter: at nearby columbia university, classes are being offered online the rest of the year. the pro-palestinian encampment still standing following last week's mass arrests. >> it's not safe. >> reporter: associate professor hagar chemali says the university needs to do more for jewish students to feel safe. >> it shouldn't be that we have to shut down classes and go virtual and force us to stay home and encourage jewish students to stay home, because the protesters have created an unsafe environment. it should be the other way around. >> reporter: meanwhile, u.s. house republicans demanding columbia's president resign immediately for failing to crack down. >> and erin joining us now live from new york, where demonstrations are taking place. erin, the house speaker will visit nearby columbia university tomorrow. >> reporter: that's right, lester. according to his office, house speaker mike johnson will

let's check in with alexis mcadams live at new york university, signs of a lot of protest in washington square park what is going on today, alexis? >> hey, john, you can see right behind me there are some groups of students showing up here at the location where they are planning to do more protests starting at social media with a few dozen people they are planning to maybe speak i guess with some microphones we were told kind of about how they want their school here to stop putting up boards and stop preventing these protests and support the palestinian people. they want this university, and why you come to divest from israel. let's take a live look on what is happening across the country. this is some wild new video coming out of university of texas campus. look there, done in center, hundreds of students walking out of class at the university of texas rally today in support of palestine saying they will occupy the south lawn of that campus according to reports. students are marching near the campus, state troopers are on that scene, and some reports from the palestine solidarity committee riding

and today, more than 100 pro-palestinian protesters gathered in washington square park to show solidarity who were arrested. columbia university says classes will now be hybrid until the end of the spring semester after 100 of its students were arrested last week. joining me now is marianne hirsh, professor of english and cooperative literature at columbia university, and professor at the institute for women, gender, and sexuality. thank you for being here. >> thank you for inviting me. >> what's so strange about what's happening at your university, at columbia, is peaceful protesters got the copped sicced on them while the mad people who are outside of campus screaming at jewish people, screaming epithets and becoming violent and some people think might be plants, they're not getting the cops sicced on them. why? >> well, the university only organizes its own space, and what happened was that the gates were open and cops were invited into the university to disrupt the peaceful protest by students. what happens outside the gates is new york city. >> but it sounds to me what's happening on

and students were gathering in washington square park in protest. >> brian: let's bring in lawrence fromoksville -- brookfield, wisconsin. lawrence, chuck schumer hold up in his apartment instead of down in columbia to try to negotiate or sticking up for those jewish students as the highest ranking jewish political member in history he is a no-show. >> lawrence: i'm hoping chuck schumer learns something from that moment. after all his criticism of netanyahu, after all this extending an olive branch pro-palestinian movement. they still protest in front. there is nothing that you can do as a measure of compromise for these people. they wants to get rid of you, period. there's no negotiating that. >> ainsley: you know, when you look at all these crowds, aren't you blown away? aren't you all shocked? charlie, how do you feel about this? what does this mean for the election? there are a lot of people that seem to be supporting these protests. >> charlie: yeah. well, you know, in terms of columbia, it's important remind don't ever say maybe if you mean no. the idea that they are still negotiat

. >> seth: yeah, we were in washington square park, and i was walking my kids.aid on the phone, you go, "i just saw seth meyers and his kids." and my kids go, "how does she know us?" [ laughter ] i'm like, "she doesn't know you!" and they're both like, "ohh!" >> oh, that's really cute. >> seth: yeah, it's really cute. i'm like, "she doesn't think i'm just walking around with like two small dudes." [ laughter ] it is always so nice to have you here. thank you so, so much. >> thank you. >> seth: congrats on the movie. [ cheers and applause ] that's margaret qualley, everyone. "drive-away dolls" is in theaters now. stick around. we'll be right back with chef emilio vitolo. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] [ cellphone ringing ] phone call from the boss? sorry. outdoor time is me time. i hear that. that's why we protect all your vehicles here. but hey...nothing wrong with sticking it to the boss. ooooh, flo, you gonna take that? why would that concern me? because you're...the... aren't you the..? huh...we never actually discussed hierarchy. ok, why don't we just stick to le

crowds there are refusing to move, they refuse to vacate an encampment of pitch tents near the washington square park tonight's arrest or just the latest in an ever escalating ladder of tensions over israel's war in gaza. colombia is the most notorious example. more than 100 were arrested there last week. and today, tensions placed student life on hold, interrupting graduation photo shoots with pitch shouting matches classes were held remotely. students were encouraged to stay home columbia& last last nine, other schools have staged gaza solidarity camps that in and of itself is not actually the problem here. the problem is the people who are in those encampments, some of them or infiltrating them, who believe reprehensible and unconscionable things, just take a listen the anti-defamation league reports that anti-semitic attacks shattered previous records in 2023, reaching an all time high of 8,873 now, earlier tonight, i spoke with david joan at letter a jewish student at columbia university. he is among those who have chosen to leave campus this passover. he and his brothers say, they were targeted

florida, he went to new york, where he spent the night in washington square park, and along the way hetrange video. he was taken to the hospital in critical condition after dousing himself with gasoline; he died a few hours later. as for voting on military aid packages, all the gears of the american deepstate. they were chilled in anticipation; after the house of representatives, the bills would be stamped by the senate, then signed by biden; in this case, the white house promised to resume arms supplies to ukraine immediately. valentin bogdanov, ivan utkin, and maria bolatvina, lead the usa. in israel, protesters blocked the country's main highway, the road that connects jerusalem and tel aviv. people demanded that the authorities immediately conclude a deal with the hamas group for the release of the hostages. according to those gathered, it is the netanyahu government that is sabotaging the achievement of an agreement. protesters burned garbage. one of the drivers tried to ram the barricade and ran over a woman’s leg. later , fire police arrived, they dispersed the demonstrators and

conspiracy theories, a week ago from florida he went to new york, where he spent the night in washington square parkg the way he recorded this strange video, to the hospital, dousing himself with gasoline was brought in in critical condition. he died a few hours later. as for voting on military aid packages, all the gears of the american deepstate froze in anticipation. after the house of representatives law. the projects will be stamped by the senate, then signed by biden, arms supplies to ukraine, in which case the white house promised to resume immediately. valentin bogdanov, ivan utkin and maria bolatvina, usa news. in israel, protesters blocked the country's main highway, the road that connects jerusalem and tel aviv. people demanded from. 50 km from baghdad, there are army and police units, as well as militia units. died as a result of the attack at least one soldier, several were injured. the pentagon said the americans had nothing to do with the airstrike, and an israeli official told cnn that his country did not participate in the raid. at the same time, the most likely target of the strike

rally at union square on april 20th, 1861, 100,000 people and the flag of fort sumter is strong from the big bronze equestrian statue of george washington that is now in union square park. it was a little south of it that and speaker after speaker, the germans, they said we'd still love the fatherland, but this is our flag. this is our symbol. we will fight to the death for our adopted country. more importantly, politically the irish speaker after speaker come up. one says, i don't like abraham lincoln, particularly didn't vote for him, but he's our president. and i will we will fight for him because the firing on fort sumter is just as as if the british fleet had entered new york harbor. and that's a pretty statement for a for an irish leader in new york city in 1861. now, lincoln with the help of the aforementioned archbishop john hughes creates a wish list. of irish recruits. michael corcoran, who has had been under court martial for refusing to call up the 69 brigade to assemble to greet the prince of wales. he said, i'm not having my irish men greet the heir to the british throne. he was being court martialed as soon as lincoln needed him, the court martial myster

it's an extremely prominent overlooking jackson square where the big jackson and the french quarter on the top of that levee is, a park called washington battery park. now, washington battery had been a confederate that defended the city, new orleans, from farragut. however, it's been renamed in honor of dunn, the state legislature also voted to put a statue up and a wrecked a bus in the state capitol. so i'll be there for both of those. i visit classrooms there regularly. in fact, be teaching a workshop this summer for educators that's being put on by the louisiana endowment of the arts and i'll also be talking at the historic new orleans collection at the ted with ted williams and richardsons. what's the arm of the new orleans collection? williams library, i think, is what's called research center right on wall street. so fantastic. it's the discourse about around black history has totally been transformed after this. so i'm very, very happy to be a little factor in that lots of people know exactly who dan is now their school named in his honor which is fantastic for that little to being back that little sliver of american history. o