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--:-- John Bickley: I'm Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley, along with my guest co-host today, Sage Steele, host of the Sage Steele Show. It's Monday, April 22nd, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
--:-- John Bickley: Police began arresting anti-Israel protesters at Yale University today. According to the school's police chief, they were given several warnings. We're given a few minutes to clear this area. We're going to egress on I Street or Wall Street. No one will stop you from leaving. If you do not leave, you will be arrested.
--:-- John Bickley: Despite the warnings, many of the demonstrators refused to leave. Some locked arms to a flagpole and sang, we shall not be moved as officers began arrests. Others who were part of a large encampment on campus refused to leave their tents. According to campus police, those arrested face trespassing charges.
--:-- John Bickley: This comes after a week full of anti-Israel protests on and around the university. A Jewish student journalist who was covering one of the protests Saturday says she was jabbed in the eye by a protester wielding a Palestinian flag and that she was surrounded by a mob while covering the event.
--:-- Sage Steele: Here she is talking to Fox News. Not only did they blockade me and run after me some of them also laughed at me as I was just kind of frantically saying, like, hey, this kid stabbed me. And none of them made an effort to go track him down. They wanted him to get lost into the crowd and get away with it.
--:-- John Bickley: Amid calls for Columbia University to protect Jewish students from harassment and violence on campus, the school's president said all classes would be held virtually today.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: The university has been the backdrop of an anti-Israel encampment in protests over the past week. Columbia President Nemat Shafiq said in a statement that she was, quote, saddened by the events on campus and denounced anti-Semitic language, as well as the intimidating and harassing behavior towards Jews.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Shafiq's announcement follows nationwide calls for action. Shabbat at Columbia says students have had to deal with harassment, including some being told to, quote, go back to Poland.
--:-- Andrew Bates: Protesters in and around the university cross the line if they say violence should befall Jewish students. Bates said, quote, echoing the rhetoric of terrorist organizations, especially in the wake of the worst massacre committed against the Jewish people since the Holocaust, is despicable.
--:-- Brent Schur: Opening arguments in former President Donald Trump's historic hush money trial began today in New York City.
--:-- Brent Schur: Prosecutors used opening statements to convince the 12 jurors and six alternates that Michael Cohen, Trump's former attorney, is a credible witness, even though he's been convicted of perjury and tax evasion.
--:-- Brent Schur: They say Cohen's testimony will be damning and that several other witnesses will back up Cohen's claims, including one who took the stand today, National Enquirer publisher David Pecker.
--:-- Brent Schur: The defense claimed that none of this was a crime while calling the 34 counts against Trump just 34 pieces of paper.
--:-- Brent Schur: In a separate courtroom down the street in Manhattan lawyers for the former president agreed to more restrictions on the million bond in his New York civil fraud case.
--:-- Brent Schur: This all stems from concerns that Attorney General Letitia James had about Trump still having access to the Charles Schwab account used as collateral.
--:-- Donald Trump: She just tried to embarrass everybody, and she tried to embarrass a very good bonding company by saying, They weren't creditworthy. Well, they were creditworthy. And what was more important is they had a security, $175 million that I put out.
--:-- John Bickley: The Supreme Court is hearing arguments today in what is being touted as the most important case on homelessness in 40 years.
--:-- John Bickley: The case, Johnson v. Grant's Pass, stems from an ordinance passed in a small Oregon town which fines people $295 for sleeping in public places such as sidewalks and parks.
--:-- John Bickley: They're also prohibited from using blankets, pillows or cardboard boxes.
--:-- John Bickley: Critics say you cannot criminalize homelessness, but supporters say towns and cities need to have options for dealing with homeless camping in public.
--:-- John Bickley: The Supreme Court said today that it will rule on so-called ghost guns during its next term.
--:-- John Bickley: A ghost gun is a firearm that comes packaged in parts which can be bought online and assembled.
--:-- John Bickley: This comes as the Biden administration seeks to regulate the self-assemble kits as any other firearm.
--:-- John Bickley: An appeals court struck down a 2022 regulation from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which required background checks for those purchasing these kits, as well as the serialization of the parts for law enforcement tracking.
--:-- Michael Whitaker: U.S. troops will begin their withdrawal from a base in Niger.
--:-- Michael Whitaker: The U plans to withdraw more than 1 troops from Niger after a status of forces agreement between the two governments broke down earlier this month.
--:-- Michael Whitaker: American forces have conducted counterterrorism operations in Niger since 2013 but relations between the two countries have deteriorated since a military coup overthrew Niger's democratically elected government in 2023.
--:-- Michael Whitaker: America's airbase in Niger has been a pillar of American efforts against jihadi terror groups in the region, such as al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, and various African branches of the Islamic State.
--:-- Will Georgitis: I knew the whole time I'm about to die, no matter what I do.
--:-- Will Georgitis: Strangely, through all that fear, it was very clear what I knew I had to do.
--:-- Will Georgitis: When he was about a foot away, he turned his head and opened his mouth to chomp down basically on my head and shoulders.
--:-- Will Georgitis: And I defensively put my arm up. I put my feet up against him, just launched back as hard as I possibly could and somehow ripped my arm out and not off.
--:-- John Bickley: All right, those are your Drive Home updates this afternoon. To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com. And for more in-depth discussion of the biggest stories of the day, listen to our latest full episode of Morning Wire every morning.
