that is the biggest thing. if you have not met them, don't send them money. >> to follow the rest of laura's story and jim is reporting, watch tonight on the cbs evening news with norah o'donnell. >> coming up tonight at 5:00, pushback for plans to redesign the san francisco streets where a family was hit and killed while waiting for the bus. why some business owners say it won't make things safer. the cbs evening news is next right >> i'm not sure that anyone has ever seen anything like this before. >> tonight, trump on trial. x tabloid publisher david pecker telling jurors about a secret deal between him and donald trump to bury negative stories during the 2016 presidential campaign. and the former president blasted

the judge and gag order. >> the unconstitutional gag order by a highly conflicted judge. >> president biden. >> the worst president in history of our country. >> and the courtroom. >> it's reason, by the way. >> the "cbs evening news" starts now. ♪ ♪ good evening, and thank you for being with us. i maurice dubois. norah is on assignment. we begin tonight with a 2 of testimony in the criminal trial of former president donal donald trump. former "national enquirer" publisher david pecker was back on the stand where he said he worked with trump and his longtime fixer michael cohen to heighten negative stories about him during the 2016 campaign. the prosecution claims it was all a part of a conspiracy to influence the election. before today's testimony, there was a tense hearing over whether trump repeatedly violated a gag order by attacking witnesses and jurors on social media. prosecutors urged the judge to find trump thousands of dollars

and hold him in contempt, while the former president complained that his right to free speech was being taken a away. cbs's robert costa was inside the courthouse and starts us off tonight. >> reporter: former president trump aired his frustration with being in court today. >> that's a very unfair situation. >> reporter: after listening to former "national enquirer" publisher david pecker, a man he has known for over three decades, explain the strategy he testified they agreed upon ahead of the 2016 election. the paper would bury any negative news about trump, while promoting fake stories about his political opponents, including senators ted cruz and marco rubio. pecker testified the plan was concocted at trump tower in 2015. trump and former fixer michael cohen allegedly asked him how he could help the campaign. he told them, i would be your eyes and ears, explaining the practice of catch and kill. the inquirer would buy the rights to any damaging story about trump and never publish i.

prosecutors say that plan was the origin of 's $130,000 payment to former adult film star stormy daniels to keep her quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with trump, who denies it all. one example of catch and kill discussed in court today in bold a trump building doorman who was selling what turned out to be a fake story about trump fathering a son. pecker told the jury today he bought the story because of the potential embarrassment it would have to the campaign and mr. trump. >> david pecker is a very strong witness for the prosecution. he seems very solid on the stand. he certainly seems like he doesn't have any ax to grind with donald trump and seems almost apologetic for having to tell this story. >> reporter: on the stand, pecker said trump called him about another story he wanted kept quiet. that a former "playboy" model karen mcdougal, who claimed to have had a ten month long affair with trump in 2006, which he denies. >> after we had been intimate, he tried to pin me, and i

actually didn't know how to take that. >> reporter: four days before the 2016 election, "the wall street journal" reported that american media, which owned the "enquirer" at the time that had paid mcdougal $150,000 for the rights to her story, which was never published. in the gag order here, the prosecution argued trump should be held in contempt for all of his scathing commentary about this case. trump lawyer todd blanche said his client has been careful with his words. to that, the judge said, that's% just not credible. maurice? >> maurice: robert costa once again at the criminal courthouse in lower manhattan tonight, thank you. now to those escalating clashes and threats of violence on college campuses. protesters are growing as more students across the country are staging demonstrations against israel's war in gaza. cbs's nancy chen tonight on what protesters are demanding. >> we are not afraid of you! >> reporter: pro-palestinian demonstrators clashed with police at north cal poly humbol.

barricaded themselves inside a building. at nyu, nypd officers in riot gear cleared out a pro-palestinian encampment last night after students defied the university's order to leave. >> we want to see an acknowledgment from our university that there is a genocide happen. >> leave now or you will be arrested for trespassing. >> reporter: 120 people were arrested. >> free palesne! free palestine! b2 if you are going to was a protest, hosted in a spot that is not so busy and dependent upon students classes. >> today, new york city mayor eric adam said students who protest peacefully are not the problem. >> we can't have outside and did agitators come in and be destructive to our city. someone wanted something to happen at that protest at nyu that police officers didn't respond to. >> reporter: from coast-to-coast, campus to campus, protests are growing louder in solidarity.

students are also joining in at uc berkeley. >> quite frankly i think it's important that people start to align themselves with the palestinian resistance. >> reporter: here at columbia university, the seventh day of protests, demonstrators want school to divest from all business that supports israel. >> i think it's time to devised from those weapons manufacturint them into other important thing. >> reporter: they are also demanding amnesty for all students who have been punished. is the goal to stay here until those demands are met? >> yes. >> reporter: and as you can see behind me, demonstrators both on and off campus are still demanding to be heard. meanwhile, there are growing calls for the university's president to resign peered maurice? >> maurice: and no real end in sight tonight. nancy chen at colombia university in new york, thank you. it is being called a monumental settlement for the survivors of sexual abuse by the disgraced former u.s. gymnastics dr. larry nassar. the justice department announcing today that it will pay more than $138 million for

the fbi's mishandling of the investigation. olympic stars simone biles, mckayla maroney, and aly raisman, among the more than 100 people who sued the fbi for failing to respond to their complaints with urgency. the combined payouts to nassar's victims now top $1 billion. at a campaign event today in florida, president biden blamed his opponent, former president trump, for a growing wave of restrictive abortion laws across the country. cbs's nancy cordes has more on what is shaping up to be a key issue in the polls in november. >> this isn't about states rights comments about women's rights. >> reporter: president biden traveled to tampa today just eight days before florida's abortion crackdown is set to go into effect. the nation's third most populous state will ban abortions at six weeks, a point at which many women still don't realize they are pregnant. >> there's one person responsible for this nightmare, and he has acknowledged and brags about it, donald trump.

>> reporter: when it comes to abortion, there is one thing biden and trump agree on: that it was trump appointment of three deeply conservative supreme court justices that change the balance of the court and brought about an end to roe v. wade. >> we broke roe v. wade, and we did something that nobody thought was possible. >> reporter: since then, about half of u.s. states have rolled back reproductive rights, and yet pulling by cbs news shows only a third of americans say trump deserves the blame. >> he described the dobbs decision as a miracle. maybe it is coming from that bible he is trying to sell. >> reporter: today, biden highlighted the recent spike in pregnant women being turned away from emergency rooms. kaitlyn joshua was turned away by two hospitals in baton rouge, louisiana, when she was having a miscarriage. >> i was told that i would be sent home with prayers but would not get a diagnosis of miscarriage on paper or verbally. >> reporter: five months after

florida's abortion ban goes into effect, voters in that state will have a chance to reverse it. there is a referendum on november's ballot in florida that the biden team hopes will drive democratic voters to the polls there. though florida hasn't gone for a democratic presidential candidate since 2012. maurice? >> maurice: okay, nancy cordes at the white house tonight, thank you. now a story that should serve as a warning for gun owners, traveling to the caribbean islands of turks and caicos. an american tourist is behind bars tonight facing up to 12 years in prison after officials found ammunition in his luggage. cbs's kris van cleave reports on a state department travel alert. >> a tearful reunion at the oklahoma city airport this morning was not the way valerie watson thought her turks and caicos vacation would end. >> it just fills my heart. >> reporter: she is home but her husband and father of two ryan is in jail on the islands facing a mandatory minimum sentence of 12 years behind

bars, over four rounds of hunting ammo airport security found in his carry-on bag as the couple was set to leave turks and caicos earlier this month. >> we were trying to pack shorts and flip-flops. you know, packing ammunition was not at all our intent. >> reporter: we spoke with the watson sunday before they learned valerie would not be charged and be allowed to return home. >> this went was no mike what was supposed to be a dream vacation to a nightmare. >> reporter: bryan hagerich from pennsylvania is awaiting trial after found in his bag. >> subsequent spent eight nights in their jail, one of the darkest, hardest times of my life, quite frankly. >> reporter: possessing a gun or ammunition is prohibited and turks and caicos. however, tourists are often able to pay fine, until the february court order mandating even tourists in the process of leaving the country be subject to prison time. last september, the u.s. embassy posted this travel alert online, warning people to check your luggage for stray ammunition.

>> i can't even begin to think that there's a very innocent or credible mistake would prevent me from being able to, you know, watch my son graduate or teach him to shave or take my daughter too, you knw, dances. >> reporter: a mistake that could land american tourists visiting an island paradise in a prison hell. kris van cleave cbs news. >> maurice: out to breaking news tonight, cbs news confirming that the fda has found evidence of the bird flu virus in grocery store milk, but expressed confidence that there is no threat to human health. the government agency said tests are being conducted to determine how well pasteurization works to reduce the risk of infectious bird flu in the milk supply. tonight, we continue our cbs news investigation into the growing wave of online romance scams peered cbs's jim axelrod reports on a sinister new twist,

when the victims themselves become accomplices. >> my mom was actually very specific about wanting to do online dating, and it felt safe for her. >> on light dating felt safer? >> he asked. >> reporter: if it wasn't painful enough that kelly owe's mother, laura kowal, was scammed out of $1.5 million, then found dead in the mississippi river, when kelly started investigating what happened, she discovered her mom's role. and something criminal. >> she got so deep into the scam that when she tried getting out of it, she became what is known in a scam as a money mule, got her hooked into it. >> reporter: laura wasn't alone. >> my name is glenda. >> reporter: it is the latest scam or tactic now so widespread that federal agents are broadcast mornings. police officers told me that my love was a scam. >> reporter: this feels like it moves to a whole 'nother level of sinister. >> they use victims until the end.

>> reporter: retired postal inspector natalie reda investigated cases where victims felt numb i fell so hard for their scammers, they to do anything were told, like deposir victims of money their accounts to launder it and stay one step ahead of the authorities. at first, the victims might not have realized they were committing a crime. >> they check their reasoning at the door. >> reporter: kelly said her mom opened bank accounts, created fake corporations, and even set up phony dating profiles for the scammers. could your mom have been compromised, actually been working for these guys? >> i believe so. >> reporter: at the time of her death, police said kelly's mom, laura, was actually under investigation for money laundering. federal agents had traced some of the money laura unwittingly sent to scammers to chicago and arrested this woman, jennifer gosha, along with two nigerian nationals who are alleged involvement in romance

fraud. while prosecutors say gosha was an active participant, she has pleaded not guilty and told us she too was a money mule, duped by one of the nigerians and says she never made. >> it wasn't like a ding, ding, ding, something is wrong. >> reporter: gosha says she dated one of the nigerians in real life, but he operated behind her back. >> served in the iraqi war. i raise my children. i am not someone who decides, after all i've accomplished in my life, now i'm going to become a criminal mastermind. if i'm going to come up with the scheme, it's not going to be this dumbass scheme. >> reporter: if convicted, gosha could face up to 30 years in prison. do you ever think to yourself, i played a part in someone's life being ruined? >> i have thought that. many, many times. and...

i didn't play a part in it knowingly. >> reporter: you are saying you are a victim of the scammers, as well. >> i'm absolutely a victim. >> reporter: and you are a victim who may end up doing t time. >> and only because they feel like i should have known. >> reporter: asked for kelly kao, her thought is simple. someone has to pay. >> i have so much anger. towards them. they took everything away from her. and i and my family will never get that time back. >> reporter: wow. eye-opening, disturbing. gym, where does your investigation go now? >> reporter: maurice, law enforcement tells us the explosion of romance scams is tied directly to the increased popularity of online dating a apps. they are, after all, a target-rich environment for scammers. so tomorrow we will dive much more deeply into that on

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airports. >> all clear really does is it moves me in front of you and we get to the same place in front of the conveyor belt appear only by then you are mad, the tsa agent is all stressed out. and i paid $189 because i thinkm better than you. >> reporter: how is it is different than any other service that we pay to jump online? >> people pay to jump the line at theme parks. they paid to jump the line going into music concerts, sports stadiums. >> reporter: the company says it has nearly 1 million california customers and pays airports there $13 million. several airlines have taken a stake in clear and save the lost revenue could mean higher fares. at clear, which uses fingerprinting and i scanning in its screnings, has had issues in recent years with security lapses. that's the main reason the union representing flight attendants supports the bill, and lawmakers don't want to ban clear entirely. just separate the lines. >> if you pay for clear, go do

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♪ ♪ >> maurice: finally here, tonight's "heart of america." we meet the nasa scientist who repaired a spacecraft from 15 billion miles away. the voyager 1 is known for being the first spacecraft to go beyond our solar system, so when it stopped sending data back to earth last november, the team faced a daunting task. they traced the problem to a single manufacturing computer chip and announced yesterday that the malfunctioning computer

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you are about to enter the courtroom you are about to enter the courtroom of judge judith sheindlin. captions paid for by cbs television distribution twenty-year-old veronica brown-hansen is suing 18-year-old gyasi murillo for medical bills, plus pain and suffering, after she was hit in the head with a chair during his party. >> byrd: order! all rise! this is case number 212 on the calendar in the matter brown-hansen versus murillo. parties have been sworn in. you may be seated. sir, have a seat. >> judge judy: ms. hansen, it is your claim that mr. murillo was responsible for injuries that you sustained while at a party at his house. >> yes, ma'am. >> judge judy: i'm going to start with mr. murillo. how old are you? >> i'm 18 years old, your honor. >> judge judy: who do you live with? >> i live with my grandmother and my mom and my sisters. >> judge judy: and where were you throwing this party? >> in my backyard, your honor. >> judge judy: does your grandmother work? >> yes. >> judge judy: does your mother work? >> yes. >> judge judy: do you work? >> yes. >> judge judy: now, you were throwingpa