i m abby philip, and washington, where today cameras captured what might be the final chapter in a truly american story. a jury, sentencing the man once known as america s mayor to what is, essentially, a financial death penalty. rudy giuliani, now on the hook for $148 million. $148 million for the harm he caused to two women. shame moss, and ruby freeman. moss and freeman are the georgia election workers whose lives were forever altered after giuliani made them the crux of a nonsense voter fraud conspiracy. now, the sheer size of this penalty is, really, stunning. 16 million for defaming freemen, 16 million for defaming moss. 40 million for emotional distress to both women, and 75 million in punitive damages. moments after following the verdict, the two women thanked the jury, but said that today s result does not atone for two years of turmoil. the flame that giuliani lit with those lies, and passed on to so many others to keep the flame blazing changed every aspect of ou
, everyone i m yasmin vossoughian on a very busy saturday afternoon. it s down to the wire as negotiators say they are very close to a deal on the debt ceiling, as talks continue right now. i feel closer to agreement now than i did last time before i couldn t see progress. but this is not easy. but that since [inaudible] i am cautiously optimistic a deal will be negotiated and the default will be averted, and congress will be called back into session next week. but there s nothing to celebrate here. this is purely a self inflicted wounds. we re also keeping an eye on the rare side of the house hearing in texas as well, considering the impeachment of state attorney general, ken paxton. and its fellow republicans leading the charge against him. we also have new information about donald trump on tape. part of the evidence against him in a manhattan d.a. s investigation, and it is, everybody, as you all well know, memorial day weekend. the unofficial start of summer. we re
e 11th hour starts right now tonight, rudy giuliani ordered to pay millions of dollars for his lies about two election workers, and from republicans formal impeachment inquiry to stalled aid to israel and it crane, michael beschloss puts the wild week into perspective. then, looking back at america s response to depend to make. a stark fraud and what went wrong and the lessons learned, as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. greetings, everyone, i am symone sanders-townsend, and for stephanie ruhle. we begin here in washington d.c. with a massive verdict and a defamation case against former trump attorney rudy giuliani. he s been ordered to pay georgia election workers shaye moss and ruby freeman, more than $148 million in damages. that includes 60 million to benefit him for defamation, 20 million each for emotional distress plus another 75 million in punitive damages. the judge ruled earlier this year that giuliani defamed the two women, basically accusing bos
er good evening chris, book bans, just saying the phrase book bans. very understandable, doesn t seem to pull well, like so many things, desantis is overseeing the state of florida. it is a mystery to me how he does not think this is an absolute kryptonite in terms of a net national bay. more kryptonite, further goes on, i found the washington post finding that there are 11 people who are filing. okay, that s cancellation, 30 million. i think the rest of folks are like, i don t need to go through every book in the kids libra. please make me less involved. that s what i say. enough emails. anyway, that s one of another show. thank you, chris, as always. thanks to at-home for joining us this evening. today, for only the second time in american history, a former president appeared in court as a criminal defendant. the first time, last month. when donald trump is arraigned on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. in the manhattan district attorney s case again
so it s really the second time in american, history the former president appeared in court as a criminal defendant. the first time as last month when donald trump was arraigned on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. in the manhattan district attorney s case against him. now, today, mr. trump appeared in that courtroom again, virtually. by video conference from mar-a-lago. the reason for this hearing was that the judge in this case needed to explain to former president trump why he is not allowed to post any of the evidence from this case on social media. which seems like it was probably quite necessary. because donald trump has a real tendency to post about his various legal entanglements. this weekend, for example, the former president went on a truth social tirade, the radical left democrats will step up their fake investigations on me because they they now see they can t win at the ballot box. trump hating special prosecutor jack smith, whose family and friend