hi, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york, an extraordinary and historic moment unfolding today in a manhattan courthouse where a jury of six men and three women ruled that the disgraced, impeached, indicted ex-president and now also liable for sexually abusing writer e. jean carroll inside a luxury manhattan department store in the mid-1990s. trump was also found liable for defamatory statements he made toward carroll including calling her claims a hoax and a con job. in total this jury awarded the former journalist nearly $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages. the jury did not find trump liable for raping e. jean carroll. it s the only claim on the ten count verdict that went in his favor. while the jury s unanimous verdict was decided in less than three hours it carries no criminal implications for donald trump, it is nonetheless a historic moment of accountability for the ex-president and current republican front-runner. donald trump with his long record of lying and
Details surrounding the firing of fbi director james comey and National Security adviser michael flynn. This as were also learning the fbi director who temporarily replaced comey faced an eerily similar line of questioning about loyalty from the president. Andy mccabe purportedly very disturbed after the president asked him whom he voted for and confronted him about past Campaign Donations to his wife from a group with ties to Hillary Clinton. Shimon broke pez with more. What are you learning . That story published by the Washington Post says that during an Oval Office Meeting the president asked then acting fbi director Andrew Mccabe who is right now the deputy director, about who he voted for. Mccabe went ahead and shared details about that conversation with some of his executive staff and in the conversation according to the Washington Post the president asked mccabe who he voted for. Mccabe didnt feel comfortable, and didnt tell the president who he voted for. Also apparently in th
they need to open up a new avenue of attack on donald trump and perhaps chris christie s right, perhaps the ideal that republicans cannot win with him has more traction than he is a bad actor. and on that bad actor side, this is jamie raskin, andrews weissman talking about what he s facing in terms of criminal exposure. four members of the proud boys were just convicted of seditious conspiracy this week, and in their defense, they all pointed the finger at the former president. is it conceivable that special counsel jack smith could be considering seditious conspiracy charges against trump? absolutely. i mean, that s not a defense. i mean, if you re accused of conspiracy to overthrow the government or put down the government of the united states, which is what seditious conspiracy means. it s not a defense to say somebody else told me to do it or somebody else was involved in the conspiracy. trump could very much have been part of the proud boys or the
released. explain what s going on there. reporter: that s right, john. this mem poe, the president s allies and even one of his sons are calling for it to be released. it purportedly shows misconduct by the fbi and doj against the president, against the trump campaign. a source familiar says the president would be ready to release this memo if it was declassified, the white house isn t quite taking that step yet, only saying that they believe in transparency. but a person familiar says that the president is ready to release it if he needs to. critics say this memo is just part of a larger effort to discredit the whole russia investigation, of course. kaitlan collins for us at the white house. a dizzying number of developments in the last 24 hours. let s try to understand them insofar as that s possible. laura coates, cnn legal analyst, and former federal prosecutor, also former federal pros cueser samuel robert mueller from duke university. you know andrew weissman, you worked with