delegitimized and apply double standards to the state of israel is, in fact, what we should be condemning. it is very, very sad. and the i ve soojee, in many ways, has to make the decision, is it going to be a court of justice like in the trial or will it be a court of injustice just like in the dreyfuss affair. mikael, i want to thank you for our time. i m sorry it is abbreviated. we did lose the connection at first. i m very glad that you could speak with us on holocaust remembrance day. that is this edition of alex reports. i will see you again tomorrow. at next, the weekend. i am ari melber let s get right into the headlines. a jury just hit donald trump with the record-breaking penalty for lying about a sexual isn t to cues are. the defendant ordered to pay $83 million to eugene carroll who is the victorious plaintiff in this case and right here you can see she first walked out of court with her lawyers today. we could tell you the jury deliberated for under three hour
now. welcome to the beat, our top story is new developments right now in what s shaping up to be the case of the decade for trying to hold liars accountable with real swift justice. fox news on defense, facing over a billion dollars for punishment and lies, it served up and fed the insurrection. as you see here, top fox hosts have clearly been on team trump in public for a long time. we know that. we know sean hannity broke all journalistic rules of pretense by endorsing and publicly campaigning for trump. there s no court punishment for breaking that kind of rule. there just isn t. but there can be penalties for malicious lying, for defamation if you can prove the defendant acting knowingly, maliciously, intentionally. that s hard to prove and that difficult standard is deliberate, which is why this case has to turn on hard evidence, not asking whether hannity is biassed for trump, he is. but asking whether hannity knowingly and maliciously pushed lies that caused immeas
in this segment. so before we go to break, we ll be getting into one of those. first i want to give you the latest with the middle east. the israeli cabinet is meeting on the very big question of whether or how to extend a pause in the fighting in the ongoing conflict with hamas, and they re racing against a deadline, because that pause s according to the deal that was struck, basically over, terminated if no new deal is reached tonight. officials from the u.s., israel, qatar, egypt, they ve all been in talks today. there s a lot of forces that want to make this step possible, especially considering with any deal you say, will it work? will both sides participate? innocent people have been freed according to many of the people in the region, so when you look at the scenes of some of these people being reunited, you can see why many people want this to continue. the last two hours hamas released 14 hours, including an american. that is if you re counting many of them younger
hear, as an acclaimed colleague, who hasn t impersonated obama but interviewed him. terry bradshaw, film icons, and recently profiled underdog musicians who shocked the classical music world with their grammy. there we are. i just thought i would sit on that moment. yeah. you want to? yeah, look at that. harry. respect. we got so much to get to, including the fun stuff. i ll let you weigh in on briefly should the ar-15 fall back as a quote national. please don t. it s just a bad idea on every possible level. everything that you just read in terms of the statistics, but also just as a basic thing. that s not what we re about. yeah. godfrey, what s on your fall back list? fall back list, a guy bringing ribs on an airplane, people bringing food on
covid policy take for example dr. jay bhattacharya who argued that covid lockdown would harm children. twitter secretly based him on a trends blacklist which prevented his tweets from trending. are consider the popular right wing talk show host dan bongino who at one point was slapped with a searched back list. thee asked this twitter set the account of conservative activist charlie kirk to do not amplify. now, weiss reporting suggests there is a small secret trove of twitter officials who are involved in making these politically sensitive decisions. as you see there ghani, roth, dorsey and ago gras they refer o it as disability filtering or df. twitter will offer a solution to