good to be with you, i m katy tur in for the second hour of chris jansing reports. the jury has the e. jean carroll defamation case. how much will they find donald trump owes carroll for continuing to attack her, and continue to go deny what a court of law has already established that he sexually assaulted her. msnbc legal analyst, lisa rubin just stepped out of the courtroom for the first time today to let us know what it was like inside. so, lisa, tell us. reporter: i listened to both sides closing arguments and then the rebuttal of e. jean carroll s lawyers this morning, and then i listened to judge lou kaplan instruct the jury on the law as well as the legal process and the rules that they are required to follow as they deliberate. i think one of the things that was most interesting this morning is the emergence of big themes that are much bigger than e. jean carroll and donald trump alone. what you heard from e. jean carol s lawyers is this isn t a case just about d
not alone. gop governors from oklahoma, south dakota, florida, virginia, georgia, utah and more telling the federal government don t mess with texas in their battle to combat the border crisis. now a deal on border security could be unraveling as former president donald trump is apparently meddling. why utah republican senator mitt romney says that is appalling. we ll ask texas republican congressman chip roy where all of this could be going. welcome, everyone. glad to have you. i m neil cavuto. let s get to matt finn in eagle pass with the very latest on this building soap opera. matt? hi, neil. as you can see behind me, texas razor wire remains untouched. not far in the distance, texas national guard is installing more razor wire. right now the state attorney general ken paxon does not have a plan to go with the federal government. the supreme court went with the biden administration that prohibited biden s border agents from touching razor wire in shelby park. the adm
sexually abused a woman and publicly defamed her even after he was ordered by a court of law to stop. now, another jury is deciding not just how much he should be held liable for the damage his words have done, but how much he should be punished for those words as well. in other words, how much money he should pay e. jean carroll in punitive damages, just like yesterday, the courtroom was wild again today, judge kaplan, again, admonished alina habba for arguing with his rulings, this time telling her, quote, you are on the verge of spending some time in lockdown. now sit down. then after the jury was brought in and e. jean carroll s lawyer was in the middle of her closing statements, donald trump abruptly stood up and walked out of the court according to our reporters in the room. that s when the judge said, quote, the record will reflect that mr. trump rose and walked out of the courtroom, said the judge. what did carroll s lawyers say that got under his skin and how will th
underway once again. and the other major question, if he does take the stand, can he stay within the parameters set by the judge and what are the consequences if he doesn t? we re live at the courthouse. plus, nikki haley sending a message to trump that sounds a lot like you don t scare me. her new fund-raising hall that has him threatening her donors and has given her new energy. the political elites in this state and around the country have said that we just need to let donald trump have this. we are not going to sit there and just give up. . and the severe weather that just won t stop. among the dramatic new images, this woman, how she got stranded on top of her car for 14 long hours before she was rescued. we begin with donald trump off the campaign trail and back in a federal courthouse today. e. jean carroll s lawyers have rested their case and trump s team just started the defense in a trial to determine if he has toay the writer millions of dollars for defam
the republican president of caucuses in iowa. the candidates are making closing arguments this weekend, donald trump is still the overwhelming favorite to win on that day, ron desantis and nikki haley are in a tight battle for second place. the candidate squaring off wednesday in their final vote making is the case for why they should be the trump alternative. i don t have vengeance or vendettas or take things personally. for me it is about no drama, no whining, getting results, and getting them done. i don t think donald trump is the right president to go forward. it s time for new generational leader who will make america proud again. i appreciated what donald trump did but he said he was going to have a wall and have mexico pay for it, he said he was going to drain the swamp, he did not deliver that. he said he will hold hillary accountable and let her off the hook. he said he was going to laminate the debt and added $7.8 trillion to the debt. we need to get this stuff