we re going to de-bank. i don t know what the hell de-bank means, but he might have to take de-ambulance to see de-doctor. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is monday, january 29th. we have a lot to get to this morning, including the massive payout donald trump now owes e. jean carroll. talk about being de-banked. after a jury awarded the writer $83 million in defamation damages. we ll get expert legal analysis on that, as well as the looming case that could further impact donald trump s bank account. you know, that s the big one, really. a lot of de-banking. look at the fraud case, he s already found guilty. that one this is all just damages stage. i don t think he helped himself in the defamation case, though you haven t heard from him in the first time. has he defamed e. jean carroll since this came down on friday? i don t think he has. i haven t heard it yet. came close on stage. it s what the jury tried to do. we shall see. meanwh
he s a tough man, strong man, very respected. i happen to think he is a good man. the press goes crazy when i say it. we can t have a weak president. we have a weak man who cheats like hell. they cheat at elections like nobody has ever cheated before. i saw shots you wouldn t believe. missile launch, and you hear a bell go. i see this. it s so incredible. they calmly walk to a seat, ding, ding, ding, ding. they have 17 seconds to figure this whole thing out, right? okay, missile launch, boom. and we don t have it here. i really take back i don t know where to begin. i take everything back that i said about elvis in 1977. i apologize to the ghost of fat elvis right here and now. he looked better then joe, we re supposed to talk about how he was talking about orban. i mean, i m just saying i m so distracted. first of all, we go back to what was said over the weekend on x. if he keeps putting i can t unsee that. the bronzer on at this level, white sup
and more than 30 wounded. bill: the headlines right there. the white house blaming iranian proxies for the killing of american troops overseas. it has happened. the pentagon vowing to respond. what is that response? will it be a tipping point? the world s on edge for good reason on this monday morning. hope you enjoyed the weekend. to have a big start today. i m bill hemmer. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. the attack happened yesterday in jordan. base tower 22 near the syrian border. these militias has been firing on u.s. for months. all of thieves attacks on american forces in the middle east be it houthis, hezbollah, anybody else. they re iranian-backed. the administration can t pull its punches anymore. they need to strike back. dana: let s get jennifer s update. a senior u.s. defense official told me this weekend we haven t been this close to regional war in the middle east since 1973. defense secretary lloyd austin s first day back in
to go out of what was being decided, which is really how much of anything he owed her he was still denying the heart of the allegation the point that tran20 s attorney made yesterday as he was being cross-examined that, was that there was another trial in and trump did not show up or testify, he did not even go to the courtroom, which he has since said it was because his attorneys advised him to do so, but the attorney saying he could have come for that trial. and of course we are seeing how it has ended up, no surprise that he is going to appeal this but also revealing how angry he is about how much with the situation where he is going to have to potentially pay e. jean carroll 2 lies that president biden had anything to do with the defamation suit, he did not , zero evidence there is of that , and 2nd of all that this is anything to do with first amendment rights, the department amendment to the u.s. constitution, allowing for more freeze than almost any other country on ea
general election matchup between biden and trump, and we re going to have some clips of that interview to play for you momentarily, but first i m going to send it up to you in new york, ayman. it to away, my friend. you re going to give us a big preview and the latest on the 2024 presidential race and the sper spective down there in south carolina. we do want to start with the front-runner in new york. the republican primary was once again in a new york courtroom. this afternoon trump took the stand in the damages case brought by writer e. jean carroll. the former president has already been found liable of sexual abuse and defamation by a civil jury. trump today testified for only three minutes, but in those three minutes, believe it or not, the judge had to tell the jury multiple times to disregard trump s out of order testimony. at the same time trump was taking the stand, there was a split screen, a jarring split screen. president biden was hitting the campaign trail at