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
the gop nomination. will the presidents gop something nonsensical to benefit trump, even he s shutting down. and how far how up thought right tiktok influencer with zero background in education got a job overseeing which books can sit on library shelves and oklahoma. i m ayman mohyeldin, let s do it. $83 million. that is how much new york jury ordered donald trump topae. jean carroll full repeatedly defaming her after the writer accused the ex president of sexual assault back in the 1990s. carol s attorney, rort kaplan celebrated the decision marking it as a major moment for accountability, claiming, quote, proves the law applies to everyone in our country, even that rich, even the famous, even former presidents. friday s verdict for a dramatic week in court, with trump taking the stand to testify in his underpants. and that testimony, the first from the former president in the presence of a jury. lasted about three minutes. the drama did not end there, though. on
plus, nikki haley shifting strategy as she fights to win her home state of south carolina. and she s now attacking trump head on. bring it, donald. show me what you got. [ cheers and applause ] also ahead, former trump adviser peter navarro set to be sentenced this hour for criminal contempt of congress, how much time could he face behind bars? and later, flash flooding turning roads to rivers all across the south, we are tracking where all this extreme weather is headed next. it is 10:00 eastern, great to be with you. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york, any in a moment now the civil trial against donald trump for defamation of e. jean carroll is set to resume after a three-day delay, and these are live pictures outside the courthouse. the former president is of course fresh off his new hampshire primary victory arriving at the new york courthouse a short time ago. that s when he arrived these images just moments ago. he and his attorney say he will testify in
new hampshire it is a two-person race for the republican presidential nomination, with less than 24 hours to go before primary day. who stands to benefit most from ron desantis s sudden dropout? we ve got new reporting on why sources close to desantis are calling his now defunct campaign a, quote, failure to launch. back in new york city, donald trump s day upended after his trial is unexpectedly postponed. and in georgia why the d.a. is due in court herself today and how it could affect her case against trump. and we begin this hour with the new hampshire primary, which is less than 24 hours away. there s been a major shake-up in the republican field for the white house in what has now become a two-person showdown between two contenders with far different visions for the future of the party and our country. yesterday florida governor ron desantis suspended his presidential bid and endorsed former president trump. opponents of desantis reacted to the news on the campaign
i m yasmin vossoughian in for ana cabrera. today a man who felt direct heat from donald trump to overturn the 2020 election will speak to the department of justice. the special counsel s team meeting with georgia s secretary of state brad raffensperger. this happening as we learn that a close trump ally, rudy giuliani also had a sit-down with jack smith s team. what all of this means for that investigation and for the former president as well. plus, a double dose of wild, wild weather, storms snarling travel as canadian wildfire smoke prompts new air alerts here in the united states. also ahead, was there help from the inside? reporting from the new york times that a russian general knew about the recent rebellion before it even happened. and later on, malaria in the united states. dr. natalie azar joins us with more cases of the illness not seen here in two decades. we begin with the new legal developments surrounding the former president. at some point today georg