greetings, everyone. i am symone sanders-townsend in for stephanie ruhle. tonight, we heard from writer e. jean carroll just days after a new york jury found that trump must pay her more than $83 million for defaming her. carroll and her attorneys spoke to rachael maddow tonight, admitting she was nervous about physically facing trump in court. but one moment, that changed. amazingly, i looked out and he was nothing, he was nothing. he was a phantom. there was some people around him who were giving him about, but he himself was nothing. it was an astonishing discovery for me. he is nothing. we don t need to be afraid of him. he can be knocked out. as big as that 83 million -dollar verdict is, donald trump may have an even bigger penalty to soon deal with. we are expecting a decision in the new york civil fraud trial in the coming days. now, the new york attorney general is asking trump and his companies to be fined $370 million. and there are questions as to whether tru
reporting from new york. josé diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. good morning, it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m josé diaz-balart. this morning president biden vows to retaliate after three u.s. service members were killed in a drone strike on a base in jordan. it s the first u.s. service member deaths in months of attacks by iran-backed militants. we ll ask retired four-star general what retaliation could look like. back at home, senate negotiators are inching closer to a bipartisan border security deal as president biden promises to shut down the border if it means locking in an agreement. new this morning, e. jean carroll speaking out for the first time on camera since a jury ordered donald trump to pay her more than $83 million for defamation. and breaking overseas just a short time ago, king charles and the princess of wales both released from the hospital after medical procedures. we begin this hour with president biden vowing to re
bring it, donald. show me what you got. also, alabama set to make history tonight for the controversial way it is scheduling to execute a convicted murderer. across the south, more than 30 million people bracing for another round of heavy showers and flooding that could linger for days. and a family reunion, 14 years in the making. a mom finally back with her family after being separated by her nation s broken immigration system. and we begin this morning with breaking news from here in new york city, where testimony has resumed in former president donald trump s defamation damages trial after a three-day pause. the former president is in court today for proceedings, and could testify in his own defense later today. trump was originally expected to testify on monday in the case, brought against him by writer e. jean carroll, but the trial was postponed after a juror got sick and one of trump s attorneys told the judge she was exposed to covid and was feeling sick. l
wedding websites for same sex couples. an application of the first amendment to civil rights law that could affect public accommodations perhaps even gay marriage access for many minority groups. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington where the supreme court just ended its urm with a conservative super majority flexing its muscle once again. this morning striking down the student loan forgiveness program with the chief justice writing in part the secretary of education asserts the heroes act. in a second major ruling today but perhaps even more far ranging consequences down the road the six conservatives, gorsuch writing the opinion saying the first amendment rights of a colorado website designer give her the freedom to refuse from accepting same sex couples from her business. in this case justice sotomayor read aloud a strongly worded dissent from the bench to emphasize her strong disagreement. writing in part, lgbt people have existed for all of human history. and as s
it is sunday, january january 28th, in your watching velshi. i m charles coleman junior filling in for my friend ali velshi, we ve got a lot to talk about. we start this morning with the trials against donald trump. he had his day in court, and i was just been ordered by a jury of his peers to pay 83 point $3 million to e. jean carroll for repeatedly defaming her. how do you respond? vegas, baby. the campaign rally a week and a half before the nevada caucuses was replete with the typical vitriol, hatred, and lives we ve come to expect from the twice impeached, multiply indicted republican from honor. however, instead of focusing on his primary opponent nikki haley, trump largely directed his verbal assault at president joe biden. now, to, be fair, this actually makes more sense, and it reconciles much better into trump s political economy. the primary season may have just begun, but, to be real, things are all but over. president joe biden is going to be the democratic nomine