right now. good day. i m chris jansing live at m headquarters in new york city. nearly 24 hours after president biden vowed to strike back, we re waiting for his critical decision. how will be u.s. retaliate for the attack that killed three u.s. soldiers and wounded dozens more in the middle east? what s it going to take to get them to back down but not trigger a bigger war in the process. he s not president and not in congress. how is it possible that donald trump could pull the rug out from under a border deal that both parties say they want and that the country desperately needs? it s the race the american people have been dreading. the two oldest candidates in u.s. history duking it out in what may be the longest presidential campaign we ve ever seen. what it s going to take for them and us to make it to election day. we begin with the deadly attack on american troops in the middle east, opening a new potentially explosive chapter in the israel-hamas war. president
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
and so he got upset and so he said he d take one and he d challenge me to one and he d beat me. maybe he would, maybe he wouldn t. but what i said is, okay, well, if that s the case, then get on a debate stage and let s go. bring it, donald. show me what you got. nikki haley going after donald trump at the very start of her speech in her home state of south carolina. a real shift from previous rallies. we ll have more from the campaign trail and the new polling from the gop front-runner. plus we ll bring you the latest from capitol hill where there are now serious doubts about the possibility of passing a border bill, which includes urgent funding for ukraine. and also ahead, we ll explain the new action by israeli forces inside gaza that could create even more tension with the biden administration. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, january 25th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. and we begin this morning with the race
i m sorry, albert let s get right into the headlines. a jury just hit donald trump with this record breaking penalty for lying about a sexual assault accuser. defendant trump, ordered to pay $83 million to the writer e. jean carroll. she is the victorious plaintiffs in this case, and right here you can see as she first walked out of court with her lawyers today. now we can tell you the jury deliberated from just under three hours, that is fast, and they dubbed trump a huge loss, which set its records, and shows a very costly miscalculation that he, an ongoing defendant made by, according to the court system, lying and defaming her again after a previous court victory. here are the numbers tonight, if you ve been watching the news, you may have seen some of this. i want to break it down for me. $18 million to compensate carroll, okay, that is what the jury found she should get for what she went through. and then that larger number, a massive $65 million to punish this defian
Prompting new retaliation from u. S. Forces and new fears that the violence could spread. Lets bring in Aaron Gillcrist whos covering todays diplomatic meetings in washington at the white house and Nbcs Jay Gray whos in tel aviv. Jay, starting with you. What is the latest on the ground in israel and gaza as we talk about last hour the war Cabinet Meeting last night and what may have come from that. Day 81 of the war and as intense the u. N. Says it has been since the start and as deadly. They are saying the intensity of the battles on the ground as well as the air strikes has ramped up over the last 48 hours. We know that the attacks have been targeting from the air control and command centers according to the idf. They have been working also to identify and target some of the senior hamas leaders saying that one of their air strikes did kill a leader but not saying to this point who that may be. On the ground, they are continuing to try and expose and then eliminate the Tunnel Network