correspondent mark meredith is here with all the details of this big case. good evening, mark. bret, it was a big case. good evening to you. johnny depp was not in the courtroom when today s verdict was announced. tonight both he and his legal team are celebrating after a jury in virginia ruled depp s ex-wife actress amber heard owes him $15 million for defamation. he claimed an op-ed written by heard in 2018 and published in the the washington post significantly set back his career. in the piece, heard wrote she was, quote, a public figure representing domestic abuse. the jury ruled these claims were intentionally meant to hurt depp. the ache door wrote published already traveled around the world twice within a nanosecond had seismic impact on my life and career. six months later the jury gave me my life back. i m truly humbled. we also heard from his legal team. we are also most pleased that the trial has resonated for so many people in the public who value truth and
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that gas prices, everybody does feel it every day. well, i think you can t get away from the fact that if you pull up to a gas pump and you have any size vehicle and it s not an electric vehicle, you get walloped again and again and again. election after election after election this fall will be fought over gas prices from the west coast to the east coast from the north to the south. every american consumer gets hit and as guy just pointed out, the president con k. send market signals that bring down the cost of gasoline by opening up production. he will could do it yesterday. he can do it today. he can do it tomorrow. bret: all right. we are going to take a look at the midterms. i asked each of you to take a race to focus on on comment on. mara you have got one. i have the pennsylvania governor s race where doug mastriano is the republican. josh shapiro is the democrat. mastriano got a very late endorsement from donald trump even though he was a very trumpy guy. he is an electio