it, with a republican primary dominated by an ex-president who has centered his candidacy around his legal woes, look no further. this morning donald trump, fresh off a decisive win in the iowa caucuses, was at a federal courthouse in manhattan as the defendant in a second defamation trial brought by the writer e. jean carroll. this time there s no question of whether trump defamed her. judge kaplan has ruled trump is liable for remarks he made in 2019 mocking carroll s claim that he sexually assaulted her in a chance encounter at a department store dressing room in the 1990s. and trump is not allowed to dispute carroll s account. the question now is how much a jury should award e. jean carroll in damage for those comments. opening statements are currently under way. we ll have a live report from the courthouse when the trial wraps from the day. so far, donald trump was in the courtroom. alongside his lawyer, alina habba, as well as e. jean carroll and her attorneys. the firs
sunday night in america. omor the race for the white house is kicking off in earnest tomorrow with the iowa caucus. iowa is the beginning, but the caucus does not always accurately predict how the story nd will end. a political graveyard is full of those who want iowa but did not go on to win the nomination but nevertheless winning is almost always better than not appear it polling indicates former president trump is the overwhelming favorite.ll are the poles right? and he emerge as the top challenger with poor showing persuade any candidate to exitig leftht or right? i joining us now is the host of good story and that debates c and town halls on election coverage, martha maccallum, who may have to pay taxes in t iowa because she s been there like weeks and weeks. jessica tarlov who is a cohost the five and wakes up every morning knowing she will be outnumbered even though that is not the name of the show but shs will be outnumbered 5:00 easter0 time when she more than h
way. what s interesting here is that it puts a little bit of additional pressure on judge canon. if she s at all inclined to slow walk this prosecution, she may find herself in the embarrassing position of having state judges want to move in front of her. it is 2:00 p.m. in new york city. also in miami. thank you for staying with us for our special coverage. president trump has just arrived at the miami federal courthouse where he will voluntarily surrender then be arrested on 37 counts on the alleged mishanding of classified documents. mr. trump will be represented at today s proceedings by attorneys and will appear alongside his personal aide and co-defendant, walt nauta. a former navy military aide who was his aide in the white house. went with him and became a private citizen. accused of helping donald trump move boxes of documents. we expect mr. trump to enter a not guilty plea. he s said that before u.s. magistrate judge john goodman. he said he would. still has tim
hand will be scanned digitally, not the more familiar fingerprinting with actual ink. and donald trump will be joined in court by his attorneys, former federal prosecutor todd blanche and the solicitor general chris kise. they spent the last day or so interviewing local florida attorneys, but so far have not found any to join the former president s legal team. and as we wait for donald trump to make his way to the courthouse, we re keeping a close eye on the scene outside. we have not yet seen anywhere near the kind of huge crowds that miami police were bracing for. though that could change as we get closer to the arraignment. no sign of it yet. trump was asked on monday if he had a message for his supporters and here s what he said. just stay strong, stay very, very strong and we re going to bring it back and we re going to win in a landslide. i believe it will be one of the greatest wins ever, much bigger than the other way, because they ve done so poorly. we re going t
reorganization. we ll talk to the mayor and plus this. that is violence, serious violence escalating between israel and palestinians. and a mysterious drone strike against iran stoking tension in the region as america s top diplomat heads to jerusalem in the thick of it. facing a major test as this situation continues. a bombastic warning from a top u.s. general who is predicting war with china potentially. we re going to start though with the memphis police department permanently shutting down the scorpion unit after the savage and deadly beating of tyre nichols. the special unit is once celebrated for cracking down on high crime areas. it is now coming under intense scrutiny. the big question is was tyre nichols the only one? or did other people also suffer brutal treatment? you re going to stay on top of this. it has a very as i understand it, sketchy track record. well, we re hearing that certainly from people in the community. you were there. people would come