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
that is all in for the week. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex wagner. welcome back. it s good to be home, my friend. it s good to be home. thanks. thanks to you at home for joining me this evening. this is park avenue. it s an historic 32 in manhattan, it s one of the highlights, you could say, in donald trump s real estate portfolio. and because of the new york attorney general s lawsuit against mr. trump, we know that, in 2020, the trump organization received an appraisal for trump park avenue, which set its value at 84 point $5 million. it s an interesting some. today, a jury ordered donald trump to pay writer e. jean carroll 83 point $3 million, approximately one trump park avenue, for defaming her. breaking that number down a little bit more, the jury awarded e. jean carroll 18 point $3 million to compensate her for the harm trump s lies caused her. they awarded her another $65 million in punitive damages to, well, punish donald trum
we re going to de-bank. i don t know what the hell de-bank means, but he might have to take de-ambulance to see de-doctor. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is monday, january 29th. we have a lot to get to this morning, including the massive payout donald trump now owes e. jean carroll. talk about being de-banked. after a jury awarded the writer $83 million in defamation damages. we ll get expert legal analysis on that, as well as the looming case that could further impact donald trump s bank account. you know, that s the big one, really. a lot of de-banking. look at the fraud case, he s already found guilty. that one this is all just damages stage. i don t think he helped himself in the defamation case, though you haven t heard from him in the first time. has he defamed e. jean carroll since this came down on friday? i don t think he has. i haven t heard it yet. came close on stage. it s what the jury tried to do. we shall see. meanwh
value at $84.5 million. it s an interesting me. today, a jury ordered donald trump to pay writer e. jean carroll $83.3 million, approximately one trump park avenue, for defaming her. breaking that number down a little bit more, the jury awarded e. jean carroll $18.3 million to compensate her for the harm trump s lies caused her. they awarded her another $65 million in punitive damages to, well, punish donald trump, to deter him from defaming e. jean carroll ever again. we will have more on that in just a moment. a nine member jury took just two hours and 45 minutes to reach its verdict after hearing final arguments from trump, and carroll s lawyers. mr. trump himself spent the final day of the trial causing disruption. and when ms. carroll s lawyers were given closing arguments, he stood up and walked out of the room, at which point the judge interrupted ms. carroll s lawyers and order that the official record reflect donald trump s abrupt exit. at one point the judge had to
minister. this has multiple implications and curious to see how this plays out as wagner appears to be moving slowly toward moscow. neil: welcome back, everybody. moving slowly toward moscow in a surreal situation where the country would be under siege right now and its capital could be the next target. this of course, courtesy of the wagner group, a group of mercenary soldiers, paid by russia to do russia s bidding in countries all over the world and sometimes russia itself to put down protests and that sort of thing. and i say paid by russia, no longer as this group turns on russia. this happened about 18 hours ago when a fed-op, and prigozhin, the leader this have group often fought and criticized with generals and leaders back home at the defense ministry said enough is enough and making his fight in eastern ukraine in particular around the area that the russians on and off have control of, that might be in doubt given this craziness, but in part of the real nature of thi