it is the ethics committee in the house. they already investigated this. still, clearly, facing is federal probe. the question is where does it go next? they spoke to reporters after, saying that she did nothing wrong. as a rank-and-file member of congress, not entitled to personal protection by the house. instead, i have used campaign funds as permissible to retain security services. i have not used any federal tax dollars for personal security services. in accordance with our applicable rules, i retained my husband as part of my security team because he has had extensive experience in this area. now, jake, she said that she has now acknowledged this investigation in the interest of transparency, although she did not answer questions for me and other reporters about what exactly is happening in this investigation and the scope of it, whether she has spoken to federal prosecutors, whether she is being interviewed by the grand jury in any way. she said she would cooperate
trump vowed to appeal and there s a possible legal strategy. what i would do is target the piewnty damage awards 65 million dollars that basically say this is excessive and unconstitutional. this is an extremely large amounts. the writers attorney arguing in the two week long trial that carroll reputation have been destroyed and carroll had been tormented with online threats and harassment. court was very tense on friday, the former president stormed out as carroll attorney gave her closing arguments urging jury to set a high amount in damages later, trump s attorney alina firing back telling the jury the former president did not intend to hurt carroll and he shouldn t be punished for what people write online also arguing it was carroll who would actually sought out the attention. now carroll won another civil lawsuit against trump last year, and that case jury ruled that trump was indeed liable for sexual abuse, and did indeed defame her and now vowing to appeal this mo
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i m alicia menendez with simone standers townsend and michael steele. here are some of the stories we are following today. donald trump delivering a new calling for, quote, compute complete immunity for presidents. plus, the house speaker cold water on congresswoman the net paragon will tell us where things stand. we will also hear from hhs secretary javier after record breaking care for the affordable care act. grab your coffee, settle, in to the weekend. we begin with donald trump ramping up his calls for presidential immunity. the former president posting late last night that, quote, without complete immunity, a president united states would not be able to properly function. this comes as trump gears up for a busy few weeks on legal and political fronts. appeals could go at either moment on those immunity claims. just days from now, the supreme court will hear oral arguments over whether the state of colorado can a boot trump from the presidential ballot. those cases
underway once again. and the other major question, if he does take the stand, can he stay within the parameters set by the judge and what are the consequences if he doesn t? we re live at the courthouse. plus, nikki haley sending a message to trump that sounds a lot like you don t scare me. her new fund-raising hall that has him threatening her donors and has given her new energy. the political elites in this state and around the country have said that we just need to let donald trump have this. we are not going to sit there and just give up. . and the severe weather that just won t stop. among the dramatic new images, this woman, how she got stranded on top of her car for 14 long hours before she was rescued. we begin with donald trump off the campaign trail and back in a federal courthouse today. e. jean carroll s lawyers have rested their case and trump s team just started the defense in a trial to determine if he has toay the writer millions of dollars for defam