in the head with the bat, the intern hit b as well, although each of them was hospitalized after the attack tonight, today they ve both been released from the hospital. north of them has injuries believed to be life threatening. thank god. police have the alleged assailant in custody. he s a 49-year-old man reportedly from the congressman s district in northern virginia. police say he s being charged with felony aggravated malicious wounding but not saying anything about his potential motives at this time or anything about even the a extent to which he d had them. the man is i should tell you on record as having last year filed a lawsuit against the cia alleging the cia was somehow torturing him from the fourth dimension. the new york times reports there was a hand written lawsuit and the man was representing himself as his own lawyer in this case, so read into that what you will. there s that. republican house speaker kevin mccarthy said he reached out to congressman conol
last hour as we got positive news about the two congressional staffers who were attacked in virginia today. members of congress of course have their main offices in the capitol in washington, d.c., but of course they also have offices in their districts back home. this attack today happened at the district office for democratic congressman from virginia gerry connolly who you see here. this is his district office in fairfax, virginia, northern virginia just outside d.c. the congressman, himself, was not in the office. he was out apparently at a ribbon cutting for a local food bank. a man showed up at the office wielding a metal bat. he asked to see the congressman who wasn t there. then he reportedly just started swinging. congressman connolly s chief of staff tells nbc news tonight that the man smashed computers in the office and smashed glass with the bat. he then attacked two staffers. one senior staffer to the congressman, the man reportedly hit in the head with this meta
he cannot find him anymore. seems possible he might have left him on the top of the car when he pulled out of the driveway and just disappeared. it s got to be here somewhere. can t find the man somewhere. for the durham report, though, this really is it today after all those years and all those millions of dollars no charges against anybody else, no new evidence turned up or revealed. that s just it. and so that has to be a big disappointment, because they really thought this was going to be the end of all of their enemies and the triumph of their eternal reign and sow we are keeping an eye on how republican reaction to that is going to go. here is where we really want to begin tonight. as you know, last week a jury in new york found former president donald trump liable for both battery, sexual abuse of e. jean carroll, as well as defamation. now, in doing so, this jury agreed with ms. carroll and her
allegation that donald trump did sexually assault her. then they agreed he defamed her when he denied her telling about that allegation when he called her a liar. the jury said in effect e. jean carroll is not a liar and trump must pay her for falsely saying that she was. the jury ruled that trump must in fact pay $5 million in damages. $2 million for the battery charge, for the assault, and then an additional $3 million for the defamation for lying about her. and all of that is a clear through line, right? you do a bad thing, you get sued for doing the bad thing. you know, found liable for doing the bad thing. you pay a fine for having done the bad thing in effect. but are those damages, those millions of dollars donald trump has to pay now, is that just supposed to be punishment for what the jury says he did or is it also supposed to be deterrence? is it also supposed to dissuade him from ever doing those things
those kinds of lies about e. jean carroll were lies for which he must pay millions of dollars. would a jury say the same thing about the s latest round of him saying those same things again? ms. carroll s lawyer, roberta kaplan, says she and her client are currently weighing whether or not to bring another defamation suit against donald trump this time for the new iterations he made of these lies on television in the immediate wake of the verdict. for the first time since he was elected president e. h jean carroll and her lawyer have provep in a court of law trump can t tell lies with impunity. they have done that for the country. therapy thought the first to try, but they were the first to succeed, to hold trump accountable by the american judicial system. the first time anyone s been able to do that since he was electedas president. they ve done that. now they have to decide what to do next. joining us now for the interview is e. jean carroll and her lawyer, roberta kaplan.