response to depend to make. a stark fraud and what went wrong and the lessons learned, as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. greetings, everyone, i am symone sanders-townsend, and for stephanie ruhle. we begin here in washington d. c. with a massive verdict and a defamation case against former trump attorney rudy giuliani. he s been ordered to pay georgia election workers shaye moss and ruby freeman, more than $148 million in damages. that includes 60 million to benefit him for defamation, 20 million each for emotional distress plus another 75 million in punitive damages. the judge ruled earlier this year that giuliani defamed the two women, basically accusing boss and freeman of election fraud that led to vicious attacks and threats against both women. here s what they had to say after today s verdict. i spent ten years as an election worker in fulton county georgia. the lies rudy giuliani told me about me and my mommy after the 2020 presidential election ha
valencia. thanks so much. all right. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me on fredricka whitfield. a new legal battle is taking shape after the u. s supreme court issues a last minute order to protect a common abortion drug court deciding last night to freeze a lower court s ruling that place restrictions on the drug press town, the pill is the predominant method for ending pregnancies in the u. s. but now that decision sets up the most consequential abortion related dispute since the overturning of roe v. wade another appeals court is scheduled to take up the case, meaning it could be weeks or months before a final decision is made. cnn supreme court reporter ariana vogue has more. fredricka the biden administration is relieved lower courts had put significant restrictions on this key abortion drug. the government and manufacturers had raced to the supreme court, asking the justices to put those rulings on hold. while the appeals process plays out, which co
operate, a rules package. he s facing a major test from some in his party who are not happy with what he gave away. the latest from capitol hill in moments. president biden at the border not far from where migrants crossing into our country have been forced to sleep out in the streets. it s his first visit to the border since taking office as president. he s facing pressure from all sides to address an issue that congress has failed to deal with for two decades. i want him to do something about it finally for sure. i want to not just empty promises, i want him to actually do something. . is there any chance that lawmakers can find common ground to fix this growing humanitarian crisis. echoes of january 6th in brazil. more than 400 people have been arrested after supporters of former president jair bolsonaro stormed that country s congress. how bolsonaro who is in florida is reacting. and more extreme weather out west. tens of millions of people bracing for heavy rain
did i gloat? there was a little bit of gloating. he did send a video, too. the play calling was not great, it was a struggle for alabama. you guys had referees on your team. you had extra men on the field. thanks for watching. congratulations. go, tigers. cnn newsroom starts right now. good monday morning to you, i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. polls open around the country in less than 24 hours and right now candidates trying to take advantage of those final moments, making their final pitch to voters, hanging in the balance of course is control of congress. entering the midterms democrats have just the slimmest of majorities in both chambers and that leaves pretty much all outcomes on the table. just a reminder here in the house all 435 seats on the ballot in the senate you have 35 seats up for grabs. 36 states will also be voting for governor. it s a big election. interest in the midterms has been high from coast to coast. more than 30 million pre-el
threat today. that faction is seeking to overturn the will of voters in future elections should they prevail in 2022. they made that point abundantly clear as if it was not already at back-to-back rallies over the weekend, headlined by the ex-president in two key battleground states. this election in 2024 they pledge to do that in arizona and nevada. here is what the republican nominee for secretary of state in nevada had to say. jim marchand. president trump and i lost an election in 2020 because of a rigged election. i ve been working since november 4th, 2020 to expose what happened, and what i found out is horrifying. when i m secretary of state of nevada we re going to fix it. when my coalition of secretary of state candidates around the country get elected, we re going to fix the whole country and president trump is going to be president again in 2024. so that really happened. just a little fact-check here along the way, he lost because the voters weren t into either