could the disabled children whose mums took the anti epilepsy drug valproate finally be set to receive compensation? a report out tomorrow will call on the government to make payments of £100,000 to those harmed by sodium valproate because some women were not told of the risks taking it could pose. we ll talk live to these two women mothers, between them, of seven children with physial and learning disabilities who have been fighting for compensation for 12 years. 12 years. also tonight. our own mark urban s despatch from ukraine. almost two years into the conflict soldiers are exhausted. will the government s new recruitment plan provide the numbers needed 7 we ll understand it would be a very long war. 0ur soldiers have been fighting for two years. they are tired and exhausted so we cannot win. also liz truss is back today launching a new tory group called popular conservatism what does she know about that? conservatives have not taken on the left wing extremists
rnc dropping a plan to pronounce donald trump the nominee. and also president biden s campaign reportedly closely watching the bitter feud and many even enjoying it. will it help the incumbent president come november. good morning. i m kasie hunt. it is friday, january 26. happy friday. we made it. it is 5:00 a.m. here in washington. and it is also 5:00 a.m. in new york. that is where donald trump is expected back in federal court this morning for closing a arguments in the civil defamation case brought against him by writer e. jean carroll. he closed out the trial with just three minutes of testimony thursday. he was admonished several times by the judge. his comments stricken from the record after he repeated the original defamation against carroll. trump s lawyer asked, quote, did you deny the allegation because ms. carroll made an accusation trump responded yes, she said something i considered a false accusation. totally false. that is when the judge interrupted and sai
calling the explosions targeted attacks. a bank, then another at a nike store and a suspect through a molotov cocktail at a grocery store. no one hurt. authorities are searching for the suspects. david spunt has the latest. very scary. police now on the hunt for what they believe are several people likely behind these attacks, thankfully no one was injured. several properties sustained severe damage. it happened at the businesses in northeast d.c. early yesterday. each location is a business. one is a bank. someone detonated an explosive outside the building causing damage inside. the second was a nike store. third minutes later at a safe way grocery store all closed. there was a molotov cocktail like object into the store. the suspect and a likely vehicle. likely one of several suspects. a gold or champagne colored acura tl with maryland plate. now the local police and federal alcohol, toboggan and firearms putting together why. there is $20,000 reward leading to the sus
right of self-defense because the president of the united states is not fulfilling his duty to enforce the laws. bill: that from greg abbott on our program yesterday not giving an inch on the border matter. the white house gave texas until today to reopen a stretch of 2 1/2 miles. texas saying it won t touch that. it will do no such thing. that s where we start. good morning on a friday. bill hemmer. dana: not like a little constitutional crisis on a friday. i m dana perino, america s newsroom. a pretty big deal in texas. they re going to defy the federal deadline despite the supreme court ruling against the state in a dispute over razor wire. the court bill: earlier in the week the court said the feds can t remove the wire. abbott says texas has the right to defend itself. dana: jonathan turley is on deck but let s begin with matt finn with the latest from eagle pass. as it stands right now the state of texas has not given up control along the property along th
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