right-wing media. this was not, you know, a you didn t have a test to be progressive and to be a democrat to be on this jury. you had to convince the lawyers from both sides that you could be fair. and donald trump s lawyers had an opportunity to strike jurors that they didn t think could be fair. so this jury is seated and now their job is very simple. their job is to hear the facts and importantly judge the credibility of the witnesses. and what this jury did is they watched this woman for three days, almost two of those days entirely being questioned by donald trump s very experienced trial lawyer, who spent days and hours trying to pick apart what she said and how she said it. those jurors got back in that deliberation room and they took the law that the judge had given them and they took the facts that they heard and they judged credibility of jean carroll versus donald trump. and those people who had sworn
discount it s really dismaying that republicans continue to prop him up. but don t discount the power of that verdict and, you know, i do think that it will, it s sort of validating for women, enraging for women that it continues to happen that republicans do prop him up. and i think they need to pay a price for that. i think we ve gotten so used to saying that donald trump is not going to pay a price more this, for that, he s going to get away with everything, no more. i think yesterday was extraordinarily importantly, especially when you team it up with what happened with the abortion ruling, with dobbs. you started seeing women breaking away. and claire mccaskill, the impact of dodds, the impact of these horrid extreme abortion laws. the impact of donald trump being found liable by a jury of his peers for sexually assaulting woman and saying, maybe it s okay, maybe it s good that stars can continue to sexually abuse women. how does that impact the race next year?
constantly defend well, now a guy who tried to overthrow an election and a guy who has been found guilty, yes, yes, sorry this is offensive to lindsey graham, a jury of donald trump s peers found him liable for sexual abuse. claire mccaskill, senator claire mccaskill former prosecutor. former prosecutor. senator, it is unimaginable let s go back to the time when i was in congress back a hundred years ago, it s unimaginable that any member of congress would ever speak this way about the american jury system or the rule of law or support somebody who was found liable for sexual abuse or someone who said, let s terminate the constitution. i would suspect even recently, when you were in the united states senate, this sort of talk just didn t happen until donald
by. there s just every day it seems like there s a new dispute over what evidence is going to be relevant in this case, what s going to be relevant to this conspiracy. but not chest wet is showing up in these group chats. barb, there s so much we could talk about this specifically but i want to pivot and make sure that i get you in on this other story that we ve been following because of a florida judge finding donald trump and his nearly 1 million dollars for, quote, using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries. give me a sense how big of a deal this is. i think it s a very significant release because judges are quite reluctant to sanction lawyers. they want to give people the benefit of the debt if they think that they ve got a basis for lawsuit, even if they ultimately fail, the court is the form for resolving disputes. sanctions are really cried rare. in distanced an, s the sanctions in this amount of
stand back and stand by. but i will tell you what i will tell you what. somebody has got to do something about antifa and the left. because this is not a right wing problem. this is a left-wing the fbi director said the fbi directo r said - a judge rules that a video of donald trump during the 2020 debate could be used as evidence in the proud boys trial that is now underway. several members of the group including their leader enrique tarrio are charged with seditious conspiracy over the january 6th riot. the new york times reports prosecutors revealed new details this week on a meeting between the proud boys and the oath keepers on january 5th 2021. with us for more is zach montague, a reporter for the new york times. he s been in the courtroom for the trial. and barbara mcquade, a veteran federal prosecutor and former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan. she worked with the doj during