scuttle the remaining 48 state primaries. it s a bid by republican elites to kneecap the republican voters that exist throughout the whole country and that they will need in november all to try to stop any potential long primary by nikki haley waged against trump. maga allies were floating an rnc resolution to declare trump basically the nominee to put a thumb on the scale before the rest of the votes come in. there s only been one primary. they ve backed down from that in public. new reporting says the rnc s call was well received by trump aides. now one of the top ranking house republicans is pushing basically the same discredited message as the rnc did but this time trying to corner trump endorsements in the house by arguing that it is all owed. the national party s purpose and their requirement is to empower the party s voters, whether it s democrat or republican in this country, right, any kind of party, to empower the voters to choose nominees. if they fail to do that,
weekend, i am chris hayes. let s get to the weekend s top stories. 83 point $3 million, that is a lot of money. that s how much donald trump has just been ordered to pay writer e. jean carroll for repeating defaming her after she accused him of sexual assault. the jury spent four days hearing about what donald trump did, and witnessing his ongoing contempt towards but the proceedings in front of them, and e. jean carroll with their own eyes. carols attorneys had asked the jurors to reach a verdict that would stop them from further defaming the woman that he has been defaming and harassing for the last five years. today, after deliberating for less than three hours, the jury came through. they awarded carroll $73 million in emotional damages, $11 million in reputational damages, and a whopping $65 million in punitive damages, which is there essentially to stop him from what he has been doing. such a shocking and divisive verdict against the ex president. even fox news cover th
that is all in for the week. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex wagner. welcome back. it s good to be home, my friend. it s good to be home. thanks. thanks to you at home for joining me this evening. this is park avenue. it s an historic 32 in manhattan, it s one of the highlights, you could say, in donald trump s real estate portfolio. and because of the new york attorney general s lawsuit against mr. trump, we know that, in 2020, the trump organization received an appraisal for trump park avenue, which set its value at 84 point $5 million. it s an interesting some. today, a jury ordered donald trump to pay writer e. jean carroll 83 point $3 million, approximately one trump park avenue, for defaming her. breaking that number down a little bit more, the jury awarded e. jean carroll 18 point $3 million to compensate her for the harm trump s lies caused her. they awarded her another $65 million in punitive damages to, well, punish donald trum
thank you. by the time donald trump took the witness stand today in the case of e. jean carroll versus donald trump, the questions his lawyer would be allowed to ask and we re already working out in detail and discussions with the judge and lawyers on both sides of the case while the jury was out of the courtroom. judge lewis kaplan instructed donald trump s defense lawyers once again that donald trump would not be allowed in his testimony to contest the fact that he raped e. jean carroll in a department store in manhattan. judge kaplan told the lawyers the jury in the previous age internal lawsuit and the same courtroom found that donald trump did in fact sexually assault e. jean carroll. and that was not an issue before this jury. whose duty is solely to decide how much and money damages donald trump should pay e. jean carroll. judge kaplan told the trump lawyers the jury should be instructed that regardless of what he says in court here today, he did it, as far as they are
starts now. tonight on the reidout with donald trump, republicans have lost almost every competitive election. we lost the senate. we lost the house. we lost the white house. we lost in 2018. we lost in 2020. and we lost in 2022. the worst kept secret in politics is how badly the democrats want to run against donald trump. haley presses on despite impossible odds. she has the support of the billionaire donor class want all the trump tax cuts for the super rich but can t stomach donald trump. plus, with biden s economy doing so well, all republicans have left to offer is fear, including fear of immigrants. tonight, a look at how the issue is playing in the latino community. and we begin tonight with fascism and how it takes root. now it isn t a dramatic storm the palace coup like we saw on january 6th. it s more often deal, a bargain between the would be dictator and the establishment, both political and media, who believe that wielding actual political power wi