delegitimized and apply double standards to the state of israel is, in fact, what we should be condemning. it is very, very sad. and the i ve soojee, in many ways, has to make the decision, is it going to be a court of justice like in the trial or will it be a court of injustice just like in the dreyfuss affair. mikael, i want to thank you for our time. i m sorry it is abbreviated. we did lose the connection at first. i m very glad that you could speak with us on holocaust remembrance day. that is this edition of alex reports. i will see you again tomorrow. at next, the weekend. i am ari melber let s get right into the headlines. a jury just hit donald trump with the record-breaking penalty for lying about a sexual isn t to cues are. the defendant ordered to pay $83 million to eugene carroll who is the victorious plaintiff in this case and right here you can see she first walked out of court with her lawyers today. we could tell you the jury deliberated for under three hour
i m sorry, albert let s get right into the headlines. a jury just hit donald trump with this record breaking penalty for lying about a sexual assault accuser. defendant trump, ordered to pay $83 million to the writer e. jean carroll. she is the victorious plaintiffs in this case, and right here you can see as she first walked out of court with her lawyers today. now we can tell you the jury deliberated from just under three hours, that is fast, and they dubbed trump a huge loss, which set its records, and shows a very costly miscalculation that he, an ongoing defendant made by, according to the court system, lying and defaming her again after a previous court victory. here are the numbers tonight, if you ve been watching the news, you may have seen some of this. i want to break it down for me. $18 million to compensate carroll, okay, that is what the jury found she should get for what she went through. and then that larger number, a massive $65 million to punish this defian
that s coming up. also, i have a break you how, with everything we have been through and everything we ve learned should deal with a proven liar and now someone liable for defamation and sexual abuse, donald trump. how do we deal with him? how do we cover interviews and town halls? we re not against interviews. i have a breakdown on that later. what donald trump said on his live and lengthy appearance on cnn last night is our top story. we ll get to that later. the top story tonight is the tapes. george santos back in washington voting on an unemployment fraud bill, which is wild considering that is part of what he s been indicted for. santos arraigned on 13 separate federal charges wire fraud, money laundering, abusing public funds. doj claiming santos spent money he claimed was for his campaign but he basically grifted, pocketing it according to the filing for personal expenses, luxury designer clothing, credit card payments for his own personal use. these charges come
that puts cnn, i think, in a very tenuous spot. then you have a broader problem which is there isn t a center anymore, and if cnn is trying occupy the center, they re going to be broadcasting to a very small number of people and i think kind of misunderstand where we are as a country and how media works in 2023. all shrewd comments. trump held liable for defamation this week, fox paying out over 700 m, ousting tucker. they have another case that could be up to $2 billion. i have more on that later in the program. within that accountability moment i don t want to overstate this, but some of what they did last night on cnn is the kind of thing that was put forward as evidence of defamation in fox news losing case. in other words, you have to
t ouour juryry aorneneys hehelpou an escalation in the other big lawsuit against fox. a different voting company is subpoenaing the trump 2020 campaign in the fox defamation case, looking for communications about that voting machine company and anything about those appearances by people like sidney powell. giuliani, all of which comes circling around the issue we have been dealing with tonight, which is how do you deal with false claims on air, including the election lies that were spread on fox. you just said it all, smartmatic, a delaware entity registered in florida, activities in venezuela. with the assistance of smartmatic software, a back door is capable of flipping votes. smartmatic is a company that was formed, it was formed really by three venezuelans who were