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
with judge jeanine pirro, jesse watters, and greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 in new york city and this is the five. president biden in his administration promising a response to the deadliest attack on u.s. troops in years. speak of the president and i will not tolerate an attack on u.s. forces and we will take all necessary actions to defend the u.s. and our troops. respond decisively to any aggression and we will hold responsible the people who attacked our troops and we will do so at a time in the place of our choosing. dana: so far it s all talk and no action. the administration is grappling with its failure to deter iran backed terrorists in a deadly strike that killed three and injured 40 others. they were stationed at a base known as tower 22 on the border between jordan and syria. fox sources confirming the lethal drone had gotten past air defenses at the base because it was mistaken for a u.s. drone expected to return at the same time. what did iran know? the pentagon
value at $84.5 million. it s an interesting me. today, a jury ordered donald trump to pay writer e. jean carroll $83.3 million, approximately one trump park avenue, for defaming her. breaking that number down a little bit more, the jury awarded e. jean carroll $18.3 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 trump, to deter him from defaming e. jean carroll ever again. we will have more on that in just a moment. a nine member jury took just two hours and 45 minutes to reach its verdict after hearing final arguments from trump, and carroll s lawyers. mr. trump himself spent the final day of the trial causing disruption. and when ms. carroll s lawyers were given closing arguments, he stood up and walked out of the room, at which point the judge interrupted ms. carroll s lawyers and order that the official record reflect donald trump s abrupt exit. at one point the judge had to
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