too far but essentially wasted americans times and efforts is now coming with the is dotted and the ts crossed. david spunt has more from the justice department. good afternoon. 306 pages from john durham transmitted this to attorney general merrick garland friday. garland looked it over, decided to release it to the public. did not change one word. he didn t add anything. so now it s public. durham says the conclusions from his own research and we re talking four years, he said those conclusions are sobering. may 13th, 2019, when he came on board at the request of then attorney general bill barr to look at the origins of the trump russia collusion narrative. he lost two high profile cases in court but secured a guilty plea from a former fbi attorney. this today is his narrative to the public after four years of work. the cost over $6 million in taxpayer money. first we have to do back, neil, to the years 2016 and 17. the primary focus of this report. the overarching theme
doesn t face any prison time. for has the jury found him guilty of raping miss carroll but found he defamed her and sexually abused her. for that, the jury has ordered him the pay $5 million in damages. we ll take you through these two stories and indeed how they link up in a political sense a little later this hour. let s first get the latest on this e. jean carroll case. bryan llenas in new york with the latest. good afternoon. in less than three hours, this jury came to their decision remarkably quick considering that they were considering ten different issues whether former president trump was liable. this jury found that former president trump was and is liable of battery, more specifically of sexually abusing and forcibly touching e. jean carroll in a new york city department store in 1996. they also found him liable for defamation founding that he maliciously smeared carroll s reputation. that did harm to her professionally and personally and asked to award her with
the soil. neil: all right. this we are sure. a lot of questions, but are we getting all the right answers? despite all of those positive comments, residents of east palestine still have a very unsettling feeling. everyone with authority keeps telling them that everything is okay. residents say they re not buying it. we ll talk to one that is getting sick of it. we ll get you covered with garrett tenney with how folks are dealing with and aishah hasnie on capitol hill where there s calls for heads to roll because of this. welcome. i m neil cavuto. let s get to it with garrett tenney in east palestine with the very latest. garrett? yeah, neil. what we re hearing today from a number of folks is that this visit by the epa administrator yesterday and nearly two weeks after this derailment is just another indication of how the administration is too little too late to this crisis. and there is still, as you mentioned, a lot of distrust over what officials are saying about how sa
a harsh trump critic with a long and sordid history with the former president. watch what he said. that indictment landed like a dud. right? commentators across the spectrum are saying boy, there s not much here. raises all kinds of questions about the legal theory behind this case. they ll have a tough time facing motions to dismiss. unimpressive document. martha: so interesting, right? kellyanne conway and mark penn here. buff first, legal analysis from judge jeanine pirro, co host of the five. great to have you here today. a day into this, you look at it and go what is he doing? is there a method to this madness or is it just madness? a day into it, you wake up and said maybe i missed something. you look at the indictment again. you say no, he missed something. he would not, d.a. bragg, would not identify the second crime. why? why not illuminate what it is? why not prosecute it on its own? why hide it from the rest of us? what is he afraid of? when he s asked the
options. neil: up, up and not going away. a suspected chinese spy balloon flying high above the continental u.s. and over several sensitive u.s. military sites. u.s. officials did consider shooting it down. no more. antony blinken cancelling his trip to china. china confirming, yeah, it s ours but blames high winds. some people don t believe that. we are all over it regardless with jennifer griffin at the pentagon on how the military is reresponding to this. griff jenkins with growing calls for investigations into this. senate armed services committee mike rounds on how long the administration may have known about this. general jack keane on the new tension with china because of this. i m neil cavuto. who saw this one coming? new signs that we might have seen it for quite a while. so why are we just finding out about it now and growing concerns about what we re going to do about it now to jennifer griffin at the pentagon. jennifer? neil, secretary state antony blinken is