listen to the show wherever you get your podcasts. the lead starts with wolf plitser in the situation room. happening now breaking news, a huge legal and financial blow to donald trump. a jury says he should may more than $83 million in damages to writer e. jean carroll for defamatory statements he made about her. we re breaking down the verdict and the message it sends to the former president and the clear front-runner for the 2024 republican presidential nomination. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, and you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. let s get right to the major breaking news we re following right now. the bombshell verdict in the defamation trial against donald trump. the former president now on the hook for a stunning $83.3 million. let s go to cnn s cara scannell outside the courthouse in new york where all this unfolded. kara, walk us through this verdict. reporter: wolf,
good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin tonight with the massive bill. a new york federal jury today handed the former president for repeatedly defaming the woman he s already found liable for sexually abusing. $7.3 million for emotional harm he caused by his repeated verbal attacks on e. jean carroll while he was president, which of his followers turned into serious threats against her. $11 million to repair the damage carroll suffered to her reputation, and $65 million in punitive damages. $83.3 million in total. no comment from her or her team as they left the courthouse in lower manhattan making their way through a sea of cameras and reporters. in a moment we ll hear from her attorney, roberta kaplan, her first interview since the verdict. also exclusively from another trump accuser jessica leads who was a witness in ms. carroll s first lawsuit in which she told jurors the former president groped her on an airplane in a cross-country flight. mr. trump has repeatedly
state, i get a subpoena. it s no coincidence they indicted me the very same day that it was revealed that the fbi hid explosive evidence that joe biden took a $5 million illegal bribe from ukraine with. next hunter will probably be charged with some very minor offense so that the fbi and doj can pretend that they re fair, they want to pretend they re fair, we got hunter. for jaywalking. [laughter] as far as the joke of an indictment, it s a horrible thing. it s a horrible thing for this country. i mean, the only good thing about it is it s driven my poll numbers way up, can you believe it? [cheers and applause] rachel: well, the president, or former president trump is right about one thing, they want us to talk about the indictment and not the real story of the week which, of course, is the jaw-dropping biden-ukraine bribery claim of, like, $10 million. so let s break this all down so we can understand what really happened. pete: so burisma, energy company in ukraine, the rep
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