In the race for the white the house. Meanwhile in a primary contest, focus shifts to michigan after trump easily beat nikki haley in her home state of South Carolina over the weekend. Haley now facing more pressure to drop out. Breaking moments ago, trump appeals his more than 450 million judgment in his Civil Fraud Trial in new york. Well break down what that means. Overseas, russia launching a new offensive in ukraine as president zelenskyy tells our Richard Engel delays in aid are costing ukrainian lives. Back at home, were just days away from another potential Government Shutdown. Weve got new reporting about a high stakes meeting at the white house tomorrow. And we begin this very busy hour with Breaking News from the white house. This thursday President Biden is set to head to texas to meet with local officials. This will come on the same day former President Trump will also be in texas giving remarks at the border. All of this is both republicans and democrats are set to head to
sexually abused a woman and publicly defamed her even after he was ordered by a court of law to stop. now, another jury is deciding not just how much he should be held liable for the damage his words have done, but how much he should be punished for those words as well. in other words, how much money he should pay e. jean carroll in punitive damages, just like yesterday, the courtroom was wild again today, judge kaplan, again, admonished alina habba for arguing with his rulings, this time telling her, quote, you are on the verge of spending some time in lockdown. now sit down. then after the jury was brought in and e. jean carroll s lawyer was in the middle of her closing statements, donald trump abruptly stood up and walked out of the court according to our reporters in the room. that s when the judge said, quote, the record will reflect that mr. trump rose and walked out of the courtroom, said the judge. what did carroll s lawyers say that got under his skin and how will th
good morning and welcome to the couch. you are looking at saint paul, minnesota. one of the two twin cities and to do my best steve doocy looks like 31 degrees there and mostly clear. a good morning for this time of year and so are we, carley. carley: it s nippy in saint paul. joey: is that what you call it? carley: a little nippy. are their mountains in minnesota? carley: one. is he going to quiz me on pooing toography? i draw a blank. joey jerry i don t know if there are a lot of mountains in the midwest. giant lakes. griff: i have been there and seen lakes i haven t seen the mountains. carley: it s 43 degrees here. so it is 12 degrees warmer here and very warm because i just turned on the space heater underneath this desk. sorry, joey, he hates when i do that. joe: he gets it so hot here my feet are burning up. griff: is that because you want caribbean temperature? carley: why would we talking about the caribbean. someone will be experiencing caribbea
welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday, december 17th. i m amara walker. i m omar jimenez in for victor blackwell. look, we are looking at a lot of things, watching a lot of things. namely, the biden campaign are accusing donald trump of parroting adolf hitler after the former president made disturbing comments about immigrants at a rally. senators are working on big immigration changes as they try to reach a deal on ukraine funding. severe weather impacted millions at the start of last-minute christmas shopping and holiday travel. and in israel the idf facing scrutiny after soldiers accidentally killed israeli hostages in gaza. prime minister benjamin netanyahu acknowledges international pressure but adds, we are in a war for our existence. and could not just rocks, but hot rocks that glow brighter than the sun be the key to helping us end our dependence on fossil fuels? we will look at the new innovative way to address the climate crisis ahead on cnn this morn
a department store around 1996. he is likely to appeal, but this is certainly a victory for e. jean carroll. and jean casarez, president trump s lawyer trying to make a big deal out of the fact that the jury did the not find him liable for rape, but this is a big verdict for e. jean carroll. $5 million, donald trump found liable for defamation and battery. it is very interesting. it s definitely a victory for the plaintiffs. no question about it for e. jean carroll. she got justice today this was a trial where she testified for hours and she testified with great detail of how he raped her. she went through every single bit of how she did it and then went immediately to her friends. she told them exactly what happened. both of those friends who testified told her in 197, he raped you. and the jury did not believe more like ly than not because that s your standard legally, that he did rape her. they went to the second loo n line, which would be sexual abuse. it would be fas