nice to see. thank you very much. i want to welcome everybody to the beat, i m ari melber, we begin this week with the continuing fallout. the consequences and the very real losing defendant donald trump. in this case, it was all about his lies, e. jean carroll, and that record breaking 83 million dollar penalty. over $80 million that the jury is awarding e. jean carroll. that s significant for her. for a total of 83 point $3 million. that s a high eight figure award. e. jean carroll smiling. a victory lap outside of manhattan courthouse after a jury awarding her a staggering $83 million in damages. those staggering damages have real consequences. we re gonna go through them right now for you. first of all, for donald trump, one is that the legal finding in punishment is breaking through, even on fox. the 83 point $3 million, that s staggering. this thing has exploded on him. the more times that you engage in this behavior, when you ve got no warning, you really
the lead with jake tapper starts now. at any moment we are expecting a big court decision that could cost donald trump tens of millions of dollars, the lead starts right now. a jury deliberating after a dramatic day in the e. jean carroll defamation case, donald trump stormed out of the courtroom and the judge threatened to lock up trump s attorney and now jurors will decide how much you must pay for defaming the woman he already found liable for sexually abusing and defaming. the showdown, texas defies a court ruling court ruling keeping razor while and the national guard at the border, one of 25 governors siding with the lone star state over the rule of law. one of the most stunning acts of violence we have heard of from gaza, palestinians shot dead despite waving white flags of surrender. a scene investigation coming now about how bad and how often it is happening. welcome to the lead, i am jake tapper a day of antics inside the man tent a manhattan courthous
in fact, all around the is horr million jews slaughtered. so important indeed. and to our viewers thanks very much for watching. erin out front next, breaking news. trump hit with a more than $83 million verdict for his repeated attacks on e. jean carroll. a c? plus fighting intensifies in gaza. you ll hear from an american doctor who has just returned from the area. why he calls this conflict and what he saw on the ground the worst he s ever seen. and new tonight a border shutdown. cnn learning a key group of senators have now agreed to close the southern border if m specific number. let s go out front. good evening. i m erika hill in for erin burnett. out front tonight, breaking news. $83.3 million. that is what a jury says donald trump must pay e. jean carroll for defaming her while he was president. this is the woman of course trump was found liable for sexually abusing. $83.3 million is a massive number. there s no way getting around that. it was agreed upon afte
for someone who built his political career, of course, on the notion he is a billionaire, maybe not so much. whether or not that is literally true. none of this is final until the judge signed off on all of it, but as we saw, it has not stopped yet, the former president from making it politically. he went on social media with one of his all-time favorite charges, that phrase, say it with me now, witchhunt, and claiming there are legal systems being used as a political weapon. but here s the thing. to damages that are vastly bigger than anyone expected allow him to frame all of this as an attack against him? after all, more than half of voters in our new hampshire exit poll said donald trump would be fit for presidency, even if he is convicted of a crime. joining me now are gwendolyn, a former da in dekalb county georgia, and rena shaw. i m so glad both of you are here, but first of all i have got to get your reaction to this, when thinking about that this is an $83 million ve
disagreements it s a reminder of how much it would mean to reach out. that does it for me tonight, the rachel maddow show starts right now. i love that closing story. that was excellent, and you do not know this, but it is very much in keeping with the theme that i m going to be talking about this whole hour, so i know we didn t coordinate this, but this was we have a mind meld today. i will be looking forward to that. just a reminder of humanity even with disagreement which is sometimes hard to remember in this time. yeah, and it is the thing that most frustrates the people who want us to forget that for their own political purposes but it s the only way out, thanks, my friend. much appreciate it. well done. thanks at home for joining us. the capital of the great state of mississippi is jackson, of course. the airport in jackson, mississippi, is called jackson medgar wiley evers international airport. it is named for medgar evers, the civil rights leader. after he