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
say. when people have power and money, you get afraid. startling developments and a headline making mystery. you see the blood spatter, very compelling. the disappearance of jennifer dulos. what do you think happened in that garage? a serious, violent assault occurred my garage. finger-pointing started immediately. is your husband involved? i have not been there. have you had anything to do with jennifer s disappearance? i have. not investigators speak out. this is a new element. our theories are the zip ties were used to incapacitate jennifer. this is an effort to leave no stone unturned. someone has information, someone knows something. we are going to find her. hello, and welcome to dateline. jennifer dulos and her husband made things. fotis disk constructed mentions, jennifer constructed plays and novels. together, they built an active life for their five children. but it all came crashing down when jennifer suddenly vanished, leaving a m
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
july 4 is going to be our birthday. three years from the big 250 and sadly the perception of the state of the unit, our union, not that great of the people in it, americans. 39% say they are extremely proud of our country. a whopping 48% think america s best days are behind us down from 70% in 2011, that was not too long ago. amazing how relevant the warnings and worries still are from 240 years ago even though we see more patriotic back when our country started. challenge number one, spending. not just 2023 think, key concern from america s survivability in the beginning. benjamin franklin of all people born against dangers of overreliance on debt emphasizing the importance of fiscal responsibly for overall health as a country. thomas jefferson similar concern. he says i place economy among the first was supporting the public and virtues and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. we have problems that. alexander hamilton said national debt, if it s not excessiv
bret: good evening, welcome to washington i m bret baier and two big stories featuring big numbers. customs and border protection say within 300,000 people illegal immigrants and countered by border patrol attempting to enter the u.s. illegally across the southern border and just the month of december. we will head to the border to report on the major showdown between texas and the biden administration. but first the other big numbers tonight. we begin in new york, a jury or during former president donald trump to pay more than $83 million in a defamation lawsuit brought by e. jean carroll. a jury found previously sexually assaulted by a trump in the 1990s. the former president vigorously denied the allegations and wondered how he did that is the subject of the defamation case. alexis mcadams outside of the federal courthouse in manhattan with the latest tonight. good evening, alexis. good evening, bret. huge numbers in the courtroom in manhattan. e.g. harrell said dona