you he raped me. whether i screamed or not, i don t need an excuse for screaming. after the verdict, trump again denied knowing carroll, calling the verdict a disgrace. and through his attorney called his loss a result of politics. he s firm in his belief, as many people are that he cannot get a fair trial in new york city. that s probably an accurate assessment based on what happened today. reporter: jean casarez, cnn, new york. cnn has learned federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges against embattled new york congressman george santos. since being elected to office, he has been accused of lying about his background and resume, breaking campaign finance laws, leading a credit card fraud scheme and more. cnn s evan perez has the latest from washington. the justice department has filed criminal charges against congressman george santos, a republican who has been under scrutiny for a stunning number of lies and fabrications during
arguments. i m automatically attracted to beautiful. it is like a magnet. and when you re a star, threat you do it. you can do anything. historically that is true with stars. into th not always but largely true unfortunately or fortunately. reporter: and trump s lawyer pressed carroll during cross-examination asking why she wasn t yelling out during the encounter, crying on the stand, carroll told tacopina i m telling you he raped me. whether i screamed or not. i don t need an excuse for not screaming. shortly after the verdict, trump again denied knowing carroll, calling the verdict a disgrace. and through his attorney called his loss a result of politics. he is firm in his belief as many people are that he cannot get a fair trial in new york city. that is probably an accurate assessment based on what happened today. reporter: jean casarez, cnn, new york. so e. jean carroll will
he raped me, whether i screamed or not, i don t need an excuse for not screaming. st shortly after the verdict, trump denied knowing carroll, calling the verdict a disgrace and through his attorney called his loss a result of politics. he s firm in his leaf as many people are that he can not get a fair trial in new york city. that s probably an accurate assessment based on what happened today. and joe tacopina is saying they will definitely appeal this case, that many rulings were biassed, they were not in favor of the defendant, and they do have that chance on appeal, and as he just said, even if it s a civil trial, the defendant deserves a fair trial, and this was not that. jean casarez, thank you very much. let s get more on the major developments. legal and political experts are joining me now. shan wu, let me start with you, what do you think were the most significant factors that went into the jury s decision?
other good news is, we have a current sitting attorney general, josh shapiro, who was a man of law in order. he believes in democracy and the electoral process. he calls a win a win and a loss a loss. otherwise, these guys on the other sides are surrounding mr. trump with the notion of living up his notion of the big lie. doug mastriano was a part of it. when you know exactly what his involvement was. because the voters have a say in this election, guiding the commonwealth. and i feel that it should not be doug mastriano. i know the voters of pennsylvania are smarter than that. the truth must come out, especially before this election cycle. key thing in this discussion is what both of you are talking about, but they were trying to set up is a coup by constitutional means. putting in the legal structure to actually have the overturn
to call bevin s loss a referendum on the president. obviously, you are pointing to the fact state wide if kentucky republicans won five of the six races with a nice, into is majority there. does it tell us anything about trump? any of that? no, i think it might have trump s late-minute visit might have pulled it a little closer, a little bit. you call him embattled and upr unpopular, i d add to that didn t run a great campaign, didn t raise a lot of money, he was on everybody s radar screen for a long time. i don t think this has a whole lot to do with donald trump. this is about matt bevin not being a governor that kentucky wanted to reelect. as you look at the other state wide races, republicans did well including electing the first republican attorney general since the 1940s, the first african attorney general as well in the state. that is difference, daniel cameron winning as attorney general by 16 points.