the weekend in new hampshire. i did. and have to say, the final new hampshire weekend before the primary has always been my very favorite thing, the most fun in politics, until this year. this was the first time in decades where i did not bother to go up there. why so down this year? why so down this year? because it just seems so pointless. there is only two candidate, there s only one party that s even having the primary. nothing is happening on the democratic side. you have an incumbent democratic president. but it just seemed like a complete waste of my time. without getting into that, was it as much fun this past weekend, as it usually is? now, i would say, i ve had more fun than the time then the time barack obama lost in an unexpected primary lost to hillary clinton, i was working for barack obama at the time. but it has been fun. it is donald trump is winning, currently ahead by 19 points in the polls, lawrence, we know that. but surprising things happen
he s testifying for for the first time. he could not say, for instance, that he never assaulted e. jean carroll when another court of law established that he did. you stand by it, trump, 100% yes, habba, do you deny the allegations. trump, i consider it a false accusation, he said. judge kaplan, that answer is stricken from the record. habba, did you ever instruct anyone to hurt ms. carroll. trump, i just wanted to defend myself, my family, and frankly, the presidency. joining us now, msnbc legal analyst, she was inside that courtroom, lisa rubin. nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard, and criminal defense attorney and msnbc legal analyst, danny cevallos. that was the defense asking donald trump all of three questions, one of which was stricken. it then went to the prosecution. tell me what happened then. reporter: katy, first of all, those three questions, two of the answers were partially stricken. i heard yeses and noes to those questions before donald trump attempted
underway once again. and the other major question, if he does take the stand, can he stay within the parameters set by the judge and what are the consequences if he doesn t? we re live at the courthouse. plus, nikki haley sending a message to trump that sounds a lot like you don t scare me. her new fund-raising hall that has him threatening her donors and has given her new energy. the political elites in this state and around the country have said that we just need to let donald trump have this. we are not going to sit there and just give up. . and the severe weather that just won t stop. among the dramatic new images, this woman, how she got stranded on top of her car for 14 long hours before she was rescued. we begin with donald trump off the campaign trail and back in a federal courthouse today. e. jean carroll s lawyers have rested their case and trump s team just started the defense in a trial to determine if he has toay the writer millions of dollars for defam
cannot wait for that on sunday night. thanks so much for joining us. ac 360 starts right now. tonight on 360, the former president meets a no-no sense judge. what the judge did not even let his lawyer ask. plus, the lawmakers who have been saying they want a border deal but now can t take yes for an answer. and later, a school shooter s mother on trial charged with involuntary manslaughter. why she and her husband are being held responsible for the murder of four students. we begin with donald trump s brief testimony in the penalty case. it came after the judge reiterated in graphic detail what the former president had already been found liable for. namely, sexually abusing miss carroll. also with several interjections, the judge established tight parameters on what trump s attorney could and could not ask. it made for quite a scene today. trump biographer, maggie haberman, was in court to see it. also joining us, elie honig. think spent about ten minutes going back
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