There are a lot of words you might expect a president to say over and over in the state of the yeun job address. Words like jobs, freedom, or if it is a joe biden speech, folks. The president last night chose a different word to be the theme of his remarks. He chose the word predecessor. A former republican president tells putin, do whatever the hell you want. My predecessor came off as they overturned. Hes the reason why they were overturned and he brags about it. My predecessor failed the most president ial duty that he owes to the american people. The duty to care. I think that is unforgivable. They told the nra that hes proud he did nothing when he was president. Many in this chamber want to take those Prescription Drugs away by repealing Affordable Care act. Im not going to let that happen. And we stopped you 50 times before and we will stop you again. Biden did not utter Donald Trumps name once during that speech. But he referred to his predecessor more than a dozen times. That w
i m sorry, albert let s get right into the headlines. a jury just hit donald trump with this record breaking penalty for lying about a sexual assault accuser. defendant trump, ordered to pay $83 million to the writer e. jean carroll. she is the victorious plaintiffs in this case, and right here you can see as she first walked out of court with her lawyers today. now we can tell you the jury deliberated from just under three hours, that is fast, and they dubbed trump a huge loss, which set its records, and shows a very costly miscalculation that he, an ongoing defendant made by, according to the court system, lying and defaming her again after a previous court victory. here are the numbers tonight, if you ve been watching the news, you may have seen some of this. i want to break it down for me. $18 million to compensate carroll, okay, that is what the jury found she should get for what she went through. and then that larger number, a massive $65 million to punish this defian
win the granite state. i ll get into that with carville. trump won by less than his margin in 2016 when he didn t have white house experience. the polls were off again. his margin far less than the polling he had garnered against haley, for example in the months past and the final weekend. haley had a solid night, her first contest since besting every other guy in the race to make it a two-person clash. before we bring in james, we ll show you how it went down. this is not your typical victory speech. this race is far from over. who the hell was the impostor that went up on the stage before and like claims a victory? i m a fighter. and i m scrappy. just a little note to nikki, she s not going to win. with donald trump, republicans have lost almost every competitive election. we lost the senate. we lost the house. we lost the white house. we lost in 2018. we lost in 2020. and we lost in 2022. the math there is donald trump s largest problem, winning w hashire wit
nikki haley s pat the victory, impossible no difficult yes. the lead starts now. in south carolina nikki haley gets ready to make a new pitch, why she says she should stay in the race in losses in iowa and after, more gop heavyweights are urging her to get out. her number 1-man will be here as nikki haley assesses her campaign. a big endorsement for president biden as campaign 2020 for its closing in on a race between president biden and donald trump and a new mystery involving russia when a plane crashes with conflicting accounts about who or what was on board the plane. was it 65 ukrainian prisoners of of war or was it weapons for war as ukraine says? welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. republican voters delivering donald trump another victory sending them one step closer to the white house. nikki haley s campaign insists they still see a path forward to dethrone donald trump after his double-digit victory in new hampshire. in the modern history of elections it i
tonight straight from the source, breaking news from the detroit news. apparent recordings of donald trump himself in 2020 allegedly pressuring two election officials in michigan not to sign the certification of joe biden s victory. plus, the special counsel strikes back urging the supreme court to i merely consider amenity claims as rudy giuliani file for bankruptcy. willie pay up? his attorneys are here. and even more accusations of plagiarism against harbors in battle president. the two student journalists who broke the story joins us this hour. this is the source. we begin with at breaking news. randy reporting on yet another recording of a phone call allegedly made by donald trump in 2020 pressuring local election officials, this time in michigan on november 17, 2020, two weeks after he lost the presidential election in that state by more than 100,000 votes. cnn has not heard the recording, but the detroit news says it has. it reports president trump personally pressur