as against amber heard, with the jury award punitive damages in the amount of $5 million. do you find that miss pacemaker it has proven all elements of defamation with mark answer no. we were compensatory damages in the amount of $2 million. greg: the conclusion of the blockbuster defamation trial between johnny depp and amber heard did not disappoint. both stars defamed one another with johnny depp being the big victor. $50 million awarded after jurors unanimously decided that she libeled him with malice when she wrote the 2019 op-ed identifying herself as a victim of domestic groups. amber heard winning a counterclaim by johnny depp s agent who called her claim a hoax. it is being called a setback for women. depp wasn t there to celebrate. he was too busy rocking out in london but he released a statement, falls and very serious allegations were levied at maybe via the media which triggered an endless barrage of hateful content. although no charges were ever brought agains
in uvalde, texas where president biden will be tomorrow, jeff to you. and the more we learn about the shooting, the more difficult it gets for in community to grasp what exactly happened at robb elementary school. despite what investigators had initially told the public. we learned the shooter was not confronted by anyone from the time he crashed his pickup truck and began shooting at the school. a minute before the suspected shooter crashed that truck, a teacher at the school had walked outside, propped open a door and then went back inside, and left that door propped open. we re learning that 19 officers stood in the hallway of the school for nearly an hour before a border patrol agent showed up with a master key he had found to open up the door to enter and then kill the suspect. and while the clock was ticking for that to happen. investigators disclosed children were calling 911 begging for operators to send in police to help. texas dps say the local incident commander
hello, welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m john vause. you re watching cnn newsroom. and just ahead, the white house walks back joe biden s promise the u.s. would intervene militarily if china attacks taiwan, causing confusion and concern ahead of a summit between the u.s., japan, australia, and india. revenge fantasy. of all the primary races across the u.s., it s the state of georgia where donald trump wants a win for his endorsed candidates. and a love triangle turns into tragedy. an elite cyclist is dead and u.s. marshals now looking for the woman accused of murdering her. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with john vause. right now, the second in-person summit of the quad this year is under way in tokyo. leaders of this informal alliance between the u.s., japan, australia, and india, will soon head into a working lunch and then one-on-one meetings after that. just a day earlier, the u.s. president launched a new
and it came snapy fast. with the white house insisting there s been no change in the u.s. policy towards taiwan. we ve seen this kind of thing before after the president made those comments about vladimir putin, for instance. ukraine will never be a victory for russia for god s sake, this man cannot remain in power. harris: let s go straight to kayleigh. kayleigh: yeah, harris, it s always an unnamed anonymous white house official that cleans up the blunder. look, these gaps are alarming. they re weird to watch. they re disconcerting when it s the president. but when it s in the context to foreign policy, harris. it takes on an entirely different set of alarm thinking that you can set off an enemy, foe and world power. in the case with the taiwan remark, who is it that cleaned it up? the white house official who declined to be unnamed and the case is suggesting regime change in russia, who is it that cleaned it up? the official line was within minutes a white house offi
plus, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell leads a delegation of senate republicans on an unannounced visit to ukraine even as one of his own members slows progress on military aid that washington has been trying to fast-track. we ll tell you where that legislation stands now. and a key component of russia s propaganda machine at risk, as bloggers imbedded with russian troops are fed up with the repeated failures and are now voicing concerns. good morning. and welcome to way too early on this monday, may 16th. i m jonathan lemire. thank you for being with us. we begin with the latest on the deadly shooting in buffalo over the weekend. the white house says the president and first lady will visit the city tomorrow, to quote grieve with the community. speaking at the national peace officer s memorial service in washington yesterday, president biden addressed with the justice department investigating as an act of racially-motivated, domestic extremism. a lone gunman,