Here. A Commissioner Jacobo. Good morning, here. A Commissioner Moss. Here. Commissioner sommer. We have a quorum and the next item is item two, president s announcements. Good morning, everybody. Everybody can hear me . All right. Just a sound check for june 16, 2021. I am President Mccarthy and joined by fellow commissioners with senior d. B. I. Staff. As the city and our state begins to reopen, i want to read a note from the interim director sent to staff recently. With all of the changes d. B. I. Has made in the past year, we have a unique Aunt Tunt to reshape the, our goals, our process, and our future to build on the strengths and addresses the areas ripe for improvement. Wed Noo Value Transparency and everything we do and dedicated to providing the best service the public and i am asking each of you to join me in this service. This applies to each of us on the commission as well even though this was sent to staff and we are all part of this endeavor. And i want to join with the
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
served minister trump saying he sexually assaulted her in a department store dressing room and the 90s. he said she was a liar. it s terrible what s going on. it s a total false accusation and i don t know anything about her. reporter: and may, a different jury that mr. trump had sexually abused and defamed carroll, after he left office. awarded her $5 million. laven this second jury to decide only damages for what he said about her while he was president. carroll alleged his original remarks unleashed a torrent of threats online from trump supporters and tarnished her reputation. but mr. trump s attorney tonight blasting the judge for barr or mr. trump trump deny carroll s claims. before i walked into court, that judge decided that every single defense president trump had, we were not allowed to rise in front of the jury. trump cold the verdict absolutely ridiculous and said he would appeal. in a statement, carroll said, quote, this is a great victory for every woman
amount of damages trump was already found liable for both sexually abusing carroll and defending her in an earlier civil trial. nbc s laura jarrett has more. reporter: carroll originally served minister trump saying he sexually assaulted her in a department store dressing room and the 90s. he said she was a liar. it s terrible what s going on. it s a total false accusation and i don t know anything about her. reporter: and may, a different jury that mr. trump had sexually abused and defamed carroll, after he left office. awarded her $5 million. laven this second jury to decide only damages for what he said about her while he was president. carroll alleged his original remarks unleashed a torrent of threats online from trump supporters and tarnished her reputation. but mr. trump s attorney tonight blasting the judge for barr or mr. trump trump deny carroll s claims. before i walked into court, that judge decided that every single defense president trump had, we were no
verdict came along and we made some emergency arrangements. here in boston. to get into this coverage tonight. we have lisa birnbach joining us, as the first guest tonight, as you know, she is e. jean carroll s best friend and the most supportive witness that e. jean carroll had in the trial. she s the very first person who heard e. jean carroll s story. that very day. minutes after it happened. when she had that encounter with donald trump. and you know, lisa burn box testimony about this, i think should so much light into the ways in which victims of sexual assault often have a hard time grappling with what they just went through. and lisa birnbach did, i think the whole country a service. by helping illustrate the confusion and the denial that a lot of sexual victims feel in those first moments after an assault. it s gonna be really important guest to hear from tonight, lawrence, it s great to have her. yeah, alex, last night, on this program, we hand harvard law profe