Donald trump, helping him post the 91. 6 million bond for e. Jean carroll. Now that he has shown he can get the money, what can it mean for the 460 million and counting he owes the state of new york. Joining us now msnbc legal continue, lisa rubin. He was due to post this bond on monday. Yesterday you and i were talking about the delay he was asking for. That was denied. That was. So posting it, what does it mean to have this on the books. It means that e. Jean carroll is protected through the Second Circuits disposition. One of the things i noticed when i was going through the bond today is that it actually only covers the appeal to the Second Circuit. It doesnt cover any appeal that he would take from the Second Circuit if it affirms the jurys verdict of 83. 3 million. Youre going to have to explain that. If he appeals further to the supreme court, hes going to need Somebody Else to come in and provide that security if he takes that appeal further. Otherwise, he will owe her that mon
Breaking news. The tik tok bill has passed the u. S. House of representatives giving the owners a big choice. Sell or be banned in america. Law makers have flooded Law Makers Offices and phones dont do this. 170 million americans are on the platform. Now it goes to the u. S. Senate. Im harris faulkner. Are you in Faulkner Focus. This gives the owner a choice. Die vest or you will be banned in the u. S. American buyers are already circling. The price tag could cover around hundreds of billions of dollars. Tik tok rolled out an Aggressive Campaign in the lead up to this mornings vote. It used urging young users particularly to call their congress people, flooding the phone lines. A show of just how powerful tik tok can be. House progresses took to the hill yesterday in protest of the legislation. Brought up upset content creators depending on the app for their careers and more. So many people, not only five million Small Businesses rely but 10 Million People rely on this app for more tha
Welcome back to the weekend. This week, the Supreme Court ruled that donald trump can stay on 2024 ballots and next month on april 25th, the same court will review trumps president ial Immunity Claim and that federal election interference case. Now this was the case that was supposed to begin this past monday. Well, that was before the high court effectively endorsed Donald Trumps delay tactics. Next guest says the courts should act as soon as they are allowed to in order to hold trump accountable. Regardless of how close it is to election day. Quote, trumps criminal trials should begin as soon as the Supreme Court dispatches with his absurd Immunity Claim and theres no legal reason why they cannot start in august, september, or even october. Well, joining us now is the author of those words, election lawyer mark elias and he is the founder of Democracy Docket and chair of the Elias Law Group and i would argue one of the chief defenders of you know, our democracy in this country. To th
happening now, president biden vows the united states skpland the nato allies will not waiver in their support of ukraine. their critical summit here in lithuania ending with a strong show of unity, despite unanswered questions about when ukraine will be invited to join the nato alliance. also tonight, president volodymyr zelenskyy, he returns to ukraine with new assurances from western allays and face to face commitment ifs r president bi biden, but zelenskyy leaves the summit without concrete security guarantees or a time line for nato membership. we re watching all of this unfold here in the situation room. what does it all mean for ukraine s defense against russia s brutal war, i ll ask the ukrainian ambassador to the united states who s joining us live this hour. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m wolf blitzer in vilnius, lithuania, and you re in the situation room. we re live here in vilnius, the capital of lithuania, and t
there s even greater points looming out there, it s celebrities who lost their status. i m referring to the blue checks. i m not talking about someone choking on their steak in prague. yeah yn can. i debated internally whether to leave that joke in or not. it s terrible. it s one of the worst jokes we ve ever heard so i left it in. last week twitter removed the user verification symbols known as blue checks from any account that doesn t cough up eight bucks to subscribe to twitter blue. the cash will go towards replacing elon s rocket that ec loaded. it s a shame he only had two more payments to go. celebs saw their blue checks go away including kim kardashian, tom lose, the rock, and of course greg gut feld. and my personal favorite, the pope. try getting eight bucks out of that guy. he always said he left hey wallet in his other casic. on saturday, twitter reverifies many users with massive following including dead people like michael jackson and kobe bryant. of course ac