$83 million for defaming her. this is an incredibly meaningful amount of money. there may be more to come. tonight, a massive punishment to stop trump with the co-counsel for e. jean carroll. the whole point of this, this enormous damages, unprecedented damages, is to tell donald trump to shot up. then, the politics of a party about to nominate this man. i don t even know who this woman is. i have no idea. as republicans keep trying to and reproductive rights. we ll know veterinary career, thousands of ultrasounds on animals. all that in today s major ruling from the world court on the israel gaza war. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. 83 point $3 million. that s a lot of money. that s almost on trump has just been ordered to pay writer e. jean carroll for repeatedly defaming her after she accused him of sexual assault. the jury spent four days hearing about what donald trump did and witnessing his ongoing contempt tow
nancy, nancy! donald trump last night in his cnn town hall, calling january 6th a beautiful day. the event, of course, last night full of lies, misleading statements. we ll go through the biggest ones, and also his comments about writer e. jean carroll that drew laughs and cheers from the crowd. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 11th. we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief jonathan lemire. jen palmieri. jon meacham. and reporter for the washington post, jackie alemany. we watched a rerun from 2016 and what we saw throughout donald trump s presidency. he committed again last night the claim that the election was rigged in 2020. it was not, of course. he called january 6th a beautiful day. he said he was going to pardon the people who attacked police officers on that day. the list goes on and on and on. would not commit to supporting ukraine in its war with russia. we ll get into some of it but, frankly, no surprises in w
he defamed her by denying it happened. this is moments away. we will bring it to you live here and stay with it throughout this hour. national correspondent bryan llenas is standing by at the courthouse while we wait for the news that the jurors are about to present this verdict. hi, brian. yes, i m here in new york. we have our producers at the courthouse. we re waiting now what the verdict is. it said that they would be announcing it at 3:00. we re looking to see as soon as we get the verdict what it is. in this case we need to step back here, this is a civil federal case, which means that all nine jurors must come to a unanimous decision on whether or not they believe former president trump committed assault, a battery and whether or not he defamed e. jean carroll. the burden of proof here is lower than a criminal case. you must proved beyond a reasonable doubt in this case. the only thing they have to do is convince the jury that e. jean carroll said the events more tha
not just me who has to be concerned about what he intends to do, what he knows that he is capable of doing because the first run whether it will was the insurrection, the unconstitutional, what this is for him, this is a practice run, the second time around. he will make a more sophisticated game plan to achieve what he wants and that is total control. not just me, what do you mean by that? you, too, anyone who is critical. just a few weeks after, trump gave the keynote speech at seatac and proclaimed for the first time, quote, i am your retribution. that has become the guiding mantra of his bid to return to the white house. in june of last year, shortly after he was indicted for the second time, he took to social and vowed that he would, quote, appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the united states, joe biden, the entire biden crime family and all others involved with the destruction of our elections, borders and co