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that is all in for the week. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex wagner. welcome back. it s good to be home, my friend. it s good to be home. thanks. thanks to you at home for joining me this evening. this is park avenue. it s an historic 32 in manhattan, it s one of the highlights, you could say, in donald trump s real estate portfolio. and because of the new york attorney general s lawsuit against mr. trump, we know that, in 2020, the trump organization received an appraisal for trump park avenue, which set its value at 84 point $5 million. it s an interesting some. today, a jury ordered donald trump to pay writer e. jean carroll 83 point $3 million, approximately one trump park avenue, for defaming her. breaking that number down a little bit more, the jury awarded e. jean carroll 18 point $3 million to compensate her for the harm trump s lies caused her. they awarded her another $65 million in punitive damages to, well, punish donald trum
value at $84.5 million. it s an interesting me. today, a jury ordered donald trump to pay writer e. jean carroll $83.3 million, approximately one trump park avenue, for defaming her. breaking that number down a little bit more, the jury awarded e. jean carroll $18.3 million to compensate her for the harm trump s lies caused her. they awarded her another $65 million in punitive damages to, well, punish donald trump, to deter him from defaming e. jean carroll ever again. we will have more on that in just a moment. a nine member jury took just two hours and 45 minutes to reach its verdict after hearing final arguments from trump, and carroll s lawyers. mr. trump himself spent the final day of the trial causing disruption. and when ms. carroll s lawyers were given closing arguments, he stood up and walked out of the room, at which point the judge interrupted ms. carroll s lawyers and order that the official record reflect donald trump s abrupt exit. at one point the judge had to
its closing arguments in donald trump s civil fraud trial after a dramatic scene in which the former president himself addressed the court. the judge had only allowed trump to speak on the condition that he focus on the facts but the president quickly veered into other territory claiming he is an innocent man being persecuted d the judge telling defense counsel please control your client. th former president has already been found liable for inflating properties to get loan deals. the judge will attempt to issue his ruling by the end of the month. yasmin vossoughian is reporting for us outside the courtroom in new york. vaughn hillyard is urbandale, iowa, also with us, renato, former federal prosecutor. somebody might argue at least in terms of drama donald trump s a tough act to follow. reporter: yeah, i think that person would likely win that argument. nonetheless, i think lee tee james has a lot in store. she is not likely to offer closing arguments to other attorneys.
why do the doj have a winning argument? well it came down to who has the greater interest, on one hand doj has a really strong interest in getting access to these documents right away, because they need to resume their criminal investigation, and the federal government in general needs to look at these documents and decide if people are in danger, spies, intelligence assets, that type of thing. on the flipside, the court says donald trump has no possesses or interest in these records. what this means though, that these classified records are now doj right, now the alternative would have been the have to run through the special master first. if they were privileged, they would end up right back in doj hands anyways. so doj now has the more quickly. hold on to, this don t let me grab. i thought what you are, saying don t, mcgraw i thought this was going to be happening with those documents. that everyone was going to have a chance to look at them, right, which was obvio