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
the investigation. whistleblower gary shapley is sitting down with fox newings, he claims investigators gave the president s son special treatment. the misdemeanor charges against hunter biden should have been stronger. he has no political motive and is coming forward to expose the corruption. david is live with details. david. david webb before the gary shapley interview, president biden was asks about what s app messages between hunter biden and chinese business associateses. watch this. how involved were you in your son s chinese shake-down text message? were you sitting there? were you involved? no, i wasn t. no. gary shapley, a special agent, still on the job, began overseeing the tax probe in 2020s he came forward after he saw problems with the probe. in an interview with bret baier he claimed prosecutors approved and backed out of searching properties connected to hunter biden. when other search warrant was on a storage unit in virginia. we got updated informatio
joining the crowded field. is there room for another candidate from the sunshine statesome with him there are three of them. we ll can him. welcome, everybody, i m neil cavuto, and this is cavuto live. i hope for dads tomorrow s a great day. in the meantime, fast-moving political developments. lucas tomlinson. reporter: good morning, neil. president biden departed for philadelphia for his first re-election campaign rally, as you mentioned. hopefully, the traffic situation is okay after that mess on i-95. biden removing this endorsement from some of the largest labor unions in the country. it s the earliest endorsement from the afl-cio in history. here s the president. we are a democracy, and so we ve been engaging our members, listening to them, and they want someone who will stand up and fight for them. and that s exactly what this president has done. he said he wants to be the midwest pro-union president when he took office, and he has absolutely delivered. reporter
mitchell reports, the attorney general speaks out. merrick garland breaking his silence for first time since donald trump was indicted. not discussing the case, of course, but strongly defending special prosecutor jack smith against trump s constant attacks. mr. smith is a veteran career prosecutor. any questions about this matter will have to be answered by their filings in court. we have what trump s republican challengers are saying today. the latest polls since the indictment on how this is all affecting the former president s support from gop voters. an nbc news exclusive. what ukraine s president zelenskyy told nbc s richard engel about the counteroffensive and allegations ukraine is involved in cross-border attacks against russia. translator: the actions, i would say, it s generally positive. but it s difficult. cutting out the junk. the president expected to get a major commitment today from big business about ending all those unfair surprise fees that impa