for sexual abuse, ordering him to pay $5 million to writer e. jean carroll. we have legal analysis on the case and more reaction from capitol hill straight ahead. also ahead, a high stakes meeting on the debt ceiling lives up to the low expectations everyone predicted. a look at what could come next as both sides have a small window to hammer out a deal. plus it appears that george santos elis and questionable financial claims are finally catching up to him as he is facing federal charges. and a live report from el paso, texas on how the biden administration is preparing for the end of a pandemic-era immigration restriction. good morning and welcome to morning joe it s wednesday, may 10th. along with joe, willie and me, we have host of way too early, jonathan lemire. former white house director of communications, jen palmerry. cohost of show time s the circus . attorney and columnist for the washington post george conway is with us as well. so it begins. donald tru
hi, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york, an extraordinary and historic moment unfolding today in a manhattan courthouse where a jury of six men and three women ruled that the disgraced, impeached, indicted ex-president and now also liable for sexually abusing writer e. jean carroll inside a luxury manhattan department store in the mid-1990s. trump was also found liable for defamatory statements he made toward carroll including calling her claims a hoax and a con job. in total this jury awarded the former journalist nearly $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages. the jury did not find trump liable for raping e. jean carroll. it s the only claim on the ten count verdict that went in his favor. while the jury s unanimous verdict was decided in less than three hours it carries no criminal implications for donald trump, it is nonetheless a historic moment of accountability for the ex-president and current republican front-runner. donald trump with his long record of lying and
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talking about when asked by attorneys in october for e. jean carroll about the access hollywood. here s what donald trump said. and you say, and again this has become very famous in this video. i just start kissing them, it s like a magnet, just kiss, i don t even wait and when you re a star they let you do it. you can do anything, grab them by [bleep], you can do anything. historically that s true with stars. true that they can grab women by [bleep]. if you look over the last million years that s largely true. not always but largely true. unfortunately or fortunately. you consider yourself to be a star? i think you can say that, yeah. you have in front of you, a black and white photograph that we ve marked as djt-23. i m going to ask you, is this
star? i think you can say that, yeah. so, mary what a jury heard is in a long line of stars going back 1 million years you are allowed to, quote, grab women by the p word. and again i don t mean a confession in a criminal context, but what the jury heard to andrew s point is corroboration that trump agreed he could do what e. jean carroll accused him of doing. how impactful do you think that is when you look at, again, trump raped ms. carroll, the jury decided no. mr. trump abused ms. carroll, jury decided yes. that she was injured as a result of misconduct, jury decided yes. if yes, leave the dollar amount as $2 million for that liability on his part. mary? this is a civil case as we ve been talking about, and so the allegation in the complaint was that mr. trump committed a