to go out of what was being decided, which is really how much of anything he owed her he was still denying the heart of the allegation the point that tran20 s attorney made yesterday as he was being cross-examined that, was that there was another trial in and trump did not show up or testify, he did not even go to the courtroom, which he has since said it was because his attorneys advised him to do so, but the attorney saying he could have come for that trial. and of course we are seeing how it has ended up, no surprise that he is going to appeal this but also revealing how angry he is about how much with the situation where he is going to have to potentially pay e. jean carroll 2 lies that president biden had anything to do with the defamation suit, he did not , zero evidence there is of that , and 2nd of all that this is anything to do with first amendment rights, the department amendment to the u.s. constitution, allowing for more freeze than almost any other country on ea
listen to the show wherever you get your podcasts. the lead starts with wolf plitser in the situation room. happening now breaking news, a huge legal and financial blow to donald trump. a jury says he should may more than $83 million in damages to writer e. jean carroll for defamatory statements he made about her. we re breaking down the verdict and the message it sends to the former president and the clear front-runner for the 2024 republican presidential nomination. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, and you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. let s get right to the major breaking news we re following right now. the bombshell verdict in the defamation trial against donald trump. the former president now on the hook for a stunning $83.3 million. let s go to cnn s cara scannell outside the courthouse in new york where all this unfolded. kara, walk us through this verdict. reporter: wolf,
it is now highly lookly the united states won t be able to pay its bills by early june. also tonight, trump accuser e. jean carroll is seeking further damages from the former president for disparaging comments he made about her during a cnn town hall. and in ukraine after months of brutal fighting, it now appears bakhmut has finally fallen to russia, but ukrainian forces say they still hold a small portion of the totally ruined city. i ll get reaction from the former ukrainian defense minister. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get straight to our top story right now. the speaker mccarthy and president biden, they are diving into another round of debt limit negotiations as the treasury secretary issues her starkest warning yet, that default is now just a few days away. we re covering the story from every angle over at the white house up on capitol hill. let s begin over at the w
decision? special counsel jack smith has been aggressive in getting around attorney-client privilege. there are certain pieces of information he believes he needs in order to answer the question about whether classified documents were mishandled and there were efforts to obstruct. he went through the proper channels to get to around attorney-client privilege. you want to speak freely to your attorneys without it coming back to potentially bite you. paula, stick around. i want to bring in tom dupree, former assistant attorney general. what do you make of the contents? it s extraordinary this was allowed to be revealed. what do you make of the contents? the way it s not surprising is the president wants to fight the subpoena. that s what we ve seen, his lawyers often over the course of his time in office would urge cooperation with the justice department. that s not his nature. his nature is to fight. doesn t surprise me. that s the first question, what can we do to battl
administration officials, they ve made clear their position is the same as it has always been. the president wants a clean debt ceiling increase. there have been no negotiations on anything but a clean debt ceiling increase. republicans are in a very different place right now. the difference between right now and yesterday where those two positions stand is they have about a month to figure this out. the president has international travel, how they figure something out is still very much an open question. to remind people, this is money that has already been spent. this is not future spending. it has already been manu, does this new deadline one month from today change anything when it comes to negotiations? we haven t seen any real willingness to give on either side so far. not at the moment, jake, of course this letter just came out, but even kevin mccarthy, the speaker saying earlier today in israel that they will not do what the white house has been demanding for th