in washington, d.c. are dealing with a very important question. trying to decide what price should be paid for telling lies that throwed a violent insurrection. eroing the fabric of america and through no fault of their own became subjects of a conspiracy theory. rudy giuliani s defamation trial sued by ruby freeman and her daughter shaye moss. the judge ruled giuliani defamed freeman and moss, now deciding how much giuliani will pay. started with the expectation he made himself that giuliani would testify on his own behalf. he vow yesterday to give the whole story in a bit of a dramatic press conference. once he conceded, the trial went to arguments. when that happened, the lawyer asked the jury to award them $24 million each. gottlieb said giuliani has no right to offer civil servants up to a mob to win a general election. very true. emotional testimony by ruby freeman yesterday. over the course of 90 minutes freeman recounted how she was hounded by death threats, messa
white house starts right now. hey, everyone. 4:00 in new york i m in for nicolle wallace. justice and accountability. more than a year after a harrowing attack that shocked this country, the ongoing political violence at the forefront, the jury found david depape guilty on counts of attempted kidnap taing of a federal official and assaulting a family member of a federal official. talking husband of nancy pelosi, paul pelosi, with a hammer in their home back in october of last year. depape faces life in prison. nancy pelosi they are deeply grateful for outpouring of prayers and warm wishes for mr. pelosi across country during this difficult time. the pelosi family is proud he densated extraordinary bravery and demonstrated in the courtroom this week. he felt in immediate danger when depape arrived at the doorstep in the middle of the night. the nbc news, the door opened a very large man came in with a hammer in one hand, zip ties in the other and he said, where s nancy.
but there will be other things that come up in the georgia indictment likely as well that aren t included, including efforts to tamper with voting machines, for example, or efforts on behalf of those close to trump to penetrate the georgia political establishment and sort of talk in more micro detail about how that fake elector process worked in georgia, including their surreptitiously meeting in the capital, which is a requirement of any certificate of ascertainment that s submitted when you assemble electors together. so i think we ll see a lot more detail. a lot more focus on georgia, and then some names of people who are not yet household names and are specific to the georgia facts at issue. and we may actually see a lot more of the court proceedings because unlike the federal court, you know, stringent requirements typically are the standard without cameras in the courtroom state, this is a state case, that may allow more transparency here.
certificate of ascertainment to the national archives in washington, pretending they were the real electors from arizona and their votes for trump are real and should be counted by the united states senate. literally they sent a forged document. that s exactly right. you can see it up here on the screen in comparison. forged. fraud. rachel was drilling down at a time people were saying,s the over, let s move on. she was saying, wait a minute, if it s foreignly, that s not only news that s potentially illegal. it s a problem. it was many months later when the congressional january 6th committee got those notes together, conferred with the archives. you can t send fraudulent documents to the government. not for any reason. you could do that any government forum it s illegal. there s a hierarchy. if you do it to the irs about money versus the doj about guns
response to donald trump s arraignment yesterday. then there was the former speaker of the arizona house of representative, the republican rusty bowers who refused to donald trump s calls to overturn the 2020 election. i swore to the constitution to uphold it and i also swore to the constitution and the laws of the state of arizona, and this is totally form as an idea or theory, to me. donald trump s latest federal indictment details the alleged pressure that was put on rusty bowers by donald trump. quote, on november 22nd, eight days before arizona s governor certified the ascertainment of the states illegitimate electors based on the popular vote, the defendant and coconspirator one, whom we know to be giuliani, called the speaker of the house on a house of representatives and made knowingly false claims of election fraud aimed at interfering with the ascertainment of and voting by arizona s electorates. according to the indictment, and to rusty bowers testimony before the januar