with something that e. jean carroll said, just this morning, that really stuck with me all day. what was it like being in the courtroom with donald trump? well, terrifying, until i got there. the weeks leading up to it, no sleep, couldn t eat, couldn t do and then, i sat down, robbie said, good morning ms. carroll, can you please spell your name for the court. i spelled my name. i looked out, and it was like, he was, like, nothing, like an emperor without clothes. all my terror leading up to it, and then he s just something in a suit. he was like nothing, as she just said, like an emperor with no clothes. she was scared. she admitted that. but when she saw him in that courtroom, she realized he was nothing. e. jean carroll is not a political strategist. don t go down that road, she never has been. she s not giving advice to the biden campaign. but what s she said there may actually offer some wisdom about donald trump. she revealed something here that is important to
i m in for nicolle wallace. the final day of e. jean carroll versus donald trump with closing arguments focused on a high-stakes question. what is the price to pay for using one of the world s most powerful megaphones to defame someone. first up her attorney addressed the factor looming over the trial, that is, trump s continued attacks on e. jean carroll. she pointed out trump spent the entire trial continuing to engage in defamation, trump dramatically stormed out of the courtroom. the judge noted the incident and kaplan continued. cnn repts that she said, quote, the case is also about punishing donald trump for what he has done and what he continues to do. shd trump tries to, quote, normalize conduct that could hardly be more abnormal. she went on to say, quote, typically when someone is found liable for defamaon, they stop making those statemeven if they don t like t jury s verdict, even if you d t like the jury s decision you follow it. those are the this trial is also
right now on ana cabrera reports, the countdown to new hampshire, new signs that ron desantis is giving up on the granite state. does that open a new lane for nikki haley. plus, writer e. jean carroll back on the stand this morning, who s not in the courtroom? donald trump, absent today after dramatic clashes with the judge. also ahead, the doj set to release a long-awaited report on the tragedy at robb elementary. what more it could reveal about the botched police response. and later, new u.s. strikes against houthi rebels in yemen. have these strikes done anything to stop attacks on commercial ships? so glad to be with you. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york, and we are just five days out now from the first in the nation primary and the big political contest of the 2024 race. new hampshire. and this morning, nikki haley who has put a lot of time in the state is campaigning alongside governor chris sununu. donald trump, meanwhile, spent
together. rafael aka ted cancun cruz endorses the same trump who accused the looks of his wife. cruz is one of many cowardly republicans who signed on to trump s revenge tour at the mere price of their own dignity. the alarming parallels between president biden and lyndon johnson as each man faced re-election, including their roles in two very unpopular conflicts. we begin with writer e. jean carroll. long before her name became synonymous with donald trump and her encounter with him in a department store where he was found to sexually abuse her, she was known as a pioneer in the world of literary journalism, ra trail blazing journalist. he works have been published in countless magazines for decades. readers asked to her ask e. jean column to help solve their problems and hosted her own ask e. jean in the mid 1990s america is talking . the biggest man handling trick of all is to know there is no trick. all you have to remember is that you re a woman and if you re
we re live outside the federal courthouse on long island where he s scheduled to appear in just hours. also breaking this morning, we are hearing now from e. jean carroll for the first time since former president donald trump was found liable for sexually abusing and defaming the former magazine writer. a jury awarding carroll $5 million after a contentious civil trial, but today carroll says it was never about the money. i didn t even hear the money. this is not about the money. this is about getting my name back and that s what we accomplished. i m overwhelmed with happiness for the women of the country. it s really not about me so much. it s about every woman. we have the latest on both of these developing cases and what santos and trump s legal problems mean for the future of the republican party. let s begin with that breaking news involving new york congressman george santos who is in custody right now, and we ve just learned he s facing those 13 federal counts. n