in fact, all around the is horr million jews slaughtered. so important indeed. and to our viewers thanks very much for watching. erin out front next, breaking news. trump hit with a more than $83 million verdict for his repeated attacks on e. jean carroll. a c? plus fighting intensifies in gaza. you ll hear from an american doctor who has just returned from the area. why he calls this conflict and what he saw on the ground the worst he s ever seen. and new tonight a border shutdown. cnn learning a key group of senators have now agreed to close the southern border if m specific number. let s go out front. good evening. i m erika hill in for erin burnett. out front tonight, breaking news. $83.3 million. that is what a jury says donald trump must pay e. jean carroll for defaming her while he was president. this is the woman of course trump was found liable for sexually abusing. $83.3 million is a massive number. there s no way getting around that. it was agreed upon afte
left office. now, you think about investigation, i m gonna bet your mind goes straight to the events of august 8th last year. you would likely think of the fbi s court authorized search of mar-a-lago. and of the 100 plus classified documents that the fbi found on the premises that. but that is not tonight s news. no, tonight s news centers on a period of time, about two months before that. june 2nd, the events of that day may be key to jack smith s case. tonight, the washington post described the events that took place that day as being of particular importance to investigators in the classified documents case. we had previously known that on may 11th of last year, trump s attorneys received a grand jury subpoena seeking all documents bearing classification marking still in trump s possession. then, we knew that almost a month later, june 3rd, an attorney from the department of justice, and three fbi agents met with trump s lawyers at mar-a-lago to collect those documents fro
hundreds of classified government documents after he left office. now, you think about investigation, i m gonna bet your mind goes straight to the events of august 8th last year. you would likely think of the fbi s court authorized search of mar-a-lago. and of the 100 plus classified documents that the fbi found on the premises that. but that is not tonight s news. no, tonight s news centers on a period of time, about two months before that. june 2nd, the events of that day may be key to jack smith s case. tonight, the washington post described the events that took place that day as being of particular importance to investigators in the classified documents case. we had previously known that on may 11th of last year, trump s attorneys received a grand jury subpoena seeking all documents bearing classification marking still in trump s possession. then, we knew that almost a month later, june 3rd, an attorney from the department of justice, and three fbi agents met with trump s
republican candidate in new mexico visited homes of democratic officials before targeting those homes with gun fire. this morning, still no word on how lisa marie presley died. the coroner deferred a ruling asking for more time to investigate. a busy wednesday but first the tragedy on the outskirts of ukraine s capital. 16 people are dead after a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten and residential buildings east of kyiv. three children are among the dead with 15 more being treated in the hospital. the mayor of kyiv now reacting. this is a tragedy. i m not ready to give we inves investigate what happens. let s get straight to clarissa ward live at the scene in ukraine for us. good morning, what s going on? what s the latest there? reporter: don, you can probably see behind me the smoldering wreckage of that kindergarten where the helicopter hit this morning, tragically killing 16 people, all nine people on board the helicopter were killed, including the interior