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her trial. still, no official ruling on that. from the drug. back to you. ,. ,,,,. ,. . a the he it,. ,. the reckless will disregard of e. jean carroll s rights. it is awarding carroll $18 million for deliberating for less than three hours. it included trump storming out of the courtroom and the judge s threats to lock up trump s lawyer. we have reporters and analysts in place ready to go through all of the days big developments for us. o go ti welcome you all. we begin in las vegas where we expect donald trump and vice president harris to be speaking separately just a few hours from now. a little more than a week before voters have their say in both races. my colleague, nbc s liz kreutz is in las vegas. joining me right now. liz, welcome, set the stage for us on what we can expect to see from donald trump later today. might we hear him talk about the e. jean carroll position for the first time publicly? hey alex, yeah, that s the big question. donald trump out of ....
bret: good evening, welcome to washington i m bret baier and two big stories featuring big numbers. customs and border protection say within 300,000 people illegal immigrants and countered by border patrol attempting to enter the u.s. illegally across the southern border and just the month of december. we will head to the border to report on the major showdown between texas and the biden administration. but first the other big numbers tonight. we begin in new york, a jury or during former president donald trump to pay more than $83 million in a defamation lawsuit brought by e. jean carroll. a jury found previously sexually assaulted by a trump in the 1990s. the former president vigorously denied the allegations and wondered how he did that is the subject of the defamation case. alexis mcadams outside of the federal courthouse in manhattan with the latest tonight. good evening, alexis. good evening, bret. huge numbers in the courtroom in manhattan. e.g. harrell sai ....
hey, they re everyone. welcome to alex witt reports. it is one pm in the, east area west. we are beginning with a live look at new hampshire. that is where the temperature is that seven degrees, as we count down the first in the nation presidential primary. candidates are out and about in the granite state, they are making their cases to a notoriously independent minded electorate. what decision day now two days away, ron desantis plans to return to new hampshire today. donald trump spoke at a rally in manchester last nights, and about his wide range of topics, celebrating authoritarian leadership. the great man, great leader and europe, victor war bonnet, is the, he s the prime minister of hungary. he s a great leader. very strong man. some people don t like it because he s too strong. it s nice to have a strongman running a country. meanwhile, nikki haley today as we directly engagi with voters and get a momentum in the state. she picked up the endorsement of th ....
than half of the republican members of congress and before all the votes were even counted in iowa on monday night, at least at least a fair, nick the gop house conference, there was already calling for the other candidates to drop out. this weekend, she is in new hampshire campaigning on the former president s behalf and maybe auditioning to be his running mate. also at a rally last night, trump received a key endorsement for one of his former 2024 opponents, the south carolina senator tim scott, who was ironically appointed to his position by then south carolina governor nikki haley. as was the case in 2016, virtually the entire gop is falling in line behind trump. nearly two thirds of iowa republicans say that they believe he would still be fit to be president even if he is fit committed of a crime. a similar responded that believe president biden legitimately run the 2020 election. a sign that trump s baseless big lie continues to have a hold on the gop. the res ....
you think that that sort of thing happens to that other people. it s the most frightening thing in the world. a young wife. she always saw the good in people. she had a way to make you smile. missing for nine days. it s so wrong, and nicole is somewhere where she shouldn t be. it was hard enough when they didn t know, much worse when they did. it came over the tv a body had been found. i will never forget that as long as i live. this could go down any number of paths. and it did. had her troubled past finally caught up with her? i saw the pill bottle and i freaked out. or was it something much darker? he told me he would put it in her red bull. how did she change? she became more sexual with people. who wanted her dead? he thought he was somewhat of a player. did it make him a killer? welcome to dateline. nikki pietz was a well liked fitness executive married to the man of her dream, then one night, she was supposed to meet he ....