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,
right now. out front next, the breaking news u.s. air strikes in the middle east tonight. u.s. fighter jets right now striking parts of yemen with tomahawk missiles. we are waiting to hear directly from president biden as the entire middle east and the world right now are on edge. and more breaking news tonight. trump s tirade, a judge shutting the former president down after an outburst at his fraud trial in new york. could this be the beginning of the end for trump s business empire? and christie s hot mic moment everybody s been talking about. we have the man on the other end, who was speaking to christie on that mic. what else did he say and what was it really an accident? let s go out front. and good evening. i m erin burnett, and we do begin out front tonight with the breaking news, the united states striking the middle east this hour. a u.s. official telling cnn that right now the u.s. military is carrying out strikes with fighter jets and tomahawk missiles on ye
into the fbi s investigation into donald trump s 2016 campaign ties to russia. special counseljohn durham found that the bureau should not have launched a probe into the campaign s alleged ties with russia. in the report, he said the agency s inquiry had lacked analytical rigor , concluding that the fbi had not possessed actual evidence of collusion between trump s campaign and russia before launching an inquiry. he also accused the fbi of repeated instances of confirmation bias . the fbi responded to durham s report, saying: former president trump responded to the report with a series of posts on his social media platform truth social. in one, he said: with me is north america correspondentjess parker. what new information to the report revealed? there are some old and some new because bill s report on 2019 by us watchdog but identified performance failures and what the fbi had done. but significantly, it didn t identify any political bias. this report differs a little b
with a report released today that has sharply criticised the fbi s investigation into donald trump s 2016 campaign ties to russia. special counseljohn durham found that the bureau should not have launched a probe into the campaign s alleged ties with russia. in the report, he said the agency s inquiry had lacked analytical rigour and concluded that the fbi had not possessed actual evidence of collusion between trump s campaign and russia before launching an also accused the fbi of repeated instances of quote confirmation bias . the fbi responded to durham s report, saying fbi leadership already implemented dozens of corrective actions, which have now been in place for some time. had those reforms been in place in 2016, the missteps identified in the report could have been prevented. former president trump responded to the report with a series of posts on his social media platform truth social. in one, he said, quote, special counsel john durham concludes the fbi never s