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on the asteroid. i was telling alex before when we were talking about this, when i kept hearing this incredible story yesterday about smashing into the asteroid, come on, what was i thinking. i was thinking aerosmith i don t want to miss a thing, hear the news story i don t want to close my eyes it was incredible. willie, stop him. a sappy summer movie. they tried to do this last night. you got bruce. you throw affleck in there, mika, if you don t know what we re talking about, this was a huge movie 25 years ago, with the plausible plot they trained oil drillers in a matter of days to become nasa astronauts and effectively do what we saw yesterday in real life, they knocked a rocket with a ship the size of a refrigerator, they knocked an asteroid off its course yesterday, nasa did this in real life. no liv tyler, now they know if something is barrelling toward earth, they have a decent chance of knocking it away. scientifically, the movie, i don t thin ....
and you know, we get into law school every so often on this program and we get into barack obama s unearthed law school manuscript and what he says about safeguarding american democracy, which is pretty relevant. but we begin with huge breaking news. a billion dollar verdict. that is the total damages for the liar proven in court to be a liar and right wing conspiracy theorist, alex jones. the lies matter. because the sanctions for them matter. because what is happening right now tonight in america is according to so many victims family, justice long overdue for these families who lived through the unthinkable. the murder of their children at sandy hook and the man you see on your screen tried to lie about and harass and defame and profit off all that. well that ends. that ends today. that was put to an end in court with and i want you to hear this number because it is way larger than any number i have ever read in any newscast to you as news. $965 million in damages ag ....
welcome to politicsnation. tonight s lead, uncharted territory. right now, the week ahead promises to be an unprecedented one for our nation, which of course follows last week s unprecedented fbi search of donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. and the revelations that have followed since nearly a dozen sets of classified materials were retrieved from the former presidents home, as part of a federal espionage investigation. this weekend, we learned that a trump lawyer sent a letter to the justice department in june. claiming that all classified materials had been returned to the government. that s according to reporting from the new york times. according to four people with knowledge of that document. nbc news has not seen the document and is working to confirm the reporting. but today, top democrats in the house are calling for a damage assessment of those documents. trump s defense dubious claims of executive privilege and preemptive declassification. meanwhile, summon l ....
i knew there would be scrutiny. transgender swimmer lia thomas speaking for the first time. transpeople don t transition for athletics. it s extremely frustrating. he has a biological advantage. we re going to be reporting on the queen s jubilee. 70 years in the same job. role model. the one to come. to say jubilee year. this celebration is our country. this is what you are you re my golden star. steve: look at that looking at virginia beach. right now it s 72. going for a high of 85. it s absolutely beautiful in southeastern virginia. it is where the chesapeake meets the atlantic ocean. good morning, everybody. it is the first day of june. it s a good day to be at the beach, if not, let us start your day live from new york city. we re here in studio m on this wednesday, june 1st, 2022. here on the curvey couch we have will cain back for another day of duty and katie pavlich. katie: great to be here. virginia beach where the u.s. navy is. lots of ....
State officials credited a Hearst Connecticut investigation as the genesis for investigations that culminated with the arrests of four political operatives. ....