weekend, i am chris hayes. let s get to the weekend s top stories. 83 point $3 million, that is a lot of money. that s how much donald trump has just been ordered to pay writer e. jean carroll for repeating defaming her after she accused him of sexual assault. the jury spent four days hearing about what donald trump did, and witnessing his ongoing contempt towards but the proceedings in front of them, and e. jean carroll with their own eyes. carols attorneys had asked the jurors to reach a verdict that would stop them from further defaming the woman that he has been defaming and harassing for the last five years. today, after deliberating for less than three hours, the jury came through. they awarded carroll $73 million in emotional damages, $11 million in reputational damages, and a whopping $65 million in punitive damages, which is there essentially to stop him from what he has been doing. such a shocking and divisive verdict against the ex president. even fox news cover th
projects. it is an interesting one, because on one hand, donald trump says that day one, dictator for a day, i m going to drill drill drill. russia producing more fossil fuels than anybody in the world by a long shot, and then antibodies ever produced. let s get down to the skin of some climate activists who say that maybe that is not the goal that we should be having. and so this is that intersection between energy dependent and being a leader in the world and guaranteeing freedom for people who don t want to buy their gas from russia, and at the same time, being conscious of the climate. it is an interesting tightrope that we are going to talk about. have a great weekend, i will see you again tomorrow morning. all right, take care alley. all right. right i m ali velshi. we begin this morning with a blockbuster penalty that a jury has awarded the writer e. jean carroll in a defamation case against the twice impeached four times indicted ex president. yesterday, a
bring it, donald. show me what you got. also, alabama set to make history tonight for the controversial way it is scheduling to execute a convicted murderer. across the south, more than 30 million people bracing for another round of heavy showers and flooding that could linger for days. and a family reunion, 14 years in the making. a mom finally back with her family after being separated by her nation s broken immigration system. and we begin this morning with breaking news from here in new york city, where testimony has resumed in former president donald trump s defamation damages trial after a three-day pause. the former president is in court today for proceedings, and could testify in his own defense later today. trump was originally expected to testify on monday in the case, brought against him by writer e. jean carroll, but the trial was postponed after a juror got sick and one of trump s attorneys told the judge she was exposed to covid and was feeling sick. l
brought against him by writer e. jean carroll. now i guess we are going to see, is this number enough or potentially do we go through this again? nancy: the cbs evening news starts now. good evening. i m nancy cordes in for norah. thank you for being with us. we are going to have more on that massive payout donald trump was ordered to make to e. jean carroll in a moment. also tonight, though, big news from the border, where migrant crossings hit a new record in december. hundreds of thousands of them, and countered by border agents. plus, boeing 737 max 9 is returning to the skies. cbsnews is there as the first flight takes off from seattle after the planes were grounded for three weeks following that terrifying midair incident. but we want to begin tonight a jury found he acted maliciously, out of hatred, ill will, or spite in his ongoing verbal attacks on the former elle magazine columnist. they concluded he should pay $83.3 million in damages. a previous ju
very full night. $83.3 million for the former president. tonight straight from the source, the staggering cost of donald trump s own words. $83 million for years of defaming the writer e. jean carroll even after a jury found that he sexually abused her. is this enough to make it stop? we ll see. trump is raging tonight. not even sticking around in court to hear the verdict as it was read. we have two insiders with their takes here. someone who was in the courtroom, along with the person who first told e. jean carroll to consider suing donald trump. the chance run-in at a party that got this case going. i m kaitlan collins and this is the source. an astounding $83.3 million. that s a top of the $5 million that trump was already ordered by a jury to pay e. jean carroll after he was found liable for sexually abusing her in the 1990s. today s eye-popping number is for defaming carroll in 2019. there she is with her legal team today after the decision made by nine jurors. seve