i also take judge kaplan s instruction to them today seriously, which is you guys should not reveal your identity because of what this guy will do to you. jurors, if you can hear us, we re cure wrs but we don t need to know who you are. also a lot happier the people who don t know. hats offeo to you, you new yorkers. all right, buddy, thank you as always. and thank you at home for joining us this hour. quote, no one is above the law not even a former president of the united states. that is how roberta kaplan, the lawyer for writer e. jean carroll, that is how she began her statement after the verdict was read in the case against former president trump. carroll herself said, quote, i filed this lawsuit against donald trump to clear my name and to get my life back. today the world finally knows the truth. this afternoon a jury of six men and three women in manhattan found former president donald trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation. the decision was quick and it was
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also on the programme an injured rafael nadal withdraws from wimbledon, missing an opportunity to achieve a new grand slam record. and the american actorjames caan best known for playing the gangster sonny corleone in the godfather has died at the age of 82. hello and welcome to the programme. borisjohnson is no longer leader of the conservative party, but he s still british prime minister following an extraordinary day at westminster. shortly after 12.30pm this afternoon, he walked out of the door of number 10 to confirm he will resign as tory leader and that he intends to stay in charge until a successor is chosen. many of his colleagues, along with opposition parties, are deeply unhappy with that and have called on him to go immediately. remember, this time yesterday, mrjohnson was insisting he would not stand down. but after the avalanche of resignations over the past 48 hours, today, everything changed. our political editor chris mason begins our coverage. at bre
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is clearly a landmark moment in american history, so what does all of this mean now? what does it mean for trump s future? what does it mean legally? what does it mean culturally? we have a lot to unpack. joining us now is lisa rubin. thanks for joining me on this very, very big day. lisa, you ve been through it all, andve i ve got to say when you re a lawyert for a defenda and you have to say they didn t get him on the rape thing, that seems like a thin defense given everything else they got him on. otyes, it is a very thin defense. and he knows what the impact of this liability finding is because even though it s not a criminal trial joe tacopina in his closing saidop to the jury not condemn this man as a rapist. in other words, he understood full well while this is a civil trial the impact of the finding