when you win iowa and you win new hampshire, they ve never had a loss. we are not going to be the first, i can tell you. mike: for president trump tightens his grip on the republican nomination, a solid victory in new hampshire s primary bolstering the likelihood of a rematch between president biden later this year. but mr. trump s g.o.p. rival making it clear she is far from throwing in the towel. at one point in this campaign there were 14 of us running. and we were at 2% in the polls. well, i m a fighter. [cheers and applause] and i m scrappy. and now we are the last ones standing next to donald trump. [cheers and applause] mike: hello. i m mike emanuel. gillian, great to be working with you. gillian: and i m gillian turner in washington. continuing special coverage, the first in the nation presidential primary. nikki haley, donald trump duked it out in today s showdown, but in the end you might have noticed it was not even close despite putting a lot of time and
hi, everyone. it s 4:00 here in new york. for about three minutes, a former president of the united states and current front runner for the republican presidential nomination was on the stand today. in case that seeks to hold him accountable for his words. that extraordinary courthouse moment today came on day four of ft defamation trial. donald trump testified in his defense. his attorney allowed to ask him only one question. do you standby your deposition? he said, 100%. he also added that he considers carroll s allegation false. that was stricken from the record immediately. that single question by his attorney is the result of a lengthy back and forth between the judge and trump s attorneys in which the judge warned trump not to relitigate the first trial in which he was found liable for sexually abusing carroll. there are no do overs. he ruled out the kind of statements trump has made outside of court. carroll s attorneys entered into evidence some of those statements in
for his dangerous rhetoric. e. jean carroll was back on the stand today, first under cross-examination by trump s attorney, then under redirect examination by her attorney. team trump suggested that carroll actually benef from her accusation. abc news reports the defense suggested that carroll craved attention, took on trump to revive her flagging career, and relish the verdict in an earlier trial known as carroll 2. it established trump was liable for sexually abusing and defaming her. did the verctn your opinion provide you with bigger status in new york? itvide me with you have continued to publicize every lawsuit you had had agait president trump. yes, carroll responded, because wanted people to know that a woman can speak up and win a trial. i wanted people to know. i m 80. i don t want to be quiet. it s not right to make a woman be quiet. it s gone on for too long. during redirect, carroll countered that despite all the notary tie s gned, she wants nothing more than t
$150 million in damages to two georgia election workers he defamed. we re breaking down the huge verdict against the former trump lawyer tied to his lies about the 2020 presidential election. i ll speak live to an attorney for the two election workers this hour. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. and we begin this hour with a major breaking story. the former trump lawyer, rudy giuliani, ordered to pay an enormous price for falsely accusing two georgia election workers of fraud. jessica schneider is outside the courthouse here in washington. jessica, this nearly $150 million verdict is vastly more than the attorneys for the election workers even asked for. it is, wolf. it s about $100 million more than their attorneys asked for. $75 million in punitive damages, essentially to punish rudy giuliani for those statements he made against ruby freeman and
kara murza. we will have more on all of those stories here in a moment. let s round up to the sports news. thank you, good afternoon. we start with football and the premier league where liverpool can keep their hopes of playing european football next season alive, with a win at leeds this evening. it won t be easy though forjurgen klopp s side against a leeds team fighting for premier league survival just two points above the drop zone. we have nothing to lose, really, and we are in a position that we don t want to be in the table. that means we have to act a little bit like this, we have to try new things, we have to fight for things, that s how it is. the things we have tried so far this season didn t work out properly, especially not consistently, and that s what we have to do. all the things are on the table, everything is clear, our home record isn t as bad as the away record but we play away. anyway, i m looking forward to the game. it is important to be strong in thi