and teachers killed by aunman nearly two years ago. the lead, with the jake tapper, starts right now. donald trump s response, when a judge threatened to throw them out of court, quote, i would love it. the lead starts right now that outbursts in court. what donald trump did, when a woman who is accusing him of sexual harassment, took the stand. at the white house, resident biden, meeting with leaders of the house and senate as senate republicans urged house republicans to take the deal on immigration and the border and get something, rather than nothing. when schoolchildren stop. see how often it is that the students are stopping planned events. welcome to the lead. we start with our law and justice lead. a jury is deciding how much donald trump must pay to a woman he defamed, as the jury previously divided decided. the judge threatened to kick the former president out of the court. trump responded, quote, i would love it. he was warned to speak more quietly when talking
week s program, i used pretty strong language to slam the new york times for swallowing hamas propaganda with that initial headline, israelis kill hundreds in hospital, palestinians say, which was flatly untrue. the day after the show, the times essentially apologized saying in an editor s note the paper relied too heavily on claims by hamas and did not make clear those claims could not be legally verified. times editors should have taken more care and been more explicit sit about what information could be verified. i give the paper credit, but the damage, the enflaming of the region, cannot be undone. and cnn has now run a correction to its first story blaming israel for the hospital explosion which was caused by an errant islamic jihad rocket. as israel conducts its second incursion into gaza, the hamas terrorists have now released two israeli hostages, an 85-year-old woman and a 79-year-old woman. just think about that for a minute, amid all the rush of other war news.
committee, and your ability to articulate a very come plex issue like russia and china and taiwan to the american people is going to be an important one. it was an honor and a privilege to serve with you and congratulations ares on this new role congratulations on this new role. thanks, jason. appreciate your effort toss make sure people understand what s going on in the world and how it affects their lives. jason: thank you. happy new year. all right, president biden acknowledges there s no one-size-fits-all when it comes to fighting the covid pandemic. biden said last week that the solution has to be tailored state by state, so why all the federal mandates? new york congresswoman nicole malliotakis up next with that.
committee, and your ability to articulate a very come plex issue like russia and china and taiwan to the american people is going to be an important one. it was an honor and a privilege to serve with you and congratulations ares on this new role congratulations on this new role. thanks, jason. appreciate your effort toss make sure people understand what s going on in the world and how it affects their lives. jason: thank you. happy new year. all right, president biden acknowledges there s no one-size-fits-all when it comes to fighting the covid pandemic. biden said last week that the solution has to be tailored state by state, so why all the federal mandates? new york congresswoman nicole malliotakis up next with vo: my car is my after-work decompression zone. music vo: so when my windshield broke. i found the experts at safelite autoglass. they have exclusive technology and service i can trust. singers: safelite repair, safelite replace. your shipping manager left
we just learned that today from the new york times and cnn. the questions are going to keep occurring, the president doesn t want to answer them. you cannot answer the questions that the american people now have in 140-character tweets. eric: well, we certainly will get an interview at some point, we meaning media in general, and he will certainly be asked about that, donald trump jr., saying that meeting with the lawyer was about adoption, for example, and the president didn t know anything about it. but this all comes after the meeting and, basically, as you point out, no news conference or explanation beyond the tweets from the president. met me read you what the wall street journal is reporting tonight. they say, quote: lawmakers in both parties and former u.s. officials on sunday criticized mr. trump for not taking a stronger stance in his meeting with mr. putin, saying the president appeared overly willing to forgive russia s effort toss interfere in the 2016 u.s. election. m