i m julián castro, in for alicia menendez. welcome to american voices. we begin with paying a hefty price for pushing a big lie. on friday, trump s former personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, was ordered to pay a whopping hundred 48 billion dollars for defaming to georgia election workers. elie freeman and her daughter shaye moss. by repeatedly and falsely accusing them of election fraud, during an emotional testimony on wednesday, freeman said those lies unleashed a mob of angry trump supporters after them. she was flooded with racist and violent threats. forcing her to moveut of her home. many of those messages were shared with the jury. and they listened. the jury unanimously decided giuliani was liable for defamation. intentional affliction of emotional distress, civil conspiracy and punitive damages. after the verdict, freeman and moss said their lives will never be the same again. the flame that giuliani lit with those lies and passed so many others to keep that flame b
my advice for everyone is to go with golo. it will release your fat and it will release you. tonight on the reidout today is a good day. a jury stood witness to what rudy giuliani did to me and my daughter. and held him accountable, and for that, i m thankful. a lot less money for hair dye. a d.c. jury ordered rudy giuliani to pay through the trump brown nose for defaming mother and daughter election workers ruby freeman and shaye moss. i ll tell you what nine figure sum he owes them in just a minute. also, highly classified documents go missing. can you guess who took them? i bet you can. but i ll give you the big reveal in a bit. plus, i have a very special guest tonight. tarik black thought trotter of the roots joins me to talk about his incredible new . but we begin tonight with breaking news late today out of a washington, d.c. courtroom where a federal jury has returned its decision on the punishment rudy giuliani will face for defaming two georgia elec
reporting about the missing russia binder, plus congresswoman jasmine crockett of texas on the senate republicans pushing for a border deal. we re also gonna ask her about ted cruz in the abortion question he refuses to answer. plus, hayes brown on what he calls the fact free biden impeachment inquiry. . we as i bet you all very good day from msnbc world headquarters here in new york, welcome everyone to alex witt reports. when it comes to breaking news. dhs secretary mayorkas and the bipartisan group of senators or holding meetings today. they re hoping to reach a deal to unlock funds for ukraine and israel. republican leaders say a deal must include border security measures, where the surge of illegal crossings has reached record levels. nbc s julie tsirkin is following all of those negotiations on capitol hill for us. welcome again, julie. i know you spoke to the key negotiators just moments ago, tell us what they re saying? alex, i told you last hour, the plan must ha
despite republican efforts to slow down the final vote with a flurry of last-minute objections on the house floor. the bill would create a massive surge of new funding that will send $1,400 checks to tens of millions of americans, provide billions in aid for schools, small businesses, state governments, and the vaccine distribution effort and slash health care premiums for many obamacare recipients. joining me now is nbc s garrett haake on dpl xl. nbc chief white house correspondent and weekend today co-host peter alexander. former maryland democratic congresswoman donna edwards. and former republican national committee communications chairman. garrett, the efforts to get this through debate for an early vote hit a roadblock this morning from congresswoman marjorie kalear greene from georgia, the controversial congresswoman. tell us how that went down. yeah, look, these are the procedural tools that can be applied by the minority and in this case it s not terribly surprisin
going after putin and lukashenko, what more from an enforcement measure to crack down on the money-laundering get at the billions of dollars that people like putin rely on to subsidize everything from disinformation attacks on the united states to his own rule. your book you draw a line between authoritarian regimes like russia and the current g.o.p. quote, like the republican party, putin has appealed to a particular strain of nationalism, christianity, hostility to muslims, subversion of the international order and longing for an idealized past. can you expand on that big idea there? well, i think what i basically found in looking at place like russia or hungary, i talked to an activist there. his point to me was the way in which the prime minister turned this place intoannah talksy, tapping into people s grievances after the financial crisis. redrawn parliamentary districts,