and people are complaining about it, not about the immigrants, but about making it hard for immigrants to get into the country. because canadians figured out a long time ago that this is what you need to run a country. we have low unemployment and we need people in this country, and it s a completely different view than most americans have of immigration, as you were just talking about. we just need to rethink how we think about it. didn t have greg abbott and 25 other republican governors striking fear in calling for a civil war on the entrance of these migrants into society. that maybe can one key difference. it colors the whole conversation. have a great weekend. we ll see you next week. well, this afternoon after three hours of deliberation, benign person jury found donald trump defamed the writer e. jean carroll and ordered him to pay her a stunning 83 point $3 million in compensatory and punitive damages. another jury awarded $11 million to repair the damage the tru
unimaginable suffering. it will be clear which steps were and were not taken to stop it. that is our show for tonight. you can catch me back here on weekends at seven pm eastern. alex we ll be back here tomorrow with more of interview with california governor gavin newsom. now it is time to hand it over to lawrence o donnell. and the last word. good evening, lawrence. good evening, ayman. thank you very much. by the time donald trump tells the witness stand today in the case of e. jean carroll versus donald trump, the questions his lawyer would be allowed to ask and we re already working out in detail and discussions with the judge and lawyers on both sides of the case while the jury was out of the courtroom. judge lewis kaplan instructed donald trump s defense lawyers once again that donald trump would not be allowed in his testimony to contest the fact that he ripest e. jean carroll in a department store in manhattan. judge kaplan told the lawyers the jury in the previo
do it for us tonight. thanks very much for being with us. forgive me for having a weird husky voice, which comes from but i just want to thank you for that hour, that 40 minutes with e. jean and this amazing legal team. because roberta kaplan, sean crowley, when you get into reading the transcript of this case, as you know, they re even better than you think. it s like, this is going well, oh no, it s going much, much better, because they re so sharp in every twist and turn in those transcripts all the way through. and it s just an amazing legal team. so i m glad they re all here as a team, because they are three remarkable people there who made this happen. and we can see from the outside, like you said, looking at transcripts, seeing how unflappable and professional and disciplined and prepared they were. but to see e. jean grab both of their hands and call them indestructible, knowing what they ve been through together and the prep they went through with her and knowin
always for your time. you are reminding us of our shared humanity. that is our show for tonight. now it is time for the last word with ali velshi in for lawrence. good evening, ali. in fo i just came back from seeing my folks in canada. i have housing issues because all of the immigrants coming to canada. the mayors and places like toronto and vancouver are putting in restrictions on how you can buy a place or live in a place if you re not a citizen. and people are complaining about it, not about the immigrants, are complaining about making it hard for immigrants to get into the country because canadians figured out a long time ago that this is what you need to run a country. we have low unemployment and we need people in this country, and it s completely different view than most americans have of immigration, as you were just talking about. we just need to rethink how we think about. it didn t have greg abbott and 25 other republican governors striking fear in calling fo
thank you. by the time donald trump took the witness stand today in the case of e. jean carroll versus donald trump, the questions his lawyer would be allowed to ask and we re already working out in detail and discussions with the judge and lawyers on both sides of the case while the jury was out of the courtroom. judge lewis kaplan instructed donald trump s defense lawyers once again that donald trump would not be allowed in his testimony to contest the fact that he raped e. jean carroll in a department store in manhattan. judge kaplan told the lawyers the jury in the previous age internal lawsuit and the same courtroom found that donald trump did in fact sexually assault e. jean carroll. and that was not an issue before this jury. whose duty is solely to decide how much and money damages donald trump should pay e. jean carroll. judge kaplan told the trump lawyers the jury should be instructed that regardless of what he says in court here today, he did it, as far as they are