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hello, new york. thank you for joining us live at town hall in new york city for the special edition of why is this happening. he s incisive. he is big hearted, he s very, very smart. admit it, he is taller than you expected. give a warm welcome to my friend, my beloved colleague, chris hayes. [applause] thank you. . stop it. how are you? good. thanks, thank you, thank you, thank you. sit down. thank you, it s extremely kind. i hate attention and positive feedback. it s a very hard 20 seconds for me. thanks for cutting it short. le pen fits very amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city. i ve got my family here. tonight we are going to talk about democracy. that word, we have probably talked more about democracy in the last four or five years that i had talked about all of my time as a journalist before that. even that as a topic seems very weird. america s a democracy, and there is a certain kind of history that we are taught as a part of the mystery civic ....
alex witt reports . we begin with this breaking news. live look right now at capitol hill, that s where lawmakers are negotiating a foreign funding deal. the senate held one procedural vote in this last hour. this massive package would send 60 billion dollars to ukraine, 14 billion to israel, nine billion for humanitarian aid, and nearly five billion to partners in asia like taiwan. senate leaders on both sides of the aisle speaking on the floor just moments ago. take a listen. even though we are keeping the process moving on the floor, democrats still hope we can reach an agreement with our republican colleagues on a reasonable list of amendments. we must reject the most short sighted views of our obligations and grapple instead with actual problems. we ve got a number of reporters that face covering all of these new developments for you. we re gonna be with we see julia jester with things on capitol hill. julia, what can you tell us? reporter: alex, senators ....
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 ....
will respond after three u.s. soldiers were killed and dozens injured in a drone strike in jordan. he blames a militia backed by iran. the latest on fears the u.s. is being drawn into a broader middle east conflict. the chaos caucus. house republicans announced baseless articles of impeachment against homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas for the border crisis. but they re rejecting a new path pride is an immigration deal that addresses it. donald trump is taking the credit for it. congresswoman maxine waters joins me live in studio to discuss that and more. and, risky business. the new york judge in donald trump s civil fraud trial is it s expected to issue a ruling this week on damages trump must pay. a ruling that could ban trump from ever doing real estate deals in new york again. when his courtroom antics and continued attacks on the judge tell us about what could happen next. i m jonathan capehart, this is the sunday show. we begin with breaking n ....
sexually abused a woman and publicly defamed her even after he was ordered by a court of law to stop. now, another jury is deciding not just how much he should be held liable for the damage his words have done, but how much he should be punished for those words as well. in other words, how much money he should pay e. jean carroll in punitive damages, just like yesterday, the courtroom was wild again today, judge kaplan, again, admonished alina habba for arguing with his rulings, this time telling her, quote, you are on the verge of spending some time in lockdown. now sit down. then after the jury was brought in and e. jean carroll s lawyer was in the middle of her closing statements, donald trump abruptly stood up and walked out of the court according to our reporters in the room. that s when the judge said, quote, the record will reflect that mr. trump rose and walked out of the courtroom, said the judge. what did carroll s lawyers say that got under his skin and how w ....