i m in for nicolle wallace. the final day of e. jean carroll versus donald trump with closing arguments focused on a high-stakes question. what is the price to pay for using one of the world s most powerful megaphones to defame someone. first up her attorney addressed the factor looming over the trial, that is, trump s continued attacks on e. jean carroll. she pointed out trump spent the entire trial continuing to engage in defamation, trump dramatically stormed out of the courtroom. the judge noted the incident and kaplan continued. cnn repts that she said, quote, the case is also about punishing donald trump for what he has done and what he continues to do. shd trump tries to, quote, normalize conduct that could hardly be more abnormal. she went on to say, quote, typically when someone is found liable for defamaon, they stop making those statemeven if they don t like t jury s verdict, even if you d t like the jury s decision you follow it. those are the this trial is also
griff: took the jury less than three hours to convict him of the murder of his wife and son. ainsley: charles watson is outside of the court house in walter borough, south carolina. what is the latest? what are you expecting this morning will seek life in prison without the possibility of parole when alec murdaugh is sentenced behind me this morning for the murders of his wife maggie and son paul. after thursday s verdict alec was remanded almost immediately and let out ever the cool tan county courthouse he is staring at 30 years to life in prison after the jury came back guilty of two counts of murder and two counts of possessing a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. scene of the murders after voice was caught snapchat video moments of before his wife and son were killed. son buster sat a few rows behind him with a deflated look on his face. his lawyers tried to throw a hail mary with a request for a mistrial lack of evidence. judge newman thought otherwise
we re watching all of it very closely as you might imagine. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus . doctors have been saying they are keeping queen elizabeth medically comfortable at balmoral castle in scotland. buckingham palace says they re concerned for her health. yesterday the queen canceled a virtual meeting with her private counsel and she was also described as looking frail at an event earlier this week. in fact, many people since that event have talked about how frail she looked. a lot of loss of weight. they were concerned and not necessarily doctors. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot is live for us in london. greg with the latest. it s safe to say the u.k., perhaps many around the world, are holding its breath maybe saying a few prayers this amongst the troubling news about the health of queen elizabeth ii, the 96-year-old sovereign of this country. we got world from the royal household following further evaluation by doctors there
brian: back with quick headlines the house ethics committee found substantial reason to believe the new york congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez improperly received gifts associated with their attendance at the 2021 met gala. the democrat faced complaints from vendors the vendors that they paid includes the designer of aoc s tax the rich dress. not good. forget quiet quitting have you heard about bare minimum mondays work trend fueled by gen z workers on social media. you must be very proud. corporate trend taking over tiktok great tiktok. employees know how to do the least amount of work possible to get through the dreaded day of the week. some don t like mondays. griff? griff: put them to work. all right, brian, thank you. colorado s new head football coach deion sanders is known for
i think she will do it. harris: we ll move to this. in a gushing gq magazine feature congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez, it s predicted unlikely she would ever be elected president. saying quote my experience here has given me a front row seat to see how deeply and unconsciously, as well as consciously, so many people in the country hate women. and they hate women of color. boy, we are right back at that point, doug, coming to you first this time. my question is, she has a front row seat to watch everything she has accomplished nothing. there is not a legislative agenda. she comments on everything and does great tiktok and twitter but what did she accomplish. she changed narratives and talked about that. americans are looking for people of substance on both parties but david and i both can agree on this.