that is all in for the week. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex wagner. welcome back. it s good to be home, my friend. it s good to be home. thanks. thanks to you at home for joining me this evening. this is park avenue. it s an historic 32 in manhattan, it s one of the highlights, you could say, in donald trump s real estate portfolio. and because of the new york attorney general s lawsuit against mr. trump, we know that, in 2020, the trump organization received an appraisal for trump park avenue, which set its value at 84 point $5 million. it s an interesting some. today, a jury ordered donald trump to pay writer e. jean carroll 83 point $3 million, approximately one trump park avenue, for defaming her. breaking that number down a little bit more, the jury awarded e. jean carroll 18 point $3 million to compensate her for the harm trump s lies caused her. they awarded her another $65 million in punitive damages to, well, punish donald trum
value at $84.5 million. it s an interesting me. today, a jury ordered donald trump to pay writer e. jean carroll $83.3 million, approximately one trump park avenue, for defaming her. breaking that number down a little bit more, the jury awarded e. jean carroll $18.3 million to compensate her for the harm trump s lies caused her. they awarded her another $65 million in punitive damages to, well, punish donald trump, to deter him from defaming e. jean carroll ever again. we will have more on that in just a moment. a nine member jury took just two hours and 45 minutes to reach its verdict after hearing final arguments from trump, and carroll s lawyers. mr. trump himself spent the final day of the trial causing disruption. and when ms. carroll s lawyers were given closing arguments, he stood up and walked out of the room, at which point the judge interrupted ms. carroll s lawyers and order that the official record reflect donald trump s abrupt exit. at one point the judge had to
you do not represent our movement. you do not represent our country. and if you broke the law, i already said you will pay. the demonstrators who infiltrated the capitol have defied the seat of justice, defiled. see, i can t see it very well. i ll do the. i m going to do this. let s go. but this election is now over. congress has certified the results. i don t want to say the election is over. i just want to say congress has certified the results without saying the election is over, okay? let me go to the paragraph before. welcome back to morning joe. it s 9:00 a.m. in the east, 6:00 a.m. out west, and that was the raw footage of outtakes from former president trump s taped address the day after the capitol riot. now, this morning the committee in charge of investigating the attack has finally issued its findings. this report came out late last night, david ignatius. you look at donald trump the day after there is an attempt to overthrow america s government. and he h
good morning and welcome back to morning joe on this friday, december 30th, new year s eve eve. it is 9:00 a.m. on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. as you wake up out west. let s dive right in to a newly released batch of deposition transcripts from witnesses who spoke to the house select committee including members of former president donald trump s inner circle including former white house communications director alissa farah griffin. she spoke to the panel on april 15th describing her tenure at the trump white house as a wild eight months in her words. griffin revealed one serious and ongoing problem was a lack of organization. she described the trump white house in which jobs were filled with underqualified staff because more senior government officials would not take positions within the administration. griffin said any report about the trump white house being chaotic and operating without structure was, quote, more or less accurate. that included there being no competent gat
despicable. think of a bad adjective to describe a human being, these are five and six-year-old kids that got murdered in cold blood. this guy is mocking them. one of the parents goes on television and weeps and gives an interview, alex jones goes on and says he s an actor. he makes one of the guy. there s no low if somebody goes out and does this. it tries and says they re coming for your guns. this false flag coming for the u.s. government. it s despicable. there s no other word. this guy should be put out of business, full stop. why is he still in business? one thing i think about with alex jones is the fact that someone can go after him for that award of damages means that there was deep pockets to go into, number one. but is this a deterrent? is this going to stop the idea of trafficking? and really capitalizing on the lives that have been told? laura, he is raising money off of this right now, as we speak to sit here. he is doing an emergency live broadcast to save