doesn t face any prison time. for has the jury found him guilty of raping miss carroll but found he defamed her and sexually abused her. for that, the jury has ordered him the pay $5 million in damages. we ll take you through these two stories and indeed how they link up in a political sense a little later this hour. let s first get the latest on this e. jean carroll case. bryan llenas in new york with the latest. good afternoon. in less than three hours, this jury came to their decision remarkably quick considering that they were considering ten different issues whether former president trump was liable. this jury found that former president trump was and is liable of battery, more specifically of sexually abusing and forcibly touching e. jean carroll in a new york city department store in 1996. they also found him liable for defamation founding that he maliciously smeared carroll s reputation. that did harm to her professionally and personally and asked to award her with
has the right to appeal. invery dubious that is going to be successful. neil: the argument for the president not stating his own case, his own side. witnesses said that they would be forced to be in a position of proving a negative. how do you gather witnesses to do that. what do you say? that is true in all kinds of these cases. there are hundreds of thousands of these cases that go on all across the country every year. president trump is in no worse situation than any other defendant. i think what you have to ask here is do we not trust a jury was it so biassed just because a new york city that donald trump didn t have his right to a fair and impartial trial? that s what i didn t see here. of course the defendant always has to prove a negative. on the other hand, the burp
on the network and the u.s. news media since the state of the union. you wrote a book about corruption and people abusing power to get rich. is there a danger that the oligarchs will be fine, they willol always get away with it d the russian people are the ones thatn are going to suffer. i think that is definitely going to happen in theha short term but i think the only way to have leverage against vladimir putin is to go after the money. my argument has long been you have to make the lives of the oligarchs more russian, they send their kids to schools in places like britain and u.s. and stash the cash in offshore bank accounts and sail around in their yachts in the mediterranean for vacation. if they have to start worrying about what happens in saint petersburg and moscow, they will put more pressure on putin on fix this. and the unfortunate aspect of this is there are going to be innocents russian civilians wh will have a invery, very diffict time because i don t think this geopoli
0 campaign like that. you ve got to planted. you ve got to execute it. that s reason number one. that might come back, by the way. they might be stunned at the moment, but that might come back. moment, but that might com back we re much better prepared, and there s a lot more peter pommerantsey, who has written several books on this topic, learned a lot from him, thank you very much for your time tonight. i really appreciate it. good evening. i m it is now midnight on the east coast as we continue to follow breaking news out of ukraine. russia is accelerating its offensive and more civilians are being killed in the attempt to seize control of kyiv. one senior u.s. defense official tells nbc news it made 100% of the military forces that vladimir putin mobilized for war are now inside ukraine. president zelenskyy remains in his country and he spoke to the nation from his office in the capital. zelenskyy amazingly posted this video to facebook saying he will not leave ukraine and he w
you know the important thing to remember here is that the senate is controlled by democrats now. harry reid is sort of running the show. and, i know that he has been working his caucus very hard to try to get, and president obama has been working democrats very hard but it sounds like they re still three or four votes shy of that 60. jon: it is my understanding harry reid who has been pretty coy on his intentions about this bill and came out with statements how he intends to vote. yeah, this whole bill is a very thorny problem for harry reid. in pass elections he run cam panes that very much focused on his very pro-gun stance. out in nevada it is a very important issue there. now that this is coming up, and as you pointed out in the your invery we re talking about the biggest changes to gun control