today on inside politics waiting and watching. we are about to find out how much donald trump will have to pay after being found liable for defamation and sexual abuse. it is now all up to the jury. we will have live updates from inside the courtroom. plus, pushing for a pause. president biden dispatched his cia director to help negotiate a deal to release israeli hostages kidnapped during the brutal october 7th attack. this as we are learning about a very tense call between the u.s. president and the israeli prime minister. and ignoring the supreme court. that s what the state of texas is doing when it comes to the southern border, and almost every republican governor is supporting the decision. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. as we speak donald trump s attorney is giving her closing argument in the e. jean carroll defamation trial. the jury will start deliberating this afternoon on how much trump must pay in damages. this morn
not found but the circumstantial evidence was so convincing to the jury and to everybody watching at home that obviously, he killed his wife and his son. todd: jackie ibanez joins us live with the very latest, jackie. hey, good morning six weeks, 70 witnesses and three hours to deliberate for a panel of south carolina jurist to find alex murdaugh guilty of murdering his wife and son. guilty verdict signed by the four lady 3223. you can see murdaugh keeping a straight face and escorted out of the courtroom in handcuffs. his only son buster and the gallery shaking his hand in disbelief while wiping his hand down my face his hand. he is to be two counts of murder and a violent crime. he is facing three years to life in prison for each murder conviction. according to the washington post, prosecutors did not seek the death penalty in the case because the state would have to prove there is aggravating circumstances which would include murdering a child under 11, murderin
election amid the new warning about a possible second trump term. and the fallout from elon musk s outburst to advertisers as the ceo of ex responds. then, george santos may be on his way out of congress, but not without a fight. how did we end up here? the journalist who s been investigating santos since 2019 will be here, as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle live from 30 rockefeller center. and tonight we start our broadcast with donald trump and his effort to control the narrative and his legal cases. it has suddenly gotten a whole lot harder. today a new york appeals court reinstated a gag order preventing trump from commenting on court employees for handling his 250 million dollar civil fraud trial. that order was originally imposed after trump repeatedly targeted the clerk assigned to the judge in his case. it will now remain in place until the trial is over, which is expected to be sometime in janua
term. and the fallout from elon musk s outburst to advertisers as the ceo of ex responds. then, george santos may be on his way out of congress, but not without a fight. how did we end up here? the journalist who s been investigating santos since 2019 will be here, as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. ,,. . , reinstated a gag order preventing trump from commenting on court employees for handling his 250 million dollar civil fraud trial. that order was originally imposed after trump repeatedly targeted the clerk assigned to the judge in his case. it will now remain in place until the trial is over, which is expected to be sometime in january. meanwhile, we are still waiting for a federal court to rule on the gag order in the d.c. election interference case, but there is new reporting out that shows the special counsel jack smith has been digging even deeper into how key trump allies work to try to overturn the 2020 election. both politico and the washington
case. they decided by process of elimination, there is nobody else that could have committed this murder. todd: sentencing a little over four hours but what do you expect the sentencing to be? he will get the book handed to him. this judge does not like murdaugh. he does not like the defense team. i wouldn t say he doesn t like them but i ve done a lot of jury trials. you can read where a judge is going based on his or her rulings, based on the demeanor. this judge cut off one of the defense lawyers during closing. he is going to give murdaugh life in prison. i think there is no doubt about that. and he will probably never see the light of day it again. in another, and i wanted to make incredible at the end that the prosecutor said that bubba, the dog, bubba, the dog was a witness in this case. had the dog not marked, that alex murdaugh would not have made that comment. ashley: that is an