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folks, for the appeal. yet another trump associate is heading to prison. broke. humiliated, and begging for money. also, the republican front-runner himself was on the witness stand today, for all of three minutes, as the defense rests in the e. jean carroll defamation case. plus, the horrifying post-roe consequences. nearly 65,000 pregnancies from rape in the 14 states with abortion bans. but we begin tonight in new york, where donald trump fresh off his new hampshire primary victory, making him the all but certain republican presidential nominee, addressed a much smaller crowd today. a nine-member federal jury in the second civil defamation trial brought by writer e. jean carroll. separate jury last year found trump liable for both sexually abusing carroll in the late 1990s and defaming her in recent years. yeah, let s just take a moment to remember that. the presumptive republican presidential nominee is someone who has been found liable for sexual abuse. he was ....
one the supreme court is about to hear a case you might not have heard of, that concerns a benign sounding theory about state legislatures. this case could quite literally and democracy as we know it. there is not been nearly enough conversation about this case, and we are gonna change that this morning. then every politico in the bell when trying to figure out how the republican overreach that landed us in this dystopian row post row reality is going to effect next month s elections. one louisiana candidate is literally embodying the shifting landscape. we re gonna tell you her remarkable story and we will meet her in the next hour. velshi begins right now. good morning, feel it is an effort in the ninth. i am a label. she just must election. they were officially in of the 2020 midterms. is the first major election since the 2020 presidential election, and the insurrection of the. capital as well into these last weeks of the election cycle, the former president s gri ....
morning. it is sunday october the 9th. i am velshi. it is 21 months ago, just hours after the halls of the capitol were cleared of the insurrectionists tomb of the building in an attempt to prevent joe biden from becoming the presidents. 147 republican members of congress, remember that number, voted against certifying his victory. now, as we head into the final weeks of the 2022 midterms, it appears likely that the number of election deniers and congress is going to increase on november 8th. according to a new washington post analysis, the majority of the republican parties candidates for congress, and top state executive positions this year, are election deniers who have spread donald trump s big lie about baseless, unfounded, in debunked claims of widespread election fraud in 2020. by the washington post county, take a look at this, there are 299 republican candidates vying to be representatives or attorney general. that s all the squares. to 99. they ve denied the ....
necessary. great, great. i know where you are, so i know where to find you. i ll see you soon. thank you as always. our top story the damning testimony at today s second january 6th hearing. much of it led with highlights by trump attorney general bill barr. i was somewhat demoralized, because i thought, boy, if he really believes this stuff, he has lost contact with with he s become detached from reality. and when i went into this and would, you know, tell him how crazy some of these allegations were there was never there was never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were. i saw absolutely zero basis for the allegations. i told him it was it was crazy stuff. completely bogus and silly and usually based on complete misinformation. they were idiotic claims. they obviously were influencing a lot of people, member of the public. complete nonsense. wow. and remember, everything you just heard is from a source that was not only very loyal to ....
2018. he has pleaded not guilty on all counts. joining us now, justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian, and a defense attorney that represented three employees in an administration. reporter: the jury has had the case today for about two hours. they had it yesterday just for about an hour, so three hours total of deliberations. obviously we don t know anything about what is going on inside the jury room. it s secret. we know the jury forewoman had a sister with issues with a drug problem and watched the evening news. that s all we know about it. the prosecution strongly made the case they established beyond a reasonable doubt that hunter biden was a drug user when he purchased that gun and owned it for 11 days. the defense trying to poke holes in the story and suggest that there s doubt about whether he was using drugs during the period on or around that period when he bought and owned that gun. that s where it stands, josé. over the last course of the ....