fulton county election workers ruby freeman and shaye moss a staggering $148 million in damages for the lies mr. giuliani spread about them. giuliani has already said he will appeal the ruling. and we will get some expert help on what that means for this case, in just a second. but throughout this trial we have learned so much more about what exactly happened here. most of what we understood about ruby freeman and shaye moss s story before this trial was about the lies giuliani and trump pushed about these two women and the threats that followed. and what we ve learned through the trial is how much those threats actually impacted their lives. he was ruby freeman s at the court after today s verdict. i want people to understand this. money will never solve all of my problems. i can never move back into the house that i call home. i will always have to be careful about where i go and who i choose to share my name with. i miss my home. i miss my neighbors. and i missed my name
thank you, jodi kantor for doing it, and thank you for coming on tonight. thanks for having me. that is all in for this week. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex. t starts that story is phenol and deeply distressing. we all know how it ends, of course, which is the overturning of roe v. wade in the dobbs decision. nonetheless we will walk through this in this in the same details that seem deeply the the word feels like they re deceiving the public so that it cannot look like yet, we re waiting around for her to die, now we ve got a person, let s go do it. that feels one of sam elite owes former law clerk s argues case in front of him? a lot of red flags. we re gonna have more on the hour with the other reporter on that story. have a great weekend. today rudy giuliani finally got a taste of accountability. jurors in the defamation case against giuliani awarded former fulton county election workers ruby freeman and shaye moss a staggering $1
understand about january 6th and the conspiracy, the plan to carry out a coup. the hearing centered around the explosive testimony of a single witness, 25-year-old cassidy hutchinson. she s a trump white house aide who did what so many of her colleagues and her bosses, including her direct boss, chief of staff mark meadow have so far refused to do. she told the truth. she cooperated with the panel having sat for four taped interviews before today s testimony. this afternoon in public she made it clear that the brutal unsparing violence that took place at the united states capitol was not just something unexpected, something that got out of hand, as many in the republican party would want you to believe. it was part of a planned, premeditated coup attempt. hutchinson testified that the white house was fully aware that january 6th could turn violent before that day. they let it happen anyway. chief of staff mark meadows was told on the morning of the 6th that the attendees for
know she didn t cross that he and art that i. having said, that does this give them the likelihood of a trial beginning earlier, and then separating off from the rest of them? fani willis wanted all 19 to be tried together. how much do these little jigsaw pieces moving about the board, how much is that complicating things for her? i think it complicate anything for that form of difficult ernie. we had reported two weeks before the indictment, she was ready to go to trial as soon as anyone else want to go to trial. i think, if you look at what the doctor tierney s office was doing in the lead up to the charges coming down, prepping for the pre trial motions, potential appeals coming down. they, have already explored all these avenues. if you look at the findings of the district attorney in the mark meadows case, for removal. she s already talking about the hatch act. already talking about why mark meadows doesn t have the ability to stay, in federal court. she jumped the gun almost a
mark meadows came, he answered the questions he needed to answer and he didn t really double vote much. more i know there s a lot of people who feel like he fully cooperated. he gave up tons of information on donald trump. and i think that if that had happened, we would ve seen a little bit more of it in the speaking indictment. jack smith has put up two indictments. he s put in every bit and every segment of information he could find in this indictments. you had a superseding indictment, in florida, around the documents case to show. even more evidence to make a stronger case to the american people for why he s bringing what he would think of as a righteous prosecution. that is not with this january six indictment reads like. you do not see any with that mark meadows went in and spoke to jack smith, and his people and, said these are all the things that the president was thinking. i know that donald trump knew that what he was doing was wrong. you really don t get that sense? it could