republicans are expected to torpedo a bipartisan immigration and foreign aid bill. well, democrats aren t entirely on board either with that bill. fail to go pass immigration reform is especially embarrassing for republicans who have been screaming for decades that the border is in crisis, and needs to be fixed through legislation immediately. but now that a once in a multi-decade opportunity to do something about it is in front of them, they re about to decide that chaos at the border is politically better for them than an attempt to fix it. in the gob smack words of conservative republican senator james lankford who cowrote the bill, quote, are we as republicans going to have press conferences and complain the border is bad and intentionally leave it open after the worst month in american history in december. well, senator, it seems the answer is yes. so what exactly is happening in the republican party? who is in charge? and is this these failures, what they want? joining
delegitimized and apply double standards to the state of israel is, in fact, what we should be condemning. it is very, very sad. and the i ve soojee, in many ways, has to make the decision, is it going to be a court of justice like in the trial or will it be a court of injustice just like in the dreyfuss affair. mikael, i want to thank you for our time. i m sorry it is abbreviated. we did lose the connection at first. i m very glad that you could speak with us on holocaust remembrance day. that is this edition of alex reports. i will see you again tomorrow. at next, the weekend. i am ari melber let s get right into the headlines. a jury just hit donald trump with the record-breaking penalty for lying about a sexual isn t to cues are. the defendant ordered to pay $83 million to eugene carroll who is the victorious plaintiff in this case and right here you can see she first walked out of court with her lawyers today. we could tell you the jury deliberated for under three hour
i m sorry, albert let s get right into the headlines. a jury just hit donald trump with this record breaking penalty for lying about a sexual assault accuser. defendant trump, ordered to pay $83 million to the writer e. jean carroll. she is the victorious plaintiffs in this case, and right here you can see as she first walked out of court with her lawyers today. now we can tell you the jury deliberated from just under three hours, that is fast, and they dubbed trump a huge loss, which set its records, and shows a very costly miscalculation that he, an ongoing defendant made by, according to the court system, lying and defaming her again after a previous court victory. here are the numbers tonight, if you ve been watching the news, you may have seen some of this. i want to break it down for me. $18 million to compensate carroll, okay, that is what the jury found she should get for what she went through. and then that larger number, a massive $65 million to punish this defian
collapsing and moving et cetera, et cetera, we had an incident that caused some confusion you might say, but the secretary blinken had a great trip to china. i expect to be meeting with president xi sometime in the future in the near term, and i don t think it s had any real consequence. what was your second question. as you raise broader issues of human rights and democracy, what s your message, including members of your own party who thinks your administration is overlooking a crack down on dissent in india. the prime minister and i had a good discussion about democratic values, and there s a that s the nature of our relationship. we re straightforward with each other, and we respect each other. one of the fundamental reasons that i believe the u.s./china relationship is not in the space it is, in the u.s. indian relationship is that there s an overwhelming respect for each other because we re both democracies, and it s a common democratic character of both of our cou
taylor budovich served in all incompassing role, how, he s ahead of the trump-aligned super pac maga inc. so what did jack smith s team want from him? he testified for about an hour, a source familiar told nbc news that among the questions he was asked was one about a past public statement on behalf of donald trump. that the former president did not retain classified documents, the source tells us jack smith s team wanted to know how he knew that. in other words, did someone tell him that, misleading him. and if so, who was that, or was he guessing. for his part, budowich tried to frame the questions react tifl publicly right after he appeared privately. we ll tell you what he said in a moment. the question we have now is that it? budowich with that decision. and hurt from mark. meadows and testimony from 24 secret service agents. joining me nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian and in florida, nbc legal analyst lisa aruba. lisa, let s start in florida.