new york city, and this is america s late news, fox news @ night. breaking tonight, america is now responding to the attacks that killed three u.s. soldiers in jordan. so far the u.s. military launching 85 retaliatory air strikes against iranian targets in iraq and syria, and there could be many more rounds ahead. but iran is responding now with defiance, saying they knew then u.s. would not dare attack inside iran. mike tobin is live in tel aviv with breaking developments and reaction to the first round of air strikes. what are you hearing? we are hearing that and iran backed shiite military group inside of iraq is claiming they launched a barrage of rockets at the u.s. airbase in iraq, response to the u.s. strikes earlier today. this as we are getting the first images out of western iraq, very near the syrian border. this as the u.s. has battle mat rrently underway. we know that iraq is not happy with the strikes inside of iraq. a spokesperson for the iraqi military say
widespread doubt and uncertainty, the united states government seems to have assumed a role similar to an orwellian ministry of truth. white house from press secretary karine jean-pierre responded on wednesday. we certainly disagree with this decision. we re going to continue to promote responsible actions to protect public health, safety and security when confronted by challenges like a deadly pandemic. our view remains that social media platforms have a critical responsibility to take action or to take account of the effects of their platforms are having to the american people. paul: let s bring in our panel, wall street journal columnists dan henninger, kim strassel and iowaly shah finley. alicia, tell us who sued the government and what they re alleging. louisiana and missouri joined by scientists and conservative activists sued the government for infringing on their free speech rights. they claim that they put pressure and coerced the platforms such as youtubing
that is all in for the week. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex wagner. welcome back. it s good to be home, my friend. it s good to be home. thanks. thanks to you at home for joining me this evening. this is park avenue. it s an historic 32 in manhattan, it s one of the highlights, you could say, in donald trump s real estate portfolio. and because of the new york attorney general s lawsuit against mr. trump, we know that, in 2020, the trump organization received an appraisal for trump park avenue, which set its value at 84 point $5 million. it s an interesting some. today, a jury ordered donald trump to pay writer e. jean carroll 83 point $3 million, approximately one trump park avenue, for defaming her. breaking that number down a little bit more, the jury awarded e. jean carroll 18 point $3 million to compensate her for the harm trump s lies caused her. they awarded her another $65 million in punitive damages to, well, punish donald trum
fire. 100 meters. we re trying to make our way out of here. plus, see the intense fight in the forest, showing what ukraine is up against. leading this hour, the latest dysfunction on capitol hill, this time over immigration beginning with a look at how we got here. you ll recall when president biden was sworn in on january 20, 2021, the new administration started ending trump administration immigrations policy arguing they were harsh and inhumane, for instance a policy that forced would be asylum seekers to stay south of the border. last may along party lines house republicans passed hr -2, a bil that would bring back trump policies. president biden vetoed the bill. last october republicans demanded any additional aid for ukraine and israel would need to include legislation to deal with the border crisis. james langford of oklahoma along with kyrsten sinema and chris murphy decided to negotiation for a compromise. in mid december hoping to win passage for the aid for u
value at $84.5 million. it s an interesting me. today, a jury ordered donald trump to pay writer e. jean carroll $83.3 million, approximately one trump park avenue, for defaming her. breaking that number down a little bit more, the jury awarded e. jean carroll $18.3 million to compensate her for the harm trump s lies caused her. they awarded her another $65 million in punitive damages to, well, punish donald trump, to deter him from defaming e. jean carroll ever again. we will have more on that in just a moment. a nine member jury took just two hours and 45 minutes to reach its verdict after hearing final arguments from trump, and carroll s lawyers. mr. trump himself spent the final day of the trial causing disruption. and when ms. carroll s lawyers were given closing arguments, he stood up and walked out of the room, at which point the judge interrupted ms. carroll s lawyers and order that the official record reflect donald trump s abrupt exit. at one point the judge had to