unimaginable suffering. it will be clear which steps were and were not taken to stop it. that is our show for tonight. you can catch me back here on weekends at seven pm eastern. alex we ll be back here tomorrow with more of interview with california governor gavin newsom. now it is time to hand it over to lawrence o donnell. and the last word. good evening, lawrence. good evening, ayman. thank you very much. by the time donald trump tells the witness stand today in the case of e. jean carroll versus donald trump, the questions his lawyer would be allowed to ask and we re already working out in detail and discussions with the judge and lawyers on both sides of the case while the jury was out of the courtroom. judge lewis kaplan instructed donald trump s defense lawyers once again that donald trump would not be allowed in his testimony to contest the fact that he ripest e. jean carroll in a department store in manhattan. judge kaplan told the lawyers the jury in the previo
thank you. by the time donald trump took the witness stand today in the case of e. jean carroll versus donald trump, the questions his lawyer would be allowed to ask and we re already working out in detail and discussions with the judge and lawyers on both sides of the case while the jury was out of the courtroom. judge lewis kaplan instructed donald trump s defense lawyers once again that donald trump would not be allowed in his testimony to contest the fact that he raped e. jean carroll in a department store in manhattan. judge kaplan told the lawyers the jury in the previous age internal lawsuit and the same courtroom found that donald trump did in fact sexually assault e. jean carroll. and that was not an issue before this jury. whose duty is solely to decide how much and money damages donald trump should pay e. jean carroll. judge kaplan told the trump lawyers the jury should be instructed that regardless of what he says in court here today, he did it, as far as they are
for his dangerous rhetoric. e. jean carroll was back on the stand today, first under cross-examination by trump s attorney, then under redirect examination by her attorney. team trump suggested that carroll actually benef from her accusation. abc news reports the defense suggested that carroll craved attention, took on trump to revive her flagging career, and relish the verdict in an earlier trial known as carroll 2. it established trump was liable for sexually abusing and defaming her. did the verctn your opinion provide you with bigger status in new york? itvide me with you have continued to publicize every lawsuit you had had agait president trump. yes, carroll responded, because wanted people to know that a woman can speak up and win a trial. i wanted people to know. i m 80. i don t want to be quiet. it s not right to make a woman be quiet. it s gone on for too long. during redirect, carroll countered that despite all the notary tie s gned, she wants nothing more than t
just in the last hour, a major report from the justice department details what they call critical failures by law enforcement in response to the massacre at robb elementary school. we ll take you live to uvalde, where attorney general merrick garland will give remarks next hour. happening right now, former president trump s defamation trial is back under way in new york after yesterday s chaotic day. plus, new attacks in yemen overnight, adding to concerns of a greater conflict in the middle east. and in texas, a standoff between the biden administration and the state over access to the border. we ll break down what could happen next. we begin this morning with breaking news. the justice department has released its findings of nearly year long investigation into the mass shooting at robb elementy took law enforcement 77 minutes, an hour 17 to take the gunman down. right now texas state senator rowland gutierrez is sharing live remarks about the report. nbc justice and
Slowed the prosecution and asked trump friendly questions about potential problems with prosecuting a president. If you listened to that argument or read about it, you may have noticed it almost sounded like that kind of trial was a futile project. While up the east coast and actual trial of an actual former president was Going Forward and the republic did not crumble. It is a contrast that hangs over all of this in america and what we are going to get into tonight in this first week of the new york trial. It seems to undercut the suppose it concern of the trump appointed justices that hypothetically, someday, somehow, in the future trials of president s are a very bad thing, when they are actually already happening. The first week of this trial shows not only that it is possible, but also gave us the first evidence backed, in court, binding version of the d. A. S story and we put together a brisk ride through what we are learning. The prosecution in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial Drew