we re going to de-bank. i don t know what the hell de-bank means, but he might have to take de-ambulance to see de-doctor. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is monday, january 29th. we have a lot to get to this morning, including the massive payout donald trump now owes e. jean carroll. talk about being de-banked. after a jury awarded the writer $83 million in defamation damages. we ll get expert legal analysis on that, as well as the looming case that could further impact donald trump s bank account. you know, that s the big one, really. a lot of de-banking. look at the fraud case, he s already found guilty. that one this is all just damages stage. i don t think he helped himself in the defamation case, though you haven t heard from him in the first time. has he defamed e. jean carroll since this came down on friday? i don t think he has. i haven t heard it yet. came close on stage. it s what the jury tried to do. we shall see. meanwh
at harvard a black plicatae cream of the crop had a 56% chance while whites and asians with the same qualifications had a 15%. a black applicant had a higher chance to get in than a top asian or white student t supreme court ruled 6-3 that s unconstitutional racial discrimination probed by the equal protection clause t14th amendment. chief justice john roberts who authored the majority says this, quote. eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it. the guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color. roberts is saying, basically, you can t unfairly discriminate against whites in order to help blacks. all discrimination s wrong. harvard university made race a factor in every single step of of the application process, from the second they accepted the application to the second they accepted or rejected it, race was used in their decisions. the court says harvard s ad
investigations have poked hole after hole in the case against glossip revealing the state s intentional destruction of evidence unquote. and inadequate police investigation, letters from snead in prison asking about whether he could recant his testimony. now, with the u.s. supreme court s temporary stay of execution today, glossip has endured nine execution dates, and three last meals, leaving his advocates wondering how many chances does he have left? cnn s brynn gingrass, do you know if he knows his execution has been at least temporarily stayed. last i heard, jake, he didn t know. i know you re going to talk to his attorney don knight. he was actually in the last visitation he was allowed before heading to death row, the death watch as they call it in the state of oklahoma, visiting with his wife, and also some of the lawmakers, those republican lawmakers, who hreally stood by him and supported him through all of this. last i heard he didn t yet. we will get the updates.
finally been released. quote, unfortunately or fortunately, unquote. you ll know what that means in a second. the lead starts right now. she s accusing me of rape, of raping her. the worst thing you can do, the worst charge. rather interesting comments revealed today from the former president of the united states as the world finally gets to see what mr. trump had to say about e. jean carroll s rape allegations. then a fake warning? the russian mercenary group wagner says they will leave the war-torn city of bakhmut in eastern ukraine. this as a top russian official says relations with the u.s. are so bad right now, the two countries have never been closer to war. plus we re talking to that 16-year-old who was accepted to more than 185 colleges and offered more than $10 million in scholarships. he s made his decision. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we begin today in our politics lead with newly released footage of donald trump s videoio taped deposition in
defendant guilty. as you can they read the wrong verdict. you feel so hopeless. it s like a shot in the chest. despair to hope. darkness to light. a fight for freedom. what happened to this teenager could happen to any one of our children. at 18, he was arrested for murder. adamant he was innocent. i had nothing to do with this. i swear to god. so, what could ve possibly led to this? you stab that women. why would he confess to something you didn t do? why would he? what s really happened during that police interrogation. the evidence shows you were there. i cannot lie about the evidence. i can t lie to you about this. the officers lying about lying. and extraordinary look inside the interview room. if you don t talk to me i can t keep this is one of the most intense interrogations i ve ever seen. welcome to dateline. how could you confess to a crime you didn t commit? it seems to defy logic and common sense, but advocates say, it s h