sensible to benefit trump, even he is shooting it down. and how far, how a far-right tiktok influencer with zero back on an education got a job overseeing which books can sit on library shelves of oklahoma. i am let s do. it s do it > $83 million, that s how much a new york jury ordered donald trump to pay e. jean carroll for repeatedly defaming her after the writercused the ex president of sexual assault back in the1990 carol s attorney, roberta kaplan, celebrated the decision marking it as a major moment for countability and claiming it, quote, proves that the law applies to everyone in our couny, even the rich, even the famous, even former presidents. friday verdict followed a dramatic week in court with trump taking this stand to testify in his own defense. that testimony, the first from the former president and the presence of a jury lasted all but three minutes. the drama did not and there, though. on friday, closing arguments, trump apparently, unhappy with remark
. hey, everyone. it s 4:00 in washington, d.c. i m in for nicolle wallace. a close eye on a volatile situation in the middle east u.s. forces across the region bracing for possible retaliation after airstrikes against iranian-backed houthi militants in yemen. on thursday streaking dozens of targets, more than 60. at 16 different locations across yemen according to the u.s. favors. houthis say at least five were killed in the strikes. the attacks are a response by the u.s. and its allies what has become a slow slimmering crisis and drawn the administration s attention in the last few months. after october 7th with the attacks in israel, ships have gone to the red sea sites of one of the most crucial shipping lanes in the world. hijacking a ship operated by a japanese company. houthis say they re actions are in support of hamas and the ongoing conflict in gaza and say they ll continue their attacks until israel ends its campaign. moments ago president biden answering question
I cant stress this enough, this is an Ongoing Investigation in the early stages. More information will come out, in conjunction with the Attorney Generals Office as the lead prosecutor. We cant share all of our information right now and im sure you understand that. Im going to give out two numbers that go to a tip line. 911 is also appropriate for this, but if anyone can call these two numbers, this would go to the state police tip line. Area code 2072139526. 2075099002. And well be sending something out later that has that information in it, if you werent able to grab that now. Again this is a very fluid situation, we have a lot of resources as chief st. Pierre had mentioned earlier that are on the ground, in a coordinated effort to apprehend this individual. We have notified the department of education, and they have determined what theyre going to do with the schools. A lot of schools, area schools were shut down today based on our conversation with them. Again, as more information
You cant step away from the tv too long, or they will be another speaker does it. So everyone stay tuned until that we small hours, because who knows what will happen 45 pin from. Now who knows. You and i have been covering politics for a long time, but we both agree, we have never seen anything like this. We sure have, and my friends. Have a great. Not have a good show. Have, a we have major breakis and another big story, Breaking News that puts donald trump in serious legal jeopardy and both of the state and federal cases involving his efforts to steal the 2020 president ial election. Thats because more of his allies, including his inner circle, appear to be cooperating with prosecutors. There was another guilty plea in georgia today. More on that in a moment. But tonight, there is a new report about arguably the person closest to donald trump and the months following the 2020 election, leading up to january 6th. His last chief of staff, mark meadows. Abc news is now reporting that s
trump s tirade during a pause in a gag order. as we bid you all a very good day from msnbc world headquarters here in new york, welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we are beginning this hour with that breaking news. some pretty fast moving developments on this day, 50 since the hamas attack on israel. anxious families, still waiting for the release of a second group of hostages scheduled today, while the fragility of the deal between israel and hamas is coming out a full view. hamas, in a statement, now says it is delaying the hostage release, claiming that israel is in breach of the truce agreement. but yesterday, hamas released 24 hostages, while israel released 39 palestinian prisoners. we are also seeing some pretty dramatic video, a family reunions, like 19 year old his mom, karen, and grandmother ruth e. came face to face with their loved ones after being held captive. we also have and her daughter s, who were also released. they ve been reunited there with the