weekend, i am chris hayes. let s get to the weekend s top stories. 83 point $3 million, that is a lot of money. that s how much donald trump has just been ordered to pay writer e. jean carroll for repeating defaming her after she accused him of sexual assault. the jury spent four days hearing about what donald trump did, and witnessing his ongoing contempt towards but the proceedings in front of them, and e. jean carroll with their own eyes. carols attorneys had asked the jurors to reach a verdict that would stop them from further defaming the woman that he has been defaming and harassing for the last five years. today, after deliberating for less than three hours, the jury came through. they awarded carroll $73 million in emotional damages, $11 million in reputational damages, and a whopping $65 million in punitive damages, which is there essentially to stop him from what he has been doing. such a shocking and divisive verdict against the ex president. even fox news cover th
welcome to prime time weekend. i m chris hayes. let s get right to the week s top stories. 83 point $3 million. that s a lot of money. that s how much donald trump has just been ordered to pay writer e. jean carroll for repeatedly defaming her after she accused him of sexual assault. the jury spent four days hearing about what donald trump to. and witnessing his ongoing contempt towards both the proceedings in front of them and towards e. jean carroll with their own eyes. carol s attorney had asked the jurors to reach a jury verdict that would stop him from further defaming the woman that he has been defaming and harassing for the past five years. today, after deliberating for less than three hours, the jury came through. they awarded carroll seven point $3 million in emotional damages, $11 million in reputational damages, and a whopping $65 million in punitive damages, which is there, essentially, to stop him from doing what he s been doing. it was such a shocking
queues to get through security during the easter holidays. the former olympic and paralympic athlete, oscar pistorius, applies for parole after serving half his sentence for shooting and killing his girlfriend. hello and welcome to bbc news. donald trump has become the first former us president to face a criminal prosecution. the charges relate to falsifying business records to hide a payment to a pawn star, stormy daniels, before the 2016 election. in a statement, mr trump said the democratic authorities in new york were doing joe biden s dirty work accusing them of interferring in next year s presidential election. john sudworth reports. the masssed ranks of the media say it all. donald trump s provided plenty of big moments in american politics, but few bigger than this his own imminent arrest. the news was confirmed in an angry statement from the former president, blaming his political opponents. the democrats, he said, have done the unthinkable. the case against hi
air. as top leadership called fact-checking bad for business. then, democrats holding republicans feats to the fire over gun safety legislation, demanding a vote be brought to the floor. congressman dave cicilline joins me live. and a new republican-led bill in idaho to make abortion access a whole lot harder in a first of its kind trafficking law, as the of our gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle, live from washington, d.c., newly-revealed evidence is ratcheting up the legal pressure on fox news. the network is facing a 1.6 billion, with a b, dollar defamation lawsuit from dominion voting systems. nbc is obtained several slides of internal fox communications used by dominion lawyers in pretrial hearings. fox to try to keep these secret, but a judge released them. they show in new detail how the network repeatedly aired conspiracy theories about dominion in the 2020 election, even as foxes fact-checker s, in what it calls
room found no evidence for fraud, but host continued to push the conspiracy theories on air. as top leadership called fact-checking bad for business. then, democrats holding republicans feats to the fire over gun safety legislation, demanding a vote be brought to the floor. congressman dave cicilline joins me live. and a new republican-led bill in idaho to make abortion access a whole lot harder in a first of its kind trafficking law, as the of our gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle, live from washington, d. c., newly-revealed evidence is ratcheting up the legal pressure on fox news. the network is facing a 1. 6 billion, with a b, dollar defamation lawsuit from dominion voting systems. nbc is obtained several slides of internal fox communications used by dominion lawyers in pretrial hearings. fox to try to keep these secret, but a judge released them. they show in new detail how the network repeatedly aired conspiracy the