i m abby philip, and washington, where today cameras captured what might be the final chapter in a truly american story. a jury, sentencing the man once known as america s mayor to what is, essentially, a financial death penalty. rudy giuliani, now on the hook for $148 million. $148 million for the harm he caused to two women. shame moss, and ruby freeman. moss and freeman are the georgia election workers whose lives were forever altered after giuliani made them the crux of a nonsense voter fraud conspiracy. now, the sheer size of this penalty is, really, stunning. 16 million for defaming freemen, 16 million for defaming moss. 40 million for emotional distress to both women, and 75 million in punitive damages. moments after following the verdict, the two women thanked the jury, but said that today s result does not atone for two years of turmoil. the flame that giuliani lit with those lies, and passed on to so many others to keep the flame blazing changed every aspect of ou
jake tapper starts now. i interviewed elizabeth alexander a few months ago. she s lovely. interesting you got her to open up. gave the first poetry reading she read a poem aft barack obama s first inaugural. yeah, she s wonderful. i m sure this is an obvious one, but have you i assume you ve reached out to the white house, because president biden losing his son, losing his wife and young daughter back in the 70s, that would be very moving. i once had a very long off the record conversation with him about it, and he s that s one of his that s one of the subjects that he is most human and authentic. yeah, he s obviously experienced incredible loss and speaks on it well. yeah, that would be a good conversation. thanks, jake. all right, anderson. welcome to cnn tonight. i m jake tapper in washington. tonight we are just two weeks away from the critically important midterm elections and i have been talking to strategists and pollsters from both parties today to tr
wealthy businessman who made his fortune largely, this is true, from selling bull s semen. someone has to do it, i guess. rachel discussed last night, charles has been accused of groping by eight women, eight, including a conservative republican state senator who says he reached up her address at a republican event in 2019. some might consider those disqualifying, but not of course donald j. trump. declaing herbster innocent of any wrong doing. those attentions have gotten a great deal of attention and rightly so. what you don t know about charles herbster is his events on january 6th. the day of the attack on the capitol, charles herbster was in washington, d.c. with president trump s inner circle. he was in the vip section at trump s rally where the president urged everyone to march on the capitol. herbster sent to campaign staffers back home in nebraska, including this photo. he was very excited to be seated up in the second row at the rally right behind election conspirac
Constitution. another issue now, not in 2024 but now, these allegations of voter intimidation we re hearing. intimidation by vigilantes. last friday, two individuals dress in the tactical gear were spotted at a ballot drop box in mesa, arizona. also in the grand canyon state, a group calling itself clean elections usa, accused of stalking ballot boxes, taking photos of voters license plates. this is impacting mostly, we re told, latina voters and in particular, the elderly. seniors often prefer a ballot dropoff to having to stand in long lines according to a lawsuit filed by those voters. yerkt clean actions usa used at least one voter, perhaps your average grandma, of being a mule. a mule is a reference to a fringe voter fraud conspiracy that was amplified in the latest
? georgia the republican governor and the republican secretary of state, those two gentlemen on the left, are being primaried by trump-backed candidates who say the 2020 election was stolen. in arizona, the trump-endorsed candidate for secretary of state was at the january 6th riot and says if he s elected he ll throw out the 2020 election results. and in colorado, a county clerk who is under criminal investigation for messing with election equipment in an attempt to ridiculously prove a 2020 voter fraud conspiracy, she s thrown her hat in the ring for the republican secretary of state nomination. the list goes on and on. i could go on all night. this is the republican primary ballot today in nebraska and in the days and weeks ahead all over the country. this is the republican party right now and the threat to american democracy right now. joining us is former florida republican congressman carlos ka