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damage done to people and ideas. the wagner group mercenary fighters pulled out from the southwestern russian city which they basically took over as well as other locations that they reached including points closer to moscow. they are now headed back to their base camp in ukraine, with , it is said, their boss, pr ogosia. it has wees anger with the russian military and running of the war in ukraine that triggered this attempted upris ing as the symbols of russian power only to be diffused at the last minute in a deal brokered by belarus president with the agreement of russian president putin that saw all pretty much get off the hook for this attempted insurrection but he is being sent in exile to belarus. it s reported to the that u.s. intelligence was aware that something like this was going to happen especially as we kept a close eye on russia s nuclear arms. they wanted to keep an arms length so moscow would not accuse washington of meddling in russian internal affai ....
here last week. in the immediate wake of that remarkable court ruling. and which a jury held unanimously that former president, donald trump, had sexually abused e. jean carroll. and that when he denied that and disparaged her, and come her a liar. he was the one who was lying. and he was defaming miss carroll and he was going to have to pay for it. in that case that jury ordered donald trump to pay e. jean carroll $5 million in damages. both for what he did, and what he said about her. but if you watch the show last week, and you saw the interview that i did with e. jean carroll and her attorney. you might remember that in addition to reflecting to the fact that they had won that case, one of the things that they were newly contending with in the wake of that jury verdict, was that even though trump had just been ordered to pay out millions of dollars, because of his attacks on e. jean carroll, because of his lies on her, even though he had just been ordered to pay mil ....
it was hot, around 90 degrees. and 100,000 people turned out to see him. he himself said from the stage, from the podium at the front of the crowd, that the crowd was about 80,000. but the police actually said it was bigger. police said it was 100,000 people. , again this was in 1936. so if you want to address to that forward for sure, it was $1. about if you want to adjust that to account for how big the population of the country was at the time compared to now, hundred thousand people than convey to the overall size of the country, that will translate today to a crowd of like 250 260,000 people. which is a really big crowd. particularly since the person they were all there to see was just some guy with a radio show. have you ever heard of a politician nude william lembke? he was a congressman, a candidate for president. third party candidate in the 1936 presidential election. and that, that huge rally on labor day weekend, and chicago in 1936, was a rally in support o ....
thank you home for joining us this hour. i am jump into gun, because this has been a heck of a day in news. the united states supreme court for the first time ever has issued an ethics code for serving court justices, first time. first time in our history. and, honestly, we have had some terrible justices in our history. it s not like everyone before this was good, so we did not need rules. we had a justice resigned ahead of being probably impeached for alleged bribery. we had a supreme court justice reveal to have been in the kkk just a few weeks after he got referred to the court. we had a justice who was so antisemitic, he reportedly would not speak to one of his colleagues. you would not speak to justice brandeis for years, because justice brandeis was joyce. that guy was such a thorough jerk, when he died, not a single one of the other supreme court justices even bother to go to his funeral. we have had some bad ones, i tell you. but we have never before had a ....
Society. it is maybe the most meritocratic institution in our society. i wonder whether he would say that it was a social engineering experiment when harry truman de segregated the military in 1948, seven years before brown versus border of education desegregates of the public schools. i just think it is a shame to attack the military in this way. we need to back them, we need to support them, particularly you know, with the war going on in ukraine. so it really undermines our national security. well rachel, stay on that point. because it s one that i m particularly interested in, which is as we watch this all unfold in the house, as we get president biden in europe, standing up for democracy, standing up for sovereignty, that split screen, we are going to see that split screen over and over in the run up to the presidential election. yes, you know, alicia, americans tend not to vote on foreign policy issues. and that isn t something that people take into account all ....