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cnn's kara scannell is outside of the courthouse right now. to speed, kara. >> so john, both e. jean carroll and donald trump are in the same courtroom and it is the first time they have seen each other in decades since the assault took place. and so e. jean carroll is at a table where she is surrounded by her lawyers and a second table behind her and donald trump is behind her, so he is about a table apart from e. jean carroll and so far she has not turned around to look at him when he walked into the courtroom. and the judge is laying out how this is going to play out, and there is nine jurors to hear this. and he has given a warning to carroll and trump not to say anything within earshot of the jurors and say anything to communicate directly or indirectly in front of a witness. and now, if he has said anything while campaigning and this is a shot across the bow for trump and the lawyers and e. jean carroll that they are not to make any statements to influence the jury here, and this is something that came up in the last trial telling trump
cnn's kara scannell is outside of the courthouse right now. to speed, kara. >> so john, both e. jean carroll and donald trump are in the same courtroom and it is the first time they have seen each other in decades since the assault took place. and so e. jean carroll is at a table where she is surrounded by her lawyers and a second table behind her and donald trump is behind her, so he is about a table apart from e. jean carroll and so far she has not turned around to look at him when he...
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kara scannell, cnn, new york. >>> we're going to take a quick break anand be rightht back. yoyou're watchching cnn. >>> welcome back. the holidays coming a little late for the nba dallas mavericks, but it's worth the wait. the team's owner promising millions of dollars in bonuses. cnn sports andy scholes joins me now. i'm sure you know what that's like. what's the story? >> mark cuban sold a majority stake to the adelson family. and he sold it at a valuation of $4 billion. cuban decided to reward all the employees and help the team get that valuation, sending a memo to employees on friday letting them know that he along with the new owners plan to distribute more than $35 million in bonuses as a thank you for all of their hard work. now they are going to be dete determined on how long people have worked for the mavs. cuban ended the memo by saying i'm excited to continue our work to make the franchise the best in all of sports. ls where, another loss for the lakers. they were taking on the grizzlies at home. they are fighting for this loose the ball. jackson grabs lelebron'
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kara scannell has been there for all the twists and turns. what you can tell us about what is going on at this moment? >> reporter: yeah, so trump's attorney habba has begun her closing arguments. and trump did return to sit to listen to her try to convince the jury that they shouldn't award e. jean carroll damages and trump shouldn't have to pay. she began the closing argument by saying the plaintiff is trying to pin twitter troll comments on a former president of the united states without accepting any responsibility. they are trying to distance trump from the onslaught of negative e-mails, tweets, harassing messages that e. jean carroll received after donald trump called her a liar when she accused him of raping her in the mid 1990s. her opening statement has already drawn one rebuke from the judge. she was raising questions about who was paying the fees of the witness that she called in this case, carol martin, a long time friend of e. jean carroll. she asked martin about that when receives on the stand and martin said she doesn't know. s
kara scannell has been there for all the twists and turns. what you can tell us about what is going on at this moment? >> reporter: yeah, so trump's attorney habba has begun her closing arguments. and trump did return to sit to listen to her try to convince the jury that they shouldn't award e. jean carroll damages and trump shouldn't have to pay. she began the closing argument by saying the plaintiff is trying to pin twitter troll comments on a former president of the united states...
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. >> let's bring in cnn's kara scannell. kara, what are you learning about this? >> reporter: these are the closing argument breeds due today in the civil fraud trial. the attorney general's team is saying they are not seeking more than $370 million. they sued donald trump, they initially sought $250 million. they are significantly increasing the amount of money that they want to recover. that was from improper gains that trump had received. they prove this, they allege, to the evidence proceeded at the trial. in the evidence from trying to seek the former president from preventing him from doing business in life, they are also seeking a five-year ban on his, and donald trump jr. and eric trump. the argument is their intent to defraud was inescapable. they say the myriad deceptive scheme that they deployed to -- acid values and combat the fact that it's so complicated that the -- statements were accurate. there is no evidence presented in this case that the bank would've given them different interest rate terms had they gotten different financial statements, or th
. >> let's bring in cnn's kara scannell. kara, what are you learning about this? >> reporter: these are the closing argument breeds due today in the civil fraud trial. the attorney general's team is saying they are not seeking more than $370 million. they sued donald trump, they initially sought $250 million. they are significantly increasing the amount of money that they want to recover. that was from improper gains that trump had received. they prove this, they allege, to the...
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kara scannell, thank you for the latest there. let's bring in attorney and legal analyst areva martin now. areva, this walk of trump's out of court in the middle of e. jean carroll's lawyer is closing argument. could that cost the former president? i >> hope it does, breonna. that was the most disrespectful display of petulance that we've ever seen. it goes right to the heart of the plaintiffs closing argument. which is that donald trump thinks he's above the law. he doesn't have to play by the same rules that you or i or anyone else in a trial or in a courtroom has to play by. throughout this, trial he has exhibited behavior, trust me, that if anyone else other than donald trump exhibited, this trial probably would have been over. the judge may have held him in contempt. he would have faced severe consequences. things like making statements under his breath in the presence of the jury. that is, never ever allowed. not only did he walk out, rihanna, we should note that one of his attorneys got up and walked out after he did. again
kara scannell, thank you for the latest there. let's bring in attorney and legal analyst areva martin now. areva, this walk of trump's out of court in the middle of e. jean carroll's lawyer is closing argument. could that cost the former president? i >> hope it does, breonna. that was the most disrespectful display of petulance that we've ever seen. it goes right to the heart of the plaintiffs closing argument. which is that donald trump thinks he's above the law. he doesn't have to play...
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>> kara scannell, keep us posted on what comes next in court. thanks so much, kara.nt to get some perspective from defense attorney misty marris, misty, great to have you this afternoon. if you were donald trump's attorneys, given everything that carriages laid out, his repeated remarks in court, would you let him testify in this case? no. >> it is an affirmative no, i say that because this is a damages only case. it doesn't even have to be this case, it could be a case of a similar nature where its damage is only. the inquiry is related to what damages did e. jean carroll incur as a result of what's already been determined as a defamatory statement. in this particular type of case, the defendant, donald trump here, he's not going to have much say about he was impacted, and about her particulars with respect to damages. the only line of inquiry that might potentially be relevant is to diminish what are called punitive or punishment damages. even still, better to just sit tight, let her prove her case, and undermine those damages claims through other testimony and inf
>> kara scannell, keep us posted on what comes next in court. thanks so much, kara.nt to get some perspective from defense attorney misty marris, misty, great to have you this afternoon. if you were donald trump's attorneys, given everything that carriages laid out, his repeated remarks in court, would you let him testify in this case? no. >> it is an affirmative no, i say that because this is a damages only case. it doesn't even have to be this case, it could be a case of a similar...
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cnn's kara scannell has details on the superseding indictment just released by federal prosecutors. tell us about these new accusations. >> reporter: prosecutors are accusing senator bob menendez of taking steps to help the government of qatar set up circumstances favorable to qatar in order to help his new jersey businessman, fred davies, a defendant in this case, obtain a multimillion-dollar investment from qatari investment funds. alleging menendez made introductions between someone of the qatari royal family with the new jersey businessman and made statements praising the qataris publicly. encouraging him to send to it the qataris. menendez also intervened just before a meeting that took place in london between the developer and the qatari investment official, sending that qatari investment official a text message saying, i hope this will result in the favorable and mutually beneficial agreement that you have been both engaged in discussing. prosecutors say months later, this multimillion-dollar investment deal was signed, and in exchange, authorities say menendez received a gol
cnn's kara scannell has details on the superseding indictment just released by federal prosecutors. tell us about these new accusations. >> reporter: prosecutors are accusing senator bob menendez of taking steps to help the government of qatar set up circumstances favorable to qatar in order to help his new jersey businessman, fred davies, a defendant in this case, obtain a multimillion-dollar investment from qatari investment funds. alleging menendez made introductions between someone of...
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kara scannell, cnn, new york. >>> a judge in the u.s. state nevada is back at work following a terrifying encounter with a defendant on wednesday. >> she had just denied the man's respect for probation on charges of attempted battery with substantial bat bodily harm. >> and the judge and marsha who came to her defense were injured. the defendant now facing seven counts battery. >>> oscar psitorius is now back home after he was released from prison in south africa. >> he left this prison today after serving nearly 9 years for killing his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. david mckenzie is joining us live from south africa. i know he therhe there are came around the building there. but no pictures caught of him under the conditions that were set? >> reporter: that's right. they said psitorius will not be treated any differently from any other parolee. he won't be allowed to give media interviews. they managed to spirit him away from the prison without being seen. he is now believed to be at home at his uncle's house in a wealthy suburb of brinpr
kara scannell, cnn, new york. >>> a judge in the u.s. state nevada is back at work following a terrifying encounter with a defendant on wednesday. >> she had just denied the man's respect for probation on charges of attempted battery with substantial bat bodily harm. >> and the judge and marsha who came to her defense were injured. the defendant now facing seven counts battery. >>> oscar psitorius is now back home after he was released from prison in south africa....
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kara scannell, a lot for you to cover. thank you so much. rahel? a couple of hours, 60 republicans will head to the southern border where they're expected to criticize the surge in migrants and demand policy change. in december alone, border patpatrol encountered 275,000 migrants and an issue far reaching and sanctuary cities are overwhelmed by asylum seekers receiving them by the busload and now cities lake denver, chicago, new york and their suburbs are seeing the influx. veronica, how are these measures going over and what would this look like? >> rahel, certainly a very difficult situation here. as you mentioned cities like chicago, denver and new york they have enacted measures to manage the influx of migrants coming in in order to really get a handle on this, but what's happening is in order to bypass the restrictions of the big cities, now those bus companies, those busses are dropping off migrants in suburbs outside of the city where these cities are just unprepared. they don't have the resources to handle those migrants like in hensdale, a
kara scannell, a lot for you to cover. thank you so much. rahel? a couple of hours, 60 republicans will head to the southern border where they're expected to criticize the surge in migrants and demand policy change. in december alone, border patpatrol encountered 275,000 migrants and an issue far reaching and sanctuary cities are overwhelmed by asylum seekers receiving them by the busload and now cities lake denver, chicago, new york and their suburbs are seeing the influx. veronica, how are...
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cnn correspondent kara scannell. it's so good to see you this evening. your eyes must be burning.ore we get to the latest developments, take a step back with me first of all. how do we even get here? >> reporter: i mean this story begins 20 years ago, laura. that is when the initial allegations about epstein began in florida, and there was an investigation by palm beach detectives into allegations that he was having sexual relations with minors. you know, one of the detectives who gave deposition testimony in this case, he said that he interviewed 30 girls who said they were recruited to give epstein massages, and massages turned sexual. that's the allegation that kind of started this whole thing. now, the local office in florida had brought charges against epstein in 2006 for solicitation of prostitution. at the same time, there was a federal investigation. that ended up getting resolved with a non-prosecution agreement, essentially giving epstein immunity as well as four female co-conspirators. in exchange, he agreed to plead guilty to the state charges. so he served a brief tim
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we have cnn's kara scannell following this for us. kara, tell us why the information is being released now and who's expected to be on the list, and if there might be some surprises. >> reporter: good afternoon, rihanna and boris. this is part of a long running lawsuit brought by the outspoken jeffrey epstein accuser, virginia roberts giuffre. she is suing ghislaine maxwell who was convicted of helping epstein in his sex trafficking operations. this has been a long running lawsuits, numerous media organizations have asked for materials to be unsealed since it was settled several years ago. the judge saying that a lot of this information and identities have already entered public domain, either because people have spoken up publicly, or through maxwell trial that she said she was going to unseal all these documents that could have references to about 150 different people. some of them may be some accusers who have gone public and been outspoken about this. there are others from giuffre's lawsuits, she has made accusations of prominent
we have cnn's kara scannell following this for us. kara, tell us why the information is being released now and who's expected to be on the list, and if there might be some surprises. >> reporter: good afternoon, rihanna and boris. this is part of a long running lawsuit brought by the outspoken jeffrey epstein accuser, virginia roberts giuffre. she is suing ghislaine maxwell who was convicted of helping epstein in his sex trafficking operations. this has been a long running lawsuits,...
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kara scannell, outside the courthouse. >>> this is happening right now. we will continue to get those updates from the witness stand as they come in. in the meantime with us special watergate prosecutor nick ackerman. let me read one other quote from kn e. jean carroll about donald trump. she says he has continued to lie he lied last month, lied on sunday, lied yesterday, and i'm here to get ply reputation back and to stop him from telling lies about me. presumably her testimony is something that was prepared along with her attorneys. why is this the message they wanted to deliver? >> it's the message that gets them the big damages. they're looking for big bucks here, for compensation for damages, including punitive damages, so that's the thrust of her claim. that's what she's going to be testifying to. the key piece here is going to be the cross-examination because i think what's going to happen here is, that trump's lawyers are going to make the same rookie mistake they made in the first trial by keeping her on the stand for a day and a half and basical
kara scannell, outside the courthouse. >>> this is happening right now. we will continue to get those updates from the witness stand as they come in. in the meantime with us special watergate prosecutor nick ackerman. let me read one other quote from kn e. jean carroll about donald trump. she says he has continued to lie he lied last month, lied on sunday, lied yesterday, and i'm here to get ply reputation back and to stop him from telling lies about me. presumably her testimony is...
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carroll is seeking more than $10 million in damages. >> kara scannell in new york for us. for that report. we are following a new legal move by trump in georgia where he's trying to get the election subversion charges against him dismissed. zachary cohn is here and he's got details for us. cnn's exclusive reporting related to the georgia case. update our viewers on that and how is trump trying to derail this entire case? >> trump is joining this push to give fulton county district attorney fani willis dismissed from the case and he's argues in the new court filing that allegations that she and top prosecutor nathan wade had an improper romantic relationship should disqualify her from trying trump and fellow co-defendants in georgia. experts say this is unlikely to get the case completely thrown out. trump adding in this filing today that fani willis tried to foment racial bias against trump and his co-defendants. listen to the statement he put the responsibility clearly on the judge. although this court may not have the authority to disbar d.a. willis and to disqualify her
carroll is seeking more than $10 million in damages. >> kara scannell in new york for us. for that report. we are following a new legal move by trump in georgia where he's trying to get the election subversion charges against him dismissed. zachary cohn is here and he's got details for us. cnn's exclusive reporting related to the georgia case. update our viewers on that and how is trump trying to derail this entire case? >> trump is joining this push to give fulton county district...
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kara scannell has the story. >> reporter: in an extraordinary move for donald trump, the former president briefly taking the stand in the e. jean carroll defamation trial against him as the 2024 republican presidential frontrunner continues the strategy of bouncing between multiple court appearances and the campaign trail. trump testified for less than three minutes in the civil trial that will decide how much money if any he must pay carroll in damages for statements he made about her sexual assault allegations against him. trump attorney asking trump do you stand by your testimony in the deposition. 100% yes, trump replied. he was then asked if he made the statement in 2019 in response to carroll's accusation. yes, i did. she said something that i considered a false accusation, totally false trump testified. the judge immediately cut trump off saying everything after yes i did is stricken. finally trump's lawyer asked if he intended to hurt carroll with his statements. no, he responded. i just wanted to defend myself, my family and frankly the presidency. after a brief redirect, trump w
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kara scannell is joining us from outside the courthouse. can you give us a sense of what you are expecting to happen today? >> good morning, sara. we saw trump's motorcade arrive at the courthouse. he is here for closing arguments. that will get underway this morning just around 9:30. first e. jean carroll's attorneys will go, and try to appeal to the jury that she was harmed by donald trump's statements and that she should get more than $10 million in damages. next up, it will be trump's attorneys turn. they have argued that any harm e. jean carroll faced was not donald trump's fault, and perhaps one of her own making by going public with the allegations and people who felt they were responding on their own, not tied to the former president's remarks. they will both have about an hour to make their case to the jury. then the judge will explain to the jury what law is, and then the jury will get the case and begin their deliberations. the case ending yesterday with donald trump on the witness stand. before he took the stand, e. jean carroll
kara scannell is joining us from outside the courthouse. can you give us a sense of what you are expecting to happen today? >> good morning, sara. we saw trump's motorcade arrive at the courthouse. he is here for closing arguments. that will get underway this morning just around 9:30. first e. jean carroll's attorneys will go, and try to appeal to the jury that she was harmed by donald trump's statements and that she should get more than $10 million in damages. next up, it will be trump's...
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i'm down here at the courthouse, joined by kara scannell and paula reed.st to kara, let's get an update on the bomb threat. >> the bomb threat was called in this morning to the judge's home. local police showed up, the bomb squad was there. it's all clear at this point. it has slowed down proceedings. the court spokesman says they will continue as planned today, but normally at this hour, we would already be making our way through security inside the courthouse because there are two layers of security because former president trump will be here. so they take high security cautions ordinarily, but when the former president is here, it's another layer. we're already behind schedule in terms of just even getting into the courthouse, getting in through pass all this security. the proceedings are expected to start at 10:00. it looks like we may have a bid of a delay. >> we have seen people arriving. it's happening, just more slowly? >> that's right. this is still going to go on as planned. trump's side giving their closing arguments followed by the attorney gen
i'm down here at the courthouse, joined by kara scannell and paula reed.st to kara, let's get an update on the bomb threat. >> the bomb threat was called in this morning to the judge's home. local police showed up, the bomb squad was there. it's all clear at this point. it has slowed down proceedings. the court spokesman says they will continue as planned today, but normally at this hour, we would already be making our way through security inside the courthouse because there are two...
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cnn's kara scannell has been going through the documents. she joins me now. what if he found so far? >> well, so far a lot of this is information that we've already known, that this is just 40 documents, just about under 1000 pages. and our team is still combing through them. but what is contained within these documents are experts of depositions from the accuser in this case, virginia roberts giuffre and ghislaine maxwell, who she had sued and she was convicted of being epstein's coconspirator in the sex trafficking operation. we've also seen some depositions of some household workers, but nothing that has been new are shocking at this point. there are references to some of these full names that we've known about, including prince andrew. that is someone who giuffre has accused of sexually assaulting her. there are references to him throughout these papers, as we have seen in the past. now, she sued him, they reached a settlement. he agreed to pay, quote, a substantial amount to a charity of her choice, but he has denied any wrongdoing. but so far, the docum
cnn's kara scannell has been going through the documents. she joins me now. what if he found so far? >> well, so far a lot of this is information that we've already known, that this is just 40 documents, just about under 1000 pages. and our team is still combing through them. but what is contained within these documents are experts of depositions from the accuser in this case, virginia roberts giuffre and ghislaine maxwell, who she had sued and she was convicted of being epstein's...
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. >> let's go now to q kara scannell. are at the courthouse for more, as we are getting, really, this minute by minute, kara, of what happened, as a former president took the stand. what can you tell us? >> yeah, brianna. he was on the stand for maybe five minutes in total and before he testified, the judge spent about ten minutes going back and forth with the attorneys over what he would permit the questions to be. it was during that moment before the jury -- donald trump spoke more than he even did on the stand and he said audibly, out loud, i never met the woman, i do not know who this woman is, i was not at the trial, i don't know who this woman is. the judge told him to keep his voices down. once they worked out exactly the questions that his attorney would be allowed to ask him, just three, they called the jury in, trump went up on the sand, stood at the site, raised his hand and said, he's -- the truth, whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and then sat down to give his testimony. now, his lawyer had asked him ju
. >> let's go now to q kara scannell. are at the courthouse for more, as we are getting, really, this minute by minute, kara, of what happened, as a former president took the stand. what can you tell us? >> yeah, brianna. he was on the stand for maybe five minutes in total and before he testified, the judge spent about ten minutes going back and forth with the attorneys over what he would permit the questions to be. it was during that moment before the jury -- donald trump spoke...
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. >> coming up next cnn's kara scannell on what she saw inside the courtroom today. kaitlan collins inside the trump camp. and later cnn's clarissa ward investigating the shootings of people in gaza who were holding up white flags when they were shot. >>> just a few moments ago on our first interview since the jury awarded a fine of $83.3 million e. jean carroll's attorney, roberta kaplan, talked about the case. i just want to play a moment from our conversation during which she spoke about what stood out to her most about trump's behavior. >> our whole case was about the fact that donald trump is unable to follow the law. unable to follow the rules. he thinks they don't apply to him. and as bad as what he did to e. jean carroll was and the sexual assault was terrible, and as horrifying as the defamation was back in 2019, the most amazing, shocking part of it all is that he kept on doing it, and he kept on doing it even during the trial. what other person thinks they can just openly break the law over and over and over again? donald trump. >> joining us now cnn's kai
. >> coming up next cnn's kara scannell on what she saw inside the courtroom today. kaitlan collins inside the trump camp. and later cnn's clarissa ward investigating the shootings of people in gaza who were holding up white flags when they were shot. >>> just a few moments ago on our first interview since the jury awarded a fine of $83.3 million e. jean carroll's attorney, roberta kaplan, talked about the case. i just want to play a moment from our conversation during which she...
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as you noted, our colleague kara scannell was in court today. this was a little bit of a surprise but it wasn't really a surprise that trump got the final word, right? >> right. it wasn't supposed to happen, but with this trial a lot of things happen that we don't see coming. the reason why the judge let trump speak is the he said initially from had the most to lose in this case. his business in new york is on the line, he could face a fine or discouragement of $370 million, so really a significant amount of money. so the judge let him speak. he gave him about a five minutes, he had a hard stop at 1:00 for lunch, and that is the reason why judge cut him off. -- trump was speaking pretty rapidly wanting to make the point he wanted to make, and he did go beyond just the facts the case, attacking the new york attorney general letitia james in the process. at some point the judge, he's -- he's had a lot of back and forth -- the same was true when trump was there speaking before the judge. the judge saying to trump you have your own agenda, understan
as you noted, our colleague kara scannell was in court today. this was a little bit of a surprise but it wasn't really a surprise that trump got the final word, right? >> right. it wasn't supposed to happen, but with this trial a lot of things happen that we don't see coming. the reason why the judge let trump speak is the he said initially from had the most to lose in this case. his business in new york is on the line, he could face a fine or discouragement of $370 million, so really a...
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let's go to kara scannell, following the story for us. what have you learned?batch is a little more than 300 pages. our team is diligently working through it. it followed the batch from yesterday, with no bombshells, but shed light on the elite circle that he traveled in. it's the first batch related to the late sex trafficker, with dozens more documents soon to be made public. the circle of associate is well known, but the report provides the public more context about the exclusive world he traveled in while facing accusations of misconduct. >> i would say there's not much new in this, but i do think that it's important that the public have access to the documents, because it isn't just about epstein. >> reporter: the pages name prominent figures. they stem from a civil defamation lawsuit brought in 2015 against ghislaine maxwell. included are depositions, including one taken in 2016 from joanna shoberg who worked for epstein. she said in the document that they had a conversation, in quote, he said one time that clinton likes them young, referring to girls. sh
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kara scannell is following all of this for us from the federal court in new york. what are we expecting to happen today? >> reporter: today e. jean carroll will take the stand and she will be squaring off in court with donald trump sitting there listening to her testimony. the judge made it clear this is not a do-over of the sexual abuse and rape that occurred in 2006, but carroll can tell her story and say what happened to her after trump made the statements in 2019 denying that he raped her saying she wasn't his type and that she made up the allegations to sell her book. so we expect carroll will testify about how she was scared, how trump's followers latched on will his message and bombarded her with hate filled email, mean tweets and threats that she says has caused her to sleep with a gun beside her bed. so carol oik expected to set the scene of what the impact of those statements for those kinds of messages that they haved. she will be -- as they say, on the witness stand telling her story to the jury. but while donald trump will be at the defense table facin
kara scannell is following all of this for us from the federal court in new york. what are we expecting to happen today? >> reporter: today e. jean carroll will take the stand and she will be squaring off in court with donald trump sitting there listening to her testimony. the judge made it clear this is not a do-over of the sexual abuse and rape that occurred in 2006, but carroll can tell her story and say what happened to her after trump made the statements in 2019 denying that he raped...
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. >> kara scannell, thank you so much. >>> with 13 days until the iowa caucuses, new attack ads are rolling out from donald trump's rivals, how the candidates are choosing to make their arguments, and one major factor not mentioned in the e n vivideos, thatat is next. >>> in our 2024 lead, the first votes are in two weeks, cue the music. yes. it is officially january, which means we are literally days away from the official start of the 2024 primary season, and caucus i should say, cnn is hosting a debate between nikki haley and ron desantis in des moines, iowa next week. the states republican caucuses will be the following week, that is 13 days from today, followed by the new hampshire primary on january 23rd. to help us kick this off, we have with us our democratic strategist, kristen, this is your jam.>> it is, my blood pressure goes up. >> you love it. we have never seen anything quite like this, of course we have also never seen a president actually trying to foment violence at the capital to stop the counting of votes. what you make of it? >> i continue to believe that every time esta
. >> kara scannell, thank you so much. >>> with 13 days until the iowa caucuses, new attack ads are rolling out from donald trump's rivals, how the candidates are choosing to make their arguments, and one major factor not mentioned in the e n vivideos, thatat is next. >>> in our 2024 lead, the first votes are in two weeks, cue the music. yes. it is officially january, which means we are literally days away from the official start of the 2024 primary season, and caucus i...
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. >> kristen holmes in new hampshire, kara scannell outside federal court, thank you so much. >>> the polls open in a few hours. with us the busiest man on earth, david chalian, cnn political director. one of the questions is what would success in new hampshire be forhill hale? the governor says she doesn't have to finish first. someone just told us she doesn't even need to get, he said if they can keep donald trump below 60% or 50%, that would be good for nikki haley. you'll see the highest margins and kpettive primaries before. reagan was the only one to get over 50. so how do you judge success? >> first of all, if she were to win the primary, i would consider that success. anything short of that is her campaign, her allies and others putting their best spin is forward to try to set expectations for everyone else. if she overperforms, where most of the polling has her, let's say she's within 5 points of donald trump, do i think she might be able to get some momentum, some continued funding and rational for moving forward, sure i'm not sure how long lasting that will be looking at th
. >> kristen holmes in new hampshire, kara scannell outside federal court, thank you so much. >>> the polls open in a few hours. with us the busiest man on earth, david chalian, cnn political director. one of the questions is what would success in new hampshire be forhill hale? the governor says she doesn't have to finish first. someone just told us she doesn't even need to get, he said if they can keep donald trump below 60% or 50%, that would be good for nikki haley. you'll see...
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>> kara scannell in new york for us. don't go away. i know you're getting more information. right now i want to go to kristen holmes. she's covering donald trump's reaction to this huge verdict. kristen, what is trump saying? >> reporter: no surprise he's already making this political. as kara said he wasn't in the courtroom when the verdict was read. he was actually sitting in the tarmac on his airplane at la guardia airport and blasted this on social media. he said this is absolutely ridiculous, i fully disagree with both verdicts and will appeal this whole biden witch hunt focused on me and the republican party. our legal system is out of control and being used as a political weapon. this is not america. of course i need to say there's no indication at all this is related to joe biden. this is civil defamation case in new york. but notably missing from there any attacks on e. jean carroll. obviously he has that 83 million reasons not to attack her. they are going to appeal this. the other thing to point out here this kind of linking he's doing of all his legal cases to bi
>> kara scannell in new york for us. don't go away. i know you're getting more information. right now i want to go to kristen holmes. she's covering donald trump's reaction to this huge verdict. kristen, what is trump saying? >> reporter: no surprise he's already making this political. as kara said he wasn't in the courtroom when the verdict was read. he was actually sitting in the tarmac on his airplane at la guardia airport and blasted this on social media. he said this is...
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let's get right to kara scannell who ran out from inside that courtroom to give us an explanation ofing on. what have you been seeing is this. >> reporter: yeah, an eventful morning that had nothing to do with even the closing arguments. it began when donald trump's team was already late which the judge noted when he took the bench. and then donald trump did enter the courtroom and they were arguing still before the jury even got in there about a slide that the trump's team wanted to use in their presentation and carroll's lawyer said it included things not in evidence in the case. the judge said it was out. that is when trump's attorney stood up to challenge the judge on his ruling. he has made it clear throughout this trial when he rules he rules. she started to challenge him and he hit his limit and said you are on the verge of spending some time in the lockup. now sit down. then at this point we were moving in to closing arguments. the jury was brought in and carroll's team started their statements by telling the jury what this case was about, the statements that donald trump had
let's get right to kara scannell who ran out from inside that courtroom to give us an explanation ofing on. what have you been seeing is this. >> reporter: yeah, an eventful morning that had nothing to do with even the closing arguments. it began when donald trump's team was already late which the judge noted when he took the bench. and then donald trump did enter the courtroom and they were arguing still before the jury even got in there about a slide that the trump's team wanted to use...
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scannell.ow that e. jean carroll has finished her testimony, what happened next? >> well, e. jean carroll just finished her cross-examination. we're taking a break in the trial. it's unclear if her lawyers will do any redirect, that is, their opportunity to ask her anything that they want to clean up after the defense had their turn asking her questions. the defense spent most of the time focusing thon question of how was e. jean carroll harmed? that's because this trial is not about the assault but about damages that carroll may recover from the jury so they were focusing in on whether or not carroll was better off since she went public with her allegations that trump raped her in 2019, and they -- they brought out in her testimony that she currently makes about $100,000 a year from a substack that she write along with royalties from some books, and she said when she was working at "elle" magazine back in 201 she made about $60,000 a year. now at her peak, way back in the '90s she said she mad
scannell.ow that e. jean carroll has finished her testimony, what happened next? >> well, e. jean carroll just finished her cross-examination. we're taking a break in the trial. it's unclear if her lawyers will do any redirect, that is, their opportunity to ask her anything that they want to clean up after the defense had their turn asking her questions. the defense spent most of the time focusing thon question of how was e. jean carroll harmed? that's because this trial is not about the...
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let's go live outside the courtroom that was cnn's kara scannell.nn legal analyst norm eisen with us as well. kara, first. you walk us through what was happening in court. what did the two sides present? >> hey, boris and breonna. closing arguments have finished up in the last day of this trial. carols attorneys arguing to the jury that the only way to stop donald trump from repeating these defamatory statements is to make him pay. they say that e. jean carroll should get at least $24 million in compensatory damages. and what they said a large amount in punitive damages. asking for a big amount of money because the question they put to the jury, they said this case is about punishing donald trump for what he's done. and what he's continuing to do. they said that even after that jury last year found him liable of sexual assaulting carroll, and defaming her, that he continue to repeat those statements just 24 hours later at a cnn town hall. that was the moment that donald trump got up and left the courtroom during carols attorneys closing arguments. t
let's go live outside the courtroom that was cnn's kara scannell.nn legal analyst norm eisen with us as well. kara, first. you walk us through what was happening in court. what did the two sides present? >> hey, boris and breonna. closing arguments have finished up in the last day of this trial. carols attorneys arguing to the jury that the only way to stop donald trump from repeating these defamatory statements is to make him pay. they say that e. jean carroll should get at least $24...
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kara scannell, cnn, new york. >>> still ahead, alabama is set to execute a death row inmate.e'll discuss. >>> this week a man in alabama is scheduled to become the first death row inmate to be executed using nitrogen gas. a memod never used before in the united states. he was convicted of the 1988 murder-for-hire. his name is kenneth smith. his initial lethal injection was halted because of iv line inches and then he requested death by nitrogen gas. it has u.n. experts concerned about the execution citing a painful and humiliated death. here with us now is margaret sa sater u school of law and one of the members of the panel. let me start here and back away just for a second from the method used here and simply that there is an execution. the u.n. statement citing the concerns from your panel say that the panel regrets that executions are still pursued in the u.s. so is the primary concern the method and means or that this man will be executed? >> so, the primary concern in this case is the method of execution. it is really a question of whether alabama could put to death som
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let's just read a little bit of your reporting with kara scannell. the additional records raise new questions about possible efforts to influence trump through his companies while he was in the white house. democrats point to the fact that trump declined to impose sanctions on the industrial and commercial bank of china, a state-owned entity that leased property at trump tower in new york. >> that's the whole problem here. it's actually it's addressed in the constitution. it was a concern for the framers. it's a concern now for the president. he's to be removed from any possible foreign influence through personal gifts or financial contributions. democrats say several could be tries, over 20, were making these payments to trump's properties, to his various business ventures while in office. it's possible some of those payments may have ebb couraged certain policy decisions. there's no way to know for sure in that regard. absent more documents and a paper trail, but that's with what democracies are raising. it's hard to ignore the fact that republican
let's just read a little bit of your reporting with kara scannell. the additional records raise new questions about possible efforts to influence trump through his companies while he was in the white house. democrats point to the fact that trump declined to impose sanctions on the industrial and commercial bank of china, a state-owned entity that leased property at trump tower in new york. >> that's the whole problem here. it's actually it's addressed in the constitution. it was a concern...
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kara scannell, thanks for that update. i want to bring in our legal experts for analysis.ria borger, what do you make of trump's attacks? how much is he benefiting potentially from turning this trial into a political circus? >> well, he may be benefiting politically, but i don't think he's benefiting in the courtroom at all. his comments are contrary to what a jury has already decided, and what he is doing here is playing the victim, poor me, you know. there's this radical judge that hates me, that won't let me go to my mother-in-law's funeral because, you know, otherwise i have to miss court, and -- and the witness on the stand is lying and, you know, she bought a gun illegally and, you know, all these ridiculous ancillary issues. well, this woman is pouring her heart out on the stand, and donald trump comes away and claims that in fact, of course, she's not victim here of any kind of sexual assault but actually he's the victim here, and they ought to be paying him damages. i mean, it's -- it's a ridiculous argument, but in terms of whether it benefits him politically, of
kara scannell, thanks for that update. i want to bring in our legal experts for analysis.ria borger, what do you make of trump's attacks? how much is he benefiting potentially from turning this trial into a political circus? >> well, he may be benefiting politically, but i don't think he's benefiting in the courtroom at all. his comments are contrary to what a jury has already decided, and what he is doing here is playing the victim, poor me, you know. there's this radical judge that...
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kara scannell, thank you so much. so who exactly is on that list? know what i keep thinking about this week when i think about names being revealed or wanting people to reveal names? heidi fleiss. remember her? the so-called hollywood madam that ran a prosecution ring that catered to tinseltown's rich and famous. she served almost 20 months in federal prison and remember she had that little black book that everyone wanted her to reveal names from. she said she did not, but clients were hoping that their names were written in invisible ink and she is going to join us, right after this. >>> tonight, a new round of jeffrey epstein documents offers another look into his dark history of sexual abuse. we have the perfect person to talk about this whole thing. heidi fleiss, the so-called hollywood madam who ran a high- class prostitution ring that catered to tinseltown's rich and famous. heidi fleiss joins me now. heidi, i can see you over there. how are you doing? thank you for joining tonight. i have to tell you, i have been thinking about all of the new
kara scannell, thank you so much. so who exactly is on that list? know what i keep thinking about this week when i think about names being revealed or wanting people to reveal names? heidi fleiss. remember her? the so-called hollywood madam that ran a prosecution ring that catered to tinseltown's rich and famous. she served almost 20 months in federal prison and remember she had that little black book that everyone wanted her to reveal names from. she said she did not, but clients were hoping...
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cnn's kara scannell is outside the courthouse for us.nd everyone, this trial has been delayed a couple of times. what's going to happen once it resumes? >> kate, this will be the first time the jury has heard testimony in this case in about a week and as it is, they've only heard two days of testimony, but we are in the homestretch of this trial with e. jean carroll's team expecting to put on their final witness and that's the former editor at "elle" magazine. she will be testifying for e. jean carroll and carroll will introduce a donald trump deposition and making these denials and repeating these denials that carroll has accused him of and confusing her for his second wife marla maples in a photo and trump has said he doesn't know who e. jean carroll is and she's not his type as the carroll team rests their case and then the question is does donald trump take the stand. he is likely to be the only witness that this team calls if they do call him. he wants to testify. the judge has said because this case is not about the defamation or t
cnn's kara scannell is outside the courthouse for us.nd everyone, this trial has been delayed a couple of times. what's going to happen once it resumes? >> kate, this will be the first time the jury has heard testimony in this case in about a week and as it is, they've only heard two days of testimony, but we are in the homestretch of this trial with e. jean carroll's team expecting to put on their final witness and that's the former editor at "elle" magazine. she will be...
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let get right to kara scannell from outside of court. what are we hearing from inside the court?e. jean carroll has been on the stand for just a little while now, and she's under cross-examination from trump's attorney alina habba. the focus of much of the questioning this morning has been on the timeline because e. jean carroll's initial story came out through a book excerpt on "new york magazine's" website and donald trump made his first statement that carroll was suing him for that five hours later. what they are showing is people responding to her tweet about this story that was negative before donald trump made his first post. some of these tweets that they have showed said that show was make up false news, was a dirty liar and others that said she was a disgrace, all part of trump's arguments that he should not be held responsible for mean tweets that were sent regardless of what he said andy e. jean carroll said it was his followers that project him to follow his words and bombard her with negativity in these tweets and also facebook messages and some threats that she said
let get right to kara scannell from outside of court. what are we hearing from inside the court?e. jean carroll has been on the stand for just a little while now, and she's under cross-examination from trump's attorney alina habba. the focus of much of the questioning this morning has been on the timeline because e. jean carroll's initial story came out through a book excerpt on "new york magazine's" website and donald trump made his first statement that carroll was suing him for that...
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. >> kara scannell is live outside the courthouse for us. when we look ahead to the next couple hours, what do we expect to happen? >> reporter: good morning phil and poppy. donald trump is expected to arrive just a short time from now at this courthouse where he will be sitting in the same courtroom with e. jean carroll again. and what we expect today is that carroll will call her final witness, her former boss at "el" magazine why speak wrote the advice column for nearly three decades. and then her lawyers are expected to play sx ernstsexcere videotaped deposition where we saw last year where trump is asked questions and including showing a photograph of trump and carroll and he mistakes her for his wife marla maple. so we're expecting to see some of the deposition. he has reacted at times to what has popped up on screens or to testimony. so that is expected to be played. they also say they want to play more out of the out of court statements trump has made. the question is not whether trump has defamed carroll. that was determined by a ju
. >> kara scannell is live outside the courthouse for us. when we look ahead to the next couple hours, what do we expect to happen? >> reporter: good morning phil and poppy. donald trump is expected to arrive just a short time from now at this courthouse where he will be sitting in the same courtroom with e. jean carroll again. and what we expect today is that carroll will call her final witness, her former boss at "el" magazine why speak wrote the advice column for nearly...
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. >> we know you will be watching it for us, kara scannell, thank you. >>> and new accounts from the passengers on board of the japan airlines flight that collided with a plane on the runway and burst into flames. at least five people were killed and amazingly hundreds were able to evavacuate safefely. >> what went wrong and that is the question for authorities after a passenger yet carrying 400 people burst into flames after a deadly runway collision in tokyo coming off of a terrifying moment of impact. >> new details of the driver who plowed into a crowd of concertgoers in new york, and what the police just revealed. >>> and will droonald trump fil appeals in colorado and maine to get back on the ballots? we will speak to the colorado secretary of state. >>> i'm rahel solomon alongside john berman today, and good to be with you, john. this is cnn "news central." >>> we are getting new details on the breaking news out of japan, and an investigation is under way after a japan airways collided with a japanese coast guard plane after it all burst into flames. you see it happen right th
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i want to bring in our colleague kara scannell who is right next to me.rie was in the court earlier for oral arguments. kara, you called it, you knew that trump couldn't get through the day without participating in some way. is a surprising? >> nothing in this trial has been surprising. -- it changes and it doesn't happen. it doesn't surprise me at all that the judge allowed trump to speak, because part of the reason he gave initially about why he would allow trump to speak is that he said more on the line in this case than anyone else. since there is no jury the -- as you just laid out trump went beyond the contours of what the judge wanted to be permissible here by talking about a witch hunt, making this a political case and not arguing just the facts in the case. for closing arguments, for the bulk of it, they are mostly delivered by chris kais, his attorney, and he did stick to the facts in the case. he went through the evidence that was presented, saying to the judge that the attorney general office did not present any witnesses who testified that th
i want to bring in our colleague kara scannell who is right next to me.rie was in the court earlier for oral arguments. kara, you called it, you knew that trump couldn't get through the day without participating in some way. is a surprising? >> nothing in this trial has been surprising. -- it changes and it doesn't happen. it doesn't surprise me at all that the judge allowed trump to speak, because part of the reason he gave initially about why he would allow trump to speak is that he...
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. >> kara scannell, thanks so much. guys. >> with us now is former manhattan prosecutor, and counsellor, we did just get word that the judge has taken the bench, and i'm very curious to see what he might say at the outset of this trial today, because i want to go over once again the exchange between this federal judge and donald trump. jeremy, we're doing to do a dramatic reading. i'm going to play the participate of the judge. sara is going to play the part of donald trump. the judge says, i hope i don't have to consider excluding you from the trial. i understand you're probably very eager for me to do that. >> i would love it. >> i know you would. you just can't control yourself in these circumstances, apparently. >> you can't either. >> all right, counsellor. you can't either. someone in a courtroom just said that to a federal judge. i just want your reaction to that. >> you know, donald trump has become the personification of the decimation, if you will, of law and order. and it's really, really disgusting that this
. >> kara scannell, thanks so much. guys. >> with us now is former manhattan prosecutor, and counsellor, we did just get word that the judge has taken the bench, and i'm very curious to see what he might say at the outset of this trial today, because i want to go over once again the exchange between this federal judge and donald trump. jeremy, we're doing to do a dramatic reading. i'm going to play the participate of the judge. sara is going to play the part of donald trump. the...
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joined now by kara scannell who was at the courthouse today as well as elie honig and criminal defensettorney joey jackson. so what was it like in court, kara? >> today begins with jury selection. you have donald trump in there with e. jean carroll in the same room. they haven't seen each other in decades, and this has been such a major force in trump's life for the past year, with that trial last year too. they're sitting separated by one table. it doesn't appear that they made eye contact at any point. but it was certainly a moment to see them there together. now there was this judge, judge lewis caplan, really runs a tight courtroom. we saw that out of the gate with one of trump's attorneys, sparring with him. she wanted the judge to adjourn the trial on thursday so trump could attend his mother-in-law's funeral. she said i'm not stopping him from going. she said well, you're stopping him from coming here. i already ruled on this argument so we're moving on. the judge did say if trump's defense is ready to rest its case on thursday and trump is in florida, he would let him come to c
joined now by kara scannell who was at the courthouse today as well as elie honig and criminal defensettorney joey jackson. so what was it like in court, kara? >> today begins with jury selection. you have donald trump in there with e. jean carroll in the same room. they haven't seen each other in decades, and this has been such a major force in trump's life for the past year, with that trial last year too. they're sitting separated by one table. it doesn't appear that they made eye...
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let's get to cnn correspondent kara scannell, who's been following all twists and turns of this case. she's outside the federal courthouse in new york for us. so kara, an expert on damages just took the stand. what did he say? >> yeah, boris, so e. jean carroll call her expert on damages. that's what this trial is all about, how much donald trump may have to pay carroll if any amount of money, to prepare her reputation. as a result of the statements that he made that the judge has already found to be defamatory. so, this witness is a professor at northwestern university and she testified that to repair carroll's reputation, it would cost between 7 million to 12 point $1 million. and that is not including any damages carroll could potentially be awarded for emotional damages or in punitive damages, which are to punish trump for making these statements. so, that's a pretty significant number. carol is suing for at least $10 million. now, this testimony is by this professor, who -- last year, she also testified in rudy giuliani's defamation case for the plaintiffs who won that case. now,
let's get to cnn correspondent kara scannell, who's been following all twists and turns of this case. she's outside the federal courthouse in new york for us. so kara, an expert on damages just took the stand. what did he say? >> yeah, boris, so e. jean carroll call her expert on damages. that's what this trial is all about, how much donald trump may have to pay carroll if any amount of money, to prepare her reputation. as a result of the statements that he made that the judge has already...
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scannell, legal analyst zoe honig, and -- carroll, what did he say on the stand? >> they spent about ten minutes going back and forth to try to really contain the questions that would be asked and what trump's answers would be to stick those confines and then his testimony was over in less than three minutes. it was three straight questions from his attorney, alina habba. earlier in the day, there are video clips of clump trump's deposition where he mistakes carroll for marla may present a photograph on repeat some of his statement he doesn't know her calls her mentally ill. harbaugh asked trump, do you still bear testimony in the deposition? trump says 100 and yes. she then asked, him did you deny the allegation because miss carroll made an accusation? trump said that's exactly right. yes i did. she said something that i considered a false accusation, totally false, the judge cut him off and said everything after yes is restricted for the record. that's really time we saw trump vera way from what was strictly adhered to. the last question habba asked was did you
scannell, legal analyst zoe honig, and -- carroll, what did he say on the stand? >> they spent about ten minutes going back and forth to try to really contain the questions that would be asked and what trump's answers would be to stick those confines and then his testimony was over in less than three minutes. it was three straight questions from his attorney, alina habba. earlier in the day, there are video clips of clump trump's deposition where he mistakes carroll for marla may present...
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kara scannell, thank you to you as well. cnn legal analyst and civil rights attorney areva martin. interesting. let's talk about what is that issue and what is not at issue here. it is so crucial, whether trump defamed e. jean carroll, whether he is liable for sexual assault here. obviously, that is decided versus what he owes hurt monetarily. take us through that as well as the difference between these cases. >> reporter: absolutely, brianna. this is the case of damages. this is a case where the judge has already determined liability. there is no question about whether trump defamed e. jean carroll or whether he committed the sexual assault that she accused him of. the only issue that this jury will be deciding is if there are additional damages. when i segmentation, we should note that in may of last year, trump was ordered to pay e. jean carroll $5 million for sexual assault and defamation. so the question in this trial that started today is, will he be responsible for paying for additional damages? it's important to know
kara scannell, thank you to you as well. cnn legal analyst and civil rights attorney areva martin. interesting. let's talk about what is that issue and what is not at issue here. it is so crucial, whether trump defamed e. jean carroll, whether he is liable for sexual assault here. obviously, that is decided versus what he owes hurt monetarily. take us through that as well as the difference between these cases. >> reporter: absolutely, brianna. this is the case of damages. this is a case...
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cnn's kara scannell with the latest outside there in new york. >> reporter: donald trump has arrived and so has e. jean carroll. this is the first time they've seen each other in years. they will be sitting down in the courtroom momentarily. this kicks off just a few moments from now. also, donald trump will have the opportunity to look at the jurors as they're being asked questions and getting qualified for this process. now this judge moves pretty quickly and we'll have this jury seated by the end of this morning and we could have opening statements this afternoon. e. jean carroll's team will go first. then donald trump's, and as we know, that this trial is not about finding defamation. the judge has ruled on an earlier verdict that donald trump defamed e. jean carroll, but the question here is damages. how much money donald trump may have to pay carroll for defaming her. she is seeking $10 million in damages because of the statements donald trump made days after the verdict at a town hall. she wants there to be punitive damages that she should have to pay that the jury found to be
cnn's kara scannell with the latest outside there in new york. >> reporter: donald trump has arrived and so has e. jean carroll. this is the first time they've seen each other in years. they will be sitting down in the courtroom momentarily. this kicks off just a few moments from now. also, donald trump will have the opportunity to look at the jurors as they're being asked questions and getting qualified for this process. now this judge moves pretty quickly and we'll have this jury seated...
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but our colleague kara scannell getting a statement from her and saying in that statement this is great victory for every woman that stands up when she's been knocked down and a huge defeat for every bully who has tried to keep a woman down. her attorneys also releasing a statement saying essentially what they said in closing arguments, that you need to stand up to people like donald trump, and this is testament to it. and they said standing up to a bully takes courage and bravery. so very strong statements coming from e. jean carroll and her attorneys tonight. erika. >> brin, appreciate it. thank you. joining me now is robby myers who testified in this case and knows e. jean carroll well. she also met donald trump about a decade ago when she appeared on the celebrity apprentice. we just heard there from e. jean carroll in the wake of this $83.3 million decision. what is your reaction to that number tonight? >> well, first of all, thank you. and second of all, i just want to say if e. jean is watching, congratulations to her and the team. she's earned every penny. and i think that, you
but our colleague kara scannell getting a statement from her and saying in that statement this is great victory for every woman that stands up when she's been knocked down and a huge defeat for every bully who has tried to keep a woman down. her attorneys also releasing a statement saying essentially what they said in closing arguments, that you need to stand up to people like donald trump, and this is testament to it. and they said standing up to a bully takes courage and bravery. so very...
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kara scannell just told me she's waiting to get in to see the proceedings.did see the clerk of the court outside this building and heading in. so clearly, they are going to go forward with these closing arguments in this civil fraud trial. new york attorney general asking for $370 million in damages, and also basically to bar donald trump from doing business with the trump organization. >> yeah, it's a huge day from a trial perspective, also keeping a close eye on the security issues. john, you have a show coming up. we'll let you go. i want to turn to elie honig. to john's point, this is a big day on a big case that could totally change the face of donald trump's business. >> closing arguments today, so the sort of final chapter in this. people should understand, donald trump has been through a bunch of civil lawsuits. for example, he was found liable in the e. jean carroll case, another carrying on of that trial next week. normally what donald trump is cuts a check if he loses and moves on with his life. this will threaten the very existence of the trump o
kara scannell just told me she's waiting to get in to see the proceedings.did see the clerk of the court outside this building and heading in. so clearly, they are going to go forward with these closing arguments in this civil fraud trial. new york attorney general asking for $370 million in damages, and also basically to bar donald trump from doing business with the trump organization. >> yeah, it's a huge day from a trial perspective, also keeping a close eye on the security issues....
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. >> kara scannell, live for us, thank you. >>> and while former president trump might be in court this morning he is celebrating quite a victory in iowa. it is the kind of momentum he will no doubt try to capitalize on in new hampshire next week and beyond. it signals trump's grip on the republican party is tight. just how tight has that gotten? harry anton with us with more. how much? how do you measure this in numbers? >> you know it was so interesting to me. we had the entrants polls from iowa and everyone is like oh, my goodness, look at what voters think in iowa. i went and said wait a minute, the preelection polls have shown this the entire time. a very simple things, was biden's 2020 win legitimate and what we've seen here, this is in 2021, just 39% of republicans said yes. 58% said no. this number has been trending in trump's direction by late 2023 it was 31%. 67%, the vast majority of republicans believe that biden's win was not legitimate. this was not surprising to see in the entrants polls. >> in iowa. >> in iowa. this was national. what we saw in iowa, holds nationally. th
. >> kara scannell, live for us, thank you. >>> and while former president trump might be in court this morning he is celebrating quite a victory in iowa. it is the kind of momentum he will no doubt try to capitalize on in new hampshire next week and beyond. it signals trump's grip on the republican party is tight. just how tight has that gotten? harry anton with us with more. how much? how do you measure this in numbers? >> you know it was so interesting to me. we had the...
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joining us now cnn legal analyst joey jackson and kaitlin collins and kara scannell who was in court today as this all played out. what was it like? >> e. jean carroll is on the stand facing donald trump, just two tables away from her as she's beginning to tell this story, and she says almost off the bat donald trump assaulted me. he lied about it, and shattered my represent utakes and at that moment trump physically reacted shaking his head side to side face to say, no, and from there that just kind of began his reaction to her testimony. a lot of it involved him leaning over to his attorney alina habba whispering to her and making she is statements. that was not audible to us, the reporters in the courtroom that were sitting behind him, but at one of the breaks is this is when carroll's attorney brought it up they could hear sitting in front of trump and they were concerned that the jury could hear some of the comments he was saying including that this is fake, this is a con job and a witch hunt. so that was something that was raised to the jung once the jury was out of the courtro
joining us now cnn legal analyst joey jackson and kaitlin collins and kara scannell who was in court today as this all played out. what was it like? >> e. jean carroll is on the stand facing donald trump, just two tables away from her as she's beginning to tell this story, and she says almost off the bat donald trump assaulted me. he lied about it, and shattered my represent utakes and at that moment trump physically reacted shaking his head side to side face to say, no, and from there...
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kara scannell joins us with more on what happened in court. kara, what was it like in court today? >> this was the closing moment in the case and was hear for opening lgz and again today for closings. initially the judge didn't allow him to speak so he wasn't going to speak. after all the attorneys finished their closing arguments he said to the judge can the former president please speak. the judge gave him the remaining five or six minutes of the day where he said you can talk but you have to work within the ground rules is talk about the evidence and the law and trump didn't. he proem claimed he was an innocent man and being purseicated. he said this is political witch hunt. what happened here, sir, is a fraud on me and he continued to go on and attack the investigation. the judge gave him a cue he had one minute left. and trump said to the judge you have your own agenda, i understand that. the judge said mr. kice, control your client. he said i did nothing wrong, they should have to pay me what they did to me reputationaly and everything else. they did not put on one witness th
kara scannell joins us with more on what happened in court. kara, what was it like in court today? >> this was the closing moment in the case and was hear for opening lgz and again today for closings. initially the judge didn't allow him to speak so he wasn't going to speak. after all the attorneys finished their closing arguments he said to the judge can the former president please speak. the judge gave him the remaining five or six minutes of the day where he said you can talk but you...
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. >> kara scannell, thanks so much. >>> more now on the woman who helped epstein carry out the scheme and was convicted and is serving time in prison. >> reporter: ghislaine maxwell is the daughter of robert maxwell, a czech born newspaper tycoon, who died in 1991, after falling off his luxury yacht near the canary islands. following her father's death, ghislaine maxwell connected with jeffrey epstein, the disgraced fancier, who died by suicide in prison while awaiting trial on charges of sexually abusing young girls. maxwell was at the center of all of it, serving as epstein's madam, recruiting young girls for epstein to abuse, even allegedly taking part in the abuse herself. >> maxwell was among epstein's closest associate and helped him exploit girls who were as young as 14 years old. >> reporter: maxwell herself was epstein's ex-girlfriend turned social companion. the couple reportedly split in the 1990s but remained close. in a 2003 profile in "vanity fa fair," epstein described maxwell as his best friend. farmer would not have stayed under epstein's roof had maxwell not assured
. >> kara scannell, thanks so much. >>> more now on the woman who helped epstein carry out the scheme and was convicted and is serving time in prison. >> reporter: ghislaine maxwell is the daughter of robert maxwell, a czech born newspaper tycoon, who died in 1991, after falling off his luxury yacht near the canary islands. following her father's death, ghislaine maxwell connected with jeffrey epstein, the disgraced fancier, who died by suicide in prison while awaiting...