it also marked the beginning of the e jean carroll trial.rump accused of sexually assaulting e jean carroll in a department store dressing room back in the nineties, making this case basically as topical as pearl jam. on january 26, after only 3 hours of deliberation, the jury awarded jean carroll $83.3 million. and that brings. our total to. ding, ding. ding, more than half a billion dollars. and it's only. january. then in april, we saw the return of donald trump to a courtroom. but this time, the criminal court. he was faced with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to pay off adult film star stormy daniels. so trump was required to be in court for this one as well, which he did, taking time away from the campaign trail and catching up on some of his naps. a jury has found former. president donald trump guilty on all counts in his criminal hush money trial. they got the one thing they wanted, which is convicted felon donald trump. but wait, there's more. you not only have business. fraud, you not only are porn stars, but now yo

and then, of course, there was the civil case that e jean carroll brought for defamation and for sexual was also convicted by a jury of his peers, found liable for sexual abuse in which he owes jean carroll. he is now attempting to claim as somebody who is supposedly about law and order, that the law and order that was dispensed by new york juries do not apply to him, and stating that his immunity that the supreme court gave him extends to the jean carroll case, and presumably that he doesn't have to pay the state of new york. can the state of new york force him to live under the law? so again, in my case, we are waiting for a decision from the appellate division in the second circuit. and it's important to understand that all of the violations of law that he engaged in, including trying to take advantage of our insurance laws, our tax laws, and not paying adequately to our tax base were done when he was not the president of the united states. and this is a civil matter. it is not criminal. and so the pardon law does not apply in this particular case. and so we are awaiting a decision.

we saw what happened in that e jean carroll civil suit brought by robert kaplan as her lawyer, wheremade all of those incredibly gross and egregious admissions on a videotape depo. so, mary, do you think, though this is still going to resonate in any way with the american public, or do you think they're a little bit kind of disillusioned with how the judicial system has played out for them? >> i mean, i think there's a disillusionment, at least among a portion of the of the population who has bought into the rhetoric about the criminal cases being a form of weaponization or political misuse of the department of justice. >> i think that's wrong. >> i think, you know, these are things we've discussed many times. and i will note that civil case that you mentioned, that i didn't talk about the eight civil cases of police officers from january 6th and members of congress that will also, as that proceeds, be a be a situation where more and more information about january 6th will will still come out, so long as that moves forward. and that is right now in in litigation about whether anythin

one to author e jean carroll and the other for fraudulently inflating his net worth.rst former president convicted of criminal charges for hiding hush money payments to adult film star stormy daniels. tonight, stormy daniels testified in donald trump's criminal hush money. try out. >> and it got down and dirty to the point where the defense. >> asked for a mistrial. trump denying he did anything wrong. legal expense that we was put has legal expects the jury disagreeing convicting the former president on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to keep the story quiet before the 2016 election music mogul sean diddy combs also facing serious criminal charges, including trafficking, kidnapping and racketeering. also more than 30 civil lawsuits from individuals who claim combs drugged and sexually assaulted them. a bet. nightmares. >> and in terms make me like it's a constant struggle. combs denies the charges and a trial is set for next. may. >> weather caused destruction from coast to coast. torrential rains and mudslides outside la assessing the damage out here

jean carroll elvis impersonators became a huge part of the entertainment industry in las vegas as elvislways said. >> well, i guess imitation is the best form of flattery. so elvis didn't have any problems with somebody doing his show, and now it's become a badge of honor. and. hell falling in love. >> you can even have elvis marry you. it can be a show. outright. thank you. >> dancers. thank you very much. thank you. dancers. all right. >> you think of weddings in other parts of the country as pretty state of affairs, pretty conventional, pretty traditional, blah, blah, blah. but las vegas, you can come and have fun. you can make a joke out of it. you can drive through and be married. >> you can kind of take it for granted that you can come and get married by an elvis impersonator, right? but that is another tradition that dates back to when people actually poured into nevada for quickie weddings and quickie divorces. and now it's just part of the fabric in vegas, people thought of vegas as a unique place to tie the knot, and it became a hotspot for a lot of very high profile vegas wed

jean carroll's $5 million civil judgment which a jury awarded her after he found trump liable for sexually abusing her in the 1990s and defaming her after she went public with allegations. joining us is mary mccord, acting assistant security for the department of justice and she's the cohost of one of the best podcasts, prosecuting donald trump podcast and msnbc legal analyst. >> mary mccord, good morning. i want to connect the dots between what we have been watching the legal developments around trump and what we saw just yesterday with trump inviting a number of people who were big parts of the lead up to january 6 two celebrate them at the white house, around this east man dilemma documentary. it's part of the trailer. let's watch it and talk about it on the other side. >> helped design a strategy. one could not of predicted it would've subject me to love fear, but i thought it was important to take on that representation. >> was it worth the? >> distorting laws that have been on the books, to find people we don't like because they're saying things we do not like, and to uses criminal l

jean carroll sued him and shaye moss. so there are still ways of pushing back, and everybody who is in a position where they might be able to contribute to the pushback, has to think about how they can do that. >> lisa, i want to get you in on the other side but sneak in a quick break, and talk about the real world or tangible consequences of re-electing donald trump might be and that is the comments about greenland and about the panama canal, his expansionist aims and how seriously to take those and what it means given what we're talking about in the way that he's, you know, pressuring the levers of power within this country, both information power and congressional power and legal power. we are also at the same time watching the funeral procession of president jimmy carter. he is on his way right now to washington, d.c. this is him actually in washington, d.c. he's soon going to get out of the hearse and then taken by horse carriage to the capitol rotunda where he will begin lying in state within it. we're going to brin

jean carroll hua hua li shuo qua qua. may you come. okay. go. labor. labor. hua hua hua. soy sauce. when you go to hua. homan you come down. >> so i guess i've got to see for myself. it is now 650 in the morning. we're not too far. about 15 minutes from the chengdu research base. >> yeah. and apart. yes. >> oh! panda ears. when did you get in line? 6:00 in the. >> morning. everybody wah wah! i came here two hours earlier. every day they have 70,000 of tickets. wow. >> and do you plan to run to go see them? >> this way? >> i'll follow you. is this the line for wah wah? yeah yeah yeah. >> wow. >> and every day it's like this. >> every day like this. >> that's amazing. is that her? is that. >> hua hua? >> now we're going into, like, the main viewing point. we got movement. see this? >> are you who are you time's up. >> oh. >> i'm getting pushed along to continue on. >> wah! hi! >> you've now become a celebrity to some people. recognize you. what's that like? >> whoa qizan al-najjar has your eye. >> who? don riddell. bauckholt! dong woo! >> it's not about you. it's about the panda. >> p

jean carroll. >> they found him liable for sexual abuse, business fraud, his business was convicted in >> a federal grand jury here has indicted former president donald trump on four counts... >> indictment after indictment after indictment. >> charged with leading a criminal organization that worked to overturn the results... (camera shutter clicks) >> the day you're being arraigned and fingerprinted and mugshotted, for most people, that's a bad day. but for donald trump, it was an opportunity. >> i just want to thank you for your tremendous support, and here it is. if you want to go out and get it, you can go out and get it. have fun with it. but people do like it, i must say. thank you very much. >> (laughing) >> never surrender! whoo! >> narrator: donald trump's next comeback was under way. >> what would have destroyed any other politician's career seemed to only strengthen him and embolden him. rather than being tarnished, he turned the tables on his adversaries and made it out to be a political plus. and instead of a discredited, shamed loser, he becomes the apostle of the comeba

one to author e jean carroll and the other for fraudulently inflating his net worth. he also became the first former president convicted of criminal charges for hiding hush money payments to adult film star stormy daniels. tonight, stormy daniels testified in donald trump's criminal hush money. try out. >> and it got down and dirty to the point where the defense. >> asked for a mistrial. trump denying he did anything wrong. legal expense that we was put has legal expects the jury disagreeing convicting the former president on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to keep the story quiet before the 2016 election music mogul sean diddy combs also facing serious criminal charges, including trafficking, kidnapping and racketeering. also more than 30 civil lawsuits from individuals who claim combs drugged and sexually assaulted them. a bet. nightmares. >> and in terms make me like it's a constant struggle. combs denies the charges and a trial is set for next. may. >> weather caused destruction from coast to coast. torrential rains and mudslides outside la assessi

attend, and in a tiktok video, she cited trump's liability in the sexual abuse case from writer e jean carroll in part of her reasoning for skipping the event, and san francisco congresswoman and former house speaker nancy pelosi also decided not to attend, but says she listened to his speech. protesters from various human rights groups marched in washington to protest the new administration. demonstrators displayed their palestinian flags, rainbow flags and signs objecting to trump's policies as the president and vice president were being sworn in. now, for many, their opposition comes from the concerns they have for society's most vulnerable, including members of the transgender community. >> these are serious identity issues, and it gets to a point where if these people aren't allowed the care that they need, it's a question of do they want to wake up tomorrow? so it's life and death. >> protesters say this demonstration is the start of a mass movement nationwide. the 46th president of the united states watched donald trump get sworn into office, and then private citizen joe biden and his w

jean carroll case and saying there was no reason for a trial. of legal nexus we have been discussed in, where do you think that ranks in terms of further appeal or trying to avoid that money, given he was found liable? >> money today is always worth more money pass the bully in the future. by that, i mean if you're going to trial, you have to explain this to clients. you might get this huge verdict, but they will appeal it and it will get locked up years and years and they will appeal that appeal and if there is an offer today, it may not be dollar for dollar what you wanted or your asking price. consider the value of money today, which is less than what you wanted versus what you might get in the future. defendants kimberly gum up the process president-elect donald trump, corporate defendants, all civil defendants can slow down the payment process and avoid writing those checks. sometimes they get it with interest if they are delaying too long, but this is a common defense strategy in civil cases. eventually, he will pay, but who and when, we d

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jean carroll trial, where he did not have to appear. this was a criminal matter.t's why he was inside of that courtroom. now, we not only heard the voice of the president elect and his attorney and the judge and joshua steinglass the prosecutor, one of them, which we had not heard at all during the course of that trial, because there are not cameras allowed in the courtroom. we employed those we didn't employ. we talked to the sketch artist at the time as well. here we have this moment in time. i think it was very helpful for the american people to be able to hear in essentially real time what he had to say. the tone essentially, as the fact finders in the court of public opinion, assessing the credibility, assessing the demeanor, and deciding for themselves the veracity of the arguments he was making, i thought it was very powerful. and frankly, i wish we could have had it sooner. throughout the course of the trial, because the american public, i think, has a right to know what happens inside a courtroom like that. >> at least we heard the audio. we didn't see vi

jean carroll civil matter. instead, we'll see what the jurors think about this sort of result in the end. elie honig, thank you so much. >> thanks, laura. >> well, joining me now on the political fallout. cnn senior political commentator and former special assistant to president george w. bush, scott jennings, is here. and former obama white house senior director nayyera haq as well. good to see you both, my friend. scott, i'll begin with you. during the campaign, these court issues, they actually were pretty helpful to trump politically. in fact, many believe the tide changed when it was even filed as a criminal charge against him. people started to lean in more. but now that he's won, does the next set of events even matter in terms of what the judge will do? >> well, look, i think it matters because it's another reminder that radical democrat political activists abuse the criminal justice system in new york, all to create a political talking point. look, l.a. is exactly right. our legal analyst here, this wo

e jean carroll, most of his contractors. >> all the contractors who built his buildings. >> hundreds >> hundreds of businesses. he never. >> pays years. >> and i mean, it is the case that congress. >> has to appropriate funds. there is no there's no. >> appropriation right now. >> for these. >> kinds of payouts. >> they don't have the flexibility. >> to do these things. >> so i think this. >> is the. >> product of people. >> who don't know how the government runs. they think maybe it's elon musk. >> who thinks this is just another form of twitter. but actually. >> when the government. >> doesn't have the people it needs to deliver services, when. we don't have people who know what to. >> do with the drug. >> shortage or what to do with the hurricane, you know, people's lives are at stake. and i think. >> that. >> is really part and parcel of the response you've seen over the last two days on there or on this omb memo, because what. all these. people playing government are, are forgetting is that people's. lives are at stake. veterans, people on. >> medicare, people. >> seniors who ne

sexual abuse, which of course he denies, and who was found by a jury in new york to have done to e jean carroll do to women in the 2006 access hollywood tape. and i could go on. and who was adjudicated by a new york jury to have had sexual relations with a porn actress and then paid her off to cover it up, along with with a playboy model, which, of course, again, he denies, but did get adjudicated for it. with all of that history, why would republicans treat pete hegseth any differently, in your view, if your viewers and if the american public sees tomorrow how unqualified this man is and reaches out to those republican members and tell them that they will not accept this man being confirmed, that will pressure my colleagues to put country above maga, to put country above self, and certainly not bow down to the altar of the maga extremists, because that's where we are right now. >> i it's sad to say, but it is about convincing republican members of the senate armed services committee to put the well-being and the national security of america above maga interests. and we're doing our best. we're

jean carroll. >> but trump's border czar stresses that others could be deported as well. >> there's going to be more collateral arrests in sanctuary cities because they forced us to go into community and find and find the guy we're looking for. when we go find our priority target, which is a criminal alien. if he's with others in the united states illegally, we're going to take enforcement action against him. >> shimon prokupecz, cnn, new york. >> votes away from getting the job. perhaps the senate set to vote on pete hegseth nomination to be defense secretary today. and he is now facing new questions over a $50,000 payment to a woman who accused him of sexual assault. president donald trump is entering the oval office with two major natural disasters on his hands, and now his responsibility. storm cleanup on the east coast fires out west. he's traveling to both areas today. and a mayor is now accusing ice agents of a raid. he says unlawfully terrorized his city. what happened in newark, new jersey, that has local leaders now speaking out? i'm kate bolduan with sara sidner and john berman

he has been found liable with respect to his civil responsibilities and his cases with e jean carrollas convicted of a felony today. but what has it really cost him? he is going back to an office of enormous power. a man who already enjoys tremendous privilege. and so i question not necessarily what does it say about the judiciary, because what happened was a function not of the judiciary, but our regard for it with respect to how it operates and the levers of power and how they are pulled. but what does it say about us that for many voters, the majority of voters in this country, it didn't matter? and so when you think about this in the historical context and looking forward, having all of these things, there is no one in america who could face the legal struggles that he has faced, get convicted, take losses, and then ascend to the highest office of the land. and i wonder, what does that say about our regard for the rule of law that we talk about so much being a system that we claim holds no person above the law. so you have civil liability, you have a criminal conviction yet. and s

jean carroll. gov slash resources. i want to end with this californians are resilient. california is strong. we are strong, especially when as now, we stand united. we will get through this l.a. will get through this together and we will rebuild and we will heal. california doj is here, ready, willing and able to support angelenos and local law enforcement and local officials in any and every way we can. we are at your service. i will come back at the end to answer questions if there are any, but for now, please allow me to welcome supervisor horvath to say a few words. >> thank you, mr. attorney general. >> thank you for your strong. >> so we're going to be monitoring this press conference here. so i just took my mask off as as it continues. um, you heard the attorney general there talking about looting. it's been a very real concern in areas like this. and you may say it doesn't look like there's much to lose. things have been obviously burnt to the ground, but there are some homes standing and then there are areas that are evacuated or that people have chosen to leav

. >> jean carroll decision and he has been sentenced. >> it is a final sentence now. >> he is a convicted's subject to appeal, but he's not unscathed. but he has been the luckiest defendant in the history of the world with a problem arising in georgia because of an appointment of someone that the da had a relationship with, because of the timing, because of owning the supreme court and getting the immunity decision. i don't think that jack smith's resignation, which was, as you said, completely expected, will have any impact on this. i don't think that the sentencing is going to change anything either. i think that as we look at is this justice, which was the question you raised? >> eamon? >> it is the best that could have been hoped for in the circumstances. i think there would have been no sentencing if judge merchan hadn't said in advance that he was going to give unconditional release, that there would be no jail time. and frankly, most people, first time offenders who commit this offense probably wouldn't have gone to jail. i think that what would have been better a little bit is if

he bragged about being able to do to women what he was later found by a jury to have done to e jean carroll, namely, grabbing her genitals in an act of sexual abuse. as judge juan merchan revealed last week, the sentence imposed on mr. trump as merchan called him, rather than putting the president in his moniker like so many suckups do, even when he's out of office is an unconditional discharge, meaning trump gets no jail time, no probation, no fines, but he will now legally be labeled a convicted felon. now, in one sense, this is the biggest sweetheart deal imaginable for trump, considering that a new york times analysis of sentencing outcomes showed that in the past ten years, no other defendant convicted of falsifying business records in manhattan received such a lenient sentence. they all received either jail time, probation, fines or community service. and yes, it is completely unfair and unjust that trump gets not even a slap on the wrist for his crimes. but see, if you're donald trump, this was anything but a sweetheart deal. now you have to remember that trump was raised by his fath

jean carroll cases and so forth. and so, you know, it's not it's not all gone. >> elise, how do you think trump's appeal in this case is likely to play out? and how does trump's being the sitting president of the united states impact all of this? >> well, that's a very good question. i mean, we're in unprecedented times right now. i think the immunity ruling shocked most of us in the legal community. so, you know, at this point, it is hard for me to forecast how they will ultimately this will ultimately come out. now, if he goes to sentencing on the 10th, as was already stated, he'll be able to appeal on the merits of the case, and then they will go back into these rulings and to see whether or not an appellate court agrees with judge merchan that no official acts were at play. and because this is so new, it's just hard to tell. now with respect to, uh, president-elect trump being the sitting president. um, again, because of his likely sentence, which is nothing, no penalty. i think very much will help him accept his

. >> let me just i think a jury found him liable for defamation and sexual assault in the jean carrollme do this. they are getting away with these things because with all deference and respect, they the democrats were outplayed, right? i mean, trump was able to convince enough americans that he was unfairly targeted. and i think there has to be an honest conversation about whether making democracy and the cost of things a choice was the right strategic decision. and i want to bring you in, marc elias, because some of this feels like like the trump story is, to me, the most boring it's been in nine years. i am bored by him. he will always do the same thing. there are no new trump stories. it's always a grift. why is don junior in greenland? i'm not positive i actually had to google greenland. i'm not super well versed in why he still wants it, but if i had to take a make a bet at a bar and all that was on the table was a pitcher of beer, i bet there was something grifting in there. secret service stated his hotels in scotland. i was never sure why. i don't know the routes to where he wa

jean carroll case. the legal nuances are a bit complicated. judge in the case said that the assault in the case did not meet the new york legal definition of rape. but by any common sense understanding of the term, it was rape. stephanopoulos was in essence pair of prizes -- paraphrasing the finding of the case. host: this is the case that a lot of people said if they had taken it to court, they would have had a very strong case. guest: in first amendment law it's very important to -- i generally am not a fan of slippery slope arguments, but this is one where they apply, i think. there is a chilling effect when something like this happens and other media outlets are inevitably going to be much more guarded and offensive. that is not the role of the press. the press is supposed to hold public figures accountable and it is supposed to upset them. host: you mentioned "the post," "the times," and i'm guessing you are referencing the decision not to run endorsements last year? guest: in the case of "the los angeles times," it's on further, the publ

jean carroll case. the legal nuances are a bit complicated.udge in the case said that the assault in the case did not meet the new york legal definition of rape. but by any common sense understanding of the term, it was rape. stephanopoulos was in essence pair of prizes -- paraphrasing the finding of the case. host: this is the case that a lot of people said if they had taken it to court, they would have had a very strong case. guest: in first amendment law it's very important to -- i generally am not a fan of slippery slope arguments, but this is one where they apply, i think. there is a chilling effect when something like this happens and other media outlets are inevitably going to be much more guarded and offensive. that is not the role of the press. the press is supposed to hold public figures accountable and it is supposed to upset them. host: you mentioned "the post," "the times," and i'm guessing you are referencing the decision not to run endorsements last year? guest: in the case of "the los angeles times," it's on further, the publis

jean carroll was awarded. his university, trump university was shut down. his charity was shut down. this is a con man. so, my disillusionment is connected to just disappointment that more people did not see this the way i do. i respect people who are for trump. i just think that they are not looking at the totality of his character in making a judgment. but this experience was in some ways very inspiring and mother courtroom, because as you mentioned in your excerpt from my book, this was a partial accountability. no matter what happens eventually in this case, even if he does not serve in jail, which he very much is not going to, even if he does not end up getting probation everyday in the courtroom he had to answer for really the first time in his adult life to a judge who controlled the courtroom. and i got a firm row seat on this accountability. the trial was not televised. so, while it was highly publicized, the stormy daniels trial, nobody got a good sense of what was going on in that courtroom if they were not there. and this is the only book about