so kara, why the rush? less than 1% of the total republican electorate has so far had their say and the gop is ready to say it's over. >> well, because it's in their interest to get -- move it forward and not create more -- more problems around donald trump, obviously there's a lot of them, especially the court cases and everything else. and so they want to sort of get momentum going now without something someone like nikki haley saying things, which she's saying with increasing frequency about his age, and whether he's unhinged, et cetera. >> but, i mean, it's always in the interest of the front runner, kristen, what surprises me is this isn't just trump trying to rush things and wrap them up, all but one of his opponents has already dropped out of the race, gop officials, elected officials, party officials rushing to endorse thimm, why the rush? >> the math is very difficult for anybody who's not donald trump. back eight years ago in conventional wisdom was you sqjust need the field to shrink, if donald t

talk about the implications we're facing. >> kara: look at what states have to contend with. we are seeing those from the terror watch list crossing and the cartels, human trafficking, child trafficking and drug trafficking with the cartels. there is report venezuela is sending convicted and now texas and border states have to fight with the federal government. it has implication for national security, i've talked about this. it is geopolitical issue. we look weak at the border and not projecting power. everyone knows we are weak, everyone knows our borders are open and are acting in accordance with that. >> emily: harris, there is fox news alert, talking about what kara is saying, there is influx of illegal migrants that appear as unaccompanied minors and they will be able to disappear into the fabric of this kocountry. how does our president not see? >> harris: he was tanning his face so the two sides would match. guinea, south africa, the word has spread across the planet. easiest way to get in is if you are unaccompanied minor. what does that mp? we don't know who we are

>> here with me, podcaster, kara swisher, rahim salon and national review contributing editor.w york times" journalist and podcast host, lulu garcia navarro and author and conservative pollster, kristen anderson. welcome back, everyone. good to be with you. so rihan, what will constitute a win for donald trump on monday night? how big does he have to score over the other candidates, especially haley and desantis, for people to say he won iowa? >> this sounds like a high bar, but i think it has to be comfortably above 50%. the expectations are incredibly high for him. anything short of that, people will smell blood in the water. >> even if he wins by double digits. >> yeah. i don't think that's going to be enough honestly because i think that if you see some kind of surprise, if you see that there's a surprise, for example, in second place, i think that that could give someone a tail wind. >> lulu, as i said in the package, the record for the biggest win ever in a contested republican caucus in iowa was 12 points. so, is reihan right, does he have to get over 50% which would mea

kara, thank you for being here.is your reaction to this, quite significant, ruling against musk, and a huge chunk of his enormous wealth? >> it is his compensation package. they are just saying, the board of tesla, as so many companies, have no control over him, and he, in fact, controls it. which i think most people have thought for a long time. they have tried to rein in his behavior, but not really. they have tried to do all kinds of things. in general, it operates at the behest of elon musk, which, as a public company, are not supposed to do that. . >> there were some questions raised about whether the people on the board, including friends, and family members of his, enabled that. he is just responding, not long after this ruling came down, tweeting, never incorporate your company in the state of delaware. but, i mean, is this about delaware, or is this about elon musk? >> of course not. it sort of like trump after the recent ruling the 83 million dollar judgment. they just need to trash whatever just ruled aga

>> kara: i think you wait, it will inject vitality if he can perform well.second place is first loser, he put all eggless in the iowa basket. if he performs, there is life left, if he doesn't, he's done. january 15th will be the cutoff for ron desantis. iowa january 15th is ron desantis, then post-mortem, but if he is alive and gets near trump, he can keep going. >> kennedy: which candidate has done the best silver medal campaigning behind trump? >> paul: i think you got to say haley because of new hampshire numbers. new hampshire purple state, trump did not carry it last time, they are very independent. haley has that ace in the hole, the third will be in her state south carolina. >> thanks to clyburn. >> paul: listen, it is trump's to lose. we are seeing in media that is adverse aerial to trump, what is working against him is drama. they want to go to a candidate they feel comfortable with. that is misconception, a lot of republican primary voters are reacting to drama and saying this is selective and colorado n nonsense should not stand, it is splitting t

. >> kara, should haley get tougher on trump? should she -- it doesn't have to be those words, but should she in effect say he's unfit to be president? >> no. she can't win if she does that. she has to at least put a nod to him as the beloved party leader in some fashion. i think she's doing it right calling him old. she essentially calls him old all the time. saying -- she's doing the old trump-new trump thing very well. old trump, we liked him. this new guy, he's chaos, old, crazy. that's the best way to do it. chris christie, who does it well, is a miss take. i don't think she smoked. when he said that off hot mic, whatever, he probably wanted it heard, i don't think she smoked at all actually. >> i mean, does she -- are the expectations for her now that she has to beat trump in new hampshire? >> absolutely. and i think she might. in fact, i think she will. >> if she were to finish seven points behind like the poll, is that good enough to -- >> no. i think she has to beat him. if she beats him in new hampshire -- i interviewed

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 biden and to election interference is working with a lot of his supporters. they don't see the difference in all of this. now, he's going to be at a political rally in nevada tomorrow, so we'll wait to see what he says there, but this is really his initial reactio

you're out of luck. >> kara, you agree with that?i do, although this is a bench trial, which means there's no jury there. and so there's a lot more flexibility and a lot less risk that a jury pool could be tainted by inappropriate information that could come out in a summation. i think there is a possibility that if trump did agree to the ground rules as elie said, those would apply to anybody, including lawyers or anybody who would give a closing argument or a summation because there are rules, civil proceed rules who say you can't bring in new evident, you can't testify, you can't criticize his law secretary because he has a gag order. that would apply to his lawyers as well. and i wonder whether trump has lost faith in his lawyers, and that is why he wants to give a speech, because actually, most of the time, lawyers represent a party, and you do that so that they can marshal the evidence and make the strongest arguments for you. so as somebody who has represented doesn't typically want to give the closing argument. in fact, i hav

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bring us up to speed, kara. >> so john, both e.l 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 several statutes that there could be several tri

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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, 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

. >> with me today is podcaster kara swisher, president of of the manhattan institute, and national review new york sometimes journalist lust lust garcia. and jonah goldberg. welcome back to all of you. you're all so busy. you were in new hampshire this week. is this race essentially over? >> what is it says, not dead, just mostly dead. if nikki haley pulls out what does not look like rightly right now an actual win, not a really competitive second, not a better showing in iowa, she actually wins in new hampshire, there's still a scenario you can see where it's not over. if she loses in new hampshire, it's very difficult to see where anybody else can win going forward. there's some desantis people talking about the virgin islands, which is not a conveyer of many decision gdelegates, so this is the last shot. if she truly wins in new hampshire, that changes the dynamic, but that's a big lift right now. >> is there anything that either haley or desantis can do to stop or even slow donald trump's march to the republican presidential normination? >> trip him, i guess. no. the waiting out if so

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

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

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

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

so what was it like in court, kara? >> today begins with jury selection.ou 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 court on monday to testify, if in fact he does testify. >> but him testifying, what he could actu

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, her testimony at the directive had finishes before lunch. once we returned after the lunch break, then it will be trump's lawyers turn to cross ex

. >> 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

kara, keep us posted. with me, paula reid and jeremy solan, former manhattan prosecutor. donald trump wants to testify. if that happens, it won't happen today. there are no cameras in the courtroom. what's he doing there? >> he's trying to amplify this idea that he's a victim of political persiecutions, right? only because they want to interfere with the election. that's why we saw him show up to oral arguments in federal court last week in washington and to his civil case here in new york, but what's different about today is it's unclear he's going to get a rueturn on his investment of time wbecause there are no cameras and no role for his during jury selection or if they get to opening statements. this is very different than what we saw late last week where we heard from him four times in one day. he talked to cameras on the way into court. he spoke in court, spoke on his way out and in a press conference. if he wants to talk to his supporters or amplify his message, it's most likely he'll have to hold a private press event. federal court, totally different animal. >> w

cnn's kara scan zell covering this for us.a, why are the names coming out now, and what are the implications? >> wolf, this is part of a long-running lawsuit brought by an epstein accuser virginia giuffre. these organizations have asked for the documents to be unsealed and the judge has ordered the unseal and we're starting to see them hit the docket. right now there's 40 documents that are on the docket totaling more than 900 pages so our team is killing through them now. this is all part of this lawsuit and part of the reason why the judge said that she would unseal the names in these documents is because a lot of these names have already become public, either through the trial of ghislaine maxwell, epstein's lontime girlfriend who was convicted of helping him sex traffic meaner as well as a numbers and names given to news organizations and other information that has come out over 209 years that epstein has been atloejd have been involved in this sex trafficking operation, so we're starting to see some of these names come ou

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i just asked keith and kara about it and they said, i have played it.i'm the only one who doesn't know how sneacial moment was but i will fake it. >> frogger and tetris ms. pacman, nintendo. donkey kong, you didn't play any of those when you were little? >> brian: asteroids? >> ainsley: that's one of them. >> brian: i had stuff to do. i had friends. thank you very much, ainsley. a missing foreign chinese student found unharmed after being manipulated and controlled in what authorities say was a cyber kidnapping scheme to extort thousands of dollars from his family. listen. >> cyber kidnappers will target young foreign exchange students and they will lead them to believe that their family is in danger in china. they will tell them if they don't do exactly what they say, then their family will be harmed we were able to communicated with the family to get them to trust us so they would cease contact with the kidnappers and stop sending money. >> brian: that family in china. so here with reaction. and to unwind this for all of us is tech policy director and

. >> 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

cnn's kara scannell is just outside the courthouse where all of today's drama just went down. how did this all unhold? >> reporter: kwuflwolf, trump's attorneys gave their arguments for much of the morning. the big question was donald trump going to speak. the judge had setout terms that said he could only speak if he stuck to the facts and the law and trump did not agree to do that in advance of the hearing. at the end of the day, the end of the closing arguments trump's attorney asked the judge if he could speak. the judge allowed trump to stand up and address him. and trump told the judge he was an innocent person being persecuted by someone running for office. he continues to talk about a witch hunt, talk about how this was politically motivated by the new york attorney general letitia james, and that is when the judge stopped him and said one minute to trump to give him a one-ment warning. trump said you have your own agenda, i understand that. the judge saying mr. kice, please control your diet. and the judge even turning if he'd wrapped up his closing quicker trump coul

>> pauline kara, thank you so much. let's bring in former federal prosecutor elliott williams, republican strategist alice stewart, and joe biden biographer evan osnos with us. pretty interesting to hear what trump said in court this monologue, although he was cut off. i just wonder what you thought about the closing argument, if it was convincing? >> not anymore convincing that what's already come out. now look, the argument that the former president is making is that number one this is politically motivated. you can set that aside because not a legal argument, it's a political one, it's a social one, whatever it is. this other point that valuing real estate is inherently subjective, who among us ladies and gentlemen has not overvalue to property by a factor of three? which is essentially the argument he's making, and that they're just trying to plate that. they know, i think, at this point that they're going to lose money on this, it's just a question of the what the judge decides, how much that's going to be. >> i 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 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

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

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'

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

beth karas joins us now to discuss. she's a former assistant district attorney. you covered this for court tv, we probably talked about it a million time, but how surprising does this come to you now that the l.a. innocence project believes that there's more to it and really wants to look into it further? >> you know, i suppose i'm not all that surprised. the good work that the innocence projects all over the country do, however, i do think this is an uphill battle for them. let them test whatever the court will allow. i'm sure the prosecution will turn over discovery they claim they don't have from the original trial, but i really don't think it's going to amount to anything. many things that they're talking about were dealt with by the modesto police. whether or not she pawned a watch that showed up and maybe somebody connected to this watch is somehow involved. had been examined and investigated by the modesto police, but if they want to do it all over again, okay. >> but some of those things being argued by the innocent project that perhaps weren't taken seri

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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, 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

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

. >> kara, this is a dense thing.never a book is published to turn to the back and see if your name is mentioned and it looks like this list will be one of those things as well and the allegations, although you mentioned, many of whom you just named have not been charged or accused of any wrongdoing. no one wants to be in this orbit. kara scannell, thank you so much. so who exactly is on that list? you 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 se

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 skinnel is outside the courthouse in details with details for us. contentious was it inside the court today? >> well, wolf, that's right. it started being tense immediately from the beginning. e. jean carroll has been on the stand all day, and she was describing the impact of trump's statements saying he didn't rain her, denied knowing her and made up the claims to help sales of her books, so as she was beginning to testify saying that his lies, quote, shattered her reputation, that's when we first saw trump starting to retook the this. he shook his head side by side as if to say no and throughout the testimony he was leaning over talking to his lead attorney. when the attorney was out of the room carroll's attorney raised to the judge saying she could hear him saying words such as con jobs, saying this was false and a lie and she raises issue to the judge. the judge had asked trump to be careful about what he was saying, but it continued and then again later on, this came up again and the judge had this very tense exchange with the former president

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

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

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