lawsuit against the florida toyota dealership accused of calling a rival dealership in alabama the taliban toyota. sunny, how much will that -- those two words cost this florida car dealer >> it cost him $7.5 million in damages. so, no matter how many of these toyotas he sold, certainly, this was not worth it to this toyota dealer. >> could the salesman in florida have gotten story anymore wrong? the alabama dealer isn't even from iraq? if he was, the taliban doesn't even operate there. >> i know. that is thing. you know, he was -- he is iranian. he's a naturalized u.s. citizen. he fled iran in 1980 following the islamic revolution. so, you know, just the ignorance is sort of baffling in this and it cost him $7.5 million. he was awarded punitive damages -- the person was also awarded punitive damages. so quite -- quite a big win for this u.s. citizen. he says that these actions were un-american. and i think many people would agree with him. >> iran. iran. sunny hostin, thank you. now this -- >> i finished and i will probably move on to a credit union. >> battle of big business versus the people,

story so the owner of a large southwest alabama car dealership was derided by a competitor as taliban toyota and he's actually been awarded seven point five million dollars in damages after a jury trial. awarded it to him for his slander claim so ok this is actually taliban in a toy i don't know if it's what this guy was looking at when he was goes were actually on the walk. what happened was these guys who discovered them on their. you know i'm sure this guy was going to. go i was a rainy and he was pretty middle eastern. so this guy from a competing toyota company. was like was the guy over there. he's actually a member of. member there's a supervisor says the money i have a brother over there. it was really florida florida the first car dealership was then the second dealership was in pensacola florida wasn't was the headquarters in pensacola thought florida branch but the guys we're splitting hairs here i think the bigger picture we were just talking about capitalism and collusion and am the knobbly i mean was this this guy's way of wiping out the competition by slandering his his compet