value at $84.5 million. it s an interesting me. today, a jury ordered donald trump to pay writer e. jean carroll $83.3 million, approximately one trump park avenue, for defaming her. breaking that number down a little bit more, the jury awarded e. jean carroll $18.3 million to compensate her for the harm trump s lies caused her. they awarded her another $65 million in punitive damages to, well, punish donald trump, to deter him from defaming e. jean carroll ever again. we will have more on that in just a moment. a nine member jury took just two hours and 45 minutes to reach its verdict after hearing final arguments from trump, and carroll s lawyers. mr. trump himself spent the final day of the trial causing disruption. and when ms. carroll s lawyers were given closing arguments, he stood up and walked out of the room, at which point the judge interrupted ms. carroll s lawyers and order that the official record reflect donald trump s abrupt exit. at one point the judge had to
as it were from this assembly on ukraine. yeah, so as you point out, jim, the russian foreign minister and the secretary of state tony blinken have been in the same place at the same time in multiple instances in recent months. in one of those instances, a secretary of state went after russia and said very bluntly, ukraine is not your country, and we expect that there is going to be more tense confrontation today. and the reason that today is different is because we do expect that both the secretary of state and the russian foreign minnist her lavrov are going to deliver remarks as part of this meeting on ukraine. and when it comes to blinken himself, we re told that he is very similar to president biden yesterday going to directly confront what we have seen as these recent developments over the last few days with president putin talking about the nuclear possibilities of this war. also, with those referendum that are planned in the ukrainian occupied territories in russia
lowest level in almost four decades. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, bret. the president is saying he wants to increase american energy production without delaying the transition to green energy and clean energy. officials are calling the move a bridge but now we know it s a bridge that leaves the strategic reserve to its lowest level since 1984. strategic petroleum reserve is more than half full. peter: still too low for critics concerned with national security. it s strategic petroleum reserve. it s not the political petroleum reserve. it s really for a time of war that we need the energy. peter: that i it s not politically motivated at all. 400 million barrels of oil that s more than any energy drawdown. peter: still blaming on russia. putin s war caused price hikes. calling on companies to pass savings on to customers. ramp up at ease. my administration has no
james says the investigation uncovered some 200 examples of false valuations of trump s assets. she thinks this civil case will have serious criminal fallout. we show that they violated several state criminal laws, including falsifying business records, issuing false financial statements, insurance fraud, and engaging in a conspiracy to commit each of these state law violations. we believe the conduct alleged in this action also violates federal criminal law. cnn s kara scannell was at that press conference and joins us now. lay out the key pieces of this suit, some 280 pages long. reporter: yeah, ana. the new york attorney general, letitia james, just completed her press conference a short time ago. she described a sweeping scheme. she says that the trump organization, including former president donald trump, his adult children donald trump jr., ivanka trump and eric trump were all engaged in this. she said that they helped the former president enrich his personal net
on the saturday afternoon. i m yasmin vossoughian. boy, we have a lot to cover over the next couple of hours. spewing qanon conspiracies, the former president, once again, using these blatant lies at a political rally last night. plus, what his lawyers are doing to stop the federal grand jury that is investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 elections. plus, the fate of the former president and his organization. i m going to ask michael cohen, you see him right there, what he thinks is going to happen to his former boss after that fraud lawsuit was filed against him and his family by new york s attorney general. and then his reaction to laetitia james s shout out and the inside information he gave during a congressional hearing. tracking 20 storms, everybody. right now, more than half 1 million canadians without power, as the nation s east coast takes the brunt of what was hurricane fiona. the dangerous problems residents are facing their and separate from that, by the way,