silence donald trump? that is the question that will soon be in the hands of a manhattan jury. it is their only decision, how much trump owes e. jean carroll for repeatedly defaming her. her lawyers dangling one number, $12 million. we re live from the courthouse. plus, donald trump s tight grip around the gop being tested now on capitol hill amid accusations he s trying to tank a bipartisan border deal in order to boost his campaign. and the u.n. s top court demands israel do everything in its power to prevent acts of genocide in gaza but stopped short of calling for a cease fire. we ll talk to a top adviser for israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu coming up. but we begin with donald trump back in that new york city courtroom where the bottom line of his bank account is at stake today. and like a lot of things involving the former president, it all went off course and quickly. even before the jury came in, the judge admonished trump s lawyer, alina habba for showi
todd: here we go. first polls opening in new hampshire in less than one hour from now. americans in the granite state will cast ballots in the nation s first primary election this election cycle. know ares lost last seven out of eight popular votes for president, that is nothing to be proud of. we should want to win majority of americans. only way to do that is if we elect a new generational conservative leader. when you step into that voting booth, you are going to be signalling that we want crooked joe biden, the worst president in the history of our country. get him out, his radical left lunatics, the establishment in the nation s capitol, we re going to do things and do things right and bring our country back with your vote. todd: this is election day tuesday morning, i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus. this is underway, one small new hampshire town voted at midnight, tradition that dates back 60 years, all six residents voted for nikki haley, the right h
sexually abused a woman and publicly defamed her even after he was ordered by a court of law to stop. now, another jury is deciding not just how much he should be held liable for the damage his words have done, but how much he should be punished for those words as well. in other words, how much money he should pay e. jean carroll in punitive damages, just like yesterday, the courtroom was wild again today, judge kaplan, again, admonished alina habba for arguing with his rulings, this time telling her, quote, you are on the verge of spending some time in lockdown. now sit down. then after the jury was brought in and e. jean carroll s lawyer was in the middle of her closing statements, donald trump abruptly stood up and walked out of the court according to our reporters in the room. that s when the judge said, quote, the record will reflect that mr. trump rose and walked out of the courtroom, said the judge. what did carroll s lawyers say that got under his skin and how will th
registered republicans. do you know that trump only received a little over 56,000 votes? and iowa, iowa is lily white. it s unrepresentative of the country at large. we re a diverse nation of over 335 million, a small number of iowa voters should not determine our destiny. and besides, the iowa field was still too crowded. when nikki haley finally got him one-on-one in new hampshire, she was able to keep it close and received about 43% of the vote. and worse for trump the independents in new hampshire supported haley in huge numbers showing that trump could never win a general election, so why should haley drop out? candidates only drop out when they run out of money and nikki has the money. she s raised 2.6 million since the new hampshire primary, and the super pac backing haley raised 50.1 million in the last signature months, that s about 5 million more than the pac backing trump. and don t forget. he s four times indicted, anything can happen. after all, just yesterday a
what donald trump rather see the border crisis fixed or campaign on it? take a guess. the lead starts now bipartisan senate border deal at risk of death with donald trump urging senate republicans to kill it so he can use the board as central campaign issue against joe biden . all the latest from capitol hill coming up to cnn on the ground in the streets of ecuador where gang violence plagues the country. this month gunman took over a tv station, see what our crew captured as police try to crackdown damaging auto leak, what israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said on a hot mic that could ruin negotiations to free hostages held by hamas. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper you we begin with the 2024 lead, the immigration deal reported on the show for months which republicans insist on being part of a package to aid in ukraine in israel that whole deal might go up in smoke why? partly because senator mitch mcconnell, one of the powerful replicants other than form