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>> the also rans claiming small victories, even though they each got walloped by the inevitable nominee donald trump, apparently put in place by god, because as one iowan put it, god picks unusual people. also tonight, michigan governor and biden campaign cochair gretchen whitmer joins me to discuss the democrats view of the republican race and whether president biden has a michigan problem. plus, the war on dr. kings memory. there is more to his legacy than just that one speech th...

frame. we have been watching israel mark this somber anniversary holocaust remembrance day. with the whole country. on the six million jewish victims of the holocaust, as well as millions of others, the nation coming to a complete standstill on the 80th anniversary of the warsaw ghetto uprising. and youre hearing that siren blaring it will blair for two minutes. and that is as a mark of respect for all those lives lost during the holocaust, a moment of reflection for a nation and indee...

neighbors against neighbors. a fight over who gets to use the river that fuels life. we visit two states that are facing off. hello. welcome to "the lead." we begin this hour with our world lead. a pair of escalating international crises. russia and the united states are now indicating theyre ready to hold talks about a prisoner swap. just a day after a russian court convicted american basketball star brittney griner of drug smuggling, and sentenced her to nine years in prison. poten...

in washington, d.c. are dealing with a very important question. trying to decide what price should be paid for telling lies that throwed a violent insurrection. eroing the fabric of america and through no fault of their own became subjects of a conspiracy theory. rudy giulianis defamation trial sued by ruby freeman and her daughter shaye moss. the judge ruled giuliani defamed freeman and moss, now deciding how much giuliani will pay. started with the expectation he made himself that gi...

Their case on appeal is? >> well, i think they do make a strong case here, but the judge in oklahoma basically found that they had flooded the market through advertising with opioids and that they led to possibly as many as 6,000 deaths in the state of oklahoma. that was the claim that was made by the attorney generals office. and a lot of people would say, well, why would the state be damaged by drug overdoses as opposed to the individual family members. well, the state has to fund medical care...

Get addicted to pseudo addiction that water there is 90 degrees. or and why should anybody be in whats going to happen in the pain? >> its that kind of testimony meantime its going to hit or fact finding that can be very puerto rico and the dominican damaging, though, to these republic. pharmaceutical companies which some of that because of the is why i imagine there might be topography of the dominican republic. very big mountains here not that a rush to settle some of these cases. far from san...

Harder for them to get back up on an otherwise automated platform. >> randy also knew he had to make a bold and very public statement to scare off the copycats. so he targeted one of the companies doing the most material damage to the trx brand and filed suit against them in court. >> how hard was that to win? >> that was a painful trail. >> he spent 3 years and $2.5 million on the case and despite a $7 million damage award, trx never saw a dime. >> the infringers go out of business. you better ...

Otherwise an automated platform. >> randy also knew he had to make a bold and very public statement to scare off the copycats. he targeted one of the companies doing the most material damage to the trx brand and filed suit against them in court. >> how hard was that to win? >> it was a painful trail. >> he spent three years and $2.5 million. and despite a $7 million damage award, trx never saw a dime. >> the infringers just go out of business, so you better have a strategy for how youre going to...

Who says he paid the $130,000 out of his own pocket as part of this lawsuit. so there defamation lawsuit is new for avenatti. >> this is another attempt on get michael cohen and perhaps donald trump under oath in a deposition. that is really what the larger goal is here for michael avenatti. to get them under oath and get them to tell the truth or perhaps lie about whether michael cohen used his own money to pay this damage award. which no lawyer that im aware of has ever done. and whether donal...

$5 million in damages. >> so the supreme court resumes, therefore, that ruling would be overturned and they would not get those damages. >> that -- if the phelps win, the damage award would be wiped out. >> there was an argument made about privacy, the privacy of this family is violated, the phelps, folks from this church had put some information about them online about their family online. that doesnt really -- >> that is a somewhat better argument, but, you know, when you are talking about a g...