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attorney, roberta kaplan. they were here last week in the immediate wake of that remarkable court ruling in which a jury held unanimously that former president donald trump had sexually abused e. jean carroll and when he disparanoid her, he was the one. and he was defaming miss carroll and he would have to pay for it. in that case, that jury ordered donald trump to pay e. jean carroll $5 million in damages. both for what he did and for what he said about it. if you watched the show las...

unanimously that former president donald trump had sexually abused e. jean carroll, and when he disparaged her, he was ordered to pay e. jean carroll $5 million in damages both for what he did and what he said about it. but if you watched the show last week and you saw that interview i did e. jean carroll and her attorney, you might remember that, you know, in addition to sort of reflecting on the fact they had won that case, one of the things they were newly contending with in the wak...

here last week. in the immediate wake of that remarkable court ruling. and which a jury held unanimously that former president, donald trump, had sexually abused e. jean carroll. and that when he denied that and disparaged her, and come her a liar. he was the one who was lying. and he was defaming miss carroll and he was going to have to pay for it. in that case that jury ordered donald trump to pay e. jean carroll $5 million in damages. both for what he did, and what he said about her...

I think we both agree we want to come to an agreement. we both agree on the areas that we know theres disagreement on. but i think it was productive in the professionalism, the honesty with one another. >> we agree on the areas that we know there is disagreement on. that was house speaker kevin mccarthy after a negotiation session at the white house with president biden over the debt ceiling. last week, a group of 11 democratic senators signed on to a letter calling on president biden to essenti...

Biden to essentially call these negotiations off. they asked the president to instead invoke a provision in the 14th amendment of the constitution that would basically declare this debt ceiling idea unconstitutional, that would effectively end not only this debt ceiling crisis but all future debt ceiling crises as well. if the president did that -- and theres no sign that he will, but if he did do that, it would also have to hold up in court. and who knows what the super conservative super major...

Majority leader eric cantor said, what is the official reaction of the white house, short-term extension of the debt ceiling for six weeks and the conditions that were attached to that? >> reporter: he was very -- jay carny was clearly open to the idea of this short-term debt ceiling bill to increase the debt ceiling for six weeks. where he was looked like intentionally squishy, to use a technical term on the issue of the government shutdown. we heard from republican leaders, talking to republic...