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
Youve been waiting all week to get to the weekend, and now we have arrived. Good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning. Its saturday, july 15th. Im Victor Blackwell. And im rahel solomon in for amara walker. Victor, good to be with you, my friend, even if remotely. Even if theres distance between us, its good to have you on the show. Coming up, scorching hot temperatures and dangerous conditions, now 45 Million People are under heat alerts this weekend. Well tell you whos going to see the worst of it. A pizza box and Burner Phones. A cold case gets cracked over after decades. How authorities track down a string of killings in new york that went unsolved for years. I worry that its going to go on for a long time. I hope that its not. Right now we cannot make a liveable wave on what were living. And hollywood grinds to a halt as actors join writers on the picket line. How long it could go on and what it could mean for your favorite shows. And the Mega Millions jackpot soars again. We tell
captions by vitac www.vitac.com tonight on 360, trump s latest excuse. it wasn t a crime, just bravado. woodward and bernstein join me live. also vladimir putin moves to look in control as questions swirl about what really happened with this weekend s rebellion. author and columnist thomas freedman joins us. plus, e. jean carroll now the defendant, countersues, claiming she defamed him. good evening. when we left you last night, the former president had just floated a new explanation of the tape of him apparently sharing a classified plan for attacking iran, which he was not authorized to have, with people not authorized to see it. and that explanation now is, i was just bsing people. he didn t say bs. he said it was bravado, fancier word, same bs. before reading you his latest excuse, here are his actual words, july 2021, showing off the documents. this is secret information. look at this. this was done by the military, given to me. i think we can probably
Youve been waiting all week to get to the weekend, and now we have arrived. Good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning. Its saturday, july 15th. Im Victor Blackwell. And im rahel solomon in for amara walker. Victor, good to be with you, my friend, even if remotely. Even if theres distance between us, its good to have you on the show. Coming up, scorching hot temperatures and dangerous conditions, now 45 Million People are under heat alerts this weekend. Well tell you whos going to see the worst of it. A pizza box and Burner Phones. A cold case gets cracked over after decades. How authorities track down a string of killings in new york that went unsolved for years. I worry that its going to go on for a long time. I hope that its not. Right now we cannot make a liveable wave on what were living. And hollywood grinds to a halt as actors join writers on the picket line. How long it could go on and what it could mean for your favorite shows. And the Mega Millions jackpot soars again. We tell
he s lost all credibility. after the supreme court 6-3 decision striking down the use of racial preferences in college admissions biden was sent out by whoever winds him up to lie. affirmative action is so misunderstood. many people wrongly believe that affirmative action allows unqualified students, unqualified students to be admitted ahead of qualified students. this is not, this is not how college admissions work. laura: the white house people aren t that ignorant. they know the truth, that the entire point of racial preferences is to give minority candidates an edge. regardless of their test scores or their transcripts or their resume, it s classic discrimination and it s based on race. colleges set out standards for admission and every student, every student has to meet those standards. then and only then, after first meeting the qualifications required by the school, do colleges look at other factors in addition to their grades such as race. laura: okay. what s