this sunday at 9:00 p.m., only on cnn. thank you so much for joining us tonight on the source, laura coates live starts right now. donald trump s, blink and you might miss it moment on the stand tonight on a bonus hour of laura coates live. three minutes, three whole minutes, or three short minutes, that s along the former president was on the stand today and he still managed to say something that got part of his testimony stricken from the record. and before the jury even got into the room, there was what was described as an agitated trump, he said i never met the woman, i don t know who she is, and he met an agitated judge who told him to pipe down and trump takes the stand, raises his right hand, swears to give truthful testimony, his attorney asked if he stood by his earlier deposition in the case, 100%, yes, trump replies, then she asked trump, did you deny the allegation because e. jean carroll made the accusation, that s exactly right, yes i did, i consider a false a
of this book is divisive or a threat is a little hard to stomach. and then the after effect of what happens to kids. yep. anyway, that s a great story. good on you to cover it. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. if you follow politics at all then you will remember that president trump s lawyer, rudy giuliani, held a news conference right after the 2020 election. it was held, if you remember, at four seasons total landscaping, a gardening business just off the interstate in philadelphia nestled inte between an adult bookstore and a crematorium. honestly i don t know we ever definitively settled on why the press conference was held there, but the whole reason rudy giuliani trotted himself out that morning in front of the gardening business is baselessly claim the election had been stolen. the real chef s kiss here is that fever dream of a press conference took place exactly as national news networks were the election for joe biden. and honestly, as unbeli
don t even think i could. it s shock, complete shock. [sirens] i need medical unit. the longer time goes on without him, it s really hard. that s how it ended. this is how it started. he took a gun and took it to my head. it wasn t until i heard the click that i realized it wasn t loaded. i let him take martial. he had the boys running drills and shoot live ammunition over their heads. what were they turning into, living with him? monsters. he was talking about police officers, if any cop got on my face, i had killam. let s call it what it was, an execution. i think is one of the most dangerous people we ve ever dealt with. the threat of death was very real from him. what i end up leaving, i would ve been in a bag in the ocean. it was deep country, dark, just after two a.m.. as the small town montana deputy cruised home. and of a quiet shift. it was may 2017, outside his car, the air was fresh with a smell of new planting. he was happy,
listen to the show wherever you get your podcasts. the lead starts with wolf plitser in the situation room. happening now breaking news, a huge legal and financial blow to donald trump. a jury says he should may more than $83 million in damages to writer e. jean carroll for defamatory statements he made about her. we re breaking down the verdict and the message it sends to the former president and the clear front-runner for the 2024 republican presidential nomination. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, and you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. let s get right to the major breaking news we re following right now. the bombshell verdict in the defamation trial against donald trump. the former president now on the hook for a stunning $83.3 million. let s go to cnn s cara scannell outside the courthouse in new york where all this unfolded. kara, walk us through this verdict. reporter: wolf,
we re going through a similar dance right now after the president s son pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges drawing a chorus of conservative criticism for a sweet settlement that includes only probation, but now we come to the irs whistleblowers who have been all but ignored by the press and, of course, we have to be cautious about unproven claims. but the new york times, to its credit, broke with the pack by saying it confirmed independently based on a source that a second unnamed irs official claims david weiss, the u.s. attorney in delaware, asked, the oj for special powers to the doj for special powers to pursue the case outside the state and was turned down. whistleblower gary shapley has said he was not the sole decision maker in the case and that he was constrained in the probe. you convinced looking back at this now that this was an effort to protect president biden and his family? there were definitely hindrances that aye never seen before in my 14