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the lead with jake tapper starts now. at any moment we are expecting a big court decision that could cost donald trump tens of millions of dollars, the lead starts right now. a jury deliberating after a dramatic day in the e. jean carroll defamation case, donald trump stormed out of the courtroom and the judge threatened to lock up trumps attorney and now jurors will decide how much you must pay for defaming the woman he already found liable for sexually abusing and defaming. the sho...

Couples. those are, california where this is going on, oregon, nevada and the state of washington. new jersey allows what they call civil unions. a gallup poll recently taken asking should same-sex marriages be recognized by law. 44% said they should. 53% said they should not. well continue to cover this story, with dan, with jeff toobin as the ruling comes out. storms making for a pretty messy morning in the d.c. area. getting to the white house. for some people, power is going to be out for ...

And all the appeals resolve themselves and then have the marriages go forward or not. >> okay. is that weird for a judge to issue a ruling, and then issue a stay on his own ruling and then rule on that? does this not normally go to a different level or a different court in. >> no, this isnt all that unusual. i think judge walker is proceeding cautiously. he understands the stakes are very big in this case. and this is an unusual case in many respects. one of the issues that judges always talk ab...

All right. a few moments ago we talked to dan simon who is in the courthouse in san francisco waiting for a ruling on proposition eight. this is the voter-passed proposition that was going to ban gay marriage in california. well a judge issued a stay saying that that couldnt go into effect. he stated his reasons for it. and basically he said it didnt make sense and it wasnt legal. he issued a stay. well he struck it down. and then he issued a someday, because opponents of his ruling had said tha...

Okay, todays "world play" is a little bit unusual. were looking at 8. first up, proposition 8, weve been hearing about this since 2008. thats when the ballot proposition was passed by california voters. its fewer than 50 words long burke the 14 that you need to know are "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in california." simply put, a ban on gay marriage. a judge overturned prop 8 last week. any minute, hes expected to announce whether folks can start saying their vow...

Toobin, hes in anchorage, alaska. people get the impression of alaska when guys like you stand out as if there are no buildings in alaska. lets talk about prop eight for a second. im sure its not confusing to you, but this is the same judge who ruled that this is not valid. he put a stay on his ruling and now hes ruling on the someday he put on his ruling. >> correct. basically, what hes doing, is hes giving the supporters of prop eight a chance to argue that it would just create chaos to allow ...

>> the as weve within reports, judge vaughn walker is deciding whether to lift a stay on his landmark decision to overturn californias landmark proposition 8. it sought to outlaw same-sex marriages. it was a vote that was supposed -- that -- the supporters of proposition 8 want the ruling to remain on hold while they appeal it. same-sex marriage advocates dont want it to be on hold. all of this brings me to jeffrey toobin. hes in anchorage, alaska. jeff, lets talk about this. this judge ruled on...

What he said. quote, proposition 8 nails to advance any rational basis in singling out gays and lesbians for denial of a proposition 8. proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the california constitution the notion that opposite sex couples are superior to same-sex couples. my nonlegal mind tells me that this judge thought proposition 8 doesnt make sense, not constitutional, shouldnt be the law. and then right after striking it down he puts a stay on his own ruling. explain that to me. ...

Celebrating that being strik struck down. theyre on the edge of their seats. thats because the same judge that struck it down is about to decide whether to live the stay that he put on his own watershed ruling allowing marriage licenses to once again be issued to same-sex couples before all the appeals in this case can be heard. and trust me, those appeals are going to go on for years. cnn correspondent dan simon is in the u.s. district courthouse in san francisco awaiting john vaughn walkers de...

Of the rarest finds in the countrys history which in israel has to be pretty rare. the head shows the queen, the other side symbolizes to brotherly love. thats because the queen was married to her brother. opponents of gay marriage and supporters of gay marriage, all keeping a very, very close eye right now on california where we could see an historic ruling on proposition 8 any moment now. plus tens of thousands of people in the nations capital and heartland are losing power, losing land, pro...