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hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york, an extraordinary and historic moment unfolding today in a manhattan courthouse where a jury of six men and three women ruled that the disgraced, impeached, indicted ex-president and now also liable for sexually abusing writer e. jean carroll inside a luxury manhattan department store in the mid-1990s. trump was also found liable for defamatory statements he made toward carroll including calling her claims a hoax and a con job. in total this jury awarded the former journalist nearly $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages. the jury did not ...

we're not looking for a new cold war. and i make no apologies, and we will compete. and we'll responsibly manage that competition so that it doesn't veer into conflict. paul: let's bring in seth jones, senior vice president of the center for strategic and international studies and author of the book, "three dangerous men: russia, china, iran and the rise of irregular warfare." seth, welcome. good to the see you again. so what lessons do you draw froa balloon episode, and should americans be reassured by the way it was handled? >> paul, i brought two major lessons from the balloon inc...

Outside of the trumpian echo chamber, and when they were not pierced by constant disinformation, it feels likethrust a disinformation -- and we're going to get to this. it feels like the truth was very much on the line with this decision as well. >> absolutely. so two points on that. as lisa and mary have pointed out this has to be and was a unanimous verdict, meaning all nine jurors. and there's essential reporting now that at least one if not more of the jurors were quite sympathetic to the maga movement and got their information at least from people who were sort of aligned with sort of far...

This day to collect information through the confucius institutes as part of the thousand talents program, as part of general espionage that the chinese involved in in both cyber and the human dimension as well as this constant disinformation, misinformation campaign on u.s.-based social media platforms. the second issue is that this just, this isn't just one chinese agency. we see activity by the people's liberation army, the ministry of state security which is the chinese version of the cia, the ministry of domestic security which has put police stations in multiple countries across the world...

Do i think that i hope that there will be a unity that comes together again? that is, i think, going to be slightly more challenging because we're seeing a lot of the more, you know, divisive narratives of the big lie and we're seeing some polling out there that it really is concerning about the number of people who are buying into the constant propaganda, the constant disinformation that is being pushed by leaders across the republican party, not just trump. we're talking about elected officials outside of people like liz cheney, who have taken a stand, who see this for what it really is, and...