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doesn t face any prison time. for has the jury found him guilty of raping miss carroll but found he defamed her and sexually abused her. for that, the jury has ordered him the pay $5 million in damages. we ll take you through these two stories and indeed how they link up in a political sense a little later this hour. let s first get the latest on this e. jean carroll case. bryan llenas in new york with the latest. good afternoon. in less than three hours, this jury came to their decision remarkably quick considering that they were considering ten different issues whether former president trump was liable. this jury found that former president trump was and is liable of battery, more specifically of sexually abusing and forcibly touching e. jean carroll in a new york city department store in 1996. they also found him liable for defamation founding that he maliciously smeared carroll s reputation. that did harm to her professionally and personally and asked to award her ....
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 find trump liable for raping e. jean carroll. it s the only claim on the ten count verdict that went in his favor. while the jury s unanimous verdict was decided in less than three hours it carries no criminal implications for donald trump, it is nonetheless a historic moment of accountability for the ex-president and current republican front-runner. donald trump with his long record of lyin ....
firefighters on scene to help make this scene and this incident go smoothly. every fireman that is in a blue shirt would do exactly like i did. sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. the ones like this are victories that help balance it out. natasha chen, cnn, los angeles. wonderful to see what they did natasha, thank you. cnn this morning continues right now. the new era of title 42 expired at midnight. if anyone arrives, they ll be presumed ineligible for asylum and subject to steep consequences. 400,000 migrants may attempt that journey to cross that u.s. border. we re boarding up as if there was a hurricane coming. the d.a. s office decided to move forward with a manslaughter charge. attorneys for the man being charged, he risked his own life and safety for the good of his fellow passengers. this is an extraordinarily difficult case for any prosecutor. this is about the law. this is about justice, too. there are talks to take over as the n ....
he is of course the democratic leader of the house of representatives, high striking democrat in the house. and it was a scheduled engagement for him to be here tonight. what we did not know was that it would be his first opportunity to offer the democratic response to over an hour of trump lies delivered by cnn, and over the course of the previous hour. so, this will be his first opportunity to react to things like a former president of the united states advocating a default on the debt, stuff that we ve never heard before. you know it s been a crazy hour when we didn t even have time to get to that part of global financial catastrophe, because there was so much other crazy we had to plow through first. i am appeared to see leader jeffries response to all of that madness. thank, you alex. have a great show. thank you. well, as i said, hakeem jeffries is our first guest tonight. and our first guest tonight was in the room yesterday in washington, nothing matters ....
a department store around 1996. he is likely to appeal, but this is certainly a victory for e. jean carroll. and jean casarez, president trump s lawyer trying to make a big deal out of the fact that the jury did the not find him liable for rape, but this is a big verdict for e. jean carroll. $5 million, donald trump found liable for defamation and battery. it is very interesting. it s definitely a victory for the plaintiffs. no question about it for e. jean carroll. she got justice today this was a trial where she testified for hours and she testified with great detail of how he raped her. she went through every single bit of how she did it and then went immediately to her friends. she told them exactly what happened. both of those friends who testified told her in 197, he raped you. and the jury did not believe more like ly than not because that s your standard legally, that he did rape her. they went to the second loo n line, which would be sexual abuse. it would ....