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you have a great weekend. and to all of you joining us tonight, our breaking news. $148 million, today, a washington d. c. jury ordered rudy giuliani to pay 148 million, $169,000 to the two atlanta election workers who he falsely accused of election fraud, after donald trump lost the 2020 presidential election. the case began on monday of this week and, despite very vocal promises to do so, in the end, giuliani did not take the stand in his own defense. that left the jury with little to consider of the harrowing and compelling testimony from ruby freeman and shaye moss, who many met during the house select hearings. i stayed away from my home for approximately two months. it was horrible. i felt homkeless. i felt, i can t believe this person has caused just much damage to me and my family. to have to leave my home that i lived there for 21 years. lady ruby and her daughter describe to the jurors and vivid and emotional detail, how they were terrorized by racial thre ....
writing that they lacked evidence at the outset of collusion between the trump campaign and russia. this stands at odds with the 2019 justice department inspector generals conclusion, that there was adequate basis for opening the inquiry. we ll talk shortly with andrew mccabe, who is at the fbi at the time. he joins us. he s long invested the investigation. the former president has seized on the report and claiming indication, though it certainly does not as he once claimed it would, reveal, quote, the crime of the century. for more on what s actually in today s report, we re joined by cnn s evan perez. so what stands out to you in this? anderson, the lack of any new prosecutions. that stands out because we were expecting, certainly we were led to believe by th e former president, by the former administration, that this investigation was going to find crimes. they were going to find conspiracy by the deep state, to go after donald trump. john durham concludes here i ....
the world is at a crossroads, following russia s invasion of ukraine. his comments came as he welcomed leaders of the world s most advanced economies for the g7 summit ukraine will be top of the agenda. it comes hours after several cities including the capital, kyiv, were targeted in a wave of russian missile strikes. one person is known to have died in a strike on the black sea port of odesa, with two others injured. ukraine says its air defences shot down all but one of the 30 missiles. it was the ninth time this month that russian air raids have targeted the capital a clear escalation after weeks of lull and ahead us presidentjoe biden met japan s fumio kishida in hiroshima where they agreed to maintain sanctions against russia and support for ukraine. mr biden said he was proud that the united states and japan were standing together to face one of the most complex environments of recent history. i am nowjoined by michael bociurkiw who is a senior fellow, at the atlantic c ....
good to be with you. i m katy tur. george santos is once again a free man. at least for now. after being arrested this morning, the gop congressman from long island was arraigned in a suffolk county courtroom and released on a $500,000 bond. santos pleaded not guilty, and he says he ll hold a news conference to address the charges we re watching and waiting for that, and we ll go there once it begins. federal prosecutors argue he is guilty. they say santos is a liar and a cheat and that they ve got the goods to prove it. in the 13 count indictment unsealed today, the feds charged him with wire fraud and money laundering, stealing public funds and lying to the house of representatives. all told, george santos could be facing many years in prison, not to mention the loss of his congressional seat eventually. the gop speaker of the house with his four-vote margin over the democrats needs santos on the floor. so kevin mccarthy told reporters today, let him have his day in c ....
dishonesty. and key exception. to ascend to the halls of congress. in essence doj alleges officially now what many have been alleging for months now george santos is a complete fraud. prosecutors claim that santos cheated his own supporters from that indictment, quote, in and about and between september and october 2022, the defendant george anthony santos devised and executed a scheme to defraud supporters of his candidacy for the house and that the false pretenses that the money would be used to for his candidacy. and doj also accuses santos of applying for and receiving unemployment benefits and ten different people who had lost their jobs during the pandemic, all while keeping a job. prosecutors also say santos lied on the financial disclosure forms required of every house candidate. despite these damning allegations that relate directly to how santos ended up in congress in the first place, house gop leadership is as of this house refusing to call for his resignati ....