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you just received the jane fonda humanitarian award, glamour uk women of the year, latino power list. and now us, bbc 100 women, it s a pleasure having you with us. thank you. and thank you for the, for the honour of being on the list with such incredible other women. 0k. let s start with an easy question. let s talk about your name, america. mm. what s the true story behind your name? yeah. well, i m named america after my mother, who is also named america. and it s true, growing up in the united states of america, everyone assumed that it was a, it was a patriotic homage by my immigrant parents. but the truth is, is that in latino america, the name america is much more common. and so my mother is actually named after a very obscure holiday that she was born on, called dia de las americas. and i was due on her birthday. and so i was also named america. so that, so my name is very central american and latino americana. that s a name that you didn t love when you were yo ....
a very important friday. we will reconvene the courthouse gang for this hour to go over what we have all been through and, alex, just a word about a banana republic. i despise the term and have despised it for so long now because it carries the assumption that countries that grow bananas, and we know where they are, somehow inherently have inferior governments to ours. which we have proven many times before is not true and nothing proves that better than the trump years and, oh, by the way, we grow bananas in hawaii. agriculturally and ethically, great points, lawrence, as always. thanks, alex. have a great show. thanks. well, it was a one word sentence that changed donald trump s life. he wasn t expecting to hear that word yesterday. at 4:15 p.m., judge merchan told defendant donald trump and his lawyers, the prosecutors in the courtroom, quote, i m going to excuse the jury about 4:30. we will give them a few more minutes and then we will excuse them. donal ....
, the better it is for the defense and so, donald trump and todd blanche were nearly giddy that the jury was going to go home for a second day. without reaching a verdict. donald trump that he was going home without a verdict today. he just had about 15 minutes to kill, and what we saw was a donald trump at that defense table we ve never seen before. he was joking, laughing, smiling with todd blanche. they were chatting and laughing almost incessantly. todd blanche laughing so hard at one point doubling over so that his four head almost touch the table in front of him. they thought they were going home today without a verdict. it was almost a jubilant, giddy donald trump but that changed very quickly when the judge merchan came back to inform the parties that the jury had reached verdict. the jury had a verdict after only nine hours of deliberation, which is not a long deliberation for a 34 count indictment and so donald trump watched his jury under the courtroom fo ....
The worst two minutes of donald trump s life, donald trump listened to his jury verdict delivered by the foreperson of the jury, who moved to this country from ireland and still has an irish accent that was last heard in the courtroom when he was answering questions as a prospective juror six weeks ago. there were no screams of anguish, as you sometimes here at jury verdicts. no one cried. the current mrs. trump was not there. eric trump was the only family member present, and if he has feelings for his father, they once again went unexpressed. the only thing defendant donald j. trump heard in the courtroom when the torturous suspense ....
Trump s life, donald trump listened to his jury verdict, delivered by the foreperson of the jury, who moved to this country from ireland and still has an irish accent that was last heard in the courtroom when he was answering questions as a prospective juror, six weeks ago. there were no screams of anguish as you sometimes hear at jury verdicts. no one cried. the current misses trump was not there. eric trump was the only family present and if he has feelings for his father, they once again went unexpressed. the only thing defendant trump heard in the courtroom when the torturous suspense finally ....