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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 trump's 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 showdown, texas defies a court ruling -- court ruling keeping razor while and the national guard at th...

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. we'll 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 days, reynolds wolf is with me with the latest.

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 isn't 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 about when they talk about issues on appeal and stays, is will there be irreparable harm. that phrase...

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 couldn't go into effect. he stated his reasons for it. and basically he said it didn't make sense and it wasn't legal. he issued a stay. well he struck it down. and then he issued a someday, because opponents of his ruling had said that he, they don't want people going and getting married if this thing could collapse on appeal. no...

Okay, today's "world play" is a little bit unusual. we're looking at 8. first up, proposition 8, we've been hearing about this since 2008. that's when the ballot proposition was passed by california voters. it's 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, he's expected to announce whether folks can start saying their vows or whether he's going to stay or put that on hold. the ruling until the appeals process is e...