Good evening. I'm Jeff Penn. And I'm Omna Navaz on the NewsHour tonight. An appeals court

throws out President Trump's half-billion dollar fine in his civil fraud case. The director of

national intelligence slashes her agency's workforce and budget, including an office to track election interference.

And we sit down with Canada's foreign minister to discuss tariffs and the uncertain future of U.S. relations.

The question of how a security guarantee or guarantees will be implemented needs to be fleshed out.

Welcome to the News Hour. A New York Appeals Court today dismissed a $500 million civil fraud penalty against President Donald Trump and his companies for overvaluing their properties and financial statements.

In the ruling, the judges upheld the fraud judgment but said, quote, the half a billion dollars to the state of New York

is an excessive fine that violates the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution.

The case centers on allegations that Mr. Trump misled banks and insurers by inflating or deflating

the value of his assets when it suited him and exaggerated his net worth by billions of dollars. New York State Attorney

General, Letitia James, says she plans to appeal the ruling. For more on the impact of the

decision, I spoke earlier with former federal prosecutor Jessica Roth, currently a professor at

Cordozo School of Law. Jessica Roth, thanks for being with us. We appreciate it.

It's my pleasure.

So this was a lengthy ruling, more than 300 pages. What were the main points of contention among the judges and how did their differing opinions shape the outcome? Yeah, so this was a

complicated split decision. As you noted, it's over 300 pages and we have three opinions

and the reasoning of the judges divided

two, two, and one.

There was one point of commonality among all the justices, and that was that the trial court's

order could not stand as it was written.

But beyond there, we had disagreement among the justices.

The effect of the decision of the appellate division

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