Defame and Fortune: Trump Ordered to Pay $83M in Damages

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

NBC News

News, Politics

4.5 • 664 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Jen Psaki chats with former New Orleans mayor, now Biden campaign co-chair, Mitch Landrieu, about the 2024 election and how the Biden campaign plans to frame their case against Donald Trump as his legal peril mounts and he’s now facing an $83M judgement for defaming a woman a jury found he sexually assaulted. Plus legal analysts Katie Phang and Andrew Weissmann also breakdown the $83 million judgement. Later, former CIA director, John Brennan reacts to the drone attack in Jordan that left three U.S. service members dead. Jen also breaks down Nikki Haley’s attacks on Trump’s mental fitness and how those attacks might help Biden campaign. Former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke joins Jen as talks of civil war and secession brew in Texas as the fight over border intensifies.

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0:00.0	Well, a lot has happened since the New Hampshire primary just five days ago, including an $83 million defamation judgment against the Republican frontrunner.
0:10.0	And as the primary plots forward, the general election campaign has basically begun.
0:14.0	Biden campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu is standing by to talk about how they are going to take on Trump,
0:19.0	and offer his reaction to
0:21.1	E. Jean Carroll's massive victory against him. Plus, from a department store in the 90s to her day in
0:27.1	court this week, Andrew Weissman and Katie Fang are going to join me for a deep dive into how
0:31.7	Carol's case against Trump got to this point. And what comes next? Also today, could Nikki Haley be doing Joe Biden a favor by calling Trump confused?
0:40.9	And what are the factors the Haley team is weighing as they decide how much to turn up the heat?
0:46.2	And later, there is some big Civil War energy coming out of Texas as Greg Abbott taunts the federal
0:52.0	government with his actions on the border.
0:54.5	I'll talk to Beto or work about just how crazy things are getting in his home state.
1:07.2	As we come on the air today, we're getting some breaking news out of the Middle East.
1:11.2	Three American service members have been killed and 25 were injured and an attack on a U.S.
1:16.9	outpost in northeast Jordan near the border with Syria.
1:20.3	This marks the first time that U.S. service members have been killed by enemy fire in this region
1:25.2	since the start of the Israel- Hamas war. We're going to
1:28.5	keep a close eye on that story and we will bring you more developments as we get them over the next
1:32.7	hour. But I do want to begin today with what has been a week of a head spinning developments in
1:38.5	the race for president. Because no matter how long Mickey Haley stays in this race, it will mark,
1:43.7	this week will mark the start of the general election.
1:46.6	Because this week, the frame of how Joe Biden and Donald Trump will make their case to the American people started to really take shape.
1:54.4	It is spectacle versus substance. Chaos, as Nikki Haley would put it, and has put it a number of times, versus normalcy.
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