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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Donald Trump ordered to pay $83 million in defamation case

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

Washington, Policy, Politics, President, News, Versant Media, Ms Now, Congress, Versant, Senate, Government

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: Trump must pay $83 million for lies about E. Jean Carroll; Carroll calls the verdict a “great victory.” Also, a fake Biden robocall highlights the risk of misinformation. Plus, Ukraine aid stalls amid senate GOP disagreements. Lisa Rubin, Faith Gay, Susanne Craig, Alondra Nelson, Julia Angwin, and Simon Shuster join Ali Velshi.

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0:00.0

Now it's time for the last word with Ali Velshi in for Lawrence. Good evening

0:04.5

Ali. You know I just came back from from seeing my folks in Canada and you know they've

0:10.2

got housing issues because of all the immigrants coming into Canada and

0:14.4

the mayors of places like Toronto and Vancouver are putting in

0:18.2

restrictions on whether you know how you can buy a place or live in a place if you're not a citizen and

0:23.9

people are complaining about it not about the immigrants they're complaining

0:28.5

about making it hard for immigrants to get into the country because Canadians

0:31.6

figured out a long time ago that this is what you need to run a country.

0:35.2

We have low unemployment, we need people in this country, and it's a completely different view than

0:39.9

most Americans have of immigration as you were just talking about.

0:45.2

We just need to rethink how we think about this.

0:47.0

Yeah, they don't have Greg Abbott and 25 other Republican governors stoking fear and

0:51.4

calling for a civil war over the entrance of these migrants

0:54.0

into society.

0:55.0

So that might be one key for entry.

0:57.0

It changes, it colors the whole conversation.

0:59.2

Nice to see you, my friend.

1:00.2

Have a great weekend.

1:01.2

We'll see you next week.

1:02.2

All right. Well this afternoon after three

1:05.2

hours of deliberations a nine-person jury found Donald Trump defamed the

1:09.0

writer E. Jean Carroll and ordered him to pay her a stunning $83.3 million in compensatory and punitive

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