Giuliani hit with $148M verdict in 2020 defamation case

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 16 December 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: A jury awards $148M to the Atlanta election workers that Rudy Giuliani lied about after the 2020 election. Also, Mark Meadows seeks a more favorable jury in federal court. Plus, a binder of classified Russian intel reportedly went missing in the final hours of the Trump administration. And The New York Times reveals how the Supreme Court overturned Roe. Meryl Governski, Rodney Smolla, Barbara McQuade, Gwen Keyes, Rep. Eric Swalwell and Jessica Mackler join Katie Phang.

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0:00.0	Now it is time for the last word with my friend Katie Fang who is in for Lawrence.
0:05.0	Good evening Katie.
0:07.0	Good evening, Alex.
0:08.0	Hope you have a great weekend.
0:09.5	And to all of you that are joining us tonight are breaking news.
0:13.0	148 million dollars.
0:15.7	Today a Washington DC jury ordered Rudy Giuliani
0:19.7	to pay 148,169,000 to the two Atlanta election workers who he falsely
0:27.8	accused of election fraud after Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential
0:32.0	election.
0:33.4	The case began on Monday of this weekend,
0:36.0	despite very vocal promises to do so.
0:38.8	In the end, Giuliani did not take the stand
0:41.5	in his own defense.
0:43.1	They left the jury with little to consider but the harrowing and compelling testimony
0:48.9	from Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss,
0:51.5	who many of us met during the House January 6th Select Committee hearings.
0:56.5	I stayed away from my home for approximately two months.
1:01.3	It was horrible.
1:02.3	I felt homeless. I felt, you know, I can't believe, I can't believe this person has caused this much damage to me and my family to have to leave my home that I've lived there for 21 years.
1:17.0	Lady Ruby and her daughter described it to the jurors in vivid and emotional detail,
1:28.6	how they were terrorized by racial threats with one email reading, we are coming for you and your family
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