January 26, 2024 - PBS NewsHour full episode
PBS News Hour - Full Show
PBS NewsHour
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett and I'm Amna Navaz. On the news hour tonight |
| 0:09.0 | a jury decides former President Donald Trump must pay writer E. Jean Carroll more than |
| 0:14.9 | 83 million dollars for defamation. The United Nations top court orders |
| 0:20.1 | Israel to do all it can to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza but stops short of |
| 0:25.8 | calling for a ceasefire and Alabama carries out the nation's first execution |
| 0:30.9 | with nitrogen gas re-igniting debate over the death penalty. |
| 0:35.0 | He was writhing and gasping for multiple minutes, |
| 0:39.0 | and the entire thing seemed to take around 22 minutes, |
| 0:43.1 | which was significantly longer than what a lot of people expected. Welcome to the news hour. The UN's top court today delivered major warnings to Israel about how it should |
| 1:04.4 | conduct the war in Gaza. We'll delve more into that in a moment, but first some |
| 1:08.7 | late-breaking news tonight. A New York jury has ordered former President Donald Trump to pay a total of $83.3 million to writer |
| 1:16.9 | E. Jean Carroll for defaming her after she accused him of sexual assault decades earlier. |
| 1:22.7 | Carol's lawyers had asked the anonymous nine-person jury for heavy damages against the |
| 1:27.1 | former president, pointing to Mr. Trump's continuing attacks, both from the White House |
| 1:31.9 | as president and after leaving office. |
| 1:34.3 | William Bringham is here to help us make sense of the jury's decision. |
| 1:37.6 | So William, let's break down what the specific damages are because the total amount |
| 1:41.9 | is more than eight times what Ms Carroll asked for in |
| 1:44.8 | her initial lawsuit. That's right it was a pretty stunning number that came out today |
| 1:48.6 | 83.3 million dollars total and let's break those down what they actually are. 7.3 million |
| 1:54.5 | was offered for emotional harm, 11 million dollars in reputational damage and |
| 2:01.6 | 65 million in punitive damages. |
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