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MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 12-15-2023-223337

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

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4.412.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Through her unique approach to storytelling, Rachel Maddow provides in-depth reporting to illuminate the current state of political affairs and reveals the importance of transparency and accountability from our leaders. Maddow works with unmatched rigor and resolve to explain our complex world and deliver news in a way that's illuminating and dynamic, connecting the dots to make sense of complex issues. Maddow also conducts thoughtful interviews with individuals at the center of current news stories to provide important perspective.

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0:00.0

Today Rudy Giuliani finally got a taste of accountability.

0:07.0

Jurors in the defamation case against Giuliani awarded former Fulton County election workers Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss a staggering

0:15.8

148 million dollars in damages for the lies Mr. Giuliani spread about them.

0:21.4

Giuliani has already said he will appeal the ruling,

0:25.3

and we will get some expert help on what that means for this case

0:28.3

in just a second.

0:29.9

But throughout this trial, we have learned so much more about what exactly happened here.

0:36.4

Most of what we understood about Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss a story before this trial was

0:41.1

about the lies Giuliani and Trump pushed about these two women and the threats that followed.

0:46.0

And what we learned through the trial was how much those threats actually impacted their lives. Here was Ruby Freeman outside

0:55.4

the court after today's verdict. I want people to understand this. Money will never solve all of my problems. I can never move

1:08.0

back into the house that I called home. I will always have to be careful about where I go and who I choose to share my name with.

1:21.0

I miss my home, I miss my neighbors, and I miss my name.

1:30.0

Today we got the transcript of Shay Moss's testimony from this trial and it is

1:35.9

filled with previously untold and heartbreaking stories. For one thing, Miss

1:42.0

Moss claimed that Mr. Giuliani's lies ruined her career.

1:45.4

Moss had worked for Fulton County's election system for a decade. When she got the

1:50.5

job she had, when she got the job she had during the 2020 election she said she was so

1:56.4

excited she literally dropped to her knees and cried in front of everyone and when she was asked why she loved that job so much,

2:05.0

Moss replied that she knew it would make her grandmother proud. Growing up all

2:09.7

her life, hearing stories about how as a black woman a lot of the women before her

2:14.2

and her family did not have that right. And for Moss this wasn't just about her

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