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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

Rudy Giuliani fails to testify in defamation trial

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Joy leads this episode of The ReidOut with Rudy Giuliani’s defamation suit against two Georgia election workers. The former New York City mayor was expected to testify Thursday but ultimately did not appear. The eight person jury in the Washington, DC courthouse began deliberations today to decide how much money Giuliani owes in damages. Joy and her guests discuss this plus a major case in the Supreme Court, in which the justices, three of whom are Trump-appointees, will consider whether the government can charge January 6th rioters with a statute that makes it a crime to obstruct an official proceeding. Doing so could potentially delay Special Counsel Jack Smith’s election interference case, as obstruction is one of the four counts brought against Trump. Also in this episode, Joy and her guests discuss Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orbán, and the Republican Party’s mutual embrace of authoritarianism. Finally, we discuss a shocking new interview in which Israel’s ambassador to the United Kingdom says that a two-state solution is not an option. All this and more in this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0

Tonight on the readout. I've lost my sense of security all because a group of

0:11.8

people starting with number 45 and his ally Rudy Giuliani decided to scapegoat me and my daughter Shay. Whatever happened to them, which is, it's unfortunate if other people overreacting,

0:27.0

but everything I said about them is true.

0:31.0

Not true, Rudy. A judge has already ruled that you defamed Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss, who tonight are awaiting a jury's decision on how many millions you will have to pay for your election lies.

0:42.0

Also tonight, the strange axis of Putin, Orban, and the

0:45.8

Republican Party and their mutual embrace of authoritarianism. Plus the US Supreme

0:51.3

Court is now directly involved in Trump's legal battles.

0:54.0

It's a court Trump largely built, and now Trump is banking on his hand-picked justices

0:59.6

to come through for him and keep him out of jail.

1:05.4

But we begin tonight in a Washington DC courthouse

1:08.5

where an eight-person jury has begun their deliberations

1:11.3

into how much one Rudolph William Louis Giuliani

1:14.7

should have to pay in damages to the two Georgia election workers he defamed

1:19.1

following the 2020 presidential election, accusing them of engaging in election fraud.

1:25.0

Giuliani was expected to testify today as the lone defense witness in his case,

1:30.0

but pulled out at the last minute, even after claiming earlier in the week that when he testified,

1:35.4

we would get the whole story that would prove he told the truth.

1:39.9

But the real truth is that this is just the latest example highlighting Giuliani's spiraling

1:44.3

downfall during his second act in life.

1:47.4

That second act involved being at the center of many of Donald Trump's most insidious

1:52.1

and damaging scandals that ultimately led to both of Trump's presidential

1:56.6

impeachments, as well as what we're seeing play out with the House Republican efforts

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