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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

Rudy Giuliani ordered to pay over $148 million in defamation trial

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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4.53.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Joy leads this episode of The ReidOut with the long-anticipated verdict in Rudy Giuliani’s defamation trial against two Georgia poll workers. An eight-person jury in Washington, D.C. today decided that Giuliani will owe over $148 million in damages to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss for the distress and defamation his lies caused. A lawyer representing Freeman and Moss joins Joy to discuss the verdict and what comes next. Plus, the Israeli Defense Forces Friday announced that they mistakenly killed three Israeli hostages while bombing Gaza. The President of Save the Children joins Joy to discuss this plus the grave humanitarian crisis still unfolding in Gaza. Finally, the legendary Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter, frontman of The Roots, joins Joy to discuss his new memoir and the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop. All this and more in this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0

Tonight on the readout. Today's a good day. A jury stood witness to what Rudy Juliana did to me and my daughter and held him accountable and for that I'm thankful.

0:19.0

A lot less money for hair dye. A D.C. jury ordered Rudy Giuliani to pay through the Trump brown nose for defaming mother and

0:27.6

daughter election workers Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss.

0:31.2

I'll tell you what nine figures some he owes them in just a minute.

0:35.8

Also tonight highly classified documents go missing. Can you guess who took them? I'll bet you can.

0:40.8

But I'll give you the big reveal in a bit.

0:43.9

Plus, I have a very special guest tonight.

0:46.2

Tariq BlackThrotter of the Roots joins me

0:49.6

to talk about his incredible new memoir. But we begin tonight with the breaking news late today out of a Washington DC courtroom where a federal jury has returned its decision on the punishment Rudy Giuliani will face for

1:04.6

defaming two Georgia election workers following the 2020 presidential

1:08.7

election. The eight-person jury unanimously ordered Giuliani to pay more than 148 million dollars in

1:17.0

damages to Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shay Moss. The verdict

1:21.0

followed a four-day trial during which the mother and daughter provided dramatic

1:24.6

testimony on how their lives have been forever damaged by Giuliani's repeated false claims

1:30.4

that they committed election fraud, opening them up to a torrent of racist

1:34.4

and violent threats. Outside the court both said that they were thankful for the

1:39.1

jury's verdict but that it can never undo the damage that was done.

1:46.0

The dream that Giuliani lit with those lies and passed to so many others

1:50.0

to keep that flame blazing changed every aspect of our lives.

1:55.0

Our homes, our family, our work,

1:58.0

our sense of safety, our mental health,

2:01.0

and we're still working to rebuild.

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