Good morning. It's Sunday, January 28th, and you're watching Velshi on MSNBC.

I'm Charles Coleman Jr. filling in for my friend Ali Velshi, and we've got a lot to talk about.

We start this morning with the trials of Donald Trump.

He had his day in court, and now he has just been ordered by a jury of his peers to pay $83.3

million to E.G. Carroll for repeatedly defaming her. How do he respond? Vegas, baby. The campaign rally a week and a half before the Nevada

caucuses was replete with the typical vitriol, hatred and lies we've come to expect from the

twice impeached, multiply indicted Republican frontrunner. However, instead of focusing on his

primary opponent and Nikki Haley, Trump largely directed his verbal

assault at President Joe Biden.

Now, to be fair, this actually makes more sense and it reconciles much better into Trump's

political economy.

The primary season may have just begun, but to be real, things are all but over.

President Joe Biden is going to be the Democratic nominee.

We know this.

And Donald Trump is almost assuredly going to win the Republican nomination.

After he decisively won Iowa and New Hampshire, despite barely showing up, this is a foregone

conclusion.

And with several weeks to go before the Nevada

and South Carolina primaries, along with Super Tuesday, Trump's attention is also focused on his

many legal troubles. These are all ramping up in the coming days. This week alone, we expect

to learn Trump's fate in the New York civil fraud case. Judge Enggaron, whom Trump has routinely ridiculed, mocked, and dismissed,

says he aims to issue punishment by January 31st, which is this coming Wednesday.

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