What's your reaction to President Trump being found liable in the general space?

I think the New York legal system is off the rails when it comes to Donald Trump.

Do you have a response to President Trump being found liable for sexual abuse?

Yeah, um, no. Thank you, Mr. Good. That's the reaction.

That's the reaction, or lack thereof, from a few Republican lawmakers after a New York jury found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing the writer E. Jean Carroll.

We'll have legal analysis on the case

and what it could mean for the former president's

2024 campaign just ahead.

Plus, we'll go through yesterday's high-stakes

debt ceiling meeting at the White House

and what could be next in these contentious negotiations.

And also ahead, proposals in the Texas state legislature

are pushing the legal limits of border enforcement

as a pandemic-related immigration restriction expires tomorrow. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this Wednesday, May 10th.

I'm Jonathan Lemire, and thanks for starting your day with us.

It's a busy day, and we begin this morning with Donald Trump, now the first

former president to be found liable for sexual abuse. A New York City jury for the civil trial

handed down that verdict yesterday, ordering Trump to pay $5 million in damages to the writer

E. Jean Carroll. Carroll sued Trump for battery and defamation,

saying he raped her in a department store in the 1990s and then lied about it. Trump has

repeatedly denied this allegation. The jury ruled that there was no evidence to prove that

Carol was raped, but did agree that she was sexually

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