“We still have work to do”: Rudy Guiliani ordered to pay $148M in damages

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 16 December 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Ex-Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has been ordered to pay more than $148 million to Georgia election workers Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman in damages. Giuliani plans to appeal, claiming he did not get a fair trial in his defamation case. President Biden faces multiple political crises heading into the holiday season, from securing wartime aid for Ukraine and Israel to an impeachment inquiry. A presidential historian puts the current political climate into perspective. Nearly four years after the pandemic, the U.S. is still learning about what went wrong. Authors of a book on the virus and the U.S. response join to discuss. Eugene Daniels, Greg Bluestein, Anthony Coley, Adrienne Elrod, Shermichael Singleton, Michael Beschloss, Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean join.

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0:00.0	Tonight Rudy Giuliani ordered to pay millions of dollars for his lies about two election workers.
0:07.0	And from Republicans formal impeachment inquiry to stalled aid to Israel and Ukraine, Michael Bachelause puts this wild week into perspective.
0:15.8	Then looking back at America's response to the pandemic, the historic fraud and what went wrong
0:22.0	and the lessons learned as the 11th hour gets
0:24.6	underway on this Friday night.
0:30.3	Greetings everyone, I'm Simone Sanders towns and end for Stephanie Rule. We begin
0:34.3	here in Washington DC with a massive verdict in the defamation case against
0:38.7	former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani. He has been ordered to pay Georgia election workers Shay Moss and Ruby
0:44.8	Freeman more than $148 million in damages.
0:49.3	That includes $16 million to each woman for defamation, $20 million each for emotional distress, plus another $75 million
0:57.1	in punitive damages. A judge ruled earlier this year that Giuliani defamed the two women,
1:03.1	basically accusing Moss and Freeman of election fraud
1:06.4	that led to vicious attacks and threats
1:08.4	against both women.
1:10.0	Here's what they had to say after today's verdict.
1:13.6	I spent 10 years as an election worker in Fulton County,
1:17.8	Georgia, the lies Rudy Giuliani told about me and my mommy after the 2020 presidential
1:25.9	election have changed our lives and the past few years has been devastating.
1:31.5	Our greatest wish is that no one, no election worker or voter or
1:37.2	school board member or anyone else ever experiences anything like what we went through.
1:43.6	You all matter and you are all important.
1:47.4	I want people to understand this.
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