Former President Trump speaks in Davenport, Iowa, on March 13, 2023. Photo: Miriam Alarcon Avila/Bloomberg via Getty Images Former President Trump's hush money trial stems from events purported to have taken place over nearly two decades, well before his entry into politics vaulted him to the presidency. The big picture: The presumptive GOP presidential nominee faces 34 felony counts stemming from allegations he falsified business records to cover up payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, who first publicly alleged the two had an affair in 2018. • Trump...

Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s longtime attorney, files for bankruptcy. Meanwhile, special counsel Jack Smith is pressing the Supreme Court to rule quickly on Trump's case. Plus, new footage into CNN this hour of the Texas National Guard appearing to ignore a mother and her baby as they plead for help in the Rio Grande River. It shows the reality of what is happening on the U.S. southern border. Also, it has been 16 days since top Putin critic Alexei Navalny went missing. His daughter is my joins the program.

Last week, a jury in Washington, D.C., awarded $148 million to Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss, after a judge had established that Giuliani was liable for defamation earlier this year for baselessly accusing the two women of trying to subvert the 2020 presidential election. They noted that Donald Trump’s former personal attorney “appears to have no assets in the District of Columbia but substantial assets in — at least — both New York and Florida.” Howell agreed with the plaintiffs’ characterization of Giuliani as an “uncooperative litigant,” and...

Rudy Giuliani must immediately pay $148 million to two Georgia election workers he defamed, with a federal judge suggesting the former New York mayor may have been dishonest about his finances and expressing concern he might not comply with the judgment. The latest twist in the defamation case comes just days after Giuliani was ordered to pay $148 million to the two women, Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea "Shaye" Moss. Giuliani had falsely claimed in the wake of the 2020 presidential election that they engaged in a fake ballot...

A judge rules Rudy Giuliani must immediately pay $148 million to two election workers Though the defamation trial is over between former Trump campaign attorney Rudy Giuliani and two former election workers he was ordered to pay $148 million, fallout from the case is still following him. District Judge Beryl Howell ruled Wednesday that Giuliani must immediately pay the sum an eight-person jury awarded last week. A few days before that, the women sued Giuliani again, asking the the courts to permanently ban him from speaking about them. Giuliani accused...

Former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss can immediately seek enforcement of their $146 million financial judgment against Rudy Giuliani because there is good reason to assume he will not comply, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. “Giuliani’s failure to ‘satisfy even more modest monetary awards entered earlier in this case,’ provides good cause to believe that he will seek to dissipate or conceal his assets during the 30-day period,” U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell wrote in her order. The decision allows Freeman and Moss to go after Giuliani's...