records. a rough start for the raiders and an ugly way to end the evening. >> sandra: wow. that was a jam packed two hours. great to have you here today, mike. thanks to our viewers as well. i'm sandra smith. >> pleasure being with you. i'm mike emanuel. "the story" starts right now. here's martha. >> martha: hello, guys. good to see you today. i'm martha maccallum. here's the story. with 27 days to go and his party in danger of potentially losing their leverage in the capital, which is obviously a big deal for any president, the president is hitting the road but it's interesting where he's going and where he's not going. he's not going to georgia or nevada or ohio where there are very intense races going on to stand beside those candidates. he's in colorado. colorado where the senate race looks like this. 48 to 41.

joe o'dea is an interesting candidate. many people call it leaning likely dem for michael bennett. we'll see what happens there. the president as you know struggles with tough approval numbers. 44% for joe biden right now. and that's clearly why they're staying away, he and the vice president. she's around 37 and change. they're not going near these tight races across the country. "fox news sunday" anchor shannon bream and david asman both here to analyze what's going on in the race with 27 days to go. let's make a stop with peter doocy who is with the president in cape hail, colorado. what is the focus there today, peter? >> good afternoon, martha. president biden is not giving in to calls from critics to drill more here in the united states as gas prices go up and up. in fact, he's doing the opposite. today in colorado, he's going to

announce new bans on drilling and mining on about 225,000 acres here. he's also going to designate camp hail a monument to the tenth mountain division that trained here for world war ii. we're now hearing that president biden thinks he's done enough throughout the course of his first term to help democrats in these mid-terms. >> the first thing they said they're going to do, get rid of the inflation reduction act. what does that do? raise drug prices, medical costs, be sure to no longer have the ability to have tax credits for weatherizing your homes and money. i mean, i don't know what they're for. >> we've been told not to expect much emphasis from the president this trip on crime or immigration. instead, we're told the president wants to talk about the bipartisan infrastructure law, the inflation reduction act and clean energy jobs.

it sounds like these mid-terms will weigh heavily on the president's decision to run for re-election. >> look, i'm not going to make this about my decision. i'm going to make this about this off-year election. after that is done in november, then i'm going to be in the process of deciding. >> president biden is saying he does not think americans need to be preparing for a recession. if there's one, it would be a slight recession. martha? >> peter, thank you very much. let's bring in shannon bream, anchor of "fox news sunday" and fox business anchor, david asman. great to have you with us. thanks for joining me. let's roll the sound bite about the slight recession. let's watch. >> i don't think there will be a recession. if it is, it will be a slight recession. that is we'll move down slightly. >> you said a slight recession is possible. >> it is possible. look, it's possible. i don't anticipate it. >> martha: shannon, what do you

think? >> possible is an interesting word. it's like the issue of the gdp being down twice is a recession or not. what matters is that people when they go to fill up their gas tank and the prices are ticking up, when they go to buy groceries or pay housing, all of that is ticking up. if the gas prices continue to go up, they were the only highlight of something that was dropping in august. people when they vote want to hold the party in power responsible if they're not doing well. a lot of polling shows that the economy, the country is headed in the wrong direction and they blame president biden's policies. >> martha: david, the president may see a slight recession, but that's not what we're hearing from folks on wall street on the international banking system. they're saying that get ready. they're saying it's going to go through 2023 most likely. i don't know which economists he's listening to. >> shannon was talking about the relativity of maybe a slight

recession. nothing relative about what we got today, the producer price index. the inflation registered by producers of goods. that ends up on the shelves of the stores that you buy things up. we had an higher than expected producer price index particularly on stuff you produce every day. we had a 15% advance of fresh and dry vegetables. natural gas is way up. diesel fuel is up. everything is transported by diesel machinery. chicken eggs, home heating oil. all the things that you can't avoid using are going way up. that's in addition to the fact that you can't quibble about two negative quarters that we had, the first and second quarter. so we have stagflation. that is a reality that we have to live with. the only way to fix it at least in terms of too much money in the system is to do what the fed will be doing. when the fed sees the consumer price index tomorrow, which is

likely to mimic somewhat the producer index we saw today, they have to continue to raise rates. that will lower economic activity in the country. >> martha: yeah, looks like in the markets today, they baked in the fact that interest rates are going higher. so they're not getting hid -- they weren't the last time i looked. we can see where things are right now, this is tim honig, the head hoff the kansas city fed. watch this. >> it would be a disaster. inflation won't -- if you take that attitude towards inflation, you don't get it down, inflation will be 14% just like the late 70s or early 80s. so you've got to get ahold of this inflation. >> he's not a partisan either. he's a former head of the fed at kansas city. the point is, we don't need a recession in order to cure inflation. you do need to anchor the currency, which is out of control. that's what the fed is doing.

you can combine that with incentives for growth. the more things you have, the higher productivity you have, the lower inflation goes. we're not doing that. we're going in exactly the opposite direction with more regulations and plans for an increase in taxes. so we're not doing the things on the fiscal side that the fed is doing. if the fed raises rates without the fiscal relief, incentives to grow, that means that we're going to be in for hard times. >> martha: have to make it easier for companies to hire people, easier to get out of their way so even in this environment they're encouraged to expand and hire people. shannon, what do you think about the posture of the president and the vice president? the vice president today, you know, around now, i think, she was sort of approving an appointment that had been made and going to visit that person. just completely out of the mix. the obamas, i don't see them out on the campaign trail. not in a very prominent way. so what is going on? they leaving everybody out there

to to their own thing? >> it feels that way like we don't want to go there. the white house has said the president may be a drag on these races. they're carefully trying to send him where they think he can be a benefit and welcomed and people won't have scheduling conflicts when he's coming. the democratic candidates don't have to spend time with him, this is a difficult conversation. think about what happened with opec. that as we're getting more and more reporting behind the scenes that our administration was begging them not to do this or begging them to put it after the mid-term elections. so all of these things tend to make them look like they're not doing well in handling what people are most concerned about. the polling numbers show that, people directly point the finger at the white house. they don't think they can handle the economy, crime or any of the other things that voters tell us that will be what are the decision makers for them. >> the president said there's no answer coming from republicans about what to do. there's one simple answer about part of it, what shannon was addressing, energy independence.

we had it. when we had it, we weren't at the mercy of what the saudis were doing with oil. we had a certain energy independence and political independence. they couldn't hold us hostage that russia is doing an may the saudis will do. they're claiming the daily oil production, ro khanna a reasonable democrat, but he said on our air, we're producing 12.8 million barrels a day. we're producing a million barrels a day less than that. he said it's almost up to 12. 8 million barrels a day. what he did by adding an extra million, he's including draining the strategic reserves. that's not new oil production. they're throwing that in to the mix. the way they fiddle with the figures is pretty extraordinary. >> martha: they say i'm going to take a loan out from the bank that i have to repay but suddenly i'm making more money.

>> you know, it's -- when you look at this shannon and look at what's going on -- all i can think about when you talk about this story unfolding about them begging saudi arabia and opec, please do not cut oil production, you don't have to beg the folks at the keystone pipeline. you can say we're going to change our policy. you don't have to beg producers in the united states to say look, you know what? we have not been supportive of you. we're not 100% ready for green energy yet. tell us what we can do. >> martha: some of the refiners say we believed you when you said you were going to get rid of fossil fuels. reretooled things. now you want us to go back and you can't turn those things on a dime. it cost billions of dollars to do the restructuring. the news about the student loan forgiveness, it's not going away. it gets transferred somewhere else. that is coming online at the same time the president is out on the campaign trail talking

about the inflation reduction act which we know many of -- penn wharton and said it's a wash at best when you put the student loan debt on top of that. it completely wipes out any of the benefits that they want to be touting. the financial picture, the economic picture is not good for them but seems like they're going to talk about it. >> martha: it's their story and they're sticking with it. it's interesting. the student loan issue polled well. most americans were in favor of forgiving student loans. but when you look at the equation of how much you get when you're losing so much to inflation and that it's not going to happen -- >> and americans know it. they know it in their gut, particularly those that paid off their student debt or their kids. >> martha: shannon, great to have you here. thanks, david. so democrat john fetterman has a narrow edge in the toss-up race is what the fox news power rankings. it's clearly a toss-up. we don't know what will happen

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we should. >> martha: that is jim kenny, the mayor of philadelphia talking after three police officers were shot and wounded as they tried to arrest a murder suspect. police say he opened fire on the swat team as they moved in and tried to run out a back door. the police fired back killing him. this happened at 6:30 a.m. the injured officers are all thankfully expected to be okay. one of them though was hit in the chest. thankfully he was wearing his kevlar vest, which protected him. so we wish all of them well as they recover from these injuries. of course, pennsylvania is one of the crucial races that we are watching that will help determine the majority in the senate. it is tightening in these final weeks. democrat lieutenant governor john fetterman's lead over republican dr. mehmet oz dropping from 11 points that

fetterman was ahead in july to just four last months in our fox news polling. now fetterman as you well know is recovering from a stroke. this has been very controversial. he sat down for his first in-person interview. he's used closed captioning to read the reporter's questions on the screen during the interview. so he will also be doing that when he is in the debate on october 25 with dr. oz. this is the only debate that fetterman has agreed to. the reporter says that when she spoke with fetterman without the captioning before they sat down, she said it was not clear that he could understand all of the conversation. >> according to the campaign itself, our team was the first to be in the room with fetterman for an interview rather than a remote video conference. myself, our producer and my crew

found that small talk before that captioning was difficult because of the auditory processing differences. >> martha: john fetterman tweeting this. "recovering from a stroke in public isn't easy. but in january, i'm going to be much better and dr. oz will still be a fraud" says john fetterman. with that, we bring in mercedes schlapp, former trump campaign adviser and mark penn, pollster and chairman of the harris poll and fox news contributor. great to have you with us. mark, was that a fair assessment do you think of what happened in that interview? the reporter says that she and others in the room, crew, other people there had a similar observation about his difficulties. >> no, i think it's obvious that he has an auditory processing problem. whether he is getting better or not or how much better, i don't

know. look, i think the real question here is, you know, is oz going to try to make that the issue, which i think -- look, americans are sympathetic. there's been senators that have been old and have a lot of health problems or is the issue what fetterman stands for. it's a mistake to go too heavily against the guy's physical capabilities. he did have a stroke. he should be more clear about the process that he's going through. i would hate to see that be the issue as opposed to the real issues. >> martha: mercedes, here's a clip from the interview i did with dr. oz yesterday. watch this. >> i have tremendous compassion for what john fetterman is going through. this question of his health is not about me. it's about the voters. he's not allowed any legitimate questions to be answered by his team about his medical records. he's not shared them. he's delayed this debate till so

late the absentee ballots have been mailed, a third could be sent in by the time we have the debate. what is he hiding? >> martha: what would you recommend in this debate? you heard mark just say, look, focus on the issues. don't focus on this. do you agree, mercedes? >> look, i think dr. oz -- i've seen him in action. he will know how to strike the right balance on bringing up these very fair questions on fetterman's health. the mere fact that he will not release his medical records or even allow reporters to talk to his medical team, i think that is the wrong approach coming from the democrat candidate's campaign. but in essence, i think when you talk about the issues per se, which is fetterman being soft on crime, especially when you're seeing an increase of homicides in a city like philadelphia, an issue that we know american families are very concerned about. also talking about the issue of

inflation and economy, martha. those are strong issues for dr. oz to run on. again, i've seen him work the different counties in pennsylvania. he's very effective in delivering the message of what needs to be done to solve these critical problems and come in as a fixer in the senate, not a partisan fraud like fetterman. >> martha: thank you both, mark penn and mercedes schlapp, good to see you. more to come as we continue to drill down on these races. we'll take a look at georgia in the next round. saudi arabia's oil snub forces president biden to rethink our relationship with saudi arabia. this is a big deal. >> they're calling for a stopping of u.s. arm sales to saudi arabia. do you support that legislation? >> we're going to react to saudi arabia and doing consultation when we come back.

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>> martha: nearly three months since the famous fist bump moment between president biden and the leader of saudi arabia, the crown prince of saudi arabia. mohammed bin salman. president biden is now in a difficult spot. he's putting saudi arabia on notice, one of the things that they discussed is can we talk about increasing oil production. that didn't go over that well. that was the main -- one of the main points of that discussion. watch this. >> i'm not going to get into what i consider and what i have in mind. there will be consequences. >> martha: consequences to the decision that they would cut by

two million barrels a day oil production out of opec. the wall street journal is reporting that the saudis ignored pleas from the biden administration to not follow-through with that productionutin a moment, the to on the house foreign affairs committee, congressman michael mccaul. first to aishah hasnie with the back story. hi, aishah. >> hi, martha. as you mentioned on the "wall street journal" reporting, the state department here just reacted to some of that reporting indicating that u.s. officials actually called saudi officials trying to plead with them to delay this opec decision by a month. that would put it after the mid-terms. spokesman ned price, i just asked him to respond to this reporting. this is what he said. watch. >> certainly can't confirm that reporting. what i can confirm is that we convey a consistent message to

the saudis. we have made the point that we have a lot of interests with saudi arabia, energy is one of them. >> okay. the state department will not confirm that they made this call to saudi arabia. the president as you mentioned, martha, promising to take action against the kingdom for these oil cuts says he's going to consult with senators once they get to the hill. democrats want to block all future u.s. weapon sales to saudi arabia to pulling out u.s. troops and equipment from the kingdom and the uae. that would be a relationship-destroying move. some say look, the administration just needs to look in the mirror, recalibrate its own policies since gas prices as we know were already rising before the war in ukraine. they've been rising again right before the mid-terms. >> what is the latest temper tantrum by the democrats going to do?

it encourages the iranians to shoot more missiles at oil production facilities of the saudis. it's dangerous and very bad for american families budgets. >> bottom line, market, we don't know what the actions will be. as for a timeline, we were just told by the state department by ned price it could be anywhere between weeks to months before we see some action tag kingdom. martha? >> i would bet not until after november 8. let's bring in republican michael mccaul of texas. very good to have you with us. thanks for being here today. this is the "wall street journal" exclusive story. saudi arabia defied u.s. warnings ahead of the opec plus production cut. they dismissed the requests, which they reviewed -- which they viewed as a political gambet by the biden administration to avoid bad news ahead of the mid-terms.

we went from the president from calling this lead area pariah, some would say on bended knee and asking for more oil production and now this. what's going on? >> i'm here in houston meeting with energy companies. this is a seven inflicted wound. he threatened our energy companies not to produce. as a result, he has to go to the kingdom and threaten them to produce more energy. opec +, which includes russia, by the way, martha, this is a really bad energy policy. when you have a bad energy policy, it impacts your national security, it's a bad foreign policy. now we're at the mercy of the middle east once again. i remember jimmy carter begging the middle east for more energy production. we were energy independent. now this president has taken us down the wrong pathway. >> martha: there's no reason why we can't be energy independent. we have before. we scolded a lot of our energy

companies out of expanding and growing their businesses because they have been told by several administrations, not the last one, that they were going to be out of business soon. but on the other side of the equation, clearly saudi arabia is much more aligned with russia right now than they are with us. this is senator blumenthal speaking about this earlier. watch. >> the only benefit is to russians, it endangers the world economy, it exploits americans at the gas pump, it does nothing for anyone except russia. saudi arabia has broken trust with america. it needs to come to its senses. >> martha: have they broken trust with america and is it time to stop selling them weapons? congressman mccaul. >> saudi arabia, not a perfect ally but they're a key national security partner against iran. that's the greatest threat in

the region. when the president calls them a pariah or when the huthi rebels bomb the saudis to jeopardize the abraham accords, which are proxies of iran, it sets a bad tone. i think it makes the world more dangerous where we're pushing them to russia or say china. they're a key national security ally. remember, the iran deal that they're negotiating is only going to benefit russia in a huge way if we open up -- lift the sanctions and let the money come in. we know that russia is in iran producing energy. that is a key biden foreign policy. >> martha: very interesting shift of global relationships. clearly saudi arabia is more in line with russia and china than they are with the united states, which is a pretty interesting and perhaps --

>> didn't used to be that way. >> martha: thanks, congressman. good to see you. so coming up, the u.s. today condemning vladimir putin's war crimes and revenge attacks taken against targets that have mo military purpose in ukraine. ben hodges, former u.s. commander of american forces in europe predicted that ukraine could win this war by new year's eve. we'll talk to him about that next. all right. let's go to the courtroom. we now have the latest breaking news that there's a verdict on damages in the alex jones defamation trial. he's been found liable for calling the 2012 massacre at sandy hook elementary school in new town, connecticut a hoax. now the jury has decided how much he will have to pay. he's already had to pay 40

something million dollars in a separate trial in texas. in similar charges, this particular caught was brought by eight families in connecticut that say that he continued to profit off of saying that it was a hoax and causing a devastating situation for these eight families to be put through that kind of language and defamation as they have proven of their families and their children. take a moment and see if we can listen in here. >> please take your seats. the record will reflect the entire panel has returned. thank you for indulging me with that. all right. so i think we can -- we don't have to -- does counsel want them recalled one more time by their number? >> no. >> i don't think it's necessary. bear with me, all right?

all right. thank you. >> ladies and gentlemen of the jury, please listen to your verdict as it is read. the verdict, we the jury have

reached our verdict as to damages in this case. we award damages to each plaintiff against alex jones and the free speech systems llc as follows. number 1, compensatory damages, obstruction. fill in both numbers for each plaintiff and go to section 2. enter your damages a saysments for each plaintiff on the lines below. to plaintiff robby parker, defamation/slander damages, past and future, $60 million. b, emotional distress damages, past and future, $60 million. total reasonable damages to plaintiff robert parker and against alex jones in free speech systems, line a and line b, total of $120 million. initialled by jury number 1. to plaintiff david wheeler,

defamation/slander damages, pagourtzises and future, $25 million. b, emotional distress damages, $30 million. total, fair, just and reasonable damages to plaintiff david wheeler and free speech systems, add line, a and line b, $55 million. to plaintiff francine wheeler, definite nation/slander injuries, $24 million. b, emotional distress damages past and future, $30 million. total fair just and reasonable damages to plaintiff francine wheeler and alex jones and free speech systems, add line a and b, total $54 million. initialled by juror number 1. to plaintiff jacqueline barden, defamation/slander damages, past

and future, $10 million. b, emotional distress damages, past and future, 18,800,000. total damages and free speech systems, $28,800,000 initialled by jury number 1. to plaintiff mark barden, definite nation/sander damages, $25 million. b, emotional distress damages, past and future, $3$32,600,000. total damages, add line a and line b, $57,600,000. initialled by juror number 1. to plaintiff nicole cochran. a, defamation/slander, $32

million. b, emotional distress damages, $41,600,000. total reasonable damages, for the plaintiff and against alex jones and free speech systems, add line a and b, $73,600,000. initials by juror number 1. to plaintiff ian. defamation/slander damages, $38 million. b, emotional distress damages, past and future, $43,600,000. total fair just and reasonable damages for plaintiff ian hockly and against alex jones, add line a and b, $81,600,000. initialled by juror number 1. to plaintiff jennifer hensel.

$21 million. b, emotional distress damages, $31 million. total fair just and reasonable damages against alex jones and free speech systems, add line a and line b, $52 million initialled by juror number 1. to plaintiff donna soto. a, defamation/slander damages past and future, $18 million. b, emotional distress damages past and future, $30 million. total fair just and reasonable damages for plaintiff donna soto and against alex jones, add line a and b, $48 million. initialled by juror number 1. to plaintiff carlie soto parisi. defamation/slander damages, past and future, $30 million.

b, emotional distress damages, past and future, $36 million. total fair just and reasonable damages to plaintiff carlie soto parisi add line a and line b, $66 million. initialled by juror number 1. to plaintiff carlos matthew soto. a, defamation/slander damages, past and future. $18,600,000. b, emotional distress damages, past and future, $39 million. total fair just and reasonable damages to plaintiff carlos matthew soto add line a and b, $57,600,000. initialled by juror number 1. to plaintiff jillian soto marino. defamation/slander damages past and future, $30 million.

b, emotional distress damages past and future, $38 million,800,000. total fair just damages add line a and line b, $68,800,000 initialled by juror number 1. to plaintiff william alpdenberg. $48 million. 45 million. total fair and reasonable damages for plaintiff william aldenberg against alex jones, add line a and b, $90 million. initialled by juror number 1. to plaintiff erika lafferty. slander damages, $18 million. b, emotional distress damages past and future, 58 million.

total fair just and reasonable damages for paragraph erica lafferty, add line a line b, $76 million. initialled by juror number 1. to plaintiff william shirletz, defamation and slander damages, $9 million. b, emotional distress damages past and future, $27 million. total fair just and reasonable damages to plaintiff william shirletz add line a and be, $56 million. initialled by juror number one. number 2, award of attorney fees and costs. check yes or no. check yes to the plaintiffs for reasonable attorney fees and cost. that will be awarded at a later

date. judge will award $1 for the attorneys fees and costs. we the jury find the standard charge for the assessment of attorneys fees and costs have been met. yes is checked reasonable attorney fees to be awarded by the judge at a later date. initialled by juror number 1. the last page is the four-person juror number 1 signature with the date of 10-12-22 also initialled by juror number 1. >> the verdict may be accepted and recorded. >> ladies and gentlemen, the jury please listen to your verdict as it has been accepted and recorded. verdict, we the jury have reached our very dick as to damages in the states. we award damages to each plaintiff against alex jones and free speech systems llc. number 1, compensatory damages, instructions. fill in both numbers for each

plaintiff. please enter your damages, assessments for each plaintiff. to robert parker, defamation/slander damages, past and future, $60 million. b, emotional distress damages past and future, $60 million. total reasonable damages to plaintiff robert parker, add line and line b, $120 million. initialled by juror number 1. to plaintiff david wheeler, a, defamation/slander damages past and future, $25 million. b, emotional distress past and future, $30 million. total fair just and reasonable damages to plaintiff david wheeler and against alex jones and free speech systems, add line a and line ballistic missile. $55 million. initialled by juror number 1. to plaintiff francine wheeler.

a, defamation and slander damages, past and future, $24 million. b, emotional distress damages past and future, $30 million. total and fair just and reasonable damages to plaintiff francine wheeler and against alex jones and free speech systems, add line a and b, $54 million initialled by juror number 1. to plaintiff jacqueline barden, $10 million. b, emotional disstress damages, $18,800,000. total fair judgment and reasonable damages for jacqueline barden and against alex jones and free speech system, add line a and b, $28,800,000. to plaintiff mark march den. $25 million.

b, emotional distress damages past and future, $32,600,000. total fair judgment and reasonable damages for mark barden and against alex jones and free speech seasons, add line a and b, $57, 600,000. initialled by juror number 1. to plaintiffs nicole hockly, a, defamation/slander damages, $32 million. emotional distress damages past and future, $41,600,000. total fair just and reasonable damages to plaintiff nicole hockly and against alex jones and free speech systems, add line a and line b. $73,600,000. initialled by juror number 1. to plaintiff ian hockly. defamation/slander damages, past and future, $38 million. b, emotional distress past and future, $43,600,000.

total fair just and reasonable damages to plaintiff ian hockly, add line a and be. $81,600,000. initialled by juror number 1. to plaintiff jennifer hensley. a, defamation/slander damages past and future, $21 million. b, emotional distress damages past and future, $31 million. total fair just and reasonable damages against free speech systems, add line a and b, $52 million. initialled by juror number 1. to plaintiff -- [inaudible] defamation and slander damages past and future, $18 million. b, emotional distress damages past and future, $30 million. total fair just and reasonable damages to plaintiff donna soto and against alex jones and free

speech systems, add line a and b, $48 million. initialled by juror number 1. to plaintiff -- past and future damages, $30 million. b, emotional distress damages past and future, $36 million. total fair just and reasonable damages to plaintiff carlie soto and against alex jones and free speech systems, add line a and b, $66 million. initialled by juror number 1. to plaintiff carlos matthew soto. a, defamation/slander damages, past and future, $18,600,000. b, emotional distress damages, past and future, $39 million. total fair just and damages for carlos matthew soto and against alex jones and free speech systems, add line a and b, $57,

600,000 initialled by juror number 1. to plaintiff jillian marino. defamation/slander damages past and future, $30 million. b, emotional distress damages, past and future, $38,800,000. total fair just and reasonable damages to plaintiff jill january marino, add line a and b, $68,800,000. initialled by juror number 1. to plaintiff william aldenburg, a defamation slack slander past and future, $45 million. b, emotional distress damages, past and future, $45 million. total fair a just reasonable damages to plaintiff william aldenburg, add line a and b, $90 million. initialled by juror number 1.

to plaintiff erika lafferty. defamation/slander damages, past and future, $18 million. b, emotional distress, past and future, $58 million. total fair just and reasonable damages to erica lafferty. to plaintiff william sterling. defamation/slander damages, past and future, $9 million. b, emotional distress damages, past and future, $27 million. total fair just and reasonable damages to plaintiff william surelack and against alex jones, add line a and b, $36 million initialled by juror number 1. award of attorneys fees and costs. instructions. check yes or no. check yes in the amount for

plaintiffs reasonable attorney fees and costs and there then award the plaintiffs that amount at a later date. check no the judge will award $1 to the plaintiffs for their attorney fees and costs. we the jury find the standard charge for the assessment of attorneys fees and costs has been met. yes is checked. reasonable attorney fees and coarses to be awarded by the judge at a later date. initialled by juror number 1. the last page is juror number 1's signature and the date of 10-12-22 initialled by juror number 1. ladies and gentlemen of the jury, do you all agree this is your verdict? >> all say yes. >> anything further council before i discharge the jury? >> nothing from the defense, judge. >> all right. now as you will recall when we started the case, i read some preliminary instructions to you. i now have a brief and i promise a brief statement to read to you

regarding post verdict communications. you have never concluded your service as jurors and jurors often ask whether they can discuss their jury experience with others. under our law, that decision remains -- >> martha: okay. a stunning outcome. this may be the largest damages ever awarded. we're checking right now. nearly a billion dollars was the closest count that we have right now that alex jones is ordered to pay for defamation, slander, emotional distress past and future of eight families that lost their beloved 6 and 7-year-old children. i look back at their faces were read. there's no joy in any of these. these parents, some of them broke down crying, heaving with their shoulders. it wasn't bad enough that their young child was murdered in their classroom.

they were subjected, this jury found to accusations by alex jones that had all been staged and carried out by crisis actors that added deeply to their emotional distress. the damages are extraordinary. they were pegged in some way the prosecution wanted to the 550 million online impressions that the lie received. it has obviously gone well, well beyond that. these are children -- these parents will no doubt will give this all back to have their children be 16 and 17 years old today. they should be in high school right now. this has been a absolutely crushing case and it happened in 2012 on that december 14th day in sandy hook, connecticut. our thoughts and prayers are with these families as they try to process this and how could they ever process it. that is the end of that trial in the alex jones case for defamation and emotional

distress. so breaking right now, another trial that we are watching of a senior fbi analyst who is now under cross exam flagrants in federal court after telling john durham that the bureau ordered a million dollar payment to ex-british spy christopher steele in october of 2016, a few weeks before the 2016 presidential election. they were asking him could he possibly verify the salacious claims that had been made about candidate trump. they were willing to pay him a million dollars according to this testimony if he could corroborate what he was telling them. but he could not. so the dossier, nonetheless, according to all of this, was then used anyway to get a fisa warrant to go after trump campaign aide carter page. in the lead up the weeks before the presidential election in the

united states and in moments devin nunes that was all over this from the very beginning, but first justice correspondent david spunt covering this live in alexandria, virginia. hi, david. >> hi, martha. this was big news when this broke in the fbi agent brian autin that revealed up to $1 million offer to christopher steele. he relayed that information to john durham, the special counsel who has taken the lead in questioning at least for the first witness. that shows you how invested john durham is in this case. this is only his second trial in a 3 1/2 year investigation. he was appointed by bill barr in 2019 to look at the origins of the russia investigation. igor danchenko is in the hot seat charged with lying to the fbi. durham's team revealed in an e-mail from danchenko to

democratic operative charles dolan. danchenko said he's working on a project against trump. our goals coincide. danchenko was the primary source for the dossier and autin identified that the fbi offered a million dollars to steele if he could corroborate. there's another name, martha, sergei millian, a russian with ties to trump. danchenko tried multiple times to reach out to him for dirt on trump. he was never successful in connecting. the bottom line wrapping this up is we don't know how long this trial will last. this may be john durham's last trial. the statute of limitations are running out. john durham has a narrative report he still has for the public. martha? >> devin nunes is here with us today.

good to have you with us, sir. what is your reaction to that story? >> initially there's this get trump bounty program the size up to $1 million for someone who is already on the payroll. not to mention what david was talking about, those other names that he was mentioning. it's like word salad with all the name games with the russia hoax. these people were working for the anybody also. there's a long list of people that were working both for the fbi and for the clinton campaign and the dnc, all to do one thing. that was to get and frame donald trump and what is still -- still dealing with this, now six years later and still no one has paid a price for it. >> martha: no one has paid a price. so jim comey would have been aware of this million dollars that were offered? quickly? >> it's hard to believe that comey and the whole cabal were not aware of this. this is outrageous and hopefully durham can get a prosecution here and has additional charges.

i hate to see them skate free. >> martha: thanks, devin. we had breaking news today. thanks. great to have you with us. >> thank you. >> martha: that is "the story" for this wednesday, october 12, 2022. "the story" goes on and i thank you for being hered too. we look forward to seeing you tomorrow. have a good afternoon. "your world" starts now. >> neil: all right. we're live following then't of the united states. he's in colorado, but this is a busy road trip. he will take on three states right now. california today, colorado that he will tout his left field agenda and in oregon finally where he's trying to avoid losing the governor's mansion to a republican because an unaffiliated candidate is dividing that democratic vote. at issue right now i