and the gop s dog and pony sho comes to manhattan jim jordan s desperate attempt to attack the man holdin donald trump to account. good evening, i m mehdi hassan tomorrow morning in a court in wilmington, delaware, fox will finally be put on trial for it lies the media giant is facing landmark defamation case fro dominion voting systems, who allege that fox knowingl pushed false claims that they re voting machines rig th 2020 election. they didn t. and the days and weeks after that election, fox and its hos devoted hours of primetime t coverage to the voting machine company. to minion voting systems. dominion voting systems dominion voting systems dominion voting systems dominion voting systems dominion voting systems dominion. dominion voting systems dominion voting systems now, over two years later fox terrific tucker carlson, and sean hannity, and even found a rupert murdoch me if i themselves on the witnes stand. and the stakes here could no be higher.
New york times v. sullivan see, back in 1960, the times printed this full page ad take out by civil rights leaders wh are trying to raise money fo the civil rights movement. the ad describe what it quote, an unprecedented wave of terror, police violence agains peaceful demonstrators i montgomery, alabama. what it described was mostly accurate, but some of th charges, some of the exhibitions turn out not to be true for example, the ads had polic ringed a college campus wher protesters were, his claim was later found to be exaggerated. back in alabama, montgomery, police commissioner l sullivan saw that ad and sue the times, alleging libel. though he was not named in the ad, sullivan said he and his officers had been defamed. the case made its way from alabama all the way to the supreme, where the justice came down with a highl consequential decision in a unanimous ruling, the court ruled in favor of the ne york times, establishing tha in order to prove liable, public figure must show th
Work now it seems the only way we can stop the big lie is in court. let s discuss more with nicole hammer, political historian, who specializes in the media and, conservative media. she was also the director of the rogers centre for th american center vanderbilt university author of partisans, consecutive conservatives wh we may politicians in th 1990s. catherine ross, first amendmen expert, professor of law a george washington university she s author of the book, al right to lie also with us, angelo kara son, president of media mass that debunks conservative on air online thank you for joining me nikole, is this demeaning case an existential threat to fox two israeli haitians assures it is to his financial bottom line, and its influence over america politics so probably not to it bottom line. it would be about the same siz judgment as alec jones faced for his own defamation case in the sandy hook cases, and that
A subpoenas a good first step. we have to remember that clarence thomas has been 3 years choosing all of th environments in which sh speaks choosing what s questions he has, asked choosing what audiences before him he has been able to massage, and finance his public image s perfectly up until this point, because he has absolut control. trying to get him before a skeptical senate panel requiring him to answe questions honestly under oath, where he hasn t approved the questions beforehand, where he does have an obligation to the truth. that would be his firs experience doing that since hi confirmation, and i think it would be a very healthy firs start. articles of impeachment migh come after that, it might be a good way to try to force him before the committee if he refuses to testify, but this i not something that democrats should pass off to the judicia conference, this fall squarely within their jurisdiction an they need to act now they also do to fully function senate judiciar comm