you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex wit reports. developing for you this hour some brand-new comments from former vice president, mik pence, as he speaks out agains donald trump over his role i the january 6th attack speaking at an annual in washington, pence said, president trump was wrong, i had no right to overturn the election and his reckless word endangered my family and everyone at the capitol that day. i know history will hold donal trump accountable. those strong comments come after a week that saw some republicans try to re-frame th attack is a largely peaceful protest. earlier today, some go lawmakers called out their own party over those efforts a lot of folks on both side keep bringing up january 6th and it is keeping us fro moving our country forward we should be talking abou the southern border, as they were discussing, we should b talking about china and th challenge of possesses talking about inflation and budg
regarding the dominion defamation lawsuit is far from clear. lawyers involved in this cas are reportedly saying th explosive private messages b fox figures might never be introduced as evidence when th case goes to trial next month. my question to you, why? why wouldn t those messages no in the public domain, by the way, why would they not be admissible do you think fox wil ultimately be held liable? well, alex, to answer you questions in reverse i think fox is ultimately goin to figured a way to settle thi case out of court. i do think this is a stage and discovery where people are trying to assess what is the level of exposure that all the parties have, how deep doe this rabbit hole go? in reverse, one of the thing that allows them to settle it little bit less than what it i they might face in terms o being in front of a jury getting a judgment on trial, it s the notion that everythin that comes into discovery does not come in during evidence, there are various cases for. that coul
number of different argument that are made as to why is something that is discovered during the discovery process ultimately is not subject to admission during trial what we re going to see is we re going to see a summary judgment motion. a motion attempting to dismiss the case from the defense that the conclusion of discovery, and then we re going to see decision made by the judge a to whether dominion can move forward after that summary judgment is filed. after that decision is made, i the judge does allow the cas to move four to trial, what suspect is at that point, fo will then come to th negotiations table looking t sell i don t know whether we ll see a verdict holding it accountable, but i do think fo is not going to get out of thi case without paying a pretty penny. yeah, with an nda attache to a, no doubt let me ask you quickly, charles, inviting donald trump to testify hush money payment during th presidential campaign in 2016, why not just subpoena him? i mean, you know
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whole lot of new revenue t relay remote part alaska tha hasn t seen many jobs or revenue in recent years. so, the interior secretary a the biden administration i going to make an announcemen on this in the coming week we don t know for sure where biden himself stands on this a this point, here s how the white house framed this on friday i think i confirmed, i don know, earlier this week, he ha discussions with the delegations in alaska. i did confirm that he has ha those conversations. look, as i said, also, on that day, this process is led by th apartment of interior. they re the ones making th decisions. and as we await tha decision, alex, i ve been in contact with environmental groups all morning who tell me they re not only upset tha biden s going against his word going against his entire climate agenda as a whole. alex okay, thank you so much for that report. in the meantime, everyone, mik