but in the united states, we have the hallowed first amendment. that s right. and it actually operates. and you see what happens in russia to journalists who just seek the truth, and they re gone they re dead, they re injail. and that is a liberating reality notjust some time, all the time. shouting onjanuary the 6th, 2021, hundreds of people broke into the congress building on capitol hill in protest at biden s election victory. it happened soon after trump addressed his supporters at a rally near the white house. while urging them to march peacefully to the capitol, he also made unsubstantiated claims of massive voter fraud, and some say used incendiary language. and we fight.
take us threw how you see this nero issue of all the ways to correct the record in the moment, and then through the broader issue that lee also mentioned yesterday that fox didn t just ignore them, they rebroadcast specific broadcasts after being informed they were lies. yes. this goes very much to the core of the constitutional question in this case. the constitutional bar is incredibly high here, the first amendment protects freedom of speech and freedom of the press and so the rule here isn t just that dominion has to show that fox was sloppy or that it was inaccurate, or that partisan, the rule here is that fox has to show essentially dominion has to show that fox told a deliberate lie, it showed reckless disregard for the truth. how you show you knew this was false and you moved ahead with it anyway is an incredibly
i don t think walter would appreciate what is going on in this company right now, i m sorry. then, the january six committee looks at marjorie taylor greene s martial law remarks. new fallout from tapes. it s potentially illegal, what he is doing. well, he is putting people in jeopardy. plus, whatever when needs to know about the covid treatment the vice president is taking, and what we know about the state of russia s military as the pentagon gets bullish on victory for ukraine. ukraine clearly believes that it can win. and so does everyone here. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. there is almost no more contested phrase in america than free speech. in fact, freedom of speech has been, well, contested for millennia, since the ancient greek s first introduce the concepts 2500 years ago, at least to the western canon. and of course our first
in the can t, and 2500 years ago, at and of course our first amendment protects freedom of speech, freedom of the press and, in practice, it gets complicated. as legendary reporter a. j. liebling wrote in the new yorker, freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. pretty smart thing to say. it carried on for decades and because we are now seeing that exact principle play out before us. this active desire to own a press, to control freedom of the press, from some on the right, to control who gets to speak under the guise of free speech. that is what the celebration of billionaire elon musk buying twitter is all about. twitter! it s in elon musk s hands, can you believe it? count this one as a victory for free speech. he may have saved the town square. it could be a pivot point in our history. elon musk believes in free
a conservative think tank filing suit against him claiming his administration is denying their reporters access to press briefings. his staffers say they provide opportunity for reporters to attend events with the governor. so let s bring in bob bianci and jenna ellis reeves. so i want to start with exhibit a. the governor s chief of staff said members of the macgyver institute have attended several events where the governor was called on to ask the first question. the complaints that i ve heard is they re being excluded from the press e-mails and other information that is generally available to all journalists. the first amendment protects freedom of speech and freedom of