there s no problem with the machines the fact that they didn t use that truthful information they re getting from the trump team, that really goes to the heart of what the problem is for fox here. which leads me, jeremy, to your reporting about the judge saying fox can t argue newsworthiness to defend airing those claims tell us a polilittle more about that. from the beginning of this case, fox has argued to the judge, they have argued in statements to the public that what they reported on, what they commented on about the 2020 election, and you know, these false allegations of voter fraud was protected as free speech, under the first amendment. the judge is basically taken that off the table and left them with a much narrower path to pursue a first amendment defense. and what fox is effectively left to tell the jury now is, look,
motions is this judge really leaning on the parties to emphasize to them that things that have already been resolved may not make their way in through a back door or resurrect themselves in front of juries. so this judge has already handled the question of falsity that any suggestion that this wasn t false is not going to go before the jury. this judge has already handled some of those key defenses that fox attempted having to do with neutral reporting or fair reporting privilege and because of has been rejected, the judge is very sensitive to the lines of questioning and evidence that might try to reference those and he s made clear here today that if he starts to see that sort of thing happening, he will interrupt and emphasize to the jury himself that fox can t argue those things if you step back and try to process in the context of our
think also puts into stark contrast the reality, the political reality, the jordan committee was years in jim jordan s imagination in the making it s been a colossal flaw, even by republican standards and reviews which are, frankly, very, very low all you have to do is enough to make your way into a fox news rundown. they haven t succeeded to do anything they set out to do themselves and targeting pomerantz and bragg is almost like the reactive the kind of thing when you re in the minority, you re not setting the agenda. you re not holding the benghazi this is the bottom of the barrel, even for trump and the guys in the house. the guys in the house, guys and girls in the house, have a different agenda than others in their party. they can t afford to distance themselves from trump. and what you re seeing then is
we ve reported my colleagues, danny hickman and goleman and myself reported last week, that smith s office appears to be looking at potential wire fraud which is email communications between the various, quote-unquote, conspirators over the electors plot and mail fraud which would portend to sending a slate of national electors to a national archives as well as a conspiracy charge, as well as obstruction of official process charge. and we should say, we ve reported that last week there was a court ruling, that ratified the use of extending the obstruction proceedings statute, two cases involving january 6. so the train seems to be moving quickly in that direction. whether or not we haven t, i think, reported that miller was a target but miller was clearly in a lost these meetings, communicating
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