republican congressman jim jordan for seeking to interfere with the ongoing criminal investigation. from that times report, quote, the 50-page suit filed in federal court in the southern district of new york accuses jordan of a, quote, brazen and unconstitutional attack on the prosecution of mr. trump and a, quote, transparent campaign to intimidate and attack the district attorney lawyers for bragg are seekinr ms congressional allies from enforcing a subpoena they sent to mark pomerpomerantz. mark pomerantz was a leader into the investigation of mr. trump he later wrote a book about the experience viewers of this program may remember he appeared here as well mr. pomerantz resigned last year after mr. bragg, after his first term in office decided not to seek an indictment of trump at the time mr. bragg s lawyers also intend to frercprevent any such lawsuii says is this where we start with our friends, the new york times glenn thrush is here also joining us the former chie
incredibly compelling and dramatic moment. i understand that the topic of death threats against fox news has come up and fox wanted to block dominion from mentioning some of the more dramatic personal testimony we ve heard from the head of dominion that the death threats anja and harassment of their employees has been rampant the judge said no. that those would be allowed. what s the significance of that, jeremy well, that s right. because what dominion has done as far as making a case and a major reason for the whopping $1.6 million ask in damages is that its employees received death threats. people recently have even shown up outside of the dominion headquarters in denver carrying guns
politics, the statement that falsity has been decided, it s off the table. paging mar-a-lago. we still have a giant chunk of the country for whom falsity has not been decided s yeah and i think that s one important part of this case. i m not a part of dominion s legal team, but i guess that s why they didn t intertanl any settlement offers, which i m sure fox news put forward. they want to say in a clear, public way, this is false. we have our date in court. we are going to take our day in court to prove not only were these false things that were said, but there is evidence it was either done at the very least recklessly, but more likely knowingly that actual malice standard they need to prove in order to win this case but that is also crucial for the amount of damages. they re suing for over a billion dollars. if it is found that everyone in fox, the witnesses you talked
it s a great way of looking at this, jeremy bash jordan has gone fishing for alvin bragg. and alvin bragg with this lawsuit has snapped his fishing pole in half let me read from you the bragg lawsuit, quote, the judiciary committee subpoena of mr. pomerantz marks the first time in our nation s hist that congress has used its compulsory process to interfere with an ongoing state criminal case. the district attorney is likely to to the and the subpoena would injure the district attorney by, among other things, interfere with an ongoing case, compromising grand jury secrecy and attorney/client privilege. you can imagine any scenario, looking at donald trump s
pretrial home stretch legally. jury selection starts in less than 48 hours. shortly before we came on the air, one of the last pretrial hearings wrapped up with some fiery moments in court jeremy peters of the new york times was inside the courtroom today. he writes this, quote, the judge ruled that fox news could not argue that it broadcast false information about dominion voting system on the bases the allegations were news worthy limiting a key line of defense for the network as it faces the beginning of a potentially costly defamation trial next week quote, the judge also ruled din yan could not reference the assault of the capitol saying he did not want jurors to be prejudiced di events that were not relevant to the central question in the case did fox air wild claims about dominion s reported involvement in a conspiracy to steal the