classified documents what we can learn about th national guardsmen charged i the case also, trial for truth, fox news and dominion city hav their day in court changing the narrative, ou conversation with broadway s first native america playwright about the thanksgiving play and how it fits into this political moment this is american voices. we begin with the disconnect between american voters and th policies backed by republica -led legislatures. there s no bigger issue that have the stark contras between most americans and republican politics then gun violence this weekend, the national rifle association is ramping u its annual meeting i indianapolis as always, it is a mus attend event for anyon thinking about running for president as a republican. friday, leaders embraced the nra, courting conservative voters to see the second amendment as the vehicle t as nbc reports, quote, advocates for threatening gu restrictions say tha republican presidentia candidates put thems
Denies it acted with actua malice in the dominion case. joining me now, attorney chris matty, he was the lead attorne for the sandy hook - against alex jones also with us, angela carson, president ceo of media matters chris, thank you so much for being with us. new york times calls the dominion case quote, a liabl law equivalent of this rubble. what is the standard of proo and a libel lawsuit, and why i this one so high stakes? it s a huge case, it s very difficult to prove defamatio or libel against a media organization, what dominion is going to have to prove is that fox news acted with actual malice that is, they spread information they need to b false, or they sprea information with reckles disregard as to whether it was false or for these cases are very difficult to prove, because as fox has claimed throughout this case it indicates that it was simpl covering at topic of publi interest behind the scenes email seemed
Further, or investigate. and often those sorts of requests don t go anywhere their only seems to be a response when the justice who being accused chooses to respond. and sometimes they ll respond. there were questions about justice alito of allegedly having been involved in th leak of an outcome of a case a decade or so ago, and he issue a statement and then whe congress over the chief justic the chief justice kind o paraphrase that statement back in a letter to congress. s that s how it s worked in th past, but if the accused i justice is recalcitrant or doe not want to respond, it s just not immediately clear what mechanism there is except, o course, for the nuclear option here, which is impeachment we ve got about 30 second left, but i do want to ask you about this other headline, because today the washington post s reporting that in 201 texas federal judge matthew ka merrick submitted a article to a texas law review that wa criticizing obama protection
Classified documents what we can learn about th national guardsmen charged i the case also, trial for truth, fox news and dominion city hav their day in court changing the narrative, ou conversation with broadway s first native america playwright about the thanksgiving play and how it fits into this political moment this is american voices. we begin with the disconnect between american voters and th policies backed by republica -led legislatures. there s no bigger issue that have the stark contras between most americans and republican politics then gun violence this weekend, the national rifle association is ramping u its annual meeting i indianapolis as always, it is a mus attend event for anyon thinking about running for president as a republican.
So many emails and communications where ruper murdoch is being informs, both by his own people as well as b his board member paul ryan saying as a pretty sherrie, have to let you know, what we re doing here is really dangerous. we need to do somethin different, and you disregard all of those by not shifting and the networks coverage whil simultaneously engineering the networks coverage to focus o and address other stories, other topics that were aligned with his ideological interests so, he s a pretty importan program here chris, one of the reason want to talk to yo specifically is because yo questioned alex jone high-profile defendant in hi defamation case. and your experience and opinion, what made the strategy be from dominion s lawyers when they get fox news is high-profile hosts, their executives, on th stand? i think it s probably fai to say that alex jones is little bit of a unique personality on the stand t cross examine. they re probably going to be dealing with somewhat m