attorneys for nick sandman who is the face of the covington controversy filed against the washington post to the tune of $250 million. a portion of that lawsuit says the post ignored basic journalistic standards because it wanted to advance a well-known and easily documented by his agenda against donald trump by impugning individuals perceived to be supporters of the president. the washington post says they are reviewing a lawsuit and plan to announce a vigorous defense, but he has many supporters on social media. this is great negligence and the media should have consequences. good for them, hope they win. this insanity needs to stop her, his life will never be the same. i hope he gets it all. not the last you will hear, this is only the beginning. rob: a 16-year-old kid, it was
catholic student nick sandmann, his lawyers filed their first lawsuit on his behalf against the washington post. it to tune of $250 million, in both compensatory and punitive damages. the complaint argued the newspaper falsely gave the impression that the 115-pound a 16-year-old engaged in acts of racism by swarming philips, blocking his exit from the students, and otherwise engaging in racist misconduct. that the post ignored basic journalistic standards because it wanted to advance its well-known and easily documented bias against president donald j. trouble by impugning individuals perceived to be supporters of the president. the dollar amount had relevant, $250 million was the exact price jeff bezos paid for the washington post. back when he bought it in 2013.
there s no political price to be paid for opposing him on almost anything. you say that and that goes to the language that he tries to use. in other parts of the speech he was trying to say, every one is watching tonight. not just people who are more informed about politics and i m going to show them a much nicer, more open version of trump than the way he s governed and the way children on the border have been caged and people not just in the democratic party but the way the late john mccain and others have been treated by him. he popped off in a room full of reporters saying vice president biden was quote dumb, never smart. chuck schumer was a nasty son of a b and impugning late senator mccain for not selling enough
or trump org but some alleging in your party there are crimes being committed in the white house. there are some statutes. arguably there are two, 1512b which would reach to felony level. then as a lesser obstruction charge that the be 1505 that would probably not rise to the level. it really depends on how we measure the facts. some of cohen s testimony might be helpful in that regard. so arguably yes but we re not certain yet. francesca, is there anything out of the white house other than the basic attacks on cohen and the impugning of him trying to point out i mentioned in my lead. look, dealing with one going to prison and who confessed to crimes. they have also categorically denied all the charges he made. i asked sarah sanders about the
they were payments to a porn star, they were perpetrating a fraud on the american electorate, just so in this case, what donald trump said was in a much more severe and consequential way, perpetrated an 18-month-long from the time he got into the presidential race to election day he perpetrated an 18-month-long fraud against the american electorately lying to them about something that would have had huge political consequences had he told the truth, so now this attempt to make that seem like it was not just normal, and not just okay, but beyond any possible impugning of the integrity of this, of course, every businessman would do it, and every businessman would talk to michael cohen about his testimony before congress before he went in. that is hard work and work for a very for someone with very low standards of ethics and nothing like any the way in which any normal lawyer or the kind of lawyer we would ever want to hire would have willingly participated in but that s rudy giu