and his ak lights and they had a journalistic responsibility to report what those people said about the presidential election. what could be more news worthy than that? the problem is that good journalism and good law diverge and technically, you re not supposed to repeat or broadcast what other people are saying if they re false. you re responsible for what they say in effect. that s what the law is but fox has been saying no, the first amendment allows us because it s news worthy the judge in what i thought was a harsh ruling against fox said he s not going to accept the so-called neutral reporting privilege, which would give you license to report things that others say if you do it in a neutral way and if you do it, if the people making the original statements were responsible people, then you should be allowed after all to repeat these news worthy things i m sure nbc reported what trump said about the election.
helped select and seat a jury and announced that opening arguments would begin right after lunch. and then, late today, the judge emerging and delivering these six words. the parties have resolved their case. dominion had sued fox charging this the network damaged its reputation by reporting on false claims that its machines were somehow stealing votes from donald trump and flipping them to joe biden. citing internal messages that key figures at fox did not believe those conspiracy theories. fox argued that cherry picked evidence in search of a big payday and that the first amendment protects the network s airing of false claims made by former president trump and his allies as extraordinarily news worthy. fox said in a statement we are pleased to have reached a settlement of our dispute with dominion voting systems. we acknowledge the court s rulings. finding certain claims about dominion to be false. this settlement reflects fox s continued commitment to the highest journalistic stand
know, i don t know the outcome of those, but our understanding again, this is from the secretary of state s office, was that there weren t any physical issues with machines on those inspections. put that into a legal context and how significant it might be, shan well, it s important to realize it s not the trump team that s being accused of something here, it s fox, and so when the trump folks say to the fox team, i want this off the record so i can be really candid with you, the information that they re getting is that there is no there there there does not appear to be any issue with the machines at all that goes to the heart of whether they re acting with malice whether they know that there is no problem with the machines and yet they re still broadcasting that it is i mean, the fact that they want to argue is news worthy, that has been kind of cut out from their list of options there, but what would have been newsworthy obviously is to say, hey, the trump people are telling u
we are prepared for here is this is basically a campaign speech in which he is repeating his same lies and allegations against his perceived enemies, so our deal with us is we will monitor the remarks if he says anything news worthy we will turn them around. laura: there s a reason rachel and the rest of msnbc didn t want you to see trump s remarks. not only are they embarrassed by how flimsy bragg s indictment was, they knew trump would use the remarks to tell the truth about his chief political rival as well. the world is already laughing at us for so many other reasons like our open boarders, our incompetent withdrawal from afghanistan, then our give up on energy independence, and crime statistics, if you look in democrat-run cities, numbers the likes of which we have never seen before. the open threats by various countries of the use of nuclear weapons. an economy that has been
china, john, so this is going to be a big moment and especially any details we ll learn about how they were tracking these objects, for how long they were tracking them, hear what the president has to say shortly. john: looking forward to that. sandra: all right. ok, jack keane is joining us now, retired four star general. general, thank you for jumping on. what would you like to hear from the president on this matter? well, certainly that we are hearing from him in and of itself is news worthy, we should have heard from him on february 4th after we shot the chinese spy balloon down. significance, norad was formed in 1958 during the eisenhower administration. every president since that time, only one the united states air space was violated that resulted in the shooting down of that violation and that s president biden. so thankfully we are finally