today. opening statements were supposed to start at 1:30 so far though, neither side has spoken and no reason has been given for the now hour and a half delay while we are waiting, we have just learned judge davis has authorized a special master to investigate fox s handling of discovery. we re going to explain in a moment this trial, when it does eventually start again, is not being televised. and nor can it be photographed one person was already kicked out of the courtroom for a snap, which the judge has said was deleted. don t worry though, we ve got our own reporters inside the courtroom updating us with the details. how exactly is this trial going to go? well, at least there s this. the judge ruled from the start that the election was not stolen and that fox was wrong to report that it was. in fact, he said it was crystal clear his words that the statements put out by the network and its hosts were false. now it is up to dominion to prove that there was actual malice beh
they re an independent local newspaper. they have zero online presence and this is a very rural area. but they are not like a community based paper where you think of festivals this is an investigative unit. so they put togethers of corruption within the sheriff fi questionable promotions. improper investigations. and it was angering the sheriff s office and the reporter, chris willingham, filed a defamation lawsuit because after those articles appeared, according to this lawsuit, alicia manning, one of the people in the recording, retaliated by telling a third party by teleconference that the reporter was exchange weed for child pornography so he has filed a slander suit against them and that is when they were in that commissioner s meeting talking about hiring potentially hit men to kill the publisher.
put in place. we would know if there was any evidence of collusion. the fact is there isn t. that s why we know the muller investigation is in fact a witch-hunt and the fact that they re not even talking about the campaign is going after the president previous place of business. it is a farce. it is unacceptable and something has to be done. that s why we need a second special council to find out what s going on. mercedes from the legal standpoint where are we in this? it is just the beginning. because the trump attorneys have been saying they think this will be over soon it. seems like it will be gone. it is just beginning. first you will have the civil suit. you will start with presumably, if mccabe comes forward ask sees his pension is at risk. he will do something affirmatively. when you read his statement. he is teeing up a slander suit, which can be set sovereign immunity if he tries to sue the government. he could say he was defamed and teed it up in his statement and
been damaged but he has said yes i met kislyak, i did have encounters with the russians, i did go there. a lot of this is verified. i think the slander suit is gone. shannon: he is denying some of the things alleged against him. he said they should have known it was a dirty dossier, here is part of his complaint on september 23rd, 2016, in perh s perhaps: that s a lot of adjectives the yahoo news department of defendant subsidiary yahoo chose to publish a highly misleading article. what are his best claim? his claim now, he does have to get rid of the defamation claim. because one of his points was he wasn t under investigation. now the we clearly know he was. there were warrants that got him wire tapped against him. shannon: what about his specific claims there were meetings and things they allege that he didn t attend and he had