daytonville, alabama about the shooting will star any minute we are going to monitor it and bring you any developments this new round of mass shootings unfolding as the national association wrapped u its annual meeting this weeken in indianapolis. on friday, a long list o potential 2024 republica presidential hopefuls flock to that event no surprise, they gave speeche about how they support the rights of gun owners they were on the message tha you have heard over and over again also - gop donors ahead of the 2024 presidential election. nashville of course is the scene of last month s shooting a private school were thre students, and three staf members were killed. inaction from gop lawmakers on gun safety sparked protests in the tennessee general assembly tennessee republican responding by expelling tw democrats from state legislature. representatives justin pearson and justin jones bot reinstated last week after council on commission votes at the local level. the retalia
instantly that is a libel case i asked the law expert yesterday about dominion s potential argument about fox take a listen. they were losing ratings, they were losing their cor audience, and that is when the narrative shifted for fox news where they decided to choose their audience, and th province that that audienc briefings, rather than publishing the truth about the election the jury is going to b wondering, why would the spread lies about somethin that everybody knew? and the answer is money. melissa, i wonder if you do that assessment? well it certainly seems tha the pressure from the trum campaign, and fear that fo would lose market shares t other competitors like away on and use max troublesome of this at least from the evidence tha seeped up during the course of discovery, but there is a lo going on in this trial, th actual malice standard that th dominion has to establish is a very high one, although we hav gotten more clear evidence tha fox did act with willful disrega
like a lot of these room, an an msnbc and what you la professor melissa murray, so nice when i get to have yo here with me i love it. what do you think that the judge is likely to make of thi letter for fox i think it s a little bit too little, too late right one of the things that goe against parties and litigation is not when the part themselves is perceived as being untruthful, certainl that is not helpful, but whe lawyers are perceived as being untruthful with a judge, tha is a really really bad place t be and here, the lawyer representing fox again, an again, have to skirmishes with this judge about misrepresentations that they v made, about all sorts of thing from, who is an executive of which company, to discover misconduct we learned earlier this week that a former foxborough at th reporting that were not handed over to dominion in the course of trial, and would have bee incredible helpfully to them i lead up trial. so, i am looking forward to se what judge eric davis thinks
course of the 2020 elections so - you know defamation case almost open and shut for the plaintive. and then the question is reall going to shift to the issue of compensatory damages as you said, dominion is askin for 1.6 billion dollars in defense attorney jam it is fou count for the losses i suffered to his business, an to potential business becaus of what fox did during the course of this and again, that is a lot o money, and they re going to be a lot of questions whether tha evaluations actually appropriate okay, that is dominion fox lisa. we ve given this lawsuit fro eugene your sense of the impression that trump s team has made trump s team has made a interesting impression wit judge lou kaplan, and this other district in new york particularly lately. he is not patient with the right now, because they keep trying to kick the can down th road trial is scheduled for april 25th, and this week they asked not once, but twice for delays in that trial.
one, because of the pre tria publicity surrounding trum after his indictment by th manhattan d.a., and agai because they have discovered that a democratic leadin nonprofit has given agent caro some funding for her case. again, they wanted to reopen all the discovery in the case, delay the case beginning a trial for a vote of month. judge caplan said, no way, wit one small exceptions he s gonn let them to pose for one mor hour, but they did not get wha they wanted. we will wait to see what h says about the pre-challenge to geisha. here s a thing, delay, delay, delay at this point understand that that is hi entire list operandi, but in this case it seems to be a little bit different the premise they are using for their delays it is kind of ridiculous, because if you think about i the pretrial publicity that is surrounding trump as part of his indictments, certainly par of that is because of th indictment itself. but there is a whole other par of it that is because of his conduct. don