committee? you know in the next few weeks you ll hear the public hearings of the committee. i m surprised that he s not a part of that, but that tells me they actually wanted to get answers and not have the greatest show on earth that would happen in front fortof th cameras. the fact that he entered into a subpoena, answered it and answered questions. he is a person that was actively trying to ask legislators to overturn an election, to overturn the will of the people. so they have rudy giuliani testify for a nine-hour period? i bet they have a lot of information from him. i m sure there s more to come from that. laura, you have yourself a fantastic weekend. thank you, you, too. thank you. i ll see you later. this is don lemon tonight. here s the breaking news tonight. first, in person rudy giuliani meeting with the january 6 committee for nine hours. rudy giuliani, personal attorney to then-president and the number one promoter of the big lie of election fraud was
second round of the pga champ kron make the cut. i want to bring in ron br brownstein, ellie and the executive producer of the circus. rudy giuliani meeting with the january 6th committee for nine hours today. you say this posts a major threat to everybody, how so? yeah, don, rudy giuliani s testimony is dangerous to a lot of people starting with rudy giuliani himself. it hard to think of any individual who has more legal problems than rudy giuliani. he being sued for defamation but election machine companies and he s had his law license revoked. he s appealing that. he s under criminal
the new york times versus sullivan standard, that case palin should lose this case, but the law may change and she may wind up winning. you think about times versus palin it s two americas. you have this mainstream institution versus kind of this anti-media figure. this is why it s going to be a doozy of a case. i m sure it will be heavily covered by fox news but there could be a backfire effect, right? outlets like fox do rely on times v. sullivan. and they are relying on times v. sullivan in very big money cases right now. dominion voting systems, mart m smartmatic, the election machine companies that were repeatedly lied about on fox news after the election, repeatedly lied about over and over and they have sued fox for billions of lawyers. foxes lawyers understandably have said new york times versus sullivan protects us, we re supposed to cover robust
something that the senate would focus on. but it is hard to understand, everybody since mitch mcconnell does talk about russia interference and he says russia is a threat. the question is why has there been no action? and the idea that there isn t bipartisan work being done on this is simply not the case. one of the big hang-ups should be how involved should the federal government be in state election. this is a hot button. so that certainly is a sticking point. but in the big picture, the sense on the hill certainly among people like senator warren is that at the end of the day, mitch mcconnell is protecting the president on this. protecting the president. is it also his whether contributors or constituents, there s been talks about conflicts of interest here with election machine companies. potentially. it s hard to say exactly. there are nearly a dozen states that don t currently have a set-up that requires a paper