They reckless about knowing or learning whether they were false . Look, every authority from 60some courts to the Department Of Justice to the fbi has confirmed that they were false and whats really interesting here, brianna, this case will, like most cases, go to discovery. Where the parties exchange information, get documents, take depositions. The plaintiffs here will get deep inside of fox news. If this gets the discovery before it settles or goes to discovery, then theyre going to get their eyes on the emails, the texts, the internal notes, memos, what was happening in fox news, and if they knew this was false or definitely should have known it was false, thats going to be real trouble for them legally. What, elly, would a settlement look like to avoid that . In a way seems between a rock and hard spot . Asking for almost 3 billion . I mean a settlement could be extremely damaging financially to a news, a i dont want to say news. To a media outlet like fox. Yeah. This is where the
57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Minnesota senator al franken says he has no plans to resign, but speaking out for the First Time Since he was accused of groping several women, franken says hes ashamed and the allegations have caught him by surprise. Hena doba is here in new york. Good morning, hena. Good morning, annemarie. Accused by four women now on Sexual Misconduct, the senator is fully cooperate rating. In the meantime the house is working on deal iing with it he returned after a week and a half after being accused of Sexual Misconduct. This whole thing has been, you know, embarrassing. Franken yesterday granted his first round of interviews. He has a lot of work to do to regain the trust of his friends, colleagues, and some constitu t constituents. Some women say i crossed the line, and for that im very sorry. He was first accused by broadcaster Leeann Tweeden who said he forcibly kissed her during a uso trip and sh
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Heres lester holt. And theres a live picture of the white house of the capitol, actually, of course. Ands theres the white house. In a short time, president elect trump and president obama will begin their trip to the u. S. Capitol where mr. Trump will be sworn in around noon eastern time. It will be the start of a new era in washington and this country, what many see as a clean break from the last eight years under president obama. I am joined for our coverage by chuck todd, our political director and moderator of meet the press by tom brokaw who has covered the comings and goings of president s since Lyndon Johnson and by nicole wallace, nbc political news analyst. Tom, let me start with you. We have seen in many, many campaigns where, you know, harsh words were said. But to see the relationship that weve seen between president obama and president elect trump in the last several ek well, i think that president obama wanted to go out on a high note. Hes got very good Approval Ratings
Elena. Whats the alternative universe that you want to create . So tom and paul are making a case that we have a lot of interests, may not like everything that russia does, but we have to talk to them and get done what we can and tom had a list of things which if those are on your list to do, russia could play a role. Whats the alternative . Well, the alternative is that we have some sort of tougher policy towards russia. There have to be consequences for what it has done on the International Order for its invasion of sovereign country, its mass murder of civilians in syria. That tougher policy will be a mix of. Includes ramping up sanctions which we have in place. Reinvesting in our relationship with our allies. Standing up to russias human rights abuses, and of course, investigating russias best export to the west. Which is corruption. Russia needs to clean up its own act. And its not about telling them what to do, its our way or the highway, that is absolutely not what this is. But