world, we know news organizations take on enormous risk when they publish things they know to be false. they risk their representations. in the rare instances where actual malice can be established, they also face legal exposure. this knowledge of falsity on fox s part was established through mountains of internal communications that prove that the producers, the executives and the anchors knew that claims of massive voter fraud were false ahead of time and they broadcast them anyway. the case dominion had against fox was so strong that by the time the trial commenced, the only thing the jury was going to have to determine was whether fox met that really, really high legal bar of acting with actual malice when it knowingly published falsities about dominion. now, as we all know, instead of standing trial, fox decided to settle for close to $800 million. what we know from that discovery process is dominion established from the top of that company to the bottom, from ruper murd
Well, the president promised new answers by tuesday after his administration receives a full report. Joining me now is karen, khashoggis colleague at the Washington Post. And their global opinions editor. Great to have you with us. First, let me get your take and weigh in, if you can, on the president s response thus far, especially now that weve confirmed that the cia has this assessment that, in fact, mbs as he is known in saudi arabia, knows of this killing and tried to keep his distance from that assessment. Since the beginning of this whole tragic saga weve seen trump basically accepting mbss denials, pretty much doing almost everything that he can to avoid outright criticizing mbs or saudi arabia. We are living in sort of an upside down world where president erdogan of turkey, frankly, has been stronger in advocating for answers and for justice for khashoggi, a Washington Post journalist, and the virginia resident than our own president. What this says is just that hes basically
Cant we be friends . President trump changing his tune on north korea, setting his sights on iran with tough talk and even a downright threat from the National Security adviser. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. We begin with a politics lead. Top Senate Republicans all on offense, trying to present a united front in the face of accusations of sexually inappropriate behavior by the Supreme Court nominee decades ago. With Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell promising, there will be a vote on the senate floor regardless of what happens during thursdays hearing, kavanaugh taking the unprecedented step of defending himself in a Television Interview on the president s favorite channel. And then today President Trump is on the attack against not just senate democrats, but against the two women alleging, respectively, Sexual Assault and sexually inappropriate behavior. Professor Christine Blasey ford and Deborah Ramirez. Hes never had any charges like this. I mean, charges come up from 3
Over the country is Hurricane Michael, churning across the Florida Panhandle and alabama and georgia. Were going to get a live update on the state of the storm coming up in just a couple of minutes here. Unusually, though, for a day in which a huge category 4, almost category 5 hurricane hit the continental United States, unusually, this has also been an otherwise busy news day. Usually, a storm this big hitting the United States broadside would eclipse all other news. But today, a lot of other stuff has been happening besides. So were going to be covering the storm. Were also going to get to a bunch of these other stories alongside our hurricane coverage. You should know, for example, that tonight the Washington Post is reporting that the president has talked recently to the man who is now serving as chief of staff to the attorney general, jeff sessions. His name is matt whitacre. Matt whitacre made news when everybody thought Rod Rosenstein was going to be fired as the Deputy Attorne
But today, a lot of other stuff has been happening besides. So were going to be covering the storm. Were also going to get to a bunch of these other stories alongside our hurricane coverage. You should know, for example, that tonight the Washington Post is reporting that the president has talked recently to the man who is now serving as chief of staff to the attorney general, jeff sessions. His name is matt whitacre. Matt whitacre made news when everybody thought Rod Rosenstein was going to be fired as the Deputy Attorney general and the overseer of the Mueller Investigation. Matt whittaker, that day that everybody thought rosenstein was out, he was named by the Justice Departments a the person who was going to get appointed to replace Rod Rosenstein had he been fired. That was really controversial for a few different reasons. Number one, rosenstein wasnt getting fired after all that day. So its weird that the Justice Department wrote a press release about who was replacing him and the