tennis now and the men s world number one novak djokovic has received a medical exemption to enter australia, bypassing the strict rules that only allow people vaccinated against covid 19 to enter the country. the news means that djokovic who has been critical of mandatory vacinations can now compete in the australian open, which he is bidding to win for a record tenth time. on tuesday he tweeted this picture on the airport tarmac, bags packed. with the caption happy new year. today i m heading down under with an exemption permission. let s go 2022! ben rothenberg is a tennis journalist and host of the no challenges remaining podcast and earlier i asked how a player goes about getting a media exemption. you apply for one and you have to give a reason for it and we still don t know what djokovic s reason for this exemption was. the understanding is that they would only be given
talked to the campaign about it and they were coordinating with the campaign, that s outside normally what the media does. the media exemption probably should not apply in that situation. that s where they can get in trouble. that problem exists if they bought it without talking to trump but later said, you don t need to buy it from us. the tape supposedly is trump and cohen talking about whether they should buy the story the rights from ami. if ami said to them, you don t need to buy the story, we have this covered, we re going to keep it secret, then they still have problems. it gets to the question of what is the proper role of the media? the proper role is not to hide things at the request or on behalf of a president. to say the least. i appreciate it. more to come. i need to get over to breaking news. the coast guard is recovering it has recovered the sunken duck boat after it sank in the storm in branson, missouri, killing 17
money. but it is the reality that we have more speech, not less. that is a very important thing. the average american can participate in the political process, where as before, they couldn t. megyn: the bedrock of the first amendment is more speech and not less speech. the president believe that there should be a difference when it comes to spending and political campaigns. what was the difference between citizens united and your desire to make a phone that was not necessarily pro-democrat. and what michael moore has been doing since 9/11. there was no difference except the class that we were in is not the same as michael moore. the federal election commission and congress have allowed the media attention, which allows fox and lions gate and the new york times to participate in the political process like no other american can. you get the media exemption, therefore, right. in my case, it allows him to do
leading the nation s intelligence agency as he has been leading soldiers in the field. comedy central host stephen colbert testifies before the federal election commission today trying to launch the colbert super pac that will allow him to raise unlimited amounts of money to support or oppose candidates in the 2012 presidential election. he was prepared ped by his lawy last night. can i give you the death penalty? no, they only have civil authority. so they can t put me in jail for anything that we do tomorrow? they can t. we re going to have fun. colbert is asking for a media exemption, the sec ruling could have implications for other political players that work for tv networks. those are your headlines. it s interesting, you remember last time he went before congress it was all a joke. we ll see what happens this time. hi, breakfast? this is what your incentive is. this is what s happening outside. and i if it doesn t go well,
showing how the federal election laws can be and i ll try to shorthand this. colbert wants to form something we call in washington a super political action committee. super pack, for short. his parent company viacom, doesn t want him getting into trouble with the federal election commission while he s doing this and so now colbert is making a big production of going to the fcc to file a request for a media exemption that would give him and viacom protective cover when all they would have to do is send a piece of paper over to the fcc. a lot of people at the fcc. although we have twitter pages, maybe not, the other thing he s done, besides tweeting about it, very good, you can see a bunch of people all over the place. he also had his lawyer on his show talking about this issue and the lawyer happens to be a