so i take garlique to help maintain healthy cholesterol safely and naturally. and it s odor free. i m taking charge of my cholesterol with garlique. good evening, we begin tonight keeping them honest with what is one of the most powerful elected officials in the country said today about transparency versus what he s actually doing about it. house speaker kevin mccarthy is the highest ranking republican in congress, and is second in line to the presidency, but became speaker only by the barest margin and only by winning the votes in the 11th hour by the most extreme members of his party. one promise that he made while competing to be speaker, according to cnn s melanie zanona, the new york times, was to make thousands of hours of security camera footage from the january 6th attack public. today, here s how speaker mccarthy justified his decision to release the video. i think that sunshine matters, i don t care what side of the issue you are on. that s why i think that gett
Formally recognized a palestinian state. Deadline white house starts right now. Hi there, everyone. 22 witnesses, 21 days of court, 80 hours of Witness Testimony later, the firstever criminal trail of an expresident is coming to a close. The prosecution has one last chance to hammer home its case in close answer on tuesday, given that the defense put up just two witnesses, lasting four times longer than their entire presentation, only the manhattan d. A. Is wrestling with the about the Testimony Bombshell after bombshell over four weeks. Jurors listens intendly, as they testified about the confidential arrangement made with trump in 2015. Hope hick telling the about the infame owls Access Hollywood tape. Jurors also saw the handwritten notes that worked out the monthly reimbursements. Stormy daniels was questioned in detail about an rattled Sexual Encounter . Michael cohen it was, mr. Trumps former fixer turned foe Michael Cohen taken the stand. So, all the testimony and all of the evi
libel case, which is the new york times against which governs the libel claims on manners of public concern against public figures, and so that requires it s a bit of a misnomer, because people talk about it being a standard of actual malice, rico uses that word. but malice is not required. and then you also hear the term reckless disregard. mint recklessness is not enough, it s not enough that the reporter blew past the facts. what you have to show is, and there s a case from 1968 called and it versus thompson, which says the what you have to show to show reckless disregard is that at a minimum, the publisher of the information, or the broadcaster of information actually entertained serious doubts as the truth of what was being reported. here you have that in droves, and at multiple levels. you have fact-checker, zingers, you have rupert murdoch, all agreeing that this was false. you never see in libel cases,
toward the commission of the crime. an overt act. and i ll tell you, this latest pleading by the house select committee in thompson eastman versus thompson, the first thing we ought to recognize is that s more than a dozen lawyers on the signature page. and these are serious, accomplished lawyers. some of whom i know. there s not a rudy or a sidney powell anywhere near the signature page of this pleading. they would not have put their names on this if they didn t have the good toss back up their assertion that donald trump, in their opinion, committed a number of crimes, trying to overturn the election results. this pleading has brought into fine focus, at least for me. maybe i m slow on the uptake. the fact that we re kind of living in this upside down bizarro government world. we have three co-equal branches of government and each knows what it s supposed to be doing. the legislative branch can t prosecute anybody. yet they re conducting this