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>> he tends to go off script sometimes. what about the timing? does this play a role in his decision? >> the judges are now going to be looking again at an attempt by the doj to try to legitimize this question. for example, in something really important for people to know. the district court ha has this case has let discovery proceed. in terms of being able to look and dig more into why this particular administration wanted to include this question will be more revealed. the discovery process is...

His webcast. cnn business reporter oliver darcy joins me now. what does that mean that hes been sanctioned by this judge and what is the status of those lawsuits against him in. >> reporter: perhaps alex jones now regrets peddling this baseless conspiracy theer. a judge just sanctioned him in the case of the sandy hook lawsuit against him and it means that jones could no longer pursue special motions to dismiss this case moving forward. this is will move forward. around november 2020 the trial w...

>> we dont know. thats the reason you have discovery in a lawsuit. the fact is, payments of any kind are inappropriate from a foreign government to the president of the united states. and so as part of the discovery process well learn the magnitude -- both the amount of money and frequency of the payments from a variety of foreign governments. but whats really at stake is the fundamental -- there is so much cynicism about government. people think people in government are doing it for their benef...

President having a personal interest at stake. so, this is part of the regular discovery process. again, this is written right into our constitution. the president had an opportunity to essentially divest himself of his ownership interests. he chose not to. and now its perfectly appropriate for congress to determine whether there is a constitutional violation. >> yeah, its the emoluments clause, article i, section ix, clause viii says that no president should accept any emolument, present of any...

Lawsuits and perhaps more directly the discovery process right now is kind of on hold because of the appeal. if the discovery process moves forward that kind of information may give rise to more investigations, more lawsuits and of course thats what the president and his lawyers are very concerned about and really the justice department is helping them kind of push back against that to shield that possibility i think. >> so to that point, that could mean they could be forced to turn over documen...

To the discovery process. that would be the easiest way to go about this. if they want to -- were trying to get to discovery if they can show they arent being biased ill be glad to drop the lawsuit. the fact of the matter is theyve been very biased in my opinion. the point were trying to make here is theyre content developers. theyre regulating so much. theyre the main way people get their news in this country and how journalists spread their news around. everybody is on twitter today. the fact ...

>> you know, thats horrible and if it happened to me i would be furious. its not illegal. they arent the government. >> your thoughts. >> yeah, so what were talking about here is defamation and so if its with reckless disregard for the truth and with malice, doesnt matter if youre a public figure or not. what i would say is lets just switch roles here. if somebody multiple people had son -- had said you had done bad things and started impacting your employment with fox. theyre saying it doesnt m...

A similar discovery process in court is what pulled back the mask on the tobacco industry and what that industry knew what it was selling to the american people and how. discovery in the tobacco cases forced that industry into a quarter trillion dollar settlement that became the beginning of the end of that industry. here for me, though, is maybe the part of this that will be most important to watch. in their ruling today, these judges in the connecticut supreme court said it will fall to a jury...

>> that is how donald trumps secretary of commerce wilber ross was greeted today. it was his turn to discover how voting changed since they decided to give democrats control. last year when republicans controlled the house, wilber ross testified how he added a question about citizen ship to the census because the justice department asked him do that. >> we have had a request as everyone is aware from the department of justice to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. we are responding so...

Documents on how the gun companies marketed their ar-15s, this rifle that has become the weapon of choice for mass shooters. these are documents, internal documents and communications about how theyre trying to sell these things, these are documents the manufacturers have fought tooth and nail to keep out of the public eye. because they have fought so hard to keep them out of the public eye, it is expected that those documents may provide a sort of brutal glimpse into how the industry operates a...