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and disregard them, the jury, as subjected to them, may not. the court shall not permit the defendant to turn the courtroom into a forum in which trump -- inject politics into this proceeding. jack smith then kicks off a highlight reel of trumps favorite spurious arguments, things like, trump, quotes complaints about the jury indictment and the trial date will interfere with his political activities. or trumps quote, false accusation was directed at the former president. jack smith als...

Campaign official surveilled by the fbi back in 2016. the report indicates an application known as fisa was approved in october of 2016 and given three separate extensions. while the applications were approved, inspector general michael horowitz found several glaring problems. at least 70 and errors or omissions in the speech and applications. an fbi attorney change the body of an email used to apply for the warrants. the fbi relied on the steele dossier for that page application. according to t...

When you go to a lot of websites today, depending on your political orientation. you have to stop and think is it real? is it true? >> greg: i think thats healthy. >> juan: what i would call a gatekeeper function we could say for example jason was complaining about "the washington post." "the washington post" is not going away tomorrow. they have to protect their brand. what jason calls and complains or writes a letter, they do respond. >> lisa: you see stories like like -- remember the nikki ha...

>> i want to play something on the points you raise. look, i used to practice first amendment law, so i definitely share the concern about the obama justice department. they were highly aggressive on this. in addition, the other context, of course, is the internet, and it became drastically easier with groups like wikileaks to put out more voluminous material without the gatekeeper function of the press. i think that was the other macro factor driving more of those prosecutions although they con...

Now, you know, i do think sessions is sending a message here, but just on its face, the review of the media guidelines is probably not as significant as it sounds because the essence of the media guidelines was to require a higher level of review. >> no, a higher level -- >> for subpoenas of journalists. >> i think thats fair, michael. that higher level of review was put in as a safeguard. the tenor of todays talk didnt make you feel it was going to be more safe, but rather more aggressive. >> e...

Guidelines that were designed to have greater scrutiny of media subpoenas. now, you know, i do think sessions is sending a message here, but just on its face, the review of the media guidelines is probably not as significant as it sounds because the essence of the media guidelines was to require a higher level of review. >> no, a higher level -- >> for subpoenas of journalists. >> i think thats fair, michael. that higher level of review was put in as a safeguard. the tenor of todays talk didnt m...

Cycle with it. its how he campaigned. the morning shows has his tweets up on screens, panels of them. he can drive news and not answer questions about them, to get around the q&a dialogue, the interviews hes doing now, but stopped doing toward the end of the campaign into his transition. i think its less about also that hes tweeting but, and more about what hes tweeting. the reason hes got that 69% disapproval is because hes going after meryl streep, hes talking about arnold schwarzeneggers rati...