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Standard and the first amendment doesnt just protect journalists, it protects everyone and the supreme court and the "new york times" versus sullivan case in 1964 said, in a democracy, we want open, costed, caustic, vehement, sometimes nasty debate to flourish to be a check on the government, to be a check on public figures. the new yorktimes standard doesnt borrow all libel suits. so a private person can bring a libel case and doesnt have to prove actual malice. a public figure like ms. palin, ...

More breaking news were following, a very unusual twist in sarah palins lawsuit against "the new york times." the judge says, he said it a short time ago, hes going to dismiss the case even though the jury will resume deliberating tomorrow. the chief media correspondent, brian stelter is joining with us the latest. this is a win for the "new york times." tell us what happened. >> it is. "the new york times" is saying that this ruling is a reaffirmation of a fundamental tenet of american law that...

Decided the facts, i decided the law. as it turns out, they were both in agreement in this case. "the new york times" obviously pleased by this ruling, saying yesterday, and about to say the same thing again today, that public leaders should not be permitted to use libel suits to punish or intimidate news organizations that make, acknowledge, and swiftly correct unintentional errors. if this "newsroom" or any other news room screws up and corrects it, thats not something you can sue and try to g...

Understand bed rock principles, such that everyone is entitled to an attorney. >> miss to the southern poverty law center, a liberal group that started out good going after the you ku klux klan but is turned into a group that calls conservatives anybody racist and extremist and so forth. it lost libel suits on that. it recently fired its co-director and -- or director and co-founder and the president stepped down because of accusations of racial bias, sexual discrimination. look, if they had any...

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Michael wolff and his publisher and that only back fired and prompted the publish tore release the book early. how could these libel laws prevent authors from writing tell-alls about not just the president but for anyone for that matter. >> that letter was a mistake because it gave, you know, zols of dollars in free publicity to the book. there is no prior restraint under our legal system. look, the president said that nobody, meaning journalists should be able to publish anything that is knowin...

A view of law journalists are allowed to say whatever they feel like but then of course if they say something which people feel aggrieved about whoever feels aggrieved what has the as right are taken to court but one of the cases this is happened when i was in cases where she was acquitted and there have been cases where she was found guilty as one of her sons lets put it the libel suits were part of a wider strategy to shut her up they seem designed to eat up her time and her money no i disagre...

Its meant to make it harder to rich and powerful people to bring libel suits against the pres. he can say that theyre looking at this but they dont have to look much farther than the first amendment. >> you say libel laws should be restricted. why? >> he can appoint four or five justices to the supreme court that would have a different view than has been the consensus view since 1960. but look the press is irresponsible and there are too many loopholes in the libel laws and some of them need to ...

We have 50 state libel laws and theyre all limited by the first amendment in a way that president trump doesnt like. it does make it harder for him to bring a libel suit. its meant to make it harder for rich and powerful people bring libel suits against the press. he can say that theyre looking at this but they dont have to look much farther than the first amendment. >> you say libel laws should be restricted. why? >> he can appoint four or five justices to the supreme court that would have a di...

All of the people he threatens to sue, without any real ground and in the face of the first amendment have strong grounds to sue him for deliberately and falsely labeling them as liars. and as people who simply want their, i think he called it 10 minutes of fall, hes cutting the normal 15 minutes, becauses already hogged them himself. >> donald trump threatened to see me five years ago, and he hasnt. you might be getting a phone call from me sometime professor if that lands on my desk. >> that w...