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Do you agree that those principles are just as relevant today as they were when the supreme court first decided "new york times" v. sullivan? >> "new york times" v. sullivan is the continuing binding precedent of the supreme court, and it does state the principles that the court has determined are undergirding the first amendment right to free press. >> okay. and last summer, actually, in lawson, the supreme court declined to review a case in which the 11th circuit applied "new york times" v. su...

"new york times" v. sullivan? >> thank you, senator. any type the court is asked to revisit a precedent, there are criteria that the court uses to decide whether or not to overrule a precedent. "new york times" versus sullivan is a precedent and stary decisis is important, the principle that the supreme court should maintain its precedence for predictability, stability in the law. if the court is asked to revisit a precedent, its criteria, what it looks at are whether the precedent is wrong and ...

Everybody. thats what "new york times" v. sullivan held up. its about time that case gets revisited. in the hands of a 16-year-old who was dealt the worst type of journalist coverage, the worst type of negativity, malice. why? because he was wearing a maga hat. this is all part of the trump derangement syndrome. >> sean: its a trigger. >> i always try to be fair. im more fair -- >> sean: you love your country. >> -- and most of the cable outlets out there because im willing to see things from bo...

>> i love it. >> sean: i dont think it would end well if i ever got that job. just guessing. [ laughter ] our larry, either. youre laughing -- >> give me the job. give me the job. id love it. [ laughter ] >> sean: with all that said, we do have an information crisis. i pointed out all the instances theyve been wrong. you know, but this $250 million lawsuit, i know lynne wood. lynne wood is going to crush them. what they did was awful to this 16-year-old kid. >> wouldnt it be amazing in the supre...

Undermined it so much, its not working exactly the way this president was hoping. >> they literally threw it back in his face. when he tried to fight back -- when the russians were questioning the reason for the tomahawk strikes, the white house released through the press some intelligence and some arguments that even russia might have even know about this, that syria certainly did this. they said, oh, the american press is fake. we know this is a big problem in the united states and president t...

If hes calling them liars as we saw with bill cosby that can give rise to a defamation lawsuit also. in this case, while the accusers are what we call limited public figures, trump is the classic public figure and he would v a heightened standard, the ""new york times" v. sullivan" standard, coincidentally enough, to show the statement was malice. but thats not enough. hed have to show actual malice which means either they knew it was false or acted with reckless disregard as to its falsity they...