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Of simple story right, if they can't keep their agenda out of a story like this, were talking substantive, serious issues, you can not trust anything you're being told by the mainstream media. it is that simple. don't just be skeptical but perhaps go elsewhere to find the truth. mark: and you feel your litigation will help? >> well, i do. i do, mark. i believe that as i have said before if they can get away with this against a 16 -year-old boy, a minor, then we are all at risk if they want to convert them into a public figure we will all be public figures. no one's reputation will be sa safe, ...

Media because there's victims. now, one of the defenses will likely be this was just opinion, this isn't news so the standard is really low or nonexistent. >> protected opinion. >> we've discussed it a million times. the supreme court is already responded forming in a case where the supreme court made it clear there is no wholesale exemption for expression claiming to be opinion. opinion, something that is not capable of being proven true or false does get protection, but when you start putting in an article something that says that niclas salmon was a racist or a bigot and you're describing c...

>> so there's no misconceptions, it was not a correction, it was not a retraction and there was no apology. if you look at what the washington post actually did, mark, they almost patted themselves on the back in trying to say well here's what we reported and it turned out later we were wrong and we said that so palace on the back, our reporting was accurate. that's really what they said. they almost want to take the position that it's okay if they lie about you and publish the lies accurately, as long as eventually when it involves and the truth comes out that they tell the truth at that poin...

The veracity, someone on the editorial level has a responsibility to ask those questions. we will start from the bottom come the documents, moved to reporters, moved the editors and then to the extent others are identified and if relevant we will move to them. it's a monumental task but we are up for it. mark: the point is you have to prove your case. >> yes, and let me tell you, i found in my experience of the media defendants fight tooth and nail to prevent you from getting discovery. they do not want you to know the truth of how they made the sausage. >> is it the same with cnn. >> absolute...

Committing to the idea that they will do better. they are not going to do better because they can't acknowledge how badly they are reporting. mark: why do you think all the surrogates out there, former professors, former federal prosecutors, former whatever they are, lawyers on tv who know nothing about the first amendment or the constitution, as far as i'm concerned. they keep defending this kind of protection for the first amendment. we just discussed that's not true historically, that's number one, number two these are major corporations. not just newsrooms and it has an effect. cnn did a h...