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Want to say that, but yeah, i mean, this is why we send playback to writers because they're the ones who reported the story. constitutional law and media attorney theodore butrose joins me now, who headed cnn on legal matters before. good to see you. if particular, i wonder, first of all, this is the first libel case against the times to go to trial in, what, 20 years? usually it's resolved before a injury. here we are in a full blown trial. what makes this case so different? >> these cases do, laura, usually get dismissed, based on first amendment grounds. i think it's been, maybe even 50 yea...

Order?" her gag order. her lawyer responds no. judge jackson, all right, i want to go through a number of communications one by one. did he ever i issued my order send a text message to buzzfeed news saying michael cohen's statement regarding the russia investigation is not true? stone's attorney, "he did." judge jackson, "so what about the instagram post from march 29th about adam schiff?" stone's attorney, "yes." judge jackson, "how about this one from june 2nd?" stone's lawyer answers before she even asked the question, "yes, this was mr. stone's." stone's attorney, "i understand the govern...

As they say in law school, on fument go. the clarity of my order is undisputed. the fact that the defense said it was fine and the order was not challenged on first amendment grounds or any other ground is a matter of record. it didn't take a week before the defendant was emailing buzzfeed calling a witness in this investigation a liar. to suggest that roger stone's posts are not statements by roger stone about this kasscase ignores the power of social media and what makes it different from writing a letter or talking on the phone. maybe his lawyers don't understand it, but he does. it is obvi...

In terms of stone digging himself a little deeper as this goes on. i still would be kind of surprised if she throws him in jail. but to be honest, some of stone's answer have made it more of a toss-up to me than i expected when this hearing started. >> ryan riley is joining our conversation now. he's just out of the courtroom. i understand the judge banned roger stone from making anymore public statements about his case. >> that's right. essentially he said she can't trust him anymore. she set off guidelines and he violated them. now there's a situation where she can't trum him anymore and bas...

They have big lights. i think it's great fun, but i know that there's people all around and they can get through. i thought it was not fair to go after the mayor because he's the neighbor. he is saying you can't get safety vehicles through. what happens in d.c., the big one, it ends at a certain hour so that they know that basically it's on from nightfall, 6:00 until 9:00 and then that's it. >> emily: with local ordinances. >> dana: there was another story where a family either in utah or idaho where the family was sued because they have a similar situation. they won on first amendment grounds...