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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 trump's favorite spurious arguments, things like, trump, quotes complaints about the jury indictment and the trial date will interfere with his political activities. or trump's quote, false accusation was directed at the former president. jack smith also takes issue with some of the trump's favorite catch phrases like the injustice department or bid...

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 the report, the fbi did not focus on steele's funding source but rather discover the source was fusio...

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 that's 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 haley story with the curtains. nikki haley said her staff told them this is the previous administrati...

>> 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 concern us all. walter, take a listen to floyd abrams who won the pentagon papers case, who happens to ...

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 that's fair, michael. that higher level of review was put in as a safeguard. the tenor of today's talk didn't make you feel it was going to be more safe, but rather more aggressive. >> exactly. >> i want to play something on the points you raise. look, i used to practice first amend...