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Are libel laws on the agenda for the average american? why is he talking about this? >> well, it's going to be a very strong look at liable laws, as he said. you know, i'm at the white house quite a bit. it doesn't sound like there are any actual policies right now in the works at the white house to go after liable laws, to strengthen liable laws, expand them, weaken them, whatever president trump has in mind. libel law is in the state purview. i would be shocked to see the white house come up with a policy any time soon to change that. what we have here is -- is a threat from president trump....

That. we want farirness. you can't say things that are false, knowingly false, and be able to smile as money pours into your bank think. we're going to -- bank account. we're going to take a very strong look at that. and i think what the american people want to see is fairness. >> so what is the president's motivation here? are libel laws on the agenda for the average american? why is he talking about this? >> well, it's going to be a strong look at libel laws, as he said. you know, i'm at the white house quite a bit. it doesn't sound like there are any actual policies right now in the works a...

Laws and how he wants to beef them up? listen to this. >> our current libel laws are a sham and a disgrace and do not represent american values or american fairness. so is we're going to take a strong look at that. we want fairness. you can't say things that are false, knowingly false. >> john avlon, real? >> that happens to be the current standard of libel law. you can't say something knowingly false. they are values not only in the first amendment but enshrined. is he instructing his attorney general to look at libel laws. yes. so it's both disturbing is and bluster. >> okay. we have to leav...

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-all's 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 knowingly false. that's already, i agree with that. that's already covered by current libel law. even a p...

Out there. my sense the solution is not to change the libel laws. we don't need any more litigation in this country and judges deciding what is true or false and at the end of the day the marketplace i think has a powerful effect. if you have reporters who are doing bad journalism putting false information out there, i think over time people will realize that is not a trustworthy source and that they simply can't be relied upon to give fair and accurate news reporting. so my sense is that there are other ways to address this problem rather than by strengthening the libel laws because we can al...