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Look at our country's libel laws so that when somebody says something that is false and defamatory about someone that person will have meaningful recourse in our courts. our current libel laws are a sham and a disgrace and do not represent american values or american fairness. we want fairness. you can't say things that are false, knowingly false, and be able to smile as money pours into your bank account. >> the president was not asked today whether the new version of libel law that he is imagining would prevent him from engaging in years of pathological lying about president obama's birth ce...

Inside the trump white house," the president said this. >> we are going to take a strong look at our country's libel laws so that when somebody says something that is false and defamatory about someone that person will have meaningful recourse in our courts. our current libel laws are a sham and a disgrace and do not represent american values or american fairness. we want fairness. you can't say things that are false, knowingly false, and be able to smile as money pours into your bank account. >> the president was not asked today whether the new version of libel law that he is imagining would ...

President whose lies determined by the "new york times" are chronicled since the inauguration. and a president whose false and misleading statements determined by the "washington post" hit an astonishing 2,000 yesterday. this from a president who also could use a lesson from first amendment lawyer floyd abrams who points out again that there is no federal libel law. every state has its own. so good luck changing 50 of those laws plus the district of columbia. impossible to know if the president was being ironic or making a joke that he was reading a statement. certainly looked like a joke. if ...

Said about her husband, former president bill clinton. i want to bring in former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, preet bharara. he was dismissed by president trump in march. a fierce critic of the trump administration. preet, thanks for being on. looking at this case just as a legal analyst, what are summer zervos' lawyers hoping to get from these documents and does she have a chance of getting anything? >> there are lots of reasons why people want to serve document subpoenas. this one of those cases. the president of the united states himself is long known for being someo...

The press ways and will give them respect but it is not unlimited? >> noteworthy being there that jeff sessions left right after and no questions from reporters after making such a bold statement basically saying media subpoenas are not off limits, and i followed up with rod rosenstein dur after that and asked, longstanding doj policy has been not to prosecute reporters. are you willing to say doj will not prosecute reporters? he basically didn't rule it out. doesn't want to get into hypotheticals. a notable shift in the stance of the department of justice. >> and i was going to say. remember ...