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Provoked the kind of act, the extraordinary act we saw from her today. >> tim o'brien, your organization, bloomberg reporting tonight that michael cohen, donald trump's long-time lawyer is now suing buzzfeed for releasing -- being the first one to release the fusion gps so-called dossier and suing fusion gps and suing christopher steele. what do you make of this lesson? >> i think michael cohen, like everyone else in the trump universe, needs to get schooled on the libel standard. it's actual malice. they would have to show that buzzfeed published this document with strong -- either outright k...

Releasing -- being the first one to release the fusion gps so-called dossier and suing fusion gps and suing christopher steele. what do you make of this lesson? >> i think michael cohen, like everyone else in the trump universe, needs to get schooled on the libel standard. it's actual malice. they would have to show that buzzfeed published this document with strong -- either outright knowing or strongly believing that anything in the document, everything in the document was false. they clearly didn't. they thought there was a public value in publishing it. and they did. i don't think a new yor...

Was true. he didn't consult with the people inside the government who might know before making his claims, sources tell nbc news. and today the white house says a congressional investigation is needed to resolve this. that means saturday, trump claims these charges and by sunday his staff says they need an inquiry to see whether if what he said was true. believe me, that's not good. and it provides support about meeting that libel standard, about whether that statement was false. benjamin zipursky, a fordham university professor said it would be viewed as defamatory in its content. the questio...

Level through voters? >> i think ultimately it's something that belongs in the purview of the court. as the supreme court -- in the states, as the supreme court once said pornography, i know when it i see it, they know bad campaigns because they see it. this will get regulated by the states and putting limitations on where the speech lines are drawn bupt the supreme court has to first draw that line. to your point, i think they are going to draw it a little more broadly to give states the power to do that. >> let's go to that actual legal standard for what libel is and when it becomes a false ...