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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...

A view of law journalists are allowed to say whatever they feel like but then of course if they say something which people feel aggrieved about whoever feels aggrieved what has the as right are taken to court but one of the cases this is happened when i was in cases where she was acquitted and there have been cases where she was found guilty as one of her sons let's put it the libel suits were part of a wider strategy to shut her up they seem designed to eat up her time and her money no i disagree you see if you want to stand by the rule of law and we do then there has to be freedom of express...

It's meant to make it harder to rich and powerful people to bring libel suits against the pres. he can say that they're looking at this but they don't have to look much farther than the first amendment. >> you say libel laws should be restricted. why? >> he can appoint four or five justices to the supreme court that would have a different view than has been the consensus view since 1960. but look the press is irresponsible and there are too many loopholes in the libel laws and some of them need to be tightened up. for example you can say anything you want defamatory about anything in the world...

We have 50 state libel laws and they're all limited by the first amendment in a way that president trump doesn't like. it does make it harder for him to bring a libel suit. it's meant to make it harder for rich and powerful people bring libel suits against the press. he can say that they're looking at this but they don't have to look much farther than the first amendment. >> you say libel laws should be restricted. why? >> he can appoint four or five justices to the supreme court that would have a different view than has been the consensus view since 1960. he can do that. but, look, the press ...

All of the people he threatens to sue, without any real ground and in the face of the first amendment have strong grounds to sue him for deliberately and falsely labeling them as liars. and as people who simply want their, i think he called it 10 minutes of fall, he's cutting the normal 15 minutes, because's already hogged them himself. >> donald trump threatened to see me five years ago, and he hasn't. you might be getting a phone call from me sometime professor if that lands on my desk. >> that would be fine. >> that threat to sue, even when he doesn't carry it out is designed to inhibit peo...