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i'm -- that's annoying but soft alarms on your smartphone. no. i mean one of those really obnoxious alarms that you might hear a few rows back on the plane. turn that off. but you can't turn this alarm off. and as much as we might all want to wish it away, it's clear with less than three weeks until the midterm elections, the forecast is doom and gloom. and maybe that's why president biden today gave not one, but two, speeches on the economy. >> families are hurting. you've heard me say it before, but i get it. it's been a rough four or five years for the country, but a lot of folks ...

the news continues, cnn with jake tapper starts now. >> welcome to cnn tonight -- i'm jake tapper. tonight the economic alarms are blurring, and i don't mean one of those vaguely known but soft alarms on your smartphone. [noise] no, i mean one of those really have noxious alarms that you might hear if you are he's back on the -- turn that off. but you cannot turn this alarm off. and as much as you want to wish it away, it is clear that with less than three weeks after the midterm elections, the forecast is doom and gloom. that is why president biden today today gave not one but two s...

My position on johnny depp and amber heard was it wasn't a defamation case. it was domestic violence. you didn't hear speech or about a public figure standards or approvable falsity. you heard all this mudslinging. alex jones took a default judgment on both cases, texas and connecticut, meaning liability was not an issue. we weren't discussing first amendment parameter principles. it wasn't a hard dive on it. so all of these speech cases, we call them speech cases because we know that that's what was in -- at the time. the issue of why they're going to trial is more fascinating. on the grassro...

Was counterallegations of domestic violence. you didn't hear talks about speech or public figure standards or provable falsity. you just had all this mud slinging. alex jones took a default judgment on both cases, texas and connecticut, meaning liability was not an issue. we weren't discussing first amendment principles. there wasn't a hard dive on it. so, are those really speech cases? we call them speech cases because we know that's what was claimed. the issue though of why they're going to trial is the more fascinating one. what i'm seeing -- i'm grass roots level. this is what i do. >> yea...

What's happening is they're putting -- jake, it was unheard of 20 years to try this many speech cases. i think "the new york times" had try a libel case something like 28 years before tried palin. you've seen four. let's call them speech cases for argument's sake, okay? they involve speech at least at the genesis of the claim. i think what you're seeing is a judge's recognition that, like, enough's enough. there's all this noise out there. we're going to start developing some law here. >> interesting. >> i think we have to for a lot of reasons. >> very interesting. thank you so much. >> thanks...