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Times v. sullivan the first amendment would prevent public officials to sue the media under any standard left demanding actual malice and can you explain to the people here today in those watching on tv what that standard means to you? >> new york times versus sullivan was a landmark decision. it changed pretty dramatically the law of defamation libel in this country. rather than the common law definition of libel, applicable normally for a long time. the supreme court said the first amendment has special meaning and protection. we're talking about the media, the press in covering public offic...

Freedom. the separation of governmental powers is central to our constitution and it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be." i can think of very few people qualified to be a judge who would not agree with those basic pre 16 s -- preceps of our foundation. several of the democrats have focused on corporations and have been critical of the like hobby lobby or citizens united. and have put forth the proposition that corporations are not people and hence cannot have first amendment rights, cannot have free speech rights,

It. i'm going to ends here -- i'm going to do a lot of work on antitrust in the next round. senator lee and i have been heading up that subcommittee for a long time. i'm going to end with freedom of press in honor of my dad. he was a newspaper reporter his whole life. i'm especially concerned in today's world where we're seeing these attacks on the media about maintaining the press' role as a watch dog. our founders enshrined freedom of the press in the first amendment. thomas eversaid the first objective to be leave open all avenues to truth and the most effective way to do that is in the fre...

By. it also targets their families. sean penn put himself at extraordinary risk. in mexico over the last seven years, we have maybe 165,000 homicides. the majority of which are linked to the drug cartels. and from a legal standpoint, although there's nothing in the interview that seems to suggest that sean penn broke any laws, at one point he does mention that el chapo told him that a list of u.s. corporations that accept illegal funds from his cartel. but sean penn declined to name the corporations. any federal prosecutor who wanted to make a name for himself could laurvench a challe to tell ...

Walk into the barney rock right by penn station. >> did you hit another bar last night? >> did you start that chant, kilmeade? >> that's how loud it was. i had to shame the bartender who kept taping it and he said i'll send you the video. he sepbtd -- sent me three videos after the goals. 1-1, and the american subcomes off the bench to score a goal. that puts the u.s. up against ghana 2-1. they would lock up the victory. on 33rd street in manhattan, take that bob beckel and the five soccer haters. this place was packed. people were in the streets watching through the windows of the big screens...