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 speeches on the economy. families are hurting, you have heard me say it before, but i get it. it has been a rough for five years for the country. but a lot of folks here are still struggling, but there are bright spots. i get it, folks are still struggling, but one word that you did not hear from president biden today? the word recession. but he did admit a recession was a possibility during o
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 grassroots level, this is what i do. palin was a speech case. we were deep five dive on actual malice, deep dive on basic first amendment principles, appeals, reversals. i think, and this is just gut feeling, and the judges are seeing more and more of what
might be used against him in that case? we ve got this new law up a new york providing statute of limitations and so what is interesting about this is attributes of metoo cases with the pending defamation case five years ago that wasn t as strange but this is a new vibe. a course the answer is going to matter they re gonna matter. they re going to manage that case. theoretically is there was ever a criminal investigation they would matter for that. if it was fresh and you are alleging rape in the police were involved you would take five on that all day so of course they matter. i m not sure there s any real strategy not to answer them in the context of a true civil case. i would imagine that he just denied that he didn t have a case of amnesia, that he actually said no, it didn t happen, it didn t happen, it didn t happen. i can t think of anything else that would make sense. but you re the lawyer. tell me. he s kind of all in on this one in the sense that the
struggling, but one word that you did not hear from president biden today? the word recession. but he did admit a recession was a possibility during our interview last week. i don t think that there will be a recession. if there is, it will be a very slight recession. that is that we will move down slightly. look, it is possible, i don t anticipate it. now, some of the world s leading economists are shutting chilling the word recession from the roof tops. credit ratings from fitch warned yesterday that the u. s. economy will sink into a recession next spring. bloomberg economists now put the odds of a recession at 100% over the next year. 100%. that is pretty confident, then again this is a news organization founded by a guy who spent a billion dollars of his own money on a presidential campaign that lasted just over 100 days. so maybe the confidence is in the dna. biden any case it s not just all bloom beto