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. >> we are joined now by a professor of media ethics and law at the university of minnesota. s briefed earlier that you were saying prepared to be surprised. this was quite a surprise, wasn't it? >> it sort of was a surprise. i think it was surprising because they really came down to the wire. it's not unusual for libel suits against the news media to settle at the 11th hour. this was really quite beyond the 11th hour. in that sense, it was surprising. but in the scheme of things, i think this is not that unusual. libel cases typically do settle against the news media. what will be very interesting is seeing the ramifications for fox going forward. >> what will it mean for fox's reputation? they said we acknowledge the court's finding certain claims about me knew to be false, which is essentially admitting that they lied. >> well, they sort of did. they acknowledge the judge's finding. certainly in the summary judgment ruling of a few weeks ago the judge categorically said that fox had lied. but i think their statement is kind of a weaselly kind of statement, suggesting that,

that's the conclusion of a survey of scientists from around the globe headed by the university of minnesota . the said, i found that one in every 3 species could be endangered or extinct by the year. 2100. 1 species that's already under threat is the north american manatee. over a 1000, manatees died in florida last year alone. the everglades at the southern tip of florida, the biggest stretch of subtropical wetlands in the us. this fresh water marshland is teeming with life. the everglades are a habitat for a wide range of flora and fauna. the region is home to extraordinary biodiversity, including manatees, their population had been recovering after years and decline 2 years ago. researchers counting around 8000 of the marine mammals here. but since then, there's been an unprecedented number of mana t fatalities for 10 years. paul stewart or captain policies known around here, has been taking visitors on tours of the everglades. he knows better than any one where to find manages over her little ripple in the water. but the gentle giant disappears quickly. we go down the canal and come bac

mike hannah al jazeera washington jane kirk is a professor of media ethics and law at the university of minnesota. she says, the settlement will have an impact on the image of fox news. it's not unusual for a libel suits against the news media to settle at the 11th hour. this was really quite beyond the 11th hour. in that sense, it was surprising. what will be very interesting is seeing the ramifications for fox going forward. now acknowledge the judge is finding and certainly in the summary judgement ruling a few weeks ago, the judge categorically said that fox had lied. but i think their statement is kind of a weasely kind of a statement suggesting that yes, this is what the judge found. but of course, you know, the truth, our loyal viewers, we are still telling you the truth and maintaining our journalistic standards. so, as is often the case in these post settlement statements, each side has tried very hard to fin the outcome here to their greatest advantage. the spectacle of rupert murdoch and others in fox management having to testify in open court before a jury that might well have been ho

advisor to the republican national committee and a law prostlesser at the university of -- professor at the university of minnesotaed as chief white house ethics lawyer for george w. bush. welcome to you both. doug, can i start with you. what do you make of it today, the motorcade from mar-a-lago, the plane with the livery, the fact that we're all tuning i it is a historic moment, but as i say, some people not le this. >> yeah, you know, yesterday was wrestlemania and what we see today in new york city and obviously at mar-a-lago as well, sort of represents that as well. wherever trump goes it's a big spectacle and we know that's not going to change. but there's still so much that we don't know. not just that we don't know what the charges are, but we don't know politically what the space is going to be for republicans or democrats. we don't know if there are going to be cameras, not just a mug shot of donald trump, but we don't know if there's going to be cameras, if this goes to trial. so there's a lot that we still just have to wait and see how it will unfold. we know it's going to take a lot of attention from

that's the conclusion of a survey of scientists from around the globe headed by the university of minnesota . the said, i found that one in every 3 species could be endangered or extinct by the year. 2100. 1 species that's already under threat is the north american manatee. over a 1000, manatees died in florida last year alone. the everglades at the southern tip of florida, the biggest stretch of subtropical wetlands in the us. this fresh water marshland is teeming with life. the everglades are a habitat for a wide range of flora and fauna. the region is home to extraordinary. biodiversity, including manages their population, had been recovering after years and decline 2 years ago. researchers counting around 8000 of the marine mammals here. but since then, there's been an unprecedented number of managed fatalities for 10 years. paul stewart or captain paul, as he's known around here, has been taking visitors on tours of the everglades. he knows better than any one where to find manatees over her little ripple in the water. but the gentle giant disappears quickly. we go down the canal and c

and i mean i'm, i'm a journalist, i've done journalism all my life and you know, university of minnesota, eric's ever had school journalism. i think you're supposed to follow the story and not necessarily just try and make friends on either side. and that's what our media has become, and i think in many ways that's why we are where we are right now. but let's get back to the case steve, i pull you back into this as pacino would say, cuz i kind of want to know as a lawyer, maybe put your trial lawyer on here, a hat here. if you could and tell me what, how you would play this out if you were representing the former president and what you think your chances would be of getting this whole damn thing thrown out before it ever gets to a jury. i think they've got a great chance based on the motions we're likely to see moving forward. i think there is a real question of persecution with his da when he's letting violent crimes in new york be reduced to misdemeanors. he's trying to cobble together a federal felony case of which he has 0 jurisdiction to attach to a state case that has exceeded the

we joined now from the states by jane curtly professor of media ethics and law at the university of minnesota. and i was briefed on it that you were saying that you proposed to be surprised and this was quite a surprise, wasn't it? well, it sort of was a surprise. i think it was surprising because they really came down to the wire. it's not unusual for libel suits against the news media to settle at the 11th hour . this was really quite beyond the 11th hour. in that sense, it was surprising, but in, i'm sorry, go ahead and go through. and but, you know, in, in the scheme of things, i think this is not that unusual. liable cases typically do settle against the news media. what will be very interesting is seeing the ramifications for fox going forward. yeah, sure. what do you think it will mean for folks is reputation because i did have to admit, didn't they that they said that we had knowledge, the court's rulings finding a certain claims about dominion to be false, which is essentially admitting that they, they lied. well, they sort of did, i mean, they acknowledged the judges finding and cer

that's the conclusion of a survey of scientists from around the globe headed by the university of minnesota . the said, i found that one in every 3 species could be endangered or extinct by the year. 2100. 1 species that's already under threat is the north american manatee. over a 1000, manatees died in florida last year alone. the everglades at the southern tip of florida, the biggest stretch of subtropical wetlands in the us. this fresh water marshland is teeming with life. the everglades are a habitat for a wide range of flora and fauna. the region is home to extraordinary. biodiversity, including manages their population, had been recovering after years and decline 2 years ago. researchers counting around 8000 of the marine mammals here. but since then, there's been an unprecedented number of managed fatalities for 10 years. paul stewart or captain paul, as he's known around here, has been taking visitors on tours of the everglades. he knows better than any one where to find manatees over her little ripple in the water. but the gentle giant disappears quickly. we go down the canal and c

reminder that this reporting is a partnership with the under told stories project at the university of minnesotaon musk's spacex today launched the first test of starship, a rocket meant to one day send people to the moon and eventually mars. the most powerful rocket ever built blasted off from its launch based in texas. >> we should have had separation by now. obviously, this does not appear to be a nominal situation. >> only to explode roughly four minutes into its flight. the rocket, we should say, was unmanned. musk says the next launch attempt will be in a few months. your science correspondent is here to unpack it all for us. we should say spacex calls this a rapid unscheduled disassembly, what we would call explosion. help us understand what happened during this test flight. >> i used to get mad at nasa for saying hi phenomenal, so this is a good turn of phrase, for sure. it appears several of the engines were not working, almost from the outset. if you were not even fired up when it left the pad -- a few were not even fired up when it left the pad. as it ascended, several more failed. ma

micha michael holm is one of the authors, director at the university of minnesota.report and alarming, too. and what i thought was perhaps the most alarming conclusion from the report is that over 1.1 million covid deaths in the u.s. did not need to happen. in fact, american excess death during the pandemic was about 40% higher than the european death rate at the time. what do you see as the biggest failure that led to that number? >> well, i think one of the first things was so that we couldn't imagine that this would happen and, therefore, we denied it was going to happen despite what data we had to support that it would. i think the second thing, we lacked humility. as a scientific community we needed to be able to say we don't know. this virus continued to throw 210 mile an hour incumbents at us from the very first days and in some ways is continuing to do that. that would have helped us in trying to get the public what to do. third, i think, is that it got politicized. this virus didn't care if you were republican or democrat or if you are old or young. it wasn

now she is a professor of media ethics and law at the university of minnesota, and she was the formerxecutive director of the reporters committee for freedom of the press. welcome thank you so much for joining us. look there seems to be a mountain of evidence that the lawyers for dominion voting systems have amassed for this trial, including thousands of text messages and emails from fox executive hosts and producers. that showed that they didn't really believe much of those rigged election claims that they were broadcasting. how strong is this defamation case compared to others that have been tried. well i think it's extremely strong because of this long digital paper trail of communications that would indicate as you said that many of the people higher up in the echelons and on down the food chain and fox, new or arguably had reason to know at least that what they were publishing was false. and when i say publishing, i mean allowing in this case, a third party to come onto fox and to make these statements to be broadcast to their viewers. what do you make of that apology from fox ne

director for the reporters committee for freedom of the press, and she teaches media law at the university of minnesota. jane thank you so much for being here. you're one of the few. i think who's hoping for a settlement? if i'm right, how come i am hoping for a settlement and i'll tell you simply why, um, nothing good will come of this case going to the u. s supreme court. which is i is what i'm afraid is going to happen, no matter who wins or who loses, and frankly, i would expect a split verdict on this case. the reason for this is we know that there are at least two supreme court justices that are eager to re examine new york times versus sullivan. i don't want to give them that opportunity. to me. this case speaks to the strength and wisdom of new york times versus sullivan. i know that that's probably a minority view among many who are in the political landscape. there's a very high bar here that needs to be met because dominion is a public plaintiffs, so it's not a negligent standard. it's actual malice. why wouldn't this perhaps be an affirmation of the wisdom of times versus sullivan? well, i

he's also a professor of corporate law at the university of minnesota. so richard, here's what i don't understand here, um, justice thomas, at one point had disclosed some of these types of gifts from harlan crow. but then he stopped doing it over the last 20. years. so do you see his nondisclosure as illegal or unethical? just order that it just maybe looks bad. well this makes no sense to me because there's a personal hospitality exception. yes but that's a friend invited you over for dinner at their house or cocktail party, perhaps, too for weekend stay at their house up in the pocono mountains or something like that. the personal hospitality exception clearly does not include transportation. on a private jet or on a yacht. uh this doesn't fit within the language of the exception that we had before and we shouldn't need the administrative office of the united states courts to have to clarify that. what we have at the supreme court is a culture of non compliance. non compliance with basic ethics requirements, including disclosure requirements. that appl

geoff: france reporting is a partnership with the under told stories project at the university of st. thomas in minnesota. elon musk spacex today launched the first test flight of starship, it's 400 foot rocket meant to one day send people to the moon and eventually mars. the most powerful rocket ever built blasted off from its launch base in texas. >> we should have had separation by now. this does not appear to be a nominal situation. >> only to explode roughly four minutes into its flight. the rocket was unmanned. musk says the next launch attempt will be in a few months. we should say spacex calls this a rapid unscheduled disassembly, what we would call an explosion. help us understand what happened during this test flight? >> are used to get mad at nassau forcing off nominal. this is a good turnout of phrase for sure. it appears several of the engines were not working almost on the outset. a few weren't even fired up when it left the pad and as it ascended, several more failed, at least half a dozen, maybe close to eight depending on how you are counting and when you are looking. you can imagine tha

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to the republican national committee and — richard painter — he's a law professor at the university of minnesotaeorge w bush. welcome to you both. what do you make of it today, the motorcade from mara lago, the plane with the livery, the fact that we are all tuning in. it is a historic moment, but as i say, some people might not like this. , but as i say, some people might not like this. . . . like this. yesterday was wrestlemania, - like this. yesterday was wrestlemania, and - like this. yesterday was| wrestlemania, and what like this. yesterday was - wrestlemania, and what we see like this. yesterday was _ wrestlemania, and what we see today in new york city and obviously in florida as well represents that as well, wherever trump goes it's a big spectacle, and we know that is not going to change but there is still so much that we don't know, notjust that we don't know what the charges are, we don't know politically but the space is going to be for republicans or democrats. we don't know if they're going to be cameras, notjust know if they're going to be cameras, not just a know if they're goin

minnesota to tout his economic agenda. he stayed quiet on trump's indictment could that change today? >>> and later this hour, we're looking ahead to tonight's big game in houston. the university ofnnecticut, san diego state will face off in the final matchup of a march madness full of twists and turns. so in just about an hour from now, former president donald trump is expected to start his journey from here in florida to new york to be arraigned on charges connected to a hush money payment made to an adult film actress before the 2016 presidential election. these are live pictures coming to us. there is the airplane, the trump airplane in palm beach airport i want to bring in my colleague yasmin vossoughian, who is on the other side of this story, outside the district attorney identifies in lower manhattan where trump will appear tomorrow, yasmin >> yeah, a lot of action happening behind me over the next 24 hours, specifically tomorrow morning security ramped up here ahead of the president's arrival to be booked, processed and arraigned as well. thousands of officers are going to be on duty in and around courthouse and the d.a.'s office as well. this is coming as we still don't

university she won a deborah orne scholarship and tonight she is here at the washington correspondence dinner. [applause] yesterday we had 28 of this year scholarship recipients meet in the white house correspondent -- we heard from minnesota senator amy klobuchar a strong supporter of plant -- press freedom and a daughter of a journalist. and they got another screening from -- sitting in the seats we hope these students will someday occupy. >> from san antonio texas. >> tracy mcclintock from tampa florida. >> karina schwab from new jersey. >> ava thompson from chicago illinois. >> lauren irwin from denver colorado. >> madeline hines from cleveland ohio. >> brian maxson from ohio. >> anna olson from iowa. >> bernet romo from arizona. >> alicia taylor from kansas city kansas. >> caroline simmons from kansas city. >> brana avocado from tampa florida. >> rashida anderson from detroit michigan. >> chapman university, american university. >> university of missouri. >> northwestern university. >> iowa state university. >> the university of maryland. >> university of tennessee knoxville. [applause] >> me and other members of the white house press corps spent most of yesterday with them and let me tell you, they are much more impr

minnesota from his parents in 1976. mr. emmer: he's at a crossroads of st. john's university and the college of st. benedict where all things johnny's and benny's reign supreme. he kept thirsty students, faculty, and community members well hydrated and fed. had he a steel trap after memory that helped him to remember names of college alumni years after graduation, and in some cases he also remembered their outstanding bar tabs. i had the pleasure of getting to know him during my visit visits to sal's over the years. no trip to the a football game was complete without a postgame beer. there is solace in the fact that the next time i'm at sal's i'll see his son kyle tending bar just like his dad. to dale's wife, and the rest of the family, we pray that dale's lasting memory gives you comfort during this difficult time. great life lived. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from the bronx seek recognition? mr. he bay yacht: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute -- mr. espaillat: i ask unanimous consent

university she won our debra orin scholarship. tonight she is here as a washington correspondent for spectrum news. yesterday we had 28 of this year's scholarship recipients meeting white house correspondents. they heard from minnesotathey got an on the record briefing from karim jean pierre sitting in the seats we hope these students will someday occupy. >> >> anna thompson from chicago, illinois. >> from diamond bar, california. >> from denver, colorado. >> from cleveland, ohio. >> jordan taylor from ohio. >> abigail turner from ohio. >> alexis. >> columbia school of journalism. >> george washington university. >> the hampton university. >> northwestern university. >> iowa state university. >> the university of kansas. >> the university of maryland. >> the university of tennessee knoxville. >> arizona state university. >> uc berkeley's graduate school of journalism. >> me and other members of the white house press corp spent most of yesterday with them, and let me tell you these scholars are much more impressive than any of us were at that age. these amazing young journalists are here with us tonight. if they come to talk to you, give them a job. now would your students please stand up and let's all give them a ro