We're going to shift our focus now to Donald Trump following through on his threats of legal action against the news media.

Earlier this week, as we reported, ABC News agreed to pay $15 million to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by Mr. Trump, and the president-elect announced more was to come.

I feel I have to do this. I shouldn't really be the one to do it. It should have been the Justice Department or somebody else, but I have to do it. It costs a lot of money to do it, but we have to straighten out the press. Our press is very corrupt.

Following those comments, his legal team filed a lawsuit against Iowa pollster and Seltzer

and the Des Moines Register for a poll released three days before the election, showing Vice

President Kamala Harris leading by three points. Mr. Trump won the state by 13. His lawsuit

called the poll election interfering fiction. Clay Calvert is a professor emeritus of law at the University

of Florida and a non-resident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Thanks for being with us.

Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. So let's start with this Iowa lawsuit because unlike the now

settled ABC News lawsuit, this is not about defamation, but about an accusation

of consumer fraud under Iowa law. Help us understand this fairly novel approach.

Sure. It's definitely a novel approach. Typically, we would think of a defamation lawsuit

filed by somebody who's been slandered in fame. So what Trump is using here, it's a novel

technique. He's using consumer fraud, consumer protection statutes that target unfair and

deceptive business practices. And so what he essentially is suggesting that Anne Seltzer's

polls here were fraudulently conducted. They were designed to harm his campaign.

So it's a totally different use.

Typically, we think of consumer protection laws

is about products that you would buy at the store,

the supermarket.

Now we're talking about information and news.

So regardless of his theory here,

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