Former Mississippi governor Phil Bryant is suing the newspaper Mississippi Today, one of its reporters and others for defamation, saying the paper wrongly accused him of a crime. The case involves the newspaper’s reporting about a fraud scandal for which it won a Pulitzer Prize. Bryant says he did nothing wrong. NBC News’ Ken Dilanian reports.
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