CNN wants Mark Robinson's defamation lawsuit against them thrown out. The media company filed a motion of dismissal last week in the defamation lawsuit filed by Robinson, North Carolina's lieutenant governor.

CNN wants a court to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson that attacks its report that he made explicit posts on a pornography website's message board.

About a week after moving a defamation lawsuit from superior court to federal court, CNN has now filed to dismiss North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s defamation lawsuit entirely, calling it “political theatre.