CNN is likely to be hit with a massive lawsuit worth more than $250 million over alleged “vicious” and “direct attacks” on Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann, his lawyer has told Fox News.

Lawyer L. Lin Wood discussed his decision to sue CNN for its reporting and coverage of his client during an interview that will air on Fox News Channel’s “Life, Liberty & Levin” on Sunday at 10 p.m. ET.

“CNN was probably more vicious in its direct attacks on Nicholas than The Washington Post. And CNN goes into millions of individuals' homes,” Wood told Fox News host and best-selling author Mark Levin.

CNN couldn't resist the idea that here's a guy with a young boy, that Make America Great Again cap on. So they go after him

— Lin Wood, attorney

“They really went after Nicholas with the idea that he was part of a mob that was attacking the Black Hebrew Israelites, yelling racist slurs at the Black Hebrew Israelites. Totally false.

“Now you say you've seen the tape; if you took the time to look at the full context of what happened that day, Nicholas Sandmann did absolutely nothing wrong. He was, as I've said to others, he was the only adult in the room. But you have a situation where CNN couldn't resist the idea that here's a guy with a young boy, that Make America Great Again cap on. So they go after him.”

Wood continued: “The CNN folks were online on Twitter at 7 a.m retweeting the little one-minute propaganda piece that had been put out. … They're out there right away going after this young boy. And they maintain it for at least two days. Why didn't they stop and just take an hour and look through the Internet and find the truth and then report it? Maybe do that before you report the lies.”

Wood then detailed the timing of the suit, saying it will be issued “Monday, Tuesday at the latest.”

“I've got some young, smart lawyers that are working hard as we can," he told Levin. "Double-checking, and listen, when we file complaints, we've investigated it because we want to get it right. Maybe CNN can learn from that."

Fox News has reached out to CNN representatives for comment on the pending litigation.

Wood filed suit last month against The Washington Post. The suit calls for $250 million in compensatory and punitive damages over the paper's coverage of the confrontation, an encounter that went viral on social media. He told Fox News that the claim against CNN is apt to be even higher.

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The United States is set to dethrone Saudi Arabia as the world's leading oil exporter for the first time in over six decades.

According to Rystad Energy, by the end of this year, America will best the middle eastern country in the exportation of oil and other energy goods, such as natural gas liquids and petroleum products.

This is the first time the US have achieved such a milestone since Saudi Arabia began selling oil to other countries in the 1950s.

'It's nothing short of remarkable,' said energy strategist Ryan Fitzmaurice to CNN. 'Ten years ago, no one thought it could happen.'

In large, the power shift has been credited to what experts call the 'shale boom', establishing Texas as the epicenter of America's oil trade.

Technological breakthroughs have also played their part, with drilling innovations helping to access huge swaths of oil trapped in shale oilfields across America.

With an emphasis on shale-based fuel - an organic-rich sedimentary rock - US oil production has doubled over the last 10 years.

Ryan Fitzmaurice called the US' milestone 'remarkable', insisting nobody would've predicted it would be possible ten years ago

And with Production at the Permian Basin, in West Texas, having reached an all-time high, the US is now pumping more oil than any other country - including Saudi Arabia and fellow powerhouses Russia.

'The shale boom has driven incredible increases in production, Fitzmaurice said to CNN. 'US production is off the charts.'

In 2015, Congress lifted a 40-year oil export band which led to an explosion of international sales. States across the US' Gulf Coast are now scrambling to build more infrastructure to help meet the ever increasing demand for US crude.

'Excess fossil fuels from America will find plenty of eager buyers in fast-growing Asia,' Rystad said in their report.

In Saudi Arabia, oil exports currently sit at around seven million barrels of crude oil a day, along with two million barrels of natural gas liquids and petroleum products.

In contrast, the the US exports three million barrels of oil and five million gas and petroleum barrells.

But according to Rystad, the current disparity between the two will vanish by the end of the year. Saudi Arabia, however, will remain the world's leading crude oil exporter specifically.

The Permain Basin is considered the center of the US' shale boom success, where developing technology is allowing companies - such as BP and ExxonMobil - to drill profitably at lower prices.

Exxon now say the plan to produce more than 1 million barrels of oil per day from Permain alone, by 2024.

'Increasingly profitable shale production and a robust global appetite for light oil and gasoline is poised to bring the US to a position of oil dominance in the next few years,' Rystad's report determined.

Such dominance will allow the United States to be more energy self-sufficient that ever before.

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