because they clearly are showing this is not fox news. this is a fox channel and a fox commentary.. let this investigation proceed, because that's where they are really going to get hurt. >> yeah, take out the news from fox news. i've been saying that for a while. doug jones, tara setmayer, think you both. that is all in for this week, i'm mehdi hasan, sitting in for chris hayes tonight. next, week ali velshi will be in ukraine, marking one year since the start of the current russian illegal invasion. that will be live right here at 8:00 pm

because they clearly are showing this is not fox news. this is a fox channel and a fox commentary. i would love to see there -- and they all have them. let this investigation proceed, because that's where they are really going to get hurt. >> yeah, take out the news from fox news. i've been saying that for a while. doug jones, tara setmayer, think you both. that is all in for this week, i'm mehdi hasan, sitting in for chris hayes tonight. next, week ali velshi will be in ukraine, marking one year since the start of the current russian illegal invasion. that will be live right here at 8:00 pm starting monday night. but now, it's time for alex wagner tonight. good evening, alex. time for ale >>wagn good evening, mehdi hasa. i agree with you, the news part of fox knew should be replaced by something like fox entertainment network, fox blood sport -- >> fox in a -- universe -- >> something with not news. thank you, my friend. it's good to see you. >> good to see you as well. >> thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. we're going to start this friday evening with a little tri

when the cameras were off, those same fox hosts were calling election fraud claims bs, because on fox, it is all a performance. they knew trump lost but continued to lie to their audience to keep their maga viewers happy. >> also tonight, the real giuliani. although some called him america's mayor, there were disturbing signs long before he became trump's lawyer that he was willing to do or say anything to get rich and grab another moment in the spotlight. >>> plus, senator john fetterman's battle with clinical depression and how things have changed since another senator caused a firestorm with his own revelation a half century earlier. >> we begin tonight with some tough love for fox news viewers. you might want to record this and send it to your maga hat wearing parents or uncles because frankly, they deserve to know. okay. ready? here it is. you need to know that most of what you hear on fox news, especially about the 2020 election, is a lie. the hosts that you love and whose every word you hang on likely don't believe a single thing they're saying to you. in fact, according to the

mounting viewer backlash to fox. rupert confirmed that the decision was to allow these wild claims of election fraud on air so this was certainly much more than just about donald trump. it was also about the business of fox news. >> it was, they sort of saw in realtime what happened. they made a single call in arizona elicited and large number of backlash, what you saw in the pre ensuing days, that fox leadership all the way up to rupert murdoch were scrambling to devise a strategy in a mechanism as to how they were gonna hold on to the remaining fox viewers that they hadn't pullback the ones that had left. but on the outside, what you saw was a change in direction. it was a two-day period where they were not challenging the election results. one of the things that help this filing out explain, was what we saw, a couple of days after the election results were called, fox news went from accepting the results to saying nothing, to doing 700 segments, more than that, explicitly eggs tacking the election results, inventi

fox news ceo suzanne scott. it has been suggested our primetime three -- sean hannity, tucker carlson, and laura ingraham -- should independently or together say something like the election is over and joe biden won. we're not continued that such a statement will go a long way to stop the myth that the election was stolen. fox's ceo then for that email to the executive president of prime time programming at fox, saying, i told rupert that, privately, they are all there. we need to be careful about using the shows and hissing of the viewers. but they know how to navigate, which is all -- wow. if you widen the aperture a bit, and if you look at the big picture here, the core of what dominion is alleging is that fox felt forced to push lies about the election so they would not lose their trump supporting audience. they were terrified of losing them. they were just desperate to stay in their good graces. and so, they lied. again and again -- loyalty at all costs -- and that phenomenon, the trump loyalty test, echoes

do many interviews at fox and other cable news networks, and everyone at fox knew.ell was lying. and knew she was a complete not, and those are not my words for sidney powell. those are the words of tucker carlson and the fox hosts. tucker carlson texted fox's 10 pm host, laura ingraham, saying, sidney powell is lying, by the way. he ingram responded, sidney is a complete nut. no one will work with her. ditto with rudy. they never said that on tv. they never let their audiences hear what they actually thought about these people. they presented sidney powell as a truth teller. rupert murdoch texted at the time that what sidney powell was saying was really crazy stuff. they all knew, everyone at fox knew, they were presenting lies. they recently filed dominion legal brief says, in their group text threat, carlson pointed hannity to a tweet by fox reporter, jacqui heinrich. heinrich was fact checking a tweet by trump that mentioned dominion and, specifically mentioned hannity's and dobbs broadcasts that evening, discussing dominion. hybrid correctly fact check the twee

is it fox news or entertainment? what they haven't been until now is accountable, which they should be. >> you're speaking to something that's deeper underneath all of this. if you look at traditional april science, in healthy democratic system there's a competition for positions and parties and politicians will move around for that. you know, you could go -- if you want to get really academic, we have emily here from "the new york times" magazine, it's a pretty smart place. professor anthony downs talks about likening it to the hot dog stands on the beach. where the people are, the hot dog stand will move to, but that's a model that assumes the movement is for your actual positions. you just described movement for your attacks on truth, that moving to the -- i wouldn't call it the further right. everyone can go as right as they want. they could say, shouldn't be a federal government. just state, localities, federal government. that's a right-wing view of government size. this isn't about that. this is saying they wa

here's a fact that the plaintiffs emphasized against fox that they say makes fox more guilty. that several hosts in this period were pre-recording the shows, pre-tapes while hyping false election claims, allegedly defaming the plaintiff. why does that matter? it may not be as exciting as the bs quote but it matters, this evidence you see on the screen because it shows time and again, these programs and their bosses had a lot of time to consider whether to air the segments they pre-taped as they were, or whether to add fact checking or add reporting or decide not to air some of them. and the argument in court is they failed to do any of that when they had the time and possibility. this case is also showing the notice that fox had. remember, one of the reasons there is this high bar for deaf nation is that journalism, what we try to do around here, it is, i'll be the first to tell you, very in exact. let's put political coverage aside for the moment because this is super important tonight as we talk about this case and whether there will be a billion dollar fine for the lies. ta

dominion needs to prove that rupert murdoch and fox executives, in the fox entertainers, on television, they knew it was all a lie, and they pushed it anyways. dominion has taken the discovery process a long way to proving that everybody at fox knew that it was a lie. dominion's filing today, as we've learned, the fox lawyers were worried about sean hannity saying that it will be impossible to ever know the true, fair, accurate election results. that is a fact. on november 5th, the fox news lawyer emailed that he is getting awfully close to the line with his commentary, and guests tonight. that same lawyer was asked in a deposition, should fox broadcast election fraud allegations? that it knows to be false, the answer is no. the fox executive asked in a deposition, do you think that fox has an obligation not to broadcast false claims to its audience, answer is yes. the minions filing reviewed how fox, which has absolutely no relationship to the news business, illicitly and secretly helped the trump campaign by revealing confidential information about the biden campaign's tv advertiseme

so you're aware that fox endorsed this false notion of a stolen election, right? "not fox. not fox.ntators." oh, so those guys. all right. we continue. "what about jeanine pirro? i guess so. lou dobbs? oh, a lot. fox's sean hannity. oh, a bit." one after another he's copping to what creates liability, that they knowingly lie even though the whole corporation knows it's funny. and somehow trying to be preserve a little bit of credibility for fox itself, the kind of mother ship. this is a really killer document. as glenn says, there's no chance of summary judgment here. it's likely going to trial april 17th, likely going to a verdict if there's not a settlement in favor of dominion, and then it will come down to damages, which is a little bit trickier, i think, for dominion. >> pete, you have i think a unique perspective on the damage done by the lies peddled on fox news. and i just wonder as someone, as an investigator, as someone trained in getting information out of difficult places, i guess in the old days that used to be america's adversaries, what is it like to sort of turn the

this is dominion suing fox.s is not a larger effort to vindicate the interests of the american people as they learn that fox news lied to them, but it may have some impact in that area because of the financial amount in question. >> and you mention we now have permission, this could go to trial, there could be negotiations. what would be the time line, right? based on what we have now which, is okay, you can go forward, what's the time line for this actually going to trial if this dominion lawsuit does go to trial? >> well, we're close. and jason, typically when these cases are going to settle what happens is that settlement occurs before, for instance, the ceo and upper level management are put up for depositions because that obviously exposes them to a lot of griss, not the least of which like the one happening today which has the information about their internal conversations, so one might think this case would go beyond trajectory to go to trial in the next couple of months, but it's just so damaging for fox

the filing is big, billion dollar plus case against fox news. that's the defamation case against fox by one of the voting machine companies. why is this a stop story in the nation? because as partly expected, there are more new original bombshell revelations i'm going to go through with you now before i bring in our experts, including rupert murdoch, admitting things under oath that he doesn't admit when he's not brought into a courtroom looking at a fine. he admits select fox hosts completely endorsed the lie about donald trump and the election. murdoch asked under oath whether some of the hosts endorsed the big lie that the election was stolen that he didn't actually lose, and murdoch replies yes, they endorsed. and that's not all. under oath we find a very different murdoch. he's a business type. he has all kinds of experience. he has communication skills. he has strategy. hi also understands something why we've covered this case from the beginning, why accountability matters, some questions cannot be dodged under oath without committing perj

where they wrote, fox knew from the top down, fox do the dominion stuff was total bs.is filing, how strong do you think dominion's argument is? >> i think dominion has accumulated extraordinary category i mean a catalog of information that puts to light the idea that there was doubt in the minds of people behind the scenes on fox, the people that are most famous names on fox. what they have done i believe it 172 page filing, is really lift the rock, stripped bare the curtain, whatever analogy you choose to use, to show what was happening behind the scenes. it was a time of contempt for the kinds of claims that were being put on the air. and that same time, there was this urgent drive to do so because they felt their viewers needed to hear, reassurance that their belief that trump was cheated, fostered from the very top, official in the white house himself. was right because they defended those viewers by reporting on election night, that joe biden was going to win arizona and they defended those viewers by the march of those swing votes being affirmed in those key stat

schepp smith, no longer at fox.vittert branded as smug for a tone that was not a celebration of the president, also no longer at fox. and the washington bureau chief who called arizona for trump, bill sammon was fired to send a, quote, big message with trump people. i understand there is a need for conservative journalism in the sense that there are other networks that are liberal, but can fox really call itself a journalistic enterprise in the wake of these revelations? >> well, the three journalists that you identified there obviously are strong journalists, and they found their way and their place to other networks. but listen, i think what this demonstrates, jake, is the dead-endism of donald trump. and i think the challenge that he continues to pose, not just to fox, but to the broader conservative media universe. there is a big question in my mind of how trump gets covered now in 2024. that's the interesting question to me. yes, these revelations about 2020 are significant. clearly they're going to be litigate

>>> tonight fox news is facing questions about its election coverage going forward after fox chairmantted to the network's role in spreading donald trump's false claims about the 2020 presidential vote. our brian todd is taking a closer look at all this. brian, murdoch's testimony in a lawsuit is shining new light on his own discomfort about the promotion of election lies on his own network. >> reporter: murdoch says his on-air people should have denounced those lies but he was all too willing to let those lies continue on fox news to preserve ratings and profit. from the chairman of fox corporation jarring admissions how far his news network was willing to go to carry donald trump's water after the 2020 election. in a deposition rupert murdoch acknowledged some fox news hosts promoted the falsehood the election was stolen from trump. quote, some of our commentators were endorsing it murdoch said of trump's election lies. murdoch denied fox news as a whole endorsed the lies. instead pinning it on host sean hannity, janine piro, and former fox host lou daubs. murdoch's deposition made

fox witness after fox witness has admitted as much.consistent with every single reputable third party and stacks of public record documents so it's not a story that they were fighting about amongst themselves and the powerful prime people prevailed because of their ratings numbers. it's a story that everybody, again, from rupert to scott to the three most watched primetime anchors knew as bs. >> to the production assistants, to the fact checkers. >> reporters. >> all the way down to the reporters. everybody knew it was a lie and to nick's point, there is no available defense to fox, oops, i got it wrong. if you are told repeatedly and dominion makes it clear, once it was said and it was a lie and it was fraudulently broadcast, dominion said at least 19 times after it aired the lies aired soy what's the good faith basis? is it i corrected it. i made a mistake? i mean, there is nothing there and dominion also makes its clear there is no available affirmative defenses in the law and affirmative defenses, yes, i did it but -- yes, i ran ov

fox news is arguing the damages are nowhere near that. we'll see if fox news is successful.al experts, they don't think the $1.6 billion number is reasonable, but this could really hurt fox news. on the other hand, fox news is a very, very successful company. it's a very lucrative company. it makes $1 billion a year. so it would take a lot to hurt fox news' bottom line, but it seems like andominion has a strg case here. >> it's asounding in the discovery process that we're beginning to see this peek behind the curtain over at fox. there was one earlier during the january 6th committee wen some of those texts from some of the fox anchors to mark meadows, we saw some of this same kind of material. we saw it there and seeing it again here. where there's smoke, there's fire. oliver, aden, thank you to both of you. thank you very much. >>> kamala harris says russia has committed crimes against humanity and ukraine. what does that mean for the u.s. approach to the war? i'll ask the u.s. ambassador at large about global criminal justice. we'll talk about that, next. you're live in

there is no fox.eople, and they're all lying and they're admitting they're lying deliberately lying, meeting the test of "new york times" v. sullivan, deliberate falsehood that ruins reputations can expose you to damages. wake up, that's the law. and it's very clearly not on the side of fox. whether fox exists or not. >> and fox -- their statement says, in part, they call these fanciful damages. do you believe that fox really could go away because of this? and i suppose that's a separate question from whether their viewers lose trust in them. some of their viewers are not going to pay any attention because they don't care. and maybe some will. but this is a business question. is fox news in real jeopardy? >> well, i'm not a business expert. but i do know that common sense tells you that when people are told you're a bunch of suckers, if you want to keep listening to us, you're suckers. that's not likely to win trends and influence people. that's the bottom line. whether their insurance will bail them

because of fox news. and that gives you a sense of just how powerful they are in spinning their audience and riling them up. and it was impossible to escape for me the parallel which is admittedly imperfect between fox news and what our team and the special council investigated for almost two years which was russian disinformation in the 2016 presidential election. well, this is an american company that an american news organization that is peddling misinformation with truly deadly consequences, that could have been far worse. but if you're people who were attacked on january 6, if you are election workers who are threatened, you have to be reading this saying, your goal is of money, as rupert murdoch said, of green, it caused me damages. so you could imagine this is not going to end with just dominion bringing these suits. you could imagine other people seeing this evidence saying i was harmed by what they were doing out of greed. >> say more about that. are you sort of describing a class, a class-action

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you get a fox news contributor ship.s you celebrity in that world. there's definitely money attached to it which is why a lot of people choose to do it. one thing that has happened recently is marjorie taylor greene and others have changed the marginalization model here they've shown you don't have to run for president you can just post junk on social media on a regular basis and then become a conservative star that way. >> that's a very interesting structure you raised. before you go, nikki haley also said today, every day we are told america is flawed and full of hate. there is a self-loathing virus, more dangerous than any pandemic. what you think of this angle she is taking? >> first of all, she's obviously deflecting. if you think about somebody who is serving the president, that they think is basically a racist, that was alive with the , that something nikki haley has done. always accusing others of what you, yourself, are guilty of. the pandemic thing is very interesting. that's going to be a major issue in the go

they are fox hollow's. when he says not fox, that's a lie, they are fox hosts. >> they make up fox. and he controls, he has the ability as a miss later on to control the programming of fox. so if he doesn't like what maria or lou or sean hannity are saying, he has the ability to say don't do the same network. >> keep going, i'm supposed to ditch my accent, because of a general accent for anything, that's just what i is. >> the meryl streep is sickening boots right now keep go. >> we went through fox host, maria, fox host jim -- i >> think. so >> fox business host, lou dobbs. >> a lot. >> fox host sean hannity. >> a bit. all were in the document correct? >> yes they. we're >> about fox in reading the narrative of a stolen direction correct? >> know some of our commentators were endorsing it. >> but they're endorsed manifesto and election? >> yes, they endorsed. >> okay that's the point he's drawing a distinction, you guys are commentators, i'm a wall, you're also a reporter. i am a host, there is a difference in responsibility. as commentators, you can offer your opinions but you can

at fox, that's apparently not how that works. and that the ethos of following the code of honesty, report, telling the truth, which is our own job, our only job is just to tell the truth and not be partisan. that's our job. if you can't do the basic os they have job, pretty soon you lose all moral bearing. i think not everybody at that agency, a lot of people really left, but a lot of people who used to be friends of mine lost all moral bearing. >> jonathan, this in many ways reaffirm what is critics of fox news have believed all ang that even though it has news in the title that that is a thin veneer at best. >> yeah. very thin. it's more like carpacho if you want to give a culinary analogy. what this dominion paper, the tiling shows is that the big lie is indeed a big lie. and that the people perpetuating it knew it was a lie and yet they still went on air, night after night after night, perpetuating it to the detriment of our country. and yh, they lost their balance, they lost their moral core, if any of them had any. and the

a fox executive deemed him a brand threat. the fox motive, it was not ideology.s greed. pure and simple. they create d an audience they could no longer control. an audience that believed the garbage they were putting on the air, and they feared they might lose that base to a kcompetitor like newsmax. in an e-mail to fox news ceo, murdoch wrote that newsmax needed to be watched that he didn't want to antagonize trump further and stressing everything at stake here. and what might he have meant by everything. despite the doomsdayers, the big three cable news networks earned a an estimated $5.7 billion in advertising revenue and license fees in 2022, up 3% from the previous year. when fox reporter jackie hines risk fact check ed a trump twee pointing out a lack of evidence, tucker carlson text to hannity, please get her fired. seriously, what the f. i'm actually shocked it needs to stop immediately, like tonight, it's measurably hurting the company. the stock price is down, not a joke. by the way, last week, that same tucker carlson had the highest rated show on cabl

not fox, no, not. fox earlier today, former senator claire mccaskill had this reaction to murdaugh's testimony. >> he is trying to say, oh, these were commentators. in other words, this was opinion. opinion is saying, you know, russia had the right to declare war against ukraine. lying is saying there is no war in ukraine. opinion is saying, donald trump was a good president. lying is saying the election was fraudulent. commentators do have the right to go a little further. but it is not, they don't have the right to lie. >> a little further means getting a little sassy. not telling bold face lies. in just a few minutes we'll be speaking to former mueller investigation prosecutor, andrew weissmann, about today's finally. meanwhile, president biden is working hard to ramp up his domestic agenda after his trip to ukraine. this week, holding strategy sessions with democrats in the house and senate. today biden sent out this morning about house republicans, and budget cuts. quote, it is not just your socia

some of hinrich's colleagues at fox wanted her to be punished.ough they knew that what she was saying was true. "please get her fired, seriously. tucker carlson wrote, host laura ingram and sean hannity, "it needs to stop immediately. like tonight it's measurably hurting the company. the stock price is down. not a joke." >> seth: so next time tucker rails against corporate media, remember he does the news with one eye on the stock ticker. he's always checking on fox's stock prices well, there's his other investments like the bow tie emporium and [ bleep ] m & ms. [ laughter ] but tucker isn't news. he's entertainment and he knows his audience doesn't want the truth. they want their stories. tucker telling the truth would be like kylo ren turning the camera mid threatening monologue and saying, "i'm not really kylo ren i'm adam driver. you guys know me [ laughter ] from 'girls. none of this is real it's just for fun. any way, back to space." [ laughter ] fox viewers didn't want the truth then, and they don't want the truth now, which is why no one

geoff: you've covered fox news for more than 20 years.ood out to the most from this revelation? david: it's the most visceral and tangible proof of one of the strongest criticisms of fox, it functions in many wayss a political operation and a business improvise -- is this enterprise and wrapped itself in news, even with a cadre of journalists who many of them believe in reporting straight. i think you see the liability of that. and the cynicism and antagonism to the idea of being held responsible, that they behave responsibly or they have any obligation to the facts. that's usually where people find credibility and trust. in this case, they saw it only in telling people what they want to hear. geoff: david, thanks again for your time. david: you bet. ♪ amna: earlier this week, a st. louis judge ovturned the murder conviction of lamar johnson, a man sentenced to life in prison in 1995 for the murder of marcus boyd. john yang has more as part of our searching for justice series. john? john: in 2021, producer frank carlson and i looked into

the dominion briefed concludes, fox knew, from the top down, fox knew.f reveals the fox hosts opposition to fact checking. page 31. in their group text thread, carlson pointed hannity to a tweet by fox reporter, jackie heinrich. heinrich was fact checking a tweet by trump that mentioned dominion, and specifically mentioned hannity's and dobbs broadcasts that evening discussing dominion. heinrich, correctly, fact check the tweet pointing out that top election infrastructure officials said that there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in anyway compromised. carlson tone hannity, please get her fired. seriously. what the eight? i'm actually shocked. it needs to stop immediately, like tonight. it's a measurably hurting the company. the stock price is down. not a joke. that is tucker carlson, worrying about the stock price of fox. not the truth. sean hannity than complain, to suzanne scott, the boss of the network, relaying sean heavy's complaints about fact checking to other fox executive saying, shawn texted m

what i'm essentially wondering is whether this would matter to the fox viewer if the fox viewer evenknew it was the case. because in half the country this has been the page one dominant story in the last two days in a very busy news week, but it doesn't get any airing at all in conservative media. would that base care? give me the quick answer. >> absolutely not. they'll just say it's media bias. they'll say you and i are bias, we're distorting things, twisting things because we hate fox. >> yeah, but i've got the document here. i mean, even if dominion loses the defamation action, it is an actual malice case so there's a high standard. but, you know, the sworn deposition testimony is what it is. the texts are what they are. the emails are what they are. there's no getting around the fact that this is what happened. it's just a little frustrating that half the country probably doesn't even know that's the case. anyway, thank you for being here, as always. i always like to point out that dr. rosenwald earned a ph.d. studying talk radio. he's the expert. what came in from the world of

that is in dominion's filing against fox news.ause of it, there is now page after page of material from inside the network revealing that fox senior executives and on-air talent knew that the former president's lies about the 2020 presidential election were indeed lies, and then knowing this, but afraid of losing viewership, those executives and those on-air people perpetuated those same lies, lies that according to the filing even fox chairman rupert murdoch called, quote, really crazy stuff. more now from cnn's brian todd. >> reporter: immediately after joe biden's 2020 victory, fox news hosts were unabashed in promoting the false declarations that the election had been stolen from donald trump. >> electronic voting machines didn't allow people to vote, apparently, and that, whatever you think of it, the cause of it, it shakes people's faith in the system. that is an actual threat to democracy. >> i can actually tell you tonight it will be impossible to ever know the true, fair, accurate election results. >> reporter: but tonigh

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news max. >> since 2022 fox news has basically -- 2002 fox news has basically been the preeminent ratingschampions in cable news. you see here the moment that they see any sign that might be slipping away, it's panic. >> reporter: but the dominion filings also say that when then-president trump tried to call in to fox on january 6th, the day his supporters attacked the capitol, fox executives refused to put trump on the air. >> fox news denies the claims in the lawsuit, says it's proud of its 2020 election coverage, and says those courts filings contains cherry-picked quotes that lacked context. in a statement, fox accused dominion of creating, quote, noise and confusion, and said the core of this case remains to be about freedom of the press and freedom of speech. brian todd, cnn, washington. >>> cnn legal analyst and federal prosecutor ellie konig, joining me now. "untouchable: how powerful people get away with it," you got a new book, working on a sudden, thank you very much for all of that. >> happy to be with you always. any time for you. >> can you tell me what these revelations mea

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because that's what fox was doing. it was chasing a lie, and they didn't want the lie to get away from it and go to newsmax, so it doubled down and anted up on it. that, i think, is going to be just as powerful a story about all of this as we see the impact as well. >> i think you can go back ten years before donald trump started running for office, and revelations like this about any news organization, even fox news would be shocking. and they would be damaging. are they still damaging to have text messages or internal communications showing what tucker carlson really thought, what sean hannity really thought. what laura ingram really thought. what rupert murdoch really thought behind the scenes when they were saying something different on air or allowing their network to say something different on air, as the suit alleges? >> yeah, absolutely because guess what, we've already seen the evidence of it. the fox viewer, like, i can't believe you're putting this out here about donald trump. i'm going to newsmax, and so wh

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fox host sceean hannity, a bit, and it goes on about fox endorsing the narrative of a stolen electionome of her commentators were endorsing it. about their endorsement of a stolen election? rupert murdoch said, yes, they endorsed. this comes as the deposition reveals, again, the disdain that rupert murdoch has for these election lies. he referred to them at one point as bs. and damaging in an e-mail, and he's also said that he wishes the network did more to tamp down these conspiracy theories. of course hindsight, wolf, is 2020, and when you're being sued for $1.6 billion, that might result in doing things a different way. >> what else stands out to you in this brand new brief that has just been released. and just how serious is the legal threat right now that is available for fox? >> well, i think it's quite serious because when you go beyond reporting, fox defense is, well, we were just reporting. but when you go beyond reporting and your chairman admits there was endorsement, then that opens you up to liability under the actual malice standard. and, wolf, it's not just $1.6 million

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so it really shows that behind the scenes fox news hosts, fox news executives are saying one thing andd saying something completely different to their audience, seemingly in search of profit or power or whatever it may be. but it is really quite reprehensible, briana. >> telling their audience what they think their audience wants to hear but not what they know to be true. oliver, thank you so much. >>> i want to talk about this with our panel. abby, people knew who donald trump had not called touring the january 6th riot, but this attempt to make an appearance on fox, this wasn't known about. >> yeah. that is the fascinating part about this. our colleague annie grayer says her sources on the january 6th committee said they didn't know trump attempted to call into fox news, and there's been so much attention about what was he doing in those hours when the capitol was breached. now we know. i mean imagine what could have happened if instead of his aides really twisting his arm to put out, you know, a statement on twitter and a video trying to maybe get the people out of the capitol he ha

oath fox news hosts endorsed false election fraud claims saying any fox news executives who knowingly allowed lies to be broadcast on the air should be reprimanded or maybe got rid of saying in a deposition, i would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it in hindsight. jon karl standing by. >>> tonight the next question after that toxic train derailment in ohio. where should that toxic waste be taken? the new fight now, states blocking it, and in that community tonight questions over the drinking water. our reporter with erin brockovich. >>> the war in ukraine and the intense fighting under way tonight for control of a key city, and this evening, the u.s. warning to china not to help russia with weapons or ammunition. what the state department said about this today and what china is now saying nit. ian pannell in ukraine. >>> tonight the former american swimming star found dead in the u.s. virgin islands and what we know so far. >>> the new warning tonight about a popular artificial sweetener and the reported risk of heart attack and stroke. >>> and anyone who loves march madnes

including folks at fox corp.use aide who's become a senior vice president at fox talking about brand assessment and saying anyway that viewers faith in fox has dipped to near record lows. you're seeing hosts like tucker carlson, sean hannity and laura ingram on group texts screaming essentially into their iphones about the fact that some of their journalistic colleagues are trying to tell viewers the truth whether on the air or on twitter doing fact checking on stuff on their own shows. saying this is vandalism to our brand that's taken a half century to build up. you're seeing what dominion lawyers are crafting. this is really the evidence they've chosen to share, but there's so much of it that you're seeing this motivation being presented on platter to the public and presumably to the jury for the trials set to take place in some weeks. >> and in those court filings, text messages talking about getting jackie fired about pushing back and trying to clarify some of the lies that were out there. david and stephani

why did fox keep pushing election denial on the air? the filings in the dominion suit suggest that fox executives were worried about losing viewers to news max, a smaller conservative channel that was constantly selling election denial. trump himself, furious that fox had called arizona for biden, had encouraged his followers to switch to news max. >> since 2002, fox news has basically been a preemiements ratings champion in cable news, and you see here the moment that they see any sign that might be slipping away, it's panic. >> but the dominion filings also say that when then president trump tried to call in to fox on january 6th, the day his supporters attacked the capitol, fox executives refused to put trump on the air. fox news denies dominion's claims in the lawsuit and says it's proud of its 2020 election coverage. fox says these new court filings contain cherry-picked quotes that lack context. in a statement, fox accused dominion of generating, quote, noise and confusion and says the core of this case remains freedom of speech a

it exposes fox, it continues to expose fox for the dishonest organization that it is and it starts aty top with rupert murdoch, who is of course the fox corporation chair and the boss behind the whole network. in this legal filing, we have now our first look at rupert murdoch's deposition that was taken by dominion last month. and in it, he acknowledges that his top hosts, people like sean hannity, jeanine pirro, maria bartiromo, that they endorsed -- that's the language that he used -- that they endorsed some of trump's election lies, despite them knowing and him knowing that they were not true. this is a big deal, because fox has really been arguing that the hosts maybe didn't endorse it, but they gave -- they allowed commentators to come on the air and make some of these remarks, as part of a news coverage of trump's election lies. but murdoch himself is saying, no, they endorsed these lies. and elsewhere, you know, in private e-mails that dominion has obtained, for instance, murdoch is calling those lies, he says they're damaging to the country. he at one point referred to them as

that me answer that question with another quote from the dominion filings, fox knew the truth fox news better, as richard murdoch told susan scott in the aftermath of january 6th, it was all very well for sean hannity to tell you he wasn't despair about trump but what did he tell his viewers? joining us now is arizona secretary of state adrienne fontes. mister secretary of state, it's great to have you with us, thanks so much for joining us. tell us about the real and still present danger from these election lies. you were on the front lines of working to save and protect our democracy. you know the consequences of what these lies mean. >> the real threat is multi fold. first and foremost election workers, election officials across the country have been leading in droves, and that's problematic to them and their families pro-host of reasons but the bigger threat to all of us is that we are going to be going into a 2024 election season here within a year for some jurisdictions like arizona. who has an early presidential primary and we are going to be without years and years of experienc