but maybe lou dobbs, maybe maria as commentators.r asked, question, we went through fox host maria bartiromo, yes, come on. >> sidney, we talked about the dominion software. i know there were voting irregularities. tell me about that. >> that's to put it mildly. the computer glitches could not and should not have happened at all. that is where the fraud took place. >> then murdoch was asked, what about fox host janine pirro, he answered, quote, i think so. >> the president's lawyers alleging a company called dominion, which they say started in venezuela with cuban money a back door is capable of flipping votes. >> another question posed to murdoch, fox business host lou dobbs, his answer, oh, a lot. >> this president has to take, i believe, drastic action, dramatic action, to make certain that the integrity of this election is understood or lack of it, the crimes that have been committed against him and the american people. >> what about fox host sean hannity, murdoch's answer, a bit. >> it will be impossible to ever know the true, f

now we have learned trump did try to call lou dobbs at fox.ed from dominion voting systems' $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against fox. new text messages also reveal how several big names at the network really felt about trump and those pushing his 2020 voter fraud claims. sean hannity at one point texting that rudy giuliani was, quote, acting like an insane person. laura ingraham texting rudy is such an idiot. cnn's oliver darcy is here on this. oliver, let's start with trump trying to call into fox during the capitol attack. what do we know about this phone call? >> that's exactly right. according to this dominion filing which has so much information behind the scenes of what took place at fox during the aftermath of the election, according to the filing trump tried calling in to lou dobbs's show. lou dobbs was someone spreading a lot of lexicon sprirs theories and couldn't get be put on the phone with dobbs because fox executives vetoes this. this is cited from the fox business president who said it would be irresponsible on january 6th to

fox business host lou dobbs. oh, a lot. fox host sean hannity. >> a bit.ent, correct? >> yes, they were. about fox endorsing the narrative of a stolen election, correct? here he answers professor, no, some of our commentators were endorsing it. so he's trying to act as if people who are anchors and hosting hours on his networks, lou dobbs, maria bartiromo, sean hannity, jeanine pirro are what? are not fox? because they're anchors? and he's not even saying they're anchors. he is trying to say they're commentators, which is inaccurate. >> the whole thing makes no sense. fox is not a real thing. it's a corporation. it doesn't have a brain. it's not even an artificial intelligence. it's a bunch of people. and if the ceo of this corporation says, oh, yes, we wanted to keep the law going because it helped our bottom line, and if all of the voices of fox echo the lie and say behind the scenes, yeah, we know we're lying, but the fox isn't lying, that really is an extraordinary myth. i've got news for you, everybody. there is no fox. it's just a bunch of people, an

a producer lou dobbs who was fired, by the way, called it complete bs. maria bartiromo called one of powell's emails kooky, and rupert murdoch called rudy giuliani's claims really crazy stuff and damaging. at one point, tucker told laura ingraham in their group chat, sidney powell is lying, by the way, i caught her. it's insane. she responded, she's a complete nut. no one will work with her. ditto with rudy. another time, fox executive bill salmon commented on fox coverage of supposed election fraud to one of the people who made fox's accurate election night call for arizona and then lost his job because of it. in that email, salmon wrote, quote, it's remarkable how weak ratings make good journalists do bad things. and yet they kept airing these false claims. and hosting these kooks day after day, even as dominion sent fox literally 3,682 emails in real time asking, pleading, demanding that fox stop spreading lies about their company. fox's corporate representative confirmed that those emails were widely circulated within the company, and yet, they persi

>> i think so. >> lou dobbs a lot. sean hannity. a bit.dorsing it and the dominion lawyer says about their endorsement of a stolen election? yes. they endorsed is what rupert murdoch says. all while he is behind the scenes saying he does not believe any of trump's election lies. >> a lot of these fox hosts behind the scenes didn't seem to believe it either. >> no they didn't. this actually exposes the fact fox is not at its core a news network. news networks deliver the truth as they know it to viewers. they do the best job to attain the truth and sometimes it is not perfect but that is what they do. in this case we know that behind the scenes, top personnel knew that the narrative they were pushing to viewers was not true. we have evidence now that shows they did this in search of profit so they didn't lose viewership. >> and they were afraid of losing viewers. >> exactly. they did this so they didn't lose viewers to the smaller right wing channels trump was promoting after the election was called on fox for biden. >> when i spoke to you

lou dobbs? oh, a lot. fox's sean hannity. oh, a bit."s 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 rocks over and see that they were all doing what we knew was damaging our democracy with the knowledge that what they were doing was in their own words, quote, damaging democracy? >> nicolle,

a transcript which reveals that he agreed that some fox hosts, like sean hannity, like lou dobbs, mariamo, that they endorsed claims that the election was stolen. he rejected the idea that fox endorsed the claims, but concedes some hosts, acting like commentators endorsed the claims, claims that he also acknowledges according to the new legal filing just released a few minutes ago that he called bs and damaging. that's how murdock was referring to some of the claims that donald trump was promoting after the 2020 election, after he lost that election. these new documents, these new revelations add to the mountain of evidence that shows that behind the scenes people like murdock knew the election was not stolen, but they were seemingly okay or allowed their employees to go on air and to push these falsehoods. >> i think jeanine pirro was named in this as well. oliver darcy, thank you. >>> with us "usa today" columnist kerstin powers and david urban, republican strategist and former trump campaign adviser. kerstin, how significant do you think it is that murdock is acknowledging that lou d

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't make things up or we are supposed to call you want to. as hosts, we cannot make up lies out of full cloth. that's not what you do at a real network. that's what his hosts were all doing. >> i think it's important to point this out. at a news network, what we do seen and what other news organizations do, they try to find out what the truth is and then try to relay that to their audiences. and of course is not always perfect. sometimes there are mistakes, but that's what they do. in this case, we are seeing that fox knew

but maybe lou dobbs or maria as commentators, meaning maria bartiromo.x o's maria bartiromo. murdoch says yes, come on. >> sydney, we talked about the dominion software. i know there were voting irregularities. tell me about that. >> that is to put it mildly. the computer glitches could not and should not have happened at all. that is where the fraud took place. >> actual evidence from the air. then murdoch is asked by kfox host jeanine pirro and he says, i think so. >> the president's lawyers are alleging a company called dominion that started in venezuela to and with the assistance of a smart medic software it's capable of flipping votes. >> foxbusiness host lou dobbs? murdoch's answer, a lot. >> this president has to take i believe drastic, dramatic action to make certain that the integrity of the selection is understood, or lack of it. the crimes committed against him and the american people. >> okay. next question. kfox host sean hannity. murdoch answered, a bit. >> it will be impossible to ever know the true fair accurate election results. >> in a

maybe lou dobbs. jeanine pirro? i think so. lou dobbs? oh, a lot. sean hannity? a bit. were in that document, correct? yes, they were. about fox endorsing the narrative of a stolen election, correct? >> no, some of our commentators were endorsing it. he's literally saying only the people on our air were saying it, but not fox news. that doesn't sound like a defense either. >> it's definitely not. what's amazing about this is it's bad enough as a tv host if you put somebody on and give them a platform. that's actionable, meaning you can sue somebody for that and recover for that. there's also evidence that's come out of this case that rupert murdoch, lachlan murdoch, they had their hands meddling in the day-to-day operations. they weren't benevolent dictators that didn't know what was going on. the defamation and responsibility goes from top to bottom. that's a critical point, because no matter what rupert murdoch wants to do, he can't punt liability or exposure just to his hosts and say they went rogue and did what they wanted to do and endorsed it, no. they gave them a

jeanine pirro, lou dobbs, sean hannity, still with fox, what kind of an impact is this having on theimpact, wolf, because it's a major distraction. this network is going to have to cover the 2024 election in which donald trump is going to participate. he is still spewing election lies on his own truth social platform. every time they're going to have to revisit election coverage, this will haunt him. a big finding from today, wolf, is that, yes, these hosts knew this was bad. that deposition from last month saw exchanges of text messages in which the tucker carlson's of the world conceded this was a problem. what's new today is that the top level executives also knew in realtime this was bad, and they did nothing to stop it. in fact, fox's chief legal and policy officer is quoted in the deposition basically saying that fox had a responsibility to stop these election lies from being peddled, and it still acted anyway. >> so oliver, button this up for us. where does this lawsuit go from here? >> this lawsuit looks like it's going to trial, wolf. next month it's supposed to start and, y

donald trump, according -- trying to dial into lou dobbs's show. i can't think of an analogy was in other media organization. >> people at fox would actually point to your final and say, msnbc is the equivalent. i don't see it that way. i think msnbc -- you have liberal viewpoints -- >> david. i won't be getting off air tonight and ringing the white house for a chat. i can assure you. >> that's exactly right. it seems to me the corporate ownership of msnbc has embraced this as a successful business play for them. not as partisan effort over and expression of ideological desire an outcome. what you really have to do, to my mind, is to look at rupert murdoch's tabloid, particularly in. london which align themselves with various parties at various times. from the slightly center-left to the far right in terms of their political interests. and the interesting thing there is it is not fixed to any party permanently. or one candidate or political figure. as a result, no politician can count other support enduringly. it allows them to have head decades --

murdoch acknowledges trump's baseless claims of a stolen election were promoted by fox hosts including lou dobbs, sean hannity, janine pirro. maria bartiromo, can you tell us about the interest on the other side of this dominion software? well obviously, they have invested in it for their own reasons and are using it to commit this fraud to steal those dominion lawyers asked murdoch if he was aware that the host endorsed the false claims, and he replied, yes, they endorsed, but murdoch denied fox itself promoted the election lies. the network responded to the filing , saying it was simply covering and commenting on allegations by a sitting president. we do want there to be room to be sincerely wrong, sometimes even negligently. wrong but you know you weren't malicious. on the other hand, there's a point at which you start to destroy the fabric of democracy, especially around allegations of, you know, vote changing. previous court filings show fox stars, including tucker carlson and laura ingram, privately doubted the trump team's claims. fox has tried to get this case dismissed on first amendmen

here is what lou dobbs said on december 10th, 2020, with sidney powell. >> my first guest tonight has new information regarding electoral fraud in the radical left's efforts to steal an election. we have tremendous evidence already of fraud in this election. >> lou, frankly nobody else over there had in, let alone tremendous evidence, so the statements were completely false and according to dominion, dobbs admitted during his deposition in the lawsuit that he knew the statements were false. and here is sidney powell on fox news on november 14th, 2020, talking about the baseless conspiracy that dominion had ties to venezuela. >> the money came out of venezuela and cuba and for the purpose of altering votes an secure the re-election of hugo chavez and then maduro. they used it in argentina, there is an american citizen who has exported it to other countries and it is one huge, huge criminal conspiracy that should be investigated by military intelligence for its national security implications. >> i want to laugh, i really do. but what is to terrifying is that they knew that what powell s

murdoch's recognizes claims were promoted by fox hosts, including lou dobbs, janine euro, and -- janine pirro, and maria bartiromo. >> they have invested in their own reasons and are using it to commit this fraud. >> dominion lawyers asked murdoch if he was aware that the hosts endorsed the false claims, and he replied "yes." the network responded to the filing saying it was covering and commenting on allegations made by a sitting president. >> you weren't -- hand there is a point at which you start to destroy the fabric of democracy, especially around allegations of vote-changing. >> previous court filings show took our carlsen and laura ingraham privately doubted the trump team's claims. for april. jobina: this morning concern for a popular bay area radio host is growing. he has been missing since thursday and is considered at risk. jv hosts the he is 54 and has tattoos on his arms. fans have been calling into his show to give words of support as his on-air coast workers -- coworkers are trying to make sense of his disappearance. >> it is difficult for all of us, obviously. >> same wi

it's the same way lou dobbs would win wet t-shirt contests.ing february 4th the advance figure for unemployment claims was 19 of,000 increase of 13,000 from previous weeks unrevised level. slight uptick. what does this money for our money going forward? let's hear your applause. well that, sucks. tyrus applauded e- here's the second story. the canadian teacher with dry fake breasts. [hooting] >> filthy, filthy people. big boobs wins again. hit it! >> if it happens up there, we report down here. you're watching gazoomba gate, canada 2023. week 21. >> you remember the teacher whose boobs are so big you'll need a sherpa to climb them. a photo was taken in a high school where she teaches students how to work with wood. [laughter]. >> no, around her wood definitely doesn't mean they're a rousted but speaking of wood she's hobbling along on crutches with unknown injury. she talls over i'm confident she will bounce rights back in. students saw those shadows that meant six more weeks of nipples the sizes of door knobs. [applause] >> talk about the sch

rupert murdoch specifically named sean hannity, and maureen and lou dobbs. >> it will be impossible toever know the true, fair, accurate election results. >> sydney powell leading charge against dominion, she has enough evidence of fraud. >> president's lawyers company called dominion started in venezuela with back door is capable of flipping votes. >> all eyes and lies that the ceo knew about. you made a key point. i asked the show staff to reach before, i used to cover the white house, when i covered the white house, two great guys that worked for fox news. a lot of good fox reporters who get blown out of the water by that. >> no question. >> these filings laying bear fallacy, separation between opinion and editorial. on the editorial side. real producers who go to work everyday and do their job in a professional manner. look i understand the broader systemic issues, dangers, absurdity. there is also real life people. you are watching text messages, getting one of the colleagues fired at the white house to delete tweets, telling them to shut up because they are killing the stock pric

lou dobbs, maria bartiromo, jeanine pirro, and sean hannity.daugh made it clear that he does not believe the right wing talk network , as an entity, promoted the lies, but the fox corporation chairman admitted that he wished fox news had issued a more forceful response. murdaugh testified , i would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing, in hindsight. when asked what the consequences should be for fox executives who knowingly allowed lines to be broadcast, murdaugh replied, quote, they should be reprimanded. they should be reprimanded, may be gotten rid of. 's shocking remarks came during a deposition taken by dominion voting systems. the voting technology company is suing fox news for $1.6 billion over unproven fraud claims from its 2020 election coverage. earlier i asked presidential historian douglas brinkley about murdaugh's attempt to shift the blame away from the network and towards certain hosts. >> fox news is in deep trouble. murdaugh is trying to make a distention between a few of his anchors, if you have his on-air personalities,

>> well, there are no penalties for the people pushing these lies aside from lou dobbs who lost his showre the people fact-checking trump in realtime. in one of the documents that we saw of tucker carlson and shawn hannity were conspiring to punish white house correspondent jackie hinrich or bill simon was going to call the election for joe biden and rupert murdoch said that he should be fired and then let go from the network w were the people telling truth over there at fox news which is more remarkable, and whether the fox viewers are hearing this, they are not. they have a show that purportedly covers media in a fair way, and howard kurtz went on the show, and he is not allowed, as the network made a decision, not to cover this explosive scandalous story for the viewers. so the fox viewers are not hearing a word about this on the channel. >> it is interesting to see if it does make it to trial for april whether some of that will in fact break through. oliver, appreciate it as always, thank you. >>> we are joined by the washington white house bureau chief, and i wanted to ask you about

very few of them seemed to be true believers and all of this, except for someone like lou dobbs. they are still on the air. what do we make of that? >> it's fox news is a political operation in some of the things that came out were not just about the case but more broadly how fox operates. robert murdoch gave joe biden campaign ads to jared kushner, confidential ads before the election, giving insight into strategy and confidential information, because it helped the donald trump campaign. they provided materials for political purposes all across the way, and it's because they function like that sort of oxidation. they didn't care, because the ends testify the means and the money lines the pocketbook. even rupert murdoch says that. so all the reporters who tried to tell the truth they got punished to fire, but not people like -- because the feature is the buck. >> the feature is the buck. angelo caruso, and david david folkenflik, thank you both so very much. still ahead, florida's stunt governor presents the latest installment in his latest anti-woke agenda. but will be it be eno

. >> greg: ever since lou dobbs left i can only ask you these questions. >> liz: oh, man.ike his own boss. >> greg: that's what i say. if you own your own business you can sexually harass. if they're into it though it's not harassment. >> liz: but wasn't hunter biden setting up face time calls? >> greg: yes. >> liz: who have sex on the face time calls? is he doing zoom calls with the sisters. >> greg: no, he said not on my face... time. [laughter] >> greg: thank you. i think we should go after that. >> jamie: i heard he sends them to hr but it's just him in a porn mustache. [laughter] >> greg: all right, now we're going to go. i'm sweating. it's the left versus the right in a pledge of allegiance fight. like a red-hot chili pepper, or...your inflamed eyes are so watery they need windshield wipers, it's not too late for another treatment option for thyroid eye disease, also known as t-e-d. to learn more, visit treatted.com that's treatt-e-d.com. hey, man. you could save hundreds for safe driving with liberty mutual. they customize your car insurance... so you only pay for w

fox news as a whole endorsed the lies, instead ping it on sean han hasn't any, jean shapiro and lou dobbss is the culmination of over a four-year effort to overthrow this president. >> reporter: murdoch's deposition made public in a legal filing from dominion voting systems' $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against fox. that same deposition revealed murdoch called trump's election lies, quote, bullshit and damaging in an email and still -- >> at no point did he decide we have to pull them off the air or we have to prevent this from happening. and he essentially acknowledged at a certain point that this was a strategy to win back voters who had been alienated by fox news' call and projection on election of arizona for joe biden. >> there was an enormous panic going on inside fox news. these people were freaked out about the possibility that their most extreme viewers or even their core viewers would move to newsmax. >> reporter: newsmax, a smaller conservative channel that constantly pushed election denial is believed by media analysts to have siphoned off viewers from fox after fox called

lou dobbs was the worst offenders giving air to sidney powell, who even tucker carlson deemed a liar. of evidence of everything i have said here and on radio for years, namely that certain media are operating as the equivalent of pro wrestling. only fox hid that it was fake. a briefing when they began making unsubstantiated allegations of fraud, i can't in good countenance continue to show you this. a fox executive deemed him a brand threat. the fox motive, it was not ideology. it was not an allegiance to donald trump. it was 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 2

. >> on certain shows first, maria bartiromo and lou dobbs you saw a huge poe meigs of conspiracy theories of sidney powell and later mike lindell on tucker carlson's show after sidney powell and you saw them lean away from their own reporting, their own news side and start to lean into and it got more into the news coverage of fox as well and started to promote the idea more and more that trump had won, that there was something wrong, that dead people voted and machines were compromised, all these theories to get their own viewers off the hook for feeling bad about losing, about trump losing. and what happens after that is actually more important look in a story i did last year, i reported that, you know, around november a message was delivered by murdoch to suzanne scott, clean house. what happened after that, chris, a high ranking politics editor was fired. the washington bureau chief was forcibly retired. and they replaced those people with more pliable people. and from then on it was pretty clear what the direction of the network was going to be and we saw that on january 6th. we saw

but maybe lou dobbs, maybe maria bartolo romo as commentators. >> i think what he was doing was givingy a difference here. the idea these representatives of fox were speaking on behalf or knowingly representing fox is the key issue here. one of his statements, wolf, was i would have but i didn't. well, the law will answer whether he should have. remember, you can't be a conduit of false information if you know it is false or are disregarding the truth in some way. that is the actual malice standard of defamation law. of course, a 2027 news cycle, you will have some level of not getting it right the first time or some level of having a benefit of the doubt. but if you are knowingly putting out false information and instead as they are articulating in your lawsuit you are doing so because you are hoping to ingratiate yourself to donald trump or remain viewers over a rival network, that's not going to be a justifiable news making decision. it will be one that points more towards actual malice. this is a huge, huge case. >> let me bring you into this. what do you make of rupert murdoch say

lou dobbs was a worst offender, giving air to trump lawyer sidney powell, who even tucker carlson deemeda liar. the motion for summary judgment filed by dominion is full of evidence of everything i have said here and on radio for years, namely that certain meade wra are operating as the equivalent of pro wrestling, only fox hid from their viewers they knew it was fake. when neil cavuto cut away from a white house briefing when kayleigh mcenany made allegations of fraud, cavuto said i can't continue to show you this. the fox motive was not ideology, it was not an allegiance to donald trump. it was greed, pure and simple. they created an audience they could no longer control, an audience that believed the garbage they were putting on the air, and they feared that they might lose that base to a competitor like news max. in an email to fox news ceo suzanne scott, murdock wrote that news max needed to be watched and didn't want to antagonize trump further and stressing everything at stake here. what might he have meant by everything? the big three cable news networks earned an estimated $5.7

aftershocks that range from the cancellation to the big lie host, lou dobbs to the murdoch deposition that's hitting the papers to open questions about whether or not the company will end up paying over a billion dollar in punishment. murdoch says he told kushner, the numbers are the numbers and the numbers on the coverage that day trump lost arizona. i'll telling you that because it's true. we all saw it, and on that derrick they were accurate about trump's loss. that didn't last. ensuing coverage kept pushing lies about trump's loss and voting machine companies and these broad attacks on the entire elections legitimacy which we know how feed an insurrection based on things like a nonsense source of trump lawyer sidney powell who told fox in advance they were going to present a story based on what they learn about voter fraud through someone who says she learned about it via time travel and communicating with a ghost. as we say on the show, this ain't rick and morty. rupert murdoch knows that, too. he admits it. fox news hosts endorsed the lie. they didn't fact check it. they endorse

he answered, not fox, no, but maybe lou dobbs, maybe maria -- as commentators. exists, illegally to such a line exists between the organization and what is people say? >> what he was doing was giving a distinction without a difference. the idea that these representatives of fox for speaking on behalf. or that they were knowingly representing box is gonna be the real key issue here. one of the statements, wolf, as i could have but i didn't. well the laws can answer whether he should have. the cars remember, you can't be a conduit of false information. if you know it's false. are you disregarding the search truth in some way. it's the actual malice standard of defamation law you. can president inform -- 24/7 news cycle, wolf, we're gonna have business where there's some level of not getting right right the first time. are some level of having a benefit of the doubt. but if you're knowingly playing out false information. and instead as they're articulating in their lawsuit. you're doing so because you're hoping to ingratiate yourself to donald trump. or try to reta

other hosts would do the same and that is not the way it is now with lou dobbs even less so.e encouraging and basically the entirety of news corporation is behind desantis and the candidacy at this point. that is different than saying trump is wrong, from saying the wrong things. i don't think, and mueller can speak to this better than i. can i don't think that they are likely to start doing that because they are still in this litigation. i think they are concerned about anything that they say publicly but they are definitely in a bind. just of their own making in terms of how they handled donald trump. >> do you agree with that? that they would have to think twice about what they say about the presidents election lies that he is spinning? >> absolutely. i mean, you see just in the last few days, it has been reported that -- currency can't talk about the place case on air. precisely because they don't want people saying things that might come back to bite them in the litigation. >> this filing also describes rupert murdoch's relationship -- with the son-in-law to the presiden

it, in the end, you can't undo what sean hannity and laura ingraham and maria bartolome mow and lou dobbsit's on the hook for not just the $1.8 million for regular damages but also the punitive damages. that's why my advice to them would be to settle because it's not going to get any better from here on out. >> dave, quickly, the legal potency or relevancy of rupert murdoch saying yes, they endorsed the lies. >> yeah, endorse, endorse. lia like sara said, did they really endorse it. that's the issue at the trial, did fox news endorse it? or just put on the whack jobs just spewing nonsense? well, you have the top dog now saying we endorsed it. i wish i had done something about it, but we endorsed it. but kudos to him for being honest, but at the same time, that's going to cost him a lot of money. >> sara, what are the implications and the fallout, potentially, for the company and the brand? >> these are huge implications for what happens here. for example, if fox wins and they don't get sued for $6.1 billion or more. i think that sets the frame for what to tell people around elections. wha

woul it's the same way lou dobbs would win wet t-shirt contests in the week ending february 4th. >> the advance figure for f unemployment claims waors one hundred ninety six thousand, an increase of thirteen thousand from the previous weeks. ase ofunrevised level of one hundred and eighty three thousand. it's a slight uptick unrevised,t does this mean for our economy m going forward? >>oney for okay, let's hear your applause. wow, wow.. that's tyrus applauded. here's the secons the second story. >> the canadian teacher with giant fake, filthy,. [hooting] >> filthy, filthy people. well, big wins again. hit it if it happens there. youe we report down here. you're watching zumba canada, 2023 week. twenty one . i much happier you remember her. >> the teachers whose are sor whos big you'll sherpa to climb you them. >> well, she's back. a a brand new photo was taken of her inside the high school where she teaches students how to work with wood. now, around her wouldroun definitely doesn't mean they're aroused. >> but speaking of wood,d bu she's hobbling along on a pair of crutches with an unk

year-old was questioned about whether popular fox personalities like sean hannity, maria bartiromo and lou dobbsmade by form r president trump and his allies who falsely claimed the race was rigged and stolen. according to documents, later adding i would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it in hindsight. this despite him saying found half of what trump was saying was bs and damaging. >> he's conceding that the fox news host endorsed the claims that the dominion election results were false. that they knew in the back rooms and internal communications that those claims were false. >> reporter: when questioned about whether he could have asserted some control over the network's programming, according tot file, i could have, but didn't. documents also revealed conversations between murdoch and suzanne scott. murdoch wanted hosts to say the election is over and joe biden won. but the documents say scott told him we need to be careful about using the shows and pissing off the viewers. over night in a statement, fox news writing dominion's lawsuit has always been more about what will generate

you recall that when we talk about consequences, the fox empire already canceled an entire show of lou dobbs, a pretty famous but controversial media figure after they were warned about getting sued for a lot of money in these kind of cases. so that's part of what's happening here. do you are a move executives, other people, do you course correct when the receipts inside this case also show a culture and executive operation inside fox that up to the top was pretty down with lies, which is the opposite of journalism and makes it harder for them to defend themselves in this case. now, murdoch was motivated to keep everything going as it was going in november and december. they expected trump to leave the white house. they didn't know necessarily what would happen on january 6th, but they fed the lies that led people to act out that day. today's filing also reveals, when asked why fox continues to give a platform to, for example, mike lindell, who continues to this day to lie about dominion, murdoch said, it's not red or blue, it's green. even in a short form answer he has his gift of sound bit

exposed during the january 6 hearings, but according to this dominion filing trump tried calling in to lou dobbsfox refused to put him on air with an executive saying it would have been irresponsible given i think what the rhetoric we heard from trump during that day to allow him to go on and address viewers. so it shows here that they had some editorial judgment at some points in time. to the point where they were not allowing the president of the united states to go on air. >> that is pretty remarkable considering the story woven by the january 6 committee about the president watching tv on that day. pretty interesting information to add to the narrative. oliver darcy, thanks very much for your reporting on this. let's discuss it all with our cnn legal analyst and white house ethics czar and the cnn commentator and host of the "you decide" podcast. norm, let me start with you. it is one thing to disagree with something that your network airs but do you think examples in this court filing show that something beyond that was going on i mean legally do they show a disregard for the truth in a way

dominions case is that fox news, were well aware that hosts, lou dobbs, maria bartiromo, jeanine pirrothink that is the case that has _ his media companies? i think that is the case that has been _ his media companies? i think that is the case that has been made - his media companies? i think that is| the case that has been made against fox that it was a wanton disregard for the truth in order to advance their financial interest. for the truth in order to advance theirfinancial interest. if for the truth in order to advance their financial interest. if you look at what rupert murdoch did elsewhere in those testimonies, he also pressured fox director coverage to help trump up before the election and help other republicans before the election and then to help ron desantis to diminish trump afterward so it is pulling the curtain back on how fox news operates not in the traditionaljournalistic how fox news operates not in the traditional journalistic standards but here you have a corporate owner to pressuring news coverage of the individual reporters and programmes on fox news which is pre

he said former host lou dobbs did so a lot and sean hannity did so a bit.1-year-old media mogul emerged as a major character in the latest filing by the election technology company, which claims the network gravely hurt its business prospects when it allowed two lawyers for president trump, sidney powell and rudolph giuliani, to air wild claims of fraud on fox programs. murdoch denied fox promoted those views, saying the network was simply treating it as news, that the president and his lawyers were saying this. but dominion's filing shows murdoch was intimately involved in skewing the programming in the chaotic weeks as he tried to straddle the issue of election fraud in a way that would not anger viewers or the president. it is (202) 748-8001, our line for republicans. (202) 748-8002 democrats and for all others (202) 748-8002 -- the democrats line (202) 748-8000. the supreme court case coming up this morning, two cases regarding president biden's lan on student loan forgiveness, and our live coverage will be on c-span three. we got a preview of that earl

in response to direct questions about fox news hosts maria bartiromo, jeanine pirro, lou dobbs and seanon fraud claims on fox news. according to the court documents, murdoch said it was a business decision. quote, it is not red or blue, it is green. murdoch also confirmed that he could have exerted some control over the network, most notably by telling fox news ceo susan scott to stop putting rudy giuliani on the air, but chose not to. a dominion spokesperson issued this statement late yesterday. quote, dominion is a strong believer in the first amendment and its protections. as long-settled law makes clear, the first amendment does not shield broadcasters that knowingly or recklessly spread lies. fox news has defended its coverage and issued a lengthy statement last night calling the lawsuit baseless and a, quote, blatant violation of the first amendment. >>> it is election day in chicago. voters are heading to the polls in the mayoral election. a wide field of challengers is casting doubt on incumbent mayor lori lightfoot's chance at reelection. nine candidates are on the ballot, all