mccarthy agreed to give the exclusive to fox news host tucker karlsson. someone who down played the insurrection. he spread conspiracy theories about it. and that caused concern not just among democrats but even among some republicans. and so we learned that yesterday kevin mccarthy behind closed doors to worked to assure members that security would not be compromised with the release of the video. they are trying to work with capitol police to make sure that vulnerabilities are not expoexposed. he promised that others will get access to the footage and it will take time. thank you. >> quite a development. >> yeah. >>> all right. up next, we're going to talk about whether or not fox news's billionaire owner rupert murdoch and his testimony creates a crisis for the next work. what does it mean? we have the first amendment guru floyd abrams and a former trump insider here to break it down and their perspective next. when you have chronic kidney disease. there are places you'd like to be. like h here. and here. and here. not so much here if you've been diagn

according to court documents, host tucker karlsson texted a producer on january 4th 2021. just two days before the capitol attack. we're very, very close to being able to ignore trump most nights. the conversation continues, referring to trump, he says i hate him passionately. i can't handle much more of this. the private communications from tucker karlsson are a sharp contrast to his public support for the former president as seen on his program that night. >> the president, as you may have heard, believes the election was stolen from him. georgia's secretary of state whose job it is to oversee elections disagrees. you can listen to the call yourself. it's online and make up your own mind about who is right f you have time, you ought to do that. >> reporter: the text messages are part of a trove of documents and communications released tus from dominion voting systems $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the right-wing network. fox responding to the latest document released in part saying, dominion has been caught red-handed using more distortions and misinformations i

but what's the picture that many americans are getting from watching tucker karlsson. >> good morning, everyone. welcome. so fox news host tucker carlson facing criticism after he aired selective footage and said that most of the rioters were peaceful sight seers. >> we're going to show you the new trove of new private text messages and e-mails from inside of fox news. we're also getting an inside look at the internal crisis over fox news' coverage of conspiracies and what tucker carlson really thinks about president trump. >> and we're following the latest updates on the deadly kidnapping of four americans. two are dead. two are alive and in the united states. "cnn this morning" starts right now. >> we're going to begin with this. we begin this hour with the deadly kidnapping of the four americans in mexico. >> two of them found dead. two survivors brought to the border in an ambulance protected by a heavily convoy of humvees and machine guns. the group of friends were on a road trip for a cosmetic surgery procedure when they were caught up in a drug cartel shootout and abducted in b

and i don't need tucker karlsson or anyone else to tell me what happened that day.urious -- not just furious for me, i'm furious for the people he lied to. i'm furious for the memory of the officers he insulted. i'm furious for the police officers who were beaten and injured that day. i'm furious for the staff who thought they were going to die. january 6 was an attack on our democracy. and now tucker karlsson has -- carlson have chosen to side with the enemies of democracy what's most alarming about this, most dangerous, is that he was aided and abetted by republican speaker of the house of representatives kevin mccarthy. i have to say this is a new low. speaker mccarthy's treacherous decision to coordinate with tucker carlson to distort what happened that day is beyond the pale. the worst part is the blatant lying. on november 21, 2020, carlson said in private texts that lies about voter fraud were, and i quote, shockingly reckless, and called the very conspiracy theories was promoted on the air as absurd to his colleagues. he called those propagating the big lie,