break, you are wrong about. listen, can you lease, now that you ve beaten me. in this argument. can you just tell everybody what is going to happen next on this network? coming up next, said sources give me the last word tonight. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. and i know stephanie loves a good argument i ve seen that with them. tonight, president biden is having a busy week in washington. focusing on his domestic agenda while the white house gears up for showdowns with house republicans. then, the testimony from rupert murdoch himself in that 1. 6 billion dollar defamation suit against fox news. what he is saying about some hosts and their endorsement of trump s election lies. and special counsel, jack smith investigation into the former president is heating up. well a possible new challenger to trump emerge from the shadows? as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle.
coming to you live from our nation s capital. dominion voting systems has dropped elaine this bombshell and it s 1. 6 billion dollar defamation suit against fox news. the minions new court filing includes testimony, under oath, from the fox chairman himself, rupert murdoch. who admitted some fox news host endorsed lies of a stolen 2020 election. in response to direct questions, maria bharara, jimmy perry, lucas, and sean hannity, murdaugh responded saying quote, yes, they endorsed. but murdaugh rejected the idea that fox news, as a whole, bought into the election fraud lie saying this. 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
what trump s lawyers were saying was wrong and false. but there s no indication that he tried to stop the network from continuing to broadcast those lies. these now disclosed messages are part of the 1. 6 billion dollar lawsuit the media giant by dominion voting systems, one of the biggest voting machine vendors in the country. the lawsuit alleges that fox knowingly aired false information about dominion software based on competitive and political pressure. the texts paint a damning picture, and to this day, the network still spreads trump s election lies. and kari lake s election lies. and christine karamo s election lies. so it s no surprise, then, that in arizona, there s now a network of activists who believe that u.s. elections are so unreliable that they re trying to convince supervisors in maricopa county and phoenix to throw out all the elections that republicans lost in 2022. yeah. all of them. the minds of people have been so poisoned by republican
escalating legal troubles, stemming from false claims about her so-called stolen 2020 election. a damning legal filing has revealed that on air personalities at fox news publicly promoted those claims, while ridiculing them behind the scenes. this was all released as part of a 1. 6 billion dollar defamation suit against fox news by dominion voting systems. here is part of one text message from november 19th 2020 between tucker carlson and laura ingraham, all about trump campaign loyal lawyer, sydney powell. carlson told ingram, quote, sydney powell is lined by the way. i caught her. it s insane. ingram responded, quote, sydney is a complete nut. no one will work with her. ditto with rudy. now, here s what powell and other trump actors were saying from fox news. tonight, millions of americans do feel betrayed, according to politico, look at this. 70% of republicans don t believe this election was free and fair and for good reason. the most important part of democracy is to do it c
police officers accused in the death of tyre nichols appear in court for the first time. how the nichols family is reacting after today s developments, and the vice president doubling down on america s support for ukraine, what future aid could look like with a divided congress. as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. greatings i m simone sanders standing in for stephanie ruhle. donald trump and the tv network that s been loyal to him for years are both facing escalating legal troubles, stemming from false claims about her so-called stolen 2020 election. a damning legal filing has revealed that on air personalities at fox news publicly promoted those claims, while ridiculing them behind the scenes. this was all released as part of a 1. 6 billion dollar defamation suit against fox news by dominion voting systems. here is part of one text