the beat with ari melber starts right now hi, ari. hi, noik coalle there s a lot happening, but that interview was certainly news making. also an exclusive many people would want so since i have you for a second, what came through to you on more than one topic talking to this fox producer turned whistle-blower it s so amazing you want to jump off the thor and process everything you heard. then we had another hour to do, soy haven t processed it i think what i m most impacted by, other than any human being going through this process of being part of and i said to her, look work cover the damage that i feel fox has done to our democracy by broadcasting lies to its millions of viewers you helped produce them. how does that work and she talked about wanting to advance her career but realizing now what she was a part of but the thing that strikes me is once again we are talk about an alleged toxic culture, a culture of misogyny. she alleged anti-semitism at fox news and th
hello there, everyone. it is 4:00 in new york when you pull back delayers and really try to understand how any one of the most damaging conspiracy theories that have over the last few years now seeped into the mainstream political conversation and corroded the body politic, from election denialism to its violent manifestation in the january 6th insurrection to putin s war in ukraine, to conspiracies about covid-19 and the vaccine and mask wearing, to the discuss around replacement theory, which has actually been cited in the manifestos of mass shooters it is fair to say it is not hyperbolic to argue that tucker carlson is the through line through all of them. he is the champion of conspiracy theories and until today he had one of the largest audiences in cable news for diss sem natting them not anymore. news broke today tucker carlson is out at the network that handed him the biggest microphone of his career that stunning announcement by fox news made this morning in a short
during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now hi, ari. thanks, nicolle welcome to the beat. i m ari melber we are tracking several stories, including maya wylie we begin with the escalating heat on defendant donald trump the nation watched as he came to new york for the first criminal arraignment of his life, a legal requirement, not a choice. trump had to sit in court for this unusually long i rainment which included a rare rebuke by the judge for threats he had been making. those threats part of a second civil case also filed this week by the d.a. dealing with the clash of some house republicans. here s the news right now. today donald trump is back in new york again and again under court order. these are not trips that he chose. they have been forced on him by the law and how often he is on allegedly, under the allegations, the wrong side of the law. if you re trying to keep track or it seems like this stuff is happening
duty to protect and defend it, so it s questionable how a sitting senator behaving that way, highly questionable. yeah, the constitution does say, for example, people who are proven traitors can t run or hold office. that part. that part doesn t say, oh, but if you don t like the election results you can make a fake commission you are our leadoff guest on a big night on the beat. i appreciate you being here. i asked to you stay and join the next conversation, which is related. i want to bring in abbie grossberg s lawyer, who was on earlier with nicolle on msnbc, the source for these tapes before we move into your case sure. what do you see as important about what is going on here with cruz, either on his side or the fox side full disclosure, as we mentioned, you re suing fox. absolutely. well, i see a through line all the way from senator cruz and the tapes that we ve shared with
they lie often to each other, and they certainly lie and try to destroy those who challenge them that s what abbie grossberg did, because she had no other chance. not only was she the victim of gender discrim nation in the terms of not being promoted to the position she should have had, but she was subjected to the most vile, hostile work environments i ve ever seen in my 31 year of practice, and it s a one last thing, because i ll jump in. i got to do that. go ahead. she mentions subpoenas. you ve mentioned the authorities. has the special counsel jack smith been in contact with you i have been contacted by several law enforcement authorities. we have we have surrendered the descriptions of all tapes we have, and we are thiin the procs