lying. tucker carlson was one of those hosts, according to court documents. now, a week after that giant payout to dominion, tucker is out at fox news, is he the sacrificial lamb or was there something else going on? fox news didn t give a reason and tucker isn t commenting, but we do have media reporter dylan byers with us to tell us all that he has so far gathered along with an expert in cable news to tell us what this means for viewers of the channel does anything change but that is not all. both cnn and nbc news have also made big media moves today, nbc that is. news cnn fired don lemon, he says he was blind sided. the network says he wasn t and comcast, the parent company of msnbc fired nbc universal ceo jeff shell after an investigation into, quote, inappropriate conduct. in a statement, shell said he deeply regrets an inappropriate relationship with a woman in the company. joining me now is nbc news senior reporter jane timm, and puck senior correspondent dylan byers.
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
government reported a second straight quarter of negative economic growth. so this complicated picture is why president biden is pushing back against talk of a recession. with both senator schumer and manchin. that s consistent with the transition to a stable steady growth and lower inflation, but if you look at our job market consumer spending, business investment, we see signs of economic progress in the second quarter as well. joining us now to take a closer look at this, cnbc senior economics reporter steve liesman and ben white, politico chief economic correspondent and host of the politico money podcast. steve, when you take all of this data into account, all these indexes, what does it tell you about the state of the economy right now? it tells us that for sure the economy has slowed. remember, we did like 6% growth in the fourth quarter and now we ve come off two quarters in a row. the first quarter we came off because of what was happening with inventories. thi
thank you. stay tuned. thank you justin jones, justin pearson getting a kick out of the white house scrum post-meeting with the president, all of the questions that are thrown out to the president that he sometimes answers, sometimes does not. joining us now from the white house is allie rafa. allie, thanks for being with us. we didn t see gloria johnson in that picture, but i think she was there as well, right she was we know that these three, at one point we saw a shot of the three sitting on couches with president biden and vice president harris it is pretty remarkable when you think of where these tennessee
president biden to declare a public health emergency on gun violence because of how often we re seeing these mass shootings happen across the country. of course, that s a big ask of president biden who himself has called for gun reform for years now but, of course, the gut check here, katie, is with this divided congress for the next two years of the president s first term it is going to be very difficult, if possible at all to get that gun reform across the finish line. they got some gun reform legislation across last year some people thought it was a little bit of a door opening and something could come after that, so far nothing even though we have seen a number of mass shootings in the past few weeks including ones where children have died. allie rafa allie, thank you very much for joining us today we appreciate it that is going to do it for me today on this monday. deadline: white house starts right now.