welcome to morning joe at 6:00 a.m. in the morning willie geist not with us today, trying to relive some of the more exciting mornings of the 70s yes, that s him on chopper 5 going across it is not. see the little chopper 4, i m sorry. get it right. in the 70s, we didn t really numbers didn t count channels didn t counfreelancersi and i were. you were just there. beautiful look at new york city over the morning. it s friday. yes thursday was a very rough day for elon musk. oh, i don t know about that $3 billion rocket exploded. i m going to question that framing. they get a lot of great data out of that. it exploded. but it was a planned explosion. no. it was they got what they wanted they got massive data. it was a step forward. it was an unscheduled disas disassembly, as they call it. i have had many of those. exploded. i ve had many of those. then he planned to make people pay for twitter verification his plan to do that bl
the lawyer is saying, we re taking it to the end. something perhaps more troubling for fox news, if you have a company like smartmatic that is saying, we re not going to just get a billion or two dollars and get out of this business, we re in this business to stay we have to stay in this business, so we need an apology. just for you all at home to know how badly these people s business has been challenged, and some destroyed, i have friends who are election officials, who run elections, who say they get yelled at and accused of having smartmatic machines they say, they re only in los angeles right now. or dominion, they have dominion machines they re like, no, they do four counties over but we don t. they re getting screamed at. every election official has been taken to task because they were
watch only fox. right. so the importance of that apology is so that viewers get the correct information, that they re not being lied to. okay. they re not promulgating the lies. right well, you re concerned about that, and i understand that. a lot of people in the media that would be the reason i d ask that question. concerned about that however, the lawyers, they re interested in i m just explaining why there wasn t an apology representing their dl clients. clients are probably their primary concern is making their investors whole. if it would cost their investors $200 million to get an apology, that s not why they were in the business that s why people write editorials or talk on shows like this let s bring in nbc news legal analyst andrew wiseman andrew, i ve been stunned the past couple days, the way fox and i m not going to blame the lawyers because they do what the
in this conspiracy with dominion there is no way any elected official in america can have dominion voting machines or smartmatic voting machines unless this is adequately cleaned up when he says, we have to take it all the way to trial. we have to get an apology, that makes complete sense if they want to stay in this business for the long run that s bad news, of course, for fox news let s bring in and sorry, go ahead. and if you see this sort of tension between reporters asking lawyers questions like, why didn t you ask for ang apology, you know, look, there is frustration within the journalistic community about the way fox handled itself, but the bigger question is the service to the viewers i ll, you know, put all competition aside. fox is a powerhouse. millions of people watch fox every day. millions of people potentially
apology. they need to get a full retraction they re in that business for the long haul. they re not looking to get out of that business on wednesday, fox put out this statement on the smartmatic lawsuit, claiming it will defend its case surrounding, quote, extremely newsworthy events. the network goes on to call smartmatic s damages claims implausible and disconnected from reality but, joe, this is exactly what you pointed to when the settlement with dominion came out. that could be evidence that came o out, that the damaging, humiliating evidence, that what was happening on the air was not what they were saying off the air, and that they were misleading their viewers they ended up paying for that. that all now rolls over and gets used as evidence for smartmatic? that s not good news for fox. you have two things first of all, you have the public relations of it yeah, the texts are really bad pr wise because you re basically letting viewers know that you re lying to em when you say