conspiracies by the ex-president and his allies including in the media. in its $1.6 billion defamation case pierces the hermetically sealed bubble that is fox news. the network that drives the conversation and conduct in the republican party and on the right like none other. it shows that hosts on fox news either peddled the big lie that the 2020 election was stolen from trump or gave the platform for people to spread the big lie that the election was stolen from trump for one reason and one reason only, fear, terror really of losing viewers and tumbling stock prices and viewers migrating to more radical outlets. messages and emails obtained by dominion along with testimony from fox news employees and hosts reveals that it was well known and bantered about inside fox news that the vote fraud conspiracies were as rupert murdoch put it terrible stuff, damaging everybody. and that it was, quote, very hard to credibly claim foul. claim foul, they did and panic over viewers turnin
saturday. saturdays and sundays at 8:00 and basil is back, director of the public policy. it was one of the things you read. i don t know how you read the paper. i like to share. when i get secret i snap a picture or send it to my team or read it out loud. i read this whole thing like that. i was gob smacked and i wonder, nick, if you could start with, we have plenty of time so take me through what stood out to you. well, look, the overall picture here which i think is really fascinating, it s an inside look at what the top people at fox, the primetime hosts, the executives, the murdochs, suzanne scott were thinking and saying about these allegations in the moment. when viewers were angry and wishing president trump had won re-election and their politicaling reporting staff were trying to tell their
that a criminal investigation was certainly opened by mr. durham as some people in the media suspected and reported it had been. but it hadn t been into the investigators, it had been been into donald trump. do you sense any appetite for accountability among democratic senators? i mean, absolutely. and i think it s coming from president biden himself, too. you see the way in which he s willing to go further than just calling out the maga republicans but singling out folks trying to lie about their positions on different things and trying to lie to the american people about where they stand and where the republican party stands today. i mean you kind of alluded to this, the republican party is so closely associated with conspiracy theories, the marjorie taylor greenes and other folks who are pushing these things that it s difficult for democrats to look the other way. and every time they do something different, democrats are figuring out a way to respond. but accountability is somethi
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they were criticizing us just for their viewership as we ve seen in these text messages. and i don t know understand how people like that sleep at night. i guess they re rich, but whatever. i need a clear conscience, and it just sucks they don t have any sense of conscience. you know, i don t know two of those three but i used to know shaun hannity and i believe he saw himself at one time as an advocate for law enforcement. can you just to be clear explain what the lies he pedalled meant for law enforcement that day, what you re going through and still going through? one of the things i talked about when earlier in this segment on the show you talked about how the fox news executive thought it was too dangerous or irresponsible to have donald trump on that night. why? because think about it real quick, the people on january 6th