newly appointed proprieor of that material as the new speaker of the house. that s despite the fact that he pointedly refused a lawful congressional subpoena from the 1/6 select committee last year. now in defending his decision to share 41,000 hours of previously unreleased footage exclusively with far-right insurrection-friendly personality tucker carlson, mccarthy is showing americans he either does not understand or does not care about the potential risk that decision presents. speaking with the washington post, mccarthy suggests this, that the public fury over the selective release isn t really about egregious security concerns. in fact, it s about jealous, he insisted on the part of the media at the heart of the outrage. hang on. it gets better. today politico is first to report that house republicans, many of whom have framed the 1/6 insurrection as the defendants in those criminal cases as victims of a political attack are now moving to provide those defendants acce
up by the facts and when everybody from the tippy top all the way down to the company knows that that network is broadcasting lies to millions in america. should anyone still call that network a news network? it is a question worth asking today about fox news. in light of allegations by voting machine company dominion. we are still for our part pouring through court documents filed by dominion. those documents are filled to the brim with stunning revelations and evidence that fox news knew at the highest levels at the time that it was broadcasting misinformation to its audience. misinformation so dangerous that it led to death threats, harassment, ultimately it led to a deadly terror attack, so described by fbi director chris wray on the u.s. capitol dominion knew that sidney powell had never entered into an agreement to represent donald trump as his attorney. yet, she appeared on fox news over and over and over again. here is what lou dobbs said on december 10th, 2020, with
good afternoon. i m kasie hunt in washington. right now the family of tyre nichols is speaking out after all five former memphis police officers appeared in court and pleaded not guilty to his murder. for the first time since nichols death his parents were in the same room with the men who brutally beat their son last month after a traffic stop. we have to start this process of justice right now. and i want each and every one of those police officers to be able to look me in the face. they haven t done that yet. they didn t do that today. they didn t even have the courage to look at me in my face. each ex-officer is facing seven charges including second-degree murder and aggravated assault. what is the latest? reporter: yeah. it was their initial appearance for the first time, we got to see them inside the courtroom where they pleaded not guilty and the legal battle getting under way. attorneys indicating this was going to be a vigorous fight. they feel the district at
the train that derailed yesterday near springfield, ohio. the derailment of another norfolk southern freight train prompted a temporary shelter in place for nearby residents, and cnn s polo sandoval joins me now. polo, we re getting some new wrinkles of information about what was on that train yesterday. very interesting. what can you tell us? reporter: yeah, jim. in the last couple of hours, we heard from an initial at norfolk southern, who is the owner and operator of the train that derailed in springfield, ohio, yesterday afternoon, confirming that the train was transporting hazardous material. however, that it was not on train cars that derailed. roughly 20 of the 212 train cars that were going south from northern ohio down to birmingham ended up leaving the tracks. officials there saying this accident happened in an area that does not have any protected water source. and most importantly, according to the state s epa director, that there was no release of any sort of c
in the wake of the 2020 election, fox news found itself trapped in a confine entirely of its own making. they could tell the truth to the viewers, as all new networks, even fox, inspired to do and are prepared to do. with election decision debts and models, to call races accurately. or, kurt number two, fox news could came to the life and conspiracies being told by the man had almost completely synced up with so closely aligned with by that point. the disgraced ex-president for taking that path would mean that fox news would shield its millions of viewers from the sophisticated and expensive data-driven results produced by its own, competent election desk. importantly, fox news realizes at the highest level of that company, that it cannot do both. according to brandon reporting in the new york times, fox news decision to promote joe biden on election night, it was a call they were able to make ahead of other networks. it is a call that they got right ahead of other networks.