good evening, everyone. we begin the reid out with breaking news. the newest filing in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit from dominion voting systems against fox has just been released. we are still combing through it but the more than 1,000 page filing already provides additional evidence that points to fox s intentional disregard for the truth as it continued to spread donald trump s baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen. and from the very top we have fox corporation chairman rupert mourdock admitting that fox hosts actually endorsed it skk, quote, was it wrong for fox hosts to endorse these lies? rub per the mourdock replied, quote, if they knew they were lies, yes. if they knew they were lies. and the filing does show that some of those hosts knew they were lies. in one of tucker carlson s private texts an unknown individual asks him, do you think there s real evidence of significant voter fraud? carlson replies, i don t think there s evidence of voter fra
several of them are calling out fox news for down-playing the violence of that dark day. we ll have those comments in just a moment. plus, the latest on the kidnapping in mexico that ended with two americans dead and two others in the hospital. and also we could be closer to finding out who sabotaged a russian pipeline last year. that new reporting is straight ahead. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, march 8th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin this morning with a growing number of republican senators blasting fox news and prime time host tucker carlson for showing select footage from the january 6th insurrection on his prime time show. that footage provided by house speaker kevin mccarthy. the fox news try today portray the deadly riot as peaceful, calling the insurrectionists sight seers and that lawmakers who suggest otherwise had lied to the american public. even alleging some capitol police officer
jenny kleenman and dr larny chen formerly policy director for mitt romney s presidential campaign. hello and welcome to the programme. just a week ago, 150 people ran into trouble in a small wooden boat off the coast of calabria in italy. on board were asylum seekers from afghanistan, somalia, iran. there were 20 children on board, including a newborn baby. 67 of them drowned. it s an appalling reminder of the risks involved. it is just as dangerous crossing the english channel. more than 16,000 made thatjourney in small boats last year, up from 300 in 2018. but how do you stop them? the new proposal set out by the british government today is heavy on deterrance. those who enter the uk illegally will be detained and removed to their home country or a third country like rwanda. they will be held for up to 28 days, without bail or court hearing, their claim for asylum automatically rejected and they will be banned from ever returning to the uk. and while this bill will not beco
ends in a tragedy. just a short time ago, all four were found, but two were dead. authorities have not identified the victims, but we do know that a mother of six from south carolina crossed the border from texas with three of her friends for a medical procedure, but investigators believe that once they were in the city of matamoros, they were kidnapped. we have disturbing footage. it shows the terrifying moments friday when at least one of those americans was shoved into the bed of a pickup truck at gunpoint in broad daylight, and not far from the united states border. our correspondents are covering this from all angles. josh campbell, you are getting information from your law enforcement sources about the condition of the victims and where exactly they were found. reporter: yeah, abby. i have been talking to sources since this incident began on friday, and to a person, they said, look. we re holding out hope that we will find these four, but the situation was very grim,
custodian were killed, too. can you imagine? of course you can. because at this point in this country you ve either lived through in that shooting or you ve imagined it. we cannot keep having the same conversations over and over again. tonight. we try to find a different way to talk about it. plus listen to this 2017 duet from dolly parton and miley cyrus. living in rainbow land, fluid and things are brand. i where we re free to be exactly. did you hear those inflammatory words there about rainbows? tonight? we re going to talk about why that song was deemed too controversial by one wisconsin elementary school. and gwyneth paltrow is accuser took the stand in that ski collision trial today at his story was very different from hers. we re going to play for you what happened in court, but let s begin with the latest school shooting in nashville today. i want to bring in my panel, los angeles times columnist lz granderson starve cnn john berman, former senate candidate joe pinyo