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Special counsel jack smith against donald trump. In an interview with cnn, maralago employee brian butler painting a painting a very specific picture of trumps inner circle, and how it operated more like a mafia family than anything else. With loyalty prized above everything. A world where fealty to the boss led to criminal exposure. Now, nbc news has not independently confirmed butlers identity as trump employee number 5 and he declined nbcs request for comment. In his interview last night, butler says he helped trumps codefendants, walt nowta and carlos move those boxes containing some of our nations most Sensitive National security secrets. Watch. He followed me. He pulled out, got behind me, got to the airport, i ended up loading all the luggage i had and he had a bunch of boxes. You noticed that he had boxes. Oh, yeah, they were the boxes that were in the indictment, the white bankers boxes. Thats what i remember. Did you have any idea at the time that there was potentially u. S.
of the fox corporation to settle defamation lawsuit brought by dominion voting systems continue today. fox will pay dominion a record $787.5 million, while fox news was largely silent on the massive payouts. senate majority leader chuck schumer was not rupert murdoch s legacy is forever sealed as the network that sought to undermine american democracy. one prime time segment. at a time and dominion isn t done either they have pending lawsuits against the right wing networks, o a n and newsmax as well as against allies of the former president rudy giuliani, mike lindell and sidney powell. in a moment, we re going to talk to former fox anchor gretchen carlson in her first interview since the settlement, but before we do, it is worth noting that fox is legal jeopardy is far from over the voting technology companies . smartmatic is suing the network for $2.7 billion for they say we re over 100 false and misleading on your statement. it s about them. and fox also faces the very re
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show our dear leader and the best possible light. here you have joe biden going right there to the border to see what is going on, so i give them a lot of credit for that. visiting the border making sure the conservatives in that area know that he really is listening to their concerns about border security. he does seem to be working directly on this issue. he is very aware of what is going on in the border, coming down and seeing it has really made a big difference. laura: made a big difference, who needs comedy with these clowns? but he did do a heck of chatting up salvation army volunteers, or were they from the secret service? same difference. here we have so happy to see you, so happy to see you. laura: okay, now if you are a democrat, you re still waving off concerns about joe s age and declining cognition, then you are just in denial, or maybe you know that although biden is one fall away from the senior center lunchroom, he is still the sharpest kni