good to be with you. i m katy tur do not travel to russia. that is the message today from the state department and the white house reiterating that it is not safe right now for americans in that country. the white house says it is still trying to establish consular contact with evan gershkovich. he was arrested overnight. the 31-year-old reporter for the wall street journal said he was not spying, denying guilt in a court proceeding this morning. gershkovich is the first american journalist arrested on claims of spying since the cold war. matt bodner who was recently based is here to explain who gershkovich says they caught him doing red handed, and a former member of the biden inner circle to walk us through what the white house is likely doing behind the scenes as this marks what is considered a new low in the already ice cold relationship between moscow and washington joining me now from london for the reporting, nbc news reporter, matt bodner and mike memoli joins us as
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.
the truth matters. lies have consequences over two years ago, a torrent of lies swept dominion and election officials across america into an alternative universe of conspiracy theories. causing grievance harm to dominion and the country today s settlement of $787 million represents vindication and accountability lies have consequences fox news avoids what could have been weeks more of an embarassing coverage by settling at the last minute with dominion we ll break down the terms of this historic deal and explain the other legal issues looming for the network. the obvious right here is, it was the worst of all worlds for fox news and a lot of people wanted to see all the dirty laundry put out. a lot of it was out. it was already out. there s going to be more, because there are more of these lawsuits the new york times this morning, oalternative reality bu now account for itself outside of the right-wing bubble how it would possibly do it was a matter of great expense
principle stance against his lies about the last election? right, in this case fox is right. he s refusing to pay his bills. he has not paid up for several months. that s because there are many indications that the my pillow guy is broke and completely out of money, facing these lawsuits from dominion and others, and even before those go to trial, he s not able to pay his bills. so fox is saying look, we re happy to run your ads the moment you pay your bills, but right now you re not willing to pay. he s trying to make it a cancel culture moment and it speaks on the far-right media. if you re out there promoting trump s lies and you get sued for it and people are trying to bankrupt you for it and punish you for those sins, who will help trump next time? who will be out there lying for him next time? that gets to the incentive structures. there is an amazing e-mail from the dominion documents, where she says yeah, we should go out there and probably go on the air and say biden is pres
everybody. coca-cola kind of the same thing to everybody fox is one of these brands that is such a child of the media echo chamber, i was talking to somebody who didn t even know about the case fox as a brand means two completely different things. we did a focus group of people who are more progressive democrats. they would say fox is right wing, the arbiter of falsehoods and are very up to speed on dominion if you talk to trumpers, if you will, this is well, no, fox is where i trust they re not even getting this information. so fox as a brand is one of the very unique things that is bipolar as a brand depending on the audience you talk to for something that s such a big brand, it s so segmented. that s such a great point. and people who watch wake up in the morning i know, because my family, my mom did near the end of her life turn on the channel. they keep it on fox all day. go to bed all night on it and it