joe scarborough presents, with some very big guests show. but before we get to that, it been a weird news day, a whole lot going on your thoughts? what a newsday it s been one of the bigger media news days in quite some time, joy a lot to cover, thank you so much by the way, you guys have to much fun we wake up so early. nobody is laughing at six a.m. too much fun entirely. listen, we were trying to replicate the phone you have, see you guys having fun, don t try to say you are not havin fun, we know you are we are trying to carry it on into the evening there you go, only after th coffee kicks in, thank you s much, joy. i really appreciate it chris hayes has the night of but he will be back tomorrow night. this is a special edition of joe scarborough presents we have so much to get t tonight including ou interviews with president jo biden, former president bill clinton, former british prim minister tony blair, secretary of state hillary clinton, an many of the other arch
but right now, it s time for fox news tonight, so let s get started. that is how the 8 pm hour a fox news started the night after tucker carlson shocked departure from that network. that was it. no reporting for the discussio on the firing, and then it works most popular primetime host but on wall street today, th response to the news was far more dramatic. fox stock fell soon after th news and the network had lost star anchor. they recovered somewhat late in the day, but still closed down nearly 3% over $500 million in marke capitalization to talk about it, let s brin in our financial columnist for the new york times, and co-hos have cnbc. we are still with michae steele, jen psaki, and stephen battaglio. but, andrew, let s start wit you, what is the impact on fox and how do you think thing have changed since the dominio lawsuit? should we expect sort of a new approach for fox news? or is it gonna be more the same? you know, i know there been so much hand-wringing, an
smartmatic s suit, let s say i is similar in terms of what th settlement is on the same kind of scale, that would be 1. billion. so, now, they spent two billio dollars. then, let s talk about abby case i don t know what you think th number is there. yes, the numbers will com down, but the way the stoc market s gonna look at the company is less about what happens to the cash pile and more about what happens to the cash going forward to this company. i think a lot of talk across some to fox, the bigger issue, and i don t have the answer to that yet, does he or not compete? does he show up on newsmax that would be a problem. that would be a demonstrable problem for them yes, all right, well we shall see. cnbc s andrew ross sorkin, greatly appreciated. so, a couple of things here. we didn t talk, michael steele yet about ray epps who was o 60 minutes last night. and of course all of the problems with the lies tha were spread around january the 6th, and particularly th supporter of don