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
police calling law enforcement s response to the rampage a, quote, abject failure. plus, the latest on the bipartisan effort to pass new gun legislation as the legislative text on a narrow set of provisions is released. there is hope. and we re keeping an eye on the markets as stock futures plummeted overnight after yesterday s rally. this, as president biden prepares to call on congress to approve a three-month gas tax holiday. we have a lot to get to, mika. we talk about the bipartisan gun legislation. we had chris murphy on, a democrat who s been a champion of gun safety reform for quite some time now, certainly since 2014. it s a small step forward, but it is a step forward. the senator corrected me and said, no, actually, this is a significant piece of gun legislation. i think it s something that, again, when we re looking at the federal government, you look at the impact of the january 6th hearings, how effectively they ve been run over the last several weeks and
was not enough to call them and viewer thoughts should be considered. ms. maccallum said the game is very, very different. in an effort to give them what they want to hear knowing it s bs has continued up to literally last night. the protestors were angry. they believed that the election they had just voted in had been unfairly conducted. they were right. in retrospect it is clear the 2020 election was a grave betrayal of american democracy given the facts that have since emerged about that election, no honest person can deny it. joining me now is aaron blake. katie fang, msnbc legal contributor and curt bardella. aaron, i have been scrolling as quickly as i can through your twitter feed. it s faster than reading through the giant monster filing. give us the highlights, i guess
disregarded the falsity of what was being put out and pace with sickically peddled to fox news viewers. when you re suing somebody you can say, in good faith, i was reporting. it was newsworthy. it was important to talk about a challenge to a 2020 presidential election but what does fox news in here is the fact that they may be at some small measure of time thought maybe this is not totally credible, but in the absence of the evidence they kept on asking for they kept on pushing out a falsehood. that is the problem for fox news when it comes to this particular litigation. i want to emphasize something. it may not necessarily get to a jury in april. a judge could readily find in a couple of weeks on march 21st that dominion has proved its burden as a matter of law and the only thing left to determine is damages. wow. i mean, look, let me bring you in, curt. this is another text. between sean hannity and laura
they would rather focus on hunter biden. they would rather focus on other topics where they can make headway, they believe, against president biden and the democrats. and because defending former president trump on the merits is something that leaves them very uncomfortable. so, curt, congressman jim comber is expected to lead the oversight committee. he was on fox talking about what he plans to do. the democrats have had the majority in both the house and the senate. and they ve completely turned a blind eye on the biden administration, to their disastrous policies, to their runaway spending and to the elephant in the room, this influence peddling that this family continues to do. we are basing our investigations on evidence. everything we have brought forward we have reason to believe is from an investigative or oversight standpoint. you wrote an op-ed talking