8 pm eastern, the 11th hour starts right now. ht now tonight, explosive new evidence in the dominion lawsuit against fox news what host we re saying behind the scenes about the big lie. then, the five former memphis police officers accused in the death of tyre nichols appear in court for the first time. how the nichols family is reacting after today s developments, and the vice president doubling down on america s support for ukraine, what future aid could look like with a divided congress. as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. gratings i m simone sanders tanden in for stephanie ruhle. donald trump and the tv network that s been loyal to him for years are both facing escalating legal troubles, stemming from false claims about her so-called stolen 2020 election. a damning legal filing has revealed that on air personalities at fox news publicly promoted those claims, while ridiculing them behind the scenes. this was all released as part of a 1.6 billion dollar de
escalating legal troubles, stemming from false claims about her so-called stolen 2020 election. a damning legal filing has revealed that on air personalities at fox news publicly promoted those claims, while ridiculing them behind the scenes. this was all released as part of a 1. 6 billion dollar defamation suit against fox news by dominion voting systems. here is part of one text message from november 19th 2020 between tucker carlson and laura ingraham, all about trump campaign loyal lawyer, sydney powell. carlson told ingram, quote, sydney powell is lined by the way. i caught her. it s insane. ingram responded, quote, sydney is a complete nut. no one will work with her. ditto with rudy. now, here s what powell and other trump actors were saying from fox news. tonight, millions of americans do feel betrayed, according to politico, look at this. 70% of republicans don t believe this election was free and fair and for good reason. the most important part of democracy is
police officers accused in the death of tyre nichols appear in court for the first time. how the nichols family is reacting after today s developments, and the vice president doubling down on america s support for ukraine, what future aid could look like with a divided congress. as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. greatings i m simone sanders standing in for stephanie ruhle. donald trump and the tv network that s been loyal to him for years are both facing escalating legal troubles, stemming from false claims about her so-called stolen 2020 election. a damning legal filing has revealed that on air personalities at fox news publicly promoted those claims, while ridiculing them behind the scenes. this was all released as part of a 1. 6 billion dollar defamation suit against fox news by dominion voting systems. here is part of one text message from november 19th 2020 between tucker carlson and laura ingraham, all about trump campaign loyal lawyer, sydney powell.
the chief executive, hosts reacted to the journalists at fox who sought to level whether viewers and tell them the truth was extraordinary. and what it does, it gives great heft to the idea that dominion can prove this legal bar which is required a defamation of saying that either we can prove that fox put this on the air knowing that it was damaging and untrue, or that it showed reckless disregard, willful disregard of the information that they should ve had. therefore, they should be held responsible. in this case, folks up and down the hierarchy at fox were expressing not only doubts but contempt for the idea that there is any merit to the idea of fraud in the 2020. race i mean, in their own words, david, it s on the page in their own words. harry, given all of that, you re the lawyer here. how strong do you think the case is? the filing is quite damning. yeah, it s quite strong. it s unusually strong, by the way, speaking of contempt, even
wasn t being considered by people at the top ranks of fox, again and again, as people were promoting or amplifying these clearly false, clearly in the moment discredited claims, tells you what they viewed their brand. there s the question of trust and integrity were raised by people saying, we have to have the trust of our audience, they have to feel that we have integrity. but they re finding integrity in a way that is 180 degrees distant from the ways most journalists would concede even most respected journalists who are opinion journalists. you have to start with the facts. everything radiates from that. the truth is the only thing that matters, harry, this just begs the question, i don t understand why fox let this go to trial instead of agreeing to settle this case? we re only having this discussion now because of the facts that were presented in the filing. why did they do this? totally true, big defendants