that s coming up. also, i have a break you how, with everything we have been through and everything we ve learned should deal with a proven liar and now someone liable for defamation and sexual abuse, donald trump. how do we deal with him? how do we cover interviews and town halls? we re not against interviews. i have a breakdown on that later. what donald trump said on his live and lengthy appearance on cnn last night is our top story. we ll get to that later. the top story tonight is the tapes. george santos back in washington voting on an unemployment fraud bill, which is wild considering that is part of what he s been indicted for. santos arraigned on 13 separate federal charges wire fraud, money laundering, abusing public funds. doj claiming santos spent money he claimed was for his campaign but he basically grifted, pocketing it according to the filing for personal expenses, luxury designer clothing, credit card payments for his own personal use. these charges come
our country. maybe if you just oppose the republican party and you never want it to win another election, you are cool with that. but we will go deeper. that s coming up later tonight. i will explain more. i wanted to tell you off top, it s special. i hope you will stick around for it. the top story right now, it relates to the accountability crisis on the far right and another chunk of the gop as long as it s tied to donald trump. it involves, of course, all the different ways that there are boundaries in american life. others may wish they weren t held accountable this way. it is the lies that hurt donald trump and the lies that caused the insurrection and the lies that george santos was peddling that are getting smacked down in court. today, congressman santos dodging criminal prosecution in brazil after surrendering to authorities this week in new york. he pled not guilty on those 13 counts. he is claiming it s a witch hunt. that was new york on wednesday. now he confesse
you just said it all. this is a delaware entity registered in florida. activities in caracas. with the assistance of software, a backdoor is capable of flipping votes. it was formed really by three venezuelans who were very close the dictator. it was formed in order to fix elections. false. lie, lie, lie. false. fox news was punished severely for knowingly and intentionally reairing the same people and the same lies to the tune of $787 million. the other case i mentioned. and some cases are open against those individuals. we talk a lot about the first amendment, especially these days. i will say, i don t always bring up what i used to practice, that
t ouour juryry aorneneys hehelpou an escalation in the other big lawsuit against fox. a different voting company is subpoenaing the trump 2020 campaign in the fox defamation case, looking for communications about that voting machine company and anything about those appearances by people like sidney powell. giuliani, all of which comes circling around the issue we have been dealing with tonight, which is how do you deal with false claims on air, including the election lies that were spread on fox. you just said it all, smartmatic, a delaware entity registered in florida, activities in venezuela. with the assistance of smartmatic software, a back door is capable of flipping votes. smartmatic is a company that was formed, it was formed really by three venezuelans who were