conservative viewpoints an telling lies to the american public tonight, former fox anchor, gretchen carlson, on what need to happen for change at he former network plus, another shady real estat deal at the supreme court, a the chief justice dismisse calls for oversight. then, riveting testimony fro the woman accusing donald trum of rape. but we learn from each - date on the witness stand. and congresswoman katie porter on the maga vote to slas funding for medicaid, veterans childcare, and more. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. tonight, the supreme court o the united states is under a cloud of scandal it all started earlier thi month with republican feel tha conservative justice, clarence thomas, was acceptin undisclosed gifts from right wing billionaire thomas accepted gifts includin luxury vacations worth literally hundreds of thousand of dollars, and this really, truly special painting from man named harlan crow, who has well, inter
discovery of dominion an unearthing all of these tax, much more information, you wouldn t then be giving more ammunition to smartmatic i their case you wouldn t then be givin more ammunition to abb grossberg and what she alleges happened, right? so, they re all intertwined. so, you could argue that the murdochs finally said, you know, enough, because tucker carlson has his fingerprints in all of these different areas. i still think, though, that he case, because they said they v cleaned up culture there, still think that that on supersedes anything else you know, cable news is a word business, but one of th things that we know that folks at fox as a matter of public record are obsessed with our ratings. they are totally obsessed with them, to the extent that the have these minute by minute, they ve got these, you know, folks who are sitting in editorial meetings telling the you have to do this. in fact, that was the origin if you listened to dominion theory of the case in that lawsu
like, competition is a goo thing. there should not just be one person selling shoes, ther should be three people selling shoes. in this case, when competition starts to ramp up, what do the compete towards? exactly, but i also believe that if this was strictly abou dominion, that they would ve gotten rid of more people. they may still, but why was it only tucker carlson, right because plenty of other host were talking about the sam lies and the executives knew about the lies, and stil allowed it to be on their air. in fact, there are othe hosts in the dominion filing who are more specifically bein called out by the executives who are more specifically, you know, you seem to be endorsing is one example on fox business who seems to both be able to say in public and in private to be endorsing this theory. nothing happened there what i call out in my op-ed is that if fox really wants to have a genuine commitment to journalism, albeit with conservative point of view, bu
disparaging comments about management and colleagues, and allegations that created a toxic work environment according to new reporting tonight from new york times, - on the eve of the dominion defamation trial, fo discovered new texts sent by tucker one of which was, quote, particularly offensive, adding to the concern at the top of the company. now, we ve heard some of the stories of allegations directl from tucker s former producer, abby grossberg, who worked for him, who appeared on thi network yesterday to talk abou the sexism lawsuit that sh filed against fox for a hostil workplace. of course, there is a long history of toxicity that grossberg describes at the network. back in 2016, you migh remember host gretchen carlson sued longtime fox ceo, roger ambles, for sexual harassment. that kicked off a cascade of similar accusations that ultimately led to ailes resignation. now, gretchen carlson is speaking out about tucker firing, writing in an opinio piece to the daily beast it s,
to keep things out of th danger zones, like the 800 million dollar defamatio defamation danger zone tha they ended up with the op-ed you mentioned is i the daily beast. it s titled, firing tucker i meaningless without real chang at fox news. gretchen, carson, great to hav you here thank you so much. i want to go to the phone that jim remembering, he s a - who helped break this news story about tucker carlson s text messages. jim, nice to have you on what did you learn in your reporting about this apparen trove of previously unknown tax, at least the executive well, chris, thanks for having me and what we ar reporting tonight is that, and this was surprising to us, tha on the eve of trial, the dominion trial, the fox boar of directors found out what wa in these unredacted text messages and became incredibl