joining us this hour. if youin watched any hour of fo news yesterday odds are you saw one ofdd these, an ad for electn denier mike lindell s my pillow pillow or an ad infor his my slipperr slippers. we scrolled through in the tire day, time we ll never get back, and counted 30 ads for mike lindell in a 24-hour period. mr. lindell can spend as much of his company suc money on fox ase would like,ne but what is alarmg about the sheer volume of fox ad timoc pied by mr. lindell is this. on december 17, 2020, the ceo of fox news was forwarded this e-mail by an executive in the fox news department. my pillow s mike lindell did makede suggestive comments abou our audience being smaller. the next morning fox ceo suzan scot replied has my personal gift been sent to mike. meanwhile fox continued to let mike on the air so he could push the big lie the election was stolen. yesterday a jugantic drop in the billion dollar defamation lawsuit between dominion systems and fox news was released
i m in for ari melber. it ain t all good and that s the truth. things aren t going like you thought they would and it s all on you, fox news. new evidence showing rupert murdoch and fox news new trump was lying but put them on the air anyway. dominion systems suing fox news for $1.6 billion in a defamation suit. the claim is fox news knowingly lied about their company and now we have receipts and private texts. fox news host called trump and his lawyers election claims total b.s., insane, crazy, mind-blowingly nuts, reckless, off the rails, and effing lunatics. these are not mean tweets. these are actual texts from fox news hosts. tucker carlson showing hannity and laura ingraham were in disbelief on camera over trump s conspiracy theories. carlton texting engram, quote, sydney powell was lying, by the way. i caught her, it s insane. sydney is complete nuts, no one will work with her, ditto with rudy. carlson writing, quote, our viewers are good people and they believe it.
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conspiracies by the ex-president and his allies including in the media. in its $1.6 billion defamation case pierces the hermetically sealed bubble that is fox news. the network that drives the conversation and conduct in the republican party and on the right like none other. it shows that hosts on fox news either peddled the big lie that the 2020 election was stolen from trump or gave the platform for people to spread the big lie that the election was stolen from trump for one reason and one reason only, fear, terror really of losing viewers and tumbling stock prices and viewers migrating to more radical outlets. messages and emails obtained by dominion along with testimony from fox news employees and hosts reveals that it was well known and bantered about inside fox news that the vote fraud conspiracies were as rupert murdoch put it terrible stuff, damaging everybody. and that it was, quote, very hard to credibly claim foul. claim foul, they did and panic over viewers turnin
i get accused of all kinds of things every single day as does every member that serves in the public eye. but that doesn t stop you from doing your job. it is our duty, and it is my duty. the fbi just seized my phone. oh, yes, congressman scott perry under investigation by the doj for his role in the plot to over turn the 2020 election, will now be part of the investigation into his own investigation. just the latest in a long history of republican oversight madness. also tonight, two big depositions. fox s main man, rupert murdoch, under oath today about his network s role in pushing false election riggling theories as donald trump makes a very telling mistake in the e. jean carroll rape allegation lawsuit. plus, florida students can take a.p. courses in italian culture, german culture, and japanese culture, but ron desantis has decided learning about african americans, quote, lacks educational value. but we begin the reidout tonight with the republican circus that h