we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. i m ari melber. the top story rocking conservative politics and fox news tonight is a huge new leak about this moment in 2020 when fox news accurately reported biden won arizona, which stoked a maga backlash which upended the network, fed the series of journalists that fox now is facing potential accountability for, potentially over a billion dollars in lawsuit fines. it s also now led to the absolute blockbuster leak to the new york times. if you re think, or i heard about other leaks, this one is different and new and narrates a secret meeting between fox execs and hosts about that arizona call. an internal freakout where viewers were mad and bailing on fox because they reported in that instance, one, undeniable fact about the election. and the executives and anchors, great bare and mar that mccollum, on this call they discuss they were losing viewers because they correctly called arizona for biden. and the
like, we re going to burn 20 years just to save this moment. there s another way to look at this, which is they were operating from extreme weakness. the whole episode is pathetic. right? it s completely pathetic because they don t think they can weather even a few weeks of this pattern. shows fox, which has the appearance of support because there aren t a lot of other competitors, because there aren t. that organizations that want to do that propaganda. rupert murdoch is a particular billionaire backer. almost felt the emperor had no clothes and they couldn t we think they are. that s right. it s like the scene in the hangover where they steal the tiger from mike tyson, they wake up and the tiger s in the bathroom. the tiger s in the bathroom, right? they ve gone too far. they ve lost control of their own network, their audience. now that doesn t give me any