the networks destructive project continues. in fact his case, he specifically didn t want any that s not a problem. tonight, the question legal exposure for so-called news channel that shared confidential biden campaign information with the trump white house. we put, you know, a different viewpoint, if you like. i was david wallace wells in the massive problem that the partisan mania over the origins of covid-19. we re going to investigate the chinese virus. and senator may actually be republican support to increase real safety in the wake of the east palestine disaster. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. in the wake of the bombshell revelations confirming once and for all the abject dishonesty a fox news, democrats and congress are now demanding action. today, house minority leader hakeem jeffries and senate majority leader chuck schumer penned a letter urging fox executives to protect american democracy against
the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, nicolle. thank you so much. our top story is about this push that we need in america, the push for accountability as we face political lies and violence. so let me start here tonight. do you remember where you were when joe biden beat donald trump? do you remember how that entire race came down to that official call on the weekend? there was rejoicing. there was spontaneous crowds gathered in the nation. people making their own signs, walking around. it was kind of a big moment. it was unlike as a reaction, any recent president losing an election. do you remember the road to that call? because the election actually took several days to be formally resolved, but the key to that resolution i m about to show you, when the writing was on the wall, was when trump lost a state that he almost certainly needed for any hope of victory. it was arizona. among insiders, people on the campaign, people who follow this closely, steve kornac
hello there, everyone. it is 4:00 in new york when you pull back delayers and really try to understand how any one of the most damaging conspiracy theories that have over the last few years now seeped into the mainstream political conversation and corroded the body politic, from election denialism to its violent manifestation in the january 6th insurrection to putin s war in ukraine, to conspiracies about covid-19 and the vaccine and mask wearing, to the discuss around replacement theory, which has actually been cited in the manifestos of mass shooters it is fair to say it is not hyperbolic to argue that tucker carlson is the through line through all of them. he is the champion of conspiracy theories and until today he had one of the largest audiences in cable news for diss sem natting them not anymore. news broke today tucker carlson is out at the network that handed him the biggest microphone of his career that stunning announcement by fox news made this morning in a short
afternoon, we got a whole bunch of receipts. this is the new document filing. if you follow the news you may have heard it s coming. and today you may have seen reports on it here in today s news coverage. well, we have it. the filing is big, billion dollar plus case against fox news. that s the defamation case against fox by one of the voting machine companies. why is this a stop story in the nation? because as partly expected, there are more new original bombshell revelations i m going to go through with you now before i bring in our experts, including rupert murdoch, admitting things under oath that he doesn t admit when he s not brought into a courtroom looking at a fine. he admits select fox hosts completely endorsed the lie about donald trump and the election. murdoch asked under oath whether some of the hosts endorsed the big lie that the election was stolen that he didn t actually lose, and murdoch replies yes, they endorsed. and that s not all. under oath we find a v
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