and the gop s dog and pony sho comes to manhattan jim jordan s desperate attempt to attack the man holdin donald trump to account. good evening, i m mehdi hassan tomorrow morning in a court in wilmington, delaware, fox will finally be put on trial for it lies the media giant is facing landmark defamation case fro dominion voting systems, who allege that fox knowingl pushed false claims that they re voting machines rig th 2020 election. they didn t. and the days and weeks after that election, fox and its hos devoted hours of primetime t coverage to the voting machine company. to minion voting systems. dominion voting systems dominion voting systems dominion voting systems dominion voting systems dominion voting systems dominion. dominion voting systems dominion voting systems now, over two years later fox terrific tucker carlson, and sean hannity, and even found a rupert murdoch me if i themselves on the witnes stand. and the stakes here could no be higher.
you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex wit reports. developing for you this hour some brand-new comments from former vice president, mik pence, as he speaks out agains donald trump over his role i the january 6th attack speaking at an annual in washington, pence said, president trump was wrong, i had no right to overturn the election and his reckless word endangered my family and everyone at the capitol that day. i know history will hold donal trump accountable. those strong comments come after a week that saw some republicans try to re-frame th attack is a largely peaceful protest. earlier today, some go lawmakers called out their own party over those efforts a lot of folks on both side keep bringing up january 6th and it is keeping us fro moving our country forward we should be talking abou the southern border, as they were discussing, we should b talking about china and th challenge of possesses talking about inflation and budg
like this, including those behind the scenes, communications because most people are a lo more careful with this say, an one risk is, that medi organizations like fox i they re already like fox wil become more cautious in th dialogue between the courts an the people who need to be more careful. but right now we have an extraordinary example and think there could not be a stronger case by dominion. well i only refer to it i fox, and that tells you abou whether i think it s news or not. nicole, do fox viewers have an idea what is going on? i mean, they are not being tol about on the network they watc interest every night, how abou conservative media more broadly? how close are the newsmax, i of oann s paying attention so far they are not spendin a ton of time looking at it certainly the secede through, in the sense that there ar conversations happening here and there are conservative radio, conservative podcasts but it really isn t somethin
regarding the dominion defamation lawsuit is far from clear. lawyers involved in this cas are reportedly saying th explosive private messages b fox figures might never be introduced as evidence when th case goes to trial next month. my question to you, why? why wouldn t those messages no in the public domain, by the way, why would they not be admissible do you think fox wil ultimately be held liable? well, alex, to answer you questions in reverse i think fox is ultimately goin to figured a way to settle thi case out of court. i do think this is a stage and discovery where people are trying to assess what is the level of exposure that all the parties have, how deep doe this rabbit hole go? in reverse, one of the thing that allows them to settle it little bit less than what it i they might face in terms o being in front of a jury getting a judgment on trial, it s the notion that everythin that comes into discovery does not come in during evidence, there are various cases for. that coul
to do it interesting when you se plaskett and kramer sort o saying the same thing here i think it s notable because a we played in the beginning kramer said, look, would rathe talk about inflation, crime, energy, the border, they don t want to keep talking about january 6th. and yet, is because of those concessions that mccarthy made to get that speakers gavel tha we are talking about this. republicans are forced t continue discussing it and as plaskett teased, this i not the last we re gonna see i some of these concessions that he made. in terms of transparency, none of the other news networks ours included, has obtaine this footage, so, mccarthy continues to say that that wil happen in the future someday yeah, we ll see, we shouldn t hold our breath fo that anyway, thank you so much, julie tsirkin. also new today, the white hous pushing back on report president biden will approve a new drilling project in alaska in the country s largest wal of undeveloped land. the project could