they love it. from secret collusion with the trump boy asked the firing top executives to appease election deniers, damning new revelations in the dominion lawsuit and the fox news struggle to undo the damage they ve done. my man, donald trump then you ll never guess why republicans are suddenly finding reasons to bail on cpac. and is the supreme court about district on student loan debt forgiveness? senator bernie sanders on that and much more, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. i am back and very happy to be so. while i was on vacation, i missed a shocking story that just broke. we knew some of the contours, i ve been following it closely. but now, we got a whole host of damning new details on what may be the single most destructive institution in all of american politics. of course, i am talking about fox news. this fox door is the rare kind of story where the truth turns out the be even more cartoonish really terrible than
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premiere annual gathering of cpac, the conservative political action conference, which for years, has been a must go event for conservatives. the comic-con of right-wing politics. this year, we are seeing republican luminaries who had previously stayed away. like ron desantis, mike pence, kevin mccarthy, even party chair ronald mcdaniel, not because the event platform is extremists or hosted the authoritarian leader of hungary shortly after he lashed out against race mixing in europe, no, cpac s tarnish this year because it s leading organizer has been accused of groping a man on the failed herschel walker campaign. the former staffer for walker s senate campaign alleges that matt slap, the guy you see there, but fondled him against his will in atlanta in october, according to the daily beast who broke the story. slap denies the allegations. the washington post now reports that its review of call logs techs and videos provided by that walker staffer and his
confidence broadly matched his account of schlapp making unwanted sexual offenses after buying him drinks at two atlanta bars that night in october. for some republicans going to cpac every year, it s been a chore, not one party upper sums of the situation this year, we all wanted an excuse not to go, and schlapp give it to us. tara setmayer worked as a republican communications director on capitol hill, a senior adviser for the lincoln project, and she joins me now. i guess first question is, what do you think this is about? it is notable and the run up to a primary presidential year when i think these events tend to have the most cachet, precisely because people are trying to chase after those voters, that so many people are not going this year. well, there is a couple of reasons, one, they are scared to death of donald trump. let s not forget that cpac pretty much made donald trump and accepted him into the conservative mainstream, even coming to cpac for many years
fox news, the head of these and tucker s, none of them believe this bs, but they did it to mislead their viewers because they needed their writings. the lincoln project is debuting and at tomorrow where we are geo fancying cpac and mar-a-lago and those other places where people who listen to fox or watch the, they would not see this because fox news has a ban on covering what s happened in dominion. we are making sure that we get to those folks who are at cpac in other places because normally, fox news would stream cpac and to an understatement channel. they would have tucker and laura ingraham, headliners at these things, walker s absent this year, they are no longer sponsors. guess who is, newsmax. that s a great point. i do think that the allegations against matt schlapp play some role here. there is also reporting that the organization that he runs is in turmoil, exodus of more than half its death since 2021. again, schlapp denies the