arizona elicited and large number of backlash, what you saw in the pre ensuing days, that fox leadership all the way up to rupert murdoch were scrambling to devise a strategy in a mechanism as to how they were gonna hold on to the remaining fox viewers that they hadn t pullback the ones that had left. but on the outside, what you saw was a change in direction. it was a two-day period where they were not challenging the election results. one of the things that help this filing out explain, was what we saw, a couple of days after the election results were called, fox news went from accepting the results to saying nothing, to doing 700 segments, more than that, explicitly eggs tacking the election results, inventing all these conspiracy theories, weaving in all this nonsense about dominion. and part of that changing coverage which was so stark was not just coincidentally or reflecting the news that they were seeing and it was happening out there, it was
points to boil down for me at least to one simple thing. that fox leadership was worrying about losing its viewers, especially the further right networks like on and newsmax. shortly after the 2020 election, fox ceo, rupert murdoch and his son loughlin had a long talk about the mounting viewer backlash to fox. rupert confirmed that the decision was to allow these wild claims of election fraud on air so this was certainly much more than just about donald trump. it was also about the business of fox news. it was, they sort of saw in realtime what happened. they made a single call in arizona elicited and large number of backlash, what you saw in the pre ensuing days, that fox leadership all the way up to rupert murdoch were scrambling to devise a strategy in a mechanism as to how they were gonna hold on to the remaining fox viewers that they hadn t pullback the ones that had left. but on the outside, what you saw was a change in direction.
but with sam bankman-fried s, alleged illegality as he turned to his colleagues, allegedly used ftx funds and those funds were never released to the public until now that those donations were not only under ftx executive names, but they were actually from ftx customer funds. none of that was disclosed in 2022. is any of the money making its way back to customers? any of the money lost? i don t think any of it is now. you look at the democrats at the top of the segment, some of the committee say we re gonna hold on to the funds for now. those funds are just hanging on in the committees, they re trying to figure out what to do next all this investigation goes on. there hasn t been any indication yet how much money is going back to the customers and how much is being counted in the coffers of these political committees right now. you can also ask, hey these
the only catch with this, this is a whole crazy situation with the campaign finance laws right now. the really, the red line is what we saw from sam bankman-fried, it s the straw donors scheme. you re right, billionaires across the country try to use the money to influence politics all the time. so many people a lot wall street and tried to keep things away they are. but with sam bankman-fried s, alleged illegality as he turned to his colleagues, allegedly used ftx funds and those funds were never released to the public until now that those donations were not only under ftx executive names, but they were actually from ftx customer funds. none of that was disclosed in 2022. this is any of the money making its way back to customers? any of the money? lost i don t think any of it is now. you look at the democrats at the top of the segment, some of the committee say we re gonna hold on to the funds for now. those funds are just hanging on in the committees, they re trying to figure out
livelihood of the town, in addition to the individual health and life of indian residents, the penalty to function, to have businesses, to make money. how do you long do you think it will take your town, east palestine, to bounce back from this? we ll ever bounce back? i m cautiously optimistic that it will bounce back. but i don t know. it s going to depend on the cleanup efforts, how that goes. i have mr. shaw s word. i have the epa administrator s word. i have our governors where it, that, you know, there got to make things right. we re gonna hold on to that. we re going to hold them to their word. and that s the best thing we can do right now. this is going to be a very long process. and you know, eventually, hopefully it comes to an end. and hopefully it goes back to the way it was. and actually better than the way it was. that s our main goal. we have to stay together on this. but you know, i hear the residents, i hear their