viewership, those executives and those on-air people perpetuated those same lies, lies that according to the filing even fox chairman rupert murdoch called, quote, really crazy stuff. more now from cnn s brian todd. reporter: immediately after joe biden s 2020 victory, fox news hosts were unabashed in promoting the false declarations that the election had been stolen from donald trump. electronic voting machines didn t allow people to vote, apparently, and that, whatever you think of it, the cause of it, it shakes people s faith in the system. that is an actual threat to democracy. i can actually tell you tonight it will be impossible to ever know the true, fair, accurate election results. reporter: but tonight a new court filing shows that in private, fox host tucker carlson, laura ingram and sean hannity were brutally ridiculing the claims of election fraud and the people
version of the world that they keep to themselves and another version of the world that they broadcast to their viewers. the two are entirely incompatible. reporter: fox kept promoting election denialism. in one instance a fox reporter did a fact check on election lies. tucker carlson texted sean hannity, saying, quote, please her fired, seriously, what the f. he goes on, i m actually shocked. it needs to stop immediately, like tonight. it s measurably hurting the company. why did fox keep pushing election denial on the air? the findings in the dominion suit suggest that fox executives were worried about losing viewers to newsmax, a smaller, conservative channel that was constantly selling election denial. trump himself, furious that fox had called arizona for biden, had encouraged his followers to switch to newsmax. since 2002, fox news has basically been the preeminent ratings champion in cable news,
who were making them. their private messages, in a legal filing that s part of dominion voting systems $1.6 billion lawsuit against fox news. one person they insulted, trump campaign lawyer sidney powell, a vociferous election lie promoter. what we are really dealing with here, and uncovering more by the day, is the massive influence of communist money through venezuela, cuba, and likely china. reporter: in one text revealed in the court filing, tucker carlson texted laura ingram, saying, quote, sidney powell s line, i caught her, it s insane. ingram responded, quote, sydney is a complete nut, no one will work with her. ditto with rudy, a reference to rudy giuliani and his postelection claims. there was a plan from a centralized place to execute these various acts of voter fraud. reporter: and other messages, sean hannity said giuliani was, quote, acting like an insane person. ingram described giuliani as an idiot. folks corporation chairman rupert murdoch said it was really ba
centralized place to execute these various acts of voter fraud. in other messages, shawn hannity said giuliani was acting lying an insane person. ingram described him as an i had lot. murdaugh said it was bad guiliana was advising trump. this tells you a lot about fox news internal machinations. it tells you they have one version of the world they keep to themselves and another they broadcast to their viewers. the two are entirely incompatible. in one instance, a fox reporter did a fact check on election lies. tucker carlson texted shawn hand at a saying please get her fired. seriously. what the f? he goes on, i m actually shocked. it needs to stop immediately, like tonight. it s measurably hurting the company. why did fox keep pushing election denial on the air? the filings in the dominion suit
e-mails and messages from inside fox news revealing what network executives and their on-air hosts knew about the 2020 election lie, while promoting that same lie to viewers. and later tonight, cnn s dr. san jay gupta with american volunteers in turkey, providing care at a makeshift field hospital in the quake zone.