talks about the civil conspiracy, deposition coaching, the hiding of evidence and then basically scapegoating her, right, and causing her to be defamed. so that s that case. the southern district of new york case is a case of very clear glass ceiling discrimination on the basis of gender, failure to promote when she was on the maria bartiromo show, she was a staff of one maria bartiromo has the number one show on the weekends i think in the country and because she s a woman and because as fox news actually said this in a letter to me, you know, they were in a bubble these two women maybe they were in a bubble because this chauvinistic environment they had to fight with anyway so she goes from there from the frying pan into the fryer into tucker carlson where she experiences one of the most heinous and gross types of
announcement no big campaign rallies yet this early, but that is big news. this president who has turned 80 and has faced both popularity and questions within the democratic party about his plans and his future is running for re-election. now we turn to more other developments in what has been the really worst most costly week ever for fox news as a media company. there was this record breaking penalty which hit fox to settle that dominion case indeed it was many, many, many times the largest penalty rupert murdoch has ever had to shell out for. tonight we now have new evidence, though, in a related story. i mentioned this at top of the show it s an exclusive and never before heard recording of a phone call between a fox anchor and republican senator ted cruz. and this is from that heated tense period in november 2020. and as part of our reporting we can tell you the source tonight. this is from a former fox producer who s turned whistle-blower who came up in the same related case ab
to the public. they think there might have been a crime pursuant to what your client observed at fox? i really don t know, and discussions are preliminary. that is what it looks like and sounds like when we have news break as breaking news in an interview it s an on the record source, as we would say you have the lawyer, you know some of the material because we also broke some of that, and msnbc has played some of these recordings the implication is at a minimum, these criminal law enforcement investigators think that evidence is germane, relevant to something they were looking at we don t know tonight to which investigation it would be, but they clearly want the tapes from inside fox news, at a time that lies were leading up to an insurrection we ll be right back.
i m always excited for a hand-off nice to see you as always. that s nicolle wallace as we discuss the ice cream news i can tell you in the real news although that s a type of news we have a new exclusive coming up tonight, new recordings from inside fox news with top level republicans in government as well as a live interview with the lawyer for the fox news whistle-blower that is a first. that s coming up in tonight s program. we begin, though, with the doj special counsel who has a criminal probe that s reached a key and familiar face today, trump legal advisor boris epishteyn. we do know the feds have already previously seized a cellphone and there s evidence that ties him to those plots to try to overturn the election or commit elector fraud as a pretense to get mike pence to somehow delay or throw the certification we all lived through that on january 6th. indeed, he admitted part of that
than what they have asked fo in settlement. they will wait and rule th bones and see what happens o trial. anthony, what do you thin it is like inside fox news right now? you know all those hosts i mean, you have known river number, for what, decades? i was at with maria las night, we celebrated m fiancée s induction into a - is around a lot of angles that she s taken with donald trump. but we have been friends for three decades. i think that they had opinions i think that is going to be th defense of their case. that these are pundits and the entertainment quadrant of the television sphere and therefore they re entitled to their opinions and there wa no malice. i think that is the case tha they are going to make but i don t know, it is no clear to me based on the evidence that i ve seen that case necessarily gonna win the only reason why i thin dominion may take the money is that all of us know, you know, having gone to law school an