reporter: as the network repeatedly promoted former president trump s 2020 election fraud claims to millions of their viewers. every american should be angry, you should be outraged. you should be worried. you should be concerned at what has happened in the election and the lead-up to this election. reporter: privately top anchors and executives mocked trump s lies, calling them ludicrous, really crazy stuff and totally off the rails. the revelations coming from hundreds of pages of newly released evidence in the legal filing as part of the dominion voting s lawsuit against fox news. in this tex exchange two weeks after the elections tucker carlson texting other fox news hosts, sidney powell is lying, by the way, i caught her. it s insane he says about trump s lawyer sidney powell and rudy giuliani s unfounded claims. sidney is a complete nut, no one will work with her. ditto with rudy, laura ingraham wrote back. tucker responds, it s unbelievably offensive to me.
our viewers are good people and they believe it. even as those same hosts went on the air arguing completely otherwise. all right. these election challenges are still going on and disturbing irregularities have been found and must be investigated to the fullest. reporter: on election night the network first to call arizona for biden. the fox news decision desk is calling arizona for joe biden. that is a big get for the biden campaign. reporter: as trump s baseless conspiracy theories started to take hold. this is a fraud on the american public. so we ll be going to the u.s. supreme court. reporter: carlson wrote his producer warning that trump could easily destroy us if we play it wrong. the court documents showing a scramble behind the scenes as viewers rebel the against fox for calling the contest in biden s favor and a course correction internally to prioritize profitability over the truth. after fox news reporter jacqui
a mental health competency test. i wonder who that is aimed at. [ laughter ] both of them, right? i think it s both i think she s trolling. it allows her to draw attention to biden in a republican primary but subtle hint on trump. they re both older politicians and the competency test is a long campaign and people will assess how they seem. but shouldn t we do that for everybody? why just over 75? because [ applause ] i mean over here my 35-year-old house of representatives. there s only one age requirement. the constitution has a minimum age and that was because they were so worried people passing things on to their famous sons at the time. there s no maximum age but we have that for pilots and other things but, again, i think it s hard. if you ve covered these thing, it s hard to run for president. we ll see how they do and decide at the debates and other forums
whether they got it. as don lemon told us on cnn women actually can t run for president because he said we re past our prime once we get to our 40s but since you have to be 35 to run it s a tight window between 35 and 40. [ applause ] but it presupposes that s the only way you can be mentally incompetent. i would take a guy who is 90 and forgets a few things but he s seen a lot in his life and has the experience and, of course, if you re if you have alzheimer s and you re not there and don t remember who your wife is obviously that s a different story. but as opposed to somebody who is 40 and doesn t have a lot of experience and yeah, so what s funny, i think ageism is real. we see it in a lot of industries. oh. and see it on a sexist basis as well as i think you mentioned which is fair. i think what s funny is the one place that you see less ageism in our public life would be politics. when you look at pelosi,
profitability over the truth. after fox news reporter jackie henrik fact checked a tweet tucker carlson texting colleagues please get her fired seriously, what the f. it s measurably hurting the company. the stock price is down. fox news in a statement argues the court filing contains cherry picked quotes lacking context. as fox news hosts continue this week to sew doubt. was the 2020 election a miracle? we don t know to get an answer to it tonight. the documents revealing on january 6th trump tried to call in fox business to get on the air and the network refused saying it would be irresponsible and could impact a lot of people in a enegative way. coming up, a cnn exclusive, our team tracked to a shadow chinese facility with possible ties to beijing spy balloons.