removal of tucker carlson from fox news. fox made the announcement six days after the company settled with dominion voting systems for more than three-quarters of a billion dollars. carlson would ve likely to testify were at odds with what it its stars were saying. he texted other staffers that he passionately hated former president donald trump and that his tenure in the white house was, quote, disaster. he his text messages after the election released by dominion s attorneys also showed carlson disparaging fox leadership. whether his sudden departure actually connected to the dominion case or other lawsuits facing fox for other reasons is a topic we ll get into. they have agreed to part ways and thanked him for his service and said his last show was this past friday. joined now by our senior media reporter oliver darcy. do we know exactly why he was ousted? i would imagine that you can t disconnect this from that big dominion suit. even though tucker carlson wasn t a foca
americans cast their ballot in yesterday s primaries. from new york and florida, including one big win in a swing district that could foreshadow what we see in november. plus, today marks independence day in ukraine. now under high alert that moscow could step up strikes on civilians. we ll bring you a live report from the ground. joe biden is suspected to announce in the upcoming hours a decision on student loan debt. we ll tell you what we can expect. and uvalde, texas, the fate of the school police chief hangs in the balance today. while some children who survived the massacre are simply too scared to return to the classroom. we begin this hour with the results from some key races in tuesday s primary elections. in new york and in florida. in new york s newly redrun 12th congressional district, jerry nadler defeated carolyn maloney in a race that put two veteran democrats against one another. in florida s primary, it was former governor and current congressman char
preserved ever since the gunman killed 14 students and 3 adults on valentine s day 2018. and in texas, we re on verdict watch. jurors are now deliberating in the defamation trial against conspiracy theorist alex jones. they re deciding how much money he should pay to the parents of a 6-year-old sandy hook victim for repeatedly pushing derange conspiracies that the murder of 20 first graders and six adults did not happen. the judge in the case denied jones s request for a mistrial after it was revealed his lawyer accidentally sent two years of cell phone records and text messages to the parents legal team. the parents lawyer says multiple law enforcement groups are now seeking those texts, including the january 6th committee. request from various federal agencies and law enforcement to provide that. absent a ruling from you saying you cannot do that, i intend to do so immediately following this. i believe there is absolutely nothing, nothing that he has done to fulfill h
A group of protesters returned to Jefferson Square Park in downtown Louisville Tuesday evening, and said they don t feel justice has been served in Taylor s death.
sense gun laws in a state like tennessee, it will give us hope in our nation. that is why it is so significant for what s going on nationwide is that we are again in a state with an nra endorsed governor calling a special session around guns and passing some type of regulation of this proliferation of guns in our community because of a movement that is multi racial, multi generational and is rooted in this moral conversation that i really believe will be transformational. and it will be young people who led these protests, this gen z that is going to force a reckoning in our state and that s what gives me hope, anderson. representative jones, i really appreciate you being on again, thank you. thank you. on cnn prime time michael smerconish speaks to one of the witnesses set to testify in the dominion voting lawsuit and what he was going to say. up ahead the officer that killed breonna taylor now has a new job with a new police department. we have details on that, next.