the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. and i know stephanie loves a good argument i ve seen that with them. tonight, president biden is having a busy week in washington. focusing on his domestic agenda while the white house gears up for showdowns with house republicans. then, the testimony from rupert murdoch himself in that 1.6 billion dollar defamation suit against fox news. what he is saying about some hosts and their endorsement of trump s election lies. and special counsel, jack smith investigation into the former president is heating up. well a possible new challenger to trump emerge from the shadows? as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. coming to you live from our nation s capital. dominion voting systems has dropped elaine this bombshell and it s 1.6 billion dollar defamation suit against fox news. the minions new court filing includes testimony, under oath, from the fox chairman himself, rupert
break, you are wrong about. listen, can you lease, now that you ve beaten me. in this argument. can you just tell everybody what is going to happen next on this network? coming up next, said sources give me the last word tonight. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. and i know stephanie loves a good argument i ve seen that with them. tonight, president biden is having a busy week in washington. focusing on his domestic agenda while the white house gears up for showdowns with house republicans. then, the testimony from rupert murdoch himself in that 1. 6 billion dollar defamation suit against fox news. what he is saying about some hosts and their endorsement of trump s election lies. and special counsel, jack smith investigation into the former president is heating up. well a possible new challenger to trump emerge from the shadows? as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. coming to you live from our n
holding people to account. and we are going to be seeing that, i suspect, more on the criminal side. but the dominion sued polling people responsible for lies that affected that company. to the tune of, as you said, over a billion dollars. it is fascinating to me. it is really an example of the courts holding fox news to account. they are standard now so they have to meet actual malice. it is a really high standard. as people in the media know, for anybody suing for false claims. you have to show actual malice. by gosh, i mean these documents show that there are a pretty long way to getting there and looks like there s going to be a trial in april. it could cause fox news a whole lot of money. but could it force anything that would change their behavior? because while all of these horrible facts are coming out, loads of people are tuning in every night.
it is a really high standard. as people in the media know, for anybody suing for false claims. you have to show actual malice. by gosh, i mean these documents show that there are a pretty long way to getting there and looks like there s going to be a trial in april. it could cause fox news a whole lot of money. but could it force anything that would change their behavior? because while all of these horrible facts are coming out, loads of people are tuning in every night. you can t say that is going to change that but here is one of the things that you have to give murdaugh some credit because he did the wrong thing. but he appears to be pretty darn candid in his deposition. where he is saying, look, i could ve done more. i had the power to do more. and i did two more. and it is remarkable to me that in the file lights. you have rupert murdoch saying that he realizes that his own anchors endorsed the false claims. in the filing, the lawyer say that fox news did not endorse. i don t
two main areas spring to mind and it springs back to the time from when joe cox died. and with sir david losing his life. and i think on policing and security, harriet harman had a really strong point where there is surely a media know and i think it s realistically talking about the kind of closed protection for members of parliament that the home secretary and prime minister has but in those days and weeks afterjoe died we certainly did review our security and increased it in our offices in general but many mps wanted to keep the open surgeries in an open environment there was one of those.