these extraordinary times. the beat starts right now. hi, ari. hi, nicolle. this is one of those nights. we are tracking several developments, including a brand-new hearing over evidence in a case alleging unlawful lies by fox news. if you re thinking, wait, is this a rerun? did i dvr this? no, this is a different multibillion dollar case that the network is dealing with while reeling from the other original record defamation settlement in the defamation case. that is big. we re going to get to that. also, more tom hanks. we have new material from our interview that s airing tonight for the first time. it will be new, and i m excited to share it with you. we begin with cascading set backs and a political request that s backfiring in public with house republicans pushing on on their deep state in that nothing burger report from trump and bill barr s hand picked attorney general. you can make up your own mind about the evidence, because these kind of things involve eviden
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makers and dealers i ll talk to tennessee state senator, london lamar, in just minutes. and later, outfoxed? fox news hit with the bigges media settlement in the united states history, for helpin amplify donald trump s big lie i want to know, has fox news learned its lesson all of that and more, is comin up and a good saturday morning to you, i am katie phang for the next 25 days, millions of women across the countr will still have access to th widely used abortion pill, mifepristone the united states supreme cour temporarily pu o lower court rulings that put restrictions on the drug nationwide this means patients can stil access mifepristone, excuse me by mail, and use it up to te weeks of pregnancy as appeal continue to play out in th fifth circuit. but this legal battle coul take months or even longer joining me now is nbc news investigative reporter, chlo atkins chloe, good morning. thanks for starting us off conservative justices clarence thomas and samuel alito
testify? well, yeah, they ll want dad. we won t accept that. protect the egg chamber. they ll want dad. they ll want numero uno. if you think you re in control like your company or your air waves, this is the rare time mr. murdoch found that saying no or what he wouldn t accept wasn t going to work. when you have a legal obligation, he was going to have to testify along with a lot of other people. the other way you can decide not to accept that is to surveillance render the whole thing. we know that the last hours at the very last minute with the jury seated and picks, last time they blinked and paid out the largest record for any media settlement of defamation ever. would that happen again in this case? where are we headed? does it matter for democracy? we have a good guest. joyce vance and i will get into
settlement, the dominion guide, which is a staggering number, historic number for media settlement like this, we also got that extra layer of ase. and i don t know that a trial necessarily would have gotten us much more of that, so i actually would defend him in, you know, on the fact that they didn t get this this apology from fox news. they got this sort of mealy mouthed statement that admitted that the court found that some of those claims were false, but i think the number that big settlement number is a concession from fox news that they really messed up here. and i suspect the smartmatic number will be will be similar at least according to all the first amendment experts that i ve spoken to on this case. alright yeah, there s no question to opinion did do a huge public service and getting that information out to all the viewers out there. even fox viewers. alright aidan mclaughlin. thanks so much. we appreciate it. thanks still ahead. yeah, still ahead, the most powerful rocket e