the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, nicolle. thank you so much. our top story is about this push that we need in america, the push for accountability as we face political lies and violence. so let me start here tonight. do you remember where you were when joe biden beat donald trump? do you remember how that entire race came down to that official call on the weekend? there was rejoicing. there was spontaneous crowds gathered in the nation. people making their own signs, walking around. it was kind of a big moment. it was unlike as a reaction, any recent president losing an election. do you remember the road to that call? because the election actually took several days to be formally resolved, but the key to that resolution i m about to show you, when the writing was on the wall, was when trump lost a state that he almost certainly needed for any hope of victory. it was arizona. among insiders, people on the campaign, people who follow this closely, steve kornac
around all our to help us deal with the breaking news. ari melber picks up our breaking news coverage right now on the beat. hi, nicolle, thanks so much. i m ari melber, and we continue to follow this breaking news. we have a brand new filing in the dominion fox lawsuit. it has bombshell allegations. our producers are pouring through it. our experts are standing by. rupert murdoch under oath says something that may sound obvious, and yet you have to remember it s exact opposite of what fox, some of its hosts and many of its guests were presenting at the time on the road to what became a violent insurrection. murdoch exposed for admitting the election was not stolen. he knew. that when it came to the factors of why they did what they did, company alleges, to the tune of $1.6 billion, murdoch says, quote, no one wants trump as an enemy. we re pouring through this. this is one of our breaking news nights. i want to bring in our experts right now, renato murray and chai koman
just to read some of the highlights, renato, so many of sit familiar because it was in the murdoch deposition. some of it looks news. i don t have all of it. you have bart romo s interview with steve bannon. that s traditional evidence. then you have things like email from rupert murdoch to suzanne scott regarding steve bannon. i m curious what you think as we make sense of all this of what these dominion lawyers have been able to demand they ve clearly drawn some blood. haven t won the case yet. defamation cases are hard to win. but renato when you see the lawyers and what we re combing through, they say, here s the public story. you gave ban nonair time, and he by the way is now convicted for defying congress and facing other trials. so that s who he is legally. here s the public thing everyone can watch. and now, oh, here s a high level
top people at fox to the top of the company. but instead here we are, company facing this legal earthquake. aftershocks that range from the cancellation to the big lie host, lou dobbs to the murdoch deposition that s hitting the papers to open questions about whether or not the company will end up paying over a billion dollar in punishment. murdoch says he told kushner, the numbers are the numbers and the numbers on the coverage that day trump lost arizona. i ll telling you that because it s true. we all saw it, and on that derrick they were accurate about trump s loss. that didn t last. ensuing coverage kept pushing lies about trump s loss and voting machine companies and these broad attacks on the entire elections legitimacy which we know how feed an insurrection based on things like a nonsense source of trump lawyer sidney powell who told fox in advance they were going to present a story based on what