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
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 evidence. that means what can you prove? what do you have in the documents? and what do you have what in court is called today the republicans are trying to argue this is infiltration in the fbi and they held a hearing with people who have worked there. those are their witnesses. but two of them had their security clearances yanked, revoked by the fbi as this hearing was revving up. one of them found to have taken part in the riot at the capital on january 6th or later expressed views about it that placed into question their allegiance to the u.s. that s the fbi questioning why these folks do not have security clearances, so they do not sound