mariupol romo. on saturday morning november 7th, 2020, the presidential election was finally called for joe biden. that night, an artist in minnesota with no election expertise sent any mail to sydney powell, a conspiratorial lawyer associated with donald trump and others the so-called wackadoodles email. it s spewed all kinds of false claims about dominion s in multiple states. it s then reference to justice anthony scalia. and having been murdered at bohemian grove montreat. after citing a scene from a movie called thunder harden witch and native american sheriff advice is to listen to the wind, the author of the email writes, the wind tells me i m a ghost. but i don t believe it, although it appears that i was shot in the back shortly after submitting a tip to the fbi two years ago. at the time, i thought i just tripped and fell. you think the contents of the email would ve said straight to the elite file. instead, it garnered a
i think it s important for the american people to understand that while generally speaking i would be for the broadest protections for a news organization possible they re not limitless and this goes far beyond the limits in understanding why defamation cases are important, they can be just as important to upholding democracy as other rules, this is a civil case. let me read one more. it maligns all of the people who peddled the lies. kevin mccarthy is part of this document. these are from november 7th 2020 pre-interview with kevin mccarthy. you believe biden won free? mccarthy said according to notes, a few issues i don t believe there s math cheat. i haven t seen any proof so far of ballot fraud. someone s public posture was to
but the deposition continued. question, why did fox news not want to antagonize trump further on november 16th, 2020, sir? murdoch, he had a very large following, and they were probably mostly viewers of fox, so it would have been stupid. for weeks, we ve gotten drips and drabs of internal fox news communications as they ve been quoted in legal filings in the defamation lawsuit between the dominion voting systems corporation and fox news. tonight, the actual raw evidence, the emails, the texts the deposition transcripts, all of that was released. it s a mountain of material. this is only some of it. and we are still making our way through it. already, there are some broad strokes that are unsettling. the big one is just how far fox news and its owner, rupert murdoch, seemed willing to go to appease former president trump and his followers. how far they would go not to antagonize them. in another email, sent by rupert murdoch, this one from november 7th 2020, murdaugh is
dominion voting systems corporation and fox news. tonight, the actual raw evidence, the emails, the texts the deposition transcripts, all of that was released. it s a mountain of material. this is only some of it. and we are still making our way through it. already, there are some broad strokes that are unsettling. the big one is just how far fox news and its owner, rupert murdoch, seemed willing to go to appease former president trump and his followers. how far they would go not to antagonize them. in another email, sent by rupert murdoch, this one from november 7th 2020, murdaugh is pretty explicit about how fox news held off on calling the 2020 election. to avoid angering trump. quote, we should and could have gone first, but at least being second saves us a trump explosion. this behavior predated the election. on september 25th, mr. murdaugh sent trump senior adviser jared kushner and email it sent to said murdaugh was sending kushner ads at the biden
rupert murdoch himself comes across in the filings almost like dr. frankenstein. they created this monster and it has now spun out of control. there is a very interesting new york posted torial from november 7th, 2020 cited in the documents where he pleads with president trump, then president trump, to accept the results and simply move on and not tarnish his own legacy. that was unheeded by his audience, by his organization, ultimately led to this disastrous point they ve arrived at. rupert murdoch himself understands very well they need to go another direction. the question is whether this financial beast that he has created, this organization, that is so different on catering to a select audience, whether they are willing to change and go back to basic news gathering. if they can do that they may be able to survive this. interesting. norm, i want to ask you about, of course, another legal battle going on over election conspiracies. there are several across the