afternoon, we got a whole bunch of receipts. this is the new document filing. if you follow the news you may have heard it s coming. and today you may have seen reports on it here in today s news coverage. well, we have it. the filing is big, billion dollar plus case against fox news. that s the defamation case against fox by one of the voting machine companies. why is this a stop story in the nation? because as partly expected, there are more new original bombshell revelations i m going to go through with you now before i bring in our experts, including rupert murdoch, admitting things under oath that he doesn t admit when he s not brought into a courtroom looking at a fine. he admits select fox hosts completely endorsed the lie about donald trump and the election. murdoch asked under oath whether some of the hosts endorsed the big lie that the election was stolen that he didn t actually lose, and murdoch replies yes, they endorsed. and that s not all. under oath we find a v
these are live pictures of the tennessee house floor where a debate is underway over an extraordinary and controversial push for republicans in the state house. they are voting to expel democrats today because they broke house to corm rules. one of them, justin jones, has already been ousted. at this time, the debate is over gloria johnston, and the vote is expected soon in the fight over the third democrat, justin pearson, republicans going after democrats for using a bullhorn on the house floor as they call for tougher gun laws and did so in defiance of republicans who would not recognize the right to speak. all this comes after last week s deadly elementary school shooting that killed six in nashville. this is just a third vote to expel a tennessee house member since the civil war, an indicator of how rare and critics argue, extreme, this move is. protest are currently rocking the state capital. these children and the adults in the school will never forget this. this is
thank you so much for letting substance abuse your homes during these extraordinary times. we re grateful the beat with ari melber starts right now hi, ari. hi, nicolle thanks so much today we have a special report on what new york prosecutors might be eyeing on trump there s now report on that later tonight on the beat. the big legal development making waves right now is from a different legal jurisdiction from new york. it s how georgia prosecutors have been building a case against trump down there over what might be a lot more significant to a lot of people than financials in new york, which is effort to overturn the election when the foreperson spoke out, it was fascinating, an unusual development. it drew criticism from people who really care about the justice system, regardless of what she was saying critical of mr. trump, there were concerns about. that you may recall that wellin welling, right now it s not the same, but her colleagues if you will five more grand
this doesn t happen very often around here buck the great ari melber is dealing with some technical issues so you get a couple more minutes of me, and i am thrilled to get to show you more of this conversation with rosie perez. she talked about her childhood trauma, about grappling with ptsd and also talked about something my colleague rachel maddow and i talked about last night, and that is the mental stress and pain of what happens in the news. here she is talking about the dobbs decision. whey thought about were all the children that could potentially come into this world that will be unwanted, unloved, and abused. there s such a greater you know, it s such a great sin to do that to a child, because when a parent doesn t want a child, the child knows it. i knew it. i knew it. and i just think about all of that, and it breaks my heart. i even called i even called one of my sisters, i call her, from the children s home when that decision came down. and i was like, oh,
even though it is donald trump, who has not provided a single shred of evidence proving that they re not, proving that he declassified any of the records that he kept at mar-a-lago for up to 18 months. now to the other front, the special master process itself. just a couple hours ago, lawyers for the justice department squared off with donald trump s legal team for their first public hearing before judge raymond dearie. he was appointed special master to review the documents seized in the search of donald trump s residence last month. during this hearing, dearie, who was donald trump s pick, his hand-selected suggestion to be the special master, told donald trump s lawyers to put up or shut up on claims that trump declassified the records. here s how politico describes the hearing. quote, judge raymond dearie pushed trump s lawyers repeatedly for refusing to back up the former president s claim that he declassified the highly sensitive national security-related records discov