katy tur. can dominion win? new court documents are providing even more evidence that fox news hosts and executives knew the election was fair, knew the allegations of fraud were bogus, and that those pushing them were, quote, lying, and yet, pushed those lies anyway. it s remarkable how weak ratings make good journalists do bad things. former fox news managing editor and vice president bill salmon said the network pushed the false claims. maybe sean and laura went too far, rupert murdoch said of handy and ingraham, the day after joe biden s inauguration. it s been suggested that fox s prime time hosts should say something like the election is over and joe biden won said fox president suzanne scott to rupert murdoch. he replied that a version of this would go a long way to stop the trump myth that the election was stolen. all of these quotes show that what fox knew and said privately was a 180 from what the network was telling its audience, but does it clear the bar for defam
grow attempt to grow and strengthen its global economic, political, and military edge. that s not a surprise, but there were a couple of things that really stood out to me today. one, the intelligence officials there got grilled on a story we ve been talking about lately, the potential for some sort of intelligence about the covid origins, that it may have leaked from a lab in wuhan. dni director avril haines was asked about that. she repeated what we ve been hearing, that there s not a lot of agreement within the intelligence community about whether that is where covid originated or not. that s one thing that was asked today. another was on tiktok. this is something that impacts americans every single day. senator marco rubio, republican from florida and the top republican on the intelligence committee asked director wray about, that and he said that he rubio said he considers this a national security threat, and fbi director wray did not dispute that. in fact, he talked about tik
for their time to testify sitting outside these krooms, and telling jurors who have to look at evidence and examine the facts here and not just listen to tucker carlson s propaganda trying to clean up an awful riot that happened on january 6th, and these guilty verdicts a lot of these defendants have, of course, pleaded guilty on their own because the evidence is so overwhelming, what you re seeing on your screen is brand new footage that was released just yesterday in connection with an ongoing january 6h. he s a buddy of didi rodriguez who drove a stun gun into mike fanone s neck and very nearly killed him. it triggered a heart attack. and the guy on the screen, the guy stuffing things into someone s bag, that s a few minutes after he drove a stun gun into mike fanone s neck and nearly killed him. there he is throwing things out of the bag as you have all of these going through this office
territory. i mean, it s not that nothing like this has ever happened in a libel suit somewhere about something, but this libel suit involving something of national significance, i mean, what fox news says, what it does, how it behaves, how it comports itself when it lies, these are matters affecting the national interest as well as the interests of the parties to this case. and there are still millions upon millions of people who still believe falsely that the election was stolen. after all, there was also an insurrection on january 6th, which we re going talk about again in a moment in just a few seconds, actually. legendary first amendment lawyer floyd abrams, thank you very much for joining us today. appreciate all of your insight, and a lot of other avenues we can go down in this conversation. we ll have to save them for another day. what speaker mccarthy thinks
case. now, as you quite rightly suggested a moment ago, you know, maybe this is not a billion dollar case. you know, i can tell you lawyers use some pretty big numbers sometimes that are not always supportable, but there just doesn t seem to be any doubt that fox said a lot of things about this company, which were awful things they said, which were not true and for libel may be even more important that they knew or at least were not just on notice but had every reason to know were not true. and that s that s a tough case for the party that s being sued to deal with. beyond the money, is there something else that fox might be told it has to do to make up for this? maybe going on air is and saying