this legal pressure that is engulfing donald trump to a degree he s clearly aware of. his former white house lawyer made waves and concerned people by ricking trump will go to jail over white house documents. now we have this short but unusual letter from donald trump s lawyers, signed by them, publicized by donald trump that reads like a cry for help or some sort of freakout. i can tell you straight up it s not a normal legal proceeding. it s addressed to attorney general merrick garland. the wall street journal made waves that the quays may be nearing the intend although no one can say what happened, it clearly had bad news in there at a minimum for trump with insiders bracing for a possible indictment. again, that s not news you can go to the bank with, but it s wall street journal, which is own by the murdoch empire, and that may among other things may have led trump to write this letter. it basically tries to shake down the attorney general of the united states, whic
now. mind bending. they are. they are. see you soon. welcome, everyone, to the beat. i m ari melber. the top story is the earthquake rocking the fox news empire. a lawsuit putting pressure on fox for the first time, puper murdoch who s wielded power and enjoyed it, and he s said so for about seven decades. do you like the feeling of power you have? yes. murdoch deploys fox news and his tabloids with that power that he admits he enjoys, to shape and sometimes all but run america s republican party and impact conservative discourse in this country. now he s under legal pressure because fox aired falsehoods and lies about the 2020 election. and allegedly pushed the specific lies they knew were false at the time which paved the way and built the support for many of the people who then showed up at the election. the company hit with this billion dollar lawsuit. weaver covered that before on this program, from a voting company that alleged defamation. this is the top
the show uses art to warn all of us that the way things are going, what you re about to see is closer to how some nominees are really selected than we re really told in public, in this scene about plotting. so, what is this actually here? this is just a nice political conference with like minded donors and intellectuals. aka, picking the next president. selecto presidento. that s not really how it works. sure, yeah. no, but yeah. no, but yeah. the same report drew the link to the real life murdochs bet on trump, and terrifyingly important forces at play here. murdoch runs a comparable to the one on the show. the show echoes history. it shows this fictional logan, there you see on the right, standing on boxes of printer painer to address a newsroom, just as you see the real murdoch doing exactly that when he
bought and addressed reporters at the wall street journal in 2007. murdoch s been in the news more than ever, really, lately, for bad reasons, and succession s writers say it s not just him, they have many influences. the actor who played murdoch s top lawyer, or logan s top lawyer on the show, discussed the overlap. logan, who s the sort of loose by based on rupert murdoch. although they say not really, but it s pretty clear comparisons. pretty clear, and murdoch s real lawyer certainly sees the issue. they arranged a legal binding divorce settlement barring murdoch s ex wife from giving story ideas to the writers on succession. brian cox, who might be known now more for this portrayal of this character than any other role, has also reflected on the
take. in other words, know your enemy as san su says. that is in succession with a watchable villain who makes cynical arguments. people come to us because we don t sell him on anything. no pact of bleeding heart, united nations, volvo gender bender [ bleep ]. not to be crude about it, but politics is what comes out of the [ bleep ] would you rather be up front feeding the horse? let s go to the top. let s get president. the real murdoch uses his power to try to make or break presidents, prime minsters. succession channels that to show this anti-democratic conclave as the washington post put it, which is something that we in journalism can rarely show you.