conspiracies by the ex-president and his allies including in the media. in its $1.6 billion defamation case pierces the hermetically sealed bubble that is fox news. the network that drives the conversation and conduct in the republican party and on the right like none other. it shows that hosts on fox news either peddled the big lie that the 2020 election was stolen from trump or gave the platform for people to spread the big lie that the election was stolen from trump for one reason and one reason only, fear, terror really of losing viewers and tumbling stock prices and viewers migrating to more radical outlets. messages and emails obtained by dominion along with testimony from fox news employees and hosts reveals that it was well known and bantered about inside fox news that the vote fraud conspiracies were as rupert murdoch put it terrible stuff, damaging everybody. and that it was, quote, very hard to credibly claim foul. claim foul, they did and panic over viewers turnin
in retrospect, it is clear the 2020 election was a grave betrayal of american democracy. it is galling to be lectured about democracy by a man who took power in an election so sketchy that many americans don t believe it was real. how did senile hermit joe biden get 15 million more votes than his former boss rock star crowd surfer barack obama? results like that would seem to defy the laws of known physics and qualify instead as a miracle. was the 2020 election a miracle? honestly, we don t know. i want to be clear. the first things out of his mouth, in retrospect it is clear that the election was a grave betrayal of american democracy. that was last night, 23 hours ago. what do you make of that in the light of this lawsuit? what i make of it is sort of a crass decision that fox was worried that if they told the truth, that would be financially damaging, if not ruinous to
i don t hide. sometimes, i make mistakes, we make mistakes, we re all human. the difference is, i will never look into this camera and lie to you, and i won t toe a line that i don t believe in because i am worried about the stock price. that is exactly what the host of fox news did over and over. they knew the election was not rigged, that it was not stolen by the ghost of hugo chavez or weird italian satellites or robotic a i voting machines. they fed their audience those lies every day. they re still doing it more than two years later. just listen to tucker carlson a sudden two weeks ago. there are so many unanswered questions, some at the lingering. how, for example, did see now herman joe biden get 15 million more votes than his former boss, rock star crowd surfer barack obama? results like that would seem to defy the laws of non physics and qualify as a miracle. was the 2020 election a miracle?
the difference is, i will never look into this camera and lie to you, and i won t toe a line that i don t believe in because i am worried about the stock price. that is exactly what the host of fox news did over and over. they knew the election was not rigged, that it was not stolen by the ghost of hugo chavez or weird italian satellites or robotic ai voting machines. they fed their audience those lies anyway. they re still doing it more than two years later. just listen to tucker carlson a sudden two weeks ago. there are so many unanswered questions, some are lingering. how, for example, did see now herman joe biden get 15 million more votes than his former boss, rock star crowd surfer barack obama? results like that would seem to defy the laws of known physics and qualify as a miracle. was the 2020 election a miracle? honestly, we don t know and
carlson called donald trump, he called him a demonic force, a destroyer. the disrespect for fox viewers is so thorough that those lies continue to this day, just look at what tucker was doing just last night. hours, just hours after he and his employer were exposed. there are so many unanswered questions. some of them lingering. how, for example, did senile hermit joe biden get 15 million more votes than his former boss, rock star crowd surfer barack obama? results like that would seem it defy the laws of known physics and qualify as a miracle. was the 2020 election a miracle? honestly, we don t know and don t expect to get an answer tonight. joining me now is charles blow, new york times columnist, and charlie sykes, editor at large of the bulwark and an msnbc contributor. maybe the reason tucker carlson hat that credulous look on his face all the time is because he really doesn t believe it. this is a guy who called for the