now. welcome to the beat, our top story is new developments right now in what s shaping up to be the case of the decade for trying to hold liars accountable with real swift justice. fox news on defense, facing over a billion dollars for punishment and lies, it served up and fed the insurrection. as you see here, top fox hosts have clearly been on team trump in public for a long time. we know that. we know sean hannity broke all journalistic rules of pretense by endorsing and publicly campaigning for trump. there s no court punishment for breaking that kind of rule. there just isn t. but there can be penalties for malicious lying, for defamation if you can prove the defendant acting knowingly, maliciously, intentionally. that s hard to prove and that difficult standard is deliberate, which is why this case has to turn on hard evidence, not asking whether hannity is biassed for trump, he is. but asking whether hannity knowingly and maliciously pushed lies that caused immeas
tonight on the reid out . is this debate or is it just false? no, it s not false at all. it s debatable. as prosecutors open an investigation into the lies of republican congressman-elect george santos kevin mccarthy is facing a caucus in chaos just six days before the house votes on a new speaker. meanwhile serious questions are being raised about where santos got the money to run his campaign. also tonight the death toll is rising after a winter storm dumped more than 3 feet of snow on buffalo. we ll check in to see how the city is digging out and getting back up and running. good evening, everyone. i m jonathan capehart in for joy reid. republican leader kevin mccarthy faces a vote for speaker of the house next tuesday with a razor thin republican majority and the very real prospect of an open fight over the gavel. it s a predicament underscored by the saga of incoming republican congressman george santos of new york who again tried to explain away lies about
i worked with firms. is it debatable or just falls? it s not false at all. it s debatable. as prosecutors open an investigation to the lies of republican congressman elect george santos, kevin mccarthy is facing a caucus in chaos just six days before the house votes on a new speaker and meanwhile serious questions are being raised about where santos got the money to run his campaign. also tonight, that ll rising after a winter storm dumped more than three feet of snow on buffalo. we will check and see how the city is digging out and getting up and running. good evening everyone, i m jonathan capehart in for joy reid and we begin tonight just six days from the start of the new congress. republican leader kevin mccarthy facing a vote for speaker of the house next tuesday with a razor thin republican majority. the very real prospect of a open fight over the gavel. it is a predicament underscored by the saga of incoming republican congressman george santos of new york. who
around while children are being murdered? joining us now, senior correspondent casey stegall with more. reporter: this was an all hands on deck scenario. the break out how many law enforcement responded to this scene of, 376 to be exact showed up here at robb elementary school. of those 149 were u.s. border patrol agents, 91 state troopers, 25 uvalde city police, 16 county sheriff deputies, and 5 school district police. the rest were u.s. marshals, dea and neighbors county deputies. surveillance video obtained by newspaper and tv shows mass of officers gathering in the hallway, the report questions with so many in and quote, lack of a strong incidents commander, why nobody else with a higher rank or more trains didn t step up sooner, it was not until 12:50 the gunman was taken down. we do not specify which officers should have taken over command in here, that would be a little bit of our opinion as to who should have, i will tell you is there are officers in that building w
around while children are being murdered? joining us now, senior correspondent casey stegall with more. reporter: this was an all hands on deck scenario. the break out how many law enforcement responded to this scene of, 376 to be exact showed up here at robb elementary school. of those 149 were u.s. border patrol agents, 91 state troopers, 25 uvalde city police, 16 county sheriff deputies, and 5 school district police. the rest were u.s. marshals, dea and neighbors county deputies. surveillance video obtained by newspaper and tv shows mass of officers gathering in the hallway, the report questions with so many in and quote, lack of a strong incidents commander, why nobody else with a higher rank or more trains didn t step up sooner, it was not until 12:50 the gunman was taken down. we do not specify which officers should have taken over command in here, that would be a little bit of our opinion as to who should have, i will tell you is there are officers in that building w