lying. tucker carlson was one of those hosts, according to court documents. now, a week after that giant payout to dominion, tucker is out at fox news, is he the sacrificial lamb or was there something else going on? fox news didn t give a reason and tucker isn t commenting, but we do have media reporter dylan byers with us to tell us all that he has so far gathered along with an expert in cable news to tell us what this means for viewers of the channel does anything change but that is not all. both cnn and nbc news have also made big media moves today, nbc that is. news cnn fired don lemon, he says he was blind sided. the network says he wasn t and comcast, the parent company of msnbc fired nbc universal ceo jeff shell after an investigation into, quote, inappropriate conduct. in a statement, shell said he deeply regrets an inappropriate relationship with a woman in the company. joining me now is nbc news senior reporter jane timm, and puck senior correspondent dylan byers.
described the proud boys on january 6th in their closing argument to jurors today former minnesota police officer kim potter now out of prison after serving time for the de deadly shooting of dawunte wright any minute now we re expecting to hear from pentagon officials after that high risk evacuation of the u.s. embassy in sudan what s left for the 16,000 americans still stranded inside that war-torn country. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments, and we start with the beginning of the end for the historic trial against five former proud boys members in washington, d.c., in connection with the attack on the capitol ryan reilly is outside the courthouse where closing arguments are underway ryan, take us inside that courtroom. what are both sides leaving jurors with? that s right, so the government spend the morning laying out the case for how the proud boys sort of formed after that or how this plan rather sort of formed, starting they start
so there s a lot that came out in sort of the bath water, if you will, that may not be as specifically an election conspiracy theory, but came to light in this dominion lawsuit again, we don t have reporting exactly where this ousting is coming from, but the timing, as you said, incredibly curious. so dylan, he said i ll see you on monday on his friday show, and there have been reports from the guardian that they were promoting his show as early as this morning, promoting an interview he was going to do with the gop presidential candidate. how much do you know so far about how long this has been in the works? sure, well, as far as tucker carlson is concerned, he learned about it this morning. so this came out of nowhere for him. i think it s right to look at what s happened with dpliominio. to say he s a sacrificial lamb is wrong if they needed a sacrificial lamb they would go after someone like maria bartbartiromo
relationship with a woman in the company. joining me now is nbc news senior reporter jane timm, and puck senior correspondent dylan byers. jane, let s get to the reporting, what do you know so far about fox news well, katy, i mean, we don t have any reporting that ties this to tucker s ousting, tucker carlson s ousting to the dominion settlement. the timing as you said is incredibly curious, but i think what s important here is how much we learned and presumably how much more fox news learned about tucker carlson and what was happening on his show during that case. so there s so much evidence that came out publicly and more that was redacted about the workplace there. we also know that abby grossberg, one of his senior producers who was fired after she claimed that it was a toxic work environment with gender discrimination, she filed a lawsuit against fox news and tucker carlson alleging the problems on his show that her lawyers say he was aware of.
in the case of tucker, it s about what further legal vulnerability might be coming down the pipeline. i think what dominion did in addition to forcing fox to pay out 787 merc$787 million is it a lot of the dirty laundry we saw evidence of a sort of toxic culture within his show, which is its own fear dom - fiefdom the abby grossberg allegations. then you have the abby grossberg allegations, i think an ouster of a popular host on the entire network suggests there s more going on there and suggests perhaps there s a smoking gun in terms of tucker carlson s own behavior, behavior on the show that fox news as a network, particularly after everything it s been through didn t want to leave itself liable for. he is a huge moneymaker for the network, the ratings he gets are large. he s the most popular show on the program other than the five sometimes, am i right about that yes, that s right