tonight on the reidout companies call dominion voting. several days ago, dominion came under heavy fire after allegations their machines caused thousands of votes in one michigan county were switched from donald trump to joe biden. we talked about the dominion software. there were voting irregiarities. that s to put it mildly. that s what they were saying on the air. when the cameras were off, those same fox hosts were calling election fraud claims bs, because on fox, it is all a performance. they knew trump lost but continued to lie to their audience to keep their maga viewers happy. also tonight, the real giuliani. although some called him america s mayor, there were disturbing signs long before he became trump s lawyer that he was willing to do or say anything to get rich and grab another moment in the spotlight. plus, senator john fetterman s battle with clinical depression and how things have changed since another senator caused a firestorm with his own rev
she responded, she s a complete nut. no one will work with her. ditto with rudy. another time, fox executive bill salmon commented on fox coverage of supposed election fraud to one of the people who made fox s accurate election night call for arizona and then lost his job because of it. in that email, salmon wrote, quote, it s remarkable how weak ratings make good journalists do bad things. and yet they kept airing these false claims. and hosting these kooks day after day, even as dominion sent fox literally 3,682 emails in real time asking, pleading, demanding that fox stop spreading lies about their company. fox s corporate representative confirmed that those emails were widely circulated within the company, and yet, they persists and the culmination of those lies was the violent assault on our nation s capitol by people who believed that fox news is the news. hours after the assault, tucker
he added, what trump s good at is destroying things. he s the undisputed world champion of that. he could easily destroy us if we play it wrong. in another text to his producer, he added, do the executives understand how much credibility and trust we have lost with our audience? we re playing with fire for real. an alternative like newsmax could be devastating to us. you see that? tucker didn t care about the facts. what he cared about were things like the company stock price and keeping trump s fan base tuning in. and frankly, he wasn t wrong to be concerned. actually chanting fox news sucks. fox news sucks. the reason why they re chanting that is because fox news called arizona for biden yesterday. and a lot of people are angry about that. and here is what newsmax, which carlson specifically called out as a threat to fox s
one of the tools we have to do that is defamation law. when people say, defamation law threatens the first amendment, actually, i would say it supports one of the reasons behind the first amendment. let s think about the other reasons behind the first amendment. one is self-governance. if we re to truly be an informed electorate, we need real information to hold our representatives accountable. this idea that we re chilling speech, i would say no, it s the opposite of that. allowing us to have an ecosystem where we flourish in disinformation, that s not supporting our key purposes behind the first amendment. so in the lawsuit, dominion is asking for summary judgment which i m going to ask you to explain in a moment. but they re also saying based on falsity, actual proven falsity about these major claims. number one, that they had a software installed in their machines to flip votes. number two, that they were technically owned by a company smalled smartmatic, when they re
in florida. there was no news organization saying yeah, that happened. there was mostly debunking of that so that people understood that the things that went wrong in florida had nothing to do with that. this is unprecedented for an entire news organization from the owner of the company that owns them, from rupert murdoch on down, to assert something they could have googles and knew it was false. thank you very much. this case is fascinating. still ahead, a new documentary series takes us inside rudy giuliani s rise to power in new york city, and his stunning fall from grace, as trump s number one legal lackey. satisfied with their bed? maybe it s because you can adjust your comfort and firmness on either side. your sleep number setting. to help relieve pressure points and keep you both comfortable all night. and now, save 50% on the sleep number 360 limited edition smart bed. ends monday.