happy saturday. happy saturday. everybody. welcome to morning joe weekend, it was another busy week. crazy week. well, this week, on monday it felt like it should ve been friday. there was a major shake up. it felt like it should ve been thursday. on fox news, president biden officially launching his reelection campaign. we ll get into all of that, plus some of the week s other top stories, take a look. the new york times has new reporting on fox s firing of tucker carlson. two sources tell the times a day before the start of the dominion defamation trial against the network. the fox sport of directors and top executives learned about private messages sent by carlson that had been redacted in legal filings. according to the sources, the redacted material contained highly offensive and crude remarks that went beyond the inflammatory, often racist comments of his primetime show and anything disclosed in the lead up to the trial. well, go ahead. let s dissect what
let s dissect what s so important. meanwhile, the wall street journal reports that in one of the redacted messages, carlson called a senior a crude and massage in a stick slur, like the worst one ever. several people with knowledge of fox s discussion told the times that the messages were a catalyst for rupert and loughlin murdaugh to sever ties with the host of their highest rated and highly profitable primetime program. let me add something here really quickly. i saw a clip from this weekend, bill maher, this past week. he actually was reading some of the text messages, and he read the ones that came out where tucker carlson cult the head of fox news, a woman, the sea word, which i noticed in the united states, you just
called america is talking and these executives who battled with ailes, the things they said were chilling. in a letter to bob wright, andy friendly, who is a prime time executive at cnbc, son of legendary cbs executive fred friendly, he said, that roger ailes pressured him and his colleagues to lie to the press and that fred friendly feared for his safety and in one conversation roger ailes, quote, said he would blow his brains out. david, another top nbc executive, currently the head of the ceo of discovery communications, highest paid media executive in america, certainly no wilting flower himself, he wrote in a letter to nbc hr, which i quote from in the book, that he feared for his family s safety. that roger ailes ailes used a slur, anti-sem met tick slur against him, ailes denies it, and he also denied it. why would both men deny it if it was written down in legal documents. i detail this episode in