Anyhow you doing . Im doing well. This black History Month is sure is. And eddie is history. We have all made as americans. But why is it significa today in the 21st century that we keep a focus on knowing black history . Well, first of all, its such a delight to be in with you. Its just a blessing. And to see all of you, i think its its crucial that we understand in the past that has made us who we are. And there is this kind of parallel, these parallels stories, the story we tell ourselves. The myths and legends that affirm our sense of who we are as the shining city on the hill. And then theres the actual lived experience, the stories that dont come into view, what we might do, what we might describe it as the undisclosed features of American Democratic life. And it seems to me that when we you know how let me put it differently, the stories we tell reveal who we are and what we choose to leave out of leave out of our stories all too often reveal the limits of our conceptions of jus
stories. take a look. as i ve heard today to make the opening i never got to give, i was reminded of the hail tha the employees went through and continue to go through to this day. money is accountability. we got that today from fox we re not done yet we ve got some other people wh have accountability coming towards them dominion settled it defamation lawsuit against fox news with a last-minute deal yesterday afternoon. the network agreed to pay. it s a voting machine compan more than $787 million more moments before opening statements were set to get underway fox s lawyers did not talk t reporters yesterday, but the network put out a statement, running in part, and i hope can get through this, we acknowledge the courts rulings finding certain claims about dominion to be false this settlement reflects foxes continued commitment to th [inaudible we are hopeful - my professor, professor pearson, would always talk about the straight face test don t ever make an argument.
furniture that floyd home dot com. good morning, everyone we do begin with breaking news this morning. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield and we start with dramatic video from st petersburg, russia, showing an explosion at a cafe that reportedly killed a prominent russian military blogger. officials say at least 25. others were injured, six of them in critical condition and you can see the blast causing part of the outside of that building. to collapse. cnn s matthew chance is in russia. matthew what more can you tell us about this blogger and the circumstances of his death now? yeah flat. lynn to toschi is his name and he s one of russia s most prominent military bloggers , which means he s pro war has got more than half a million followers on his telegram channel, and he is notoriously outspoken. shall we say about the need for russia to do even more in ukraine to go in harder ? he was swept to notoriety after he appeared in one
the truth matters. lies have consequences over two years ago, a torrent of lies swept dominion and election officials across america into an alternative universe of conspiracy theories. causing grievance harm to dominion and the country today s settlement of $787 million represents vindication and accountability lies have consequences fox news avoids what could have been weeks more of an embarassing coverage by settling at the last minute with dominion we ll break down the terms of this historic deal and explain the other legal issues looming for the network. the obvious right here is, it was the worst of all worlds for fox news and a lot of people wanted to see all the dirty laundry put out. a lot of it was out. it was already out. there s going to be more, because there are more of these lawsuits the new york times this morning, oalternative reality bu now account for itself outside of the right-wing bubble how it would possibly do it was a matter of great expense
threat today. that faction is seeking to overturn the will of voters in future elections should they prevail in 2022. they made that point abundantly clear as if it was not already at back-to-back rallies over the weekend, headlined by the ex-president in two key battleground states. this election in 2024 they pledge to do that in arizona and nevada. here is what the republican nominee for secretary of state in nevada had to say. jim marchand. president trump and i lost an election in 2020 because of a rigged election. i ve been working since november 4th, 2020 to expose what happened, and what i found out is horrifying. when i m secretary of state of nevada we re going to fix it. when my coalition of secretary of state candidates around the country get elected, we re going to fix the whole country and president trump is going to be president again in 2024. so that really happened. just a little fact-check here along the way, he lost because the voters weren t into either