announcer: this is cnn breaking news. let s get straight to the breaking news. the fulton county district attorney is georgia, fani willis who is investigating donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in georgia is planning to announce her decision on whether to bring criminal charges against the former president this summer. cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez is following this for us. tell us more, evan? what are you learning? reporter: for months we ve heard fani willis say that sher decision on whether to bring charges in this important case was imminent. now we know what she means. in this letter that she wrote to the fulton county sheriff, and to local law enforcement there in atlanta, she s warning essentially that her timeline is looking somewhere between july 11th and september 1st. that is when this grand jury will be seated and will be hearing perhaps evidence to again, with a decision on whether to bring charges against the f
air. as top leadership called fact-checking bad for business. then, democrats holding republicans feats to the fire over gun safety legislation, demanding a vote be brought to the floor. congressman dave cicilline joins me live. and a new republican-led bill in idaho to make abortion access a whole lot harder in a first of its kind trafficking law, as the of our gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle, live from washington, d.c., newly-revealed evidence is ratcheting up the legal pressure on fox news. the network is facing a 1.6 billion, with a b, dollar defamation lawsuit from dominion voting systems. nbc is obtained several slides of internal fox communications used by dominion lawyers in pretrial hearings. fox to try to keep these secret, but a judge released them. they show in new detail how the network repeatedly aired conspiracy theories about dominion in the 2020 election, even as foxes fact-checker s, in what it calls
wagner tonight. good evening, alex. time for ale wagn good evening, mehdi hasa. i agree with you, the news part of fox knew should be replaced by something like fox entertainment network, fox blood sport fox in a universe something with not news. thank you, my friend. it s good to see you. good to see you as well. thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. we re going to start this friday evening with a little trivia. i read a quote and you guess who said it. president donald trump is a, quote, demonic force, a destroyer. but he is not going to destroy us. i will give you a hint here. it is not a quote from a pastor. it is from fox news host tucker carlson. last night, the dominion voting machine company filed a public version of their brief in their defamation lawsuit against fox news. and that breathe included dozens of incredible behind the scenes quotes about how fox news head honchos really actually feel. and in a lot of ways the story that dominio
believe in you. that does it for us tonight, now it is time for the last word with amy mohyeldin sitting in for lawrence o donnell. good evening, amen. good evening, alex. i wonder how long it s gonna be before we see republicans actually want to ban electricity to take us back to the arab candles because you know when it cooking over candles and stone bowls. they re going to keep the gas stoves. they re not gonna let anyone touch the gas. that s right! cooking over gas stoves. as the air. great to see you as always, my friend. enjoy the rest of your evening. have a good weekend. joy th it is now a matter of public record that fox hosts knew they were lying when they repeated donald trump s big lie about the presidential election that he lost in november. look, this program reported last night on the lawsuit from dominion voting system that included text messages that proves that fox primetime hosts and you that trump and his allies were lying about the elec
i will give you a hint here. it is not a quote from a pastor. it is from fox news host tucker carlson. last night, the dominion voting machine company filed a public version of their brief in their defamation lawsuit against fox news. and that breathe included dozens of incredible behind the scenes quotes about how fox news head honchos really actually feel. and in a lot of ways the story that dominion lays out is the story of the fear of tucker carlson and his colleagues. dominion alleges that fox news changed its coverage of dominion voting machines and the 2020 election out of fear that, if fox did not stay loyal to donald trump and his followers, the network would lose its audience and, with it, a whole lot of money. on november 7th, fox s decision desk all the 2020 election for joe biden. dominion revealed a text sent from tucker carlson to one of his producers that day, after fox called the election. and it said, to the executives understand how much credibility and tru