conspiracies by the ex-president and his allies including in the media. in its $1.6 billion defamation case pierces the hermetically sealed bubble that is fox news. the network that drives the conversation and conduct in the republican party and on the right like none other. it shows that hosts on fox news either peddled the big lie that the 2020 election was stolen from trump or gave the platform for people to spread the big lie that the election was stolen from trump for one reason and one reason only, fear, terror really of losing viewers and tumbling stock prices and viewers migrating to more radical outlets. messages and emails obtained by dominion along with testimony from fox news employees and hosts reveals that it was well known and bantered about inside fox news that the vote fraud conspiracies were as rupert murdoch put it terrible stuff, damaging everybody. and that it was, quote, very hard to credibly claim foul. claim foul, they did and panic over viewers turnin
on this move from the proud boys from the new york times. their lawyers contend because the government has accused the defendants as inciting others to join them in attacking the capitol as, quote, tools of conspiracy they have a right to rebut the claim with an alternate theory, that s that trump was cucking the conspiracy. legally sound argument to be made. i m not sympathetic to the proud boys from any stretch of the imagination. but if that is your defense and you can call a witness to substantiate our corroborate your defense, why not have the opportunity to put this in front of the jury. what type of pickle does the government find itself in? it s always been donald trump was the designer, the master planner for what ended up happening. but there s never been a very clear evidentiary through line.
him, the twice impeached ex-president himself who some proud boys members say should be on trial instead of them. one of their lawyers argues this, quote, donald trump called on patriots to stop the steal. we re calling on donald trump to take the stand. it is a long shot but fascinating effort. they intend to ask the u.s. department of justice for help in forcing, compelling trump s testimony. the lawyers argue according to the washington post reporting on this, quote, at all times relevant trump was president of the united states and it is the government s obligation to produce him. joining us now former fbi counterintelligence agent pete strzok. what do you think? look, the proud boys are trying to demonstrate they believe or an argument they have was they were acting at the behest of donald trump and that when he called on them to act it was because he thought the vote had been stolen and that, therefore, their intent was not they were not the
watched rudy giuliani and sydney powell quote, terrible stuff. by november 18th tucker carlson told laura ingram, quote sydney powell is lying, by the way, i caught her, it s insane. laura ingraham explains, quote, sydney is a complete nut, no one will work with her. carlson reply, quote, it s unbelievably offensive to me. our viewers are good people and they believe it. on that narrow assessment he was right. the lies that found a megaphone, a massive megaphone, the most watched cable network in the country were not just broadcast, amplified, knowingly disseminated by anchors who knew they were b.s., they were believed by the audience and it s what led to the deadly insurrection. those lies are still doing damage to our democracy. a pew research poll from this past december, just a few months
hard to credibly claim foul. claim foul, they did and panic over viewers turning in to rival newsmax led to a dominion calls a war footing caring more about protecting its own falling viewership than about the truth. fox news hosts and staffers have perhaps the harshest words to say privately about trump attorney sidney powell. she was at the forefront of the most outlandish voter fraud claims. laura ingraham said of her, she was a complete nut. tucker carlson called her a, quote, lunatic. sean hannity testified that, quote, that whole narrative that sidney powell was pushing, i did 23409 believe it for one second. well, here s his longer than one second interview with one sidney powell from november 30th. we ve got evidence of corruption all across the country and countless districts. the machine ran an algorithm that shaved votes from trump and awarded them to biden.