hello there, everyone. it is 4:00 in new york when you pull back delayers and really try to understand how any one of the most damaging conspiracy theories that have over the last few years now seeped into the mainstream political conversation and corroded the body politic, from election denialism to its violent manifestation in the january 6th insurrection to putin s war in ukraine, to conspiracies about covid-19 and the vaccine and mask wearing, to the discuss around replacement theory, which has actually been cited in the manifestos of mass shooters it is fair to say it is not hyperbolic to argue that tucker carlson is the through line through all of them. he is the champion of conspiracy theories and until today he had one of the largest audiences in cable news for diss sem natting them not anymore. news broke today tucker carlson is out at the network that handed him the biggest microphone of his career that stunning announcement by fox news made this morning in a short
where s the beef that s all he wanted to know described by january 6th committee member jamie raskin as, quote, the craziest meeting of the trump presidency. where you just heard from white house counsel pat cipollone talk about a quote disregard for backing up what they said with facts. it was a wild meeting held in the oval office on december 18th, 2020 now, remember that date because what ensued that night was an hours-long duel between trump s own insiders, his allies on one side included sidney powell and mike flynn and several white house lawyers on the other they clashed over outlandish claims of voter fraud and ideas about what donald trump should do in order to overturn the results of the 2020 election the meeting at times, as you just heard there, became very heated people shouting and hurling insults at each other according to people who were in the room now, among the many out there election conspiracies discussed that night in that meeting was