they re frantically texting trump s family saying please make him stand down, and won t put him on the air. trump tries to call into lou dobbs who is one of the people who started this, and they won t put him on the air. and so they re mad at people like neil cavuto who is in the background and bret baier, and his colleagues are getting mad amthem, but they themselves wouldn t put trump on the air because they saw physically on the tv what they had done. exactly, and they knew how dangerous it was. but, there s a lot of collateral damage in fox s wake here in the service of profit. not just the company in the main but also each one of those anchors is making a ridiculous amount of money doing precisely what they are doing. and that has blinded everyone to any sort of journalism ethics. every news organization has some sort of ethical handbook.
tonight on the reidout companies call dominion voting. several days ago, dominion came under heavy fire after allegations their machines caused thousands of votes in one michigan county were switched from donald trump to joe biden. we talked about the dominion software. there were voting irregiarities. that s to put it mildly. that s what they were saying on the air. when the cameras were off, those same fox hosts were calling election fraud claims bs, because on fox, it is all a performance. they knew trump lost but continued to lie to their audience to keep their maga viewers happy. also tonight, the real giuliani. although some called him america s mayor, there were disturbing signs long before he became trump s lawyer that he was willing to do or say anything to get rich and grab another moment in the spotlight.
that january six committee today released dozen more transcripts from its interviews with witnesses. these interviews are revealing even more about what went on in the days leading up to the deadly capitol attack, including in this latest batch of transcripts are depositions from ginni thomas, wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, trump aide and longtime secret service official tony ornato, trump s son-in-law and senior aide jared kushner, and rudy giuliani, who led the ridiculously attempt to overturn the 2020 election. ginni thomas told the committee she never spoke with her husband about any of the legal challenges to the 2020 election. she did confirm, though, that the supreme court justice is the best friend that she referenced in her text today than trump chief of staff mark meadows. and she told investigators she regretted texting trump s chief of staff meadows, about you know, having a coup. tony ornato told the panel the first time here the story about trump s fight w
whoever ends up being speaker, isn t gonna do anything about trump s tax returns. obviously. what can the senate to? what can democrats in the senate to? what can the finance committee to, for example? well, they can do anything that the house ways and means committee could do, except introducing a tax bill. so, they can hold hearings about why was donald trump not audited, and when the audit was undertaken, why was it severely humbled, and who hobbled the auditors and that case? they can demand to see the business records that trump had at mazars to see if he had any justification for these things. what of the things they should look to is whether mazer s accounting firm had an agreement with trump, called an engagement letter, that said, what are the numbers you give us, we ll put on your tax returns. we ll take you at your word that it s an honest tax return. that s a practice that goes on. it shouldn t be allowed. the a i cpa on the state should adopt rules, ending that
what we re seeing is a lot of making up, including how much he gave to charity, zero in 2020. trump s political image is built around his, you know, this business that he created, as david points out. he pretends to be a billionaire. we saw the role of the apprentice blatant building up this idea, this kind of genius, ruthless entrepreneur. that s shattered. if it wasn t already shattered, it s certainly shattered now. does this have any impact on his 2024 presidential campaign? well, i don t know if it has an impact, because i think a lot of people have already factored in what they think of him, and joseph s supposed success and business or not. but i think you are right to point out that for years, he s told us he s a fabulously successful business meant, but look at these tax return, he s a terrifically and successful businessman, year after year, he is losing money, losing money, while you know the most successful businessman in the world doesn t lose money, unless of course, yo