lawsuit in what is arguably the most painful chapter in their lives, hats off. thanks, chris. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. one of the most watched cable news programs in all of the united states is rewriting the history of january 6th, defending the violent mob that attacked the capitol, and they re doing it with c the explicit aid and support of the highest ranked elected republican in the country. last night fox news host tucker carlson aired his first news report, footage carlson was given access to by speaker of the house kevin mccarthy. we re not going to show you all of tucker carlson s defense for january 6th rioters here, but this is a sample of what the fox newsat audience heard last nigh. very little of january 6th was organized or violent. it was neither an insurrection or deadly. they were peaceful or meek. these were not insurrectionists, they were sight seers. they re not destroying the capitol. they re there because they believe the
but the deposition continued. question, why did fox news not want to antagonize trump further on november 16th, 2020, sir? murdoch, he had a very large following and they were probably mostly viewers of fox, so it would have been stupid. for weeks we ve gotten drips and drabs of internal fox news communications as they ve been quoted in legal filings in the defamation lawsuit between the dominion voting corporation and fox news. tonight the actual raw evidence, the e-mails, the texts, the deposition transcripts, all of that was released. it is a mountain of material. this is only some of it, and we are still making our way through it. but already there are some broad strokes that are unsettling. the big one is just how far fox news and its owner, rupert murdoch, seemed to be willing to go to appease president trump and his followers, how thar faild go not to antagonize them. in another e-mail murdoch is