they have been fox news whole thing for a very long time now. all of that is what makes this news so perplexing. the new york times has published a text. the times reports that fox newses executives were made awa of this at the very end of their defamation negotiations with the dominion voting systems. the texts had been redacted ippublic court filings. the times reports once executives learned of the text they made the decision to give tucker carlson the boot. the first thing i want you to notice was the time stamp here. this text was sent january 7, 2021, the day after the attack on the capitol. quote, a couple of weeks ago i wasof watching a video of peopl fighting on the street in washington. a group of trump guys surrounded
in and give over information that all gets processed in systems. they could help cbp understand where migrants are coming in and be able to shift resources. basically they re going to be doing all the behind the scenes jobs that some border patrol agent would ordinarily be doing in order to allow those agents to go to the front lines and be able to meet these migrants as they come in. as we saw in december when we thought title 42 had left when the supreme court hold kept that in place, we saw a number of migrants who said they could walk in because there weren t a number of border patrol agents specifically in el paso to stop them. oftentimes those people would end up sleeping on the street because there wasn t enough shellers or capacity to take them in. this is to try to get more border patrol men and women what we would say right up at the border in order to process them, take them in and make sure there aren t as many migrants who come in undetect. des steps like this have been
trump will not take the stand. his lawyers notified the judge of that decision yesterday. carroll s lawyers, however, are expected to play some of trump s taped deposition for the jury this week. meanwhile a racially charged text message reportedly sent by tucker carlson to a fox news producer is providing more insight into why the cable news station fired the former host last week. just one day before the company was set to take the stand for a billion dollar defamation trial last month the new york times reports that this previously redacted message came to the attention of fox executives. it was sent just one day after the january 6th insurrection and reads in part this way. a couple of weeks ago i was watching a video of people fighting on the street in washington. the group of trump guys surrounded an teefa kid and started pounding the living crap out of him. it was three against one at least. jumping a guy like that is
executives to eventually oust carlson from his primetime perch. that according to the new york times. the words, you decide if they re simply misguided or something more sinister. these are tucker carlson s words. a couple of weeks ago i was watching video of people fighting on the street in washington. a group of trump guys surrounded an antifa kid and started pounding the living out of him. it was three against one at least. jumping a guy like that is dishonorable, obviously. it s not how white men fight. yet suddenly i found myself rooting for the mob quens the man, hoping they d hit him harder, kill him. i really wanted them to hurt the kid. i could taste it. cnn s oliver darcy joins us. he went on to say he probably shouldn t be thinking or texting such things. but he did. that s right, john. and it s disturbing but it shouldn t be surprisetion particularly for those who spent time watching tucker carlson s show. you know, over the years he has trafficked in anti-immigrati
watching video of people fighting on the street in washington. a group of trump guys surrounded an antifa kid and started pounding the living crap out of him. it was three against one at least. jumping a guy like that is dishonorable, obviously. it s not how white men fight, yet suddenly, i found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they would hit him harder, kill him. i really wanted them to hurt the kid. i could taste it. carlson later goes on to write that he quote shouldn t gloat over the man s suffering but according to the times, the earlier portion of the message was concerning enough that it contributed to fox s decision to settle with dominion voting systems for more than $787 million and ultimately fire the host. other messages including ones where carlson disparaged fox executives and used sexist language also reportedly led to