become a kind of first stop for people announcing their senate candidacies. at least, is that way again tonight, but before that we will be discussing all of the new revelations in the dominion filing today. congressman schiff will join us for that. and then rachel, the only power that i had here was to decide where this happens with the show, and i feel like it will happen at the very end. the very end of the show, america and you are going to watch may lose an argument. and i mean, lose an argument and just get kicked out of the studio. you don t lose many arguments generally speaking. rachel, our friend mehdi hasan will join us at the end of the hour, and guess what the name of his new book is? how to win every argument. now, this not only is going to produce humiliation for me at the end of the hour, but imagine how my publisher feels now about my upcoming book, how to avoid every argument. after they ve read his book about how to win, they re going to love arguing. t
us tonight. thank you for being with us, and now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. this program recently has become a kind of first stop for people announcing their senate candidacies. at least, is that way again tonight, but before that we will be discussing all of the new revelations in the dominion filing today. congressman schiff will join us for that. and then rachel, the only power that i had here was to decide where this happens with the show, and i feel like it will happen at the very end. the very end of the show, america and you are going to watch me lose an argument. and i mean, lose an argument and just get kicked out of the studio. you don t lose arguments, generally speaking. rachel, our friend mehdi hasan will join us at the end of the hour, and guess what the name of his new book is? how to win every argument. now, this not only is going to produce humiliation for me at the end of the hour, but imagine how my pu
now. welcome to the beat, our top story is new developments right now in what s shaping up to be the case of the decade for trying to hold liars accountable with real swift justice. fox news on defense, facing over a billion dollars for punishment and lies, it served up and fed the insurrection. as you see here, top fox hosts have clearly been on team trump in public for a long time. we know that. we know sean hannity broke all journalistic rules of pretense by endorsing and publicly campaigning for trump. there s no court punishment for breaking that kind of rule. there just isn t. but there can be penalties for malicious lying, for defamation if you can prove the defendant acting knowingly, maliciously, intentionally. that s hard to prove and that difficult standard is deliberate, which is why this case has to turn on hard evidence, not asking whether hannity is biassed for trump, he is. but asking whether hannity knowingly and maliciously pushed lies that caused immeas
and what motivates everyone else, or tucker carlson, it s never a bad anything but the money. it s shameful, i think that because for fox, it is all about the money, this underscores just how important this litigation is. if they don t care about anything but money, how they react with what dominion is doing, it shows that they have actual malice, and they are deliberately putting forward lies, and that is injuring people. the injury to dominion, very clear, but the injury of the country equally devastated. from the dominion filing that we got to, it says this about the day before january 6th. it said on january 5th, rupert and scott discussed whether hannity, carlson, and ingram should say some version of the election is over, and joe biden won? foxy eo suzanne scott told rupert that privately, they are all there. but we need to be careful about
and scott discussed whether hannity, carlson, and ingram should say some version of the election is over, and joe biden won? foxy eo suzanne scott told rupert that privately, they are all there. but we need to be careful about using the shows. and pacing off the viewers. so that nobody makes that mistake. the next day was january 6th. and so there they are, the day before. that statement could ve gone up, it would ve been an easy statement to, right pretty easy statement to get out there. but they chose not to do this, understanding its value, they understood that it could have real value. they didn t know what was coming the next day. but the next day, we got what was coming. and because fox did absolutely nothing to slow down what was coming. that s absolutely right, that s one of the biggest megaphones in the world. had they said something on january 5th, had they said something after the election,