have an answer when asked about the incident today. but white house press secretary karine jean-pierre did at least try to come up with an explanation. take a look. the president and the first lady and their family were not here this weekend as you all reported on this and as you also know they left on friday and returned just yesterday. where this was discovered is a heavily traveled area where many white house west wing i should be more specific west wing visitors come through this particular area. i just don t have anything more to share. it is under investigation by the secret service. this is in their purview and we will allow certainly the investigation to continue. we have confidence the secret service will get to the bottom of this. for their part the mainstream media found the whole situation a little ridiculous. check this out. i can t even fathom anything like this having been found before in the west wing and i go back to the 70s. this is pretty wild. i wo
for ari melber starts now. i wanted to say, what a day doesn t every feel day like what a day? what a day without breaks. some accountability welcome to the beat. i m alicia mendez in for ari melber we start with breaking news a legal earthquake for fox news fox news folded. rupert murdoch will pay more than $787 million over lies and conspiracy theories. the settlement coming as opening statements were about to begin in court today fox admitted to telling lie, and it comes after two years, a mo mounting smoking gun of evidence rupert murdoch under oath admit some hosts endorsed the lies from trump s team. here s dominion s lawyer right after the deal was struck. the truth matters lie have consequences. over two years ago a torrent of lies swept dominion and election officials across america into an alternative universe of conspiracy theories causing grievous harm to dominion and the country. today as settlement of $787,500,000 reps vindication and accountability.
merck. president biden will announce the purchase of an additional 100 million doses of that johnson & johnson vaccine. an eye on this minneapolis courtroom. it s day three of former police officer derek chauvin s trial. he is charged with murder in the death of george floyd. a fourth juror was seated minutes ago. more on the legal maneuvers coming up. first, our reporters as the house moves closer to passing this covid relief bill. we have garrett haake, carol lee and i want to bring in business correspondent, the one and only stephanie ruhle. garrett, help us understand how this process is going to play out right now. when do you expect we will actually see the house take a vote on this? reporter: i think the house will probably vote late in the noon hour, maybe 1:00 this afternoon. house democratic leaders have scheduled an enrollment ceremony for later this afternoon. they remain that confident that this bill will pass. you are looking at kevin mccarthy having one o