Willie, what do fox news viewers who are lied to with great regularity on some of these issues, what do they think when neil cavuto is there going, yeah, no, none of that is right . Yeah. Fact checking. I was smiling because you can hear the lawyers for fox news in the anchors ear, 787 million. The hit they took for lying about certain elements of the election. Hes telling the truth. It is a verifiable, Objective Truth that a lot of people still reject. Neil cavuto says theres no doubt about it anymore, but, sadly, there is doubt in americans minds because of the lies theyve been fed for all of these years. Yeah, for so many years. Majority, actually, of republicans believe the lies that are spread by chinese religious cults and, unfortunately, by networks of america and politicians, too. You know, we showed very briefly that clip of biden going to the border. We heard at the end of Way Too Early that theres a belief, tom suozzi believes, hey, he won on long island by leaning into the
don t want to be herbert hoover. oh, okay. donald trump hopes millions of americans lose their money from their 401(k)s and retirement savings within the next 12 months so he doesn t look bad. [ laughter ] we have a lot to get to this morning, including a key hearing today for trump s claim of presidential immunity in the federal election interference case. we re going to have expert legal analysis on that in just a moment. plus, the very latest on two major developments in the middle east. israel says it has killed a hezbollah commander in southern lebanon. it comes as the israeli military says it is shifting to a more targeted campaign inside gaza. retired four star navy admiral james stavridis will join us with more insight on both of those stories. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, january 9th. with us, we have former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan. pulitzer prize winning columnist at the washington
and welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i m rahel solomon in for christine romans. wee begin with nikki haley, the 2024 presidential contender breaking with former president trump and florida governor ron desantis on a cnn town hall last night. they differentiated herself from her rivals, sometimes, by name, on a number of points including social security and medicare. and january 6. here s haley on ukraine where trump and desantis have avoided clearly backing the country s fight against russian aggression. listen. this is bigger than ukraine. this is a war about freedom. and it s one we have to win. a win for ukraine is a win for all of us. because tyrants tell us exactly what they re going to do. what we heard, china said they were going to take hong kong, they did it. russia said they were going to invade ukraine, we watched that happen. china says taiwan is next, we better believe them. russia says poland and the ballotics are next, if that happens,
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.
i m kasie hunt here in washington. a dangerous ice storm now crippling parts of the american south. in texas, reports of hundreds of accidents, some deadly, as roads turn into ice rinks. right now 40 million americans are under storm threat, freezing rain is raising fears of falling trees and power outages, and air travel is a mess, too. we have seen ground stops, about 1,500 flights cancelled so far, and more than 2,500 delays. we have seems tracking all of it. first, let s start with ed lavendara in dallas. ed, dicey, dangerous, deadly and, quite frankly, it is only going to get worse. what are you seeing out there? reporter: it has been an ugly morning and the rain and sleet and freezing rain is all kind of coming down sporadically. but expressway, highway 75 coming out of downtown dallas, we re on the far northern end of the city here. you can see just how little traffic there is some people driving other people driving rather slowly. it is very treacherous out th