conspiracies by the ex-president and his allies including in the media. in its $1.6 billion defamation case pierces the hermetically sealed bubble that is fox news. the network that drives the conversation and conduct in the republican party and on the right like none other. it shows that hosts on fox news either peddled the big lie that the 2020 election was stolen from trump or gave the platform for people to spread the big lie that the election was stolen from trump for one reason and one reason only, fear, terror really of losing viewers and tumbling stock prices and viewers migrating to more radical outlets. messages and emails obtained by dominion along with testimony from fox news employees and hosts reveals that it was well known and bantered about inside fox news that the vote fraud conspiracies were as rupert murdoch put it terrible stuff, damaging everybody. and that it was, quote, very hard to credibly claim foul. claim foul, they did and panic over viewers turnin
hush money scheme. it may very well also be a court appearance that proceeds an indictment of a former president of these united states michael cohen, donald trump s former attorney and fixer went before a grand jury in manhattan today in what may be alvin bragg s end game a years-long investigation based on hush money payments made to porn star stormy daniels payments made nearly seven years ago. here s what cohen had to say earlier today before he went in for his grand jury testimony this is not revenge, right? what is this is about accountability i don t want to see anyone, including donald trump, indicted, prosecuted, convicted, incarcerated, simply because i fundamentally disagree with them this is all about accountability he needs to be held accountable for his dirty deeds. new york times reports this, quote, the manhattan d.a. s office has already questioned at least seven other people before the grand jury, hearing evidence about the hush money deal that s accor
u.s. capitol. so why did you decide to march to the capitol? well, basically, you know, the president got everybody riled up, told everybody head on down. so we were basically just following what he said. after the president s speech as you are marching to the capitol, how did you feel? i was you know, i m angry. you know, after everything that was basically said in the speech, you know, a lot of the stuff he said he already put out in tweets. i ve heard it and seen it before. so i was already worked up and so were most of the people there. thursday a federal judge sentenced him to two years of probation for disorderly and disruptive conduct. he said now that i ve been sentenced, i want to again say that it was wrong for me to be inside the u.s. capitol and that i m sorry. like so many others, i hung on to every word donald trump said and he took advantage of us. my family and i have suffered, first for my bad judgment and then for speaking out. but if it helps th
describing how president trump used the lies he told to raise millions of dollars from the american people. these fundraising schemes were also part of the effort to disseminate the false claims of election fraud. without objection i am the senior investigative counsel at the house select committee to investigate the general six attack on the united states capitol. between election day and january six, the trump campaign sent millions up fundraising emails to trump supporters, sometimes as many as 25 a day. the emails claimed, quote, the left wing mob was undermining the election. it urged supporters to step up, to protect the integrity of the election, and encourage them to, quote, fight back. as the select committee has demonstrated, the trump campaign knew that these voter fraud claims were false. yet, they continue to borrow small dollar donors with emails, encouraging them to donate to something called, the official election defense fund. the selectivity discovered
denver riggleman join me tonight. then, myself, i m comfortable with the framework. it s a big endorsement for the bipartisan gun proposal. senator chris murphy is here on that. plus you have the chance to dump these grandstanding losers and replace them with two rock-solid america first champions! it s election night in america, another big test of the trump brand win all in starts right now good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. one of the biggest, most overwhelming themes of the january 6th committee s first two public hearings is that everyone knew the election was not rigged. all of the people around donald trump, other than a select, tiny little few, they all knew there was no big lie. or that the big lie was a big lie, that there was no fraud. they talked about it amongst themselves. some of them even send it directly to trump. but the other big theme is that nobody really did anything about it. none of them stood up and spoke the truth publicly.