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
the january 6th committee is about to reveal a minute-by-minute count of president trump s actions and inamb inaction after the deadly capitol attack after weeks of testimony by trump s inner circle, investigators are zeroing in on the day of the insurrection and form per president trump himself. the president summoned the mob and lit the flame of this attack. on capitol hill tonight, house investigator are expected to show never-before-seen have you video clips of the attack. the house select committee is promising to give us an inside look with what donald trump was doing, with whom he was talking and what he knew of the unfolding riot at the capitol in real time. it is going to focus on the infamous 187 minutes, a little over three ours, from near the end of trump answer speech ur urging rally goers to head to the capitol and the video in which he told supporters to leave the capitol and go home after the deadly attack was well under way and blood had already been sp
to the violence that occurred here that day. we ve already seen this committee detail how donald trump pressured all aspects of the government to try to overturn the electoral results, the justice department, state officials, vice president mike pence. for tomorrow at the hearing they plan to show the oath keepers, and proud boys to take action and lead to the violence we saw in this building on january 6th. we will hear live testimony from one former member of the oath keepers, a former spokesperson, jason van patenhove someone he said had a lot of inside information, according to what he told a colorado tv station, said he had inside access to the oath keepers. we ll learn about that, and we ll also learn about a meeting that occurred mid-december, december 18th. jamie raskin, the congressman from maryland plans to lead the questioning tomorrow, says it will be a key focus of the hearing tomorrow. one of the things that people are going to learn is the fundamental importa
now at the heart of this defamation claim, at a time when the lies led to violence was someone who said they knew what they knew because they got it by experiencing time travel in a semiconscious state. what? in journalism, that s the opposite source, that s a source you didn t publish. it can t be any clearer, it is bananas, i want to be as blunt as possible about that. they have all sorts of rights to make mistakes. but that s bananas. what did the fox people think? the executive in charge admitted they wouldn t have allowed that claim to be made if the sole basis was the time traveling semiconscious associate of the trump lawyer which he deemed quote crazy, crazy theories. now, have you ever heard that saying, it gets better? for fox, legally tonight, it
it shows that he did everything he could for weeks, anything, crazy theories, legal theories, crazy factual accusations to stop this electoral vote count from happening. and yet all of a sudden he wanted to go up on the hill, as we just saw. he wanted to go up on the hill and march with these people. then he doesn t get to go up on the hill and he goes dark for three hours. three hours. why? because he wanted the vote count to stop and he was hoping that these people in violence, whatever means possible, would stop it. and whether or not he can be hit for inciting violence, which is a high standard, it certainly goes to criminal intent on any number of other charges that relate to defrauding the united states and interfering with an official proceeding. we re getting new information about what is driving one of the former white house insiders who will testify tonight knowing he