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.
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i think democrats have been explicitly clear in, remember, their closing messages of the midterms when president biden went out and explicitly said, this is about protecting our democracy, protecting the key pillar of our democracy and reinforcing it with your vote. that was a key message in the 2022 midterms and something bier going to hear on a consistent drum beat. because that s who lost today. our democracy lost without any type of clear accountability beyond money because i don t agree that money is accountability what s accountability is changing your ways, behaving better in the southern house you grew up in, you better believe that statement would not be accepted as a lesson learned. but the reality is, we re not going to get that from fox we re going to need to get it from our elected officials and the campaign staffers who know the uphill battle of convincing voters their vote does count and matter. alicia, can i note on this
asking rightly so why is ukraine in our interest? why is it in our interest to take bold action here? i m not advocating for putting american boots on the ground in ukraine but there is a lot more we should be doing to help them defend themselves. the reason it s in our interest is you just said the world just watched the taliban dictate the terms and the message everyone received is jihad has one, democracy lost. now they watch putin dictate the terms and just next week in the opening ceremonies of the olympics you are going to see putin and xi standing side-by-side talking about a new world order. why should americans care? we shouldn t just stand by and allow the old soviet union to get put back together again and putin has stated since 2005 that the greatest tragedy of the 20th century was the demise of the soviet union and he intends to put it back together.