we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. i m ari melber. the top story rocking conservative politics and fox news tonight is a huge new leak about this moment in 2020 when fox news accurately reported biden won arizona, which stoked a maga backlash which upended the network, fed the series of journalists that fox now is facing potential accountability for, potentially over a billion dollars in lawsuit fines. it s also now led to the absolute blockbuster leak to the new york times. if you re think, or i heard about other leaks, this one is different and new and narrates a secret meeting between fox execs and hosts about that arizona call. an internal freakout where viewers were mad and bailing on fox because they reported in that instance, one, undeniable fact about the election. and the executives and anchors, great bare and mar that mccollum, on this call they discuss they were losing viewers because they correctly called arizona for biden. and the
why prosecutors were looking into the state farm arena? yeah, this video has become an obsession of donald trump s maga supporters, the focus of conspiracy theories. selective footage was shown by rudy giuliani, and hearings here in georgia and beyond. purported to show tampering with a vote. none of that is true whatsoever, it has been disproven by republican officials, by independent reviews, you name. it has been disproven. it s led to death threats and other, just, i, no horrific aftermath for the two election staffers who were the focus of this. this is also fueling a lot of conspiracy theories. and not only is the january six committee looking at this, criminal prosecutor looking at. this and it could be the subject, it could be a focus of the fulton county probe here in georgia. so this has gotten a lot of attention. and now it has gotten federal attention as well. anthony, we ve talked a lot about the interplay of all of these cases. the pieces of information that
accurate report. here was making that call. the fox news decision desk is calling arizona for joe biden. that is a big get for the biden campaign. fox news went on to fire one of the election staffers who was involved in making the correct arizona call. we did know that already. this leaked zoom conversation adds a lot more context at it shows fox is the kind of media company where getting a story right get you fired. they did not publicly reverse that call. all this comes as rupert murdoch admits he knew trump s call was crazy and some endorsed it any way. now, how did we get here? why is this still in the news? well, for weeks the billion dollars defamation case against fox has driven some really rough headlines based on that case as
election officials across the country are rejecting this allegations of crop fraud similar election niacin and tranquilize and not true, jonathan could see you. arthel: eric and jonathan meanwhile in arizona democrat mark kelly just addressed supporters after fox new projects kelly keeping his senate seat defeating blake masters. election staffers in the states to most populous counties are still working to the weekend. we expect in l update very soon to keep it right here on fox news racing as they count the votes in that tight governors race republican kari lake and democrat katie hobbs. senior correspondent is live in phoenix with the very latest. ask hi arthel you mentioned the victory celebration will democratic senator mark kelly thanked supporters. he also acknowledged the legacy of the seat he occupies on capitol hill. not a day has gone by for i