in the actual trial to explain, defend, or perhaps confess to why they aired live in many ways that led to or softened the ground for an insurrection. that is why this is a media story, but far more than a media story. the evidence has shown many knew trump was lying tatting election, but they, quote, endorsed it any way, and that word comes from murdoch himself. the reason this is in court is not because of the january 6th committee or congress or media matters, which is a fox kind of critic group. the reason is that somebody says they were legally hurt and defamed by fox, specifically one of the voting machine companies you may have heard of, dominion. today, damning new evidence as the case heats up. more emails show the internal fox news fact checking department they have one of those that is supposed to provide guardrails it fact-checked in advance and alerted some of the claims about that plaintiff, the voting machine company dominion, were just false. and then th
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
Internet opened to public use. It was visionary members of congress that understood there needs to be some regulation but you left it open. Yes. Gps really huge. Pizza hut track delivery with an app. I track fed x packages and ups ship. S all the time . We can do it. We have been doing it. Consumers havent seen it or seen the possibilities. But now theyre going to. Theyre going to. No reason why we cant. These technologies, they do sneak in. Often coming from defense. So its a little worry if were not spending on r d in the same way. Therefore we have to spend directly. I am a i know how much defense spending. Clearly, harvard and others. And i do not know the state of california and add all of the locations, some of the companies we mention. You mentioned google and others. And then out the location of automotive facilities and they were all alone the same track meaning they are moving from the midwest and from the south. It is their technology out or add a sunday or placing it at the
Your 25th lecture. I will try to do him justice in describing this pedal for room you have chosen for your 25th lecture. You have chosen a remarkably historic room. I have to think the offices of the Senate Curator and historian who prepare and test histories alone of all of our art and all of our rooms. Without them, this introduction would not be possible. Begin, in the early 1900s, the house and senate decided they had outgrown their space. They commissioned two architects them aw york to build house and Senate Office building. Thee buildings have become russell Senate Office building. They are mirror images of one another from about. Those two individuals were educated in paris and a part of that education brought this beautiful art that you see around this room. They took great care to design this room. They spent over a year finding this marble that came from south dover, new jersey. Which is very interesting. This was known as simply the caucus room. It was intended to be a room
Producer grace guggenheim whose credits include the Academy Awardwinning johnstown flood. And michael hill who coproduced pbss the civil war. The u. S. Capital Historical Society hosted the event as part of the National Heritage lecture. It is about one hour and 20 minutes. I am stacy mcbride. Welcome to your 25th lecture. Senator blunt is a High School History teacher. I will try to do him justice in describing this room you have chosen for your 25th lecture. You have chosen a remarkably historic room. But first, i have to thank the offices of the Senate Curator and historian who prepare and fantastic histories of all of our art and all of our rooms. Without them, this introduction would not be possible. To begin, in the early the house 1900s, and senate decided they had outgrown their space. They commissioned two architects from new york to build them a house and Senate Office building. Those buildings have become the Cannon House Office building and the russell Senate Office buildin