wagner tonight. good evening, alex. time for ale wagn good evening, mehdi hasa. i agree with you, the news part of fox knew should be replaced by something like fox entertainment network, fox blood sport fox in a universe something with not news. thank you, my friend. it s good to see you. good to see you as well. thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. we re going to start this friday evening with a little trivia. i read a quote and you guess who said it. president donald trump is a, quote, demonic force, a destroyer. but he is not going to destroy us. i will give you a hint here. it is not a quote from a pastor. it is from fox news host tucker carlson. last night, the dominion voting machine company filed a public version of their brief in their defamation lawsuit against fox news. and that breathe included dozens of incredible behind the scenes quotes about how fox news head honchos really actually feel. and in a lot of ways the story that dominio
i will give you a hint here. it is not a quote from a pastor. it is from fox news host tucker carlson. last night, the dominion voting machine company filed a public version of their brief in their defamation lawsuit against fox news. and that breathe included dozens of incredible behind the scenes quotes about how fox news head honchos really actually feel. and in a lot of ways the story that dominion lays out is the story of the fear of tucker carlson and his colleagues. dominion alleges that fox news changed its coverage of dominion voting machines and the 2020 election out of fear that, if fox did not stay loyal to donald trump and his followers, the network would lose its audience and, with it, a whole lot of money. on november 7th, fox s decision desk all the 2020 election for joe biden. dominion revealed a text sent from tucker carlson to one of his producers that day, after fox called the election. and it said, to the executives understand how much credibility and tru
america s defence secretary says he s had a rare phone call with his russian counterpart in the aftermath of a collision between a russian fighter jet and a us drone. the race is now on to recover the wreckage of the unmanned aircraft. it s thought to be 1,200 metres deep in the black sea. russia has also said it will try to find the wreckage. meanwhile, america s top general said the whole incident was a result of russia s increasingly aggressive behaviour in the area. us defence secretary lloyd austin gave this update earlier. asi as i have said repeatedly, it s important that great powers be models of transparency and communication. and the united states will continue to fly and to operate were ever international law allows. and it is incumbent upon russia to operate its military aircraft in a safe and professional manner. 0ur diplomatic correspondent, james landale, has this report from kyiv. this is the kind of unmanned aircraft that crashed. an mq 9 reaper patrolling th
protest for gun control. their republican colleagues called it breaking the rules of decorum. the lead starts right now. debate and voting underway right now, as tennessee state house republicans try to expel three statehouse democrats, they protested on the statehouse floor in the wake of the nashville school shooting, but should they really be kicked out of office plus airspace over northern israel shut down after rockets were intercepted, fired from lebanon. this is just one day after israeli police raided a mosque in jerusalem all of the moves, sparking fears of a greater conflict and luxury trips. travel on yachts, all on the dime of a republican mega donor, a new bombshell report alleging that supreme court justice clarence thomas accepted at all and disclosed almost none of it. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper, and we start in our national lead any moment now the republican controlled tennessee state house will be voting on whether to expel three state house democr
today. horrifying, incomprehensible, inhumane, just some of the words used to describe videos of the brutal beating of tyre nichols at the hands of memphis police. the shocking images were released last night, and we want to warn you, some of what you re about to see is extremely graphic. i didn t do anything! hey, i didn t body cam video of the traffic stop shows officers approaching with their firearms, yanking nichols out of the car. he breaks free from the officers and runs towards his parents home. a struggle ensues after a chase, police then using pepper spray, batons, their fists, and feet to beatnik cols. at one point, he cries out for his mother. mom! mom! mom! video from a pole camera showing the full extent. you see nichols there, who is unarmed, kicked in the face, struck at least nine times in just several minutes, bloodied, propped up onto a squad car. officers are then seen just standing around, not providing nichols with any potentially lifesaving a