is making aggressive moves on the fly. a few of them run down, last october he announced a plans to merge newscorp and fox news and in january took it back. in november he ousted the editor in chief of the wall street journal then in march he announced to a new york post columnist he was getting married then in april he announced the engagement was called off. then after fighting to go to trial with dominion he reversed course and green-lit a $800 million settlement with dominion and today he has abruptly pushed out tucker carlson, the highest rated host on fox news joining us is ben smith, editor in chief at semafor and has covered this for a good long while. his recent book traffic, delusion in the billion dollar race to go viral it comes out next week ben, nice to see you. nice to see you, rachel thanks for having me on. a head-spinning day. it has been a head-spinning
former producer alleging rampant sexism on the show as the reason he was fired others suggested that emails from carlson deriding fox management which had emerged in the dominion lawsuit were the last straw while both may be true they re not new revelations. what does seem to have changed the rate at which rupert murdoch is making aggressive moves on the fly. semafor runs down a few of them. last october he announced plans to merge newscorp and fox news in january took that back. in november he ousted the editor in chief of the wall street journal then in march he announced to a new york post columnist he was getting married then in april he announced the engagement was called off. then after fighting to go to trial with dominion he reversed course and green-lit a $800 million settlement with dominion and today he has abruptly pushed out tucker carlson, the highest rated host on fox news joining us is ben smith, editor
but half a million people is significant. and so now france s book i m used to these kind of scenes, and yesterday the protest began peacefully. it was almost festive. and then of course he scuffles did break out we have seen in, you know the previous weeks. this kind of radical fringe get bigger and their aim really is to take on the police, but as a really want to kind of underline that as a whole, the protests have been rather peaceful. and so now we need to talk about how this will affect mackerel. what happens next? so next week? there ll be more protests on thursday and then on friday, crucially, the constitutional council will rule if this pension reform is green lit, whether it s unconstitutional. we expect this to be just a formality, but well have to wait and see. so the question is, if it is green lit, and then the protest, perhaps died down. what does macron do next? his popularity is really low at the moment. the last time it was this low was during the yellow vest protest
i had someone call me last night and said anybody wearing a white lives matter shirt is going to be green lit. that means they will beat them up if they wear it. i m like, green light me then. fun fun facts. that was geraldo. it s true. i think of all the beatings i took for wearing a bathrobe on outnumbered. true, i should have closed it. what s the answer to why you won t white lives matter on a shirt? the answer to why i wrote white lives matter on a shirt is because they do. that s the obvious thing. why would that be considered controversial? because the same people that have stripped offs of our identity and labeled us as a color have told us what it means to be black.
night and said, anybody wearing a white lives matter sure is going to be green lit. and that means that they rer it. going to beat them up if they wear it. i m like, okay, green light me much fun fact. that was geraldo, but it ss i true.ldo, but it ss i i think of all the beatingsumbere i took for wearing a bathrobe on outnumbered. true. i should have closed it. that couch. thank you.r butot what s why the answer to y you wrote white lives matter on a shirt? answer to why i wrote white lives matter on a shirt is because they do the obvious thing. why do you think that that why d would be considered controversial? because the same people that have stripped us ofabeled u our identity and labeled us as a as a color havs e told us what it means to be black. we are