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.
the resuchks of war and families rejoice over being reunited. this morning, i ll speak to a top red cross official about the hostage releases along with prime minister netanyahu s closest advisor. and we re expecting law enforcement officials in vermont to give details on the arrest of a suspect in connection to the weekend shooting of three college students of palestinian descent visiting one of their grandmothers during the break. no person and no community in this country should have to live in fear of hate fueled violence. fulfilling that promise motivates us every day. good day, everyone. 11 more hostages could be released today according to egypt. a truce in the fighting will be extending possibly for two more days creating new hope for the families of hostages still not released and for gaza residents hoping for more. new photos of the 4-year-old, abigail, the israeli american girl released sunday whose parents were killed by hamas on october 7th. she pictured here
that seeks to deny the real fears in the communities. as a result of historic racism exacerbated by a former president and media allies who describe the coronavirus pandemic as the china virus or kung flu for more than a year up to and as recently as this week. the right is doubling down on the violence trutherism with this comment from congresswoman chip roy. we believe in justice. there is an old saying in texas find the rope and get a tall oak tree. you know, we take justice very seriously. we ought to do that. round up the bad guys. my concern about this hearinging is that it seems to want to venture into the policing of rhetoric in a free society. now we are talking about whether talking about china, the chi coms, whatever phrasing we want to use, if some people say we think those people are the bad guys. i think the chinese communist party are the bad guys. and i think that they re harming people. those remarks prompted an immediate outcry, among these colleagues in
forgotten, the victims in atlanta. i felt like watching your whole show tonight. that s what it was about. so our bill is about not forgetting our democracy. so go ahead. thank you so much for saying that. there have been so many people who have brought poignant words and made us think tonight and who inspired us to be better people. you chair the senate rules committee that will hold a hearing on the bill next week. and listen, the stakes couldn t be any higher. republicans are trying to suppress the vote all over the country. how will you get this bill passed? that s the central question. let s start with the good. the good is that for the first time, thanks to those incredible senators from georgia, warnock and ossoff, we have the gavel. i have the gavel. jeff merkley, the author of the bill, we have two new senators, and we ll get this bill through the committee. we ll have the first hearing ever in the senate. it has only been in the house. they passed it in the hous
Interesting. I will say that youre saying the end of the year between the end of the year and the actual election itself as many would hope that this is all done before that. Thank you also very much. Thank you all for joining us. Our special with the 2020 town hall begins now. [ cheers and applause ] good evening and welcome to the cnn democratic president ial town hall equality in america. I want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world from the novo in los angeles. Im dana bash. It has been 50 years since the riots had stonewalled and the riots against Police Oppression that became the Turning Point in
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