top of the hour this wednesday. i m jim sciutto. and i am erica hill. right now several key hearings happening on capitol hill. a pretty busy day in washington. this hour lawmakers will grill active administrator billy nolan after multiple close calls on the runway and some of the aviation incidents sparking safety concerns. also federal reserve chairman jerome powell appearing before lawmakers for the second day defending his decisions to raise interest rates in an effort to tamp down inflation. we re also watching the top u.s. intelligence officials testify, among them fbi director chris wray, the director of national intelligence avril haynes as what they see the biggest global threats facing the u.s. today. cnn s melanie is live on capitol hill today. several events and several bits of testimony on the hill today. walk us through what you re watching. yeah. a very busy day here on capitol hill. we are tracking a number of high-profile hearings, and i want to walk yo
This is barreling towards court date, a trial date, i should say in the middle of next month. it s a $1.6 billion defamation case brought by dominion voting systems whose machines were described on fox s airwaves and at times seemingly endorsed by a number of top stars as having thrown votes from donald trump and the sitting president to joe biden. it seems likely that they lose in court they ll have to pay a lot and they ll appeal it and at that point one might see some sort of settlement. the key thing for murdoch is he made clear in that same deposition he would never apologize and he didn t think they did anything wrong and they would be relaying the president of the united states and the newsworthy figure and his attorneys, but what is really happening is that they want to acknowledge their own viewers that they presented things that were false and they wanted to pay money to avoid that. that s something that happens in the corporate world.
Prominently display what transpired and you re hearing folks from the wall street journal site making sure that its viewers believe in the brand promise and telling the news straight and without favor. it s a game that murdoch plays and how he treats his upscale newspapers like the times of london and the wall street journal and the new york post which he treats like fox news which you will see the thread throughout the entire report. we should note, is it correct that fox news banned any discussion of this given that it was fox news where the majority of these lies were shared to viewers. you saw its own media correspondent and the anchor howie kurtz come forward about ten days ago saying he was barred from discussing on his show that he disagreed with it and that was the corporate edict. that s an extraordinary admission because for fox news
Facts and whether to turn one s gaze away. you saw in some of those documents a number of fox news journalists, reporters and a producer in their private text messages that came to light as a result of this trial seeking of evidence in preparation for this trial, and they were saying essentially they were being punished. christian fisher, one of the reporters covering the white house at the time for fox news. jillian turner who were saying essentially they were having the opportunity to host programs for fox and serve as substitute hosts taken away from them as they fact-checked these issues. a producer on special report, their political newscast texted to kristen fisher saying he had to leave because he could no longer defend imagine defending where he worked to his infant daughter as she grew up. he didn t think fox cared about that anymore. you saw people saying there were constrictions to level with the audience and by the way, the documents revealed in this in
Carlson access to tens of thousands of hours of footage from the capitol attack. a number of his fellow republican lawmakers, senators, specifically not too happy with fox s decision to play that with tucker carlson downplaying the insurrection. it was a mistake, in my view, for fox news to depict this in a way that s completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here at the capitol thinks. i was there on january 6th. i saw what happened. i saw the aftermath. look, was there violence on january 6th. i think the footage that s available should be made available to all networks, and everybody should be able to see for themselves just what kind of chaos we had on that day. i think it s bullshit. i was here. i was down there, and i saw maybe a few tourists, a few people that got caught up in things and when you see police