thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. we re grateful the beat starts right now. hi, ary. hi, nicole. welcome to the beat. this is a top story tonight. fox news firing controversial host tucker carlson today. a total earthquake that comed amidst the rockiest period in the history of the conservative fox news channel, which of course recently folded in that record breaking $787 million penalty in the case of defaming a voting machine and lying about the 2020 election as well as heat on the company s wider reporting and errors in work place practices. now, carlson is one of fox s most watched and until now highest paid stars so by all accounts, today s firing surprised him, his own team, and most of his colleagues fox did not allow him a final show the decision and firing clearly came fast. this was his sign off on friday. we ll be back on monday in the meantime, have the best weekend with the ones that you love, and we
Violent than reality and if you want to get political, if you re someone who s watching this going, well, i don t know, the news, police, i don t know well, take mitch mcconnell himself, who condemned it. and just pause tonight as we have this potential inflection point and think about this for a moment fox was facing and then surrendering against the largest defamation case ever in history. over lies which ignited what specifically the january 6th insurrection, the effort to stage a coup and steal your vote and our democracy by force it s a story we ve covered a lot here with different angles, not always about who s on the television, but a lot of different angles because it s one of the historical stories of our time it s how democracies die and it s against that obvious