Blockbursts reporting that solves the mystery of The Missing Link in a story that has rocked American Politics and media. For weeks now, a question has loomed over the ouster of top fox host Tucker Carlson. Why did the Murdochs Fire One of their biggest stars . The architect of a platform that unselfconsciously peddles Conspiracy Theories. Why did they fire him based on something that didnt happen on air . What was that missing link . And what if anything did Tucker Carlson do or say off camera that contributed to the nearly unprecedented 11th hour settlement of 787. 5 million in the Defamation Case brought against fox by dominion voting systems. The New York Times answers both those questions and reports on the missing text message that it found in some groundbreaking new reporting. The message was reportedly unearthed during the Discovery Process with dominion. Heres how the times reports that out. Quote, in the message sent to one of his producers in the hours after violent Trump Su
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voted to impeach attorney general ken paxton. he s accused of bribery and abuse of public trust. they said the impeachment was illegal and being called what he called corrupt politicians. we ll have more in just a moment. in the meantime, in washington, it is deal or no deal. two sources tell cnn president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy are expected to speak this hour. it comes at a critical moment in the debt ceiling talks and a source says it is now down to one final sticking point. work requirements for social safety net programs. they may have as little as eight days to prevent the u.s. from defaulting on its debts. many experts predict economic disaster if that happens. let s begin at the white house and capitol. manu, they would not be getting on the phone just to go over what they re going to have at their memorial day barbecue. this means that maybe we re getting close. reporter: yes, indeed it does. i just spoke with patrick mchenry, one of the key negotiat
reporter: section 702 and part of foreign intelligence sush act and fbi only really authorized to search the 702 data base and reason to believe it ll produce evidence of foreign actor crimes usually the suspect is based abroad. in the year ending 2021 and the filing shows fbi used the arndt lesser much power warrant lesser much powers against it and 278,000 times and searches on americans involved with the capitol riot and the george flood protest in the summer of 2020 and the batch of 19,000 donors and unnamed congressional campaign and one fbi searcher was described in the filing and the analyst said she ran the queries for the individuals with foreign ties and indicated with the fbi systems and the capitol break investigation and did not remember why she ran these 13 queries for the fisa queries and they ve tightened restrictions since 2021 and fox news learning in 2022 this was the number of searches dropped by 94% and senior fbi official shared senior director fbi dir
blockbursts reporting that solves the mystery of the missing link in a story that has rocked american politics and media. for weeks now, a question has loomed over the ouster of top fox host tucker carlson. why did the murdochs fire one of their biggest stars? the architect of a platform that unself-consciously peddles conspiracy theories. why did they fire him based on something that didn t happen on air? what was that missing link? and what if anything did tucker carlson do or say off camera that contributed to the nearly unprecedented 11th hour settlement of $787.5 million in the defamation case brought against fox by dominion voting systems. the new york times answers both those questions and reports on the missing text message that it found in some groundbreaking new reporting. the message was reportedly unearthed during the discovery process with dominion. here s how the times reports that out. quote, in the message sent to one of his producers in the hours after vi