have we seen such an anticlimactic ending late today, dominion agreed to settle its defamation lawsuit against fox, but there s very little reason to believe fox will change its ways anytime soon also tonight, ralph yarl s aunt joins me. he s the missouri teen shot after approaching the wrong house. and now, criminal charges have been filed against the man accused of shooting him. and ron desantis is fought done with his absurd war with his state s top employer, disney, amid signs his presidential campaign is imploding before it even officially begins. we begin tonight we begin the reidout tonight with a common game show dilemma like on wheel of fortune if you can solve the puzzle, do you do so and take the money in front of you or spin the wheel for a chance to get more but potentially lose it all? today, dominion voting systems decided to take the money in front of them, settling their suit against fox on the first and last day of what was supposed to be a blockbu
rupert murdoch? laughlin, elizabeth and james all have their own places in the murdoch empire. laughlin is closest to the seat of power. he finds himself in the middle of this shark tank. he chastises roger ailes. rupert completely sides with ailes. elizabeth as a programmer has something close to rupert murdoch s own eye for the new and the fresh, but she s never going to get the top job with her father. she decides she has to get out. she sends him a fax. they re supposed to have an heir and the spare. james is the spare. james proves himself to be as good as his father at putting profit before principle and it s very successful. james murdoch is now at the top of the company is almost certain to succeed his father and he s doing tremendously. he goes from a junior member of the family to a successful executive at news corp. to the ceo of sky to now being in charge of news international, their global division. laughlin has gone off to australia. he s doing his
this phone hacking crisis is escalating and getting closer and closer to the center of power. this is the most humble day of my life. facing widespread public anger, news corp withdrew its 12 million dollar bid to take over bskyb. james had been a step away from being the official heir. but he had made all the wrong decisions and he s essentially kind of run out of town. it is like a stick of dynamite that has exploded inside the family. ladies and gentlemen, my father, donald j. trump. most people think that the start of the trump political rise happens famously on the golden escalator at trump tower, when he announces he s running. but, in our reporting, we learned that it truly started months earlier. in early 2015 rupert murdoch s office gets a call. it s ivanka trump. the ties between the trumps and the murdochs are deep. jared, when he bought a weekly newspaper in new york, the new york observer, he d reached out to murdoch for advice in the newspaper bu
father sees this thing. and they could either turn their back on the business and essentially wave the white flag, or they can try to double down and prove themselves to their father. and they choose the latter. it s october 2001, and roger ailes is at an annual dinner attended by all the new york politicians, the al smith dinner. i trust you all enjoyed your meal. this is one of the big events in new york city politics. i certainly enjoyed my meal. roger ailes has been the architect of fox news, one of very few people who rupert really, really trusts, and who rupert really needs. as the evening is winding down, roger hears from giuliani s office. the news corporation building has been attacked. at this point, roger has been on edge for over a month. today we may stare in the face of evil. when the country was attacked on 9/11, it s almost as if the attack was on roger himself, and he very much treats it that way. he went from this happy conservative warrior
it s the first moment where james and elizabeth are given a little window into how their father sees this thing. and they could either just turn their back on the business and essentially wave the white flag. or they can try to double down and prove themselves to their father. and they choose the latter. it s october 2001, and roger ailes is at an annual dinner attended by all the new york politicians. the al smith dinner. i trust you all enjoyed your meal. this is one of the big events in new york city politics. i certainly enjoyed my meal. roger ailes has been the architect of fox news. one of very few people who rupert really, really trusts and whom rupert really needs. as the evening s winding down, roger hears from giuliani s office. the news corporation building has been attacked. at this point, roger s been on edge for over a month. today, we may stare in the face of evil. when the country was attacked on 9/11, it s almost as if the attack was on roger