Begins now. Martha good Afternoon Everybody im Martha Maccallum and this is the story. We are waiting right now for hunter Bidens Tax Trial to come back from a quick breakin Los Angeles. This is kind of bizarre the more we learn about whats going on here. This morning he offered to change his plea to guilty. His lawyer dropped that bombshell on Day One of Jury Selection which was supposed to be Today And Tomorrow and opening arguments all set for monday as far as the group does government new. And then this. If charge the president s son with dodging more than A Million dollars in taxes and a big nono filing false returns. All that could add up to 17 years in jail the jail if convicted prosecutors say instead of paying taxes this period he spent his money among other things on Adult Entertainment and various women in Adult Entertainment. Some of this is just raising quite a few questions. Lets go first to our Chief Correspondent on the Scene Jonathan Hunt live at the courthouse. What w
states capitol. that means pretty much every cable news channel and three major broadcast networks will be providing wall-to-wall coverage, everyone except fox news which will stick with its regularly scheduled programming of tucker carlson, sean hannity and laura ingraham rick they are demoting their coverage to the much watched business channel. the primetime hosts will cover the events as news warrants. the network s decision might help avoid some awkwardness more thanity an ingraham who were actively communicating with mark meadow, trump s chief of staff on that slept day. in the 17 months since the insurrection, fox news, particularly the knocks in primetime, has spent hours undermining the severity of the attack on the capitol and more hours painting the investigation of it as a partisan witch hunt against the former president despite there being two republicans on the committee including vice chair liz cheney. according to philip bump of the washington post the reap
spectators rejoice seeing an iranian and american player hug on the pitch. indeed anyone who thinks sports don t have a political dimension has never watched an india-pakistan cricket match in either india or pakistan. recall the olympics held in 1936 in nazi germany. the party used it as a propaganda vehicle for a message of aryan superiority, a message refuted when the black sprinter jesse owens won four gold medals. it s also not uncommon for countries to boycott the olympics like the moscow olympics in 1980. jimmy carter boycotted or last year when president joe biden staged a diplomatic boycott of the beijing games over human rights abuses in china. of course it s not only committees and countries that make sports political, it s the athletes themselves. in the 1968 mexico city olympics
like the world cup are by their very nature suffuse with politics. they usually have at their heart a benign nationalism which is a political phenomenon. ancient rivalries play out on the field. fans get rowdy when countries take on their former colonizers. spectators rejoice seeing an iranian and american player hug on the pitch. indeed anyone who thinks sports don t have a political dimension has never watched an india-pakistan cricket match in either india or pakistan. recall the olympics held in 1936 in nazi germany. the party used it as a propaganda vehicle for a message of arian spearty. a message refuted when the black sprinter jesse owens won four gold medals. it s also not uncommon for countries to boycott the olympics like the mow cous
in and in the bubble as they are when they watch non-fox coverage, when they are made to sit down and watch other coverage, they do develop a broader view. well, this is why, joy, and i just wrote this in a column that was just published at the l.a. times, i think it s time that we reach the point where we stop treating fox like a news outlet at all because it s clearly not. they are making the conscious decision to commit journalistic malpractice by ignoring the biggest story right now, the biggest story perhaps in our in our entire country s history actually when you look at where this is all going. this is a major pivotal inflection point in the fight to salvage democracy and they are choosing not to cover it. that s not the action of a responsible news outlet. not the action of a journalist or reporter. that s the action of a propaganda vehicle for a political party that s determined to play a substantial role in undermining democracy as we know it. why these people are allow