for ari melber starts now. i wanted to say, what a day doesn t every feel day like what a day? what a day without breaks. some accountability welcome to the beat. i m alicia mendez in for ari melber we start with breaking news a legal earthquake for fox news fox news folded. rupert murdoch will pay more than $787 million over lies and conspiracy theories. the settlement coming as opening statements were about to begin in court today fox admitted to telling lie, and it comes after two years, a mo mounting smoking gun of evidence rupert murdoch under oath admit some hosts endorsed the lies from trump s team. here s dominion s lawyer right after the deal was struck. the truth matters lie have consequences. over two years ago a torrent of lies swept dominion and election officials across america into an alternative universe of conspiracy theories causing grievous harm to dominion and the country. today as settlement of $787,500,000 reps vindication and accountability.
disturbing irregularities have been found in must be investigated to the fullest. tonight, the blockbuster new court filing from the dominion lawsuit. the internal decision and ratings over facts. the legal implications for a media giant the fallout for the democracy and what it all tells us about the inner workings about the fox news channel. the dominion software i know there were voting of regularity. these tell me about that. to put it mildly all in starts now. good evening from washington, d.c., i m in for chris. hayes earlier this, week senate republicans grilled senate biden s nominee to the federal communications building for their time. they have been trying to derail her confirmation claiming that she is too far to the left and two critical act of fox. you said, quote, for all my concern about facebook, i believe that fox news has had the most negative impact on our democracy. it is state sponsored propaganda. do you still believe fox news it
fox as admitted to telling lies about dominion that caused damage to our company, employees, and the customers that we serve. nothing can ever make up for that. there s that piece, leah. i want to you weigh in on that, and also the damage that has been done to our democracy. so, two aspects one is i think it s slightly overstated to say fox acknowledged the lies. all fox did was acknowledge the court s finding that their statements were false, and i think that people want the kind of accountability of fox admitting that the big lie was just that, a lie, would have offered, and it s not clear that that s going to come that being said, what this lawsuit and the settlement does is gives some accountability and compensation to dominion, but dominion was just one of the entities that was harmed, entities like fox fuelling the big lie in addition to the employees of the company and, you know, the people who invest in the company, the country more
it was very contradictory to the narrative that fox news tells about itself, which is that they close ranks and they never sort of criticize or attack each other but they are in lock stack. to try to get people fired tara, as a former republican spinner, how much have you seen fox coverage drive policy discussions on capitol hill? how does that affect politics when a quote unquote news network says it is fair, but is actually an extension of a single political party working to reelect members of that party or former party? it was incredibly influential. for all the years that i was on capitol hill as a communications director, fox news was the major source of information. trying to get on fox shows when i worked on my commutation case with to border patrol agents, it was fox news that helped drive the support of the american people to get president bush at the time to commute the sentences of these border patrol agents and we
774 individual segments explicitly attacking and undermining the election, in part because they were consuming all of this nonsense about dominion and all these other people out there, and because they were concerned that newsmax and one american news we re going to leapfrog them and capture their audience in much the same way that donald trump did in 2016. 774 segments. angelo carusone, i must say i must thank you for watching fox, so the rest of us don t have to. let me ask you this, tara. if the republicans in the house can hold hearings into the quote unquote twitter files, shouldn t democrats in the senate now be holding hearings into the quote unquote fox files? i think, absolutely yeah, we have said this a lot, especially at the lincoln project, that you have to fight the way the republicans do. the reason why we are so effective is because we know the playbook. and we have been encouraging our democratic friends to please, do not hesitate to use