attempts to pressure him and he could be a key witness trump and his team could still appeal the ruling. but they have lost similar previous cases a date for pence s testimony is not settled, though it is likely to be later this month according to an adviser. now the ruling by judge james boseberg ordering pence to testify said that while pence was excused from providing details regarding hisrole as president of the senate on january 6, 2021, he s not excused from testifying about conversations related to alleged illegality on donald trump s part that means that special counsel jack smith could gain firsthand knowledge, a firsthand account of the one-on-one conversations that mike pence and donald trump had that day special counsel jack smith on the verge of access to a central witness in the insurrection is where we start today new york times reporter glenn flush is back with us and joining us msnbc legal analyst paul butler. he s a former federal prosecutor, now a law pro
hi, everyone i know that we say this a lot these days but buckle up it s 4:00 in new york. we re following breaking news on that monster $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against fox news just a little bit ago we received word of a bombshell of a plot twist during what was supposed to be the last pretrial hearing before jury selection begins. here s that headline the judge has sanctioned fox news and its parent company, fox corp, for withholding evidence in the dominion defamation suit and said he is considering further investigation and censure. he is considering appointing a special master to investigate the fox local team s actions now, the breaking point today appears to be surprise evidence that was introduced in court today when this happened, quote, lawyers for dominion voting systems played recordings that fox news producer abby grossberg made during 2020, which were not handed over to dominion s lawyers during discovery we have a team of experts and friends to help us
to the most widely used abortion pill good day i m andrea mitchell in washington fox news paying almost $800 million to avoid having to take the witness stand. the settlement lets fox avoid weeks of text. the damage to its reputation is done thousands of pages of evidence released during pre-trial discovery made public. that fox hosts lied about the 2020 election being rigged, knew it and so did their bosses all the way to the very top. there will be no on-air apologies or retractions from fox news in a statement the network is saying, we acknowledge the court s ruling finding certain claims to be false the settlement reflects fox s commitment to the highest journalistic standards attorneys for dominion speaking to the press after the settlement the truth matters lies have consequences money is accountability we got that today from fox but we re not done yet we have some other people who have some accountability coming towards them it s not over joining me now, stephani
is the most nontransparent. lucas tomlinson. president biden: i was briefed and surprised to learn any government records were taken to that office. i don t know what is in the documents. top republican on the house intel committee want to look at the documents similar to the one adam schiff wanted for the documents found at former president trump s mar-a-lago estate. there are numerous reports that vice president biden removed and retained highly classified information at undisclosed nongovernment office in washington and his democratic counterpart mark warner says he wants to be briefed on what happen at mar-a-lago and biden office as part of oversight obligation. new speaker of the house kevin mccarthy, wants answers. the hypocrisy, they have gotten away with so much for so long, this was discovered before the last election, just like the laptop. the classified documents were discovered six days before the midterm election and biden says he was told not to ask what
Right now on Andrea Mitchell reports, a power vacuum after Kevin Mccarthy broke too many promises to both sides of the aisle. The office of Speaker Of The House of the United States house of representatives is hereby declared vacant. The first time in u. S. History, the Speaker Of The House is ousted from his leadership post by his own party. I will not run for speaker again. I might have been given a bad break, but i truly still consider myself to be the luckiest man on the face of the earth. With a small group of hard right republicans determined to Fire Mccarthy and his insults against democrats, no one would come to his rescue. We heard Speaker Mccarthy say that he wanted us to bring it on. I guess we did. Kevin mccarthy is a feature of the swamp. Who can bring the fractured republicans together to take the gavel . How will Congress Avoid a shutdown in a little over a month from now . I will speak to Democratic Congress member Alyssa Slotkin slotkin. The judge in Donald Trumps civi