now. welcome to the beat, our top story is new developments right now in what s shaping up to be the case of the decade for trying to hold liars accountable with real swift justice. fox news on defense, facing over a billion dollars for punishment and lies, it served up and fed the insurrection. as you see here, top fox hosts have clearly been on team trump in public for a long time. we know that. we know sean hannity broke all journalistic rules of pretense by endorsing and publicly campaigning for trump. there s no court punishment for breaking that kind of rule. there just isn t. but there can be penalties for malicious lying, for defamation if you can prove the defendant acting knowingly, maliciously, intentionally. that s hard to prove and that difficult standard is deliberate, which is why this case has to turn on hard evidence, not asking whether hannity is biassed for trump, he is. but asking whether hannity knowingly and maliciously pushed lies that caused immeas
African americans . And what impact will donald trump make . Gabriel gatehouse has more. Band plays in the final week of the Obama Presidency, a Louisiana High School Marching Band Rehearses for the big day. We dont see colour, we dont see race, we dont see gender, we dont see ethnicity. We see potential. They are one of ten School Bands Chosen to play at the inauguration. There has been a lot of talk about how we need healing, and sometimes. Healing happens, you know, you just have to quit picking at it. But as it marks the transition from obama to trump, america is having two very different conversations about race. This is the life that black people live, and people of colour, but this is the life we live so it is not necessarily a conversation about race it is just a conversation. Amid tension over the issues of Police Killings, White Supremacists feel emboldened. Hailtrump, hail our people, hail victory and for some, talk of a return to The Good Old Days signifies nothing good at
African americans . And what impact will donald trump make . Gabriel gatehouse has more. Band plays in the final week of the Obama Presidency, a Louisiana High School Marching Band Rehearses for the big day. We dont see colour, we dont see race, we dont see gender, we dont see ethnicity. We see potential. They are one of ten School Bands Chosen to play at the inauguration. There has been a lot of talk about how we need healing, and sometimes. Healing happens, you know, you just have to quit picking at it. But as it marks the transition from obama to trump, america is having two very different conversations about race. This is the life that black people live, and people of colour, but this is the life we live so it is not necessarily a conversation about race it is just a conversation. Amid tension over the issues of Police Killings, White Supremacists feel emboldened. Hailtrump, hail our people, hail victory and for some, talk of a return to The Good Old Days signifies nothing good at
arrogance of fox news and rupert murdoch and his family in believing that he could do this and get away with it. and they had good reason to believe that because they ve done it so much in the past. i personally remember the new black panther party, 2008 to 2012, having part of fox s coverage where they re sort of insinuating that there was this violent group of radical extremists who were aligned with barack obama. i remember having to talk to voters who really believed this because they saw it on fox. and we have to remember that half of all of americans say they trust fox news. that makes it a very powerful mouthpiece for any kind of thing they put forward. the reality is rupert murdoch never thought this was going to happen. he never thought anyone was going to hold him accountable. he had good reason to believe that. before dominion, nobody stood up to him on this. you lay it out. this peels back the curtain on
prepare. keep in mind, this shooting happened in 2020 in february. it has a strange history. there were no immediate arrests made. only after ten weeks were any arrests made. they were only made after this videotape came to light. the videotape was in fact made by one of the defendants, by roddie bryan. if that didn t happen, we might not even be here. he leaked the tape that now has him on trial for his life. as far as the mood here, it has swung rapidly back and forth. we have seen hundreds of black pastors here, peaceful families on prayer vigils. we have also seen several dozen people, members of the new black panther party with high-powered rifles in masks. we are not seeing it today. didn t see it yesterday. it s interesting what could happen here. my guess would be if there s a problem, if there is unrest, if there is an innocent verdict, there certainly will be unrest. but i doubt the focus would be here and in a town of 15,000,