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The Beat with Ari Melber

Bombshell text evidence: Fox News hosts knew Trump lied about fraud then peddled it on air

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

Politics, News, Versant Media, Ms Now, Daily News, Versant, Government

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Jason Johnson hosts “The Beat” on Friday, February 17, and reports on Fox’s Dominion lawsuit, GOP extremism, and the latest on Ron DeSantis. Michael Steele, Michelle Goldberg, Joyce Vance, and Christina Greer join. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the beat. I'm Jason Johnson in for Ari Melburgh. We start tonight with breaking news about

0:05.7

Fox News, to quote De La Sol and honor of the passing a plug to, it ain't all good. And that's the

0:11.5

truth. Things aren't going like you thought they would and it's all on you, Fox News. New evidence showing

0:17.0

Rupert Murdoch, Fox News host, and executives knew Trump was knowingly lying about

0:23.0

2020 election fraud, but they put them on the air anyway for profits and power.

0:27.7

A trove of text and emails released in a new filing from Dominion voter systems.

0:32.0

Swing Fox News for $1.6 billion in a defamation suit.

0:37.9

The claim is Fox News knowingly lied about their company, and now we have receipts and private texts.

0:43.6

Fox News host called Trump and his lawyer's election claims, total BS, insane, crazy, mind-blowingly nuts, reckless, off the rails, And effing lunatics. These are not mean tweets. These are actual texts from Fox News hosts. Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham were in disbelief off-camera on Trump's conspiracy theories.

1:06.5

Carlson texting Ingram, quote, Sidney Powell is lying, by the way. I caught her. It's insane. The response, quote, Sydney is a complete nut. No one will work with her. Ditto with Rudy. Carlson writing, quote, our viewers are good people and they believe it. Fox News Titan Rupert Murdoch, who was just opposed, wrote an email about Trump lawyers Giuliani and Powell, quote,

1:30.4

really crazy stuff, terrible stuff, damaging everybody, I fear, said the kindleroy of news.

1:37.7

Hannity said Giuliani was, quote, acting like an insane person. Laura Ingraham described him as,

1:43.0

quote, an idiot. And here's what was

1:45.8

going on on the air, though, despite what they were texting. We've got evidence of corruption all

1:53.0

across the country in countless districts. The machine ran an algorithm that shaved votes from

1:59.5

Trump and awarded them to Biden. They used the machines

2:03.1

to trash large batches of votes that should have been awarded to President Trump, and they used

2:08.9

a machine to inject and add massive quantities of votes for Mr. Biden. A lot of the machines,

2:15.0

particularly by the Dominion Company in which Diane Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi hold interests, along with Mr. Soros, has a connection to that as well.

2:25.2

They actually have a Chinese software or parts in them.

2:30.1

Machines can be hacked.

2:31.7

There's no question about that.

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