As bids for the Republican presidential nomination ramp up and new details emerge about the false claims of fraud from the last presidential election,

it's time for the analysis of Brooks and K-PART, that's New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan K-PART,

associate editor for the Washington Post.

With a welcome to you both, let's start with this revelation late last night in this court filing and dominion voting systems lawsuit against Fox News,

showing that Fox executives and hosts didn't believe the election lies that they were peddling on television.

David, what do you make of this notion that Fox determined that telling the truth and being straight with its viewers was not good for its bottom line?

Yeah, I don't know whether or feel relieved or not that Tucker didn't really believe what he was saying, like maybe has some core in there that's actually honest.

You know, all of us, I mean, here in St.PBS, we didn't go after profits, but at the New York Times and most other news organizations, we have two missions.

We want to sell the truth, we want to live up to the ethics of our profession.

We also want to attract readers and serve our viewers and make money for our company.

And, you know, dealing with that tension is not unique, doctors do it, lawyers do it.

And so you find a balance and you try to huge of the code of your profession and do it the best you can and hope that readers will appreciate that.

At Fox, that's apparently not how it works and that the ethos of following the code of honesty reporting of telling the truth, which is our only job, our only job is just to tell the truth and not be partisan.

That's our job.

And if you can't do the basics of the job, then pretty soon you lose all more and more moral bearing.

And I think not everybody at that agency, a lot of people really left.

But a lot of people who used to be friends of mine, they lost all of the moral bearing and chose.

And Jonathan, this in many ways reaffirms what critics of Fox News have believed all along, that even though it has news in the title, that that is a thin veneer at best.

Yeah, very thin. It's more like Carpacho if you want to give a culinary analogy.

Look, what this dominion paper, the filing shows is that the big lie is indeed a big lie and that the people who were perpetuating it knew it was a lie and yet they still went on air night after night after night perpetuating it to the detriment of our country.

And yeah, they lost their balance, they lost their moral core if any of them had any.

And the idea that Tucker Carlson says one thing on air and believes something else off camera is deeply, deeply disturbing because of what we have seen that kind of talk, that kind of rhetoric led to January 6th.

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