“Everybody from the top down knows”

Deadline: White House

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

Politics, News, Ms Now, Msnbc, Daily News, The White House, Nicolle Wallace, Versant, Washington Dc, Government

4.5 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace discusses what Dominion Voting Systems’ new filing shows about what Fox News anchors and executives knew while peddling election conspiracy theories, the disturbing normalcy of gun violence in the country, the ex-president’s thin-skinned and anti-First Amendment reaction to late night jokes, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s continuing war on Walt Disney World, waning American support for the war in Ukraine and more. Joined by: Andrew Weissman, David Jolly, Jeremy Peters, Rep. Ritchie Torres, Kimbery Atkins-Stohr, Shannon Watts, Matt Dowd, Cornell Belcher, Esosa Osa, State Rep. James Beverly and Marie Yovanovitch

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, it's 4 o'clock in New York.
0:09.7	Today we start with a question.
0:11.4	If a news network provides a platform to people who are spreading dangerous claims that
0:16.4	are not supported or backed by a single shred of evidence, when it's host, pedal conspiracies
0:21.5	that they themselves know at the time are not backed up by the facts and when everybody
0:27.3	from the tippy top, all the way down the company knows that that network is broadcasting
0:33.3	lies to millions, millions of their viewers in America.
0:38.3	Should anyone still call that network a news network?
0:41.5	It's a question worth asking today about Fox News in light of allegations by voting
0:45.7	machine company Dominion.
0:47.3	We are still for our part pouring through court documents filed by Dominion.
0:51.7	Those documents are filled to the brim with stunning revelations and evidence that Fox
0:57.0	News knew at the highest levels at the time that it was broadcasting misinformation to
1:01.9	its audience.
1:02.9	Misinformation so dangerous that it led to death threats, harassment.
1:07.5	Ultimately, it led to a deadly terror attack, so described by FBI Director Chris Ray on
1:13.0	the U.S. Capitol.
1:14.8	Now according to Dominion, Fox News knew as early as November 20, 2020 that Sydney Powell
1:21.2	had never actually entered into an agreement to represent Donald Trump as his attorney.
1:27.3	Yeah, she appeared on Fox News over and over and over again.
1:31.3	Here's what Lou Dobbs said on December 10, 2020.
1:34.8	His guest was Sydney Powell.
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