Feb. 17, 2023: Fox News' split screen spills into view

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🗓️ 17 February 2023

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Don Lemon may just be the luckiest man in cable TV. The “CNN This Morning” co-anchor set the media and political worlds ablaze yesterday morning with his on-air suggestion that GOP presidential contender Nikki Haley wasn’t “in her prime” at age 51. “A woman is considered to be in their prime in [their] 20s and 30s and maybe 40s,” he said. Yet by day’s end, the vicious backlash to Lemon’s remarks had been stunningly eclipsed by blockbuster revelations about CNN’s chief rival, Fox News Channel, revealed in a new court filing made public in the $1.6 billion lawsuit over Fox’s coverage of the 2020 presidential election results. The internal communications revealed by Dominion Voting Systems paint a stark and damning picture — a split screen between the false and conspiratorial claims beamed to Fox viewers about rigged Dominion voting machines, and the private, candid opinions of the network’s hosts and executives, who repeatedly admitted to each other that the claims were utter, unsourced garbage. And Labor Secretary Marty Walsh confirmed he's leaving the post in March to become the next Executive Director of the National Hockey League's Player Association. The question then, who will take over his seat in the Biden administration? West Wing Playbook co-author Eli Stokols shares some names he's heard as potential nominees. Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter Raghu Manavalan is the host and senior editor of POLITICO's Playbook Daily Briefing.Jenny Ament is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0	Hey there, Playbookers. I'm Rugu Mono Monevalin. Today's show, Fox News, Don Lemon, and an opening in Biden's
0:08.9	cabinet. Here are the big things we're watching on Friday, February 17th. Don Lemon may just be the
0:16.3	luckiest man in cable TV. The CNN this morning co-anchor said the media and political worlds ablaze yesterday with his
0:25.0	on-air suggestion that GOP presidential contender Nikki Haley wasn't what he claims in her prime
0:31.7	at age 51.
0:33.4	I think that, I think it's the wrong road to go down.
0:36.1	She says people, you know, politicians or something are not in their prime.
0:39.1	Nikki Haley is in her prime.
0:40.3	Sorry.
0:38.8	When a woman is considered to be in her prime in her 20s and 30s and maybe 40s. What do you talk? Wait. That's not according to me. Prime for what? It depends. It's just like prime. And if you look it up, it'll say, if you Google, when is a woman in her prime, it'll say 20s, 30s, and 40s.
0:39.7	I don't necessarily it.
0:40.9	40s. Oh, I got it another decade. I agree. like Prime, if you look it up, it'll say, if you Google, when is a woman in her prime, it'll say
0:54.2	20s, 30s, and 40s. I don't necessarily it. I got it another decade. I agree with that. So I think
0:59.6	she has to be careful about. Yet by the day's end, the vicious backlash to Lemon's remarks.
1:04.8	More on that a little bit later, had been stunningly eclipsed by Blockbuster revelations
1:09.8	about CNN's chief rival, Fox News,
1:12.6	that were revealed in the $1.6 billion lawsuit over Fox's coverage of the 2020 presidential results.
1:20.6	The internal communications, revealed by Dominion voting systems, paint a stark and damning picture, a split screen,
1:29.4	between the false and conspiratorial claims beamed to Fox viewers about rigged Dominion voting
1:35.2	machines and the private, candid opinions of the network's hosts and executives, who repeatedly
1:41.1	admitted to each other that the claims were utter unsourced garbage.
1:45.6	Dominion's 200-page filing not only lays out a tale of rank hypocrisy,
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