Fmr. Australian prime minister says Murdoch has done more to undermine American democracy than any individual alive

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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🗓️ 15 April 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Joy Reid leads this episode of The ReidOut with the landmark case against Fox. On Monday, the trial begins in the Dominion defamation trial, which it is said will outline how Fox hosts lied to their audiences and riled up the MAGA base in the runup to the January 6 insurrection. That division and dishonesty created under Fox CEO Rupert Murdoch is discussed by the former prime minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, who joins Joy Reid. Turnbull says on The ReidOut that Murdoch has done more to undermine American democracy than any other individual alive. Next, in honor of Jackie Robinson Day, we speak to Jackie Robinson’s son, David Robinson, about the American icon and why his legacy beyond baseball resonates today. Plus, The Daily Show's Jordan Klepper returns to The ReidOut with a lot to say about Clarence Thomas, Donald Tump, Ron DeSantis, and more. All this and more in this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0	Tonight on The Readout.
0:05.9	Justin Pearson wasn't white, that's probably how we got into Bowdoin in the first place,
0:09.9	but he did a fantastic impression of it.
0:11.9	He transitioned from a crypto-white kid into the modern incarnation of Martin Luther King
0:16.7	Jr. himself.
0:17.7	It's remarkable, really.
0:18.9	You never see politicians transitioning to say Malcolm X.
0:22.5	Why is that?
0:23.5	Maybe because Malcolm X didn't talk like a sharecropper.
0:27.6	That kind of racism, division and dishonesty is exactly what Fox CEO,
0:32.7	Rupert Murdoch, wants for America.
0:35.7	And on Monday, the trial begins in the Dominion defamation trial,
0:39.3	which shows how Fox hosts lied to their audience and riled up the Maga right
0:44.7	in the run-up to the January 6 in correction.
0:47.9	In a moment, the former Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, joins me.
0:52.7	He once said Murdoch has done more to undermine American democracy than any other individual
0:58.3	alive.
0:59.6	And later, the Daily Shows Jordan Klepper returns to The Readout, and he has a lot to say
1:04.5	about Clarence Thomas, Trump, Rhonda Santis, and more.
1:12.0	And we begin The Readout tonight with the landmark case against Fox.
1:15.9	In roughly 72 hours, 12 jurors and 12 alternates will finally begin to hear the case in which
1:21.6	they decided Fox and its anchors defamed Dominion voting systems using actual malice by knowingly
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