Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melbourne, the top story rocking conservative politics.

And Fox News tonight is a huge new leak about this moment in 2020 when Fox News accurately reported that Biden won Arizona,

which stoked a MAGA backlash that upended the network, fed the series of journalistic offenses we've been telling you about that Fox now is facing potential accountability for, potentially over

a billion dollars in lawsuit fines. And it's also now led to the absolute blockbuster leak to

the New York Times. And if you're thinking, oh, Ari, I've heard about other leaks, this one is

different and brand new. And it narrates a secret panicked meeting among Fox executives and

hosts about that accurate Arizona call, where Trump lost. The Times says they obtained the entire

Zoom call, which shows an internal freak out, where viewers were mad and bailing on Fox because

they were reported in that instance, one undeniable fact about the election.

And the executives and anchors, Brett Baer and Martha McCollum, on this call, they discussed that they were losing viewers because they correctly called Arizona for Biden.

And then they discuss whether the company should reverse that call as a kind of lie to appease these angry Trump viewers and or change their entire election coverage going forward, basically saying, telling the truth in this instance has reverberated so poorly, maybe we should stop telling the truth.

Now, this is absolutely damning and criminating stuff.

Keep in mind, before I go any further, and I'm going to show you the receipts, but keep in mind,

news outlets do not auction off reporting to the highest audience.

They don't state knowing falsehoods only for ratings. Of all the valid critiques of media,

and there are many, this type of thing, just canceling an election call or reversing it,

this doesn't even come up. No legitimate news organization has faced evidence of anything like this in its election coverage in the modern

era. In other words, if you're listening to this story and going, well, I have a lot of friends

who criticize the press, sure, and some of those critiques are valid. The type of factual critiques

about the press, about bias, about selective coverage, about corporate interference, none of that

goes anywhere close to this.

A Fox CEO now caught on tape saying, if we hadn't called Arizona accurately, our ratings

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