Fox on Trial: Rupert Murdoch’s Date With Destiny

Inside the Hive

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🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Will the 92-year-old media mogul be able to steer his empire through an incoming legal maelstrom? On the latest episode of Inside the Hive, Brian Stelter and Gabriel Sherman, who have been following Murdochland for decades, spill the tea on what Monday’s trial could mean for the dynasty—and democracy at large. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, welcome to Vanity Fair's Special Coverage Fox On Trial, I'm Brian Stelter.
0:08.4	Fox News with its billionaire owner, Rupert Murdoch, has been a force in TV and the GOP
0:13.6	for more than a quarter century.
0:16.3	Right now though, for the first time, the network is in real peril because of the way it promoted
0:21.9	those crank conspiracy theories in 2020.
0:25.6	We don't know how many votes were stolen on Tuesday night.
0:28.5	We don't know anything about the software that many say was rigged.
0:31.2	We don't know.
0:32.2	The Dominion voting systems, the smartmatic technology software were created in Venezuela
0:40.7	at the direction of Hugo Chavez.
0:43.5	She will have almost single-handedly uncovered the greatest crime in the history of this country
0:48.7	and no one will be more grateful for that than us.
0:53.2	One source says that the key point to understand is that this smartmatic system has a back
0:57.5	war, allowing an intervening party a real time understanding of how many votes will be
1:02.3	needed to gain an electoral advantage.
1:05.6	Are you saying the states that used that software did that?
1:10.4	Well, I know I can prove that they did it in Michigan.
1:14.7	I can prove it with witnesses.
1:19.7	Massive defamation lawsuits are threatening to cost the network billions.
1:24.1	The first such case, lodged by Dominion voting systems, demands 1.6 billion, and Dominion
1:29.3	is about to have its day in court, actually five or six weeks in court.
1:35.1	The trial is set to start in Delaware next week on April 17th.
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