from WNYC studios. I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Tuesday, April 25th.

Tucker Carlson, Don Lemon, and Jeff Shell are out. Joe Biden wants to be back in. The president released a re-election

announcement video this morning. We'll get to that and play an excerpt. But there's all this news today,

as you have no doubt heard about allegedly sexist media men getting the boot by the companies

that run all three major cable news operations. You probably know about Don Lemon, now fired

from CNN after the firestorm over his comment that Nikki Haley is past her prime because

women are considered past their prime once they pass their 40s. Don Lemon said that. The one you

probably know the least about is Jeff Schell, who is the CEO of NBC Universal

until Sunday when he admitted what he called an inappropriate relationship with a woman in the

company and said he was truly sorry. Now, according to multiple media reports, the woman is Hadley

Gamble, a correspondent at CNBC, the business cable channel,

whose lawyer is telling reporters she has messages that document harassment and sex discrimination by

Shell. And of course, there's Tucker Cawson and lots of speculation there about the reasons

he got fired yesterday from Fox News, but some of it goes like

this. Lying to his viewers, yeah, that was highlighted in the Dominion voting machine's defamation suit

that just cost the company more than three quarters of a billion dollars, but it's not really a new

offense and acceptable to management for Tucker Carlson to be lying to his viewers

for a long time. They even kind of said that in court. We'll talk about that. The cost of doing

business. Supporting the big lie about the stolen election that Fox says a company did not support,

all is fair in the pursuit of ratings.

Supporting Vladimir Putin on the invasion of Ukraine,

Putin who recently took another Murdoch journalist hostage,

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