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Hi there. Welcome to the Restis Politics. It's Alistair here. And this week is the finale of our series on Rupert Murdoch.

And today it's all about Dada Succession. It's not just squabbling children. We're looking at the politics behind this squabble.

The disagreements over the way he backed Donald Trump and what it all means for Rupert Murdoch's legacy.

That sounds interesting. Here is a clip from that episode.

And so we left the last episode with Murdoch kind of regretting in a way his help via Fox News and Donald Trump's rise to power.

And in particular, regretting them buying into the Trump

conspiracy theory of the stolen election, which ended up in a court case, which costs Murdoch

almost a billion dollars.

I think it's larger than just regret, too.

I think it's kind of a, you know, moving into the territory of a bitter ending for him.

You know, his dream was always to elect a president of the United States.

And the bitter irony is that that turned out to be Donald Trump, a man he detests who he believes is unfit and unworthy, or in

brief, as he says, an asshole. And whose children have similar views about Trump and who are now,

because Rupert Murdoch is, as you say, getting towards his final chapters,

he's now 94,

they really are now beginning to think about succession.

But let's just get back to that post-election period.

Because, as you say,

Murdoch despises Trump.

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