Welcome to the beat, everyone. I'm Ari Melburgh. Our top story is new developments right now and what's shaping up to be the case of the decade for trying to hold liars accountable with real swift justice.

Fox News on defense, facing over a billion dollars in punishment for lies, it served up that fed the insurrection.

And while, as you see here,

top Fox hosts have clearly been on Team Trump in public for a long time, we know that. We know

Sean Henry broke all journalistic rules or pretense by literally endorsing and publicly campaigning

for Trump. There's no court punishment for breaking that kind of rule.

There just isn't.

But there can be penalties for malicious lying for defamation if you can prove a media

defendant acted knowingly, maliciously, intentionally.

And that's hard to prove, and that difficult standard is deliberate, which is why this

case has to turn on hard evidence,

not asking whether Hannity is biased for Trump. He is. But asking whether Hannity knowingly and

maliciously pushed lies that cause measurable damage. And the evidence is building in this case.

We've told you a bit about it. Hannity admitted under oath he didn't believe the lies. Now legal anticipation is building for new evidence, which we can tell you according to court schedule, should hit this coming Monday. There will be new filings, more receipts in this voting machine company's case against Fox, as they try to meet what is a high legal bar

that Fox defame them while feeding, promoting, and even publicly joining actual parts of Donald

Trump's multi-pronged conspiracy to end American democracy. So it's a big deal. Now, if you follow

the news, you've probably seen some of the highlights

already, from major papers to TV news, headlines about some of the quotes you see here, how

Fox staff were privately blasting the big lie as BS, insane, mind-blowingly nuts, reckless.

They said all that and then turned around in the same period of time and served it up to their viewers,

misleading their viewers, showing a real condescension for their viewers, a lack of respect, just deceiving them.

Now, the spiciest quotes, like the ones we just put on the screen, they can be damning.

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