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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

New filing in $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit from Dominion against Fox points to Fox’s intentional disregard for truth

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Joy Reid leads this episode of The ReidOut with breaking news--the newest filing in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems against Fox has been released. The more than 1,000-page filing provides additional evidence that points to Fox’s intentional disregard for the truth as it continued to spread Donald Trump’s baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen. Former chair of the Jan. 6 select committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson, and former Jan. 6 select committee member, Rep. Jamie Raskin, join Joy Reid to discuss. All this and more in this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0

Good evening, everyone. We begin the readout tonight with breaking news, the newest filing

0:06.2

in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit from Dominion voting systems against Fox has just

0:12.4

been released. Now, we are still combing through it, but the more than 1,000-page filing already

0:18.1

provides additional evidence that points to Fox's intentional disregard for the truth,

0:23.3

as it continued to spread Donald Trump's baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen.

0:29.2

And from the very top, we have Fox Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdock admitting that Fox

0:34.9

host actually endorsed it. Asking, quote, was it wrong for Fox hosts to endorse these

0:40.8

lies? Rupert Murdock replied, quote, if they knew they were lies, yes, if they knew they

0:46.8

were lies. And the filing does show that some of those hosts knew they were lies. In one

0:52.5

of Tucker Carlson's private texts, an unknown individual asks them, do you think there's

0:57.2

real evidence of significant voter fraud? Carlson replies, I don't think there is evidence

1:02.3

of voter fraud that swung the election. There's info here and there showing fraud, but not

1:06.6

the amount required to swing the election to bite it. Of course, you've never heard

1:11.4

Tucker say that on air. You probably also haven't heard his true thoughts about Trump

1:15.9

lawyer Sidney Powell, who was leading the charge in the tinfoil hat brigade over the

1:19.9

Dominion voting machine conspiracy theories. In texts and emails, he revealed that he knew

1:26.2

that she was spouting lies. And then a newly revealed text, he said, quote, Sidney Powell

1:31.5

is lying, effing B word. Nice. Also in the filing was an email from Murdock to Fox News

1:38.7

chief executive Suzanne Scott on January 21, 2021, two weeks after the January 6 in

1:45.4

direction where he acknowledges Fox News' role in what happened. He writes, still getting

1:52.5

mud thrown at us. Is it unargivable that high profile, it is, is it unargable that high

1:58.8

profile Fox voices fed the story that the election was stolen in that January 6 was

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