Welcome to the beat, I am R. E. Melbourne.

I could tell you, this is one of those nights.

We are tracking several developments, including a brand new hearing

over evidence in a case alleging unlawful lies by Fox News.

And if you're thinking, wait, is this a rerun?

Did I DVR this?

Didn't I hear about that before?

No, this is a different multi-billion dollar case

that the network is dealing with while reeling from the other

original record-setting defamation settlement that it made

in the Dominion case.

So that is big.

You can just imagine.

We're going to get to that tonight also.

More Tom Hanks, the actor set down with us here at the beat.

We have new material from our interview

that's airing tonight for the first time.

So it'll be new, and I'm excited to share it with you.

But we begin with cascading setbacks

and a political quest that is backfiring in public for House

Republicans pushing on with their deep state conspiracy theories

even on a week like this, even amidst the setbacks

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