New texts, emails & testimony released in Fox lawsuit

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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A new trove of documents in Dominion’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News shed light on what was going on inside the network after the 2020 election. One of the key findings reveals Rupert Murdoch was worried hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham “went too far” in pushing debunked fraud claims. Geoff Bennett, Renato Mariotti, Maeve Reston, Jeremy Peters, Christopher Shays, Juanita Tolliver, and Gen. Barry McCaffrey join.

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0:00.0	Tonight, a look behind the scenes at Fox News during the 2020 election, with texts and
0:07.0	emails released as part of Dominions $1.6 billion lawsuit.
0:12.1	Hosts continue to push Trump's debunked big lie with Rupert Murdoch questioning if
0:17.8	they went too far.
0:19.5	Then Tucker Carlson cherry picking and flat out misrepresenting the events of January
0:24.7	6th.
0:25.7	One of nation were hearing from some Republican lawmakers and the brutal kidnapping in Mexico,
0:31.4	two Americans dead, two survivors back on American soil, the warnings to Americans traveling
0:37.0	to that area as the 11th hour gets underway on this Tuesday night.
0:43.6	Good evening once again, I'm Stephanie Rule.
0:49.2	We are still digging into a mountain of new evidence tonight of brand new core filing in
0:54.1	the $1.6 billion defamation suit from Dominion voting systems against Fox News dropped just
1:00.7	a few hours ago and the latest trove of documents includes text messages, emails and depositions
1:07.0	that reveal even more about what was going on inside the network as it regularly pushed
1:13.0	Donald Trump's lies that the 2020 election was stolen.
1:16.9	These new documents show Fox News chairman Rupert Murdoch himself was asked directly about
1:22.3	that during his deposition in January of this year.
1:25.4	He was asked, quote, have you ever believed that Dominion was engaged in a massive and coordinated
1:30.9	effort to steal the 2020 presidential election?
1:34.1	Murdoch replied, no.
1:36.2	He was also asked, have you ever believed that Dominion committed election fraud by rigging
1:40.6	the 2020 presidential election?
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