Welcome to The Beat. I'm Ari Melbler, and tonight, new evidence has the top host at Fox News facing the most damaging and existential crisis of really those Fox hosts careers.

It's a scandal that goes far beyond what we might call just media.

It actually reveals some of the secret lies atop the MAGA movement, which continues to be a very real part of

our life, democracy, and politics today. It's the lies that fed the insurrection. The

implications are actually quite significant. Accountability could literally help protect America

from another coup attempt. And this new evidence broke last night. It spurred another

round of coverage in a story that keeps revealing every time we get more information, what

seems to be another low, a low below that and another low below that, in this case against Fox

News. Now, we covered parts of the new evidence as this broke last evening, and if you've been following

the news on your phone, phone alerts, MSNBC, I bet you've seen some of it today.

Right now I want to go through it as a special report because what we have is even more damning

long, secret details from inside Fox.

So tonight, I'm going to do this in a very

straightforward way. I want to begin with a quote. If you take nothing else from this whole

story, which has been going for a while now, just remember this newly exposed quote.

Here it is. Quote, I hate Trump passionately.

That's the quote, very clear.

Now, if you think about it, many Americans have likely said that or something similar to that at some point.

Donald Trump sparked a backlash not only from, say, Democrats or the left, but from many

independents and some conservatives who were disgusted by his

many lies and offenses and attacks. But that quote isn't from any public opponent of Trump,

nor is the next quote. The same person says, quote, we're all pretending we've got a lot to show

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