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What A Day
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🗓️ 17 April 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The defamation lawsuit brought by the election technology company Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News is scheduled to start on Tuesday. Crooked news contributor Max Fisher tells us what’s at stake, and what we can expect over the next few weeks.
And in headlines: a shooting in Alabama left at least four people dead and 28 others injured, French President Emmanuel Macron signed into law his controversial plan to raise the country’s retirement age, and lawmakers in Montana approved a statewide ban on TikTok.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, April 17th. I'm Trevo Anderson. |
| 0:09.1 | And I'm Josie Defi-Race, and this is What A Day, where we will be the ones asking bad |
| 0:13.0 | bunny of the important questions from now on. |
| 0:14.9 | Yes, but he has to come back from the desert because I'm not going to Coachella ever. |
| 0:20.0 | Ever. My window has passed. |
| 0:21.8 | And thank God. |
| 0:23.6 | A man to that, okay? |
| 0:31.0 | On today's show, French President Emmanuel Macron signed off on a deeply unpopular measure |
| 0:35.3 | to raise the country's retirement age. Plus America's next drag superstar has been crowned. |
| 0:40.2 | Oh yes, but first, a trial that could result in significant ramifications for Fox News |
| 0:46.9 | was scheduled to start this morning in Delaware. As a reminder, Fox News is being sued for defamation |
| 0:53.5 | by the election technology company Dominion Voting Systems. |
| 0:57.8 | But right as we sat down to record the show Sunday evening, we got word that the trial |
| 1:02.8 | will be pushed back by one day. The judge hearing the case said opening statements will |
| 1:07.7 | begin tomorrow, though he didn't explain why. We also want to note that the Wall Street |
| 1:13.6 | Journal reported this weekend that Fox has tried to settle the case out of court at the |
| 1:18.6 | last minute. |
| 1:19.6 | Yeah, that would be smart of them. It's not looking very good. |
| 1:25.3 | Now this suit was filed back in 2021 and has to do with the even for Fox absurd lies that |
| 1:35.2 | they were telling after the 2020 election. Is that right? |
| 1:39.4 | Yes, that is absolutely right. I'm sure we all remember how the network was pushing |
| 1:45.0 | the lie that Biden, quote unquote, stole the 2020 election from Donald Trump. Well, Dominion |
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