Rupert Murdoch: Top Fox hosts maybe “went too far” with election denial

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In a January 2021 email, Fox Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch said two of his top hosts maybe “went too far” in an apparent reference to them denying the integrity of the 2020 presidential election that then-President Trump lost. Murdoch’s comments were made public in a legal filing as part of Dominion Voting Systems $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News and its parent company, Fox Corporation. The companies deny wrongdoing. First Amendment lawyer Lee Levine joins AC360 to discuss the latest Murdoch emails and whether it’s a “smoking gun” in Dominion’s lawsuit.

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0:00.0	Good evening.
0:01.0	We begin tonight keeping him honest with a simple and you would think obvious point.
0:05.6	What you see at one moment doesn't necessarily reflect the reality of another or of the
0:09.8	whole footage of soldiers during a pause in battle doesn't mean there's no war.
0:14.7	This is a prudor film before JFK shot doesn't make it a parade.
0:19.0	Pretending otherwise is conning people.
0:20.7	Pretending otherwise when you know better or something else and enabling that con when
0:24.4	you're a high ranking elected official accountable to the public and directly in the line of
0:27.8	succession to the presidency is hard to imagine or so you might think because that's just
0:32.8	what House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has done.
0:34.8	He enabled this.
0:38.1	The crowd was enormous.
0:40.0	A small percentage of them were hooligans.
0:42.2	They committed vandalism.
0:43.2	You've seen their pictures again and again.
0:46.6	But the overwhelming majority weren't.
0:49.0	They were peaceful.
0:50.0	They were orderly and meek.
0:52.0	These were not insurrectionists.
0:53.8	They were sightseers.
0:56.6	Justice Tucker Carlson last night, cherry picking from some 40,000 hours of footage that Speaker
1:00.7	McCarthy released to him and only him of the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
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