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Deadline: White House

“The final nail in the coffin”

Deadline: White House

MSNBC

News, Donald Trump, Daily News, The White House, Nicolle Wallace, Politics, Nbc News, Washington Dc, Msnbc, Government

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace discusses disturbing new reporting on the cause of Tucker Carlson’s ouster from Fox News, a challenger to Sen. Ted Cruz in Texas, the difficult line media and Republicans must draw in handling the now-indicted former president’s 2024 bid, escalation in Russia’s war on Ukraine as the Kremlin faces drone strikes aimed at assassinating Vladimir Putin, an update on the timeline in E. Jean Carroll’s civil trial while the jury hears from a psychologist bolstering Carroll’s case, continued attacks on trans Americans as a Montana lawmaker is silenced by her colleagues, and more. Joined by: Jeremy Peters, Mike Schmidt, Katie Phang, Mehdi Hasan, Donna Edwards, Tim Miller, Neal Katyal, A.B. Stoddard, Jason Johnson, Barry McCaffrey, Alexander Vindman, Molly Crane-Newman, and Montana State Rep. Zooey Zephyr.

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0:00.0

Hi there, everyone. It's Borkhark New York. We're going to give a close eye on the fast-moving

0:11.4

situation in Atlanta. A government there killed one person and injured four others at a medical

0:16.9

center earlier today. If in one, there are any updates or information you need to know.

0:21.5

We'll bring it to you. But we begin with a brand new blockbuster reporting that solves

0:26.4

the mystery of the missing link in a story that has rocked American politics and media. For weeks

0:32.1

now, a question has loomed over the outster of top fox host Tucker Carlson. Why did the Murdoch

0:38.4

fire? One of their biggest stars, the architect of a platform that unself-consciously,

0:44.0

petals intolerance and conspiracy theories. Why'd they fire him based on something that didn't

0:49.7

happen on air? What was that? Missing link. And what if anything? Did Tucker Carlson do or say

0:56.1

off camera that contributed to the nearly unprecedented 11th-hour settlement of $787.5 million

1:04.5

in the defamation case brought against Fox by Dominion voting systems? The New York Times

1:09.3

answers both those questions and reports on the missing text message that it found in some ground

1:14.8

breaking new reporting. The message was reportedly unearthed during the discovery process with Dominion.

1:21.0

The Times reports that out. In the message sent to one of his producers in the hours after

1:26.8

violent Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Mr. Carlson described how he

1:33.7

had recently watched a video of a group of men, Trump supporters, he said, violently attacking

1:40.8

quote, an antifa kid. It was quote, three against one, he wrote, and then he expressed a sense of

1:47.6

dismay that the attackers like him were white. Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable, obviously he

1:55.4

wrote quote, it's not how white men fight, he said. But he said he found himself for a moment

2:02.4

wanting the group to kill the person he had described as the antifa kid. Here's that part.

2:09.8

Quote, I found myself rooting for the mob against the man hoping they would hit him harder,

2:16.0

kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the kid. I could taste it, he wrote quote, then somewhere

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