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Today, Explained

The Republicans breaking up with Tucker Carlson

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The Fox News host aired a splashy exclusive this month about the January 6 insurrection. Some Republican senators saw his coverage — and publicly called “b******t.” This episode was produced by Haleema Shah with help from Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained   Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights.

0:04.6

I truly can't wait. I hate him passionately.

0:12.3

That's Tucker Carlson in a text message to a producer that was recently made public.

0:16.7

And here is Carlson speaking to millions of his viewers around the same time.

0:20.9

You've heard a lot over the past few days about the security of our electronic voting machines.

0:26.0

You remember that these after Joe Biden won the 2020 election.

0:28.8

A conspiracy theory emerged that the election had been stolen.

0:32.7

Fox News personalities trained their blame on Dominion voting systems,

0:36.3

a company whose hardware was used during the election.

0:39.2

Dominion then sued Fox for defamation and as part of the discovery process,

0:43.5

the private messages of Fox personalities were made public.

0:46.9

Coming up on today's point, what does Tucker Carlson really want or think?

0:52.1

And what story is he telling or retelling to get out of this jam?

1:00.4

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