Trouble At Fox News
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
America's conservative cable TV channel is being sued for airing false 2020 election fraud claims. And court documents suggest that Fox News anchors reported allegations that the vote was “stolen” from Donald Trump even though they knew they were false. The Washington Post’s media critic Erik Wemple joins the team to talk through what's been happening in the case and a bombshell deposition from Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch.
When Coronavirus first spread around the world, everyone wanted to know where it came from. Did it jump from animals to humans in a wet market in the Chinese city of Wuhan? Or was it leaked from a virology lab? No one is entirely sure. But this week not one, but two US intelligence agencies said their best assessment was a lab leak. Stephen Morrison, host of the Coronavirus Crisis Update podcast, gives Americast the latest and explains the political context in Washington.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, we are bringing you a retro edition of America's today. |
| 0:09.2 | Yeah, let's step into the America's Time Machine, |
| 0:11.7 | which I have here in the studio and go back to a very ventful year. |
| 0:16.3 | Breaking news tonight, America Lockdown. |
| 0:19.3 | Three of the country's biggest states order residents to stay home. |
| 0:23.6 | Harvey Weinstein, the movie mogul behind some of Hollywood's biggest hits, |
| 0:27.7 | is behind bars tonight. |
| 0:29.2 | Hello, my name is Brooke Williams, George Floyd's niece, and I can breathe. |
| 0:34.0 | This is just a way they're trying to steal the election, and everybody knows it. |
| 0:37.6 | The software itself was created with so many variables and so many back doors that can be hooked |
| 0:44.4 | up to the internet or thumb drive, stuck in it or whatever, but one of its most |
| 0:49.1 | characteristic features is its ability to flip votes. |
| 0:53.4 | We've won with the most votes ever cast some presidential ticket in the history of the nation. |
| 0:59.7 | 74 million. |
| 1:02.3 | That of course was 2020, a year of political turmoil in the US, |
| 1:06.0 | hard to believe it's three years ago already, we'll be discussing how the events of 2020 |
| 1:11.8 | are shaping, though, the political landscape today still in fact, dominating the headlines. |
| 1:17.2 | In particular, we're going to look at whether we're getting closer to finding out |
| 1:20.7 | where the COVID outbreak actually originated from, and we'll be talking about why election denial. |
| 1:25.8 | Donald Trump's refusal to concede the 2020 election is coming back to bite Fox News. |
| 1:31.1 | This is America's The Back to the Future Edition. |
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