Tucker and The Fox News Hydra; Trump Goes to Trial

It's Complicated

Renato Mariotti

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This week: Tucker gets the ax at Fox News; Trump goes to trial for rape and defamation of E. Jean Carroll; plus Monticello is being more honest about its history, and it’s cold where Asha and Renato live. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Its.Complicated/ Subscribe to our podcast https://link.chtbl.com/its-complicated Follow Asha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_ Asha's Substack: https://asharangappa.substack.com/ Follow Renato on Twitter: https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti Follow Asha on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asha.rangappa/ Follow Renato on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/renato.mariotti/ Subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Its.Complicated/ Follow Asha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_ Asha's Substack: https://asharangappa.substack.com/ Follow Renato on Twitter: https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti Follow Asha on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asha.rangappa/ Follow Renato on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/renato.mariotti/Follow Renato on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@renato.mariotti Opening Theme and Bumper music provided by eitanepsteinmusic / Pond5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	M-S-S-W media.
0:09.0	So Renato, is this the last we're going to hear of Tucker Carlson?
0:14.0	It's complicated.
0:18.0	I'm Renata Mariati.
0:22.0	I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer and a legal analyst.
0:27.0	And I'm Asha Rangapa. I teach national security law at Yale University.
0:32.0	I'm a former FBI Special agent and I'm a legal and
0:35.1	national security analyst. And we're here to help you understand topics that
0:39.3	can't be boiled down to a sound bite or a tweet. So, Asha, I found this shocking the news that Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox, right? Did you see that coming at all?
0:51.6	I'd, like, I saw a breaking news tweet in my feed
0:57.0	and I had to double check who it was because I was like,
1:00.0	is this a reputable person?
1:02.0	And it was, it was like a reporter but then I was like okay I need I need more
1:08.0	confirmation and then it was just you know my Twitter feet exploded with it so yeah
1:15.4	crazy was crazy right I mean what's interesting about it like a look Don lemon was
1:20.6	fired the same day but it was different, right?
1:23.2	Because Don's ratings were lower.
1:25.9	You could see that coming, potentially,
1:27.5	because CNN is that, you know, they're having ratings issues.
1:31.2	With Fox, Tucker was like a big moneymaker for them.
1:34.0	He was their number one show, number one in the ratings,
1:37.0	and they care about that stuff.
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