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It's Complicated

Tucker and The Fox News Hydra; Trump Goes to Trial

It's Complicated

Renato Mariotti

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.71.1K 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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