Tucker Carlson fired at Fox News

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🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Fox News and Tucker Carlson, the right-wing host who used his show to promote conspiracy theories and radical rhetoric, parted ways. A source tells CNN that Fox Corporation chief executive Lachlan Murdoch and Fox News chief executive Suzanne Scott made the decision on Friday night. CNN Political Commentator and Democratic Strategist Paul Begala used to work with Carlson on CNN when they co-hosted “Crossfire.” He explains why his former co-host is a “different person” than he was 20 years ago.

Plus, President Biden met with the three Democratic Tennessee State lawmakers who faced expulsion votes over their protest for gun reform after the Covenant School shooting in Nashville that left six dead, including three children. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson were forced out of the GOP-controlled legislature while Gloria Johnson survived by just one vote. Jones and Pearson were eventually sent back to the Tennessee House on an interim basis. Jones joins AC360 to discuss meeting the President and if he thinks his state will pass any gun reform legislation.

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0:00.0	Good evening, New Detailers, and I'm about the removal of Tucker Carlson from Fox News.
0:04.6	Fox made the announcement this morning, six days after the company settled with Dominion
0:08.0	voting systems for more than three quarters of a billion dollars.
0:11.0	Had that case gone to trial, Carlson likely would have been forced to testify about how
0:15.5	the 2020 election lies that Fox was helping to spread on screen, where it odds with what
0:20.3	its stars, including him, were saying off screen.
0:22.9	Carlson texted other staffers that he, passionately, that's a quote, hated former President
0:27.2	Donald Trump and that Trump's tenure in the White House was a quote, disaster.
0:30.9	He also used misogynistic terms to criticize pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell and rejected
0:35.2	her conspiracies about the 2020 election, even as those false claims got repeated airtime
0:40.3	on Fox News.
0:41.9	His text messages, after the election, released by Dominion's attorneys, also showed
0:45.5	a time show Carlson disparaging Fox leadership, whether his sudden departure actually connected
0:52.0	to the Dominion case or other lawsuits facing Fox or other reasons, is a topic we'll get
0:56.7	into in a moment.
0:57.7	Fox and a statement only said it and Carlson quote, have agreed to part ways.
1:02.0	And then thanked him for his service and said his last show was this past Friday, joined
1:06.7	now by our senior media reporter Oliver Darcy.
1:08.9	So do we know exactly why he was ousted?
1:13.2	I would imagine that you can't disconnect this from that big Dominion suit.
1:17.5	Even though Tucker Carlson wasn't a focal point of the suit, he did loom large over it.
1:21.7	He was set to be one of the first witnesses that was going to testify.
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