When the cameras were off, top Fox News hosts called election fraud claims bogus

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🗓️ 18 February 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Joy Reid leads this episode of The ReidOut with the explosive court filing in the case of Dominion v. Fox News. This documnent appears to reveal that, when the cameras were off, certain Fox News hosts were calling election fraud claims bogus. They allegedly knew Donald Trump lost, but continued to lie to their audience to keep their MAGA viewers happy. Also in this episode, Rudy Giuliani's character is dissected in a new MSNBC Films documentary, "When Truth Isn't Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story." Rev. Al Sharpton, host of 'Politics Nation' on MSNBC, joins us with more. Then, we discuss Sen. John Fetterman's battle with clinical depression with former Sen. Barbara Boxer and political strategist Rick Wison. All this and more in this edition of MSNBC

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0:00.0	Tonight on The Readout.
0:07.2	Companies called Dominion voting several days ago, Dominion came under heavy fire after
0:12.3	allegations that their machines caused thousands of votes in one Michigan county to be switched
0:17.6	from Donald Trump to Joe Biden.
0:19.3	Sydney, we talked about the Dominion software.
0:22.0	I know that there were voting irregularities.
0:25.3	Tell me about that.
0:28.5	Let's put it mildly.
0:30.5	Well, that's what they were saying on the air.
0:33.5	But when the cameras were off, those same Fox hosts were calling election fraud claims
0:38.5	BS because on Fox, it is all a performance.
0:42.5	They knew Trump lost but continued to lie to their audience to keep their mega viewers
0:47.3	happy.
0:48.3	Also tonight, the real Giuliani, although some call him America's mayor, there were
0:52.6	disturbing signs long before he came Trump's lawyer.
0:55.7	But he was willing to do or say anything to get rich and grab another moment in the spotlight.
1:02.3	Plus, Senator John Federerman's battle with clinical depression and how things have changed
1:06.8	since another Senator caused a firestorm with his own revelation a half century earlier.
1:15.6	But we begin tonight with some tough love for Fox News viewers.
1:19.5	You might want to record this and send it to your mega hat wearing parents or uncles.
1:23.8	Because frankly, they deserve to know.
1:26.4	Okay, ready?
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