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to the most widely used abortion pill good day im andrea mitchell in washington fox news paying almost $800 million to avoid having to take the witness stand. the settlement lets fox avoid weeks of text. the damage to its reputation is done thousands of pages of evidence released during pre-trial discovery made public. that fox hosts lied about the 2020 election being rigged, knew it and so did their bosses all the way to the very top. there will be no on-air apologies or retractions f...

change across the company, including here at cnn. and im sad that i wont be here to cover it. but since this is our final episode, were going to do something today. this is a special hour and its about change. its about change all across the media world. whats changing? what might change? and what must never change about the accountability function of journalism. i love this show. this small but mighty show punched above its weight for so many years. even a former president commented o...

ginnie thomas, conservative activist and wife of supreme court justice played a much bigger role than we previously knew in pushing the election results. virginia ginnie thomas pressed arizona lawmakers after the 2020 election to set aside joe bidens popular vote victory and choose, quote, a clean slate of electors, thats according to emails obtained by "the washington post." that email sent by thomas to lawmakers in 2020 argued that legislators needed to intervene because the vote had...

change across the company, including here at cnn. and im sad that i wont be here to cover it. but since this is our final episode, were going to do something today. this is a special hour and its about change. its about change all across the media world. whats changing? what might change? and what must never change about the accountability function of journalism. i love this show. this small but mighty show punched above its weight for so many years. even a former president commented on the c...

>> as retribution for perceived loyalty. it fits his pattern, nicolle, where anyone in the government, especially in the justice department or with an accountability function of their jobs, if they take any position that the trump foresees, and the mueller vorlreport. at times he wanted to get rid of mueller and its just another example in that pattern. >> and they really feared that the effort or the act of firing mueller represented the most grave legal peril to donald trump. so there has to b...

Questions does that raise for you? >> well, one of the questions it raises is why has congress not been able to have access to the underlying evidence and documents and transcripts outside of the actual mueller report? this is additional fodder to support the argument that because there is underlying information, because there are things that may have been touched upon in the mueller report but not given full context and not given additional details its simply for them to do so for accountabilit...

Do so for their oversight and accountability function. but also one of the questions i have is, why, if this was another indication of somebody close in the trump orbit or the administration or a personal attorney or otherwise, trying to influence or impede the investigation, and flynn himself has said that it may have had some influence on his willingness to continue to cooperate, knowing how important it was, then it makes that needle go again in the direction of why was this not found to be o...

Our press freedoms are being taken away? what do you think we should do? >> i think the most important thing is for journalists to do their jobs and pursue it objectively. the accountability function is the most important thing. democracy could not survive without journalists doing their jobs. i think they need to have thick skinls. every president im aware of has attacked the media in some form or another. >> just deal with the fact some people will hate you because of the job you do. it is an ...

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