stories. take a look. as i ve heard today to make the opening i never got to give, i was reminded of the hail tha the employees went through and continue to go through to this day. money is accountability. we got that today from fox we re not done yet we ve got some other people wh have accountability coming towards them dominion settled it defamation lawsuit against fox news with a last-minute deal yesterday afternoon. the network agreed to pay. it s a voting machine compan more than $787 million more moments before opening statements were set to get underway fox s lawyers did not talk t reporters yesterday, but the network put out a statement, running in part, and i hope can get through this, we acknowledge the courts rulings finding certain claims about dominion to be false this settlement reflects foxes continued commitment to th [inaudible we are hopeful - my professor, professor pearson, would always talk about the straight face test don t ever make an argument.
lot of political losses in presidential primaries befor he came back and won it. and if you look at biden himself, i mean he has a lot o adages in clips, but he always says, don t compare me to th almighty compare me to the alternative. if you look at my contacts which is that elections ar always about choices, an binary choices, right now he has, despite private gripes an grumbles in whispers and concerns, he has no meaningful democratic primary challenge nor is he expected to get one. he has put that all away wit the very successful midter elections. and then it will be a binary choice again between him and a republican nominee who could again be somebody like donal trump, where joe biden believe with some historical evidence, that he beat donald trump in 2020, that he will be th preferred alternative there as well and you know, his numbers
this is happening to people al over the place, and th unintended consequences of these types of restrictive bills, after the legislature never thought that this woul be the type of circumstanc that would happen, but i happened debra, i want to give the final word to you. i just want to know what you would like to say to republica lawmakers who are creating thi laws that kept you from having the options that you desperately needed i just feels that, i don know, politicians should sta out of health care and let the doctors practice and treat their patients it s just how i feel, because feel like i didn t get the health care that i needed fo this pregnancy we ll take a look at th latest revelations in the long running friendship between a
his numbers always seem to lag behind what people support whether you look at issues, or character traits, you go dow the list and again, there always seem to be sort of this false positive against joe biden, an he ends up proving again, time and again, proving his critics wrong. join us now, politica columnist for new york magazine, jonathan trait, and jonathan in your piece out this morning in new york magazine, you aske if ron desantis is not dominan for republicans? ouch! you asked in part, unlike trump, who used his way into republican politics through combination of instinct an absorbing hours a fox news desantis came to the conservative movement from the brittani and desantis s first term as governor achieved politica success in part because th pandemic allowed him to craft populist identity based on the intuitive principle of letting people do what they want now he is grown-ups last with
if desantis did a main street, less taxes, less spending, mor freedom, and a stronge military, i think, it s just like trump trump would ve won in 2020 i he had gone that route why did they all kee overthinking this, and getting engaged in these cultural wars that they are losing time afte time after time? look, i don t want to defen desantis, but in his defense he has something trickier than just winning in a republican district like madison cawthorn he s trying to knock off donal trump, who is a beloved figure to the republicans so he is trying to do this complicated dance where he says, i will be everything tha donald trump was, but withou the stuff that you don t like. but without also saying, the stuff that you don t like is sort of hinting at what th stuff is so he is really trying t maneuver through this comple terrain. but i think he is really kin