we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. i m ari melber. the top story rocking conservative politics and fox news tonight is a huge new leak about this moment in 2020 when fox news accurately reported biden won arizona, which stoked a maga backlash which upended the network, fed the series of journalists that fox now is facing potential accountability for, potentially over a billion dollars in lawsuit fines. it s also now led to the absolute blockbuster leak to the new york times. if you re think, or i heard about other leaks, this one is different and new and narrates a secret meeting between fox execs and hosts about that arizona call. an internal freakout where viewers were mad and bailing on fox because they reported in that instance, one, undeniable fact about the election. and the executives and anchors, great bare and mar that mccollum, on this call they discuss they were losing viewers because they correctly called arizona for biden. and the
agreed it was important to be right buck quote, i think we re living in a new world in a sense, where half the voting population doesn t believe in big corps weighs, big media. there s a lack of trust. this is such b.s. i want to you make sure you understand exactly what it is, because it s an echo you might hear from someone as a dinner party or barbecue. those people on your screen you re seeing now lie to you. they undermine trust. then refer to a, la of trust, which is their justification for what they re doing, and to tell you the obvious tonight, because sometimes i do that, it is illogical to say you can t report the truth if half the pop las vegas disagrees wts truth. we re back to 101 here. the whole role of a legitimate news organization is to report facts regardless of people s disagreement and especially when there s a coordinated attack on the facts. in this case, an attack from the outgoing government trying to overthrow the election where