good evening, everyone. we begin the reid out with breaking news. the newest filing in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit from dominion voting systems against fox has just been released. we are still combing through it but the more than 1,000 page filing already provides additional evidence that points to fox s intentional disregard for the truth as it continued to spread donald trump s baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen. and from the very top we have fox corporation chairman rupert mourdock admitting that fox hosts actually endorsed it skk, quote, was it wrong for fox hosts to endorse these lies? rub per the mourdock replied, quote, if they knew they were lies, yes. if they knew they were lies. and the filing does show that some of those hosts knew they were lies. in one of tucker carlson s private texts an unknown individual asks him, do you think there s real evidence of significant voter fraud? carlson replies, i don t think there s evidence of voter fra
you ve convinced them trump will win. if you don t have conclusive evidence, it s cruel and reckless thing be to keep saying, except that they kept saying it, he kept saying it. katie, let me bring you in here. the question i have is he s essentially warning sidney powell you better bring receipts because i m putting you on my show and you re getting their hopes up and then he turns around and he keeps saying the thing. where does that leave fox in terms of defamation? it leads you directly down the path towards the state of mind of the speaker, of the defamation. the idea that the person when they re relaying the information that they knew that it was false because you have to prove actual malaise when you re dominion voting and you re suing fox news, it s just as important in terms of smoking gun evidence when you have these types of text messages, these chats, all of these emails evidencing that they knew or they recklessly
disregarded the falsity of what was being put out and pace with sickically peddled to fox news viewers. when you re suing somebody you can say, in good faith, i was reporting. it was newsworthy. it was important to talk about a challenge to a 2020 presidential election but what does fox news in here is the fact that they may be at some small measure of time thought maybe this is not totally credible, but in the absence of the evidence they kept on asking for they kept on pushing out a falsehood. that is the problem for fox news when it comes to this particular litigation. i want to emphasize something. it may not necessarily get to a jury in april. a judge could readily find in a couple of weeks on march 21st that dominion has proved its burden as a matter of law and the only thing left to determine is damages. wow. i mean, look, let me bring you in, curt. this is another text. between sean hannity and laura
moment on this very evening they will be doing that. i think it s all time that everybody involved in politics and media and our country start thinking about how we talk about fox because i m not going to say fox news anymore because they re not a news organization. no news organization in america functions this way. no news organization in america knowingly goes out there to lie and mislead their audience and in fact to try to harm the institution of american democracy. fox is nothing more than a republican super pac and it s time we treat them and talk to about that. we call them fox. we re trying to be accurate here, aaron. i think probably my favorite piece of evidence in this filing is the woman who said that she the wind talks to her, that she was internally decapitated yet lives and that the late justice of the supreme court, scalia, was killed at bohemian grove in a conspiracy,
significant voter fraud? carlson replies, i don t think there s evidence of voter fraud that swung the election. there is info here and there showing fraud, but not the amount of fraud to swing the election to biden. you haven t heard his true thoughts about trump lawyer sidney powell who was leading the charge over the dominion voting machine theories. he knew that she was spouting lies and in a newly revealed text he said, quote, sidney powell is lying, f ing b word. nice. also in the filing was an email from mourdock to fox news chief executive suzanne scott on january 31st, 2021, two weeks after the january 6th insurrection where he acknowledges fox news s role in what happened. he writes, still getting mud thrown at us. is it unarguable that will high profile is it unarguable that