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and look to show solidarity and dismiss talks of cracks in ukraines firewall. plus, full disclosure. senator john fetterman checks himself into the hospital for clinical depression. and new text messages reveal top hosts at fox the same hosts who carried water for-donald trumps election lies knew his claims were, quote, really crazy. up first the diplomatic battle field. right now the united states and its major western allies are in munich as the war in ukraine is about to hit the o...

conspiracies by the ex-president and his allies including in the media. in its $1.6 billion defamation case pierces the hermetically sealed bubble that is fox news. the network that drives the conversation and conduct in the republican party and on the right like none other. it shows that hosts on fox news either peddled the big lie that the 2020 election was stolen from trump or gave the platform for people to spread the big lie that the election was stolen from trump for one reason a...

attempts to pressure him and he could be a key witness trump and his team could still appeal the ruling. but they have lost similar previous cases a date for pences testimony is not settled, though it is likely to be later this month according to an adviser. now the ruling by judge james boseberg ordering pence to testify said that while pence was excused from providing details regarding hisrole as president of the senate on january 6, 2021, hes not excused from testifying about conver...

lackey, a loyalist and a true believer, but no one can deny his ongoing seven tralt to donald trumps conduct after today we can likely also describe him as a key witness into the multiple criminal investigations threatening donald j. trump. today when jack met boris, boris epstein, that is, one of the central figures in todays trump world is sitting down with prosecutors from special counsel jack smiths office. it is a development that is sure to inspire questions about where either on...

Fox news than anyone else in the table. but what they turned to when trump left was a distorted picture of crime in america. and what is on every night is crime in americas urban centers, it is leaking out like a crime wave spilling out across the cities and creeping into a town square near you it is on night after night after night. ill play some of it in a minute it is a programming decision we know that at fox news, there are no accidents there are only strategic decisions about how to goose ...

For, you know, believing in the conspiracy theories that they knew to be false but which had powered the assault on the capitol and thats the most tragic thing of all. >> you know, david, it is, i think, an historic infusion of understanding into how the most powerful people at fox news think. and i too was struck by -- i mean with a gun to my head i would have no idea what this companys stock price is on any day and aware more of the ratings but the notion that anybody would make a programming ...

That is such the antithesis of what journalism should be. it is not surprising but is shocking. >> certainly not the way it is supposed to work. this is not just a programming decision or monitoring decision. these have real consequences in how viewers see what is happening in society. they were consuming news that we now know from these texts very clearly that the people who are purveying that knew it was false. knew it was bogus. but believed they were pushing and wanted to push that because t...

♪ ♪ >> dana: we promised at the top of the show very big news for our own jesse watters. hes been named the permanent host of the 7:00 p.m. our "jesse watters prime time" starting on january 24 pin one of the great joys in life is when you can be genuinely so happy for someone else may think thats how all of us felt today learning of this great news. i wonder, will viewers be eligible for cash prizes at the end like on "americas funniest home videos?" >> jesse: yes, there will be cash prizes...

This was a programming decision to make fox news pro trump. not out of any pro loyalty, pure business zpl we know from the book that donald trump absolutely worships rupert mourdock as one of the people he wants to be so its fascinating. jonathan, jennifer, eric will be back. gabe sherman, thank you very much. up next, with the gop tax plan for the very rich in the books, they may try to change the constitution next. great. hold on to your hats, america. stay with us. your joints... or your di...

Demographics mix well, thats why we advertise nearly all news channels. msnbc. fox news and c.n.n. however given the nature of news we always need to evaluate it on a realtime bases. the decision to publicly communicate our programming decision was highly unusual. this gave the appearance of taking sides in a charged debate that escalated on twitter and beyond which was not our intent. i want you to know the decision to communicate our short-term media actions was done outside of company protoco...