people off to the insurrection or lied and defamed people in ways that damaged them or their companies. now, the people who have sued aren t always fox haters or critics, the voting company that got over half a billion dollars out of them didn t have longstanding grievances with the company. they were just able to get so far in their punishing lawsuit that they got over half a b out of rupert murdoch and tucker carlson was fired. i say that before i bring in james carville because this comes from a trump supporter, ray epps. he says that tucker carlson, the former fox host, ousted after a different lawsuit, was at an illegal or defamatory level, peddling knowingly false conspiracy theories, specifically against him. he says, quote, carlson was telling a fantastical story in which epps was some sort of undercover fbi agent responsible for the actual mob that broke into the capital. so what you re about to see is what we warned you before, not offered as true, not offered as
a crisis with no ordinary solution because this was no ordinary storm. look at the staggering scale of destruction. complicating hundreds of rescue efforts. it laid waste to entire towns, robbing people of their homes and livelihoods. some residents are now beginning to pick up the pieces. others have no pieces left to pick up. i just returned from a boat ride with the cageous navy where i saw some of the destruction for myself. this is what ian did to matt lachey in lee county where most of the deaths occurred so far. in matlacha. they find one of your neighbors? yeah. yeah. they found, like, i think three bodies so far in the water. i know there s more. cnn s nadia romero is in arcadia. we begin with brian todd in naples. officials said it could take months to recover. we have seen evidence all day long from our boat ride to where you are right now. where do things stand today where you are? jim, we re going to show you more evidence of why it s going to take so lon
january 6th committee about her role in the insurrection and why some remain skeptical. and putin s new desperate attempt to claim victory in ukraine while his own troops say the war is already lost. we re going to begin tonight with hurricane ian now lashing the south carolina coast. here s what it looked like as it came ashore. waves bashing this marina in charleston. it made landfill as a category 1 storm bringing torrential rain and 85-mile-per-hour winds with officials warning the storm surge is life-threatening. this is the pawleys island pier, the waves crashing into the structure, it falls and sinks into the ocean. the city of charleston bracing for severe flooding. fema projecting 12 inches of rain in some areas with a storm surge between two and four feet. here s a live look at ian s path moving north and inland now and as ian is hitting south carolina, we are seeing the immense destruction and the catastrophic damage it left in its wake in florida. search and rescu
obtained by cnn suggest otherwise. cnn s sam kiley has more on a potential diplomatic breakthrough in an attempt to avoid a nuclear disaster. here s more from sam. yes, it could be seen as some kind of diplomatic breakthrough that the russian president has endorsed the idea that the international atomic energy authority, the body responsible for inindividuallating, if you like, nuclear power stations around the world, should be allowed to go to the zaporizhzhia nuclear power station and check it out, and install and reinstall the monitoring systems. the fact of the matter, though, is that this is a repeated russian offer and amidst a russian rejection of the international community s demands that they demilitarize the nuclear power station and the town around it. the reason the international community wants to see that is that this has been the locus of fighting. it s effectively on the front line. we know for an absolute fact, jim, that there are missiles being fired out o
families. it helps both current and future bowers and will fax a badly broken system. and these actions build on my administration s efforts to make college more affordable in the first place. nbc s tom costello now with more on the plan and the mixed reaction to it. reporter: president biden fulfilling a campaign promise. cutting american student loan debt. it focuses the benefit on middle class and working families. reporter: but he s also stirred up a hornet s nest of backlash. i feel it is a little slap if the face to those who worked hard to pay it off. reporter: and from republicans who say it unfairly benefits americans who choose to go to college while ignoring those who don t. like truckers, plumbers, welders and retail workers. a lot of americans choose not to go to college. and then there are those americans who bought money to pay for school and paid it back. in what way is it fair to those taxpayers? reporter: many also argument the president exce