studio audience in miami you can tune in at 8 pm eastern, right here on msnbc. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex are you concerned tha desantis just hard that is like, shut it down no entry maybe if he shows that we can do a live interview. i would love that. he s a big fan of the show i m sure longtime watcher an first-time guest that sounds great. i ll be watching thank you to you at home for joining us this hour this was the line to get int the delaware courthouse wher fox news was set to go on tria this morning the company was accused of defamation by the dominion voting systems a corporation even the sheer number of lawyers showing up for thi trial today was impressive the fox and dominion side look like they had enough attorneys to form a soccer team. the soccer team in suits buying the building, the court erected this mysterious canopy walkway thing presumably for allowing jurors an high-profile witnesses to ente and exit the courtroom with
on, the record, a rather fulsome and complete set o facts, not just everything t proceed with the trial, bu laying out for the public an nation the degree to which there is cynicism and fear o losing an audience that wa driving foxes decisions. not some sort of journalisti imperative that had to b mistaken dominion accomplished both o its aims, in a sense they wanted vindication, and they wanted there to be public record of what went awry, looking under the rock and seeing how fox acted in this time of crisis to a great degree, dominio achieve that, even if they did not get all that they were seeking. fox news wanted to pay to make this go away the murdaugh s have a record o brushing such things off they can afford the greatest litigators in the country, and have hired them again an again. in this case, winston an strong, late by dan webb, on of the most fearsome corporate litigators in the united states they were happy ultimately t