disturbing irregularities have been found in must be investigated to the fullest. tonight, the blockbuster new court filing from the dominion lawsuit. the internal decision and ratings over facts. the legal implications for a media giant the fallout for the democracy and what it all tells us about the inner workings about the fox news channel. the dominion software i know there were voting of regularity. these tell me about that. to put it mildly all in starts now. good evening from washington, d.c., i m in for chris. hayes earlier this, week senate republicans grilled senate biden s nominee to the federal communications building for their time. they have been trying to derail her confirmation claiming that she is too far to the left and two critical act of fox. you said, quote, for all my concern about facebook, i believe that fox news has had the most negative impact on our democracy. it is state sponsored propaganda. do you still believe fox news it
views as the biden administration working to hit him with criminal charges, or even put him and his people in prison. according to the justice department s office of legal counsel, a sitting president cannot be charged with a federal crime. now, the same is not true for a prosecution at a state level. however, that would possibly go to the supreme court. let s bring in the host of way too early and white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former staff for hillary clinton. good to have you both on board this morning. not a surprise. a lot of people have been talking for some time that donald trump may seek re-election to avoid prosecution. it seems of course, you have a new book coming out that goes through everything donald trump has done, certainly everything he did around january 6th, that now seems to be landing him in hot water. not just politically, as we heard from mike allen on your show, but it is impacting him politically and legally at the jus
director and was paid millions of dollars by fox news even after he left in disgrace over the sexual harassment scandals people people don t realize how many there were. john bolton, they were on air, tara. they were on air, the guests, specifically. angelo, this filing says after the capitol came under attack, then president trump dialed into lou dobbs show, attempting to get on air. but fox refused to allow president trump on here that evening because, quote, it would be irresponsible to put him on the air and could impact a lot of people in a negative way. so, on january the 6th itself, they knew, behind the scenes, what trump was doing. but subsequently, they decided to play down his role on air, denied was insurrection, and just last night tucker carlson on his show, was again questioning joe biden s election yeah, what you just described is actually an example of the power of fox that you were talking about earlier. the lead steer effect in
breaking overnight, the house has voted to hold mark meadows in contempt of congress. these charges are now headed to the justice department which will decide whether to prosecute the former white house chief of staff. this happened after meadows shared thousands of documents and texts with the committee and declined to testify. joining us now jonathan karl, abc chief correspondent and author of betrayal, the final act of the trump show. jonathan, we are seeing all of these new text messages. some from the 6th itself, some from before. there was one read last night that i want to read right now. unknown to mark meadows on january 3rd. and it has to do when jeffrey clark got hired or moved up. i heard jeff clark is getting put in on monday. that s amazing. it will make a lot of patriots happy and i m personally so