lying. tucker carlson was one of those hosts, according to court documents. now, a week after that giant payout to dominion, tucker is out at fox news, is he the sacrificial lamb or was there something else going on? fox news didn t give a reason and tucker isn t commenting, but we do have media reporter dylan byers with us to tell us all that he has so far gathered along with an expert in cable news to tell us what this means for viewers of the channel does anything change but that is not all. both cnn and nbc news have also made big media moves today, nbc that is. news cnn fired don lemon, he says he was blind sided. the network says he wasn t and comcast, the parent company of msnbc fired nbc universal ceo jeff shell after an investigation into, quote, inappropriate conduct. in a statement, shell said he deeply regrets an inappropriate relationship with a woman in the company. joining me now is nbc news senior reporter jane timm, and puck senior correspondent dylan byers.
widely used abortion drug s fda approval, and it will continue to wind its way through the appeals court system next up is u.s. fifth circuit court of appeals starting in may. joining me now is nbc news senior legal correspondent laura jarrett. talk to me about how all nine of the justices ruled on this and what it might mean for the future. we don t know how all nine feel ability it. we know how at least five of them feel about it you need five in order to get a stay, a pause of that lower court ruling, which is what the justice department wanted, which is what they got we know at least five agreed we don t actually know how all of them feel we know two of them feel very strongly that the justice department should not have won justice alito and thomas j, justice alito taking shots at his colleagues, essentially saying the justice department did not show they would have suffered any harm hear he accuses them of manufacturing a conflict with that washington ruling we ve talked so much
things to figure out in the first 100 days on which subjects is he just venting and pushing and trying to stir up a conversation and on which subjects is he really going to is he going to get his hands dirt oh legislation, to try to reorganize the appeals court system? that s really tough to say. you re right that president trump can be inconsistent on those types of issues, but this is a pre-existing republican proposal that has been around for years. it s been introduced and then it fails to gain traction because democrats accuse republicans of wanting to break up the circuit court for political reasons because there s a high concentration of liberal leaning judges on the circuit. but at the end of the day there is a need to do something about the ninth circuit because of the bureaucratic log jams that are formed has caused constituents of those nine states under the jerusalem dibz jurisdiction to have to wait longer. president trump did couch his criticisms in political terms.
only if there was a way to test that. there is a way. say hello to this guy. a name that will get easier to pronounce when it ends up in the news more. he is a deputy solicitor general confirmed by the senate unanimously for a judgeship. got confirmed for d.c. circuit court. one level below supreme court is the appeals court system, divvied into 11 regions, and ds circuit court, and d.c. circuit court is a big deal. four of the justices on the supreme court come from the d.c. circuit court. it is kind of like the feeder court for supreme court justices. out of 11 seats on that d.c. court, there are four vacant seats now. president obama nominated three. and the senate confirmed him this week unanimously. that means he can be confirmed by the senate. he can be.
easier to pronounce when it ends up in the news a lot more. he is a deputy solicitor general confirmed by the senate unanimously for a judgeship. got confirmed for d.c. circuit court. one level below supreme court is the appeals court system, biff ki dive veries the court into 11 reegions and also the d.c. circuit court. and d.c. circuit court is a big deal. four of the justices on the supreme court come from the d.c. circuit court. it is kind of like the feeder court for supreme court justices. out of 11 seats on that d.c. court, there are four vacant seats now. president obama nominated sri to one of those seats and the senate confirmed him unanimously. that means he can be confirmed by the senate. he can be. he just proved it. and that s really good to know, in case there s any other judgeship that that guy might