So Fox News is getting sued again.
This time,
Dominion is suing them for
$1.6 billion.
They also got sued by Smartmatic
for $2.7 billion.
That was a collection of people,
including Sidney Powell, who we're
going to come back to a little bit
later, and Rudy Giuliani.
So Trump was going to
go back onto Fox News and
talk about the election.
And you're going to see the panic
that ensues with
Laura Ingraham in a minute.
But first, let me just tell you
a little bit about the lawsuit,
because this is fun.
So they explain why they're suing.
And this is from the lawsuit.
Fox News gave airtime to false
claims that Dominion had changed
votes through algorithms in voting
machines and
had supposedly been created in
Venezuela to rig elections for
the late dictator Hugo Chavez.
Now, look, they put that on air.
[LAUGH] They put that on air.
Hugo Chavez has been dead for
seven years, okay?
So okay,
if you have that outrageous a lie
in that big a news station,
you're going to get sued, okay?
Adrienne is a legal expert.
I don't know that we need a legal
expert for this one, but
we will get to her in a second.
But I actually thought their lawyer
Justin Nelson made a great point
that I wanted you guys to
be aware of.
He said this was a conscious,
knowing business decision to
endorse and repeat and
broadcast these lies in order to
keep its viewership.
And that's actually really true.
Because remember, at the time,
Trump is complaining about
Fox News, and he's saying go
to Newsmax, go to OAN, etc.
So they're like, no, no, no, no,
yeah, Dominion, whatever.
Yeah, Hugo Chavez, and
whoever else,
whatever else you need to make up.
Smartmatic, that was, of course,
the North Koreans.
No wait, we like the North Koreans.
It was someone else, right,
whatever lie they needed to
make up.
And it was directly for
a business interest,
to keep their viewership, so they
could keep their revenues going.
So this is as good a case as I've
seen.
I think they might be in a lot of
trouble.
Hence, Trump was back on Fox News
last night talking to
Laura Ingraham, and
you get a smell of lawsuit panic in
the morning here, or at night.
So let's watch.
>> We have another fair
election in this country,
just like if you look at the last
election, it was disgraceful.
It was a third world election.
It was a disgrace.
Legislators didn't approve much
of what happened.
Our Supreme Court should be
ashamed of themselves.
Under the Constitution, all of
the things that they were doing
had to be approved by legislators,
and legislatures, and ors.
And if you take a look at it,
the Democrats went
to the Republican legislators.
There were five of them.
And they went to the Republican
legislators, could not get
approval, so they did it anyway.
That's in total violation of
the Constitution.
And what they did was absolutely
disgraceful.
And if you look at the numbers,
the numbers were vastly in favor of
us in the presidential election.
It was disgraceful that they were
able to get away with that.
The Supreme Court didn't have the
courage to do what they had to do.
>> Speaking as a lawyer,
we're not going to re-litigate
the past tonight.
But I don't think the legal
situation was in place, and I think
that hurt everybody along the way.
But, I want to ask you about-
>> No, the courts did not want to
enforce it.
>> Yeah. >> You know that, Laura.
You know exactly that.
The Supreme Court didn't want to
hear it.
>> There are a lot of Republicans
on that Supreme Court. >> Because
they didn't want to make a decision
like they know they had to make.
[INAUDIBLE] >> They didn't have the
courage to do what they had to do.
>> Well,
moving forward- >> Moving forward,
please, when will you stop talking?
And do not say the word Dominion.
Whatever you do,
do not say it, okay?
Once he started going on and on,
the Supreme Court is a disgrace,
and then the voting, she was like,
Mr. President.
Mr. President,
let me just cut you off and
I don't re-litigate.
I'm a lawyer, and trust me,
we don't want to lose one point.
Well, if you do the math on the two
of them together, what would that
would be, $4.3 billion that
Fox News is on the hook for, etc?
But she also did a little snipe
there, if you noticed.
And if you watch the longer view of
that clip,
you'll see that she's saying that
the lawyers were not prepared, and
that's Trump's lawyers.
That's why you saw Trump say no,
no, no.
No, no, Supreme Court,
it didn't have the courage.
It's because, of course, he's a
clown. He didn't prepare anything.
Anyways, Adrienne,
you're the legal expert here.
How much trouble is Fox News in?
Let's start there.
>> I definitely think Fox News is
in quite a bit of trouble.
It seems to be that they don't
necessarily learn their lesson,
as you observed, Cenk, earlier.
The fact is that they decided to go
ahead and run these things as
though they were facts,
despite the fact that there are no
facts to support them.
And so now they're going to have to
pay the consequences.
What really stood out
to me about this lawsuit being
filed was that they filed it in
Delaware State Court.
The thing is, with Fox News being
everywhere, Dominion probably could
have filed just about anywhere.
But by virtue of the fact that they
went under state law in Delaware,
I was trying to figure out why that
is exactly.
And I looked up and
found that Delaware state law is
very favorable, in terms of SLAPP.
That's the citizens strategic
lawsuit against public
participation laws.
They're not strong in Delaware,
which means that Fox News won't
have that extra ammunition in
their pocket.
And that may have made Delaware
more favorable, and
why that they're litigating there.
But Dominion definitely seems to be
locked and loaded, and ready to go
to face off against Fox News, and
to take them to the bank.
>> You know what that's called?
That's called a legal
expert, everybody.
Look it up, okay?
I mean,
we got Delaware law on this show.
Who else has got that?
By the way, Adrienne does Overruled
at Rebel Headquarters.
You should check that out.
All right, Wos, thoughts?
>> I'm not a legal expert in any
way, shape, or form.
I'm just the gas bag who talks
about basketball, mostly.
But I will say this,
I missed hearing 45's voice.
[LAUGH] I haven't heard him talking
so long.
And he has such a unique cadence,
it's so hilarious.
It's funnier now, obviously,
that he's not terrorizing us
from the White House.
But what's interesting about that
clip is that these people
are finally facing some type of
consequences, or repercussions for
their actions, right?
Between Fox News and
Conservative Talk Radio, they've
basically deluded tens of millions
of Americans for decades now, which
is why we have such a harebrained,
if you will, citizenry, right?
And it can be frustrating
on the left when you
feel like these people never face
any consequences for what they do.
And I think this Dominion lawsuit
is finally them sort of
facing something for the lies,
and the sort of misleading of so
many American people.
And [LAUGH] the Ingraham thing
is kind of funny too,
because she's echoing something
Mitch McConnell basically said
a week after the election.
He was like, look, how you do this
is you come up with something in
the courts, and do it legally.
You steal the election legally.
You don't do this hare-brained
stuff that Trump is doing.
McConnell basically said that.
He's like, look,
I'd back you if you guys had some
type of serious plan.
What you're doing
right now is a joke.
So it's not that Republicans
are against subverting democracy,
it's that they know how to do it
exactly, is what I'm trying to say.
>> Yeah, and it's what we talked
about earlier in the show.
That's what George is doing now.
They're like >> Exactly.
>> You steal an election before the
election, not after the election.
You just gotta do
some homework, right?
And that's the thing.
I mean,
it's so embarrassing, because they
went to court over 50 times,
and they lost every single time.
But it doesn't matter.
Just, Trump has to say anything.
And honestly, 40% of this country
will instantly believe it, because
they've turned off their brains.
It's a disgrace what happened.
The Supreme Court rule is standing.
They didn't really
rule on the case.
First of all, that's not
true either. But
they did rule on standing, but
they were very dismissive.
And every court underneath them,
how about the 49?
Actually, it's about 59 other cases
where you lost every
single one of them.
But they won't listen.
Let me say,
I've had Republicans right-wingers
come on now on The Conversation.
You should check that out, too.
That's some part of our
programming.
I'm not saying that if you get
the premium level membership on
YouTube, you'd get all of that
programming any time you want.
But that is true.
And I'm not saying you do it by
hitting the Join button below on
YouTube, but that's also true.
But anyways, but these guys,
they're down to this.
They're down to
the Sidney Powells, guys.
And so Sidney Powell, in responding
to one of these lawsuits,
same exact situation.
Her lawyer wrote in the document
that they handed into court, quote,
no reasonable person would conclude
that the statements
were truly statements of fact.
In other words, well, we were so
obviously lying,
that you would have to be brain
dead to believe us.
That's amazing.
They're admitting that
in open court.
They're like our followers,
Republican followers are so
maniacally stupid, that you have to
declare us innocent,
because we're talking to zombies.
No reasonable person could possibly
believe that what we were saying
is true.
She wrote that.
Her own lawyer wrote that, and
handed it to court.
Anything like that.
Well, actually,
the Alex Jones case,
where he said the same thing.
He told the court I'm a fool, and
I'm an obvious liar.
[LAUGH] >> So you can't hold
me responsible for it.
Everyone should recognize that I'm
a clown.
And if 40% of country doesn't
realize that we're lying to them,
that's their effing problem,
not my problem.
[LAUGH] Is that a real legal
argument, by the way?
Our followers are so stupid, and
it's not our fault?
>> Yeah. [LAUGH] >> To some extent,
I think they've already done that
once with maybe Tucker Carlson,
and Fox News in court saying that-
Yeah.
>> And so I think that that's where
they're going to try to
run up against.
But the thing is, it's not like
you're Comedy Central.
And the courts are going to have
to, especially if you go to a jury,
a jury being in that position to
determine hey, is this something
that a reasonable person would
consider a fact, and expect you to
be telling them the truth?
It's like Fox wants it both ways,
and they should not be able to have
it that way.
And so hopefully the legal system
steps in, because we damn sure know
the government's not going to
do anything.
>> Yeah, and look,
most suits get settled.
But I hope to god this one doesn't,
that it goes to jury,
because I want Sidney Powell, and
Rudy Giuliani, and Tucker Carlson,
and Laura Ingraham, and whoever
else to get up on that stand.
Put their hand on the Bible, and
then come and
tell everybody look guys,
we're obviously lying.
No reasonable person would
believe us.
Our audience is obviously stupid
and unreasonable, so
we say it to entertain them.
But you should not hold us legally
responsible, because we lie for
a living.
But that's what they're saying in
their court documents, so
say it on the stand.
>> What's so crazy too, Cenk,
is whenever DC types,
whenever they talk about
Tucker Carlson specifically,
they're like, Tucker is great.
He's a good guy.
He's just doing this cartoon
character on Fox News.
So it's like this inside joke that
everybody understands,
that essentially, they treat
their news program like WWE.
It's all scripted.
It's all to tell a story,
to be as dramatic as possible,
to bring the audience in, and
give them the craziest version of
events possible.
And yeah, they treat it like
it's a freaking TV show, when
realistically, they're supposed to
be [LAUGH] informing the American
citizenry the news of the day, so
that they can make informed
decisions about things like elected
officials, etc, etc.
It's scary, it's dangerous.
But like Adrienne said, hopefully
the courts can step in and
finally spank these fools.
>> Mm-hm.
>> Yeah, and
guys, it's different if they take
the news out of the Fox News name,
right?
If they said Fox circus, okay, no
problem, then truth in advertising.
And that'll actually help you with
your lawsuits, that when you claim
to be clowns in court, you'll say,
look, circus is in our name, and
you'll actually have a pretty good
legal case.
But if you're pretending to be
Fox News, then you're in a lot
of legal trouble,
because you're not doing news.