The witness list in the Dominion versus Fox news,
$1.6 billion defamation lawsuit has got some major big hitters added to it.
Both Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch can apparently be forced to testify according
to the judge overseeing the trial that was announced just yesterday.
So, obviously having the absolute top of the top brass for
Fox testifying is an important part of this.
But as we'll get to, they also have figured quite prominently in some of
the text and email revelations that have come out of this.
And I can't wait to see them asked about some of the things they said in the wake
of the 2020 election, but it will not just be the ownership.
You also have after months and
months of Fox desperately trying to stop their hosts from having to testify.
That effort has apparently utterly fallen apart and so flame on.
You're gonna have Tucker Carlson, Maria Bartiromo Sean Hannity,
whatever is left of Jeanine Pirro and Bret Baier all testifying in this lawsuit.
And look getting them in actual courtroom situation
where there are consequences to the lies they tell is gonna be fascinating, okay?
Because we know in the past, even when it's not them,
when something related to their shows ends up in an actual courtroom
situation that all of a sudden you get the truth.
You have people working or in leadership over Tucker Carlson admitting that no,
he's not the news, he doesn't tell the truth.
This is a character, it's exaggeration it's satire for effect or whatever.
They totally pull the veil back because they have to,
there are legal consequences to lying.
But now we're gonna have the actual host with Sean Hannity there,
Sean Hannity is there too.
Tucker Carlson, Maria Bartiromo is gonna have to respond to some of
the absolutely devastating things that Fox leadership.
And her own EP saying that she should never be on live TV.
So that's gonna be fun.
But Jeanine Pirro, like assuming that she passes the Breathalyzer test
on the way into the court got only knows what she could end up revealing.
So I'm gonna get to some of the specific things that I'd like to see follow ups on.
But Walls, I don't know how much you've been following the brewing lawsuit there.
But it has the potential for
it to be everything that I think a lot of people have been hoping.
>> Yeah, this is the real game.
I'm not gonna lie.
I think the southern district of New York's
case against Trump is kinda weak sauce.
But what they got in Georgia, that's some real stuff.
This New York thing is kinda BS.
This Fox news case is real,
this is the real game.
Because the only thing these folks ever respond to is the threat of losing money.
And there's real money on the line and it goes at the heart of their business model.
[LAUGH] That's what's being threatened here.
For years, we've all talked about how these guys
sorta walk the line of being a news network.
And by that, we just mean, they're not a news network, they're just not.
They have the patina of one.
They put up fancy Kroon's and their hosts wear these very bespoke suits and
dresses, but they do not operate as a news entity.
And to have their emails and phone records subpoenaed and
to see their act how these people actually correspond to each other.
As it pertains to the work that they're doing.
This is the ball game John.
This is huge.
>> Yeah and the $1.6 billion dollars I would imagine.
You have to run a lot of my pillow ads to generate $1.6 billion.
>> A lot of penis pills gotta get sold.
>> A lot of Roseanne Barr specials have to be produced [LAUGH] and promoted.
Yeah, man these are?
God, what a business bottle.
So, yeah I agree.
I think that this is theoretically an existential threat that said it is
Fox News.
They're powerful.
They're well connected.
So, please do not go into this expecting that they're done.
First of all, because generally things don't end up the way they should.
Second of all, because if they were destroyed,
whatever came after them would definitely be worse.
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