Nine media organizations, including CNN, have filed a lawsuit in federal court against the FBI and US Attorney's Offices at the Justice Department for access to surveillance tapes of the Capitol Hill riot on January 6, 2021. The tapes, which have been provided exclusively to Fox News, contain 44,000 hours of footage and the plaintiffs argue that they should be made available to all media outlets. The lawsuit argues that the tapes are of public interest and the media outlets have diligently sought access to them for the past two years.
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Judge Eric Davis of the Delaware Superior Court has appointed an outside attorney to investigate Fox News and its parent company, Fox Corp., for withholding evidence in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems. The investigation will determine if Fox lied to the court to withhold key evidence, and the outcome could have a major impact on the case. Fox News has yet to comment on the judge's decision.
Fox Corp. is facing two defamation cases with a combined total of $2.7 billion in damages due to false claims made by Fox News about the 2020 election. Attorneys defending Fox have withheld information about Rupert Murdoch's role at the company, which has angered the judge. A shareholder has filed a derivative action in Delaware, seeking to hold the Murdochs and the board of directors accountable for their actions.
Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina is set to announce the launch of an exploratory committee for a 2024 presidential bid on Wednesday, becoming the second GOP candidate from South Carolina in the race. Scott has been testing the waters for months and is the only Black Republican in the Senate. If he were to officially enter the race, it would be an interesting one to watch, as it remains to be seen how his candidacy would be received by the Republican Party.
Fox News host Steve Doocy criticized former President Donald Trump for attacking the family of the judge overseeing his criminal case in Manhattan, noting that it was a bad look for the former president to do so. Judge Juan Merchan had previously warned Trump not to use social media to incite violence and the judge's daughter was targeted after she worked for a consulting firm that did work for the Biden-Harris campaign. The attack has raised concerns about the safety of those involved in the case and the potential for further violence.
A Delaware judge has ruled that a jury must decide whether Fox News acted with actual malice when it aired false allegations about the 2020 presidential election. The defamation case was brought against the conservative network by Dominion Voting Systems and emails and text messages from Fox News executives and on-air personalities will become public as part of the lawsuit. The outcome of the trial could set a precedent for how news networks cover future elections.
Abby Grossberg, a former Fox News producer, has accused the network of pressuring her into giving false testimony in a defamation case. In her first television interview with NBC News, Grossberg said she was “bullied, intimidated and coerced” into protecting the network in order to keep her job. Grossberg was fired from Fox News earlier this month after filing a lawsuit against the network, and the full interview is set to air Thursday on “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.”
Dominion Voting Systems' presentation has revealed an email sent by Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott to the company's chairman, Rupert Murdoch, warning of the financial fallout if the network continued to fact-check Donald Trump's lies after the 2020 election. The presentation is part of Dominion's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, and Fox has responded by saying they will "vigorously defend" themselves against the "baseless claims." Murdoch had said Trump's claims were "pretty much a crime," and Scott had said the documents "demonstrate Dominion's continued reliance on cherry-picked quotes without context."