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“Evidently, they sat down and talked to James Baker, the Durham report. He was one of the few major players to talk to him. And they said. ‘You know Hillary Clinton launched this campaign, and do you know that John Brennan briefed President Obama about this?’ “Brennan doesn’t brief the FBI and says, ‘Hey Hillary Clinton put you up to …

Mediaite reports: While Fox Corporation, the parent company of Fox News, held their upfront presentation Monday, anti-Trump PAC The Lincoln Project trolled the network with a billboard truck urging advertisers and viewers to “#DropFox.” Upfronts have been held by television networks in May since the 1960s, to entice advertisers to buy commercial airtime “up front,” or several months in advance …

Reuters reports: When deliberating whether to settle its defamation lawsuit against Fox for $787.5 million in April, the CEO of Dominion Voting Systems and his partner saw the figure as “a very big price to put on truth and journalism and probably not a bad precedent,” Dominion head John Poulos said Wednesday. Poulos, Dominion’s co-founder and chief executive, spoke about …

Matthew Schwartz writes for The Insider: When I asked Tucker Carlson in a text on Tuesday evening if he was planning a run for president, the newly self-employed far-right firebrand had a shocking answer: “Yes. Announcing Friday in New Hampshire.” But my earthshaking scoop was short-lived. After I credulously asked him to confirm that he was serious before I blasted …

The New York Times reports: Fox News was hit on Wednesday with another defamation lawsuit, this one from a woman who said the network promoted lies about her that generated serious threats to her safety and harmed her career prospects. The suit was filed on behalf of Nina Jankowicz, the former executive director of a short-lived Department of Homeland Security …

Axios reports: Tucker Carlson, two weeks after being ousted by Fox News, accused the network Tuesday of fraud and breach of contract — and made a host of document demands that could precede legal action. The aggressive letter from his lawyers to Fox positions Carlson to argue that the noncompete provision in his contract is no longer valid — freeing …

The Hill reports: Fox Corp., the parent company of Fox News, reported a net loss of $50 million in the first quarter of 2023, just weeks after it paid a historic settlement to Dominion Voting Systems. The company reported total quarterly revenues of $4.08 billion, representing an 18 percent increase from the $3.46 billion reported in the prior year for …

Mediaite reports: While the notion that a person of Hispanic heritage could hold such views has flummoxed many on the political right, Newsmax took their confusion a step further by pairing their commentary about the dead suspect with a picture of the wrong Mauricio Garcia. The photo showed up on Monday night’s edition of Newsmax TV’s The Balance as host …

The Daily Beast reports: In these unredacted texts, which Confider obtained and reviewed, Fox News star Jesse Watters expressed some very Tucker-like thoughts to Carlson about firing some news vets and replacing them with MAGA-friendly voices. “Wallace Cavuto and other [sic] have got to go. Need some fresh blood. Should hire some trump people,” Watters, who is seen as a …

Axios reports: Tucker Carlson is preparing to unleash allies to attack Fox News in an effort to bully the network into letting him work for — or start — a right-wing rival, sources close to him tell Axios. Bryan Freedman, the high-powered Hollywood lawyer Carlson retained for the contract dispute, told Axios: “The idea that anyone is going to silence …

Mediaite reports: Megyn Kelly encouraged fellow former Fox News host Tucker Carlson to “walk away” from his agreement with the network and let them “take him to court” following reports that Fox News may fight to keep him off the air until 2025. The New York Times reported on Friday that while Carlson had told several people he was interested …

The Hill reports: Lawyers for Fox News are asking officials at Dominion Voting Systems to conduct an internal investigation after media reports have surfaced in recent days pertaining to the leak of text messages from Tucker Carlson, a former top host at the network. In its letter dated Friday, Fox lawyers said the company had learned documents Fox produced as …

The Hill reports: Fox Corp., the parent company of Fox News, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Media Matters for America over its publication of leaked videos showing Tucker Carlson, a former host at the network, making crude and offensive comments off the air. “We write on behalf of Fox Corporation to clarify any misunderstandings Media Matters may have had …

Media Matters has the transcript: JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): I saw, on the way into work, an illegal immigration family digging through the trash, looking for recyclables. JESSICA TARLOV (CO-HOST): How did you know they were illegal? WATTERS: You can tell. TARLOV: Jesse — WATTERS: I can tell. I’m a city guy. You don’t want me to get into it, but …

The New York Times reports: A text message sent by Tucker Carlson that set off a panic at the highest levels of Fox on the eve of its billion-dollar defamation trial showed its most popular host sharing his private, inflammatory views about violence and race. The discovery of the message contributed to a chain of events that ultimately led to …

Mediaite reports: Fox News host Jesse Watters introduced Republican councilman Ryan Webb as a lesbian “woman of color” during an interview on Monday. After saying it was time for Republicans to “have a little fun” with gender identity, Watters introduced Webb as a “straight, White councilman from Delaware County, Indiana who just announced he identifies as a woman, and not …

“Because wokeism is so absurd, their most persuasive critics are progressives. People on the left, actually, are the people that everybody’s believing because they’re going, ‘Wow, these guys are destroying us.’ It’s like when you’re a conservative, you come out against white nationalism. And this is kind of the mirror image. Wokeism is like that. In fact, I would argue …

Media Matters has the transcript: TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): I don’t want to be a slave to Fox Nation, which I don’t think that people watch anyway. We’re gonna — because, you know, I’m like a representative of the American media now, speaking to an exile in Romania and welcoming him back into the brotherhood of journalists. UNKNOWN: It would help …

The Daily Mail reports: Rising Fox News star Lawrence Jones has been tapped as the next rotating replacement for fired anchor Tucker Carlson’s 8pm weekday spot. Jones, 30, will take over as the next temporary host of the rebranded ‘Fox News Tonight’ starting on Monday, following Brian Kilmeade’s weeklong stint as Carlson’s replacement, a network spokesperson told DailyMail.com on Saturday. …

Rolling Stone reports: Top on-air presenters are openly worrying about getting fired. Management is on the prowl for leakers. And the leakers themselves are dodging “snitches” by putting fake names in their phone to hide incoming calls from reporters. Fox News’ first week of life after Tucker Carlson got fired was a strange one indeed. Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro, …