With the defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News set to begin today with jury selection, new recordings have come to light that will be part of the evidence against Fox.
Wednesday evening on MSNBC, host Alex Wagner played some of the tapes, which were provided by former Fox News producer Abby Grossberg, who is also suing the network for allowing a culture of sexual harassment to exist.
In one of the recordings, Fox host Maria Bartiromo is speaking with Rudy Giuliani and an official working with the 2020 Trump presidential campaign.
Mediaite provided a transcript of the discussion.
BARTIROMO: I’m going to be asking you for as much evidence as you can tell us about these lawsuits. Whatever you can tell us in terms of evidence would be really helpful. Ok, great.
GIULIANI: I can tell you exactly what we have.
BARTIROMO: Perfect. And what about the software, this dominion software
GIULIANI: That’s a little harder–
BARTIROMO: Seems troubling.
GIULIANI: –to tell you right–it’s being analyzed right now. I mean, there are a couple of races that have been reversed because the Democrat was triple-counted, two already in Michigan. Now, whether that applies for the whole state or not, I can’t tell you yet.
BARTIROMO: This Dominion software, does Nancy Pelosi have an interest in it?
GIULIANI: I’ve read that. I can’t prove that.
The other recording is of a Trump campaign official talking to a Fox News producer.
FOX NEWS PRODUCER: Are any of the machines–I know it was on War Room the other day with Steve Bannon. Have any of the machines been looked at? He had said that one was looked at in Georgia.
TRUMP CAMPAIGN OFFICIAL: I’d have to check on that in terms of Georgia. I know during the audit, they did check on those machines. They’re really–if we can just go off the record for one second?
FOX NEWS PRODUCER: Yeah, of course. I don’t want us to say it if it’s not. That’s why we’re checking.
TRUMP CAMPAIGN OFFICIAL: Yeah, I would–I think they have looked at the machines. When the secretary of state did its audit, there was a lot, I think a fair bit of looking at the machines. The audit came in pretty darn close to what the machine count was with the receipts. So, I don’t know the outcome of those, but our understanding – again, this is from the secretary of state’s office – was that there weren’t any physical issues with machines on those inspections
Dominion is seeking $1.6 billion from Fox for its lies about the 2020 election.
