Tucker Carlson Gone From Fox News - Top Rated Host Parts Ways With Network - Here's What We Know

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I'm your host, Carmine Sabia, and we have a massive, massive story in what might go down as the dumbest decision in the history of news, in the history of cable television

Fox News has parted ways with Tucker Carlson, just a week after their monstrous near $800 billion lawsuit with Dominion

So, folks, this is a fluid situation. We don't have all the details

they of course thanked him for his service and all the right things said

we haven't heard from Tucker yet and we're still waiting folks by the way

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How monstrous is it? Well, let's just watch the breaking news on CNN

You could see they're in a celebration mood because Fox News did their dirty work for them

This just in to CNN, Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News

The right-wing network just announced the two have parted ways. CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy is here with more on this

What are you learning? He was out on Friday. Will we see him say goodbye

We're not going to see him say goodbye. This is really stunning news. coming from Fox. They say his last show was April 21st. They put out a very short statement

They say they thank him for his service. And that's it. That's all we know right now. But of course

this comes days after. Last week, you remember, Fox News settled this massive defamation loss to

with Dominion voting systems over the election lies that it promoted in the wake of the 2020

election. So they paid out $787 million, the highest known defamation settlements ever publicly

known in U.S. media. So this is coming days after that. Unclear, of course, whether

this is related It kind of hard to imagine that these coincidentally these things happened Tucker Carlson was sowing doubts about the U election results just up until the last few weeks

So it's possible that there was a relationship there, but really big news

And I should also point out that they've stuck with them really through quite a lot

Like he has promoted conspiracy theories about the vaccines. He has said things that are just blatantly anti-immigrant

He has, like I said, promoted doubt about the 2020 election. They have stuck with them throughout all of this

So, you know, really shocking news that now he's no longer with the network

Yeah, the big question, as you say, is why, why now? Fox has let their number one people go before

I mean, Bill O'Reilly, they pushed out when he was number one. They're doing this now with Tucker Carlson

We talk about this happening in the wake of the Dominion decision. Now, it's interesting with Carlson, which is that it wasn't his show or his show

or he shows that Dominion was suing over necessarily for promoting false news

It was some of his behind-the-scenes stuff that was legally problematic for Fox

but he wasn't one of the people who helped get them in trouble with Dominion, was he

No, he wasn't the main culprit that really spawn this lawsuit. But, you know, it's not to say also that other hosts could not be eventually leaving the network as well

I mean, this raises a lot of questions about whether the network potentially is trying to at least rein in some of the more extreme people

on the channel. I mean, of course, Tucker Carlson, the most extreme probably on that channel. I should

also note, John, why this is so important. I mean, Tucker Carlson, outside Donald Trump, really was the

person commanding the GOP, really directing it. You saw Republican lawmakers, prominent Republican lawmakers

often grovel at his feet. Ted Cruz, for instance, groveled at his feet and others because they were

afraid of him going on his primetime show and lashing out at them. So this is not only huge news in the

world of media but also in the world of politics where he was really pushing the GOP in that extremist direction And it also just to that point his show is also a place that a lot of Republican lawmakers or anyone who wanted to speak to Donald Trump would go in order to send their

message because they knew that Donald Trump would be watching and so closely tracking that show in and of

itself. Do we know where he was in his contract? Are they going to be able to say that this was

you know, end of his contract? They just wanted to try something different? I'm not sure. I mean

I have been reaching out. I have also reached out to Tucker Carlson and everyone trying to get more in

on this, but this is a very short statement. Also, notably, there's no statement from Tucker Carlson in here

You know, it doesn't seem, if I had to guess, that they parted ways amicably. We'll be, obviously

looking for more of information in the hours ahead. I think the other question here is it's not just

about this defamation case that has already been settled. There is more to come. There's more

legal actions, Smartmatic, and others, and it does make you wonder if this is something to do with that

because it is so abrupt, and it doesn't seem amicable at this point, not with that statement. That's right

There's a lot more legal action on the way for Fox News. They have the Smartmatic lawsuit, which is a $2.7 billion lawsuit that's also making its way through the courts

And that hasn't been resolved yet. So it's potentially possible that Fox News just had enough

They maybe have needed a scapegoat someone to just kind of throw and say, look, we got rid of this guy

I mean, because they do have some other problems with shareholders probably upset that they had these election deniers go on air

and knowingly spread falsehood. So, you know, there's a lot of things at play

But there was so much, you know, that was happening for so long before we got to this point, right

Yeah, but now they've had to pay $787 million, and they have shareholders who are not happy about that

I mean, that's a lot of money. We'll see. Look, it's hard to imagine Fox all of a sudden just changing the way it does business completely

They've had to do payouts before. Let me just read this statement because it is so short. Yeah

It says Fox News, Media, and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways

We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor Mr Carlson last program was Friday April 21st That really incredible in its brevity there As for Tucker Carlson this may sound outlandish to some but there are people who suggested that maybe he would become a Republican candidate himself

And that's because of the firm grip he has exerted over the GOP in the last few years

I mean, I should say this. He's the top-rated host, not only on Fox, but really all of cable

I mean, he was commanding a huge audience, a huge, huge audience, and he was very influential over that audience. It was a very loyal audience

They tuned in. If you look at the ratings, the ratings would spike on Fox News, specifically

for Tucker Carlson. And so, yeah, he has a huge sway over GOP primary voters. I think that's

why those questions were raised, whether he would potentially run for president one day

You know, doesn't seem like that's probably why he's leaving, given the statement in the way this

just ended here. No one, we decided to part ways. It's not a way you send off

your top rated, top rated anybody on any show for any reason

You don't cast them aside or part ways with them unless something is wrong

I mean, he was on the list for possible witnesses when it came to the Dominion voting trial

He was supposed to be one of the first witnesses that they called to the stand

And of course, that got averted when they had that settlements. But we should all

Of course, CNN and MSNBC are going to be thrilled about this. They're drowning in the ratings

and you just took the number one rated cable news host and put them on your bench

Not put them on your bench, you got them off your team. You're winning and you're snatching the feet from the jaws of victory

This could sink Fox News' ship why they would possibly, why they would possibly do this is beyond reason

What I can say to you folks is we're probably going to have more on this tonight. We'll get the details as soon as we can get them

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