THE RIGHT SCOOP
Last night Bill O’Reilly was on with News Nation’s Chris Cuomo to discuss the firing of Tucker Carlson. In the interview O’Reilly tells viewers to forget what they’ve heard and lays out why he says Tucker was fired:
For starters, O’Reilly says the decision was made Sunday night, not Friday night.
He says that Tucker’s news show was having their morning meeting yesterday to lay out what was to be on last night, when: “In the middle of that meeting they got word that their host was not coming to work ever again.”
O’Reilly states that Fox News didn’t actually want to fire Tucker Carlson because he was the most well known individual host and the second highest rated program on the network, just after The Five.
But, O’Reilly notes, there are lawsuits coming in the wake of the Dominion lawsuit, one of them being Smartmatic. He said there are also two individual lawsuits, one of them already filed and one that may be filed. He says this was the key.
One of the lawsuits is Abby Grossman, which I’ve already told you about. O’Reilly says tapes will likely be released in her lawsuit that are not favorable to the Tucker Carlson Show.
The other potential lawsuit, O’Reilly notes, may be from Ray Epps, who told 60 Minutes that Tucker ruined his life and that of his family by