Happy Friday, and welcome back to In The Room. Tonight, on the eve of next week’s historic Dominion v. Fox trial, I offer a look at how the arguments might proceed now that Murdoch & Co. have lost the “newsworthiness” defense. The new tack, it seems, is to argue that some Foxies simply believed this shit.

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Dobbs intended to keep beating the Dominion drum that night; McCarton was emailing to inform him that he would need to do so without Ed Rollins, a Fox News political analyst and veteran G.O.P. strategist, and then-chairman of the pro-Trump Great America PAC. McCarton had tried to book Rollins for the show; Rollins had responded with a defiant rejection of the voter fraud conspiracy, which McCarton forwarded...