A lawyer for Fox Information whistleblower Abby Grossberg—the previous producer on Tucker Carlson Tonight who’s suing the host and different executives on the community—has confirmed that the DOJ’s Particular Counsel Jack Smith has requested entry to a few of the recordings in her possession.
The lawyer confirmed Smith’s request on MSNBC on Tuesday, saying that he had “been contacted by a number of regulation enforcement authorities.” When requested by information anchor Ari Melber if the DOJ was “a type of entities,” the lawyer replied “sure.” He then confirmed, after being prompted by Melber, that it was the particular counsel—Jack Smith—who acquired in contact.
Whereas the lawyer did not specify precisely which tapes Smith requested for—Grossberg mentioned she has about 90 unaired recordings from inside Fox Information—MSNBC aired part of the Ted Cruz tapes the place the Texas senator discusses overthrowing the election with Fox’s Maria Bartiromo.
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The tapes include proof of the Republican senator discussing blocking the certification of the 2020 election with Fox Information’s Bartiromo, who joined the community in 2013 and have become an advocate for Donald Trump throughout his presidency, usually giving him unchallenged interviews. Bartiromo’s protection of the 2020 election, along with Carlson’s, was a spotlight of the defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting System towards Fox, which the community settled for $787.5 million.
Within the tape dated January 2, 2021, which Melber performed on MSNBC, Cruz will be heard saying: “I feel that the nation deserves to have a reputable evaluation of those claims and what the proof reveals and the mechanism to attempt to drive that’s denying certification on the sixth.”
The tape nicely precedes the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, and exposes Cruz’s obvious plot to overthrow the 2020 election’s end result by blocking the certification of Joe Biden’s victory on January 6 and establishing a fee to research alleged claims of fraud.
“As we have been taking a look at this Jan. 6 certification, the entire choices that have been being mentioned have been problematic,” Cruz mentioned. “And so I wished to discover a path that was in keeping with the Structure and the regulation, and that addresses these very actual severe claims.”
Melber mentioned that Bartiromo then requested Cruz who would resolve who will get inaugurated, and Cruz answered “that this faux, made up, so-called fee that he and his Trump buddies have been planning to attempt to create to bureaucratize a coup—and that is what they have been attempting to do—that was his reply, that is how they’d steal this race.”
Cruz responded to the airing of the tape on nationwide tv by tweeting that there is nothing secret in regards to the tape. “This @msnbc is breathlessly reporting that I ‘secretly’ mentioned in a cellphone name…the EXACT identical factor I mentioned on nationwide tv the subsequent morning! After which mentioned once more on the Senate flooring 4 days later,” he mentioned.
This @msnbc 🤡 is breathlessly reporting that I “secretly” mentioned in a cellphone name…the EXACT identical factor I mentioned on nationwide tv the subsequent morning!
After which mentioned once more on the Senate flooring 4 days later. 🤷🏻♂️ https://t.co/q7QMdbxZrJ
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 25, 2023
On the identical day of the cellphone name to Bartiromo, January 2, 2021, Cruz and different Republican senators printed a joint assertion which outlined an analogous plan to problem the outcomes of the 2020 election on January 6.
Newsweek has contacted Ted Cruz’s workplace and the DOJ for remark by e-mail.