today. opening statements were supposed to start at 1:30 so far though, neither side has spoken and no reason has been given for the now hour and a half delay while we are waiting, we have just learned judge davis has authorized a special master to investigate fox s handling of discovery. we re going to explain in a moment this trial, when it does eventually start again, is not being televised. and nor can it be photographed one person was already kicked out of the courtroom for a snap, which the judge has said was deleted. don t worry though, we ve got our own reporters inside the courtroom updating us with the details. how exactly is this trial going to go? well, at least there s this. the judge ruled from the start that the election was not stolen and that fox was wrong to report that it was. in fact, he said it was crystal clear his words that the statements put out by the network and its hosts were false. now it is up to dominion to prove that there was actual malice beh
they ve been gone for three hours and we have no idea where they went or why there s been such a lengthy delay we are on pins and needles to find out what s going on is this a technical snafu? also a development that the judge has appointed a special master now to look into the fox news legal team to find out if they followed up on all their obligations in terms of discovery. the judge suspects maybe they didn t now this special master will take a look at that. the kfox news team has apologizd to the judge last night he issued a statement saying he accepts their apology but i guess not so much that he would appoint this special master and a mystery, we re ticking into about three hours into this delay where we thought we would be back in action. this is from lisa ruben
court today, we ll get to that that ruling. before we get to that, i sounded like the judge reall let the fox lawyer, dan webb who s a sort of famous legendary litigator, have it today in that courtroom. what was that about? well, there were two days o pretrial hearings, yesterday and today. and honestly, you know, judg eric davis has spent the pas two days scolding the entire fox news legal team, in one wa or another today, was particularly, i would say, stringent particularly acute he was very upset with the fox news team, because of evidence that had merged, they did no share the actual title o rupert murdoch, the fox mobile with respect to fox news this is a technical manner, bu really, it is important. because rupert murdoch s title at fox news is very closel intertwined with how muc discovery materials dominion could get.
appoint a special master t investigate whether foxe lawyers missed handled o withheld material. joining me now is someone wh is inside the courtroom today, eric - the media critic for the washington post. who is covering the trial. eric, i was following your dispatches from inside the court today, we ll get to that that ruling. before we get to that, i sounded like the judge reall let the fox lawyer, dan webb who s a sort of famous legendary litigator, have it today in that courtroom. what was that about? well, there were two days o pretrial hearings, yesterday and today. and honestly, you know, judg eric davis has spent the pas two days scolding the entire fox news legal team, in one wa or another today, was particularly, i would say, stringent particularly acute he was very upset with the fox news team, because of evidence that had merged, they did no share the actual title o rupert murdoch, the fox mobile with respect to fox news this is a technical manner, bu really, it is import
i don t expect to hear anything and i shall sensorineural passed t resto. interest ra rates and countrs spending and how we d resolve some issues. it starts from the top and he s our leader and he s a joke. arthel: voters sounding off on president biden ahead of second state of the union speech tuesday night and fox news poll shows 81% of voters describe america as a dysfunctional family and 73% feel unhappy about how things are going. that is the second highest dissatisfaction rating on a fox news survey in ten years. bring in now fox news contributor, wall street journal global economics contributor and author of yellen, a biography of