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Right, but thats thats the spin on it. and thats actually in the settlement. you know, its outrageous here. heres the thing that i think its important to keep in mind and by the way, how encourage used to work for cnn before he went to he was a media reporter. he was a much more honest figure. i think when he was at cnn before he went to fox news, they put him up there to read the statement. he didnt even opine about it. but i think its important to keep in mind. and at the time that i worked in...

Fox News agreed to pay Dominion nearly $790 million, the voting machine company's lawyer said Tuesday as a settlement was agreed that avoided the high-profile defamation case going to trial.

Fact checker later on a different bride. catherine some point in the future. try to say well, actually, heres an alternate reality or the truth, as many of us know it. that doesnt mean you didnt either earlier, defame someone, so this is what happens and many, many trials across the country all the time that once the reality of a jury of 12 deciding the fate to the tune of, well a billion or more in this case, suddenly the party say, you know what? lets be more reasonable. ellie um, theres so fo...

Civil litigation or to have accountability and. to do that, in part through the damages process. i think that what this litigation has shown as it is exposed a lot of those texts and emails that you have seen and reported on and what today has shown is that you have to pay a price if youre telling lies. but at the same time it is not possible to say what fox news said about the 2020 election. the lies that they perpetuated the viewers that the millions of viewers that they had every single day t...

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Of $1.6 billion. for dominion, if they lose, they get zero. because of the first amendment concerns and the malice i mentioned, that would have been a role of the dice for the company that they say would have been defamed by fox. so facing a jury can concentrate minds in this case. much of the media was looking forward to six weeks of frankly a lot of people in the mainstream media anti-fox, they wouldnt be deprived the opportunity of a ruling against them. >> neil: so we dont know what the sett...

>> well, thats not an admission. to be clear, we all acknowledge that the court made those rulings. thats like saying i acknowledge that thats a cup. >> right >> well, its something. >> i mean, weak tea is like an overstatement. its so little and then the idea that were looking forward to the country moving on. i mean, im sure they are, and the real issue, i think as nick pointed out which is are they going to say something that makes it difficult nor their vifo their vurpiewership to move on th...

Got some other people who have some accountability coming towards them. and im very proud of the team from susman godfrey that has worked tirelessly for this case. well move right on to the next one. thank you. did you get that apology from track statement from fox coming? anything else? anything on fox air? is there anything else in this settlement besides money? davina brooke assessment, godfrey. one last. thank you, which is really to all of you. for being with us on this journey. we apprecia...

Dominion suing fox for defamation, the case was settled at the last second, the judge saying, quote i have been on the bench in 2010. i think this is the best lawyering ive ever had . judge davis went on to say, quote i would be proud to be your judge in the future. the hearing in the case are now over. lets bring in cnn legal analysts laura coates and elie honig laura a settlement just as the trial was set to begin, and we should remind viewers that dominion even though it was taking this stanc...

I think the rest of that is internal and im not able to speak to >> i want to ask if andrew wiseman, my friend and colleague can lob a question at you. >> of course >> congratulations in terms of the result but also the documents you were able to turn over i had sort of two related questions. one is were there documents that we would have seen youre able to talk about or does this settlement preclude you from talking about what we might have learned -- not thought what we learned was chop liver ...