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Time the only thing addressed to the court -- he didnt address the peanut gallery, he didnt speak to us. he spoke stto the jury, he spok to they m specifically, he saide thanked them and said this case would not have settled if it were not for them. he said they and their service basically got this done today. so thats all we know. we know theres a settlement we know as we stand here today, we dont have another six weeks of this trial. im curious what america goes to >> katie, there is a press c...

Can be worked out in a settlement that dominion felt fair to employees and reputation, thats a decision for dominion to make youre right, we were sort of stragglers, right? kind of hanging on to the case because it did what no one else has ever done, not even superb journalists like jeremy and nick and trump believes rupert murdoch is demonic and pupert murdock wanted laura ingraham, tucker carlson and sean hannity together to telethon the insurrection season style recant the lies about the elec...

Precedent for those other cases . mr shackelford said that they had and fox you know you cant cant underestimate the effect that this is going to have on fox. internally whether they say it externally or not. they probably wont but for a matter of their professional pride and ego, donald trump put him in this impossible position for which they have now paid a greater pride. ben i just want to ask one other really quick question on this smartmatic, which i said, is asking for even more money just...

Satisfies what they needed to accomplish in this incidence we have spoken previously, joy, about this idea of punitive damages. that was not going to be on the table when it came to a settlement thats something dominion was going to ask the jury to return to tack fox for their bad faith conduct. speaking of bad faith conduct, this morning we had the judge sign an order appointing a special master, one who had been involved earlier in the discovery process to look into all of the discovery miscon...

Joy, that order was -- it had huge teeth to it it basically gave a special master the ability to conduct his own investigation, to do as many depositions as he wanted to do of whomever he thought was actually related to this misconduct that was committed by fox. and if its not done, if its not dead in the water because the case has now been settled then fox actually might have more and more disclosures that are going to come out than has already been out last point quickly before i go, we know t...

Believed the evidence brought to light through this case underscores the consequences of spreading lies truthful reporting in the media is essential to our democracy. >> hi again, everybody wow, welcome back to our breaking news coverage its now 5:00 in new york. it was over before it started. today a massive and historic settlement was reached in this unprecedented defamation case brought by dominion voting systems against fox news the companys agreeing to a $787.5 million settlement. dominion ...

Wreckage right now. thats the most important part. everything else can >> neil: you know, they obviously court on and off a large area, the building area that has been affected, that is standard procedure, right? >> oh, absolutely. that type of structural failure happens, it can spread. below the streets, theres all kinds of infrastructure there. there is gas lines, theres water lines. it can have far-reaching effects other than just that one affected building, guarantee there is going to be anc...

And i know you wanted to give those opening statements today obviously didnt get a chance. to do so. the settlement ended up being reached stephen, thanks very much for being with me. so lets just start there. i know you had a statement ready? and you were eager to give it. why did dominion settle? ultimately, its about our client was about dominion dominion has been through a tremendous amount of trauma. uh starting with the 2020 election. largely at the hands of fox, at least initially , and d...

Certain control over that public narrative that they want thats their playbook, their strategy something that donald trump uses, something they use back and forth. so its very consistent with the pattern of behavior we have seen they want to be able to control the narrative for their viewers so they can say, well, we have a little bit of control over how much is out there thats going to cause us reputational damage. >> katie, in the past, fox news has settled multiple cases before, lots of sexua...

What a day, what a twist. good evening, scott. >> reporter: norah, this was a true last-minute settlement. just after opening statements were set to begin, judge erik davis announced to the court, the parties have resolved their case. a blockbuster settlement averting a potentially landmark trial. t>> the truth matters. >> reporter: lawyers for dominion voting systems celebrated their settlement fox news, this afternoon, announcing they would pay 2 million more than $787 million. >> todays settl...