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were honored to have you take us off the air tonight and on that note, i wish you all a very good and safe night from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late i will see you at the end of tomorrow >> this was the line to ge into the delaware courthouse with fox news was set to go on trial this morning the company was accused of defamation by the dominion voting systems corporation even the sheer number of lawyers showing up for thi trial today w...

and on that note, i wish you all a very good and safe night from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late i will see you at the end of tomorrow >> tonight on all in - >> the dollar figure was $787. 5 million the dominion votin systems will receive from fo news in its a defamatio lawsuit. fox news agrees to the largest defamation payout since alex jones. >> money is accountability we got that today from fox but we are not done yet. >> tonight, on...

Smartmatics suit, lets say i is similar in terms of what th settlement is on the same kind of scale, that would be 1. billion. so, now, they spent two billio dollars. then, lets talk about abby case i dont know what you think th number is there. >> yes, the numbers will com down, but the way the stoc markets gonna look at the company is less about what happens to the cash pile and more about what happens to the cash going forward to this company. i think a lot of talk across some to fox, the big...

Today. >> but i dont think they can, but lets do it this way they start with four billion dollars in cash, okay? they just handed, lets, say $800 million, to make th numbers easy to dominion this next suit, th smartmatics suit, lets say i is similar in terms of what th settlement is on the same kind of scale, that would be 1. 2 billion. so, now, they spent two billio dollars. then, lets talk about abby case i dont know what you think th number is there. yes, the numbers will come down, but the w...

Effective as it is even with these dynamics tha you are describing, sort o accelerating right through todays news, and right throug this very extreme period on th right. >> i want to give you my bes professional answer, i dont know [laughter] >> a humble man -- >> i dont know where its going either what youre saying is that i seems like this couldnt go on and on and on, but it does and its given us trump once and it may again and i dont think anyone knows where its going is it heading for a cras...

Her election lies. >> im telling you - she was like the turning point in our inability to prove th case because she was like so far out there that people like pulled back. we were on the verge o breakthroughs in the states an state legislator level and the that bleep happened. and i was like dam, down, this is not good. foxs faces an even bigger los in your from another votin machine company, smartmatic ha filed a 2.7 billion dollar defamation suit, accusing th network of spreading falsehood abo...

Was being fed to america b fox. fox could keep its stock price up and then that we have settlement and the case won go to trial, what does thi mean for the informational and political landscape? david plouffe served as th campaign manager for obamas 2008 presidential campaign, as well as senior adviser t president obama when he was in the white house. he joins me now. good to have you here. >> nice to see you >> one of the things here, a someone who went through multiple elections and particular...

They didnt want their executives or their host admitting, in sworn testimony, what they did. that they knowingly an repeatedly pushed one of the most dangerous falsehoods in american history stephen shackelford served a co-counsel for dominion voting systems. mr. shackelford, thanks fo joining us i understand you have on client and one client only and a responsibility to that client i would like you to respond to people who feel that and the public, in a larger way, it wa robbed of an opportunit...

It is just a fact. the judge did a lot of work of dominion before that sayin that these statements were false and defamatory the last question is for the jury to say, should they hav been held culpable for that? secondly, fox having acknowledged that fact as serious as that acknowledgment was, you had fox settling fo this enormous figure certainly, rupert murdoch ca afford this, their company can afford it because of the riche that fox news generates ever financial quarter. nonetheless, its a hu...

He looked down on his phone, said oh gosh, i have to go at that point, i said theres settlement, its about t happen >> so you had a spidey sense and also good intel from insid of the courtroom, david, but d you have a sense of how th admission of guilt here is the price tag of the settlement -- as a media reporter can yo summarize the impact that will have inside of fox, and then newsgathering culture? lets not say the news got during culture, but lets sa foxs culture at the network whether or n...