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We're pleased to reach a settlement with dominion voting systems. we acknowledge the court's rulings finding certains claims of dominions to be false >> the highest journalistic standards. the case is now over fox news and dominion settled out of court today for an eye popping 78 -- not even 78 -- $787.5 million which, yes, is less than the $1.6 billion dominion had sought at trial, but it is still a g gargantuan sum of money. dominion's ceo said as part of the settlement fox admitted it told lies. if you read the fox news statement carefully you would not see the word lie, lying or liars anyw...

The settlement which clearly had to be acknowledged publicly as part of the settlement and say we were vindicated, we are right, something wrong happened, fox had to pay in the high nine figures. it doesn't do that for charity it's doing that for necessity to stave out possibly an even bigger defamation thing. what does that mean internally for fox? we're going to have to watch and see. fox news did as you presented to your viewers quite rightly acknowledge the statement as austere as it was to its audience so it will be aware at least in that limited way. i think fox will have someone sitting...

It's great to have you at this desk >> thanks for having me. >> i guess i'd love to know as someone who's been in the trenches and understands sort of what is erupting in the center of this country, the schism that seems to be breaking apart these united states. when it comes to fox this is not something you hear about on fox news we played the fox media report howard curts mentioned it and was gone in terms of the folks you have talked to in and around sort of conservative gathers, is it really as extreme as if it is not covered exhaustingively and fury and passion in conservative media it do...

Were not only untrue but to be lies in the moment those are tough, tough things to have to address fully. but, you know, dominion wasn't interested in settling this case until it had on the record a rather fulsome and complete set of facts, not all that we would have received had the trial gone forward but nonetheless laying out for the public and nation the degree to which there was cynicism and fear of losing audience that was driving -- that were driving fox's decisions not some sort of journalistic imperative that happened to be mistaken. it wanted vindication and it wanted there to be a p...

And then fox continues, this settlement reflect fox's continued commitment to the highest journestic standards as far as we know nothing in the settlement appears to make fox news make any on-air acknowledgement about what they said for dominion beyond their media reporter reading that statement this afternoon so what does this mean for fox news and our country that continues to grapple with the fallout of misinformation about the campaign of the 2020 election joining us now is the media correspondent for npr and author of "murdoch's world, the last of the old media empires. it's good to have ...