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Were telling their audience, but they were trying to appease the audience with the conspiracy theories that all spilled out, and they still had to pay they settled in the end. the guess the question is, joyce, do they look and go, okay, this time, we don't want to putd ou ourselves through th, our hosts. it'll hurt, but let's cut a check to smartmatic, who is suing another billion more than dominion >> any time you go to trial in a case like this, you have the risk of punitive damages we get a number from these folks when they sue. that's the compensatory damages, the business loss they say th...

Really had no legal defenses the judge, you'll recall, had already ruled that the jury didn't have to even consider whether fox was lying to its viewers. the judge decided as a matter of law that that was the case the only real question left open was whether fox knew or recklessly disregarded the truth. the evidence got worse andwors in that regard in the days approaching trial. smartmatic is now the beneficiary of all that evidence, and it seems very unlikely we'll ever see any trials take place in this matter >> you know, willie, the thing is, you know, maybe fox is thinking the judge is bet...

And in a statement, fox admitted quote we acknowledge the court's rulings finding certain claims about dominion to be false, which translated means that yes , they spent months and months lying to their viewers about dominion voting systems among other things, and as a result were in such fear of what a jury trial might create in terms of both the settlement and embarrassment for the company. they wrote a check for $787 million 500,000. cnn's oliver darcy is outside the courthouse in wellington, delaware. um oliver, i assume we're not going to hear remarks from fox's attorneys. um one question...

In fact, a lot of people. kristin fisher, who's now at cnn, but also a lot of other people, like chris dyer, walt and others who were trying to assert facts. were ultimately let go from fox. yeah i mean, it was really remarkable to read these details because not only were they promoting lies about the election, but they were disciplining staff behind the scenes for trying to tell the truth about the election. it's really showed and highlighted the fact free universe in which fox operates, which, actually, to some degree would have made this process of this trial of war to have happened, more a...

Fact checker later on a different bride. catherine some point in the future. try to say well, actually, here's an alternate reality or the truth, as many of us know it. that doesn't mean you didn't 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? let's be more reasonable. ellie um, there's so fox does this not infrequently. they paid tens of millions of dollars when it came to settling se...