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about election lies, plus the deadline fast approaching for abortion pills in america? will the supreme court step in in the hours ahead and just minutes from now ceremonies begin to mark 80 years since the warsaw ghetto uprising against germany. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world this wednesday morning. i m christine romans. we begin with fox news, settling the huge lawsuit. dominion voting systems filed against it at the very last second before trial was set to start in delaware. the $787 million settlement is by far the largest publicly disclosed media defamation settlement in u. s history is nearly 4.5 times what abc news paid back in 2017 to a meat processor in the so called pink slime case. the settlement does not require fox to apologize, correct or retract the many falsehoods and lies that broadcast about dominion. but dominions lawyers say their clients have been traumatized by the experience and the money in court rulings in their favor
republican news organizations, or fox news and all the right-wing echo chambers. they don t want to face the republicans who are forcing these laws on people. they don t want to face the real implications of these laws and what they mean when ten year old girls get pregnant by rape. that is really what we are dealing with here. thank you, ayman. yeah. thank you, my friend. thank you. it has long been the official position of this program that if donald trump is to become a criminal defendant, the most likely place where he will be charged with a crime or crimes is atlanta, georgia, where district attorney fani willis is conducting a grand jury investigation in which the breaking news of the night is that every one of these 16 republicans who falsely claimed to be george s elected members of the electoral college are now targets of that grand jury investigation. that news was revealed in a court filing in which the criminal defense lawyers for 11 of the republicans have
that is really what we are dealing with here. thank you, ayman. yeah. thank you, my friend. thank you. it has long been the official position of this program that if donald trump is to become a criminal defendant, the most likely place where he will be charged with a crime or crimes is atlanta, georgia, where district attorney fani willis is conducting a grand jury investigation in which the breaking news of the night is that every one of these 16 republicans who falsely claimed to be george s elected members of the electoral college are now targets of that grand jury investigation. that news was revealed in a court filing in which the criminal defense lawyers for 11 of the republicans have asked the georgia judge to quash their subpoenas to testify to the grand jury. the motion says that for over two months, the district attorney s office told the criminal defense lawyers that the fake electors, quote, where witnesses, not subject for targets of the district attorneys, a
7:00 eastern. for the january six hearing. but, now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, rachel. i ll be joining you thursday night in that coverage, and i have no predictions about that hearing, and i m just gonna sit back and experience it. it feels like it s gonna be a big deal. the fact that they booked it for primetime is a really hard ask of all the tv networks to get them to give you that time. it implies that they think they ve got something that they really expect and want millions of americans to watch. and so, i think you can have those expectations, but in terms of what we are gonna learn, we are going to lay out, or what they might sum up from what we ve previously learned from them, i m with you. i just want to see it happen. you know, the best we have is a little suggestion from adam kinzinger, about what to expect. and i will show that tonight, just like everyone else has. that s all we got. and they ve been pretty reliable