this tuesday night good evening once again, i stephanie ruhle. the parties have resolved thei case those words from the judge brought the dominion fox new defamation case to an an before the jury heard from a single witness late today, fox agreed to nine figure payout to settle the lawsuit, 787 point $ million, a little less tha half of the 1. 6 billion the were suing for fox has admitted to telling lies about dominion, tha caused enormous damage to my company, our employees, and th customers that we serve. nothing can ever make up for that the deal officially ends th legal battle over whether fo defamed dominion when it broadcasts conspiracy theories about its voting machines in the 2020 presidential election those included false claim dominion used is votin machines to rig the outcome. the truth matters lies have consequences over who years ago, a torren of lies swept dominion and election officials acros america into an alternativ universe of conspiracy theo
of that to be in public view and on the public record first before this company settled. katie, i want to go bac that dollar amount, $787. million. for those who are saying, well that s less than half of the 1 6 they were asking for, can yo explain to our audience if the had gone to trial, if there wa a verdict, how it may have taken years and years afte appeals for dominion to get anybody, and now they re getting this cash asap yeah, you, know there has t be a gut check that always happens when you re dealin with this type of high stake litigation and i cannot begin to emphasize, when i try these types of cases, it ends up being a cost-benefi analysis i kind of joked when i was inside that courtroom, and jeremy can talk about it too the amount of billable hours that was going on in that on our, along the sheer number of lawyers that were on both side were going to be stupendous. i don t think people reall understood the amount of money that was at play here. so, assuming - that