hi everyone. thanks for tuning in to this hour where we bring you tomorrow s news tonight we have our great lineup of reporters to share their scoops here with me. tonight we have sarah fisher, jessica dean, athena jones and kylie atwood. okay, so let s dive right into the huge box settlement. fox has to pay more than $787 million in damages to dominion. the dramatic announcement came just moments before the trial was set to begin. sarah fisher was in the courtroom all day. at that moment that this happened so sarah, i want to hear everything that happened in the courtroom. but first, let s just talk about what s going to happen because this is not the end. it feels like it s the end for dominion, certainly, but it s not the end. there are other legal challenges on the horizon for fox. so what should we all be watching for? yes it s a big thing, so they re settling now for $787 million, but this is just one lawsuit that they re settling with dominion. they re facing several o
criminal charges today. a source close to his legal team, however, telling cnn the da told them not to expect an indictment until at least tomorrow. so what do we know this morning about what s happening behind the scenes in this unprecedented situation in we will bring you up to speed. plus chinese president xi jinping is meeting at this moment with russian president vp vladimir putin, this is happening in the kremlin. that summit could have major implications for russia s war in ukraine. we will have the latest details from that conversation. and we are watching the stock markets very closely this morning. a lot of green arrows, which is a good thing given the way it s been the last few days as federal reserve chair jerome powell is set to make a decision on another possible interest rate hike, that decision comes tomorrow and will have an impact on your money. we begin this hour with the latest on the former president s possible indictment. cnn s senior legal affairs
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issue here is that he s playing an outsized role in terms of problems in the case for them, when he s really not part of the case. that represents the problem with tucker carlson to management at this point, among other things. and the question still remains why they did not settle sooner. all of this damaging information came out as a part of good reporting. abby grossman is the former fox news producer who is now suing the network and she was on with anderson last night. she was talking about essentially the way things worked. and when it came to the fight that we all watched play out so dramatically in washington over kevin mccarthy and his bid to become house speaker, she said, this is what they talked about the scenes. they believe that they could broker who was house speaker. he wanted to do that live on air, but kevin mccarthy said no. what do you mean, he wanted to do that live on air? his plan was to have kevin mccarthy come on the show, so fast forward to january 5t