the jury was sworn in. but foxes legal battles are no over yet then, why some are questioning florida governor ron desanti is really conservative and then an alarming and disturbing uptick in gun violence, highlighted by two separate incidences, how ringing the wrong doorbell and turning into the wrong doorway turned into tragedy, as th 11th hour gets underway 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 agree to a nin figure payout to settle th lawsuit, 787 point $5 million, a little less than half of the 1.6 billion they were suin 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
the damage done to our democracy, you cannot put price tag on that. $787.5 million, it is a ton of money, dominion gets that, but what has happened to our democracy, you cannot put price on no, but the settlement is not one and done jeremy, dominion is also suing other right-wing cable networks, oan, newsmax, also some ke trump allies, rudy giuliani, - , mike lindell, the my pillo found her, what kind o precedent does this settlement today mean for these other one on the horizon so, steph, the most immediate case is th smartmatic case, which there are many of the same types o false allegations that fawke and its hoops thinking about dominion may have abou smartmatic i consider it to be an entirel reasonable possibility tha they will try to settle th smartmatic case.
and we got that today from fox but we re not done yet as for fox s reaction, that came in this appearance by media analyst howard kurtz, wh previously said the compan banned him from covering the case today, he read part of the company s statement during his lab report i do have a statement fro fox, neil, we re pleased t reach a settlement with ou dispute with dominion voting system we acknowledge the court rulings, finding certain claim about dominion to be false the settlement reflexes reflects foxes continued commitment to foxes highes journalistic standards new reporting tonight say fox news will not have t apologize to dominion on air when asked if fox will b required to issue an apology, dominion s presence at this in a statement, quote, an apology is about accountability. and today, dominion held fox accountable. fox paid a historic settlement and issued a statement acknowledging that the statements about dominion were false. with that, let s get smarter
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 hour alone, on both sides were gonna b stupendous i don t think people reall understood the amount of money that was at play here. so, assuming - that dominion went all the way across that finish line and go the goal, got a verdict of liability, and got a hug damages award, fox was going t appeal it. we knew fox was going to tak it as far as the supreme court if they actually could dominion s a business, and they re already making a claim that they were actually damage financially, and severely, because of the actions of talks. but they might not hav survived this. ultimately, it was a busines decision years of litigation was abou to happen. years to get even to this point, in fact, it was fast-tracked because judge eric davis i delaware s
today. speaking as claire mccaskill who won at fox hung out to dry this is less than satisfying jeff, she laid it out what s your take yes, she did. and even though the public interest in getting to the truth dovetailed with dominion prevailing in this case, but claire mccaskill said wa absolutely right, that dominion s legal team, their number one priority and only priority was making dominion hole and we heard from one of the lawyers this evening, who said in her view, that dollar figur was fair, both to dominion employees in the company s reputation, she thought of the summary judgment where the judge said the jury didn t eve have to make a determination about whether what fox about dominion is true, because in his words, it is clear it clea that what fox put out there in terms of false propaganda abou dominion voting systems is false. and she also said that it wa important for dominion not t settle until this point, havin