held culpable for that secondly, though, fox having acknowledge that fact as spartan and as austere as that acknowledgment was, good fox settling for this enormous figure certainly rupert loughli murdoch can afford, that s because of the riches that fox news generates every financial quarter, but it s a huge amoun of money that any fortune 50 company would have t acknowledge a significant. but it s also that the figur was acknowledged publicly. so dominion can point to bot the statement in the size of this settlement, which clearly had to be acknowledged publicl as part of the settlement an say we were vindicated, we wer right, something wrong happened, fox had to pay in the high nin figures, it doesn t do that fo charity. it s during that furnaces taci -y, and possibly bigge defamation so what does that mean in term of fox we ll gonna have to watch an see. fox did, as you presented quit
anticipated. quick follow-up on that i think there will be some shareholder losses this isn t a more nice amoun of money that comes from murdaugh s management. harry, there is a chance, think there is going to be shareholder lawsuits that migh have their own effect once tha ball starts rolling. 100%. that would ve already been the case all i m saying is, the opportunity cost of not having this evidence here for a potential apology, it was such a very, very rare opportunit that they had and it won t happen it s worth the $800 million for that, i think, probably. for fox, exactly. harry lippman, michelle goldberg, thank you both coming up, what this fox new settlement means for the informational bubble they have created and the right-wing politics they dominate particularly the republica primary that is largely a fo news primary david plouffe joins me right here, next don t go anywhere.
had, it already, i think, di have and you are right that nothing is going to penetrate the fo bubble there would ve been possibility in the way other large cases in american histor have done and maybe the januar 6th committee was aiming for this of establishing a socia fact in the broad middle not for all of a sudden fox to have the scales fall from thei eyes there are things that could ve happened, including a carefull crafted apology that will no now. it will just be a muddle and foxville go on with its weighs more easily than it would ve i it had been a blockbuster we anticipated. quick follow-up on that i think there will be some shareholder losses this isn t a more nice amoun of money that comes from murdaugh s management. harry, there is a chance, think there is going to be shareholder lawsuits that migh have their own effect once tha ball starts rolling. 100%. that would ve already been the case all i m saying is, the opportunity cost of not having this evidence here for a p
said that they plan to have one-year debt ceiling vote try to pass through the house. but the thing is, the bigger issue being, sure it s unclear whether he will be evil to get his conservative members of th conference on board of this. he might need democrats to get this over the finish line. we re gonna see that play out. of course this is not a budget negotiation the budget was negotiated long ago, the debt ceiling is something different. i want to talk about those mos conservative members, though because they have a huge amoun of power, right? it was less than two weeks ago marjorie taylor greene, whic is a couple of blocks away fro the financial district, wher she called manhattan disgustin and repulsive. right? there are all sorts of republicans right now who are hard-core anti wall street, an many of them are followers o steve bannon who, remember once said his goal was to brin everything crashing down and destroy the establishment. how you can restore th establishment bring a
issue being, sure it s unclear whether he will be evil to get his conservative members of th conference on board of this. he might need democrats to get this over the finish line. we re gonna see that play out. of course this is not a budget negotiation the budget was negotiated long ago, the debt ceiling is something different. i want to talk about those mos conservative members, though because they have a huge amoun of power, right? it was less than two weeks ago marjorie taylor greene, whic is a couple of blocks away fro the financial district, wher she called manhattan disgustin