world, we know news organizations take on enormous risk when they publish things they know to be false. they risk their representations. in the rare instances where actual malice can be established, they also face legal exposure. this knowledge of falsity on fox s part was established through mountains of internal communications that prove that the producers, the executives and the anchors knew that claims of massive voter fraud were false ahead of time and they broadcast them anyway. the case dominion had against fox was so strong that by the time the trial commenced, the only thing the jury was going to have to determine was whether fox met that really, really high legal bar of acting with actual malice when it knowingly published falsities about dominion. now, as we all know, instead of standing trial, fox decided to settle for close to $800 million. what we know from that discovery process is dominion established from the top of that company to the bottom, from ruper murd
kara murza. we will have more on all of those stories here in a moment. let s round up to the sports news. thank you, good afternoon. we start with football and the premier league where liverpool can keep their hopes of playing european football next season alive, with a win at leeds this evening. it won t be easy though forjurgen klopp s side against a leeds team fighting for premier league survival just two points above the drop zone. we have nothing to lose, really, and we are in a position that we don t want to be in the table. that means we have to act a little bit like this, we have to try new things, we have to fight for things, that s how it is. the things we have tried so far this season didn t work out properly, especially not consistently, and that s what we have to do. all the things are on the table, everything is clear, our home record isn t as bad as the away record but we play away. anyway, i m looking forward to the game. it is important to be strong in thi
michigan state university, naming several others, most of whom remain in critical condition. today, funeral services were held for two of the slain msu students, and in just a minute, i will talk to a michigan congresswoman with her reaction to this tragedy, which was on my mind even as i was marching in florida on wednesday, joining a peoples protest against the state s governor, ron desantis, and his escalating war on black history. it was while i was on the ground in florida that i got word that the shooter who massacred nearly a dozen black shoppers at a buffalo supermarket two years ago had been sentenced to life in prison without parole. later, i learned that all five of the former memphis police officers charged with murder, murdering tyre nichols had pled not guilty. i thought about tyre s mother and her grief, and i also thought about so many grieving mothers in other parts of the world right now. as turkey and syria recover from the massive earthquake that has now k
i m in for ari melber. it ain t all good and that s the truth. things aren t going like you thought they would and it s all on you, fox news. new evidence showing rupert murdoch and fox news new trump was lying but put them on the air anyway. dominion systems suing fox news for $1.6 billion in a defamation suit. the claim is fox news knowingly lied about their company and now we have receipts and private texts. fox news host called trump and his lawyers election claims total b.s., insane, crazy, mind-blowingly nuts, reckless, off the rails, and effing lunatics. these are not mean tweets. these are actual texts from fox news hosts. tucker carlson showing hannity and laura ingraham were in disbelief on camera over trump s conspiracy theories. carlton texting engram, quote, sydney powell was lying, by the way. i caught her, it s insane. sydney is complete nuts, no one will work with her, ditto with rudy. carlson writing, quote, our viewers are good people and they believe it.
the 16-year-old s classmates rallying around him and another shooting at the wrong address. a man who opened fire on a car that accidently drove into his driveway, charged with murder after killing a 20-year-old woman. the american reporter appearing in a russian courtroom accused of spying, charges the u.s. is blasting as baseless and the surprise announcement buffalo bills safety damar hamlin cleared to play again after nearly dying on the field. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening and welcome. a dramatic ending late today to the explosive lawsuit between fox news and dominion voting systems, with the two sides reaching a settlement just hours after the jury was sworn in fox agreeing to pay dominion more than $787 million over the network s unsupported claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged dominion s ceo proclaiming fox has admitted to telling lies about dominion. fox simply acknowledging rulings that determine certa