to the most widely used abortion pill good day i m andrea mitchell in washington fox news paying almost $800 million to avoid having to take the witness stand. the settlement lets fox avoid weeks of text. the damage to its reputation is done thousands of pages of evidence released during pre-trial discovery made public. that fox hosts lied about the 2020 election being rigged, knew it and so did their bosses all the way to the very top. there will be no on-air apologies or retractions from fox news in a statement the network is saying, we acknowledge the court s ruling finding certain claims to be false the settlement reflects fox s commitment to the highest journalistic standards attorneys for dominion speaking to the press after the settlement the truth matters lies have consequences money is accountability we got that today from fox but we re not done yet we have some other people who have some accountability coming towards them it s not over joining me now, stephani
the midterms. all the headlines from week one of the oath keepers trial in washington after a member of another far right extremist group, the proud boys, pleads guilty in connection to the capitol riot and becomes a coop raying witness. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington, d.c. president biden delivering a stunning warning about vladimir putin s repeated nuclear threats, speaking off camera at a democratic fund-raiser, saying we have not faced the prospect of armageddon since kennedy and the cuban missile crisis. the president adding about putin, he is not joking when he talks about potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons because his military you might say is significantly underperforming. there is criticism from inside putin s initial circle as russians flee to escape conscription. what s the reaction to president biden s extraordinary warning about russia? reporter: i think honestly, the aspect of all of this that
hope that by coop raying, sharing the information on how it is they got this information, with whom they shared this classified information, the hope would be you may receive a reduced sentence that is one very real possibility. it s often tactically smart for defense attorneys to take that approach it could be that they simply want more time as they said in their pleading to prepare for the upcoming detention hearing as to the detention hearing, i think we can safely say on my experience there is zero likelihood that this defendant would ever be released prior to a trial. joining me now thank you, ken, paul. joining me now is jeremy bash, the former chief of staff to secretary panetta. let s follow up on thchlt. you are familiar with the systems. you have dealt with it what about this supposed need to know why does why does a
indictment. but you have to have people inside who have the playbook. that s just the way it is with any conspiracy. so the ironic thing is that i think the person that had the most to tell and had a deal said very little and the one that had no deal said a lot. so you know, it s going to be interesting to see how all this plays out. so chris, manafort lied to the special counsel s office on five major issues when he was supposed to be coop raying with them, right? but at the same time, manafort testified twice before the grand jury just the last couple of weeks. how useful do you think is the testimony of a known liar? well, in both their cases i don t think their testimony is going to be very useful if they used either one of them at all, i m pretty sure the special counsel has no interest in using cohen. i think they had some interest in using manafort until they realized that he was playing games with them which happens a lot with cooperating defendants.