lead up to this moment, remember, a jury had been sworn in it was seated opening statements were ready to kick off at 1 30. but then there was that mysterious 2.5 hour delay and then the judge finally came out and said the parties have resolved their issues. in fact, the judge said that had the jury not been sworn in. the party s probably would not have resolved their issues. but that was a key factor. want you to take a listen to what one of the dominion attorneys had to say to us just moments ago here at the courthouse? the truth matters lies have consequences. over two years ago. a torrent of lies. sal s across america. into an alternative universe of conspiracy theories. causing grievous harm to dominion. in the country. today s settlement. 787,000,500. represents vindication. and accountability. lies have consequences. now, jake, the dominion attorneys. they came to the podium right after court let out. but the fox attorneys, they went down the street did not take any qu
and in a statement, fox admitted quote we acknowledge the court s rulings finding certain claims about dominion to be false, which translated means that yes , they spent months and months lying to their viewers about dominion voting systems among other things, and as a result were in such fear of what a jury trial might create in terms of both the settlement and embarrassment for the company. they wrote a check for $787 million 500,000. cnn s oliver darcy is outside the courthouse in wellington, delaware. um oliver, i assume we re not going to hear remarks from fox s attorneys. um one question i have is that newsmax and o a n. which are these much smaller right wing propaganda channels they were forced to read statements on air in which they
think for fox, especially given the hand they had been dealt, i mean, it was very clear that they were dishonest about what happened in the wake of the 2020 election. the judge already ruled that they had broadcast false material so it would have been up to the jury basically to decide whether they had broadcast that false material with actual malice or reckless disregard for the truth, and i got to say, and i talked to a lot of first amendment lawyers, dominion had really assembled evidence from messages and emails that showed that you know, potentially they did. crossed that line into knowingly broadcasting false material, which would have been actual malice and which would have probably resulted or potential resulted in dominion winning this case, jake oliver darcy outside the courthouse in wellington, delaware, for us, thank you so much, so just to bring you this news, delaware superior court judge eric davis has praised both lawyers for fox and lawyers for dominion after they abru
cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead. we have some breaking news for you. i m jake tapper. moments ago, we learned there is a settlement a settlement in the high stakes trial between dominion voting systems and fox dominion was suing fox for $1.6 billion, saying that the network showed complete and utter disregard for truth and facts and accuracy. when they allowed guests and hosts to push false conspiracy theories that the 2020 election had been stolen from donald trump. cnn s oliver darcy is outside the courthouse in delaware. oliver. what do we know about the settlement? we know right now. the judge just announced actually moments ago, jake that this case has been settled out of court. we don t know any details about what happened. but there was this unexplained two hour delay in
there were obviously they did settle, so there must have been settlement talks. we know that rupert murdoch s wall street journal reported on sunday evening. there was a late push by fox to settle this case, and that was matched by a few other outlets, but the jury selection did resume earlier today, and they did get sworn in by the judge. and so it looked. you know, like this trial was going to happen, and people were, you know, going into court earlier at 1 30 for opening statements. there was that unexpected delay. we did see our cnn s marshal cohen in court. he saw a fox lawyer, take out a piece of paper and show it to dominion lawyer. then they went outside the courtroom. it was unclear what was discussed. but it seems right now, given the news that they were talking about a settlement, and that has been reached, really averting a really excruciating process for fox news that was set to take place here in wilmington, delaware. over the next six weeks. jake and oliver, i can t help