through the gag. the alleged leaker and the judge jack to share a is back in court this morning facing a judge to see if he ll get out on bail or stay behind bars as he awaits trial, just as the defense secretary puts a deadline on figuring out exactly how the pentagon league happened and how to stop it from happening again, $787 million, just the beginning, fox forced to pay in a store it some for lies about the 2020 election. new reporting on what could be an even bigger lawsuit just around the corner. disturbing and offensive, newly released racist messages from officers in the northern california city have sparked protests outside the police station. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news, central. hours from now the 21 year old air national guardsman accused of leaking a trove of classified documents. he s going to be back in a federal court. today s hearing will determine whether jack teixeira will stay behind b
from smartmatic. what happens there? given the settlement we just saw with dominion. well remember, even before we got to the settlement, john there were months of discovery where we were seeing emails and depositions from fox personnel. that hasn t happened yet in this smartmatic case, and you re going to see that again, assuming that this goes to trial proceeds for several more months , and so you will see more depositions from fox leadership , probably more emails and, frankly, some of the same evidence that would have come out in the dominion case because again, the public has seen it, but it s not evidence yet. in the smartmatic case, so we re going to in many regards relitigate or relive that last couple years for fox in the public eye. what s different, if anything about these two cases, one was filed in delaware dominion smartmatic is here in new york. yeah i think the big one is that there are more parties named here in a jury is going to have to decide who actually pays that.
would have been nice, certainly on the part of the public, but also in the part of dominion as well. but what this really comes down as well. it. all litigation comes down to john really is about money making a party hole and i think that certainly happened here. all right. i want to talk about what s next because there is another even bigger lawsuit out there from smartmatic, which is a competitor to dominion in its lawsuit, which was filed here in new york, smartmatic said that fox was in the business of trying to create this story. we re smartmatic was the villain . i want to quote from smart maddox. following in their story . smartmatic was a venezuelan company under the control of corrupt dictators from socialist countries and their story. smartmatic selection, technology and software were used in many of the states. close outcomes in their story. smartmatic was responsible for stealing the 2020 election by switching and altering votes to rig the election for joe biden, kamala har
acknowledge the court s rulings finding certain claims about dominion to be false. this settlement reflects foxes continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards really. it might reflect their continued commitment to pay outs , and there might have to be more. they face another even bigger lawsuit. smartmatic is seeking $2.7 billion in damages from fox and other defendants for the same type of lies at the heart of the dominion case with me now is former federal prosecutor and cnn legal analyst elliot williams, sir. thank you . $707 million is a lot of money. but what changes? what does that change inside fox and what they have to do? it doesn t change what happens inside fox in terms of what they have to do, other than providing them a disincentive to continue to put information on that isn t vetted or check john, given the