the dollar figure was $787. million. the dominion voting system will receive from fox news i it s a defamation lawsuit. fox news agrees to the largest defamation payout since alex jones. money is accountability we got that today from fox but we are not done yet. tonight, one of the dominio attorneys on the histori settlement with fox. and david blough, michel goldman, and harry lippman o what it will mean for rupert murdoch s monopoly and america politics moving forward. another nightmare, murder this time in upstate new york on th awful truth of a politics of crime and punishment and why it is tax day should make a happy ending to nonsens fearmongering about 87,000 new irs agents are they going to have strikeforce that goes in wit ak-15 s already loaded, read to shoot when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. this afternoon, the very first day in court, fox news reached a settlement with it dominio voting systems for more th
and on that note, i wish you all a very good and safe night from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late i will see you at the end of tomorrow tonight on all in - the dollar figure was $787. 5 million the dominion votin systems will receive from fo news in it s a defamatio lawsuit. fox news agrees to the largest defamation payout since alex jones. money is accountability we got that today from fox but we are not done yet. tonight, one of the dominio attorneys on the histori settlement with fox. and david plouffe, michell goldberg, and harry lippman on what it will mean for rupert murdoch s monopoly and america politics moving forward. another nightmare, murder this time in upstate new york on th awful truth of a politics of crime and punishment and why it is tax day should make a happy ending to nonsens fearmongering about 87,000 new irs agents are they going to have strikeforce that goes in wit ak-15s already loaded, ready
so much with the private interest that table was really set fo fox to have to admit and for there to be vivid evidence overwhelming evidence that fox misled the american people that it contributed to the big lie. really having that conclusivel established. what we have now i inconclusive it is just not quite right and that money is accountability there is a big check for them. that is absolutely their right to do. their damages case was maybe week i think this could hav promised to be so much more as a sort of public event, social history. now it will not be that. yeah, we should say, this $787.5 million deal is one o the largest but settlements in all of u.s. history. it is a colossal amount of money, even as profitable as fox is there is also, michelle, it wa interesting to me that the smartmatic lawyers put their statement out so quickly
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.
the lawyers for dominion, imagine we ll be celebrating quite a bit tonight. thank you, i appreciate it thank you, chris. harry litman, former deputy assistant attorney general for the justice department michelle goldberg is an opinio columnist for the new york times who was inside the courtroom today. both join me now michelle, let me start wit you. you are there today. there s a lot of suspens during this pause. i don t think the announcement is shocking anyone how did they not do this sooner? what is your take away fro this announcement? in effect, they did settle i think it s not shocking but it is disappointing. there s been so much evidenc already unveiled through the course of this process about the utter cynicism and contemp with which fox news treated it audience and its journalisti responsibility there was a hope that a lo more would come out. to be honest, i was really curious about how fox wa