you were just talking about errol howell in the rudy giuliani case, tim parlatore, was the subject of a potential fine for discovery violations because of what was going on in that case. all of that means that your buying just a heap of trouble when you have a client who doesn t listen to your advice and just goes about doing his own business, up to and including continuing to commit crimes that he wants you to be a part of. and so that is the reason that you find so many lawyers unwilling to represent him, even though he used to be the president of the united states. which is a very sad state. i want to ask about someone who has top criminal defense representation, and that is hunter biden, and what happened on he is guilty plea in court today. i am, to put it mildly, confused about this one. sure. so i have read the entire
municipality department. federal judges treat everyone equally when it comes to discovery violations. this complaint here just guarantees that it is going to speed up in the coming months, maybe not tomorrow, maybe not next week, but under the federal rules this case, discovery will begin and assuming that the municipality defendants don t get this case thrown out because they probably will at least move to throw the case out, this case, we will find out or the plaintiffs will find out what is in the files of those municipality defendants. danny, you re going to stick around. we have another case we want to talk about in a bit. but we also want to get back to the breaking news regarding the health of the former first lady rosalynn carter. blayne alexander joins us now. what have you been able to learn? reporter: well, chris, we just learned this news from a statement from the carter center that came out about 38 minutes ago. they put out publicly, they said they wanted to release t
morning, yesterday morning, the judge felt compelled to appoint a special master to investigate fox s lapses, it s discovery violations, it s misstatements to the court, you know, if i were smartmatic s lawyers i would probably file something seeking sort of a prophylactic order that, you know what, judge? i think we ll need a special master, too, to make sure fox doesn t continue to violate the court s rules as it now has a track record of doing in other civil litigation it feels like the problems for fox have only just begun there are also the monetary issues dominion asked for $1.6 billion. they settled for $787.5 million. smartmatic is looking for more in damage. $2.7 billion do you think that smartmatic now smells blood in the water for a bigger settlement potentially?
the last one and a half hour, waiting in the court for recess. a couple of major developments wince is he recessed for lunch one, you had a sworn-in jury what does that mean? both sides were going to be stuck with this particular jury for the duration of the trial. so, you had the final composition of what that jury was going to be. that in and of itself had to move the needle for both sides to decide whether or not they wanted to settle or proceed to trial. the last thing, entered by judge davis, pretty much telling fox news, you screwed up and we re actually putting that special master in place to determine the extent of discovery violations in this case in my opinion, and having tried a lot of cases, jury trials, when you look at those two critical factors, i think that s what pushed this case over the finish line to get it settled. katie phang, i guess the first one would have gone either way. clearly would have inspired fox