stopping that interview. deadline: white house which has a lot more about this starts right now. hi there, everyone, we come on the air with a whopper of a breaking news story for you. a settlement has been reached in that massive $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought by dominion voting systems against fox news it was that kind of day. everyone waiting for a vatican-like puff of smoke a lot of delays. a lot of pontificating and a lot of wondering what might be happening and now, we know nick confessori, the judge in this case, at 3:57 as we sat waiting to come on the air, quote, the parties have resolved the case do you have anything to say about that look, this is a very big deal it surprised many people, today was going to be the opening day of arguments there was a two-hour delay after lunch. no one came back with the arguments. we saw the two parties in the courtroom, waiting in the courtroom, exchanging some paper. and before air time, we get the announcement f
ex-president very clear publicly known efforts and plot to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election. a series of court battles over the last few weeks have largely gone in special counsel jack smith s favor, resulted if a whole slew of new trump officials and allies now being ordered to testify. some big names, none of them bigger than the one, vice president mike pence, news broke on tuesday that a federal judge had ordered him to answer questions under oath regarding conversations that may involve illegality on donald trump s part. here s what mike pence told nbc news about all of that this morning. i ll be in washington, d.c., later the week. i ll be meeting with my counsel that week and we ll determine the best way forward. again, i have nothing to hide. i believe we did our duty under the constitution on january 6th. nothing to hide, but that response begs the question, if that s the case, and frankly the fact that he wrote the book about it, why hasn t he testified
boxed into a corner and both parties were i think rightly nervous about moving before a jury juries are unpredictable beasts and maybe especially so in cases that involve libel and particularly libel cases as socially and politically divisive as this one was at some point the number is high enough that a company like dominion doesn t have any choice really but to say yes. this goes to the wider point we ve been making sort of all along here, that defamation is one tool but never the perfect tool for tackling the wider societal problem of dismfrgz, having private parties suing other private parties can only get so far and today we saw the end of the line for this one. your analysis is so interesting that it was fox that it was boxed in. i wonder what role you think the judge s most recent sort of
decisions are based on pure numbers and revenue and probably overseen by the wizard of oz himself, rupert murdoch, i still don t understand why fox hasn t tried to settle this. it s going to be hugely embarrassing for them to be in court. they ll have carlson talking and having to testify to this. it seems like all of the acknowledgment in their internal communications that the facts were indeed the facts they just quote pissed off the viewers, seemed to settle any questions about the intent to lie, they all knew the truth was, that biden won. rupert said there were zero questions after fox s own decision desk called the election for joe biden. absolutely right, nicolle. but it s also important to remember that dominion doesn t have to show any intent.
appear in court for an ora argument battle. as dominion has argued, it i the rare case to grant summary judgment of actual malice, but it is also the rare case wer direct evidence of actua malice exists, as it does here some legal experts agree dominion doesn t just have the upper hand, it has the truth o its side if dominion is successful, all that would be left to determin is the amount of damages tha dominion is entitled t receive. that s where the numbers becom astronomical dominion is seeking 1.6 billio dollars in lost profits an reputation will harm but it s also seeking punitive damages, which are not kep under new york law, and coul also be in the billions of dollars. punitive damages are intende to punish the wrongdoer and to deter others from repeatin that egregious conduct a multibillion dollar punitive damages verdict would not only punish fox, but it would send