today. opening statements were supposed to start at 1:30 so far though, neither side has spoken and no reason has been given for the now hour and a half delay while we are waiting, we have just learned judge davis has authorized a special master to investigate fox s handling of discovery. we re going to explain in a moment this trial, when it does eventually start again, is not being televised. and nor can it be photographed one person was already kicked out of the courtroom for a snap, which the judge has said was deleted. don t worry though, we ve got our own reporters inside the courtroom updating us with the details. how exactly is this trial going to go? well, at least there s this. the judge ruled from the start that the election was not stolen and that fox was wrong to report that it was. in fact, he said it was crystal clear his words that the statements put out by the network and its hosts were false. now it is up to dominion to prove that there was actual malice beh
they re an independent local newspaper. they have zero online presence and this is a very rural area. but they are not like a community based paper where you think of festivals this is an investigative unit. so they put togethers of corruption within the sheriff fi questionable promotions. improper investigations. and it was angering the sheriff s office and the reporter, chris willingham, filed a defamation lawsuit because after those articles appeared, according to this lawsuit, alicia manning, one of the people in the recording, retaliated by telling a third party by teleconference that the reporter was exchange weed for child pornography so he has filed a slander suit against them and that is when they were in that commissioner s meeting talking about hiring potentially hit men to kill the publisher.