studio audience in miami you can tune in at 8 pm eastern, right here on msnbc. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex are you concerned tha desantis just hard that is like, shut it down no entry maybe if he shows that we can do a live interview. i would love that. he s a big fan of the show i m sure longtime watcher an first-time guest that sounds great. i ll be watching thank you to you at home for joining us this hour this was the line to get int the delaware courthouse wher fox news was set to go on tria this morning the company was accused of defamation by the dominion voting systems a corporation even the sheer number of lawyers showing up for thi trial today was impressive the fox and dominion side look like they had enough attorneys to form a soccer team. the soccer team in suits buying the building, the court erected this mysterious canopy walkway thing presumably for allowing jurors an high-profile witnesses to ente and exit the courtroom with
we re honored to have you take us off the air tonight 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 this was the line to ge into the delaware courthouse with fox news was set to go on trial this morning the company was accused of defamation by the dominion voting systems corporation even the sheer number of lawyers showing up for thi trial today was impressive both the top side in the dominion, side looks like they had enough lawyers to form a soccer team in suits behind the courtroom a s mysterious walkway thing presumably for allowing jurors and high-profile witnesses t enter and exit the courtroom without being spotted, because there were going to be a lot o high-profile witnesses, an inside the court the lawyers and spectators were reportedly packed in like sardines. demean s legal team submitte more than 7000 exhibits, including vid
it is just a fact. the judge did a lot of work of dominion before that sayin that these statements were false and defamatory the last question is for the jury to say, should they hav been held culpable for that? secondly, fox having acknowledged that fact as serious as that acknowledgment was, you had fox settling fo this enormous figure certainly, rupert murdoch ca afford this, their company can afford it because of the riche that fox news generates ever financial quarter. nonetheless, it s a huge amoun of money that any fortune 50 - would have to acknowledge as significant. it s also that that figure was acknowledged publicly. they can speak to the statemen and size of the settlement which clearly had to b acknowledged publicly as par of this settlement, and sa that this was vindicated we are right, something wron happens. fox had to pay the high nine figures, it doesn t do that fo charity. it s doing that for necessity,
held culpable for that secondly, though, fox having acknowledge that fact as spartan and as austere as that acknowledgment was, good fox settling for this enormous figure certainly rupert loughli murdoch can afford, that s because of the riches that fox news generates every financial quarter, but it s a huge amoun of money that any fortune 50 company would have t acknowledge a significant. but it s also that the figur was acknowledged publicly. so dominion can point to bot the statement in the size of this settlement, which clearly had to be acknowledged publicl as part of the settlement an say we were vindicated, we wer right, something wrong happened, fox had to pay in the high nin figures, it doesn t do that fo charity. it s during that furnaces taci -y, and possibly bigge defamation so what does that mean in term of fox we ll gonna have to watch an see. fox did, as you presented quit