defamation settlement involving a u. s media company, and fox, now facing an even bigger lawsuit from another voting company. plus putin s crackdown has just been sentenced to 25 years in a russian prison for speaking out against the war in ukraine. vladimir kara murza wife is outfront tonight. and a 20 year old woman shot and killed for pulling into the wrong driveway. police chief says the gunman showing zero remorse that chief is my guest tonight. let s go, outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight 787.5 million. it is a stunning number, and that is the settlement between fox news and dominion. in fact, it is the largest publicly known defamation settlement involving a me company in the united states. and by the way when you look at the value of it for dominion, it is 10 times the value. of dominion voting systems. it s massive anyway. you look at it now. in a statement along with the settlement, fox writes, in part quote, we acknowledge the court s ruling
All right tonight, there is new reaction from to Top Democrats to House Republicans impeachment inquiries. The inquiry that was launched, with no formal vote, no outstanding evidence of wrongdoing. And, no hope of being taken seriously by the American People. Here is former House Speaker nancy clark pelosi, on msnbc earlier. Impeachment is deadly serious. This is a remedy that our founders put in the constitution, to for a rogue official. They could foresee would have a rogue president of the United States they, couldnt foresee that we would have a rogue president , and a rogue senate, a rogue congress. But nonetheless, for them to use this in a frivolous way and that they are, its really a disservice to our country, into our constitution. All right, lets recall what that robe president was, was actually doing back in 2019. Donald trump, using American Taxpayer funded military aid, as leverage, tried to get the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyy, to dig up dirt on his opponent,
Reaction from to Top Democrats to House Republicans Impeachment Inquiry inquiry. The inquiry that was launched with no formal vote, no outstanding evidence of wrongdoing, and no hope of being taken seriously by the American People. Here is former House Speaker nancy pelosi, on msnbc earlier. Impeachment is deadly serious. This is a remedy that our founders put in the constitution, to for a rogue official. They could foresee would have a rogue president of the United States they, couldnt foresee that we would have a rogue president , and a rogue senate, a rogue congress. But nonetheless, for them to use this in a frivolous way and that they are, its really a disservice to our country, into our constitution. All right, lets recall what that robe president was, was actually doing back in 2019. Donald trump, using American Taxpayer funded military aid, as leverage, tried to get the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyy, to dig up dirt on his opponent, joe biden. In a transcript of that
history. it is a massive settlement, but i gotta be honest. i spoke with one of the lead attorneys for dominion just in the past hour, and he said that the reality of the settlement is that it is pretty straightforward. yes, that s $787 million. yes they found a victory that the court end fox did, at least for the specific lies told in the 2020 election. they have acknowledged that they were in fact lies but again, like you said, no fox town has to go on the air and necessarily take an apology for it or correct the record if you will to its viewers, but i will say i am learning a little bit more about just how that settlement came together today, really? at the 11th hour today, those papers were signed and told just minutes before the judge came out and announced that the parties had resolved this issue. and aaron i just want to paint a picture for you, you know, think about it. we had a jury in this case that 1 30. we were waiting for opening statements to come out. we were waiting fo
pursue them all the way to the end. so there was a many. obviously you re well aware of this, but one of them. gretchen carlson, a former fox host, who had urged you against settling and gretchen went on twitter. she was very open about it, she said. please dominion. do not settle with fox. you re about to prove something very big. you know, stephen again. i know you weren t involved in all the details of the settlement discussion itself because you were about to give the opening statements. but what do you say to many who say all right, well, you said you proved these things, but the statement doesn t come out and say they lied. they re not going to have to say it on tv. and if you ve taken this to trial, you might have achieved that. what do you say to people who share that frustration? well, first i understand the frustration we wanted to try the case to the lawyers were excited about the chance to go through this trial. but what i think people are missing is the trauma that the peo