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
of course we have to look at it through the narrow lens of the fact this was just one case in a courthouse here in wilmington, delaware, may have end up being a large number in terms of a settlement but fox there was one thing i wanted to ask stephen shackleford, the lawyer for dominion it s the redactions because we talk a lot about evidence and what was discovered during the course of discovery. the fact the special master got appointed to conduct itown investigation in term of what type of violations occur there were so many redactions that fox didn t want the american public to see and we talked about how particularly damning was the evidence we had already seen and if we d actually gun to trial in this courthouse today those redactions would have been open for all us to consume inside that courthouse and for those of us in america listening in on that open audio line, they would have been able to listen as well.