they said we re pleased to reach a settlement with dominion voting systems. the settlement reflects fox s continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards. neil? neil: howie, this was delayed, the trial started today when it was supposed to start yet on the belief that maybe the two sides were discussing a se settlement. do we know that that was in the works and this was a result of that? there s been reporting that there were talks yesterday when the trial originally was scheduled to start. looks like they had fallen shorts. somehow having to jury there, maybe convinced both sides there s risks for both sides here. fox didn t want to lose this case. dominion would have had to proven malice, which is a high bar. dominion was claiming doings that they wouldn t have gotten
up we looked at the first two months of the year, and fox news attacked elections more than 50 times. almost half the time 50 times where they said it was stolen, the democrats are going to steal it in 2024 you can t trust it to your point, the only thing they didn t do is say dominion but they don t need to anymore, because that narrative is there, so they can just echo it you re right, i think we call it a bubble for a reason. and what fox didn t want to do here was burst that bubble i mean, that s where the reckoning comes in because they need that audience to be incredibly fervent so they can not just exert political power but also then leverage that audience for profit as well, for these cable contract renewals which are happening right now, literally this month, they re renegotiating three of their major cable contracts which is the major driver of their revenue. that s the dirty secret in all of this, that fox is, and rupert murdoch said it in his
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howard: the trial in the high profile dominion voting systems lawsuit are against fox begins tomorrow in delaware, and let s face it, much of the mainstream media is rather openly rooting for pox to lose. i can assure you that i will provide fair and down the middle coverage of this $1.6 billion suit about coverage of false election fraud claims in 2020 the despite pact that i work here. and with that that, it s been a very rough week for fox. judge everything davis imposed a sanction on the network, said he to would likely start an investigation of whether its legal team withheld evidence and would very likely name a special master to the handle that probe. one part of dominion s objection, that fox didn t disclose that rupert murdoch has two titles, chairman of fox corporation and executive chairman at fox news. that one basically an honorary tighten. but after the judge expressed unhappiness with the situation, fox apologized for what it called a misunderstanding. but here s the imp
produce information and discovery that hampered dominion and its ability to defend the case. the jury can infer from that that the information that fox didn t provide would have been helpful to dominion and that is coming from the judge that will be very powerful to the jury, especially on top of all of the emails and texts that you just discussed on the air. the judge, judge davis also sanctioned fox, basically saying dominion can conduct new depositions with witnesses and if they do fox has to pick up the cost. i don t know if dominion will actually take the judge up on that on the offer. if there will be other sanctions if you were i mean, if you were representing dominion, how would you want to proceed is with new depositions mean a halt to the trial? not necessarily. there are obviously going to be a number of witnesses in the case. the ones that are impacted by the new information that has