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
little bit of disappointment, and i think this is in line with this. i mean, in the context of things, it s really damaging to those who say the election was stolen, and so in a broader picture beyond the minion, this is an important day, potentially for restoring faith in american elections, and that s a optimistic way of looking at it. so, margaret um in the statement . of course, it s clear. according to the settlement, fox the individuals involved, the people who did this do not have to have any sort of admission of guilt. there s nothing public. so if you re a fox news viewer well, for if you re a boxer, guess what if your affectionate viewer you won t even know this happened because they re not covering this? they didn t cover the cases that happened. none of the anchors. we re talking about this and they re not going to cover that. they re going to write a $787 million check tonight, focusing with the lawyer on the statement from fox news about how dominion had falsehoods. okay