six months till iowa. are the caucuses still trump s to lose? side by side, we re going to fight. and we re going to win. and with ron desantis struggling to break through, is he hearing foot steps from tim scott? america needs positive, powerful, bibically sound leadership. plus, wages are rising, inflation is falling and stocks are booming. it s been a fabulous economic recovery. but why don t americans agree and account president change their mind? and how republicans made the military the latest front in the battle over woke. if you don t know if you re a man or women you shouldn t be going into war. culture wars comes for the pentagon, the fbi and more. good morning, and welcome to inside politics sunday i m apby philip, thingsix months, d trump remaining the front-runner and there are new signs his challenger is in trouble. governor ron desantis faces a cash crunch and lean lae, handful of campaign workers and there are some reports that big dono
cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead. we have some breaking news for you. i m jake tapper. moments ago, we learned there is a settlement a settlement in the high stakes trial between dominion voting systems and fox dominion was suing fox for $1.6 billion, saying that the network showed complete and utter disregard for truth and facts and accuracy. when they allowed guests and hosts to push false conspiracy theories that the 2020 election had been stolen from donald trump. cnn s oliver darcy is outside the courthouse in delaware. oliver. what do we know about the settlement? we know right now. the judge just announced actually moments ago, jake that this case has been settled out of court. we don t know any details about what happened. but there was this unexplained two hour delay in court proceedings. this settlement really comes right before the clock struck struck midnight jake opening statements were set to begin at 1 30. they did not as scheduled, and there was an unexp
lead up to this moment, remember, a jury had been sworn in it was seated opening statements were ready to kick off at 1 30. but then there was that mysterious 2.5 hour delay and then the judge finally came out and said the parties have resolved their issues. in fact, the judge said that had the jury not been sworn in. the party s probably would not have resolved their issues. but that was a key factor. want you to take a listen to what one of the dominion attorneys had to say to us just moments ago here at the courthouse? the truth matters lies have consequences. over two years ago. a torrent of lies. sal s across america. into an alternative universe of conspiracy theories. causing grievous harm to dominion. in the country. today s settlement. 787,000,500. represents vindication. and accountability. lies have consequences. now, jake, the dominion attorneys. they came to the podium right after court let out. but the fox attorneys, they went down the street did not take any qu
newly appointed proprieor of that material as the new speaker of the house. that s despite the fact that he pointedly refused a lawful congressional subpoena from the 1/6 select committee last year. now in defending his decision to share 41,000 hours of previously unreleased footage exclusively with far-right insurrection-friendly personality tucker carlson, mccarthy is showing americans he either does not understand or does not care about the potential risk that decision presents. speaking with the washington post, mccarthy suggests this, that the public fury over the selective release isn t really about egregious security concerns. in fact, it s about jealous, he insisted on the part of the media at the heart of the outrage. hang on. it gets better. today politico is first to report that house republicans, many of whom have framed the 1/6 insurrection as the defendants in those criminal cases as victims of a political attack are now moving to provide those defendants acce
to give you some idea what change looks like on an issue that some fear is impervious to it. take a look at the front page of today s nashville, tennessee and lee. it reads that republican governor bill lee wants gun law action and beneath it, jones, meaning democratic state representative justin jones expelled after gun violence. protests on the statehouse floor reclaims his seat in the legislature. two major bipartisan developments in the wake of last month school shooting in nashville happening with remarkable speed, creating a front page that might have seemed inconceivable just a few days ago, and that was before local officials voted today to reinstate the second expelled state representative justin j. pearson of memphis last night on this program, representative jones said he saw a change of heart in governor lee and then perhaps another sign of that both his reinstatement and representative pearsons today were unanimous. representative pearson joins us now, representa