conspiracies by the ex-president and his allies including in the media. in its $1.6 billion defamation case pierces the hermetically sealed bubble that is fox news. the network that drives the conversation and conduct in the republican party and on the right like none other. it shows that hosts on fox news either peddled the big lie that the 2020 election was stolen from trump or gave the platform for people to spread the big lie that the election was stolen from trump for one reason and one reason only, fear, terror really of losing viewers and tumbling stock prices and viewers migrating to more radical outlets. messages and emails obtained by dominion along with testimony from fox news employees and hosts reveals that it was well known and bantered about inside fox news that the vote fraud conspiracies were as rupert murdoch put it terrible stuff, damaging everybody. and that it was, quote, very hard to credibly claim foul. claim foul, they did and panic over viewers turnin
hi, everyone i know that we say this a lot these days but buckle up it s 4:00 in new york. we re following breaking news on that monster $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against fox news just a little bit ago we received word of a bombshell of a plot twist during what was supposed to be the last pretrial hearing before jury selection begins. here s that headline the judge has sanctioned fox news and its parent company, fox corp, for withholding evidence in the dominion defamation suit and said he is considering further investigation and censure. he is considering appointing a special master to investigate the fox local team s actions now, the breaking point today appears to be surprise evidence that was introduced in court today when this happened, quote, lawyers for dominion voting systems played recordings that fox news producer abby grossberg made during 2020, which were not handed over to dominion s lawyers during discovery we have a team of experts and friends to help us
turn maria over in terms of making herself available we will make fox cover the afees and costs that come from doing it at the last minute. do you delay going to trial next week after all of this trial prep, or do you bite the bullet and move forward it s a critical problem as well for fox s lawyers. the judge saying that, omission is a lie he has a problem with the lawyers for fox. not only is there a trial readiness consideration on dominion s side. if you are fox news, you are looking at the fact that you have lawyers representing you going into a jury trial when a judge doesn t believe they are credible on both sides, they have a lot to consider. maybe it includes a settlement the only reason this tape was revealed is because one of the witnesses who was previously a fox witness is now suing fox she s a dominion now
contacted fox news. say they didn t have the facts. we know from this filing they were provided with the facts, 3,600 time, quote, fox admits sidney powell and her team never provided fox with any evidence. dominion, by contrast made over 3,600 separate communications to fox with at least a dozen separate and widely circulated fact check emails each pointing to verifiable third-party information debunking the claims. fox s research department itself along with multiple fox employees debunked these claims in realtime. no credible evidence ever existed for these, quote, absurd allegations against dominion. fox witness after fox witness has admitted as much. consistent with every single reputable third party and stacks of public record documents so it s not a story that they were fighting about amongst themselves and the powerful prime people prevailed because of their ratings numbers. it s a story that everybody, again, from rupert to scott to