one american news against sidney powell against rudolph giuliani and mike lindell in my pillow and patrick byrne. and many of them are still propagating. these lies about the election, and they are still having an effect. and so we intend to hold people accountable because, as we have said, the truth really does matter and if you are lying that has consequences. it had a consequence for dominion in the horrible here the grievous blow to the reputation that it had over the past couple of years and the threats the death threats that the company really continues to receive, and it had a consequence for fox. today they paid nearly three quarters of over three quarters of a billion dollars. justin nelson, thank you so much, and i want to turn to alison. you worked at fox for 16 years. what do you make of the fact that fox viewers won t hear a retraction or apology outright? i consider
apology should they be required to issue a retraction or any corrections because it s one thing to not want to apologize for doing things wrong, but as journalists when we get things wrong, we have to issue a correction at least make people aware that that s how you know it s a journalistic. to shin and so when they say they re the highest journalistic they have the highest journalistic is not part of that you would issue a retraction of the deal. and in fact, what the statement says is, we acknowledge the court found this literally correct literally, is actually very loyal, actually precise to what the judge did and what the court did without actually saying, and we agree, and we recognize there s no ownership of it. what do we do is we look forward right? what this means and kind of going back to what we re talking about. if trump is the nominee right how he is the front runner. he s going to continue to spew. these lies about the 2020 election, right? i mean, how does this play out?
top anchors. and then there s the goals of the actual litigants. there is a disconnect between the two. you see, you saw gretchen carlson s tweet where she was begging. don t settle. essentially, she wanted to have them take the stand because she wanted to see this play out and have the very confirmation of accountability in that format and have truth really be on trial and in the best interests of dominion. and so that disconnect what he s speaking to as a litigator. essentially look, that may be the goal of the court of public opinion and this being really the illustration of accountability since the post election lies but for them as lawyers they don t want to be in trial, handing over their case to 12 members, which you know, the lawyer in me is saying, i understand our clients said it was a failure if you went to trial, but then why, then? did fox not settled this earlier? right this has been going on for 2.5 years, right? and i think that was another point. gretchen carlson made,
from the settlement. there was no apology in this statement. from our from what i am gathering from you and i m going to open this up for my colleagues to ask questions, but just one final point on that how much of a sticking point to reach the settlement was an apology or retraction. how much of a role did that play in the settlement negotiations? because i know that was something dominion was asking for early on. well i don t really want to get into that. i think at the end of the day this goes back to what are goals really were at this entire, uh, settlement and this entire litigation, which was number one accountability and number two to have some type of monetary settlement. and look , this is really the first time in the 2020 election lies that someone has been held accountable and held accountable in a big way. and so that s why we see today is a real victory. okay and i m gonna open up now. laura coates. i think you have a question here. i do. you know, it seemed to me that the
it was not necessarily a full throated admission here when you look at the statement that the statement is acknowledging the court s rulings finding certain claims about dominion to be false. your lawyer, you know, those words are very carefully chosen, and the reality is millions of people in the united states. that s the sere ili know about this? i mean, do do the viewers of fox, are they owed an apology or retraction here? i mean, if they don t know about this, where is the accountability that you speak of? well, it s a really good question, and i think part of what really is going on here is that we are sometimes we re in these bubbles. and what happened to dominion was that it just got caught in this torrent of lies and got brought into this alternative universe where conspiracy theories dominated. this is a civil litigation case and what we think happened here was we took the civil litigation as far as we can take it. we