this tuesday night good evening once again, i stephanie ruhle. the parties have resolved thei case those words from the judge brought the dominion fox new defamation case to an an before the jury heard from a single witness late today, fox agreed to nine figure payout to settle the lawsuit, 787 point $ million, a little less tha half of the 1. 6 billion the were suing for fox has admitted to telling lies about dominion, tha caused enormous damage to my company, our employees, and th customers that we serve. nothing can ever make up for that the deal officially ends th legal battle over whether fo defamed dominion when it broadcasts conspiracy theories about its voting machines in the 2020 presidential election those included false claim dominion used is votin machines to rig the outcome. the truth matters lies have consequences over who years ago, a torren of lies swept dominion and election officials acros america into an alternativ universe of conspiracy theo
during the discovery process leading up to this trial and i think those are two th most critical parts of the calculus that fox though about. yes, did they buy silence in terms of that not having their 92 year old head of the company on the stand, rupert murdoch, sure. but it wasn t just going to be him, it was gonna be various and sundry personalities tha we wanted to hear from him tha america wanted to hear from. but i want to emphasize this it was a business decision, it was always a commercia litigation case. this is not a case that wa rock by the united states of america, it was brought by dominion voting, and it was decision in the end. and dominion voting systems are not in charge of democracy they re in charge of running their business and had they lost in court democracy wasn t going to pa them back. geoff, i want to share wha claire mccaskill said earlier, because it s really in respons to - i get it, so many people are frustrated and angry, saying