stopping that interview. deadline: white house which has a lot more about this starts right now. hi there, everyone, we come on the air with a whopper of a breaking news story for you. a settlement has been reached in that massive $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought by dominion voting systems against fox news it was that kind of day. everyone waiting for a vatican-like puff of smoke a lot of delays. a lot of pontificating and a lot of wondering what might be happening and now, we know nick confessori, the judge in this case, at 3:57 as we sat waiting to come on the air, quote, the parties have resolved the case do you have anything to say about that look, this is a very big deal it surprised many people, today was going to be the opening day of arguments there was a two-hour delay after lunch. no one came back with the arguments. we saw the two parties in the courtroom, waiting in the courtroom, exchanging some paper. and before air time, we get the announcement f
amendment. the judge came out the right way that the actual malice standard is the right standard. that s what we were going to hold fox to at the trial and there s not some privilege to publish whatever you want just because it s newsworthy. that s part of what the judge did in this case and due violence to the first amet that s the first time i ve heard it put that way. say more the theories advanced in a lot of the briefings, nicolle, if you read through our briefing the theory fox was advancing would basically give a free pass to knowingly publish lies even if you know they re lies as long as you think they re newsworthy. judge davis read all the briefings and he came out the right way. he said, no, there s no free pass just because something is newsworthy if you know it s a lie, you can t publish it or you face liability. it s an extraordinary thing to sort of sit in for a minute
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