they understand the need to pu this behind them, right. today was all about not having a trial of six weeks, where it would be day after day o negative headlines about how fox told its audience one stor that knew not to be true so, i think they want to put this behind them we will see. i don t know [inaudible smartmatic and how willing the are to settle. but fox definitely wants to ge this out of the way. this lawsuit may be over. but the defamation floodgate may have just. opened open geoff bennett, katie phang, jeremy peters, thank you all s much when we come back, ron desanti wrapping up his fight agains disney, why? even threatening to build prison next to their theme parks. max rose and mark mckinnon are here on that and the fox new settlement with dominion and later, from kansas city to
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
across that finish line and go the goal, got a verdict of liability, and got a hug damages award, fox was going t appeal it. we knew that fox was going t take it as far as the suprem court if they actually could dominion s a business, and the were already making a clai that they were actually damage financially, and severely, because of the actions of fox. but they might not hav survived this. ultimately, it was a busines decision years of litigation was abou to happen. it already took years to get even to this point, in fact, i was fast-tracked, because judg eric davis in delaware sai this is a rocket docket, we re gonna get this done quickly. and the judge did everything h could to get it to a jur trial. but at the end of the day, it a lot of money at play here an you can t fault dominion for making a business decision tha made sense does fox pay that money, or does their insurance company katie? you know, i did not hea about the insurers that were coming into play here.