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
boxed into a corner and both parties were i think rightly nervous about moving before a jury juries are unpredictable beasts and maybe especially so in cases that involve libel and particularly libel cases as socially and politically divisive as this one was at some point the number is high enough that a company like dominion doesn t have any choice really but to say yes. this goes to the wider point we ve been making sort of all along here, that defamation is one tool but never the perfect tool for tackling the wider societal problem of dismfrgz, having private parties suing other private parties can only get so far and today we saw the end of the line for this one. your analysis is so interesting that it was fox that it was boxed in. i wonder what role you think the judge s most recent sort of