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
encouraging to the defense and to the government to see jurors feeling that they can admit when they can t do it and, others, of course, saying that they can do it and they feel that they can be impartial. yeah absolutely. this is moved a lot faster than a lot of experts and even members of both sides, aza two teams expected if we are on track as the judge expected to begin on monday, and there were some folks who were suggesting that this could potentially take weeks. so it does appear that they have i ve been able to for now seated jury now, they just got to see it. this alternate let me take a broader look at what this jury looks like so far. and we re just going to talk generally about their jobs, right? salesperson, investment banker, a corporate lawyer, security engineer, english teacher, software engineer, civil litigator, retired wealth manager, a speech therapist, physical therapist first thing i m thinking is this is very manhattan right which is what you, what you want,
case in the wings. be it then that fox and others hinted or outright said that we will go all the way to the supreme court, it turns out that might have been bluster? well, i think that s right. and jumps typically don t play any role in settlement negotiations they can t force settlement negotiations that s up to the parties but what they can do, they can create space for the parties to settle sometimes, you have to get this close to trial sometimes, you have to see what your jury looks like to be really motivated, to settle a case now, this happens right after the final decisions about who would sit on the jury were finally made so the judge gives them a little bit of a delay early this week there s a delay today after lunch that result information the settlement i think nick is right to say the big issue here, yes, the money will matter, right and the $1.6 billion is compensatory damages for business losses. but dominion also had claims for punitive damages