have we seen such an anticlimactic ending late today, dominion agreed to settle its defamation lawsuit against fox, but there s very little reason to believe fox will change its ways anytime soon also tonight, ralph yarl s aunt joins me. he s the missouri teen shot after approaching the wrong house. and now, criminal charges have been filed against the man accused of shooting him. and ron desantis is fought done with his absurd war with his state s top employer, disney, amid signs his presidential campaign is imploding before it even officially begins. we begin tonight we begin the reidout tonight with a common game show dilemma like on wheel of fortune if you can solve the puzzle, do you do so and take the money in front of you or spin the wheel for a chance to get more but potentially lose it all? today, dominion voting systems decided to take the money in front of them, settling their suit against fox on the first and last day of what was supposed to be a blockbu
worked for were bullied and mistreated because they re women. it doesn t seem like a lot of change for, and the smartmatic suit where they re saying $2.7 million, the same thing was done to us. it seems fox news has successfully bought their way out of account nlt before and have done it again today that s no shocker because we have always talked about what type of judicial system exists and how it favors the rich to your point, smartmatic is knocking on the doors of the courthouse, we re in the infancy in terms of where we are in the litigation posture they won on appeal being able to keep in certain defendants the discovery from this dominion case is not exclusive to just the dominion case. you re going to have this road map created to be able to provide somebody like smartmatic the keys to the kingdom to say this is what you need to look for and what you re going to find i want to adjust expectations here they might be claiming more in damages but it was a smaller
or an appropriate deputy and i don t know what the process was like. one thing i hope we ll find out in the next couple of weeks. i mean, what do you think was motivating this? obviously the new york times and the washington post also had similar actions taken to them including at least we know with the new york times, a gag order. was this trump and barr was this barr trying to appease trump? is it career attorneys gone wild? did this continue under biden to a degree you think this is just a justice department problem? you know, it would be speculation for me to answer some of that about motivations, because truly the process is so opaque that a lot of the things you would typically ask in any sort of adversarial litigation posture you would get answers and don t get them here and the answer is because we can which is as you might imagine pretty unsatisfying when you have an obligation to protect your client. you know, i m deeply skeptical based on what the court said at t
call them legal fees when they re really a subterfuge for paying off a porn star. it doesn t get you, it doesn t get you out of the campaign finance problem. and it actually makes things a lot worse for cohen. because once again, lawyers don t do this. and so, i m not even sure what the intelligent design was supposed to be behind the comments. but i do think that what we may be seeing, is something we ve been waiting for, the president is going to have to tack back from many of his public statements, he s now going into a formal litigation posture. and many of these past denials cannot stand in depositions or grand juries or whatever forum he finds himself in. this may be the painful process of tacking the ship. to turn it you know 180 degrees.