joining us here in the united states and all around the world church just ahead on cnn newsroom the u. s supreme court pumps on an abortion pill ruling leaving women girls and their doctors in limbo. people in three separate cases across the u. s this week apparently made everyday, honest mistakes momentarily confused about where they work. but in all these cases, they were met with bullets. 12 tragedy in yemen. dozens of dead operate money giveaway turned into a catastrophic stampede. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thanks for being with us won t for the next two days and abortion drug the medical community has deemed safe and effective for decades will remain fully available to american women and girls. but after that, all bets are off. the u. s. supreme court was expected to issue a decision wednesday on the future of the widely used medication, but instead announced it would weigh the case until midnight friday local time. earlier this mon
smart medic gets its way. the voting company is suing fox for $2.7 billion. more than a billion more than dominions sought. cnn s denny freeman has details on that. and in exclusive look inside the fox dominion deal. after a historic settlement for dominion voting systems, the truth matters. lies have consequences. the potential consequences of another defamation case loom on the horizon for fox news. even before dominion filed its $1.6 billion lawsuit, saying fox knowingly lied about its voting machines smartmatic, a different voting technology company, filed a similar suit this one seeking 2.7 billion in damages, accusing fox news several of its hosts and trump attorney rudy giuliani , falsely saying smartmatic rigged the 2020 election. in its complaint, smartmatic alleges fox knowingly shared more than
cnn has learned exclusive new details about how yesterday s $787 million dominion settlement came to be sources tell cnn s oliver darcy and marshal cohen, fox and dominion couldn t lock in a deal themselves over the weekend, so they called veteran mediator jerry roscoe roscoe, who has helped resolve wartime disputes in the balkans, was on a cruise in europe on sunday when he was brought in a day before the trial was set to begin after several zoom meetings and phone calls. the deal was finalized around to tuesday afternoon and signed just minutes before the judge announced the resolution in open court. since the dominion settlement came down, we actually have received statements from both smartmatic in from fox, previewing their own case, and what that battle will look like a head and attorney for smart, maddox said. in part dominions litigation exposed some of the misconduct and damage caused by fox s disinformation campaign. smartmatic will expose the rest . meanwhile, a fox spokespe
100, false and misleading statements, including this one. i have spoken with a few whistleblowers myself this weekend and one source who is an it specialist. told me that he knows the software and specifically advised people in texas officials in texas not to use it. and yet he was overruled . the company also argued fox falsely claimed smartmatic was linked to former venezuela president hugo chavez. smartmatic agreed to create such a system and produce the software and hardware that accomplished the result for president chavez. after the smart medic electrical management electoral management system was put in place closely at several elections where the results were manipulated, using the smartmatic software. fox denies wrongdoing, saying they were just covering the news in argument. the dominion judge throughout smart maddox cases currently still in the discovery phase at this time. meanwhile
with fox s parent company after alleging sexual harassment and retaliation. was somebody who s also had a very high profile lawsuit against the former ceo and chairman of fox news, roger ailes, as somebody who has been silenced as a result of that, with being able to tell all the facts of what actually happened to me. you know, i was vicariously living through dominion and hoping that they would be able to get to the truth. i would love to be able to reach out to all of those fox news viewers and hope that somehow we could get them back into the reality of what s really going on, but i think we re so far gone in this fake news era that i m not necessarily hopeful about that. fox still faces a $2.7 billion defamation suit filed by smartmatic, another voting technology company. well, thank you so much for joining us. the news continues here on cnn. hello and welcome to our viewers