court proceedings. this settlement really comes right before the clock struck struck midnight jake opening statements were set to begin at 1 30. they did not as scheduled, and there was an unexplained delay. lawyers were seen going in and out of court, and now we re getting word from the judge that this $1.6 billion the case has been settled by both dominion voting systems and fox news. this of course averts a trial that would have been an agonizing process for fox news. you would have seen top stars like sean hannity. tucker carlson have to testify along with rupert murdoch, the aging fox chairman is 92 years old. he would have had to come down to wilmington s take the stand. and so none of that s going to happen because there has been a settlement reached. the judge just dismissed the jury, and this case is coming to a really stunning conclusion after two years of making its way through the court to the brink of trial. and oliver were their settlement talks in the days leading up to
not confidential. and that s why we just saw dominion get out and proudly announced this really astonishing figure. i mean, it is, as we just said, it is 10 times what dominion is worth. and so this dollar figure is, of course, about the bottom line. like you noted. dominion is not a large company. it s a privately held company they have about 202 150 employees. this is an overwhelming amount of money , but it s also a statement. it s also about the message that this dollar amount sends to fox news into the public about fox news lies laura oliver mentioned that fox is still facing this other major defamation lawsuit from smartmatic, another voting technology company that was smeared by fox after the 2020 election. that case is still in the discovery process. um how might this as far as i can tell historic settlement $787,500,000 . how might that affect the smartmatic case? well, it s about 700. what 85 million tea leaves now to read for the other
already established that there is a reasonable threat to your life. um so in essence, you can use deadly force if you reasonably believe fear for your life without having to retreat or something. something along those lines. the castle doctrine essentially says that once someone has unlawfully entered your home someone has broken in . you can assume that that person is a deadly threat. uh and move forward from there. you don t have to be in your home in your home. uh or if they re trying to break in. this may be relevant in the kansas city case because of what the shooter there has claimed. but i think in both of these situations, it s going to be extremely difficult for these two shooters to meet the reasonableness standard for a jury, you know, in case let s talk about the kansas city case because the suspect in that case has been charged after media attention. we should note they hadn t charged him and he only did like two hours in the police in the in the police station before bein
contest. this was really going to hold the network potentially accountable for that, so we re not going to see this public trial where people like murdoch would have had to answer to this jury. why they allow these deranged conspiracy theories to take hold on the networks air despite as we know as a result of this trial as a result of the discovery that they knew these lies were not true, they were unhinged from reality. we re not going to see that process takes place in court, jake. i know there are a lot of people that wanted this process to take place in court because outside the you know the media defamation case. this was also a really, to some extent, a trial built about made about democracy and democracy at large and elections. so you know this is going to avert all of that. it s going to save fox. i think a lot more added embarrassment. but again, jake this case has been settled outside of court. it will be interesting to see what those details are, oliver, we see what you mean
one of those shots hitting right there. you see her 20 year old kaylin gillis. she actually died about five miles from the scene of that shooting as her friends raced away from the scene trying to get cell phone reception calling 911 at paramedics arrived and she died. there at the scene. now i did talk to the attorney for the man who is charged in this case. that man s name is kevin monahan. he s 65 years old. he s still awaiting a bail hearing on a second degree murder charge. now his attorney says he actually believes he was threatened by this group that approached his house. now i brought that to the sheriff, and he says that s just not possible ballistic show that he fired these shots as the group was leading us. does witness accounts so it will be certainly interesting to see how this case plays out in the court system. but of course, at the end of the day here, jake there is a 20 year old that has died because of this senseless tragedy. i want to read a statement that was given