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
against the giant of right where i think media and one of the big purchase vsayers of collection fraud conspiracy today was supposed to be day one of the blockbuster trial. sayern fraud conspiracy today was supposed to be day one of the blockbuster trial but they said that it was pushed back to tuesday. no official reason was given judge davis said this morning that it was not unusual for delays like this but the wall street journal which happens to be owned by the murdoch family reports fox has made a late push to settle the dispute with dominion voting systems out of court, that is according to people familiar with the situation the washington post reports this, two people familiar with the case said that two sides are scheduled to meet monday to determine if a last minute deal to avoid trial could be brokered one of the people said that the judge had asked the parties to make a final effort to settle the issue before proceeding with the trial. these talks are happening
accountability ourselves getting those documents and the summary judgment record, nicolle i want to ask you a question about the legal strategy it seems fox had some crushing legal blows in the last couple of weeks one was abbey grossberg suing fox and becoming one of your witnesses. one was a couple of rulings most of their legal turns were defeats from them. how much did adding the special mast door what fox is going to have to take on in terms of legal water, how much do you think that impacted their motivation structure to settle for such a figure of $787 million? i m not sure the answer of that i do want to say that reminds me a lot of what this case was was that fox hired a lot of smart lawyers who were in my view tried to do libel to the first
let put it that way, to see those kinds of stories and maybe this is the sort of a circular conundrum that fox finds itself in because, because dominion has made this about obviously a textbook case where the whole country all of us are learning obviously you didn t need it, but the other piece for dominion and every ultitterance that they have made was about the cost, about literally the damage that these lies did to this company there was some great reporting in your piece about how financially secure the company was, so the damages are both moral and financial. and brand related. i don t know how many republican elected officials are going to be standing in line for dominion voting equipment the damages are so real. i can t imagine dominion having much of a motivation structure