dominion voting system defamation lawsuit, agreeing t pay a staggering seven point 87, excuse me, 787 point $5 millio in damages it is one of the largest settlements in defamatio history in this country. and it shows that fox was at least somewhat afraid that the jury might decide against them that, it s clear, was th financial cost of lying to the american people. but the other cost, th reputation will cost, that is little bit harder to explain after the settlement was announced, fox released this statement, which read in part, we acknowledge the court rulings, finding certain claim about dominion to be false this settlement reflects boxes continued commitment to th highest journalistic standards we are hopeful that ou decision to resolve this dispute with dominion amicably instead of the acrimony of a divisive trial allows th country to move forward from these issues now, did you notice a word
and smaller in sought damage than the suit that dominio brought against fox. although you can see how the venn diagram of the overlap of the facts in a lot of thes cases are very similar in fact, the smartmatic suit features very many of the same house of characters and th same storyline i went back and re-read th complaint after the dominion suit settled and smartmatic s storyline i virtually identical. that is that it was vilified with a wholly invented conspiracy theory in an effort on the part of fox and some of its guests to win back a viewers who are gravitatin elsewhere in the right-win ecosystem after fox called the election for biden and those same key players are involved here. maria bartiromo, janine , lo dobbs on the fox side. and on the guest side, rud
are just flooding the zone wit all of these lawsuits? well we have a strategic an coordinated approach tha like-minded states who are generally democrats but of course democrats don t hav exclusive rights to the valu of freedom, and i would invite anybody of any party to join a coalition that is working to protect abortion rights. but here is what i know coming from vermont the very same day that i was elected attorney general voters in vermont also voted overwhelmingly to enshrine a right to abortion in our state s constitution. and i mean literally every single town in vermont voted b majority to enshrine that righ and our constitution even in those towns were in th past the - voted for donald trump for president. so i was given a very clea mandate by vermonters. and that is to protect our abortion rights. so going forward i know what i have to do and i will be a part of an
sooner or later all of this is going to start catching up, believe. katie, the judge in this e. jean carroll case rejected trump s request for the jurors to receive special instructions, should you sit at the trial. trump s lawyer argued that trump s presidency would cause a logistical nightmare for trump. what do you think of that? do you buy that? it seems like a classic trum move here. sure, all i would say o that is that trump while he wa president and had certain tool at his disposal including bein the president of the unite states and twitter and e cetera he was really able to troll th message around legal attacks o him, investigations, et cetera here you are seeing him have just for less luck he has already sat for a videotape deposition eugene carroll s lawyers fee that that is enough. nina resoluteness. but he is trying to create a narrative that he is not only cooperative witness and witness who cares very deepl about new york city and th traffic jams that it could cause,
the more that it is in the new the more that we talk about it and i think we ought to take for instance that statemen that peter navarro made. appeared never was sayin enough statesman, ayman, was that they were making headwa with trying to get the electio overturned by illegal means. we know that now by fraudulent means. but getting it overturned unti sydney powell just went to far. and people started pulling back that is frightening. it ought to be frightening t everyone including my friends in th republican side of the aisle who really do care about democracy, and they are ther but they are enablers by not speaking out professor, anderson jones thank you so much katie and center, jones plea stick around we re gonn talk to you a little bit later in the show as well. up next, my exclusiv conversation with oregon governor tina kotek on the fight to protect reproductiv rights in her state. hey, man. you could save hundreds for safe driving with liberty mutual. they customize your car