we re honored to have you take us off the air tonight and on that note, i wish you all a very good and safe night from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late i will see you at the end of tomorrow this was the line to ge into the delaware courthouse with fox news was set to go on trial this morning the company was accused of defamation by the dominion voting systems corporation even the sheer number of lawyers showing up for thi trial today was impressive both the top side in the dominion, side looks like they had enough lawyers to form a soccer team in suits behind the courtroom a s mysterious walkway thing presumably for allowing jurors and high-profile witnesses t enter and exit the courtroom without being spotted, because there were going to be a lot o high-profile witnesses, an inside the court the lawyers and spectators were reportedly packed in like sardines. demean s legal team submitte more than 7000 exhibits, including vid
chip roy, and thomas massie sorry to do that to you we re just learning the fo have indeed settled. how did we spell it out well, it was a dramatic ending to what everyone though was going to be one of those cover trials of the century, neil it was a two-hour behind close doors meeting between judg eric davis and lawyers are bot sides. speculation of what was going. on the jury had already been selected and seated. we thought we were going t open arguments but is it turned out, the tw parties were discussing th settlement we do have a statement from fox, neil we are pleased to have reached a statement with dominio voting systems we acknowledge the court rulings finding certain claims about dominion to be false the settlement reflects foxe continued commitment to th highest journalistic standards the highest journalisti standards. the case is now. over fox news and dominion settled out of court today for an eye-popping seven, $787.5
trying to discredit and fight back against her every way that they could, so you ve seen stuff on turning points usa, tons of videos, all over fox news trying to discredit the 1619 project, which was an incredibly well-reported piece of journalism, like you said. it s not surprising to me that because she was so polarizing and ultraconservatives just really disliked her and the message that the 1619 project brought, that they wanted to fight against it. it was a sort of natural conclusion to what s been happening over the last year. the 1619 project just sort of laid out receipts for something that people of color have been saying for a very long time, which is that the legacy of race in this country still has aspects that affect people of color today. and if you re still struggling with that contention, you just may need to read the 1619 project or get you some black friends. jenny, i wonder if i can get you
darcy is with me, our media reporter and you re also covering how this kicked up a fair amount of controversy among conservatives. right. this was a all over fox news last week and it is basically because of the premise of the movie where elites go and hunt so-called deplorables in real america. i think it was lost on the fox segments was that this is a satire, not a real thing. and also that the deplorables were the good guys in the movie. but that didn t stop or quell the outrage with right wing media and you saw the president use this movie last week and didn t refer to it but it was clear he was referring to movie and saying they are starting violence in this country not me and so on saturday universal said they canceled the movie. they said we stand by our filmmakers and continue to distribute in partnership with bold visionary associated with the satirical social thriller
about 90% of it was basically repeating what he did in the rose garden. the satire was only slightly a twist on the actual words he said. given the losses, the president has tried to change the subject. snl is one example. another example is the narrative on fox news about an attempted coupe against trump. this is based on mccabe s new book and the talk that there was 25th amendment talk. coop, all over fox news. a top coop. for lack of a better word, a coup. an open coup. essentially a coup. it have essentially a coup. it s even reached some of the president s family members. what are they talking about? they re saying this report from the new book that there was a conversation within the justice department shortly after the firing of james comey to look at the 25th amendment. it allows the president to be