of the fox corporation to settle defamation lawsuit brought by dominion voting systems continue today. fox will pay dominion a record $787.5 million, while fox news was largely silent on the massive payouts. senate majority leader chuck schumer was not rupert murdoch s legacy is forever sealed as the network that sought to undermine american democracy. one prime time segment. at a time and dominion isn t done either they have pending lawsuits against the right wing networks, o a n and newsmax as well as against allies of the former president rudy giuliani, mike lindell and sidney powell. in a moment, we re going to talk to former fox anchor gretchen carlson in her first interview since the settlement, but before we do, it is worth noting that fox is legal jeopardy is far from over the voting technology companies . smartmatic is suing the network for $2.7 billion for they say we re over 100 false and misleading on your statement. it s about them. and fox also faces the very re
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the company with the assistance of smartmatic software. a backdoor is capable of flipping votes in the lawsuit. smart, maddox says fox had an obvious problem with their story. they needed a villain. they needed someone to blame without any true villain. defendants invented one and made smartmatic the villain in their story. there is much to understand about smartmatic. smartmatic noted in the suit that fox s story was a lie, but it was a story that sold the lawsuit alleges fox pushed the bogus claims so it wouldn t lose viewers to newer right wing media outlets like newsmax and one american news denies any wrongdoing. in fact, after smartmatic filed its lawsuit, the network said, we are proud of our 2020 election coverage and will vigorously defend this meritless lawsuit in court. yet just one day after smartmatic filed its lawsuit, this president is looking at the
shareholders, which will explain more about in a moment prefers former fox anchor gretchen carlson, who reached a $20 million settlement with fox s parent company after alleging sexual harassment and retaliation. thank you so much for being with us. thanks for having me you surprised by the settlement. no i was surprised that it went on as long as it did in up to up to date of the trial. i m not a lawyer. i did take the l sets, but i feel like i m sort of a half lawyer after everything i ve been through and the one thing you learn is that you should never put your ceo s or c suite executives under deposition, unless you re pretty sure that you have a solid case , so i was really surprised that they allowed all of that information and mis truths to be able to go public. why do you think they ultimately settled? because i think that they saw the writing on the wall. the judge had several rulings during hearings that were not in their favor, and it could have also been the makeup of the j
pillow is almost 12,000 of their ads? that s you know, that s you can t just have a my pillow channel here becomes instead of fox news, maybe phone news or something like that. and the smart meda case that s coming next, and i mean, that s another whole michigan s for fox. it s you know, it s fascinating. fox is very worried about that. because the heavy lifting is now done by dominion. all this pretrial discovery is now available. it s public, and if this case had gone to court, the disappointment would have been the same and that we wouldn t hear any of this in on television. there would have been cameras in the court. but we have all those records and what what? what s smart. maddox made a bet that they re going to have a more favorable jury in new york instead of an indelible case instead of a double there, because they re going to have to go for punitives because the damages aren t as great, but they re asking for more. they re asking for 2.7 billion the they they re only asked on