some more time on what is now the largest publicly known defamation settlement in u. s history. 7 $787.5 million. it s going to cost fox to settle the defamation lawsuit brought by dominion voting systems, joined now by kara swisher hosted the on with kara swisher podcast formerly covered the tech beat for another rupert murdoch s media outlets. the wall street journal. it s great to have you on. were you surprised by by the settlement? no, no, we talked about it yesterday and pivot. the amount of money that they re getting here is so enormous. i don t know if you realize this but dominion, which is owned by a private equity firm. but although employees have stakes, including the ceo, john polos is worth about $80 million. so it s 10 times the valuation and so it s just an enormous amount of money with no risk. you never know what s going to happen with a jury trial. they certainly got all that information about fox out and all those emails embarrassing, terribly embarrassing emails. u
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statement, fox also said, you know, they reference there quote continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards. does dominion believe that fox has the highest journalistic standards? i don t believe we think that anderson okay and dominion still has pending lawsuits against right wing channels. newsmax oh, in as well as against, you know some of the biggest liars out there. former president you know adviser rudy giuliani, sidney powell. mike lindell does today s settlement affect those proceedings to those continue on. yes no, anderson. you re absolutely right. we actually have another case against newsmax in this very courthouse before the very same judge as the judge. that s over that oversaw the fox news case. um i think what impacts those are actually the victories that you ve seen and reported on along the way, the conclusion that the statements were false conclusions about what the first amendment does and does not protect the conclusions about the neutral report. all
fox news and live in that silo, fox does not want them to be hearing apologies and retractions and that sort of thing. yeah. i mean, i don t know if you stop for howie kurtz over there the you know the media watchdog over there. he twisted himself in knots. you know, i think he was on for a blip reading the fox. you know the statement? um yeah, i thought his comments were interesting. i mean, he basically said, oh, the rest of the media is disappointed. they don t get to see our people take the stand. and i think that was one of the driving forces here. motivating fox. imagine the spectacle. imagine the devastation that would have wrought to fox to have tucker carlson, sean hannity. genie peril. rupert murdoch take the stand. and i think when the judge made his ruling, i think it was last week that yes, rupert murdoch does have to testify. i think that was the straw that broke their back. i think at that point, fox just went into essentially blank check mode. to avoid that. we ve learn
from trump and awarded them to biden. they used the machines to trash large batches of votes that should have been awarded to president trump, and they use the machine to inject and add massive quantities of votes for mr biden. the only reason we really thought about it i thought democrats told us that we like whistleblowers. you re saying that these people can t talk because they re going to lose their job. now that s sean hannity, weeks after the 2020 election was cited by dominion and their defamation case, hannity told the dominion lawyers in a deposition quote that whole narrative that sidney powell was pushing. i did not believe it for one second anyone with journalistic standards would have confronted powell about her completely ludicrous, unproven and false claims. but he didn t do that. the documents also show that tucker carlson privately expressed concerns about sidney powell, as did others at fox, but he wasn t saying them on our air. according to dominion. he even sent her