the jury was sworn in. but foxes legal battles are no over yet then, why some are questioning florida governor ron desanti is really conservative and then an alarming and disturbing uptick in gun violence, highlighted by two separate incidences, how ringing the wrong doorbell and turning into the wrong doorway turned into tragedy, as th 11th hour gets underway this tuesday night. good evening once again, i stephanie ruhle. the parties have resolved thei case those words from the judge brought the dominion fox new defamation case to an an before the jury heard from a single witness late today, fox agree to a nin figure payout to settle th lawsuit, 787 point $5 million, a little less than half of the 1.6 billion they were suin for. fox has admitted to telling lies about dominion, tha caused enormous damage to my company, our employees, and th customers that we serve. nothing can ever make up for that the deal officially ends th legal battle over whether fo defamed
and we got that today from fox but we re not done yet as for fox s reaction, that came in this appearance by media analyst howard kurtz, wh previously said the compan banned him from covering the case today, he read part of the company s statement during his lab report i do have a statement fro fox, neil, we re pleased t reach a settlement with ou dispute with dominion voting system we acknowledge the court rulings, finding certain claim about dominion to be false the settlement reflexes reflects foxes continued commitment to foxes highes journalistic standards new reporting tonight say fox news will not have t apologize to dominion on air when asked if fox will b required to issue an apology, dominion s presence at this in a statement, quote, an apology is about accountability. and today, dominion held fox accountable. fox paid a historic settlement and issued a statement acknowledging that the statements about dominion were false. with that, let s get smarter