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
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 agreed to nine figure payout to settle the lawsuit, 787 point $ million, a little less tha half of the 1. 6 billion the were suing 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 dominion when it broadcasts conspiracy theories about its voting machines in the 2020 presidential election those included false claim dominion used is votin machines to rig the outcome. the truth matters lies have consequences over who years ago, a torren of lies swept dominion and election officials acros america into an alternativ universe of conspiracy theo
this money sooner though this is what blew my min today. fox basically paid $800 millio today to avoid going on th stand. could they have agreed to this number months ago, befor rupert and others were deposed but for the damaging texts and emails were ever made public so, the short answer is yes i mean, that is what everybody has always been speculating. what in the hack took it s long to actually get it across the finish line for settlement but as often happens in trials when you re preparing for trial, you re always going to sit there and you re going to want to plan and kind of expect the unexpected but you re also going to say you know what, here are my potential achilles heels, he was around offering and have some exposure before we go t trial. but it is until you see th whites of their eyes, and that is dealing with the jurors themselves, that you re really not going to know what you v got going on and that s what happened thi morning. they have this potential jur pool brought
what in the heck took so lon to actually get it across th finish line for a settlement but as often happens in trials when you re preparing for trial, you re always going to sit there and you re going to want to plan and kind of expect the unexpected but you re also going to say you know what, here are my potential achilles heels, he here is who i m definitely going to have some exposur should we go to trial. but it is until you literall see the whites of their eyes and that is dealing with the jurors themselves, that you re really not going to know wha you ve got going on. and that s what happened thi morning. they have this potential jur pool brought in. it was whittled down to certain number, and a pick 1 jurors and 12 alternates and then they finally had that jury sworn in. in my opinion, that s what you needed, you needed that jury and you also need that special master order from this morning we are in fox s going to be on the hook for a repeated, ver thorough investigation by spe