about election lies, plus the deadline fast approaching for abortion pills in america? will the supreme court step in in the hours ahead and just minutes from now ceremonies begin to mark 80 years since the warsaw ghetto uprising against germany. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world this wednesday morning. i m christine romans. we begin with fox news, settling the huge lawsuit. dominion voting systems filed against it at the very last second before trial was set to start in delaware. the $787 million settlement is by far the largest publicly disclosed media defamation settlement in u. s history is nearly 4.5 times what abc news paid back in 2017 to a meat processor in the so called pink slime case. the settlement does not require fox to apologize, correct or retract the many falsehoods and lies that broadcast about dominion. but dominions lawyers say their clients have been traumatized by the experience and the money in court rulings in their favor
fox news is spread of disinformation in election denialism, potentially creating further high profile embarrassment for the network spring in former prosecutor and host of the law and crime network, robert bianchi. so nice to see you this morning. this case this deal i mean, it is so big. why do you think fox news chose to settle this? well i think fox news is in a very difficult position. they had some pretrial rulings where the judge basically said they re going to argue very little defenses here, and they gave the minion an incredible opportunity when they went to trial to prove less than what you typically would have to prove in a defamation case because they re saying it s already been proven . there s no reason to bring this before the jury. the evidence is that strong, so that was a very, very powerful thing for dominion, the only question , i think for the dominion attorneys would be and in any civil case, you have to worry about this. you could have win the case. you can lose