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
dominion s legal team, their number one priority and only priority was making dominion whole. and we heard from one of the lawyers this evening, who said in her view, that dollar figur was fair, both to dominion employees in the company s reputation, she the summar judgment where the judge sai the jury didn t even have to make a determination about weather what fox about dominio is true, because in his words, it is was crystal clear that what fox put out there in term of false propaganda abou dominion voting systems wa false. and she also said that it wa important for dominion not t settle until this point, havin all of that discovery, all o it, the documents, the tex messages, the emails, wher tucker carlson is saying tha he thinks in private donal trump is a demonic force and a destroyer and rupert murdoch i basically saying, oh, yeah, had the power to stop fox news from spreading these lies an conspiracy theories but chos not to the lawyer said this evening that it was important for