stopping that interview. deadline: white house which has a lot more about this starts right now. hi there, everyone, we come on the air with a whopper of a breaking news story for you. a settlement has been reached in that massive $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought by dominion voting systems against fox news it was that kind of day. everyone waiting for a vatican-like puff of smoke a lot of delays. a lot of pontificating and a lot of wondering what might be happening and now, we know nick confessori, the judge in this case, at 3:57 as we sat waiting to come on the air, quote, the parties have resolved the case do you have anything to say about that look, this is a very big deal it surprised many people, today was going to be the opening day of arguments there was a two-hour delay after lunch. no one came back with the arguments. we saw the two parties in the courtroom, waiting in the courtroom, exchanging some paper. and before air time, we get the announcement f
fox didn t try to settle or maybe they did try to settle to avoid all of those documents coming to light? that was certainly something when all of our jaws were dropping learning what you knew and now made public why fox didn t try to settle before that happened when presumably you had enormous leverage at that point. is there anything you can tell us about that discussion internally all i ll say is dominion wanted accountability, and we had to get all the way to today to get that. was there anything about the jury that gave dominion pause, or was fox the driver of settlement talks i was just going to give the opening. i wasn t involved. all along the way domennian was very forthcoming with the press, lots of great professionals understanding our
master has free rein to take depositions. anew? anew. and on fox s dime. and this was not inadvertent that somebody said we re not producing this, or see if we re going to produce this late in the tape i think there are ethical lawyers involved when they would hear about that i m pretty sure they would say, i m not losing my bar ticket over this but that doesn t mean there aren t people at fox who are deliberately keeping stuff away from dominion if that s the case, just to be clear, that s a crime. to obstruct will we ever know i mean, the turning point may end up being, when the history is written, the abby grossberg suit against fox news saying that her deposition was coerced? yeah, i think, you know, i think it may not be so much her testimony, as opposed to her having the receipt and you turn over this rock, here are all of the recordings i had, why don t you look at more
look, i see this outcome, if there s no apology on the air as a draw for fox think about it, on any given night or week on fox, they are telling a different version of the same story that donald trump should be president. that the january 6th conspirators are innocent victims of government overreach. that they had a right to be angry. that something was, you know a miss that s the story that still animates the viewership on fox that s the story they tell every night. not to interject, they re platforming trump 2.0. xi, putin and kim jong-un, don t forget him, the most murderous of all can t be cast in hollywood because they re top of the line, top of the game. you can argue the lies they re broadcasting now, not to say anything of the zombie apocalyptic crime stories they tell day after day, which we don t know, but they may be on