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
point, a spokesperson said, quote, dominion s litigation exposed some of the misconduct and did damage caused by fox s disinformation campaign. sparkmatic will explosion the rest that s a statement going forward and more to unearth. that s why it s interesting to see if the special master process goes forward because that can be part of something that gets unearthed in this case because, you know, a jump dge is not bound by a settlement agreement. the judge has his own interest if he thinks he was lied to in the discovery process. so this is definitely a to-be continued both on what the judge may do and continued litigation. yeah, i mean, jeremy, how does fox deal with defamation of smartmatic when they basically have a road map proceeding in this case? reporter: i imagine this puts