joy, that order was it had huge teeth to it it basically gave a special master the ability to conduct his own investigation, to do as many depositions as he wanted to do of whomever he thought was actually related to this misconduct that was committed by fox. and if it s not done, if it s not dead in the water because the case has now been settled then fox actually might have more and more disclosures that are going to come out than has already been out last point quickly before i go, we know there were several redactions in what was pushed out into the public, and that was publicly filed i was looking forward to seeing that when this trial transpired because i wanted to see what fox was continuing to hide at this juncture because the trial is not going to happen over here, we re not going to see what was behind the redactions i could see why they were willing to pay not to be seen. were you surprised by the settlement i wasn t. i knew it was going to happen. i just didn t know w
thank god, this young boy is alive. talk to us about this neighborhood, because as infuriating as the gunshot was, the neighbor who put this boy on the ground as if he was a criminal rather than helping a child, what is going on, and what happened to the immediate arrest we were supposed to see after so many incidents like this why did it take so long for that man to be arrested you know, joy, we all know it, it s two americas. and when it comes to justice, when black people get shot or brutalized and thank god for his aunt faith, who went on social media and started making the case, because they meant to sweep this under the rug, and people i follow faithfully, and i want to say publicly to her, everybody should have a prayer and fighter like you, aunt faith, to make
certain control over that public narrative that they want that s their playbook, their strategy something that donald trump uses, something they use back and forth. so it s very consistent with the pattern of behavior we have seen they want to be able to control the narrative for their viewers so they can say, well, we have a little bit of control over how much is out there that s going to cause us reputational damage. katie, in the past, fox news has settled multiple cases before, lots of sexual harassment, racial harassment cases. they settled the british tabloid hacking, bill o reilly sexual harassment suit, a case against ailes, sexual harassment you can go on and on had seth rich settlement too nothing has changed in their behavior after that. essentially, we haven t seen any more sexual harassment case but we have a new case coming up from another female reporter who says that she and the host she
be, you know, both sides were saying they were going to be show stoppers, and literally, just as we re gathering for the first opening statement, there s a pause. the judge disappears the lawyers stay in the room, which was confusing. and this went on for hours until there was an announcement of a settlement katie, were you surprised at what the settlement was? they were originally asking for $1.6 billion, and as part of that, dominion was claiming the value of their company was something like $920 billion in damage that what they said the damage amount had been. they wind up settling for a lot less than that did that surprise you? well, no. listen, you go big or go home. especially when you re a plaintiff in a commercial litigation case, you want to make sure you re going to claim the maximum amount of damages as you can. you have to bring evidence to back it up at the end of the day, according to dominion s legal team, this amount of muchy not only makes their company whole but a
the settlement, right? is it like the seth rich case where fox made really outrageous and incendiary comments about the murder of seth rich, settled, and kept making a different version of those incendiary comments about seth rich the question is does the settlement make it impossible for fox and also for the smaller competitors like newsmax or oann to continue to peddle this election lie the election lie is the core of the attempt to subvert democracy in the united states and if this trial really shuts that down as a viable avenue of just information, then it s really done a huge service to all of us if it doesn t, whether there is a settlement or a trial, it s been a little bit of show business, but doesn t really affect the future as much as i would like. it s such an important point you are making it s the point of the exercise i want to double down on it with you, and then go to john on the law.