hi, everyone i know that we say this a lot these days but buckle up it s 4:00 in new york. we re following breaking news on that monster $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against fox news just a little bit ago we received word of a bombshell of a plot twist during what was supposed to be the last pretrial hearing before jury selection begins. here s that headline the judge has sanctioned fox news and its parent company, fox corp, for withholding evidence in the dominion defamation suit and said he is considering further investigation and censure. he is considering appointing a special master to investigate the fox local team s actions now, the breaking point today appears to be surprise evidence that was introduced in court today when this happened, quote, lawyers for dominion voting systems played recordings that fox news producer abby grossberg made during 2020, which were not handed over to dominion s lawyers during discovery we have a team of experts and friends to help us
how do you know that all the other fox witnesses who are still on team fox aren t hiding damaging recordings of rudy admitting there s no there there with the allegations that s a really important point. but for abbey coming forward and fighting jesus, she figured out that she got her own counsel, she s now made claims she was unduly prejudiced and pressured to be coached in terms of her deposition testimony that is why judge eric davis who is overseeing this, he is saying, i may appoint a special master at this point in time to see how prejudice d d dominion. what else is there what does that mean? you could get deeper into i will call it the bowels of fox corporation. this good faith litigation
discovery process to learn that fox didn t abide by it what is the remedy other than a slap on the wrist, which it what it sounds like happened today? certainly to hear judge davis today suggesting that he had that same kind of anxiety. remember, the jury trial that is coming upis nothing close to the first proceeding that has happened in this case. in fact, we already have from this judge response to and an order on motions for summary judgment the judge has already decided some key pieces of this case in advance, and he said in court today that there is a little dis-ease here about whether that s problematic in terms of him not knowing the full scope of the factual background as he was making those sorts of considerations you can see that he s certainly going to be sure that prior to moving forward with key pieces of evidence before the jury, that dominion has everything