its own very powerful way also sought to hold responsible those who spread election falsehoods and as we wait for fox s next round of litigation brought by smartmatic as well as action from doj, it is worth remembering just how plainly we could all see the 1/6 committee s hard work sewn into the fabric of all these cases. joining us now is a member of the house january 6th select committee. i wonder your reaction to seeing a totally different effort brought by a private company against a news network, really neither were deeply probed what is your feeling on this very different way to pursue accountability for lies? hi, nicolle i think that the reach of these lies and the impact and also
over two years ago a torrent of lies swept dominion and election officials across america into an alternative universe of conspiracy theories causing grievous harm to dominion and the country. today settlement of $787.5 million represents vindication and accountability lies have consequences and a price we will have a chance to speak with one of dominion s lawyers in a minute. we re very excited about that, but we start our coverage this hour with our some of our favorite reporters and friends legal analyst katie phang is with us. she s been inside and now outside the courtroom for a good part of the day in wilmington. also joining us, a law professor
prosecutor, paul, people are waiting for a final verdict on this case, but again, you can settle up until the verdict is read what do you think of this? so, there s a huge amount of m money at stake and fox doesn t have an obvious defense. the judge is already upset with fox for not turning over information it should have to the other side the judge also in an earlier ruling, said there are no factual issues about whether the statements that fox put out were true he said, as a matter of fact, those were lies. the only thing the jury has to decide is whether fox knew they were lies when they broadcast them lots of evidence that they did so it makes sense that fox would settle, because, otherwise, it s going to get taken to the cleaners breaking news, the parties have resolved the case the fox news versus the dominion case our apologies to heather boushey and the white house for abruptly
about the lies and only in one place, do we hear that, dominion s president is at the podium at one point, he quickly says something about knowingly telling lies he says fox has admitted to telling lies about dominion. and he says something about, you know, that they knew they were lies at the time. as nick says, the judge until summary judgment already says, we know there were lies. the issue at trial would have been actually did fox knowingly lie or were they reckless in the truth. that s always the case in a defamation case. i m curious, i wonder what fox is running right now is part of that agreement that fox will speak that to its viewers. it doesn t look like to this that they re going to acknowledge anything more than lies were told on their air. a key quote from that press conference is money is accountability that s a bat signal. this is done this is it.