now, all along fox has denie dominion s allegation that publicly argued that the cases but the rights of a free press on the line, and in a ne statement the network said dominion s lawsuit is political crusade in search of a financial windfall, but th real cost would be cherished first amendment rights. just last week, judge davis sai that he was imposing a sanctio on the network and would ver likely start an investigatio into whether fox s legal tea had deliberately withhel evidence, scolding the lawyers for not being straightforwar with him. now, that review cam after fox lawyers disclosed in court that rupert murdoch is a executive officer of fox, afte he repeatedly claimed that h did not have an official title at the network. nbc news has confirmed that fox jus formally apologized to judge davis, taking responsibility for the quote, misunderstanding. also las week, abby grossberg, th former fox producer who is accusing the network o pressuring her to give false testimony, filed an
states is intentionall difficult. the legal experts believe that dominion has an exceptionally strong case. drink pretrial arguments, judg eric davis found that it i quote, crystal clear that fox statements about dominion ar false, making it an issue that won t be disputed at trial. th judge also took away fox s ability to use neutral reporting privilege and opinio privilege to common defens tactics for news organizations that are facing such lawsuits. that means the jury is left to decide whether fox knew or should have known that claim were false, when the network aired them. and, if so, ho much to owe dominion i damages. dominion said it is i a statement, we welcome al scrutiny of our evidence because it all leads to th same place. fox knowingl spread lies causing enormous damage to an american company.
lawyers, dominion could pretty much say, this is not true. and, just like what noah just said, fox basically just eat this up as a voter, so here. jury here you go. i want to you t find via liability and i wan you to put all the zeroes here when you come to damages. but don t want to be flippant here jury trials, they are a gamble on either side. i don t care what anybody says. that is why people talk about settling. in the fact that this trial isn t getting started until tuesday, the judge has to agree to delay of trial. so there i something going on here that i delaying the start of th trial. the fox, which i thin the spokesperson is just sayin it logistics. but at this point, nobody knows we will find out tomorrow morning. jeremy peters, really quickly, question for you. doe this even matter to fox viewers? are they aware is fox mor concern for their viewers in the reputation or th shareholders and bottom line so, ayman, i think fox is
maybe bargaining that thei viewers don t have any ide what is going on. yes, there have been revelations that w have seen over the last fe weeks where, you know, tucke carlson has insulted donal trump, called him a demoni force, called him a destroyer, and said that his action preceding january 6th were quote unquote, deadly. i think what fox is doing is jus saying that i think our viewer aren t going to realize this they are no , we live in suc a siloed media world right now that i think it is perfectly possible that that is the righ business decision. and that is what fox, if you look at thi case, what fox has done al along, has made business decisions. what is going on fo
i think fox is at this kind of come to jesus moment where i they are going to settle - that would mean that fox i saying that i am completel culpable for what i am accused of doing by dominion? you know fox may want to say, i m going to pump this to a jury and blame a jury if a jury comes back and say that i am liabl for defamation and for billion of dollars. but we do know tha jury selection wasn completed. i want to emphasize this. we don t have a swor injury. we don t have that - it will begin on tuesday morning, allegedly at 9:00, an then we are supposed to have a 15-minute recess, and then g into opening statements. yeah. we want to be absolutely clear, we don t kno why it is delayed. so we do no want to speculate for that a all. so thank you so much fo all of that context an clarification, katie. jeremy you have been covering thi case since the beginning. want you to set the table fo us in terms of where both side stand as we go into this trial we know that fox apologized to t