not only would that reduce the risk each side takes by putting this matter in the hands of a jury, it would also spare rupert murdoch from being compelled to testify. it could be by midweek that the billionaire chair of fox news is on the stand, answering questions from dominion s lawyers. mr murdoch, who is likely more used to asking questions than answering them, well, he will have to defend the network s decisions to allow its hosts and guests to make false claims about the election in 2020 which he knew to be untrue. tucker carlson and sean hannity, two of the network s stars, could also be on the stand in a matter of days answering questions, but if settlement talks are getting serious, one possible stumbling block fox and dominion are hundreds of millions of dollars apart on estimating dominion s worth and the dollar amount on damages. plus, it s not the first time the two have considered settling. they met with a mediator back in december, but no deal was reached.
pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporter for the new york times, and joyce vance, former district attorney for the northern district of alabama. thank you both for being here. joyce, let me start with you i terms of the legal implication today of the fact that trump i speaking in his deposition do you see anythin particularly meaningful in that? so, it s always a challenge when you have a client like th former president, who i thin lawyers despair of having an client control over him, and h answers questions. what will happen now is th attorney generals office wil comb through the transcript. they will see if anything that the former president has sai assists their case but because this is a civi proceeding, they are also free to share this deposition wit folks like alvin bragg, who ma be looking potentially a criminal charges it s tough to figure why trump s lawyers would have let hi go in and answer questions for more than seven hours. yeah, seven hours is a long
nonsense. tucker carlson called the claim ludicrous and totally off the rails. sean hannity called them effing lunatics. producer john force and caught them completely. yes fox corporation senior vice president said that they were mind-blowing lee nuts. in all caps. behind the scenes, fox personalities were unequivocal about the truth. two days after the election brett breyer said privately, quote, there s no evidence of fraud, none. the following week, tucker carlson wrote donald trump needed to concede the election and he agreed there was not enough fraud to change outcome. carlson also made it very clear to his colleagues in private what he thought of donald trump s lawyers. sydney powell who was publicly pushing his big lie all over fox. he told fellow host laura ingraham sydney powell is lying, by the way. i caught her. it s insane ingram reply, sydney is a complete nut. no one will work with him. ditto with rudy.
knows what. find in the biden garage, in wilmington and another room in his house, another document, that raises a question. we have a timeline now, ambiguous, but a timeline nonetheless from garland, these documents were discovered by biden s lawyers who were picking at his papers. it was two days later that nara contacted department of justice prosecutor, saying that office would classify markings were found on the biden center, and november 9 fbi began an assessment. and a investigation, garland outrageous triggered appointment of a special counsel, he looks like a
knows what. find in the biden garage, in wilmington and another room in his house, another document, that raises a question. we have a timeline now, ambiguous, but a timeline nonetheless from garland, these documents were discovered by biden s lawyers who were picking at his papers. it was two days later that nara contacted department of justice prosecutor, saying that office would classify markings were found on the biden center, and november 9 fbi began an assessment. and a investigation, garland outrageous triggered appointment of a special counsel, he looks like a real rogue thug to me,