ratings. yeah. they will not get the full story. i m not saying fox hasn t covered it, but they have not covered it robustly, full throatedly. or honestly. i would go as far as that because this is a huge story if you turn on fox, you re not going to see it. you re not going to see it you re going to see maybe a few details. is that a surprise to you it s not a surprise, but i m citing the frustration that people in the world of journalism and political analysis feel. it s not like, oh, we want to get em. we want to see, you know, tv hosts go down. that s not this is sad. as you said yesterday, this is an american tragedy. it really is i don t know you know, i don t feel malice toward anybody there, but i do feel frustration that viewers are continuing to be misled on that network. that s all they watch. they re not going to understand that they were lied to your thoughts, especially being
price tanking, really remarkable, stunning. inside details in the wake of the 2020 election that it showed the panic inside of fox news and why they protect but perhaps you know how these elections lies to take hold on the network. you know, it gave us a view inside fox that frankly, we have never seen before. of course, we would have learned more during this trial, seeing someone like rupert murdoch being forced to take the stand and being cross examined by dominion. but we have learned a lot about how fox operates the dishonest way it operates as a result of the proceedings that led up to the potential trial, and we also saw that when reporters like kristin fisher, who now works at cnn, not coincidentally, tried to fact check people at in the executive branch of fox. other anchors hosts in the primetime opinion hours would get mad they would get mad when people asserted facts on their air people in the news division and,
and in a statement, fox admitted quote we acknowledge the court s rulings finding certain claims about dominion to be false, which translated means that yes , they spent months and months lying to their viewers about dominion voting systems among other things, and as a result were in such fear of what a jury trial might create in terms of both the settlement and embarrassment for the company. they wrote a check for $787 million 500,000. cnn s oliver darcy is outside the courthouse in wellington, delaware. um oliver, i assume we re not going to hear remarks from fox s attorneys. um one question i have is that newsmax and o a n. which are these much smaller right wing propaganda channels they were forced to read statements on air in which they
mouths of those who have been accused of never having told it. ellie is there any chance that fox would have to admit guilt or make some sort of public apology? as part of this deal that can absolutely be part of a negotiated settlement agreement ? the reporting has been that dominion was very interested in getting some sort of statement from fox. no matter what, though, jake, i think it s really important to know dominion has done its job here. even with this settlement, what they have done is a valuable public service and a couple respects. first of all, they got a pretrial ruling from the judge that foxes report. was false. the judge found that the evidence here was so strong that as a matter of law, fox s coverage was false. the only disputed evidence was going to be. was it knowingly false? the other thing is dominion by going through the discovery process here has exposed the lies behind foxes reporting because of dominion undertaking this lawsuit. that s why we ve seen sean hann
and so that s making the way through the core system as well. smartmatic actually just put out a statement their lead attorney, i want to read it to you, jack. we just got this, he said dominions litigation exposed some of the misconduct and damaged caused by fox s disinformation campaign. smartmatic will expose the rest . and so there is more litigation jake for fox news to deal with down the line, but still $787 million is not is not a small figure for fox to have to shell out for those lies no and as was noted earlier by elie honig. the company isn t even worth $100 million, much less $787,500,000. oliver darcy, thanks so much. keep telling us news as it develops. let s bring back cnn legal analysts laura coates. and elie honig, ellen. and what do you make about the fact that the settlement amount was not confidential? i m sure fox would have preferred that it was, of course, this is a really surprising and important detail here, jake that the amount is