world, we know news organizations take on enormous risk when they publish things they know to be false. they risk their representations. in the rare instances where actual malice can be established, they also face legal exposure. this knowledge of falsity on fox s part was established through mountains of internal communications that prove that the producers, the executives and the anchors knew that claims of massive voter fraud were false ahead of time and they broadcast them anyway. the case dominion had against fox was so strong that by the time the trial commenced, the only thing the jury was going to have to determine was whether fox met that really, really high legal bar of acting with actual malice when it knowingly published falsities about dominion. now, as we all know, instead of standing trial, fox decided to settle for close to $800 million. what we know from that discovery process is dominion established from the top of that company to the bottom, from ruper murd
sources newsletter last night, written by oliver darcy. he writes, quote, trump lied about the 2020 election, he took no responsibility for the january 6th insurrection and the lives inside it. he mocked e. jean carroll s allegations of sexual assault which he was found liable for on tuesday. cnn aired it all. on and on it went. it felt like 2016 all over again. it was trump s unhinged social media fooe feed brought to light on stage. collins was put in an uncomfortable position, the audience applauding trump giving unintended endorsement to his shameful antics. i am obviously a female anchor at a media company. i cannot think of any circumstance where my employers would put me in a position where i interviewed somebody who called me nasty and the audience applauded, and the head of the news room would say this the next morning. this is chris licht, the
consistent, truthful story. that s why he can say now, oh, this was unfair when he had every opportunity to testify in the e. jean carroll case. when he was pontificating last night, he said a number of things that are just very damaging to future criminal cases, whether it s his embracing january 6th and the people there, that s going to be a terrible thing for him to have to live with, if there s a january 6th indictment which i do think is going to happen. he said he took the classified documents from the white house that. is inconsistent with his own lawyer s submission less than a month ago saying they were inadvertently packed by others to mar-a-lago. there are a number of things he said that he s going to have thrown back in his face by jack smith s prosecutors.
on with respect to donald trump. you have two victims who in civil cases took many, many years and a lot of tenacity and a lot of money in order to hold people to account, fox news and donald trump. that can t be the answer because it just takes too long. that kind of exposure is something that is the timeline doesn t work when you ve got an election coming up. that is something that, yes, cnn does have that risk. if you re cnn s general counsel, you are thinking about that today because you just the issue here is not so much will e. jean carroll be able to bring a case against donald trump. of course she could. i doubt she s going to because she just prevailed. she just went through an exhaustive trial and was sort of revictimized, so the idea that she would do that again.
i think at some point kaitlan just got exhausted the way all of us were exhausted by being run over top of. so that s not possible, figuring out the right format and the right way to cover trump i think is the challenge. right. fact-checking trump in a live context is like asking someone being dragged behind a car to run. you can t run fast enough to keep up with the car. andrew weissmann, some news just broke in the new york times about something we talked about and asked about. it s now on the record from e. jean carroll s attorney robby kaplan. she says, quote, everything is on the table in terms of e. jean s legal options. she describes comments about her client as, quote, vial. well, it s worth remembering e. jean carroll actually brought