cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead. we have some breaking news for you. i m jake tapper. moments ago, we learned there is a settlement a settlement in the high stakes trial between dominion voting systems and fox dominion was suing fox for $1.6 billion, saying that the network showed complete and utter disregard for truth and facts and accuracy. when they allowed guests and hosts to push false conspiracy theories that the 2020 election had been stolen from donald trump. cnn s oliver darcy is outside the courthouse in delaware. oliver. what do we know about the settlement? we know right now. the judge just announced actually moments ago, jake that this case has been settled out of court. we don t know any details about what happened. but there was this unexplained two hour delay in court proceedings. this settlement really comes right before the clock struck struck midnight jake opening statements were set to begin at 1 30. they did not as scheduled, and there was an unexp
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,