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
captions by vitac www.vitac.com that s it for us. let s hand it over to laura coates and cnn tonight. laura? anderson, thank you so much. i m laura coates and this is cnn tonight. look, i ve got to get right to it. i know we re supposed to think about politics and other notions today. but i ve got to tell you about alex jones because i ve been thinking about it all day since i heard and watched that testimony. alex jones spent so many years trying to get people to believe in his conspiracy theories, to pretend that sandy hook, the tragedy never even happened, that the precious lives that were lost, they somehow never even existed. he even said at one point that the parents were actors. obviously that s not only cruel, it s absurd because it did happen. and they obviously existed. well, you know, there might have been a kind of poetic justice that occurred today because something else he claimed never existed, text messages and communications about sandy hook. well
with over to laura coates, anderson, i m laura coats and this is cnn tonight. and look, i gotta get right to it i know we re supposed to think about politics and other notions today, but i gotta tell you about alex jones because i ve been thinking about it all day since i heard and watched that testimony. alex jones spent so many years trying to get people to believe in his conspiracy theories to pretend that sandy hook the tragedy never even happened and the precious lives that were lost, they somehow never even existed. he even said at one point that the parents were actors. obviously, that s not even cruel, it s absurd. because it did happen. and they obviously existed. well you know, there might have been a kind of poetic justice that occurred today then. because something else he claims never existed, text messages, communications about sandy hook. well it turns out they also exist. the attorney for the parents of one victims suing alex jones for damages over his defamat
Fact checker later on a different bride. catherine some point in the future. try to say well, actually, here s an alternate reality or the truth, as many of us know it. that doesn t mean you didn t either earlier, defame someone, so this is what happens and many, many trials across the country all the time that once the reality of a jury of 12 deciding the fate to the tune of, well a billion or more in this case, suddenly the party say, you know what? let s be more reasonable. ellie um, there s so fox does this not infrequently. they paid tens of millions of dollars when it came to settling sexual harassment and assault lawsuits reportedly against bill o. reilly there was a big lawsuit being threatened, or at least some sort of out of state settled out of court settlement was reached with the family of seth rich. and a lot of the details of those settlements. we just do not know the public does not know. will we learn the details of this settlement? if
When you can trust the people who create your new bath, it just fits. bath fitter. visit bathfitter.com to book your free consultation. the nfl tonight is appealing the six-game suspension handed down to cleveland browns quarterback deshaun watson. the decision a after a former judge found that he violated the league s personal conduct policy in various private meetings with massage therapists. the meetings led dozens of women to file sexual harassment and assault lawsuits against him. originally, the league pushed for a full season suspension so what will commissioner roger goodell decide now? let s talk with bob costas tonight. first of all, we learned about an appeal.