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Apology. they need to get a full retraction they re in that business for the long haul. they re not looking to get out of that business on wednesday, fox put out this statement on the smartmatic lawsuit, claiming it will defend its case surrounding, quote, extremely newsworthy events. the network goes on to call smartmatic s damages claims implausible and disconnected from reality but, joe, this is exactly what you pointed to when the settlement with dominion came out. that could be evidence that came o out, that the damaging, humiliating evidence, that what was happening on the air was not what they were saying off the air, and that they were misleading their viewers they ended up paying for that. that all now rolls over and gets used as evidence for smartmatic? that s not good news for fox. you have two things first of all, you have the public relations of it yeah, the texts are really bad pr wise because you re basically letting viewers know that you re lying to em when you say ....
And forced to make these statements under oath live, and we re going to settle. to be cynical about the big picture, the big picture may be they pay a lot of money to dominion, maybe to smartmatic, but, one, it seems to be tax deductible so it s not quite as large as everyone thinks, and their business model still goes on as mika said, they have a huge vi viewership the next time they promulgate the big lie but know not to denigrate a company. they can do the same thing but not be subject to a lawsuit. andrew, in your latest piece for the atlantic, titled, when the media bow to trump. you write, two of the top news stories in recent weeks, the manhattan district attorney s criminal indictment in the people of the state of new york versus donald trump, and the three-quarter-billion dollar ....
He s lucky that others didn t take him up on the same offer. andrew, lindell also is one of the individuals in which dominion is suing. rudy giuliani on that list, as well we just saw what dominion was able to get from fox news. in your estimation, how worried shouldly lindell and others be when attention is turned to them i think the individuals are even in worse shape than fox because they can t say they re just in the news organization or they were claiming a reporter s privilege. i think there s a reason that, since dominion has brought its suit, that you have not heard from sidney powell, rudy giuliani, mike lindell there has been you know, they ve been quite muted that s because their public statements have gotten them in, deservedly, a lot of hot water because if you defame a company and put out these the big lie ....
About a private company with deep pockets, they can sue you, which is exactly what s going on i think that by all accounts, that is something that they really have to worry about they don t have a lot of defenses the real issue is just how much money they can pay because some of them have more than others. this is the kind of thing that can really bankrupt all of the individual defendants. you can be sure that dominion is going to be, you know, pressing ahead hard with respect to each of them. nbc news they re going to be bankrupt. i mean, look at rudy giuliani. you look at these other people i see absolutely no way for them to avoid bankruptcy. they just got caught in lie after lie after lie. i just don t know why they would continue to participate when it was obvious, but there you go that s why we re where we are. nbc news legal analyst andrew weissmann, thank you very much for coming on the show on this ....