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
novak djokovic not being allowed to come into this country to play in the u.s. open because he is unvaccinated, while allowing thousands of migrants across border unchecked everyday? you are talking about which world-class tennis player? noek / that is what is happening. it is not like somebody walks over. oh, yeah? bill is there with this, said this on twitter, they do just walk across by the hundreds, large majority are released, it is that simple. we re learning the city of el paso is bussing migrants to new york city and paying for it with fpeople people / fema grants. it is a political ploy. the latest stunt from the governor of bussing desperate migrants across the country and it is shameful. kevin: a stunt that is shameful, the revelation comes as transported 10,000 people to our nation s capitol with no sign cross-border traffic will slow down any time soon. it s bedlam and chaos and we re calling on the biden administration to do their job and e
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
Dominion hasn t gone all the way through with this to the point of a jury verdict, they certainly have done a lot to expose the mendacity behind foxes reporting laura. does this settlement set any kind of precedent for defamation cases in the future or not just the settlement, but the entire case , let s let s be clear here. news organizations get sued all the time for defamation. usually the cases are thrown out of court because there is a first amendment in this country. it s very difficult. to prove defamation. this case looked pretty solid from where i said look, everyone who has a cell phone or has texted somebody or has engaged in online written memorialized communication. this sets a standard because now the statements that are made can be contrasted with what you ve said privately vs on air, which makes it a little bit easier, according to the this new statement here about the actual malice doesn t mean that you re going to prove it because somebody has a difference of opinion
This is them trying to buy votes. this is unconstitutional. they want to spend 500 billion to almost a trillion dollars of our tax dollars to forgive this debt. that s not their job. that s congress job to do something like that. people in congress better stand up when we get back in a few weeks and demand that we have some congressional oversight of this. this is a knife in the heart of the hard-working american people that either couldn t afford to go to college or worked hard through college to pay off their college education so they didn t accumulate any debt. i m included in that group. i do not want to pay off the debt of others and i don t think most people in country do. this is completely wrong. ashley: congressman, when you say they are trying to buy vote, do you think by them doing this move with this student loan forgiveness, do you think that s enough to get people to vote republican who may not have voted republican before? this is not a republican/democrat issue. demo