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
we re honored to have you take us off the air tonight and on that note, i wish you all a very good and safe night from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late i will see you at the end of tomorrow this was the line to ge into the delaware courthouse with fox news was set to go on trial this morning the company was accused of defamation by the dominion voting systems corporation even the sheer number of lawyers showing up for thi trial today was impressive both the top side in the dominion, side looks like they had enough lawyers to form a soccer team in suits behind the courtroom a s mysterious walkway thing presumably for allowing jurors and high-profile witnesses t enter and exit the courtroom without being spotted, because there were going to be a lot o high-profile witnesses, an inside the court the lawyers and spectators were reportedly packed in like sardines. demean s legal team submitte more than 7000 exhibits, including vid
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Story too many times before. a black teenager is out doing mundane task in 2012 was a quick trip to convenience store. the teenager was 17 and he was on his way back to his father place with a bottle of juice and a bag of skittles. he was wearing a hoodie, and h was black. his name was trayvon martin. a 28-year-old neighbor, george zimmerman, claimed he wa acting in self-defense when he shot trayvon there have been a series o robberies in the area, and zimmerman said he shot trayvon because he was afraid. he feared bodily harm. months passed before zimmerman was actually arrested an charged with killing trayvon martin he wasn t tried on the spot, because police said they couldn t disprove zimmerman version of the events, that he was defending himself, that he stood his ground after weeks of protester sounding the alarm, george zimmerman was finally charge with second degree murder. eventually he was acquitted. in 2020 it was an afternoo
Recent days but over the periods, fox would ve been happy to settle. fox would have been happy. fox rightly was fearing rupert murdoch, the 92-year-old founder of fox news, appearing in the witness stand in th next day or two, to be questioned quite tough lay under oath, in front of th public, rather than in a deposition setting additionally, you would ve had some of these top names, including tucker carlson, john hannity, testifying about what they knew and didn t, what the believed and didn t, whether they knew what they were presenting to their millions o viewers were not only untrue but to be lies in the moment those are tough, tough thing to have to address fully but dominion wasn t interested in settling this case until it had on the record a rather fulsome and complete set o facts, not all that we would v received had the trial gon forward, but nonetheless layin