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
have the audio recordings of rudy giuliani and trum officials and what they were saying privately to the fo news hosts that is coming up in our hour. that is a hello vtes, i don t go anywhere. stay tuned, brother thanks as always roll tape thanks to at-home for joining us this hour classified information is huge category. it covers everything fro handwritten notes that could b completely inconsequential, al the way up to the nuclea codes. so, just hearing that somethin is classified, doesn t give yo all that much to go on in term of what the actual underlyin information is which is what makes this revelation from the new york times today such a big deal. special counsel, jack smith, i asking witnesses about multipl alleged instances of forme president trump showing off confidential map that contains sensitive intelligence information after he lef office for months, we have known that president trump took hundred of classified documents with him when he left the white
it covers everything fro handwritten notes that could b completely inconsequential, al the way up to the nuclea codes. so just hearing that something is classified doesn t really give you all the much to go on and what the actual underlying information is which is what makes this revelation from the new york times today such a big deal. special counsel jack smith i asking witnesses about multipl alleged instances of forme president trump showing off confidential map that contains sensitive intelligence information after he lef office for months we have known tha president trump took hundred of classified documents with him when he left the white house. and we have known that among those classified documents wer top secret papers that contain things like sensitiv intelligence information but this reporting in the ne york times tonight i potentially the first instance we know of of trump not just having that sensitiv information in a broom close somewhere. but of him actually s
And in a statement, fox admitted quote we acknowledge the court s rulings finding certain claims about dominion to be false, which translated means that yes , they spent months and months lying to their viewers about dominion voting systems among other things, and as a result were in such fear of what a jury trial might create in terms of both the settlement and embarrassment for the company. they wrote a check for $787 million 500,000. cnn s oliver darcy is outside the courthouse in wellington, delaware. um oliver, i assume we re not going to hear remarks from fox s attorneys. um one question i have is that newsmax and o a n. which are these much smaller right wing propaganda channels they were forced to read statements on air in which they
Court today. diminutive tierney s did we turned over the recording to fox s attorneys, thinking that at some point, they would get to dominion. and when i say we, i mean abby when she was asked to by fox s attorneys. and it turned out, months an months later, we noticed tha the recordings weren t anywher in the record as it became unsealed, as the papers were filed for the summary judgment motion ultimately, we felt that we ha to come forward, and provide that evidence, or at least let the court know, we have that evidence, as we did in our filing in delaware