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
Shooting this young man, this shooter in kansas city. he told police he was quote scared to death because of ralph charles size. he s about six ft. tall. i guess he s 16 years old. um a six ft. young man showing up at somebody s door, knocking on it, trying to open it. that s what the shooter alleges happened. he was trying to open the door. i have. i have no idea if that happened or not, but even that is that a threat is that does that constitute? um is that enough justification to use deadly force? probably not. i will say that there s obviously a disparity between the two of them because he s 84 years old and smaller and more frail that that could create a situation that that address just looks at more favorably to someone who you know if you have equal size and someone threatens you, that s different than if you re of equal, you know, fighting strength and someone although we have we i mean, but we should just know he hasn t even alleged that the guy that they haven t threatening h
Seconds of opening the main door , lester said. no words were exchanged. vural told officers that he heard the man say, don t come around here before shooting him twice. we are right now by city hall, where we are expecting a protest in support of ralph barrel to begin any second now. it s jake. lucy kalfan oven. kansas city, missouri. thanks so much. let s go to new york now where we find cnn s bridging grass. brynn walk us through. what exactly happened when this 20 year old woman was shot in upstate new york. so jake, according to the sheriff s department, there, it was not just one car. there was actually a several groups of cars two and a motorcycle that pulled up this driveway after kind of going up and down the street with no gps access, because there s not great cellphone reception reception in that area of new york. look headed up this driveway realized quickly. they were not at the home they are trying to reach and then quickly decided to leave, and that s when they say shots
Lester s phone is now subject to monitoring and it is not clear at this point jake whether lester is going to appear in court for an initial hearing were obviously trying to continue to speak to the legal representation of what lester in terms of the charges that he s facing. we know that he is. this is five days after he allegedly opened fire on this teenager for showing up at the wrong address. he is apparently facing two charges he could be if convicted on those charges. facing life behind bars. we know that he has been accused of shooting ralph ural through a glass storm door with a 32 caliber revolver, according to a probable cause statement that cnn obtained. lester told investigators that he was in bed. that night on april 14th when he heard the doorbell ring. he apparently grabbed this weapon walked up to the door, he said after opening him the main door, he quote saw a black male, approximately six ft. tall and he believed someone was attempting to break into the house and sho
This is where the big problem comes in. i think for this shooter because he opened the door, he sees someone he claims was trying to get in. through a locked screen door nuts, glassdoor storm door and then he shot him through the locked door and i think it s going to be very hard for anyone in a jury to believe that there was a reasonable fear for life at that moment when he pulled that trigger, and that s that s going to be a big key in both of these situations and driving away, you shoot at a car that s driving away from you. how are you going to establish that? that s that you reasonably feared for your life when they were leaving? right? you say that somebody was threatening your life when you didn t even exchange work, a single word with them and you re there behind the door that s locked. it s very hard to see. given what we know. now there may be more information that comes out to change the story, but it s difficult to see how these end up as justified shootings. all right, ste