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
In fact, a lot of people. kristin fisher, who s now at cnn, but also a lot of other people, like chris dyer, walt and others who were trying to assert facts. were ultimately let go from fox. yeah i mean, it was really remarkable to read these details because not only were they promoting lies about the election, but they were disciplining staff behind the scenes for trying to tell the truth about the election. it s really showed and highlighted the fact free universe in which fox operates, which, actually, to some degree would have made this process of this trial of war to have happened, more agonizing. for the network because the network is used to sailing through controversies by misleading viewers. bad faith attacks on critics attacking the media. those things jake would not have been allowed in a trial , the judge would have compelled fox to put forth a honest fact based narrative for the jury. and so that would have been a very uncomfortable position. i