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
Did with the release of all those tax messages and emails. they allowed these lies to go forward because they were afraid that. their viewers who believed the lies. we re going to change the channel. ah because they are far more about profit than they are about journalism. i mean, that s what came out and discovery, right? that s exactly right. jake. this trial really underscored that fox news lacks the most basic basic news ethics . a lot of things that we saw would have been fireable offenses any any legitimate news organization, but a fox this stuff came from the top and you really saw in black and white. as a result of this trial, you saw messages where they talked about, fearing the audience was going to leave to other smaller right wing talk channels like newsmax, and he saw them. carlson talking about the stock