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
Learned after the 2020 election. that the family of that poor murdered dnc staffer seth rich had also reached a settlement with fox for its lies about seth rich and part of the arrangement that fox had with the family of seth rich and the insane and cruel conspiracy theories. they pushed what was that? a would. there would be an a nondisclosure agreement. so the family of seth rich can t talk about it and be that news of it wouldn t even come out oliver until after the 2020 election. is sarah come, and it will be interesting to see whether a public apology is part of this settlement. we don t really have any details again. this just broke seconds before we came on the air, jake, but you know, this is such an interesting moment. this would this trial would have really put fox on trial for the election lies they told in the wake of the 2020