A $787.5 Million Check — How Fox News Ended Election Lies Lawsuit
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 19 April 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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This episode: political correspondent Susan Davis, media correspondent David Folkenflik, and Colorado Public Radio reporter Bente Birkeland.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Darcy from Seattle and I am about to mow my lawn for the first time this season. |
| 0:05.8 | This podcast was recorded on. |
| 0:07.7 | It's 6.01 pm on Tuesday, April 18th. |
| 0:11.4 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but hopefully my lawn will be mowed. |
| 0:15.6 | So it begins. |
| 0:17.6 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:24.9 | Springtime is the best time. |
| 0:27.0 | Hey there, it's the MPR Politics podcast. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm Susan Davis. |
| 0:30.2 | I cover politics and a few hours ago we taped an amazing podcast for you about the opening |
| 0:36.1 | day of the trial between Dominion voting systems and Fox news over disinformation and the |
| 0:41.5 | 2020 election. |
| 0:43.4 | And then things changed before you could even hear the episode Dominion's attorney Justin |
| 0:48.6 | Nelson sums it up this way. |
| 0:50.4 | The truth matters lies have consequences over two years ago a torrent of lies swept |
| 1:02.8 | Dominion and election officials across America into an alternative universe of conspiracy |
| 1:12.0 | theories causing grievous harm to Dominion in the country. |
| 1:19.7 | Today's settlement of $787,500,000 represents vindication and accountability. |
| 1:30.7 | So we're going to call everyone back up and we're going to talk about what that settlement |
| 1:34.9 | means. |
| 1:35.9 | We'll be right back. |
| 1:38.1 | And we're back joined again with MPR's David Fulkenflick and Colorado Public Radio's |
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